Chatterbox: Down to Earth

LIFE UPDATE! 

Hi everyone! It's me, Shining Star! I'm sorry for being super inactive for a while. There has been SO much going on, and I've missed the CB but it's just been SLAMMED.

I think I started being inactive around the time I got back from camp, because that's the time it started getting super busy. To begin with, I got asked to run our community's newspaper. WHAT THE HECK. And I don't mean the little newsletter I've been running—although that is pretty awesome (and busy). I mean the full-on newspaper. Quarterly news stories, photos, obituaries, advertising. I guess they were so impressed with what I'd done with my newsletter that they thought I'd be a good person to take over the publication, or become the editor at least. I'm not totally sure why they thought I'd be a good choice—but it was a pretty big compliment!

Anyways, that took up a bunch of time, since I had to figure out how to respond. I decided it was too big a task to take on, so we ended up forming a team: the owner of the newspaper, me, my mom, and one other lady. We're going to run it together.

We also got a new cat! That was major. She kind of just turned up on our porch. Originally we meant to find a home for her but we ended up falling in love with her and decided to let her stay. Here name is Lynx, and she's about three months old. I spent ages searching for a home for her before we decided to keep her. 

I also wrote a 200-page fanfiction that took me about two weeks—not including major editing. I'm really proud of it, but I basically speedran (ha!) it, doing mostly that for two weeks. So not a lot of time for other stuff.

And I've been trying my hand at animating. This takes way more dedication and work than Halfy makes it look. I also don't have a stylus yet, so I've been animating with my computer's mouse—ouch! Hopefully I get a pen soon. 

ALSO, my parents are finally recording their music, after two years of waiting for COVID. We go to the recording studio a lot, play music all day, and then come home usually after sunset, exhausted. Then I knock out for most of the next day. The other day we got back after midnight!

I recently went to another island to visit my grandparents for a week. It was incredible. I made a vlog of the whole thing that I haven't put together yet. Anyways, it was super fun, and we did a ton of stuff! SO FUN.

Not to mention I've been working on my newsletter. That takes a lot of work. 

Another thing—my fourteenth birthday is in slightly less than a month! October 8th. I will be old enough to get a job! Exciting! The school that we're connected to (I'm homeschooled but they're the ones we send the report to and whatnot) has this program for kids where they can propose a project they're doing to help the community, and then they get payed for it, so I might do that. :)

Anyways, I will hopefully be a lot more active again! What's everyone been up to? How are you guys, Admins?

Love, 

Shining Star 

What an exciting list of updates! I'm sure you will do a wonderful job editing your community newspaper. I am doing well and looking forward to cool fall weather. Last weekend I went to an art fair in my neighborhood, which was lots of fun. Please give Lynx lots of pets for me. - Admin