I am exhausted. I've spent the past two days, scouting this entire place out. Zell was right. I couldn't get the crystal to work at all, but it was worth trying. I do have a new idea, but I can't do it by myself. And it definitely requires more planning ( Read more... )

Pepper couldn't remember the last time she felt so harried. Planning something this large on what was essentially short notice would have been taxing back home, but was all the more difficult on the island, which lacked most of the conveniences that made party planning actually enjoyable ( Read more... )

If you pay attention, life's basically just this on-going education. Unoriginal, I know, but cut me some slack, I'm still learning. There's a lot left I haven't figured out and a lot I probably never will, but I've picked up plenty along the way, and one of the biggies is this: there's a huge difference between growing up and being a grown-up. ( Read more... )

Sometimes you just needed to wear yourself out to get comfortable in your own skin again. Giles had taken to going swimming very early every morning for a couple hours of fighting the surf and then stretching out to rest his almost-sore-but-not-quite muscles ( Read more... )

It's gotten so long. It's always been long, but never like this that she can remember, never so long that it's a nuisance in the hot summer-like sun whether it's up or down. But she's been here a year and a half and she can only remember it being cut once, and that was pretty early on. She'd been in the right place at the right time and returning ( Read more... )

If there was anything Kiden shouldn't have been concerned with at that very moment, it was numbers ( Read more... )