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Well, the Brits who are reading this will be well-informed of what a traditional Sunday lunch involves, yet the rest of the world be well be lacking such information.
The traditional British sunday lunch is made of a meat (most commonly Beef), Yorkshire Pudddings, and 2 Vegetables. The reason I bring this to topic is because today we cooked a Sunday lunch, British style. Although, we didn't have tea with milk.
We got some bamboo sticks yesterday to help our vines, and our Tomato's. The plants are still very small but the weather is good and they may thrive. I am hoping so, at least. I have faith in them.
The Book is under constant development and is ever improving. We may add another excerpt soon. We'll discuss this as we do not wish to put-off publishers by disclosing too much of our so-far unpublished work.
Sarah
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Please note this is completely unedited, and there may even be spelling mistakes in its current state. This is just a tiny sampling of Chapter 6 titled "R", since publishers become uncomfortable when too much is made public too soon.
"I can't believe I am the first to leave a story for this incredible young lady. I have not known her long. She will make you regret she is not an adult if you get to know her. She gives me hope for our children because she really has her life together. I forsee a bright future for Sarah. I look forward to hearing of her as a leader in England within 10 years. Never give up Babe. Stay strong. You will succeed. Sarah continues to amaze me with her wisdom and insight. You would do well to listen to her." This was appended to my personal profile information at the hi-five (hi5.com) web site by a guest apparently named Richard. I was blind to his overbearing false flattery and the dangerous indications within these statements. In a Freudian slip within the first line, he admitted that he was merely leaving "a story" for me, and that he was fortunate to have gotten to me first. He next wrote that I could make a person regret that I was only a child, which revealed his own pedophilic yearnings. Worse yet was his mention that I gave him hope for our children, for he wrote not about the children, but instead our children. Hence he referred to the fantasy of his and my children being the same. He finally ended with platitudes of my incredible insight and wisdom, which was the wisdom of a fourteen-year-old alcoholic girl. Any meritorious psychologist or other person of insight would have seen these remarks with danger flags scattered upon them. Unfortunately, I did not. Perhaps I did not wish to see them strongly enough that I deceived myself about this Richard's character.
"I am very impressed with how outspoken you are. I don't know about your political views; mine are rather Conservative, using the American definition." This arrived via a text chat system at the hi-five web site around new years day in 2005. It had been sent by Richard. His profile information indicated that he was a 33-year-old American man whose birthday was April 6th. It stated he was committed, which I eventually discovered had more than one shade of meaning. He was purportedly searching for friends. His musical tastes included Led Zeppelin, The Doors, The Eagles, Pink Floyd, Prince, and modern country music. Richard's profile boasted that he had read over a thousand books, and therefore, he could not possibly pick a single favorite. Although, he did proclaim that he had favorite literary genres such as war history, non-fiction, science fiction, and popular fiction. His self-description ended with: "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." After having been only 14-years-old for four months, I became bemused at why this much older American man had such excited interest in me. Richard told me that we should converse because we had rather similar political opinions. Never mind that Richard knew nothing about British politics. The conversations between us began despite their surreal quality.
Upon Richard's insistence, I downloaded the Yahoo! Chat program because he stated that my current Internet communications program was inadequate to the superior application he typically used. We began chatting frequently once I met Richard's chat requirement. I would ultimately find that his superiority contrasted with my assumed overall inferiority was to become the defining theme of our relationship. We began text chatting via the Internet for about several hours per week in the beginning. However, not much time passed before we were chatting every day, and sometimes several times a day. There was something about Richard which I became practically addicted to. There was something special in the way he conversed with me, which was almost like a caring and compassionate father figure. He seemed genuinely concerned about my welfare in regards to my having become an alcoholic. We came to talk on the telephone also, and eventually, he even got a phone number local to me by using an Internet based phone service. Whenever we spoke, I was always intoxicated regardless of the time of day. I even boasted of my drunkenness occasionally revealing how lost I was at 14-years-old.
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Hey, I'm just letting you all know that I'm doing fine, life is good; I'm just busy working with the Book. Fairly relaxed right now, but I think that today I'm going to record myself then transcribe.
I'm fed up of sitting at a computer desk so I'm going lay down to tell the story. I can type it up better later.
Sarah
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We are having second thoughts about the publisher that I mentioned earlier. They want to edit our second chapter too heavily and we are not happy with that. So instead, we have thought about going through an agent instead, and that we may get more success that way.
We are not prepared to completly change the Chapters, as this book is being written for the benifit of others, not profit. We understand the need for some editing but it shouldn't be re-written.
We are going to keep an eye open for an agent and look for one hopefully in our surrounding area. That would enable us to meet them personally to work something out, but if they were not in the area then it would not be a big issue.
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I completed my twenty hours of training to be a Domestic Violence councellor. Now I have to remember to speak to a woman at the high school on April 3rd about setting up a group for young people who are abuse victims (both Domestic Violence, Rape, etc). Although it will have to go through a group decision at the school, if she passes it on then it will go down better.
If this works out as I hope it will, then I will be at the high school once a week, speaking to young people. That would great to do, and I believe their are lots of people that I can help -- given the opportunity.
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My basic schedule at the moment includes working on the Book during the day and continuing the volunteer trainig during the evening. That's okay with me.
I've been slowing down a little bit lately with regard to the Book as I just can't get focused or in the 'zone'. I had to take a little break today as I got frustrated with it all but I expect that I will do better tomorrow as I am more relaxed now that I have had that chance to vent.
Sarah
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Going to the local high school tomorrow to give another speech on domestic violence issues for Davie Domestic Violence Services. I am looking forward to it, but I am still a little nervous; despite how many speeches I gave in the past.
I just had a cup of British tea as I had some teabags sent over here a few months ago and sometimes it's really relaxing. Back in the UK I always used to dip chocolate coated cookies inside my tea as the chocolate would melt. ~:P~ That's something that most Brits do.
I think I got a little food poisoning today from 'Arbys' (it's a fast food restaurant for the Brits reading), and I have been sick ever since. I think it is only mild though - at least I hope. My immune system is just not up to fighting this.
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I was at the Domestic Violence worker training last night, and unfortunately, we were given a lecture by a Judge who appeared to be sleaze. His joy in hurting others and damaging other peoples' lives was something that he boasted about. He said the things that he thought we wanted to hear. It really sickened me, but manipulated many of those whom I was with. He is the sort of respected person that I wanted to work with a couple of years ago, but now I don't even want to be around.
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I am going to do 20 hours of training for Davie Domestic Violence and Rape Crisis Center this week, which will hopefully enable me to work with young (under 18) victims of abuse, and help them throughout counseling. It starts at 6:30 tonight.
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I've been out in the yard today trying to clear the space from leaves, small trees and twigs. If we can clear that area then it is a large yard, but it will take a while and we couldn't do much today as it was too windy to burn the leaves -- so they are just in piles, waiting.
Still working on the book, we have done well over the last week or so, I'm quite impressed with our product. We are still thinking on titles for the Book, so, if anyone has any idea's; please feel free to pass them on to us.
Sarah
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I said I would post more about the snake, so I will here. It was just a baby and initially I assumed that it was a large worm. I picked it up on the shovel to ask Thomas about it. "That's no worm" he replied.
The snake was wiggling and squirming around on the shovel, which I turned over and it went straight back into a mound of rocks that I was using. The question is, if that is the baby - where is it's mum?
The black snake is not poisenous and generally not aggressive, they run from humans generally; although they will bite if startled. Fortunatly, I only ran into the baby yesterday.
We also have copperheads in the woods around us, although I havent, and don't wish to; see any of them.
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I've never seen a snake live before until today. I was planting all my herbs in the yard and moving rocks when I came across a baby black snake - I'll write more about it later.
Sarah
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Hey Readers,
I am just leaving a message to let you know that I am still here and contactable if you want to speak to me. I'm still busy with the book and getting more accomplished, although I keep on getting distracted; especially during the day. There are so many noises and distractions in the house it is very difficult to keep focused.
I'll post again soon.
Sarah
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This is my new friend Gerry. His age is 38. He had this to say about me in Yahoo Messenger: "I'll have her good- she told me she whats it banging to her". In case you did not notice, Gerry is a very classy guy. My new adopted father discussed my newest pedophile with his friends at Yahoo, and they are debating whether to contact the FBI with his information. It would not be the first time. People like this really ought to be carefully monitored, after all.How do I manage to attract these winners?
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I have got a lot done with the Book lately although we still have a lot to go through. I am, however, pleased with how far we have come so far and see our current progress as quite an accomplishment.
Now on a different topic; I have a problem with water. You see, I like my water in a bath or shower (especially a shower) to be really hot; I mean, virtually steam. It sounds crazy but the shower is just never as good if the water is not hot enough, a warm shower may as well be a cold shower. I don't know why I have such an odd thing with water.
I also like my food to be really hot too, otherwise it doesn't taste right, but that is just because of Maria and Gary (my Aunt and Uncle) trying to poison me as a child. Unconsciously I think that if the food is too hot then the poison can't survive, even though that is not always the case.
I'm going to go and work on the book some more.
Sarah
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