Post #1, Yay!!!

Well, I suppose I ought to start off my new blog with some info about myself.

My name is Elizabeth Sabourin. I live in Ontario, Canada with my parents and three cats, Smokey (male, adult, black, mix, wasn't named by us), Oliver (male, almost three years old, brown tabby, my mom named him after the Artful Dodger, I named him after Oliver Wood), and Mickey (male, kitten, grey tabby, named after Minerva McGonagall). I'm currently taking a year or two off before I go to college so that I can finish a writing course from the Institute of Children's Literature and finish writing a novel. My first love is writing, but I'd also like to become a teacher. And if neither of those things work out for me, I wouldn't mind owning a party-planning company.

As you could probably guess from the names of my cats, I love Harry Potter. In fact, I like a lot of books. While Harry Potter is always going to be a favorite of mine, I recently read Twilight and fell in love, and I'm a fan of Garth Nix, Jenny Nimmo, Louisa May Alcott, Mary Higgins Clark, Eoin Colfer, Georgia Byng, Lemony Snicket, and more. Aside from writing and reading, my other interests include making websites, role-playing, talking, watching tv and movies, listening to music, singing and acting for fun, helping people, cooking, baking, playing all sorts of games, hanging out with my friends and family, and sleeping. For my favorites you'll have to read on. ^_^

The reason I started this blog is because ...... I actually don't know. I used to have a blog a couple of years ago, but when I wasn't totally confused by the controls (LiveJournal) I was too busy to update and confused by the controls (MySpace). Now I've found blogspot and I'm quite happy with the layout, although I'm still insanely busy. So, updates may be few and far between, but I'll try to post at least once a week. Why am I busy, you ask? Well, aside from owning my own Harry Potter rpg, I work on my friend's a lot, then there's two more I just play on. Plus I'm a Facebook addict so I'm on there for at least an hour a day (sometimes three!). Then I have chores (dishes, laundry, feeding/cleaning cats), and I still enjoy having some time with my family. Oh, and did I mention I'm a procrastinator? Yeah, I hate it, but I still put things off.

Well, that's me. I'm strange, sometimes random, I ramble a lot, and I basically need somewhere to vent about life. And, ya know.... this might be a good way to do a little advertising for the sites of on. ;-)

Will be back later tonight or maybe tomorrow to begin my next rant. Not sure about what yet, but I guess I'll figure that out later. Byes!

~Lizzy