The Case Files of a Mysterious Author

The Adventures of the Tenacious Trio

2010-02-15T20:11:00.002-07:00

I am currently working on a story entitled The Adventures of the Tenacious Trio, for lack of a better name. It has much to do with space and aliens, I'm afraid, though I do not know why. Perhaps it was for lack of a better plan. Whenever I feel like riding a motorcycle into a shark I just automatically put in aliens and space ships, though they tend to be the less popular ones. . .I wonder why. . .anyhow, there's the link to the blog where I am posting it as I go along, so feel free to read it and tell me what you think!

tim hawkins

2009-08-29T19:05:00.000-07:00

this is a video from my favorite comedian.

The Phantom of The Opera is there, inside my mind. . .

2009-07-15T11:33:00.003-07:00

Tyler did let me watch her phantom of the opera movie. Actually, we watched it right when I got to there house, at about 9:30. I loved it!
And of course I went around singing it all day long while I was there. That pretty much drove them all crazy. The funny thing was that they would start singing it, and then stop and tell me it was my fault.
I still am going around singing it. I think I'll buy the music to it! I can't get it out of my head. Thus the above title.

I AM RUNNING AWAY and my parents are helping me

2009-07-05T11:10:00.000-07:00

Well, either that or "My parents are sending me off," which sounds nowhere as much as exciting as the above title.
My cousin Tanner is over, and on Wednesday my parents are taking him and me to CA. Or at least halfway, I think my Aunt'll pick us up in Yuma. I guess I'm going so I can go to a few of the World View classes.
I do not know how I will survive, Tanner and I have nearly killed each other already.
This morning I smashed him with a couch pillow, so he piled them all on top of me and sat on it. This is not very fun for someone with claustrophobia, I assure you. And then we came to the computer room, and listened to my play list, singing and doing air guitar. Of course, most of them aren't quite the rock'n'roll type.

Tanner told me that he's going to have his parents lock up the piano, and put a curfew on singing. That kid has no appreciation for music!!! I demand rights for music!! Right now I'm singing along with "Wishing you could somehow be here again." I am so weak for new songs. Especially ones I can sing! Not that I sing well. Yay!! Tyler has the phantom of the opera movie, maybe she'll let me watch it!
Haha, Tanner just told me he figured out the tune on the piano. Or, part of it. The chorus. Just 2 days of this song, and my family's already sick of it! bother, these people just don't appreciate music.

Before I leave, I hope I can get to a store and buy a tumult of new notebooks, in fact, I think I'll ask now. Hold please. . . . . .Dad says he doesn't know. I hope we go up the mountain today, that would be fun. . .sorry, random thought. Or was it?
dun da dun, Tanner wants to know whom I'm writing too. . .now he says I'm retarded because I said he has no appreciation for music.

For some reason, I am beginning to talk like a pirate, it always happens when I write stories. I keep adding "Ayes," "Yes" and "what in the bloomin' bloody seas" into my speech. My friends mock my speech. Last book I wrote I went around with the old English speech, thees, thous, art, etc. . .
Then there was that one time when I went around with an English accent and Victorian speech. Or when I talked like an English street sweeper. The gang says I'd be a good actor. Not a gang gang, the old fashioned use of the word gang, like a group of pals just hanging. That kind of gang.
My story with the pirates in it is going well, i must admit; it's probably the best "bit" of work I've ever done. It's already pushing 36,000 words and I've only written half of it. Currently, the princesses(who has been locked up in the castle for 14 years)tutor disappeared, leaving her a note telling her to abandon the only place she has ever none as her home. Or so she thought. . .as it turns out, she's really the daughter of our(the gang and I)friend(we were zapped to Nor Tia.) But you'll just have to read it when I'm done.

There, now I've blogged a mass of completely irrelevant thing to the title, and I've said my say, and I'll bid ye adieu!

Wishing you were somehow here again

2009-07-04T09:43:00.000-07:00

This is my favorite song from Phantom of the Opera.

Updated version of movie us at the zoo

2009-02-23T17:47:00.000-07:00

Make video montages at www.OneTrueMedia.com

2009-02-03T11:01:00.000-07:00

So, You Wanna Be a Writer?: How to Write, Get Published, and Maybe Even Make it Big! by Cathleen Greenwood

My review

rating: 5 of 5 stars
This was a really good book. It inspired and helped me a whole lot to be a writer when I was younger. I recommend it to any young author. I have also used this book to help at my writing and art club with children as young as seven with great success.

Try this book out!

View all my reviews.

2008

2009-01-02T18:21:00.000-07:00

Well, it's been a good year, here is a list of some major good things in my life in 2008

sang on stage

turned 13

finished my first novelette

my brother got married

my friends turned, 12, 13, 14, 14, 8, 3, 10, 6, etc.

started drawing better

learned piano better

learned to draw a lot better

started my official Young Authors and Artists Club you can view our site here

learned to crochet

and lots more too. . .

Stage fright?

2008-12-23T09:05:00.002-07:00

I'm supposed to sing at my church tommorow and I've never even talked into a microphone before.
I hope I do well.

Cross your fingers,
Emily

The end of the world?

2008-12-07T15:46:00.001-07:00

Today my pastor talked about the end of the world, he talked about Matthew 24:4-14 where Jesus mentioned 7 signs about the end of the world. Look it up for yourself. Here is a video he shared with us about what the Mayan Indians believed. Please keep in mind the earth is only around 6,000 years old while watching this video. Oh, yeah, and he said the Jews beleived the world would only last 6,000 years.

Pictures from my 13th birthday

2008-11-20T14:09:00.000-07:00

Well, I'm 13 now and here's the pics to prove it.

This morning Abigail told Ethan not to mess with the vicious teenager.

this is all I have to say.

2008-11-17T09:51:00.000-07:00

here's a non motion movie I created about 1 1/2 years ago that is already on my blog, I thought I'd do a rerun.

some time I'll get around to making more.

2008-11-17T09:35:00.000-07:00

Um, here is a picture I drew on the computer, it really sucks, but whatever.

2008-11-10T14:13:00.000-07:00

THIS IS US AT A LITTLE COFFEE SHOP IN SAN DIEGO, SOME GUY TOOK THIS PICTURE OF US AND MY DAD TOOK A PICTURE OF HIM, ABIGAIL ROLLED HER EYES AND SAID:
"HE DOES THAT TO EVERYBODY!"

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THIS IS COREY.

THESE WEIRDOS ARE NOT RELATED TO ME

HERE IS A STUPID PICTURE

THIS IS AWESOME TYLER, SHE USUALLY LOOKS BETTER

I THINK THAT'S ETHAN

HERE'S ABBY! SHE ACTUALLY WENT INTO THE WATER THIS TIME, I WAS SHOCKED!

TANNER, THE WEIRDO

UNCLE BILBO BOSSYBOTTOMS, ABBY, AND ME

ME

My Writing club

2008-10-27T11:16:00.001-07:00

So I started my own writing and art club, my friends and I get together once a week and we write, draw, crochet, we even did free running once because my friend insisted it was an art. Her sister on the other hand insisted no self respecting artist would run, jump, and try to touch the lighting.

Each week after the meeting we go to skate country and hang out. My friend Lexie is having her 13th birthday there. We always joke about her being the youngest one of us and shes the one with the wacky new modern ideas.

Actually there are two people younger than her, but they are still underneath the "old" people influence.

Our website, which isn't quite done yet you can view here.

Tinker Bell

2008-10-27T11:08:00.000-07:00

Hooray!! the Tinker bell movie is out, or almost!

yesterday I went on the Disney fairies website where you can create your own faerie. it's pretty cool, it's all computer animation so it moves around like they are real. you can name it dress it, yada, yada, yada.

I hope the movie is good, but it will not go at all with j.m. Barrie's book: peter pan.
Tinker Bell was actually a bratty little faerie, and a very non special regular tinker.

But, whatever.

what in this world is Nortia?

2008-09-27T09:44:00.000-07:00

It's not in this world.
for all you people who really want to know what language I am speaking and what I always talk about here is a story for you.

11yr old Princess Larette sat chewing her pencil.

The Empress Ella was asking all young princes and princesses to write stories, poems, and songs for the Nortia story contest.

Larette picked up the piece of paper on her desk and threw it at the door just as her father came in.

“Ahem! Oh my Larette! I say!” the King exclaimed in surprise.

“Oh, sorry father, um, I mean your Majesty. I've been a bit frustrated lately.” sighed Larette.

King Horatio Bartholomew frowned.
“Frustrated my dear? How could that be? You have everything you could possibly want!”

“No, I don't mean like that.”

“Then 'like' what my dear?”

“The Nortia contest, I need a story for it.”

The King scratched his beard and said thoughtfully:
“Hmm, perhaps you could make a story about Nortia, it is the Nortian story contest.”

Larette rolled her eyes, but the King didn't see her.
“Father, We all live here-everyone knows about Nortia.”

“But there are other worlds that don't, like earth and-”

The king didn't get a chance to finish, Larette had jumped up and hugged him.
“That's a wonderful idea!” she said.

Larette grabbed her pencil and paper and raced down the palace stairs and into the garden.

She dropped down on a flower bed and her fairy friend Glimmer came to sit on her shoulder.

Larette began to write:
Nortia is where I live,there is many countries and shimmering seas.
Nortia is located in the heart of the north star, for that is what Nortia means. Here we speak many different languages, but finuan is the number one. Sailors speak English, but finuan is much better.

Here animals talk, dragons are friendly, dinosaurs are common, fairies aren't forever hidden to humans, elves play with children, and there is Glorious.

Glorious is a menagerie of music, singing and dancing. We have flutes and tubaretteis and harps.

Then there is singing, everything sings, Fairies, Elves, Dwarves, Sea, and Rain.

On earth it is very hard to hear them, but they are there.

In Nortia our light comes from the outer star, and once we had no night.
It was not until 9,500 nortian years ago a giant dragon named Nageela was sentenced to fly around the earth forever carrying Bua-the night on his tail till the end of time.

Is there any water lilies on earth? I hope so, I love to go boating in them on warm days.
Here, they are called Vastar Anaileas.

Everyday I sing the Nortian anthem, it goes like this:

Nortia, Nortia-a, Nortia-a-a!
Oh tell me where is my home?
My ho-o-o-ome is here!
From Komo Sye and Vastar and Renon
Nortia
No-ortia
My home!

Nortia is the name of our planet and country, and there is 17 other countries.

I live in the province of Floran, each province has a King or Queen. Nortia has had an Empress rule for the 6,050 years, and most are from earth. Ella was. She is a very new Empress, she has only ruled for 50yrs out of her 1,000.

My mother Anileda is always insisting on my getting a horse, but I keep telling her I'd rather ride Kaisha my mountain lion. He was named after the province he came from. Its very hot there, with wild horses, tall mountains, and cacti.
My favorite places are Dancing Isles, Pupia(Poy-pay-uh) shoals, Mevi, and Nanray .
Dancing isles has four islands resembling dancing princesses, they called Sani, Prencelaia, Coden, and Daerelsia.
Dancing princesses are the most talented, beautiful maidens from all over the world, and they have winged horses.

Sometimes I wish to be one, my aunt was once was.
Then there is Pupia(Poy-pay-uh) shoals, another island.

There you can ride down rainbow waterfalls without getting hurt, and water fairies and dolphins swarm there.

In Mevi there is a place called Parly castle. On one side of it they grow candies!

And the other side is a scrumptious bakery, my favorite food there is Ella's sweet bread loves, I have made it before.
In Nortia it is not uncommon for a princess to help make die, or to help the cook.

But of course they are never forced to do it.
You know, there is only one type of bird, beast, and fish we can eat, all in the etemallia group.
Everything else we grow or bake.

I call Nanray the Windilas city, for there is much beautiful singing wind! I have heard Windilas is in earth too.

Windilas is what you would call wind, but it is really the great elders singing, dancing, and blowing!

If you really listen you can hear their music.
Sometimes they get angry and cause hurricanes and such.
Down south there was a huge 100s of years ago that knocked the province Medolaidia into space. The Empress is currently trying to retrieve it. In it's place is an opening to outer space, it's hard to explain. It's well, but simply named, space city.

Some day I shall travel underneath the world to see the mermaid city.

Larette set down her pencil.
“How does it sound?”

“Yit yith vely nithe,” Glimmer answered in fairy language.

“Thank you.”

Larette lay back and fell asleep in the warm light.

Glimmer knew she was dreaming of what to write next.

finis

copyright Ella 2008

all rights reserved.

our new church building

2008-09-14T10:20:00.000-07:00

On Saturdays we go to a little Messianic church called beth sar shalom that is just around the block from us; that has 2 classrooms 2 offices and a sanctuary all crammed into a little building.

There is also a church that meets there on Sunday called book of life.

for a while they have been looking for a new church building without any luck.

But somehow, I don't know how, Palo Verde baptist church has decided to merge with book of life and beth sar shalom will meet there also.

the church has a huge sanctuary with a balcony and a baptism place and two little waiting rooms, a dressing room for plays, an attic, and a grand piano. there is about 20 classrooms in two separate buildings.

2 real
trees, 6 swings, 2 playgrounds, a nursery, a soccer field, another field, a indoor basketball court, a youth group room, real grass, a kids room, and several offices.
so:
who's coming to church with us Saturday?

Nori's B-day

2008-08-30T14:30:00.001-07:00

THESE ARE SOME PICS OF NORI'S 8TH BIRTHDAY. WE WENT TO Colossal CAVE and then we went home for cake and I gave her some stuff f(a skirt/shirt/scarf/neckband/how to be a queen book/and some other stuff-all the listed stuff I made) for her bday and a stuffed animal.

Princess

2008-08-24T09:35:00.001-07:00

Nori sickles is now taking classes on how to be a princess. if any one else is interested please contact me with my email address for more info.

mountaineering

2008-08-24T09:11:00.000-07:00

this week we went up the mountains and played near summer haven. we were thinking about living there, but we decided if its 50 degrees in the summer, its gonna be les miserables in the winter.

and my brother Ethan is so cute! just to let the whole world know.

2008-08-06T20:06:00.001-07:00

To have a world of your own. . .

2008-07-30T19:44:00.000-07:00

To have a world of your own. . .

Is to use imagination.

Is to feel magic.

Is to have a place that is
Yours to keep.

To ride with dragons,

To dance with Faeries,

To sing with birds,

To hear the music and feel the kiss of
The Wind, Rain, Flower,
And Star.
A world of your own,
Is to make up new;
Foods,
Creatures,
Machines,
Games,

To laugh with the sea,
That is what having a world of your
Own is.

2008-07-11T09:00:00.000-07:00

yesterday we went to a place called Washington park in Denver Colorado with my 8yr old cousin Noah.

there we got a bike car and drove it around the park.

I got to steer it a little and I wasn't very good at it(go figure), but i kept us on one side of the road. Noah kept saying it was easy and just like a car.

then mom and dad let him drive, we went in completely opposite directions and then he steered us off the road and nearly into a tree.

Mom and Dad had to put their feet out to stop us from running into it, cuz' my cuz' forgot how to use the brakes.
then he wanted to steer again but we wouldn't let him.

2008-07-07T21:44:00.000-07:00

go to this link a game called
poptropica!

2008-07-06T11:04:00.000-07:00

read job 40:15-24, notice how the behemoth is supposed to have a tail like a cedar, but the footnotes of your bible probably says it is a hippo or an elephant.

have you ever seen a cedar tree?

those things are enormous!

and have you ever seen a hippo or elephant's tail?

they are not so big.
if you Google sauropod you'll see how much the dinosaur has in common with the behemoth.
then look up job 41, the leviathan is supposed to be a crocodile, but how come it says that

'verse 18;his snorting throws out flashes of light,
his eyes are like rays of dawn.

verse 19; firebrands stream from his mouth;
sparks of fire shoot out

verse 20; smoke pours from his nostrils,
as from a boiling over a fire of reeds.'

and so on, then it says how he is so great that swords and spears have no effect on him and nobody dares approach him.

this surely could not be a crocodile, they have no fire and are often captured by natives in other countries.

this sounds like a fire breathing dinosaur,
and the tales of dragons probably come from this creature.

MIGHTY LAK' A ROSE

2008-05-29T16:34:00.000-07:00

Mighty Lak' A Rose (78 Rpm) by Frank Sinatra

this is one of my favorite songs!!!!!

Ballet Magnificat!

2008-04-30T12:48:00.000-07:00

Here is a link to the ballet magnificat website. The Ballet Magnificat is a Christian ballet company that recently came to Tucson at the Christ community church and did a play about a Russian communist girl coming to Jesus, it was pretty interesting, but I can't really explain it. You should check out their web if you want to know more about it. My friend Nori Sickles went to talk to the Ballerinas at the end of the show, she was so cute. She kept saying she was gonna do it and we'd be like sure go ahead, and then she wouldn't. Then ten minutes later we're all like, Hey! Where'd Nori go?!, and sure enough she was down there! When the love offering box was passed around instead of money she put in a picture she drew of a ballerina(she draws very good)and on it she wrote, from: Nori Sickles, age: seven, to: Ballet Magnificat, all in cursive, I'm sure they'll love it.

here is a link to the promo video on youtube.

my californa vacation!( that was in march).

2008-04-28T12:12:00.000-07:00

Adventures in Odyssey!!!

2008-04-24T13:25:00.000-07:00

This is a link to a great Christian radio show for kids 8-12, and pretty much everyone, about a small town called Odyssey where really hilarious things happen, but there's a lesson to every story. It's got some pretty good stuff to learn on it, and it's done really well, it's probably the most high-tech radio show of our time, and the best, I think they've been around since 1986, you should check it out!

Funky things to draw!

2008-04-24T13:07:00.000-07:00

This is a really great book I have that has all sorts off neat things to draw, faeries (I like to spell it that way),fantasy, faerie tale princesses, horses, baby animals, ocean life, costumes and fashions, etc. It has lots of cool tips and facts to help with drawing and stuff. It's lots of fun, I think every artist should get it.
I got it book recently from a friend who bought it at the Borders bookstore for me, I've been wanting it for a long time but the only place I could find it was online for $17-$30, but at the bookstore it was only $8! An awesome deal! And you can get it cheaper with a homeschoolers discount.

more pics

2008-04-24T12:58:00.000-07:00

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2008-04-23T16:24:00.000-07:00

Sorry I haven't written in a while, I've been busy, heres some pictures from my friend Madison and the Sawatzky's visit.

2008-04-01T16:16:00.000-07:00

this is a video of when my friend Madison came over.

madi and me video

2008-04-01T11:17:00.000-07:00

this is a video of when my friend Madison came to visit.

and another

2008-02-28T09:16:00.000-07:00

a remix of life in the az.

another video

2008-02-25T11:41:00.000-07:00

us in arizona

2008-02-25T11:07:00.000-07:00

This is a funny movie I made about 2 years ago, and I think I misspelled a lot of things, ok I know I misspelled a lot of things. I think I might make a series of all these movies I made long ago. Look for more shows coming soon to computer.

my camping adventure

2008-02-19T18:57:00.000-07:00

Saturday-Sunday my grandpa took me and my cousin tanner camping in Tres Alamos wash to scout out for javelina.
We were supposed to go Friday-Sunday but there was a blizzard on the way so we had to turn back and take off early Saturday morning.
When we got there we took a hike and Tanner and I got addicted to snow chewing, but when we came back around the hill from our first hike all the snow had melted. Grandpa wanted to take pictures but he had forgotten his camera and my camera froze up and went crazy.
It was soooo cold. On our first hike we saw a white tailed deer(i think it was a doe) and a really cool hawk that kept staring at us, plus a bunch of cows that a rancher let live there, no javelina.
then we drove the old camper down to the camp and on the road down there was so many ocitillos so close to the road that the side view mirrors kept getting pushed alll the way in.
At camp it started to warm up but when the sun went down so did the temperature(27 degrees!) and it kept going down. oh yeah, there was cow pies every square foot, its still in my shoes.

really early in the morning, like at 2:30, coyotes came and screeched (not howl it was more like a scream) outside the tent, tanner thought that they were wolves. the next morning we had breakfast set out on another hike. we went along crunching granola bars and searching for javelina with binoculars. we didn't see any other animals, not a bunny or prairie dog, except for, get this, three MOUNTAIN LION BABIES! they were Gorgeous! but we didn't go down the hill because we did NOT want to find the mother.
so after that we went down to the target practice hill and shot some pellet guns and then had jack in the box at Benson and went home. But we didn't see any javelina (rats), does any one other than me notice when you go scouting or hunting for one animal you see like every other kind except for that one, or do I just scare them away?

finis