New Look! And A New Goodbye!

I changed my blog template!!:) How do you guys like it?!:) Does the pink color hurt  your eyes? That's the only thing about it that I was worried about. 

Anyway, the new blog template was supposed to be in honor of the new year, but I had technical difficulties. I managed to figure out a way around it and managed to change the template!:) I, personally, love it!:)

Vale (that's goodbye is Latin:D I think I finally found my signature good bye ;P)

So, once again,

VALE!!!:)

Goals For The New Year :)

New Year. New me. Actually, you know what, that's annoying. New year, same me, new memories and goals! That sounds better! I promised and I always deliver (No, I don't, but let's pretend I do).

Writing goals 2014

There are quite a lot of these! Let's begin, shall we?

1. Finish the first draft of my current WIP, Midnight Run. No, that's not a linky thingy. It does sort of look like one, though. I've been working on this one since September 2013, and I would like to have it finished by the end of February. But, it decided to change on me, so I now have totally rework my FMC's back story! Don't you just love when characters do that to you? It's really my villain's fault. No, really! He's my FMC's dad and I'm having to change her back story because I'm changing his back story. I don't know what I'm doing with this story anymore! I'm ready to trash it and work on the sequel instead.

2. Finish the first draft of my other WIP, A Truly Mythical Story. Also, come up with a better title for this one, too. I've been working on it since August 2012. Over a year. It's given me a lot of trouble. I'm ready to be done with it.

3. Develop the plot of the sequel to Midnight Run a little better. I know the basic plot, but I need a more detailed one. I also need to develop the Villain for this one a little better. He is a different one that the villain from the first one.

4. Think about and possibly map out or time line the potential cross-overs I've been thinking about. You can do so much with time travelling characters!


5. Finish my two fairy tale rewrites and decide of I want them to be full-length novels or just short stories. I'm doing a gender switch rewrite of Cinderella and a gender switch rewrite of Jack and the Beanstalk. In both of these, basically every character is the opposite gender and I've added at least one new character that isn't in the original.


6. At least plot out my collection of medieval short stories. I'm not sure if they are going to all be connected, so just stand alones. I'm thinking about making them stand alones. The main reason for this is because on goal #7.


7. Plot and begin my rewrite of the King Arthur tales. I'm changing quite a few things. I may not even try to publish this, but it's something I've wanted to do for a long, long time. I've always loved the tales of King Arthur and Merlin and I want to create my own little version. It won't be the most unpredictable thing, but it will be fun!


8. Decide which of all of my other, unmentioned ideas need to wait and which ones can start being developed.


Personal Goals 2014


1. Complete at least two writing goals.


2. Get in better shape. This one is going to be easy to stick with because my mom is my workout buddy and she never lets me skip a workout.


3. Start thinking about graduating, college, and a career. I want to be a writer (obviously), but I need a career that I will be able to fall back on if the writing doesn't work out, or if it takes a while to really take off.


4. Make new friends. I don't mean "only talk when we see each other" friends. I mean the type of friends that you talk to all of the time whether you get to see each other or not. My two best friends are going off to college this August. They'll both be at least an hour away. One of them might be 4 hours away! So, I need new friends to hang out with while they're at college.  Because I really hate being a loner ;)


5. Try to get over some of the introverted-ness. I'm not too bad, but I won't talk to people unless they talk to me. That makes making friends really hard!


6. Get my driver's license.


7. Maybe get a job.


8. Go to at least one new town/city/state.


Musical Goals 2014


1. Further my piano skills and learn to read sheet music a little better.


2. Get over my fear of playing/singing by myself in front of other people. Seriously, I'll hardly even play or sing in front of my family unless someone is singing with me!

Well, I think those are all of my goals for this year. It's going to be hard, but now I have you guys to make me accountable!

HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

I just wanted to post and say a huge HAPPY BIRTHDAY to one of my favorite bloggers and people, Cait over at The Notebook Sisters!
So, here goes nothing:

HAPPY 20TH BIRTHDAY, CAIT!!!

And, no birthday post is complete without cake:

And it's chocolate, just for you!:)

And, a couple more pictures because I found them while looking for the cake and thought they were hilarious:

Haha:) I have to tease you, Cait:) We can't let Mime have all the fun, now can we?;) And I wouldn't tease you if I didn't like you (yes, that was a compliment;P)!:)

Anyway, hope you have a GREAT birthday!:)

A List of Random Ramblings

I'm back! *grins evilly* (or nicely. Depending on your point of view)

A lot has happened since my last real post. A lot has happened in the last couple months that I never had time to tell you about. This is basically going to be a big, long post about random things that I want to ramble on about. It will also be in list form!:) Enjoy!




1. I went to see Thor 2!!!!!!!!!

Oh. My. Goodness!! I was on the edge of my seat from the first words!!!! I thoroughly enjoyed it! I was on a huge movie hangover for a week! I'm still confused as to where a loyalty lies. If you've seen it, you know what I mean. If not, it's not hard to guess. I mean, what was up with that final scene! Is he good, or is he evil? And the after credit are setting up for a new Marvel series entirely! The next Avenger's movie will probably have something to do with an Infinity Stone.

I actually loved Loki in this one! I completely hated him in Thor and The Avengers (I know, shoot me.)! He was cocky and arrogant and annoying and I just hated him. Things were completely different in Thor 2! I loved Thor and Loki's relationship! It was hilarious to watch Loki taunt Thor and for Thor to just punch him. I felt very sorry for Loki. I honestly think that maybe he feels bad about what he did. Even if it was just for a fraction of a second. But he knows that he will never be trusted again. At least not by anyone but maybe Thor and Jane. And you can tell that he wants to be loved so bad. But he's blind to the fact that, despite all he did, Thor still loves him as his brother. Thor doesn't trust him and e hates was Loki did, but he still loves Loki.

2. I cut my hair!

That was a huge thing for me. I've had the same hair style for about 4-5 years and it's always been long. It was a little more than halfway down my back. I cut it to about an inch past my shoulders. I absolutely love it! It's so much easier to work with and it's so much cuter!!

3. We had our Christmas play and cantata.
It went really well. I'm not going into detail on it though.
4. Christmas!!!!!
We went to Kentucky for Christmas, like we do every year. I got to meet my Aussie step-cousins. It was a pretty good Christmas, overall!
5.The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug.
Just wow! It was amazing! Extremely different from the book, but still amazing! I loved the whole Killi/Tauriel thing!:)
6. New year's. Obviously.
New year's was good. A little boring, though.


And that's about it.
I couldn't change my blog design. There's been something wrong with it every time I try to change it and it won't let me even try to change it.


I'm putting together a post about my goals for 2014. They're going to be reading goals, writing goals, personal goals, and, yeah, that's it.


Alright, I'm done rambling for now. See you guys later. Or rather, talk to you guys later!