HI!!!!!!!...bye...

I can't say a lot 'cause i have to get back to pigeon lake, but i thought that while i have computer time i MUST give you all a shout out to say I'm still alive!!

...I'm still alive...

anyways. work has been mostly boring ish. painting sheds isn't all that stimulating. The best part was painting the outhouse awesomely. I used such pretty colors in there. Hopefully that'll make up for the stink. XD

went on a crazy boat ride last night in the middle of a storm. that was sooo fun. the waves were about eight feet high. intense. and we were in a little boat. We got totally SOAKED. that was when there was a tornado about an hours drive north of us. it was sweeeet. and the lightning was bright pink. it was great. and it would just hang in the sky for seconds at a time. Zeus was putting on one helluva show for us. We saw the tornado forming, too. it was sooooo awesome. We saw this big puffy pillar of cumulus clouds that was expanding sooo rapidly. It was like there were explosions. If i can get Karen's e-mail I'll post up the pictures for you.

anyways, I'll try my hardest to get enough time to check everyon's blogs, but we have to go pretty quick, so i can't guarentee.

I love you all!!!

Talk to you soon, i hope!!!!

errrm, this may be a bit of a dampener...

So, it just dawned on me that I'm not gonna be here for most of the rest of the summer. Yeeah, I've known for about a week, but i guess i kept thinking something was gonna post pone it. oh well.

Yeeah, i get to go work for my dad's company. I'm gonna be doing painting and landscaping and whatever other odd jobs they might need me for. I guess it could be worse. I could be stuck in some nasty fast food place or something. Though, being a vegetarian it probably wouldn't be a good idea for me to go into the food service business. XD

But, hey! At least I'm not gonna be stuck doing nothing in Sylvan all summer...though these last few days have been pretty much heaven for me. Well, they would be if i had no one else living in my house with me and a completely unlimited supply of peanut butter pickle sandwiches. I've been craving them soo bad these past few days. mmmm. Yeah, it's been a pretty amazing week. It was raining almost the whole time and i read for days straight and wrote for a few more days straight. and i took a walk in the rain down to the library...wearing a makeshift cloak and a headscarf. I either looked very foreign or i looked like I'd just walked out of a story book. The lady at the desk in the library almost might have thought so when she saw me. It was great. I've always wanted to walk around town like that. Sooo fun.

But anyways, it's twelve fifty five, so i should probably go to bed. today has pretty much been the only kinda crappy day all week. I finished my reading books and couldn't seem to get any inspiration for writing so i was petty darn bored all day. plus i was woken by my sisi throwing rocks at my window so I'd come unlock the door for her. She slept over at a friend's place.

All right, well, I'll talk to you guys in a little bit. Hopefully sooner than later! If i don't talk to you before school starts for most of you, HAPPY SUMMER!! Hopefully tat won't be the case, though, as i would probably die a little inside every single day.

Love,
Cuppy Fox

ksdghoqhbvhdbfhibvafbowr...ackapfff!!!

hahah. me and my sisi have been saying ackapfff constantly lately. sooo funny.

okay, well, the only thing i wanted to mention here is that i was up until about five-ish this morning reading. i read the last...half...of Beka Cooper by Tamora Pierce and Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo by Obert Skye. They were both awesome. and before that i read Briar's Book, also by Tamora Pierce. and now i have to read the Book of Lost Tales by JRR Tolkien, the god of fantasy writings. hmmm, what i wouldn't do to write like him.

well, i suppose i wouldn't kill anyone. Or start eating meat again. or chop down a tree. Or aid in the chopping of trees. or stop blogging (shows how much i love you guys, really). Or give up writing and reading.

speaking of writing, I figured out that i have about twenty two books that I'm writing at the moment...or should be writing...or would be writing if it wasn't all on the laptop, the cord to which my mom left at someone's house. Which is suckish. Well, i do have a few that are on paper instead of computer, but i really don't know what to do with them. too much. I have to do some insane plot summarizing shiznatch. It's gonna be intense once i get the chance. I think i shall write all of the titles now.

Elementals Series:
Battle-Kian and Kalila, friends in the town of Yurale, are both swept off to battle when a prince of the north and a noble of their country tell them Thadacus, an evil wizard from the past, has risen again. Kalila can't tell the army she's a girl or they'll kill her and she does enjoy the adventure, so she goes with the flow until she's separated from her platoon and sent running from Thadacus' hordes into uncharted areas of the planet.
Blackout-Amyrillis, Maya, Laren and Ashleigh are four girl who have all recently come of age and set out to make a life for themselves in the city. but one day the four of them go for a ride they never return from. They inadvertantly stumbled across a council of sprites and are flung into a battle against the rising army of darkness. But first they have to rescue the old high preistess, who decied she never wants another thing to do with the elements.
Quest-Trissa Laites and her friends, the prince and princess of the fairies, are set out on a quest to retrieve seven stones after the Dark Ones finally break through the barriers around the City of the Fairies. On the way they're pursued by men, dark ones and corrupted by the power of the stones. But, unfortunately, none of them know what they're supposed to do after they find them all and news soon reaches them that the queen, their only source of information, is dead.
Blizzard-Draeden and Cuinn, a completely opposite pair of brothers, and their friend Gareth have worked the half dead fields for years for the demons that rule all the northern lands. Their growing season is short and they have little food to feed their families without the Ice Demons taking annual taxes. Draeden eventually gets so fed up he draws up secret plans to take them down. In the middle of the night, he, his sister, his brother and Gareth leave for the nearest city and start the silent recruiting, first of commoners and quickly they turn to nobles. But when a half frozen girl shows up with information about the Palace of Ice they decide to change tactics.
Pandemonium-Twelve elementals are apparently chosen to be saviors of everything good, but how can the mismatched group do anything when they're constantly quarreling with each other? The continued adventures of Gorith, Draeden, Cuinn, Kalila, Kian, Trissa, Amyrillis, Laren, Maya and Ashleigh with their new tutors and colleagues, Flare and Starray.

Gravity-When Alex Gibrald picks up his newly adopted daughter, Jenna, she's as sullen as could possibly be imagined. But as she gets to know her new parents she becomes incredibly interested in their proffessions. Alex is an inventor, working on an alternate energy source the whole world can use and Kari is a quantum physicist. But when Alex makes a breakthrough in his experiments all of a sudden there's people that want him, and his family, dead. The three of them are forced to run through the united states from enemies they don't know with Alex still trying for a grant to make his mchine.
Magnets-Alex and Jenna were now hiding out in a small town in Manitoba, Canada when Alex gets another great idea for an invention. Of course, the world hadn't quite advanced to the technology level they needed to build it and with the two of them in hiding they thought they'd be safe from that particular idea. Until a group of crazed religious fanatics comes back in time from when there are billions of Alex's inventions built all over space. The group sweeps the two of them off into the future where they have to fight not only the relious factions that don't believe in the magnatron, but the government who wants nothing for than to shut the whole time travel thing in a bag for their personal study.

The Free-dom-A year before 2012 a group of hippies set up eighteen communities around the world. After 2012, and the huge catastrophe that went with it, the communities (Free-doms) are still running smoothly in their completely green and simple lifestyle. The rest of the world, however, is in chaos. nearly every government and economy had fallen and cruel dictators had risen up to take advantage of the scared crowds. Dizzy, Cactus and Skitch didn't know the extent of the damage when they set out to find adventure with one of the messengers, Zachalope. But after stopping the destruction of one of the Free-doms, they start to get the picture.

Girls Will Be Girls:
Don't Answer That-Sheryl was sent to be a novice at the Monastery when she was ten. by age sixteen she was taking the vows of silence that were her only challenge to becoming the youngest nun in the world. Unfortunately, as soon as Young Lord Jeremy of Litherfel shows up, her vows are broken constantly and the start of another three months in silence begins. Until someone tries to kidnap Sheryl, thinkning it will somehow upset Jeremy. Forunately for her, Jeremy shows up first and kidnaps her himself, taking her into hiding with him. Until they find them and leave them in the middle of a forest to die. Stuck with the ikes of Jeremy, Sheryl doesn't know if she can keep her anti-homicidal vows.
Black Feathers-Eilis was taken to the Academy for Blackbirds when she was only two years old and trained for fourteen years to become a proffessional assassin. But when it finally comes time to do her practical exam she's sent off to the palace in Rahl to spy on as many nobles as she can and eventually kill one of her teacher's choosing. But while she's there she hears a little more than she bargained for about the workings of the kingdom and the minds of those that want to bring it down.
(Insert unnamed book from this series)-Catarina lives a normal life in the province of Ontario. Well, normal for her. But as soon as she first hits puberty she notices some serious changes to her. Her mom assures her it's just the normal changes every girl goes through...until the lights start exploding when Cat enters a room and her homework starts doing itself. But somehow her mother doesn't believe anything is wrong, even when a group of tiny people take of residence in Cat's room.
Arvial-Arvial and her best friend Paul live as normal of lives as you can get in a war torn world. They live in one of the three cities left in Alberta, which is also one of the few provinces left in Canada from when the Americans finally decided to invade with the Russians. But soon after her birthday Arvial starts having weird dreams that she could swear were absolutely real. In an alternate reality the land of Galasa is slowly being taken over by a rebel force. There's a rumor of a connection between their world and another, but nothing is proven until Pria-aba, a princess of Galasa, pulls Paul and Arvial through a connection opening. Soon enough the three of them find themselves plunging head-first into the resistance to the rebels. But Arvial needs to learn magic and they can't find any spellbooks...

Journey Lands:
This is a series with five books, none of whch have names or very defined plots...the only thing I know is that a group of five people gets sucked into a book.

Beneath the Bridges-Four kids accidentally doze off one night in different parts of a forest. When they wake up they're in the underground homes of dwarves, fairies and several other fairy tale creatures. All of which are telling them that only they can save the magical community from destruction by trolls and totally senile dragons.


okay, i don't feel like finishing this. perhaps I'll edit it in a while.
To The End Of The World-

Demins-

Split World-

The Glory Of Darkness-

And that's all of them. i would add descriptions, but...well, maybe I'll at least put down the main characters...okay. I'll go back and put the main characters by the titles. Actually, I don't know what kind of help that's gonna be, so i won't. I wish i had good synopsises for them. but for the most part i just don't. Well, i suppose i could always try...I'll go back and put THOSE up. =D

anyway, I'm gonna go, now

Peace out, Lovettes!

Please don't miss the post below this one!!

Okay. MATE. Levi, you asked what it is, so I will tell you...and show you.

Yerba Mate (pronounced yer-bah mah-tay) is a plant that grows in Argentina (and likely other places in South America) that they drink a lot of in Argentina, Mexico, Brazil and Lebanon (I think, though it could be some other middle eastern country.) You can drink it in a couple different ways. first of all, you can do it the same way as coffee in a coffee maker. Or you can get it in tea bags. The second best way to do it is in a french press. And the absolute best way to drink it is the traditional way with a bombilla (bom-bee-ya). That's how i drink it. a bombilla is a metal straw with a filter on it.

You put the mate leaves (and sometimes stems) in the bottom of a cup and them put the bombilla in it then fill it with hot water and drink it through the bombilla. Then you can pass the cup around to anyone you're drinking it with because it's a very social drink.

I wouldn't suggest drinking it alone, though, 'cause you sometimes end up doing very strange things...

But here's a picture of me drinking some mate.

and here's some pictures i got off the Internet of some super pretty gourds and bombillas.

in other news, did i tell you i started a band? we're called Skittle Jam. ...you guys should check us out on Myspace and facebook. here's the links!

MySpace

FaceBook

I'm hoping those worked.

Peace and Love!!!

sooo, mmm, guess what?

I think you've probably realized that I'mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm BAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! woohoo!!!!!!! well, it's a mixed blessing on my part. XD

and here's something i wasn't expecting...while i was driving in the car...I ACTUALLY MISSED YOU ALL. I couldn't believe it. but it's good that I'm back in Sylvan so i have a chance to talk to you. I haven't checked anyone's blogs yet, so I'm still waaay behind. But, I'll give an update of what i did all week.

on Saturday we set out and about an hour out of Sylvan we got Crapped on by a bird that wasn't even in the sky. there was nothing up there and all of a sudden our windshield is COVERED. it was sooo gross, but sooo funny. so we went to a car wash and got it cleaned up then headed to Cremona. It was a random little town we found on the map of Alberta in my dad's car so we decided to drive to it...expecting it to be small hic-town in the prairies. It wasn't. it was actually very picturesque. it was on the side of a hill leading down into a little ravine that i think had a stream in the bottom. very pretty.

then we headed south to highway one and went to BC. it was a goooood long drive. ahha. we got stuck in Vernon, though. the town goes around a lake so all of it's main streets go in circles and we got stuck in one. ahhh. it was horrible. we went totally crazy by the end. and when we finally got OUT of Vernon we tried to find a campsite only the road we went on led BACK to Vernon. it was weird. weirdest thing I've ever seen. Or done.

But we ended up in a campsite in...somewhere west of Vernon. We made it to Vancouver Sunday afternoon and took the ferry to Schwarts Bay by Victoria. it was a good trip. Windy up top of the ferry, but good all the same. then we went to Sooke to see my brother Steve and his girlfriend and we camped there for one night then met up with my other brother and camped that night on a beach...sort of. we stayed in a campsite by the beach but we lit a big fire by the water and had supper down there. it was cool. Then we went to the Xavier Rudd concert in Victoria on Monday night. it was soooo great. loud, crazy, sweaty. allll good. I danced like a freaking maniac. ahaha. when i went to bathroom there was this huge line-up for the girls washroom so i started people sharing washrooms 'cause there was three urinals in the women's and three stalls in the men's. So yeah, i ended up helping to convince the security guy there to let girls into the guys and guys into the girls. it was cool.

oh yeah, before the concert we walked around Vic for a while and picked me up some mate. mm. one full kilogram of it. for ten bucks. sooo cheap. it's amazingly low priced. you can hardly even FIND it in Alberta let alone buy a kilo of it for ten bucks. it would have actually been only eight bucks but BC has PST as well as GST and it was two bucks a bag. So. but that doesn't matter because i got such cheap mate!! we found other bags in there the same size as these ones only they were 11 bucks apiece. it was laaame. good thing we bought this stuff. =D

anyways, after the concert we went back to Sooke and camped and then in the morning we headed out to Ucluelet with mah bro Geoff. on the way there me and Geoff jumped into a river and went through this little waterfall. It was freezing cold, though. then we stayed at the campground in Ukee and did some funky stuff around town.

first day we went on a hike around some bays and things. we started off on a trail and ended up clambering around over rocks and through caves and stuff. that was me my dad and my sisi.

next day me and Geoff surfed at Florencia Bay. I had to use his old wetsuit and John's surfboard 'cause i don't have my own stuff (why would i when i live in ALBERTA? XD) and that was cool. then we went back to Lisa's house in town (that's where Geoff spends a lot of his time) and chilled out with the cool people there.

on the final morning i went to Lisa's for breakfast and mate (looots of mate that morning) and i hung out on the deck for hours with Kirsty and Jerry and my brother. and after that we went to see my brother's house out in the forest. he lives in a hammock with a tarp over top of it. it's sooo cool. Then we walked a little further on to where this guy built an epic tree house and a winter house underneath it the some tree roots and a stump. it's super neat. Up at the top of the tree house (which is about sixty feet in the air) there's this huge fishing net that you jump into to get down to the ground. this thing is SIXTY FEET UP!!! and I jumped into it!! it was sooo cool. i wanted to do it again, but i couldn't because we spent about half an hour up in the tree arguing with my brother about who should go first because me and my sis were sooo scared of it. I ended up getting so pissed at Geoff for bugging me that i just THREW myself out of the tree house. then Geoff came and Corrinna was still so scared that she had to climb down the tree instead. ah well.

then we went back to Lisa's and i once again hung out on the deck with Kirsty, John, Jerry, Geoff and this girl named Ashley for a little bit. then Swamp Bear showed up and it was good to see him again. he's a super cool guy. we had to leave soon, though because Corrinna refused to go into that house and she was getting homesick so we drove to Parksville (still on the island) and stayed the night there. in the morning we took the ferry from Nanaimo to Vancouver then drove all night back to Sylvan Lake, Alberta.

On the way we picked up two hitchhikers. the first was a girl named Carly and her dog Bunny. She was cool but bunny was a little sketchy around new people. apparently he'd been abused before she got him, so he's not a big people fan. He seemed to like me at least. he only growled at me once and he actually walked over to me when we stopped for gas.

The second was a guy named Tom that we picked up at about eleven o'clock. he was pretty much a lifesaver for us 'cause he kept our dad awake while me and Corrinna slept. it was good. and neither hitcher seemed too scared of my dad's crazy driving either. he goes 130 km down the Fraser Canyon which is soooo curvy. but it's okay 'cause he's a really good driver.

then we ended up back in Sylvan at about nine in the morning. My dad had a nap and left and i sat down o the computer to write this 'cause it's rainy outside and i don't wanna go out. XD

But, I'll talk to all of you soon!!

Peace and Love!