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I finally did it! I went and sent a query off to six agencies to see if they want to represent my manuscript - For the Love of Abdullah to the publishers or not. Now, I wait for a reply from one of them about reading more of the manuscript or refusing to read or represent me. But I'm hopeful that one of them will consider reading it. Beth

I had my gall bladder removed on September 2nd, 1999 and I spent three days in bed, before I was up and about with orders for a week no heavy lifting. But I'm able to eat everything and not have any problems, till they found out that my stomach was partially paralyzed and put me on pills, which I shouldn't have been. I should have been placed on a diet instead to see what would work the best. The eating plan that I am on no carbos with protein meals allowed and vise versa is the way to go. But I'm losing weight slowly and still able to eat good food. Beth

I hit 51# lost as of the last day of 2008. I am doing so good! I'm sticking good to the plan and the two funks at Thanksgiving and Christmas didn't do too much damage to my weight, I still ended up losing weight. Another 43# to go and I'll be at my first goal weight and then my next goal of 125# will be soon attainable. Beth

I need a beta to look over a writing project of mine. You can AIM me at ladyducaine or spencer_creek_studios on YIM. I'm on YIM right now, will be on AIM around 8pm central time. I'm not sure what's wrong with the essay. I'll be honest with you. I started writing it about an hour ago and I got about two pages of it done. I'm writing like a mad dog as the idea hit me this afternoon and I only decided recently to get it down on paper or computer file before I lose it all. I'm looking for someone who will help me make it strong. Thanks, Beth

This story has not been edited by anyone. It is over 230 pages long and 67,702 words long. I need some serious help in grammar, sentence structure and comma use. I use Microsoft Word with comments on any edits that I do as that way it is easy to understand what the beta reader had corrected, if you understand what I mean. And I am hoping to have this story published in real life one day, so I need a beta reader who will stick with me on this story as I will do the corrections and probably even write more to the story and send it back to you. I will send the story to you by RTF either by AIM ladyducaine or by e-mail spencer_creek_studios@yahoo.com . And I do not mind any harsh critics of my novel. Please contact me by either of those contacts. Thank you, Beth

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The 2 year old kidnapped child in Florida. I think she probably died accidentally and her mom fearing people would call her a bad mother hid the child in the backyard. When her mom confronted her about it, Casey told her what happened and they're covering it up by claiming she was kidnapped a month after the girl's death. And the cadaver dog found the smell of something that was human who was dead in the trunk. The Grandmother threw a shit fit over that! She claimed that the dog found an old peice of pizza, not the smell of decomposing body. The dog is trained to find decomposing bodies, not FOOD, you crazy bitch! And who in their right mind would put a small peice of pizza in the trunk of a car? You would most likely find it in the interior of the car, not the trunk! How stupid does the Anthony family think the police are? They and the FBI know that they're hiding something important about Caylee but not saying anything about it. When the truth finally comes out, I doubt that family would be living in that neighborhood anymore. So what is you opinion on the case? Do you think it was a real kidnapping or them covering her accidental death up? Beth

That is GROSS! If I was the judge in this case and they had the bottle which he did that in and it was still full. I would make him eat the salad dressing and then give him the add punishment that he got. That would make him remember not to pull stupid stunts like that again. Beth

I think for the most part those Litmus tests are wrong, if everyone followed canon, there would be similar stories being written by everyone and it would be very boring to read. I don't take them nor do I trust them. Beth

I love purple, but I also like pink, hot pink and blue too. Beth

As in how the site is after she left. Has it stayed in line to her dream of a site where adults can post their R and NC-18 stories at or has it gone down or gone better than when it first went up? I would tell her that the site has improved greatly since she handed it over and yes, we did go through two owners and that there is over a million hits a month or more. She would be very impressed to say the least. So what would you tell her? Beth

This link will tell you all you need to know about McCain's surprise pick - and it's VERY bad news. Highlights: Palin explicitly promoted "teach the controversy" by calling for the misnamed "creation science" to be taught in public schools (as now well documented in Kitzmiller vs. Dover School District, it's known that "creation science" is nothing more and nothing less than a method of putting young-earth creationism in public schools)... ...It also appears that Sarah Palin is a member of a misnamed group called Feminists for Life. FFL in fact engages in "cultural appropriation" of women's suffrage icons to promote a very woman-unfriendly agenda that--despite attempts to sound "not like those crazies in Operation Rescue"--would not only criminalise abortion but the IUD and hormonal birth control methods, and potentially everything outside the rhythm method (the term "abortifacient birth control" is a codephrase in the dominionist "pro-life" community for hormonal birth control--partly due to a unique urban legend claiming "the pill" and other hormonal birth control causes abortion and partly because of a unique definition of pregnancy beginning at conception rather than at implantation (the latter is what most mainstream OB/GYNs use) and thus making anything preventing implantation potentially "abortifacient"). FFL promotes such fun bogosities as "post-abortion syndrome" (the idea that having an abortion will inevitably lead to PTSD and insanity), and promotes mandatory waiting periods and misinformation guidelines that can be insurmountable for poor or rural women--even those forced to make the most heartbreaking choice because of a nonviable pregnancy. In fact, one of their biggest causes isn't feminist at all--they actively promote the idea that the best choice for women is to stay home as fulltime mothers, and it can be well argued that the only traditionally feminist viewpoint they really support is women's suffrage! One of the big things FFL promotes is deceptive "pregnancy counseling centers"--where pregnant teens are forced to essentially listen to an altar call on how "abortionists want to murder their children" whilst a pee-stick test clears--and if she tests "yes", she gets a hard-sell to keep the child or to check herself into a dominionist-run "halfway house for teenage moms" where she will ultimately be forced to sign her kid over. (Yes, there is an entire private adoption industry in the dominionist community--mostly focusing on adopting out the infants of poor teenage mothers who have been forced to give their kids up and who have been either scared into it or checked into such facilities by their parents.)... In short: This is nothing less than a stealth Dominionist ploy to sneak one of their own into a dangerous position of major power (and need I remind you of McCain's age/health history in regards to this potential implication??). PLEASE pass this link around to as many people as you can. The threats Palin poses, especially to women's rights, are very real and frightening. Vote for Obama as he swore he would protect a woman's right to birth control and abortion, not these two so called mavericks. Beth

Wow, you are right there is a person named Darrien. So it is a real name. Beth

You creating new strange names and places. I had people complain about how I changed modern day names to be something different. Yeah, so what? Parents do that with naming their children, so it is my right to do as the same as the author of the story! I have the right to create new versions of names or a name that is totally different of that name. I had someone say I don't like your story because the names you gave to the characters is not real and they should be real names. That came from a fantasy story and I informed everyone before I even put the story up that one of the names that is done in this story is from a name that I liked that was being used for another story a fanfiction story, so I took the name. Needless to say, I got a complaint about the name not being real but fantasy! Even though I have a few names in my current Vampire Hunter story that I am working on, their names are totally different, but I got complaints that it isn't real. Lets take for an example the characters in my second VH story. Rorie, Kristina, Reenie, Sondra, Grayson, Darrien, Koranad, Atana and Adler. Tell me can you tell which name or names are not real or more like sound very realistic? You probably say only one or two names are not real. Well, there is only five names that are real. Can you tell which ones are real and which ones ain't? Okay, you probably wrote the names down. Here are the five names that are very much real Rorie, Kristina, Sondra, Grayson and Adler. And here are the four names that are not real at all, Darrien, Atana, Koranad and Reenie. They are made up names. One is an altered version of Darren. And yet, I bet if they were to name their own characters, they would make the names be as different as possible since there could be many Tom Dick and Harrys' out there. That is the joy of being a writer, we can create names that are totally special to the story itself. The characters usually make the Author write down the name that *they* picked out for themselves. Before JRR Tolkien ever wrote LOTR, was there ever anyone called Gandalf, Galadriel, Elrond, Aragorn, Frodo, Faramir, Boromir, Gimli or Arwen before his stories were created or published, I don't think there were. But there are now! If he was told to change the names to the present day set of names, the whole story would not sound as good as they do. I'm glad that he stuck to his guns as I will stick to mine about the names that I picked for my characters. Beth

She's still banned. So they didn't really unban her but if they did, she probably reposted her traced art calling them originals and they moderated her to see if she was posting originals or not and found that she was reposting her same art that was traced and banned her again. Beth

My entire family went to Pittsburgh, PA this past weekend from Wednesday night to Monday night. We left our home locked up and all of our other family members knew we were gone. Our home was tended to by our good friend Kimmie, who knew the daily routine of all of the animals and she knew that all of the cats were inside when we left home. We got home on Monday. Called GMA and GPA to let them know we're home. Talked with GPA for a few minutes before we asked to talk with GMA. What she said, sent us all into a fury. She told us that Robert, Alex(one of his ex-girlfriend's boys that Uncle Herb(who would call us to get permission to swim in the pool) is tending to during the summr with his job at a local restuarant) and she came over to OUR HOME TO SWIM! Without our permission too! Alex had to go poo. Instead of putting his shoes on and going into the woods or to the high grassy area, he ENTERED OUR HOME AND ACCIDENTALLY LET OUT ONE OF OUR SEVEN CATS! HE DIDN'T EVEN MAKE AN ATTEMPT AT CATCHING THEM NOR DID THEY! The cat were outside in 90* heat! My mom was pissed off to say the least. My older brother ranted about how Robert wouldn't have stayed outside in the heat after his swim. He would come inside and raid our fridge for food or flip through his magazines that were in prestige condition and worth $100's of dollars are made worthless by him flipping through them and dog earing the pages, now I can't sell them for what they're worth, they're worthless now. But back to this, this is typical of Robert to do. He would call us when we're home to get permission to drop by to go swimming as we would tell him yes, come over and swim but we have no food to offer you, Robert. But when we're not home - he violates our domain by coming over and swimming when we're not home and allowing one of his boys to walk into our home to do his duties when he could have done them outside in the woods or in the grassy area of our fields. I wanted to call him up immediately and ask him if he swam in the pool this past weekend and did anything happen while he was there. Just to see what he says(or more like spins it to where he's an innocent party to this whole thing) or would he admit that he was there and that Alex let couple of the cats out. But the folks didn't even call him today when they should have and asked him. And then, inform him that he was revealed to be in our swimming pool without our permission and in our home without our permission that he is now banned from coming over to the house to swim for the rest of the swimming season. But Robert would whine about how mean we are but the fact stands that he disrespected us by coming over to the house to use our pool and allowed one of the kids to enter our home to use the bathroom without calling us for permission! He would have learned that the house was off limits to everyone. But he didn't because he would have been told that the house was off limits to everyone and that's not what he wants to hear as he would want to enjoy the AC house and the TIVO system that we have. So they probably stayed indoors after they swam and enjoyed watching some shows. I am so pissed that I'm going to tell Robert that he better have enjoyed the theft of our pool as that is the last time he'll ever step foot in it again this swimming season as he is now banned till the next swimming season. Robert called a few minutes ago and he immediately spins it to where the cat was out before he came to the house! But mom told him that it was Alex who let the cat out because his mom (my GMA) told us that Alex let one of the cats out when he entered the house to go poop. If he had called to get permission from us before he came out he would have known about us trying to keep the cats inside the house! But Robert spins everything in his favor so he doesn't look stupid for not doing the proper thing in this case was to call to get permission to come over to the house to swim as GMA is now putting it on her shoulders that's why they came over when it was in fact Robert's doing as we know how conniving he is. He probably told her that he got permission to go over but he didn't. We thought of telling him various diseases that we found in the pool just to make him freak out since Robert is such a freak about how healthy he is. But mom and dad both said no to it. But I would have loved to see his face with we told him that the pool was infected by ebola germ. Beth

Thanks, Melrick. I haven't forgotten about the Houses yet. I need to write them down in a note to send them to you as they are currently on paper and one House is not finished yet. Beth

For an original story that I am doing I have some Native Americans in this story, but with a twist, they're a House of Vampires. But I need names for female Native Americans and a few male names too. Thank you, Beth

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Thank you, that was the word I was searching for. Beth

The thing is that he would have two pounds of cheese and an hour later, he would eat an entire loaf of bread. He would eat for eight hours without getting full. That is how he is. He eats and eats. He says he's on a diet but is he really? We do not believe he is. He's just saying that to get people off his back about him getting onto a diet. And if you confront or even talk to him about his behaviors(he loves making sexist jokes or comments about any sexy woman that he sees about her getting his dick in her mouth and giving him a blowjob) or even his weight, he will blow up at you. Robert is a spin-doctor. He'll spin anything that goes against him around to make it out to which HE is the victim of their hate, instead of taking the blame himself. That is why we're a bit hesitant in telling him that his so called diet isn't helping him at all but hurting him and in a way hurting his daughter as she doesn't want to bury her father at her age and he's denying his future grandchildren of his presence. We know he would just try to make us look like we're the villians when we only have his best interest at heart. But he will not see it that way, he'll see it as us trying to hurt him. Beth

The books that I am reading at this time are as follows: The career novelist by Donald Maass The First Five Pages by Noah Lukeman The Author's Toolkit by Mary Embree The 38 most common fiction writing mistakes by Jack M. Bickham Manuscript submission by Scott Edelstein The ABC's of writing fiction by Ann Copeland The Art & Craft of Novel Writing by Oakley Hall How to write romances by Phyllis Taylor Pianka Characters & Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card Yes, all of them are about writing novels, after all, I am a writer at heart. Beth

There is another book that I have in my writing book shelf. The Writer's Digest Character Naming Sourcebook by Sherrilyn Kenyon. But I do have other books about writing that I read quite often. Beth