बेक फ्रॉम सन अंतोनियो.

Does anyone know why my Title is in a different language?
Anyway.
It says "Back from San Antonio.".

In February, the 8th to be exact, my big brother went off to San Antonio, Lackland Air Force Base to Basic training. It's been two months and we went down to San Antonio to see him graduate. We started out on Wednesday at 6 A.M and we arrived at Lackland on Thursday at 5:30 with five minutes to spare for orientation. We drove the whole way, and let me tell you what. Driving from NW Iowa to Texas was....well, a pain in the butt, but I thank the Lord that we got there safely! In the orientation they told us about Basics a little bit.
Here's something for you to think over!
Only 25% out of 100 people who sign up for the Air Force make it in and 8% who do get in drop out in Basics because they can't do it or don't want to.
My brother was in the honored unit(Mean that that unit was the hardest working, smartest, etc). And on top of that he is two ranks higher than almost everyone(All except maybe five). And the whole graduating class was 800 some people! So Eli is pretty much part of an elite force.

Guh, I'll write more later. I'm just not being able to pay attention to anything much right now :P

OK, I did this awhile ago


So, Mr. B(Wayne Thomas Batson) and CH(Christopher Hopper) have started a contest. I'm an extremely big fan of Mr. B's books, The Door Within, The rise of the Wyrm Lord, and Final Storm!
I sadly, have not read Mr. H's books. But I plan on asking my librarian to get them....but for some reason I keep forgetting every time I go... Anyway. Over the next few weeks(Or however long it'll be), It's SUPER amazing, and maybe I'll get a banner or two up!

Anyway I can tell you what Mr. B's book is about

Aidan Thomas finds a doorway to another world. Once in the realm, he becomes a knight and then he and a band of others set off to convince their neighbor, Mithegard to become their ally in their war against Paragor.

Here's MR. B's blog Enter The Door Within
And Mr. H's Forum(haha, I don't know his blog name) The Underground
And if you read back a ways, you'll see the details on Mr. B's blog about the contest!
I'm the Swiftstorm tribe on FB!Ask me for more info!

OH YEH BABY!

I TOTALLY HAVE BATTERIES FOR MY CAMERA!
*dances!* whoot!
I'm so happy. Do you know what this meeeeans? PICTURES!
Well, duh. That's what you use a camera for. Well, anyway. Today, even though its colder than the coldest place on earth, I'm going outside, and am taking pictures! Because I Loooooooove taking pictures. Especially of my horse! Maybe I'll get some up of our "Rogue Piggies"
And my dog if he'll stand still long enough! AND MY GUITAR!
OK, enough about what I'm going to take pictures of, you'll see when I get them up(sooner or later).
GOOD NEWS! You know that library job I applied for sometime in the summer?
Well, I got it!!! But for awhile, she hadn't scheduled me in, so finally I went in yesterday and she said I am going to start at the end of January!!
*dances!* whoot!
Guess what I'm going to get with my first paycheck? NEW JEANS! I only have two pairs and I wear them so much that they are wearing out. Evil, right? So, anyway. I'm pretty happy about my job/camera. Anyway. I don't really have anything else to update so I'll talk to you later, ok???????????????
Whoa, talk about over-use of question marks, haha!

Au Revoir!

~Helen Mae

oh my

Oh my gosh, has it really been since October??!!


I'll fill you in!

Anyway

October/September came and past and then came Thanksgiving!
Well, since then my life has become extremely stressful and depressing.
Willa, my Mommy2 was diagnosed with cancer that was spread all over her abdomen and she is at stage 4, which is more than likely going to take her life. Anyway, that REALLY REALLY took a toll on me, and then ON Thanksgiving day, the lady I babysit for step-father started groping me in extremely inappropriate places, making me really paranoid for the longest time. THEN my nephews father, sisters boyfriend tried killing himself because my sister broke up with him because of his drinking. That was the icing on the cake. I stopped eating and sleeping and kept having nightmares this was 3-4 weeks ago) But I got over it (stuff like that is fast for me, usually) and it helped a lot to know that the doctors said Mommy2 has about five more years of life left in her, and a lot can change in five years! But then things got back on track when Ron started getting better and Ron is a little less depressed. But then today he learned about that guy touching me, and he is EXTREMELY protective over me. So, now I'm kinda scared he might go beat the freak up and end up going to jail -.-.

But now it's more stressful because I am writing 15 ACTIVE novels, and I'm starting to wonder if I have split personality disorder, for my characters constantly yell at me, and almost every day there are newborns popping up, bursting to be released into the world, though their poor creator is extremely stressed out from so many stories :( .

So I started a Writers Notebook. I got this great idea from Katie!(Thanks, girl!) It's where a writer writes down his/her inspiration, ideas, excerpts and other stuff! It helps a lot because I can release my Newborns, as I like to call them and keep on keeping on with my 15 other stories I have.
Though, I'm really serious about two of these stories, some of you may know
Photos under the Floorboards
and Mae's- The Werewolf.
I'll tell you about those some other time because its almost 12 A.M and I just got back from babysitting literally all day today, then coming home for 15 minutes for a quick shower and then heading off to Guitar Lesson.
OH! That's right! I FINALLY have a guitar instructor, and I'm learning more in a half an hour than I did pouring for months over beginner books! I'm excited. His name is Jessie, but its a little disconcerting because I'm used to a blind teacher, and he stares at me frequently ( :\ ). And then often takes me guitar to play instead of his own from my Dad. Me and my Dad take lessons together, and for the time being uses Jessie's guitar till he gets his own. And then it's odd because when he plays strings so I can hear how they all ring, he sorta... like, raises up on the stool, and makes this weird face like he's having some weird body- movement.
Other than that, he's handsome and cool LOL!
But yeh. We also now have two huge Pot-bellied pigs we got the from the neighbors we were SUPPOSED to butcher, but they got away and have been that way since September. We've tried many times, but each time has been extremely unsuccessful.
But can you BELIEVE it's going to be Christmas next Friday? CRAZY! can't believe it. This year has gone by too fast, and pretty soon I'm going to be *le gaspeth* FIFTEEN!

EEK!
anyway, that's all for tonight!
love y'all!

WTB and CH!

So, Mr. B(Wayne Thomas Batson) and CH(Christopher Hopper) have started a contest. I'm an extremely big fan of Mr. B's books, The Door Within, The rise of the Wyrm Lord, and Final Storm!
I sadly, have not read Mr. H's books *Sad face* But I intend to FORCE my librarian to order the,(haha, jk! She's too nice, I'll ask politely.) Anyway, So, over the next few weeks, I'll be talking all about Mr B's and Mr. H's books, and creating banners, and putting pictures up with me and the books. It's really awesome, and you should totally join if you've read both(or even just one!) of their books!

Anyway I can tell you what Mr. B's book is about

Aidan Thomas finds a doorway to another world. When he goes through, he becomes a strong, brave person. Once in the realm, he becomes a knight and then he and a band of others set off to convince their neighbor, Mithegard to become their ally in their war against Paragor.

Here's MR. B's blog Enter The Door Within
And Mr. H's Forum(haha, I don't know his blog name) The Underground
And if you read back a ways, you'll see the details on Mr. B's blog about the contest!
I'm the Swiftstorm tribe on FB!

The Bucket List

OK, so I got this from Live Laugh Love
I want to make a bucket list. It's in no particular order!


1: Travel the world
2:Have my own home
3:Publish a book
4: Visit a Renaissance Fair
5: Learn guitar
6: Learn drums
7:Learn to dance
8:Swim with whales and/or dolphins
9:See the Taj Mahal
10:Become a famous writer


There ya have it!!!

STRESS STRESS STRESS!!!!!

STRESS

Monday, I started a full time job babysittingmy nephew. I babysat every day this week! Now, with me. When I get tired, I get REALLY stressed and depressed. It's not so much the job as my mother... I love my mother, and usually I an not so angry at her. But tht's been getting REALLY hard lately.
I'm gone from 8 A.M. till 5 P.M. And she and my brother don't work til lfour, meaning they are home all day till then!!! You'd think between whenever they get up, and when they leave, they'd have cleaned the kitchen/living room/bathroom, right? Ooooh no.
The house is a pit, I'm three days behing in school AND I have a full time job. Now, I'm not saying they should do everything. But the lelast they could do is the dishes,right?
My brother does absolutely nothing around the house. And I'm NOT exagerating when I say that!!! ONCE IN A BLUE MOON, does he even dry the dishes. He's graduated so he doesn't need to do school. Don'tcha think he'd give me a hand and do the dishes till I have everything regulated? Even my mom! Then, when they get home, which is about 11, I'm up, doing my devotions and such. They come in and start bugging me, and sometimes mom doesn't get out till 12:30! And I tell her, and tell her. I have to get up at 6:30. I need to sleep! But she doesn't listen, and she stays there. I'm sorry. But my mom hasn't gotten up early for a job in nearly TEN years. It'd be nice if she cut me some slack with sleep!
So, I'm stressed, I'm grumpy. The only person I really like right now is Dad, because he gets it. And he's being nice about it, and he's the only one pushing me to relax.