Another Week In the Life of an Ian

Well this week was interesting (if that's the right word). Monday-Friday Molly was gone so i had absolutely no plans what-so-ever. Which, of course, meant to call Chad and we go swimming, which we did, 3/5 days plus Saturday. We always go swimming at Cloud's Crossing, a local swimming spot that's barely a river but is big enough for a good-sized crowd to enjoy. The greatest thing about it is on two different trees there are ropes to swing off of, which makes for a fun time. On the first tree (located on the shore), the ladder to climb to swing on the rope is loose so me and Chad nailed that back in and then tied a seat into the rope about six feet above the surface of the water. Which i swung from repeatedly then had the brilliant idea to hang upside down while swinging! it was fun, sure, but a bit scary when your swinging twenty feet one way then twenty feet the other. Now the second rope (which is really a bungee cord tied to a tree limb about 25 feet over the water) is my favorite. The tree is a little ways into the water so u swim to the ladder on the tree, climb up as high as you want, have someone give you the rope, then jump for your life. Well me, in case you haven't noticed, I'm a daredevil with these ropes and i climbed 20 feet up the tree, arriving at the point of the ladder that i could have climbed 3 more steps and climbed onto the limb the rope is on, and got the rope and dived off. Well the rope and myself swung out (remember we began at 20 feet) then swung out and then up until i was higher then the limb (which, might i add, is VERY high when hanging from a bungee cord) and then i let go and fell what Chad and a few others who were there say was close to 30 feet and dived into the water. My only two comments are: 1) Don't try that at home. 2) Thank God the water i landed in is extremely deep or else i would have been stuck in the bottom like a straw into a McDonald's soda.

Anyway that was pretty much my week as far as adventures go. The only other events include a nasty gash going from my right pinkie toe to the back of my heel, compliments of Chad's satanic four wheeler, FINALLY getting my new shoes in from CCS (A skateboard company), and making my computer at my house at least turn on again (I'm so happy i can continue life as a dork by playing Warcraft for my fifth year now, offline sure, but that just fuels the fire of my dorkiness!).

Since my last blog I've gotten in a ton of reading. I think last time i blogged i was reading Sabriel by Garth Nix (Highly recommended book to all lovers of High-Fantasy). Well since i have read Sabriel and it's two sequels; Lirael and Abhorsen (two more brilliant books). I've read The Dreamer's Series, a four-book series by David and Leigh Eddings who are a great Husband & Wife writing team and the books themselves are now ranked above my favorites and also setting in my bookshelves at home. Last of all i am currently reading Eragon by Christopher Paolini. A book of intense fantasy about magic, dragons, justice, and destiny. Rated 10 out of 10 in my mind and i say the same about it's sequel Eldest. I can't wait until August, which is when the third and final book, Gladier, is due to be released. Speaking of releases i can't wait until the seventh and final Harry Potter book is out! Rowling says in an interview that she kills off two characters in it and I'm dying myself to know who!

Also this week i got a fair bit of work done on my own book (untitled at the moment). I lost 70 pages of it when my computer crashed but this week i wrote about 30 more on the book itself, worked on my map of Amedorr (the world in which my story takes place) so i know all the sites and such, and worked a little on enhancing my characters and enriching the Elvish culture in Amedorr (since i have a huge love of Elves). It'll be at least a couple years until I'm done (seeing how i plan for my book to be a trilogy) but, hopefully, in the end I'll find someone to publish it since being an author is the only thing i know i want to do as of right now.

So yea that's what I've done the past week. Read, write, and been a complete idiot. All in a days work for me. So now I'm just looking forward to July 4 for it's fireworks, July 5 for Molly's birthday, and July 17 for my trip, well there, seeing how the only people reading this are from Wisconsin. Well there, I'm done blogging so now i have to wait for my grandma and great-grandma to pick me up from the library which could be anytime from 11-2 and its only 9:50 now. . . Yippee i get to sit here for hours! : \ Anyway, so long until my next trip to town!

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