‘ “Have then thy wish!”– He whistled shrill,
And he was answered from the hill;
Wild as the scream of the curlew,
From crag to crag the signal flew.
Instant, through copse and heath,arose
Bonnets and spears and bending bows;
On right, on left, above, below,
Sprung up at once the lurking foe.” ‘

apparently the top ten fears of most people are

1. Fear of flying – I won’t make fun of someone for this, and I try to understand, but simply I love it, the only time I have ever been in a plane was a small one that only fit 4 people, it was amazing, that is the only way I can describe that feeling of ecstasy

2. Public speaking- This I can understand, (mostly because it is something I dislike doing), really though if you just practice, and DO IT, eventually, if you do it enough, you won’t have people looking at you with sympathy, or throwing tomatoes at you. yeah, yeah I know, I’m certainly one to give advice

3.Fear of heights – Many people say fear of flying and fear of heights are the same thing, really they’re  not, a person can be afraid to fly, but perfectly fine with standing at the edge of a tall cliff. Heights are a fear of mine, but I find that just the thrill the fear puts in me, is exhilarating, I love it

4.The Dark – who wouldn’t be just a little bit nervous? it’s the absence of light, when its dark somewhere in the back of your head you just have to wonder…… are there things you can’t see in the light that are there in the dark, for all you know the cookie monster…… sorry they changed it (so sad) the veggie monster might come and eat you!

5. Intimacy – next!

6.Death – does it strike anyone else as weird that this is so far down the list? nope! This is one thing, I am happy to say, I have no fear of, I am Christian, I believe I will go with Jesus when I die. I am ready.     I understand the fear for others though.

7. Failure - A perfectly logical fear (sort of) but whats the use of living if your too scared of failing to try doing something? Learn from your failures and try again, or do something different, it doesn’t matter if you fail, you tried something you had never done before and you learned something,

8. Rejection – Well Duh! everyone is afraid of rejection. I look at it this way, Writers are afraid that people, publishers, friends will not like their story. a while back I read a book on writing and it had a list of ways to deal with rejection, and on that list it had this

If you get thoroughly tired of publishers rejecting you, put a sign above your desk that reads “Some publishers wouldn’t know a good book if it bit them in the behind” if symptoms persist add an illustration.

on reading this I found it very amusing, decided to use this method with anything that was really annoying me, (does not always work, but it does relieve some stress)

9. Spiders - Creepy, crawly, tiny, annoying beasts!!!!!!!! oh, I can’t believe I said that. I don’t always like spiders but I do find them much better companions that cockroaches and ants, I believe cockroaches should be on this list in place of spiders, spiders at least have a small use in taking away the annoying fly’s that like to buzz in my ear. plus cockroaches look much more disgusting, and are larger, if I see a spider as big as a cockroach in my house of course I’m gonna squash it.

10. Commitment - I think of it as a fear of being trapped in something you can’t get out of gracefully, like trying to climb a twelve-foot wire fence in a traditional Victoria wedding dress

My Captain decided he wanted to be female, and wanted nothing to do with her post as an officer of the royal army, the random kid I threw in became a prince and royal air to two thrones, my annoying friend became an awesome pirate ninja, my girl decided she was marrying the character I hated, & has 7 children, and the secondary character I had as a slave-trader became a Lord who holds a lot of power with the certain shady characters.

How in the world did this happen! they threw out my plot and came up with an extremely political one which works so much better. My main grievance is that they are so much smarter and know how to push my buttons, its like arguing with Joanna, &  fremlog combined with Chrs, Frem never argues unless he knows he right and thus always wins (he is also a  bit more experienced), Chrs is logical and knows when she’s right, she can also reason with people a bit more, and Joanna…….. just knows the right buttons to push. I can’t believe I actually made up these characters from my siblings, not all of them, just my favorite characters. I must really admire my siblings, granted I only put in the characteristics I wish I had.

I only wish they weren’t so good at having their way – Sarah

Hopefully the story does not die, after spending three or four months playing with family trees, the position of the country’s, and what they will look like,           I think that my inclination to write and imagine story’s might die and I would be forced to live in the real world. Who wants to do that?

The world is not bad. in fact it is one of the most beautiful things in existence. I however am quite at annoyed at my mind, at least once a day, I suddenly have irresistible urge to go where no one else is and think, most of the time I make up story’s and play them over and over in my head, occasionally I might even act them out. But I can not control when I want to be alone usually its when I am bored, but it happens even when I am with friends which dampens my mood, and makes things less enjoyable. Watson came to the conclusion that they have not yet named the problem, she seems to think with much research, and tests they might come up with something, I hope when they do they do not name it after me, not sure I want to be known for having a disease so obscure every body has it.

If on the other hand if an extremely small percentage of people were diagnosed with it, it might just maybe be semi O.K.-Sarah

Every one here thinks that as soon as it snows they are going to run out of everything. Thankfully they were smart enough not to drive on the roads one could barely stand on, but instead formed a procession to go to  the Kroger at the top of our street. Most people I noticed went about twice a day. Annoyingly, though not with out good reason my brother and I were made to shovel the driveway, so while ours was nice and clear, at every other house you could ice skate.

It is now almost completely melted and I am suddenly having a longing for more, I think this may be fixed with brain surgery. -Sarah

my friend and I are going to a costume party quite soon, and I am very happy, we are dressing up as elves and we actually have half way good costumes, and fake ears that actually look kind of realistic. Later - Sarah