It's late (or past midnight, so I guess it's actually early). I'll type more later, but for now just pointing out that I'm back from my visit with Amber.

Thankfully, Amber made a journal for each day already, so can read about it from her HERE.

Peace out, sleep times.

I write this journal before leaving for the airport, and ultimately, decrease the distance mile by air flown mile till I'm with Amber.

I love her, and I hope to enjoy every minute with her when I'm there. I'm filled with excitement, nervousness, and fear, but mostly anticipation for being with her for the first time. We won't really know how things go till we meet, but we've been praying for the best, and thus can only trust that things will go wonderfully.

Of course, I'll write a journal of how everything went when I return (though I may not want to return...), or maybe she and I will write one together late, no idea.

Wish us luck!

I don't know, I'm bored.

Does anyone have any questions they'd like to ask me, about anything? I'll answer here. Doesn't even have to be about art, can be about life. I like to answer questions.

Ever since pokémon came out, the idea of traveling from town to town, living off the kindness of strangers and pokémon centers while having a blast, I've always wanted to pick a day and just start walking in one direction from my home, see how far I can get before it gets too dark and see what happens during the day.

Of course, I wouldn't want to do that exactly, I'd hate to be on the street at night, even in my own town/city. Seriously, even walking down town at night gave me chills the few times I did, something about being surrounded by concrete and loose tempered people everywhere... it's kind of scary. But still, just once, I'd like to pick a direction and see how far I got.

Being somewhat bored today, I did what everyone on the internet eventually does for fun: I google mapped my home, to see what's around here. My first thought: Wow, alot of people have pools! Then my second thought: how would a neighbor react if you went to their house, knock on the door, and they answer it to see you in a bathing suit saying "Yeah, I googled my neighborhood and saw you had a pool... can we be friends?"

I'm actually somewhat a coward, I'd never do that, but gosh it sounds fun if a neighborhood was actually friendly. My guess is I would either have the door slammed in my face, have cops called on me (just look for a tall white guy), or shoot me themselves. Anyway, off the pool subject.

Looking at my home from above, there isn't a single park I could go to. This is a bummer to me too, because that means the only time I can be outside under trees and such with other people is if I go sixty something miles away to a state park for camping (which I enjoy doing, but don't get to do enough). It also seems if I did pick a direction to go, I'd have to go through a maze of houses and alternate neighborhoods before I either got to a highway, emptiness, or crowded rural area. The only places that say "park" doesn't look like parks at all, they have baseball diamonds or other sport related tracks void of trees. Is it really that hard to find a place with nice trees to be, like the city parks seen in movies? More specifically, one that is in walking distant, somehow driving to one takes away the fun.

Maybe this is why people choose to go backpacking in Europe. There's actually Stuff there that's interesting! I'd love to do that some day, I probably won't ever be able to but it at least was a nice idea. This is probably why I'm home at my computer a lot, what interests me isn't exactly in existence in my own city. I don't go out with friends either, the friends I have are classmates, and they only seem to be friends while I'm in class. Then, there's you, my fellow deviants, but we're all stretched across the globe, can't really do anything but draw.

With this, there's only one thing I'm looking forward to at the moment: exploring CA with Amber. It's in another state, a place I've never been, any new sights would be pleasant to me; of course, I won't forget, having her be the one showing me around will make it that much more fun. I like going to new places, even going to the zoo a few months ago, despite being for a drawing class, I got a kick out of it! In fact, as long as I wasn't standing in one place, I wouldn't mind being outside where the sun is, I'd just glop on sunscreen (spf 100 of course) so long as I had some place to go.

Alas, I will be stuck inside for the majority of my college years, creating 3D landscapes that don't exist and are only explorable via moving the camera, and even then so I create those places so there is nothing new. To me, that's the main downside of your own art, sure their is improvement, but what you create can't really surprise you. The kick is how other people react to it, and that's why I like writing, and should continue to write; sure it's pokémon, but all the reactions and places being visited are mine.

In closing to this very spontaneous journal, thank you google maps for showing how crappy everything is outside and around me. There are houses everywhere (and probably for most of whoever actually reads my journals, despite that I don't read other's often at all), with people that may or may not have lives either. If only times were simpler, I think being a native would have been cool, hunting and fishing and storytelling with elders by a fire, yeah that'd be neat. All well.

Peace out.

This journal is for my readers, feel free to read or not, but hopefully only if you've read that far.

Obviously, chapter 39 isn't out yet, I'm really questioning my ability to finish it. More than half of it was finished within a week of ch. 38, but then my second semester of College kicked in and, well, it threw my story off course. There's that, and I'm not alone at night anymore (I talk to Amber instead, and gosh she's worth every second).

It is my summer time, and once I get my head together and practice writing again, I'm sure I can finish it. However, I am at a loss of what to do... I have a story plot of key events that will happen for my main characters (Sparkles and her psychic ability developing, Logan and his attachment to other pokémon, etc.) throughout the whole story from literally since I started writing till the end at the Pokémon league (come the year I actually get that far), but lately can't think of much of what I want to happen in between events, or rather, I'm lacking story to continue my story! Really though, a lot of what I want to happen can't happen yet, not enough time and scenarios have passed for these events to be as effective as I want them to be.

So, here's where my readers come in. I don't know if many writers do this, but I want to see if I can incorporate anything that my readers want in the story. It is the pokémon world after all, I'm sure I can have much more happen then walk through a random city as generic as the last and fight the gym leader (well, that isn't exactly what has happened, but I fear that). In that, either on this journal itself or in notes, I want input (if you're willing to give it to me). If you have ideas of things that can happen in the city and in the traveling between cities, I'm willing to hear them and see what I can do. Credit for ideas will be put into the description of the chapter.

Note, a few details though: I have already decided what happens with the fight against the gym leader, whether or not the other characters interact with him or not. So, in case anyone thought a new character (yours probably) can be added as a traveling partner, that's not going to happen; seriously, my main character is not Ash, he doesn't travel with a group of three region to region, he barely lets anyone stay with him between one town and the next. I think that's all I wanted to say, basically that I want to continue my story but I need a push.

Oh, and yes! Yesterday while I was in Jury Duty (yeah, that was fun... not really), I was able to read over the printed version of a few of my first chapters. I'm thinking of going back and rewriting them a bit. Not change the story or anything, but maybe change the description of what happens and see if it can be updated because, well, I know my later chapters are better written with the practice, but I don't think my beginning chapters are strong enough to get people through to the next. Is that worth shooting for too?