FOOD

i can't believe i haven't talked about food yet. i love food. it's so satisfyingly tasty. also cruel and treacherous. nothing beats a good meat and vegetable lasagna with red sauce. well except maybe an apple cider donut. or a well cooked steak. or possibly even high quality chocolate. mmmmmmmmmmm....... food is great. not only does it nourish the body but it also nourishes the soul. mediocre food fill the stomach but does not seem to satisfy. whereas exceptional food not only fills physically but also mentally and emotionally. you take a bite and savor it in your mouth for as long as possible as your body melts into it. that's where we get phrases like "mmmmmmm........" and "oh that's lovely" (ok so i stole that last from hitchhiker's guide) people who eat good food are happy people. that's why there are so many different foods. so everyone can have what they like best and be happy.
by the way i have to mention something my nephew said. well my brother and nephew and i were talking about food. particularly tomatoes and spinach. and my brother was saying that those things are really blah plain (i disagree) and he was saying that they were good in things like ketchup. and my nephew said spinach ketchup. and i said that's it! hey they've already made green ketchup. why not make the color natural with spinach. sounds good to me.

STORIES

ever get that crazy storyline that won't leave your head? what do you do with it? ignore it? drive it out? write it down you numskull! especially if it's twisted by weirdness. look at me i'm writing a story about the relationship between the grim reaper and mother earth. and another one about a book with a bad attitude. not to mention the fantasy series i've been working on. stories are fun and entertaining. even more so when they are your own. so indulge yourself and put that story in your head on paper... or plastic... or whatever you use.

DECEMBER JOYS

the 1st joy for this month is SNOW! it snowed all day yesterday. i'm happy now. snow is so cheerful.
the 2nd joy this month is the end of the semester. woohoo! hooray for finals! i LOVE finals. final. done. the end. need i say more?
the 3rd joy this month is the Christmas season. everyone is happy and cheerful. people are friendly and considerate.
the 4th joy of December is jolly happy songs that excite the soul.
the 5th joy this month is Christmas decor everywhere to cheer the heart and lift the spirit.
the 6th joy this month is Christmas eve. family. nativity story. hanging stockings. Santa Claus. more Christmas songs and Christmas trees.
the 7th joy of December is Christmas! it's a whole day of joy! presents. candy. family. the savior's birth. woot!
the 8th joy this month is new year's eve. party all night long and welcome the new year!

ME

tag i'm it. so 5 things unknown about me eh? well well well... aren't you in for a treat.

1 i was not born on earth. i was born on a world called orean. (hence the title of my blog)

2 i am not a human... well not human by your definition anyway... on orean the term "human" applies to all of mixed blood. i am half dwarf a quarter gnome and a quarter elf

3 my real name is delemetre (hence the address of the blog)

4 i have magical abilities and no i will not reveal to you what they are

5 i am currently chronicling the lives of my grandparents and the effects they have had on our world (orean not earth)

those are my secrets... the beauty of it is... none of you will believe them

tag to anyone who reads this entry

DISCWORLD

hilarity. the #1 thing to look for in good entertainment. that's why it's called entertainment. it's entertaining. terry pratchett's discworld is the funniest thing i've ever come across. it's hysterically funny and he nails human nature right on the head.
i tell you what. if you read it you won't be sorry. go to this site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld and take a look. each book stands on its own so you don't have to worry about reading them in order (except the 1st 2-read color of magic before light fantastic)
however be aware that different characters show up in multiple stories. therefore i recommend starting at or near the beginning. like i said look at the website above and it will give you a rundown of the books with major characters and themes of satire. so pick a character and start reading! but like i said they don't really need to be read in order--it's just more fun that way because you learn a lot about characters and discworld itself through the course of the books.
my absolute favorite character is death. i laugh myself silly every time he shows up on the page. and i must say that my absolute favorite book is hogfather. which features death filling in for the hogfather (who is a discworld version of santa claus)

FRACTURED FAIRY TALE

I've started a new story. i think it's frankly hilarious and would love to see it made into a movie by pixar. i think it's right up their alley. or dreamworks. they'd love it too. anyway i think the technical term for what the story is is a fractured fairy tale. fairy tales have always intrigued me and i always wanted to write twists to the well known classics. sleeping beauty and snow white and all that. anyway I've got the story started and I'm anxious to see how it turns out. the problem is i still haven't finished my other books I've started. but i do plan this one to be a short chapter book for kids like the Cordelia story I'm working on. anyway I've got snow white, sleeping beauty, Cinderella, Rapunzel, and the last one is a mix of rose red, beauty (and the beast) and the princess from frog prince. and they're all sisters. well some are step-sisters. but they go through life together and have fun with each other's weaknesses and gullibilities. they also all get along well and love each other dearly. they're even loved by their parents. it's the princes that are the problem. well not all of them but some of them anyway. and some of them just can't help it. one is gorgeous but full of himself. one is hideously ugly. one doesn't want to be king. one falls in love with every girl he sees and with 5 beautiful princesses he seems.... well.... i would say 2-timer but he would really be a 5-timer. he doesn't mean to be he's just so in love with all of them that he can't make up his mind. another prince is just your average joe of princes. and another prince is maliciously evil. i may add more of these rescuers of damsels in distress as the story progresses. but that's what i have to start with. i hope it turns out as funny as i think it will.

IMMIGRATION AND ALL THAT ROT

this is something that was sent to me in my email and it illustrates my sentiments exactly on ILLEGAL immigration. LEGAL immigration is something else entirely. i'm all for people who come here LEGALLY either permanently or temporarily. but that is a horse of a different color. frankly there are ways of taking care of this problem that would hardly take any trouble for anyone at all to fix. it's all very simple really but politicians don't believe in simple. anyone with half a brain can see the solutions like a big red truck (i.e. fire engine) anyway until solutions are made this issue will not just go away. it will fester and build until it consumes but all that can easily be avoided. easily. and you thought i lived with my head under a rock in a hole in the ground. i do pay attention to things. more than you think. i'm just not loud about what i know. and view down there is amazingly enlightening.


Let's say I break into your house:
A lady wrote the best letter in the Editorials
in ages!!! It explains things better than all
the baloney you hear on TV.

Her point:
Recently large demonstrations have taken place
across the country protesting the fact that Congress
is finally addressing the issue of illegal immigration.

Certain people are angry that
the US might protect its own
borders, might make it harder
to sneak into this country and,
once here, to stay indefinitely.

Let me see if I correctly understand
the thinking behind these protests.
Let's say I break into your house.
Let's say that when you discover
me in your house, you insist that I leave.

But I say, "I've made all
the beds and washed the
dishes and did the laundry
and swept the floors. I've
done all the things you don't
like to do. I'm hard-working
and honest (except for when I broke into your house).

According to the protesters:

You are Required to let me stay in your house
You are Required to add me to your family's insurance plan
You are Required to Educate my kids
You are Required to Provide other benefits to me & to my family
(my husband will do all of your yard work because
he is also hard-working and honest, except for that
breaking in part).

If you try to call the police or force me out,
I will call my friends who will picket your
house carrying signs that proclaim my RIGHT to be there.

It's only fair, after all, because you have
a nicer house than I do, and I'm just
trying to better myself. I'm a hard-working
and honest, person, except for well,
you know, I did break into your house.

And oh yeah, I get a free education, where you
have to pay your own way through college.(TEEHEE)
And what a deal it is for me!!!

I live in your house, contributing only a
fraction of the cost of my keep, and
there is nothing you can do about it
without being accused of cold,
uncaring, selfish, prejudiced, and
bigoted behavior.

Oh yeah, I DEMAND that you learn
MY LANGUAGE!!! so you can communicate with me.
And don't forget to make sure your forms are in MY language - I need to understand them...

Welcome to America (--this last bit added by me)

DRAGONS

dragons are the coolest. i love dragons. so naturally there are dragons in my stories. dragons are intelligent and all the dragons have the ability to breathe fire and fly and a few other things but different colored dragons have different abilities.
red=lava
blue=water
green=healing
black=shadow
white=light
brown=earth
orange=alchemy
purple=jewel
silver=stone
gold=weather
these are things they can control and generate and use to their advantage (like camouflage and shape shifting).a dragon is always one of these colors. never a mix. a dragon has not been born that can do 2 (or more) color abilities. it is always one. no matter what color the parents are. now if 2 white dragons mate they are most likely to have white children but not necessarily. a red child is quite possible if one of the grandparents are red or even a great-grandparent. if a brown and a black mate most of the children will be brown or black but don't be surprised if there is a gold child.

HOME AND KITTES

they say home is where the heart is. i beg to differ. being transported by my ribcage inside my body my heart goes lots of places i would never call home. so i will change this only sometimes true statement to home is where the kitties are.
i currently have 10 cats and 4 kittens. and i know that makes you all green with envy. ha! ha! kitties! kitties! kitties! all for me! none for you! anyway in case you are ignorant of the improtant things the names of the 10 are (in order of age) princess, gwendolyn, uhura, polgara, belgarath, koren, fred and george (twins and hard to tell apart. only their eye color is different), ginny and frisky.
the 4 kittens do not have names yet but i know you are dying to know more about them. all 4 are girls. 3 are in a litter together (mom=uhura) and the 4th is a litter all by herself (mom=gwendolyn) all 4 are about 1 month old (i'll pause for your aww's............) the one by herself is orange and white and very fluffy. the other 3 are black, grey and butter (hard to say of she's yellow or orange but butter is the color (real not margerine)) anyway i was enjoying the 3 today. they're so cute. the black meowed the whole time. the butter hissed the whole time and the grey slept the whole time. talk about personalites. the butter colored one played with my hair a bit. she would swat at it then bite it like a snake. it was very funny.
well i am looking forward to spoiling them all rotten like belgarath (who is EXTREMELY lovey) but mom complains every time i pet them because we're trying to move and can't take the cats with us which is phooey. life without kitties is no life at all. oh well i'd better enjoy them while i can. and in the mean time i will gloat... i've got kitties and you don't! nya! nya! nya! (well... even if you do i have more AND kittens.... not to mention the pregnant cats which means MORE kittens) nya!

FRESH MEAT

writing is a lot of work. it is not easy. i have a tendency to leave out details. it is hard to put what is in my head onto paper. i see more than what i write. i have the whole picture in my head but the reader does not. i can't read it like a reader would. i have been driving my brother crazy with having him read it and tell me what's missing. i have to constantly ask him if it's confusing in any way and if all the necessary information is there. he is starting to be useless. because he has already told me the obvious stuff and now he is having a hard time with reading it with fresh eyes because he knows what happens and why. i need fresh meat. (mmmmmm meat. now i'm hungry) anyway if anyone is willing to help me out let me know. i would love to have readers who can tell me what they like and what they don't. but you have to be patient while i continue to tweak the story. it could take a few months before it's ready for more readers.

WHATEVER

school. let's face it. it's dull. i never liked school. i don't know why i go. i guess it is because of society. one can not earn a living without going to school. but you can't get a job without experience and you can't gain experience without a job. twisted society.
anyway. that topic's boring. let's talk about something else. what? i don't know. i don't care.
pizza. pizza's a good topic. mostly because i'm hungry. i like a think crust with extra sauce and cheese and lots of different toppings. yum yum. i like pizza anyway it comes though. i even like cheap frozen pizza. or pizza flavored things. like chips and pretzels and pasta and such. pasta. mmmmmm..... that makes me think of lasagna. now that is good stuff. dude i gotta go find something to eat before i drool all over this keyboard.

BOYS AND PRINCESSES

i am currently staying with my sister and her family and my niece has eight little disney dolls, jasmine, ariel, belle, mulan, pocahantas, cinderella, aurora, snow white. well i like to play with these dolls and mix and mess up the stories. it's all highly entertaining. well anyway one day i took these dolls into a different room from my niece and left her to play with her cousin. i went into the room where the boys were thinking i could REALLY mix up the stories without being disturbed. this did not happen. the four boys ages, 5-10, were intrigued. they wanted to play too. so we divided up the dolls between us and had a jolly good time. we had balls and slumber parties and shopping sprees and everything. the boys had so much fun that they still ask me to play princesses with them.
who would have thought that boys could have so much fun with princess dolls?

NEW CRAZE

Are you ready for another brilliant idea? OK OK OK so it's not as brilliant as the last one but I can definitely see dollar signs. Ready?
Glass furniture.
Not just tables and lamps but couches and chairs!
They would come with all rounded edges or prechipped edges smoothed over just in case someone is worried about getting a chip and looking tacky. It would be cushioned of course and the fabric would be washable. Talk about hypo-allergenic! It would be easy to clean out crumbs and toys and remote controls!
The only downside that I can see is that it would weigh a ton. Perhaps modern technology can help us out with that though.
I can totally see this selling big time to the wealthy with the big fancy shmancy houses. It will be the new craze of Hollywood.

JOURNAL ENTRY OF A DRAGON

dragons are an oft misunderstood race. it is automatically assumed by people that we are inherently bad. but this is just not so. people think of dragons when a building is on fire or a girl is missing. why would a dragon want a maiden anyway? they're all skin and bones! no meat! at least not enough meat to make it worthwhile. and what would be the purpose of setting a building or field on fire? we need fields for food as much as people do. we are often visited by hostile knights on various quests who feel it is their duty to slay a dragon. fools! what is their reason? to seek the revenge of previous fools who sought to slay us? now be honest. what would you do if someone broke into your home stole your stuff woke you from a sound sleep and tried to rob you of your life? let him have at it? i think not! that would be foolish. you would be dead and the thieving murderer would be free to do it again. no. it is best to stop such nonsense right away. at first i tried to reason with the knight who did these horrible things but they were so full of their own self-righteousness that i had no choice but to kill them out of self defense. i no longer bother to try. i simply fry them and go back to sleep.

WHAT IF SNOW WHITE...

What if Snow White's step-mother was nice and loved her step-daughter?
What if Snow White ran away and met the Dwarves for a reason other than her step-mother trying to kill her?
What if Snow White did not like Prince Charming?
What if Snow White in reality was trying to run away from a stuck up selfish Prince who was convinced that she was crazy for him and wanted to marry him?
What if Snow White fell in love and married a Dwarf instead?
What would the Prince do?
I will have to write all this out. It sounds hysterically funny to me.