Some things are really hard
Mood:  caffeinated
Do you kow how hard it is to find a male avatar with white hair? Practically impossible, especially if you're looking for a certain look.

I finally found one, I can't remember where, but it fits this character really well. It's Silver's twin brother, Jack. Like his sister, he has white hair but that's where the resemblance ends-where her skin is snow white and her eyes are ice blue, Jack has dark skin and brown eyes.

I feel that having avatars to represent characters helps a lot with visualising them in the story and I'm going to try to do that with all my stories, or at least as many as I can. This particular story is based on a RP character of mine in a RP that is no longer going on, I just wanted to tell some more of her story. I got permission from a couple of other posters whose characters I needed for this story to use them. I hope one of them doesn't mind that I killed off her character. He's still around, just in spirit form and will be playing a big part in this story.

Anyway, I hope it all goes good, I never know what twist in the plot road will come up next. Maybe it's good that I don't know ahead of time, so I can't screw up my muse ;)

Random Ramblings
Mood:  caffeinated
I'm getting my Bravehost site up and running the way I want. I've posted some stories and a poem there and will post some more of my older stuff as I get time.

I'm liking the way my newest story Beyond Island Is shaping up. A friend of mine started reading it last night and pointed out a couple of minor things that were fixed easily and she's now waiting on the next chapter. I make the next chapter page when I complete the previous chapter and just write COMING SOON on it until I get the chapter written and tweaked to my satisfaction. She complained about me leaving her a cliffhanger but hey, it's a cliffhanger for me too because I never know what turn or twist my stories will take. I always get a germ of an idea, start writing it and I usually know when it's done. I've never used an outline for that reason, I write on the fly and never plan anything out. It's worked for me so far so I don't see any reason to change.

Anyway, onto other ramblings.

I like to hang out in the TK chatroom while I'm working on my stories, sites, playing games, whatever. Lately, it's been pretty quiet, even some of the regulars aren't hanging there like they used to. That isn't what I want to ramble about though. There's one person who pops in then pops back out throughout the day and doesn't even say hello. She only stays around if there are guys in there, or maybe some other women, never if I'm there by myself. Now, I haven't a clue why she doesn't want to chat with me or why she doesn't seem to like me but I'm also not that worried about it. She made a crack yesterday when another woman and I started flirting with a guy and he had to leave for a bit. I'm pretty sure the crack was aimed at me but I can't be 100% sure. Anyway, I ignored it since she was trying to insult me or something and I wasn't going to play her little game. I'm old enough to take little darts like that without letting them bother me, especially from someone young enough to be my daughter.

I really think she simply wants all the attention whenever she's in there and if there isn't anyone other than me in there then she has no purpose being in there since she making it obvious she doesn't like me. Did I mention that when she is in there with everyone else that she pretty much ignores me, even if I say hello to her? Well, she does, except to be snarky at me like she did yesterday.

Well, what she doesn't know is that I got along well without her before I met her and I'll get along well with her ignoring me. I'm pretty sure the others will get tired of her attention whoring soon enough.

In a way, I'm looking for her to one day ask me if I have to stay in there all the time, I'm sure she gets really tired of seeing me in there-if what I think is true and she really doesn't like me for whatever reason.

Me, I'm not bringing it up around the others, they can give her all the attention she wante, I'm not even going to give her any attention by bringing up what I've just posted here, I'm just writing that I've noticed this pattern going on for several weeks now, which is what got me to thinking in the first place.

Right-O, then, I guess that's enough of boring everyone to death ;)

First entry
Mood:  caffeinated
Just trying out my new blog here on my Tripod site.

There's no telling what I might post here since I keep up several different blogs in different locations with different purposes.

This one is just whatever, like a couple of others, I'm sure not many people will be reading this one yet so I can put stuff here that I don't want certain people to see. Nothing bad, probably boring stuff that would put others to sleep anyways.

I haven't put any pages up here at Tripod, although I do have sites at other free places, I'm just not sure yet what I want to put here.

One of my sites- The Writing on the Wall - has been down more times than it's been up lately and that's where I put stories that I write. My son in law, who has a story site there as well, said they were redoing it or something so maybe that accounts for the downtime but sheesh, 9 times out of 10 I couldn't get into my file manager and my pages wouldn't load up either.

Last night I was able to get into the file manager so I saved all my page codes, backgrounds and pictures to a flash drive. I'm going to give it some time and if it starts acting up again I might just move the stories. I've moved a few of them over to my Bravenet site-The Writing on the Wall

If ASP keeps going down I'll move the rest over there too. What I do here is still up in the air, I might use it as an extension of my Bravenet story site if I run out of room there.

Anyway, I'm just happy to get all my stuff off ASP, there were some pictures and backgrounds there that I didn't have at any of my other sites.

See everyone around-when I feel like posting something ;)