I'm absolutely crazy!

Yep I've been thinking about it all year doing NaNoWriMo.
Some of you might not know what NaNoWriMo is so I'll explain.
On the 1st of November you begin to write your own novel. You have to complete your word count in thirty days so from November 1st to November 30 you are writing your own story.
Most people who's blogs I read try for 50,000 words while people like me who don't think they could do that much instead of signing up for what I call the '50,000 words NaNo' I am going to sing up for the Young Writers program.

I've only done NaNo once before in 2009 when i was turning eleven the thing about November is that there is so much which I'll do that month.
We'll be celebrating Braedon's big 21st birthday sometime that month even though he's birthday's actually on the 29th of October.
My birthday is in November the 16th at noon is precisely when I was born almost fourteen years ago.
Saxon's birthday is also in November (its eleven days after my birthday) on the 27th.
November is also the month before Christmas and we start Advent on the 2nd of December. We like to decorate our house with lots of things and it is very pretty after that.
The St. Andrew Novena starts on the 30th of November which is a novena which you have to say 15 times a day! It gets pretty tiring after a while. :)
And the one other thing is this: Every year we make each other Christmas gifts to give to each other and these are sometimes very time consuming.

I've only finished four out of the sixteen I need to make so I really need to hurry. In 2009 I didn't manage to get all of my Christmas presents done because I was so busy with NaNo. I only had 5,000 words but I wrote them all down in a book and because I'm wasn't a very fast typer  (not that I'm super fast now but I am competent I think) so it took me a while.
I am trying to finish all of my Christmas presents to people before my birthday at the latest. I want to be able to enjoy advent and not be on Christmas Eve still knitting and getting a really sore thumb from rubbing the wool on it. I want to focus on Advent and the feast days therein and prepare for Christmas and not have the worry of finishing my presents to weigh me down because I myself am a person who can get stressed easily. If i can't finish the presents before November (which would be preferable) or before my birthday than I don' think I'll be able to keep up with NaNo


I am planning on having an hour a day to do my writing in and though I'm not sure what my word count will be I think it'll be something like 15-20,000 but you can go over your word count if you want.
The novel I am planning on writing is a Robin Hood novel. I am a HUGE Robin Hood fan and I've read several versions of Robin Hood's Adventures.

I am going to make it how I want to though, and not necessarily how the legends go. I think I'll also make Marian and Will Scarlet brother and sister and add in a couple of merry men who I'm going to make up. I'm not going to make Robin die at the end because that always makes me cry I think I'll just have him and Marian get married and that'll be the end.

So that is what I am going to be doing (hopefully) in November among other things and I myself have to agree that juggling this with school and all that other stuff is going to be difficult and I think I am absolutely crazy.
But we'll just have to see!
God Bless

The Mainland.....AT LAST!!!!

So just so you know if you didn't follow the link to my Mum's blog on my blog post titled 'Change' than you need to know that we have moved and are now settled in Wagga Wagga. The copyright on some of the pictures are from Mum Mum's blog  'Cherished Hearts at Home' 
This is a narration of the first two days on the mainland and than I skip and choose which I days I'll 'sort of' narrate.
I'll start with the day before we left which was Thursday.
We had a pretty busy day on Thursday, Dad and Braedon flew down from Wagga that morning and caught the bus out of Launceston arriving at about 10 in the morning that didn't stop us from doing the  cleaning and mopping however :( It had to be done anyway.
We had Fr. John and Fr. Augustine to come over for dinner that night as it would be the last tine we would see them and be able to say goodbye
It was so enjoyable to have them both, and just being able to relax after having the last few days being really hectic where there was hardly any order at all plus, the fact that we got Dominoes pizza for dinner and so the dinner clean up was very minimal helped as well.
We chatted about different stuff before dinner and than Braedon took the little kids with him to pick up the pizza. They tried to take a short cut and got lost for a little while. :D

This is me, Dad, Moran and Trahaearn on the Spirit number two

Fr. John told us several funny stories and Fr. Augustine told a story too. Saxoin turned on the open fire and once Braedon got back, we had dinner in front of the fire, I might add and just before they left Fr. John said a prayer for our safe travel and good beginnings in Wagga.
It was actually really sad to see them go it was if finally after all our praying things were actually happening though it seemed hard to believe. After they left we got little kids in mattresses (becasue the movers had already taken the bed frames) and we did some more cleaning before finally sitting down with some chocolate and Milo and watching the

Avengers. Dad, Mum and Autumn went to bed and Saxon, Rogan, Eden and I, who survived off five hours sleep the next day stayed up until 2:00 AM the next morning watching it. Yes, we're crazy :D 'cause we're cool like that.

Friday was EXTREMELY hectic beacuse it was the day off our departure we had one last look around the house walking through it and took photos at the Wattle Tree outside

Me at the Wattle tree.

All of us walked onto the Spirit except for Dad and after getting on and going up two flights off escalators (I love escalators) found our cabins, waited for Dad, and than finally had dinner. We were still eating as the ship was coming out of the bay so we didn't actually go out and wave :(
After that we went and saw what was on at the little movies they have but it wasn't anything interesting   so Mum, Dad and Autumn got a coffee at one of the two café's on board and Rogan, Moran, Arwen and I had ice cold water which was for free.

We went out on deck before we went to our cabins quickly and mum snapped a shot
After that we all went to our cabins and none of us went to any of the ocean recliners AT ALL! They're horrible to sit and sleep on seeing as people with longer legs can't curl up conviently and they aren't very comfortable at all.
The little kids, Dad and mum went into one cabin (they were both next door to each other) and Braedon, Autumn, Eden, Saxon, Rogan and I went into the other cabin.
We joked around for a while about stuff which had me laughing really hard. (Braedon is good at making people laugh as is everyone else) And after doing that for a while we sat down (or lay down is a more exact word) and watched Father of the Bride on Autumn's laptop. Or at least, we tried to watch it but I couldn't see very well from where I was lying down and we didn't even finish it!
It was really hot in the cabin that night and at one point I was so hot I pulled off my blankets and than later on put them back on it was also hard to breathe (you could, it just felt compressed).

Saturday was a long day but very enjoyable :)

Yes, it is blurry

We came into the bay in Melbourne at around 5:30 am in the morning and hurriedly all got into the car.
Braedon, Myffwyn and Rogan walked off and caught a taxi to the airport to pick up Braedon's car we waited outside off Melbourne until they caught up to us and than it was off 
to McDonald's for breakfast.

















After we had had breakfast we hurrried to get the stuff to entertain ourselves out of the trailer and into our respective cars. Mum, Dad, Eden, Me, Rogan, and Arwen for the first part of our journey up to Wagga Wagga (about 5 hours)
We turned on our 'Moving Playlist' a list of songs we had made combined from various artists and we set out.

I knitted in the car though I had various books and looked outside as we drove. It was nice to look outside at the countryside and I particularly liked driving along at 110 kilometres and hour and hundred at other times. I love speed! :D
We stopped once on the way to Wagga and than coming over the border we saw the Murray

It was more beautiful at the bridge and Dad kept on getting mixed up where exactly the border was!
Finally we were across the border and we had left Victoria (my home state) and entered NSW.


We finally got to Wagga and saw this sign

We had finally arrived! We than had to locate the house (This was about 2:30 to 3:00 in the afternoon) and the agent gave us the keys and we set out to look.

My favourite thing about the rented house we are living in now is the pool

The bedrooms are very small but the outside is the main attraction as well as the kitchen.

Braedon went out and grabbed chocolate cake (Braedon loves anything chocolate) and chips but his main reason was to get cat food for the 

This is Diamond. Rogan's cat he got for his birthday this year 

cats who had been in the car travelling along with us.

We went to Saturday night Mass at the cathedral (called St. Michaels) there was a a carved figure of St. Michael the archangel out the front.

The church set up was beautiful but they didn't have the tabernacle where it should have been and that ALWAYS annoys me. The priest talked way to fast and managed to add lots of 'um's' and 'ah's' to his sermon. There wasn't any servers and a woman went and got Jesus! 

That is the thing that irritates me the most and makes me feel exceedingly annoyed. 

The little kids were very tired and so Arwen wasn't too good at behaving because she was so tired.

After Mass we went to McDonalds and Mum and Dad got everyone a McFlurry. 

I chose chocolate. Chocolate is ALWAYS safe. they weren't as big as I though they would be (but than nothing chocolate ever is) and it was very cold that night as well.

I didn't think that they were that great but they were enjoyable and had nice crunchy stuff on top :)

We didn't have dinner that night because we'd had a Mcflurry that night. 

We didn't stay in our house that night but stayed in an motel which was really nice.
Sunday we had breakfast there the next morning and than set off on a stroll to explore Wagga.
It was fun being able to do that though as we'd had a busy last week it was a little tiring.
We went to several stores and got swimmers for everyone as we didn't have any swimmers at all!
After that we went to a park which was nearby and the little kids played on the playground. I played on the see-saw and than Rogan and I got permission to walk down to the river which was just at the edge of the playground.
Some of us went and got some noodles for the swimming pool and Braedon turned up at that time (he went back to his own flat) we had to get laundry done so he suggested that Mum and Dad go to the laundromat and he would take all of us over to his place and watch the Smurfs.

We decided that was a good idea and so Mum and Dad set off for the laundromat and we went to Braedon's place to watch the Smurfs. Braedon gave us each a cherry ripe bar while we watched the Smurfs.
We didn't get to finish the movie (because we were having dinner at the hotel) we did all enjoy it lots however and are still trying to finish it.

The dinner was nice at the hotel and Mum and I split two dinners one was beef Wellington (which I now love) and Monte Carlo Veal. I didn't like the veal that much because it was very sweet. We had sweets as well and than went back to our rooms to sleep.
Fast forwards to the next Saturday.
The next five days were spent unpacking and we went to the Botanical Gardens on the next Saturday we didn't see ALL of the gardens but we did see all the animal and bird parts and played on two different playgrounds.
We went to the library last friday and though its not very welcoming for little kids it is quite big and I managed to find the second book in 'The Mysterious Benedict Society series' called The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Jouney and I am really enjoying reading them!
Kynan and Geogie will be coming down on Saturday and staying until Monday night and as we haven't seen Kynan AT ALL since January we are going to celebrate his birthday while he's here.
We'll be celebrating and combining Bilbo's and Frodo's brithday's along with 75 years of the Hobbit which happens on fRiday and we'll celebrate on the Friday.

And now the other pictures. I'm not goint to comment on all of them but only a few.

Arwen fell asleep in the car with her water bottle in her mouth.

This is my gorgeous littlest brother Trahaearn who s now walking around all the time!

Yep that's me again! I had to try out the swings. I do it in most playgrounds. :)

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This is me and Eden at the Botanical gardens. As you can see we weren't watching Mum as she just snapped this photo.

Kangaroo's. There aren't ANy Kangaroos in Tasmania so it was nice to finally see them again 

Me with Rogan we even named these three donkeys as we patted them but I domn't remeber rhe names

Aren't these birds cute?

See what I mean by walking around all the time?! 

The stupid cow wouldn't get up! I was rather disappointed 'cause I wanted to pat it.

The view from our yard. That is lake Albert.

I'm really sorry I haven't been posting but I've been really busy!
Thank you everyone who read this post to the end if you did than you are awesome and anyway I'm pretty sure this is the longest post I have EVER written!
I'll post soon. It's a bit more difficult as we've started our school again after our 'moving break' :D
Bye!
Thank you Jesus for all you have given me and my family!

God Bless

To my Dad ♥

Dear Dad,
I just want to so, "Happy Father's Day" to you.
You are a great Dad.
You aren't perfect but than no-one is. We all have our good days and our bad days.

I love how you get so amused when us kids try to make you smile. You usually get annoyed but its fun to do it anyway.
I hope everything will turn out well in Wagga, Dad; its pretty cool that our second day on the mainland is Father's Day.
Have a great day, Dad!
I love you,
Vellvin.

God Bless

Joy!!

Okay so the last few days have been really hectic but I'm just here to tell you that first this is a scheduled post, and second that it has all been worth it.

At this very moment (I love using that line, can't you tell? :P) I'm standing on the deck of the 'Red Ship' which is the name the little kids and all of us call the Spirit of Tasmania.
The sun has set and the ship is drawing away from the land. It looks like the land is running away from the ship, in fact.

We all have our own 'buddies' to stay with on the ship. Once we're out of the harbour and said our farwell shouting 'Goodbye Tasmania' we'll all go to the little movies that the Spirit has, provided that the movie which is being shown is appropriate
We have two four berth cabins and four ocean recliners. Braedon even came down to help get us moved to Wagga.
Its very relaxing going to sleep with the sound of the ship and the gentle rise and fall of the waves against the sides of the ship. Of course its also very good if you happen to not think about aything to do about the Titanic or remember that you are sailing on the Bass Strait; a very deadly sea because of how shallow it is.
I don't know how much or long I'll sleep for on the ship...it's very exciting!

This was actually written one week earlier than our departure so its not as 'in the moment' as I would like.
Oh, and I won't have internet until Thursday or Friday so if you leave me a comment and I haven't answered or moderated any, that's the reason! : )

And so like Bilbo I'm off on a new and exciting adventure
'The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.'

 God Bless
 

An awesome, surprising, surprise!

This morning I logged in onto Facebook and was delighted to see something on Taylor Swift page.
It announced that her new album would be released in late October and I'm getting super excited!!!!

I am a huge fan of her music and I'm really looking forward to listening to her fourth album titled 'RED'
My birthday in November and so I'm pretty sure what one of the things I"ll be asking for is! :D
I know this post might not be interesting for some people but hey! I'm a swift fan.
God Bless

I can do it once in a while.....

I know I said that I didn't want to do any more tags or awards but I was so surprised and pleased that Arda had tagged me that I decided to do it.


1. Thank the person who nominated you and give the link. Thank you Arda! I really appreciate this. :D
2. Tell us how the idea of making a blog popped into your head and why you continue it. I wanted to start a blog because my Mum and older sisters had one pf their own and it looked like a very fun thing to do. I originally shared a blog with my brother Rogan, called Courtly Corners (now corners of my world)  after sharing that blog for a few months I wanted to have my own blog and because Rogan shared a blog with me it was a little hard to put something I liked on the side-bar or post something which was a very 'girl kind of post' and I wanted to have my own blog where I could write whatever I wanted to and be able to put whatever I wanted on the side-bar.
3. Describe a usual day of your life. Get up at about seven in the morning wake everyone up, read bible, say prayers, help Moran and Myffwyn, come down stairs sweep the kitchen have breakfast, start school, say Angelus at twelve, tidy up before lunch, have lunch, more school, dinner prep, end of the day clean up, get into pajamas, say the rosary, chill around until my bedtime and than go to bed and read for a bit and turn out my light at ten.  
4. The best collaboration with a blogger(s) Never had one :P
5. Worst collaboration with a blogger(s) Same answer as above.
6. Explain what having this blog means to you. Being able to say whatever I want whenever I want, looking up cool pictures to put on a blog post, checking my dashboard for comments, rambling on about something, visiting other peoples blogs, and just blogging!


7. Nominate 5 followers for this award.
I'm not that great at nominating people so if you want it, be my guest! :)



Thank you to Arda once again

Now I must say seven random things about myself...

1. I can only survive a few days without reading a book.
2. I love watching YouTube music videos from my favourite bands and musicians.
3. Sir Percy is real!
4. I can't wait to read 'Waking Rose' by Regina Doman
5. I like to sweep off carpets and see the little pile of dust which comes off. Weird I know. ;)
6. I'd never want to be friends with Miss Marple. I'd end up getting murdered! (sorry don't like Miss Marple's as you can probably tell)
7. I don't throw up on ships though I can get dizzy.

I give this to...

Rogan
and anyone else please its my pleasure to give and yours to receive if you want it :)

God Bless