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Uh, so I'm back. Again. Stupid computer died.Was told the ram died, then found out we needed to reinstall windows. gah. but I'm back again. You will never be rid of me!

Actually, it turns out the ram is fine. Sometime just happened to Windows. O_o My bf thinks he deleted something he shouldn't have when he was trying to get Turbo Tax to work (for those here in the states, don't use turbo Tax. It doesn't work). shortly after that, it died one day and refused to boot up. One friend said it was ram, another said windows needed to be reinstalled, so we went with the cheaper option (since we have our own copy of windows) and it worked. I have no idea why.

I lost all my sims saves and downloads, but that's no big deal. All my writing is on our portable hard drive, so that is still intact thankfully. I think I would have cried if I lost all the work I've put into my novel.

I've been working on it less than a year, but I only have the first chapter and part of the second written. However, I have loads of backround stuff, character bios, world setting, how things work (lycanthropy, vampirism, curses and magic to name a few), and a load of side stuff that probably won't be published so much as is there for my reference. I've actually logged quite a few hours in this project, needless to say.

There are several systems of magic in my story, but so far I mainly deal with two (though one is far more prominent than the other at first). Almost each race in my story has a different system, though I will be dealing far less with the others than the main two. The main character is very ceremonial as she is a human priestess, so a lot of her stuff is based around such things, especially words. The other system is based around blood, actually, the theory behind it being there is nothing more powerful than your blood to cast a spell, bind things together, what have you. the one using that type of magic is only half human, but he uses his fathers system of magic because that is what he was taught (as his mother was human, and not a magi). there is more to it, but I haven't worked out solid details for everything magic related just yet, just ideas and concepts and basic outlines for the system.

Hehe, he's actually one of the good guys in my story.

So my gramma was medically discharged from the Peace Corps. Why, you ask? They said she is deaf, lol. She hears just fine, she just couldn't understand their accents so they said she was deaf and sent her home to get hearing aids. She said though that my letter was the first to get to her when she was in Namibia (I think that's how you spell it), and when she got it she was so happy she cried. But now she's back home, where I will miss her a lot less as she is now less than an hour away.