According to Gemstones of the World by Walter Schumann, there are 200 types of gemstones in the world. Yesterday, I bought these boxes of mixed gemstones at Jay Cooke State Park’s Office and Gift Shop. For less than twenty dollars, I purchased three boxes of gemstones that could make three meals for a young dragon.

I bought gifts at Jay Cooke State Park’s Office and Gift Shop

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Like many authors, I tend to be drowning in ideas. Notes, snippets, story outlines. Far too many to do anything with, or that I feel I can do justice. Thankfully there's excellent people like Silver Notes out there who can take these bare bones (in this case "What if Wallflower found the Pony of Shadows instead of the Memory Stone") and put flesh on them in

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Okay, so school's out for the month and I've got two of my GEDs passed, meaning I have plenty of time to both enjoy the Holiday Season and work on my fanfiction. ...And hopefully not freeze to death. Let's hope the third bit doesn't happen, eh?

On the subject of that, Aura of Empathy's finally been finished. You should expect to see it up sometime this week, I think. So, that's good news for all you Sunset Shimmer/Lucario/Pokémon fans.

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Okay, so everything's all turning up rosy right now. No drama for you to watch in pure bile fascination. Wild Access, my Power Rangers/MLP crossover that's been months in the making is finally finished... Well, the first half anyways. Actually, if may go on a bit about the story, I admit there were quite a few things I would have changed, mostly in the first few chapters.

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Dear Bronies and Pegasisters,

As of today, June 24th, I have turned 25 years old. While I would like to play some twist on the Happy Birthday song, I would like to take a moment to say a few things.

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So it's a new year. And you might notice a few new things about SS&E.

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Hooray hooray the First of May

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As we experience what feels like the world's longest drumroll, I'm going to spend my thousandth blog post to provide explicit, scientific proof that friendship is indeed magic.

Sorry, no bad news this time, so uh... Yay? (Well, aside from the arguing over Net Neutrality, but let's face it, you've probably had about enough of people talking about it for the time being, so I won't go into it.)

Anyways, Black Friday...

(Probably the average Black Friday at Toys-R-Us or Best Buy, let's be honest.)

My advice, wear hockey gear if you're willing to brave the stores.

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Next Year's Plans, that sure grabs your attention right out of the gate doesn't it? More after the break.

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(Cue downvotes from everyone who hates pumpkin spice)
(Although she’s darned cute)

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This blog ended up being rambly enough that I've trashed and rewritten it more than once now. I said things were going to change this year, without going into detail about what things or why. So before I get into the details...

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Anyone still here?

To say the last couple of months have been busy is an understatement and a half. Between school and work, I've been basically going 16 hours a day every day with very few breaks. And I still haven't had enough time to do everything better than half-assed. Ain't it a bitch when you're overextending yourself and it's still not enough?

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Bitten by the story-writing bug, I seem to have been inspired to start a second story which I will be working on concurrently alongside 'One For The Archives'. The title is 'A is for Applejack', a play on Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Series mysteries, and what do you know? It's a mystery! My first ever attempt at writing a mystery, to be exact (though some of my old writings are pretty arcane HYUCK-HYUCK). I've been running over details in my head the entire day, and I'm still adding

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As of right now, I'm doing well. Hope that continues forward through the day, as today hasn't been too bad, aside from a few unsavory people at work. 

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It’s been one of those months . . . or at least one of those weekends.

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I won’t bore you with all the details, but one of the highlights was my van getting a flat tire on a section of the highway where the exits were six or seven miles apart, so I couldn’t limp it to the off ramp.

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So first the mechanic stuff:

You know what to do.

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Another dream so soon? Yeah, my subconscious has been really creative, to say the least. I'm just glad it keeps me occupied in the night, as opposed to a black, empty, silent void I'm subjected to on most nights in my sleep.

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