Okay, I know it's been a while.  I'm busier than even my mum suspects.  This trying to write a book or three business is harder than I thought it'd be when I was eight, but I'm too far in to back out now.  And really, I love it.  It'd just be nice to have a month without diabetes to worry about, where I could just sit and write nonstop, stuff lunch, and not have to keep an eye on the time for whatever reasons.  Sorry, if you didn't know, I'm diabetic - type 1.  Now that you know, I can refer to it easily.

Being the holiday season, maybe it's a good time to note that I don't celebrate Christmas.  The Bible devotes, oh, a couple of paragraphs to describing Jesus' birth, and several chapters in each Gospel to describing His death.  The only reason for His birth was so that He could die and set us free from the bonds of sin and death.  Christmas isn't even when He would have been born.  Think about it.  If the shepherds were out in the fields, is it really realistic to think it was winter there?  If it was snowing, would they really have been aboe to walk across the mountains from Nazareth to Bethlehem?  Realistically, Jesus is far more likely to have been born closer to Easter time.  This Christmas, I'd like to challenge you to look at how and why you celebrate it, and see if your motive truly is to worship Christ.

I was on a church Fun and Adventure camp in September/October this year and I was remembering how great it was earlier.  There's only 280 days until the next one, and I'm counting down.  Shoot over to the Calendarsection of my website if you'd like to check the camp out.  If you're in S-E Queensland, I can virtually guarantee you'll have a ball there if you come.  I did, and I'd had diabetes for about three weeks then.  All right, I mean that I'd been on the insulin about that long.  It's hard to work that stuff out, but after about twenty-three minutes there, I decided I had done the right thing in going, after all.  Everyone's brilliant, and I loved it so much I suggested that we take up a petition to make the camp last about 6 months longer.  Sadly, it wasn't created and we said our goodbyes and cried our way home.

I'm camping with my family from the 24th to the 2nd, then going to the 2nd Brisbane International on the 3rd, so I won't be writing for a while.  I s'pose I should start packing.  Thus it is adios till next time!

My Name is Fulcna is creeping closer to publication!  Things are moving along again and will hopefully keep up a nice pace over the next few months.  It will hopefully be hitting the shelves before the end of the financial year (June).

Speaking of books, here's a list of some of my favourites:
* The Chronicles of Narnia
*Somewhere Around the Corner
*The Tomorrow Series
* Anything by Enid Blyton (esp. the Malory Towers series)
*The Giants, by Roald Dahl
* The Bible
*First Draft in 30 Days
*Black Beauty
* Pride and Prejudice
* the dictionary
*Heidi
* I am David
* Jane Eyre
*...

Are you bored yet?  That's not a comprehensive list - it's just a list of the ones I have on my shelves or the ones very close to me.  If you love books and have some suggestions, email me at bookworm.aus07@yahoo.com.au  Also, visit my website at http://sites.google.com/site/jessicamareestone and see what else I'm working on.