User blog:Freefalling Lilacs/Where Have I Been?!

So... I am SO sorry for kind of disappearing for a little bit. Life's kind of caught up with me for a little while and I've had things to do.

For anybody who remembers me mentioning going to Jamaica last time I was here, I went and our trip was kind of terrible. Both of our flights were delayed so long that instead of arriving on the island at 10:00 AM like we were supposed to we didn't get there until 11:00 PM. Then we lost our luggage. All of it: we had no clothing, no bathing suits, no toothbrushes, no medications, no soap. So we had to lie around in the 90 plus degree weather in the same clothing for two days straight. Worst of all I tried to use the soap the hotel provided us with and had an allergic reaction to it. We finally got our luggage in the morning on the second night (well, technically third if you count the one we arrived on) and it was soaking wet because somebody apparently left it outside in the rain during the tropical storm the previous night. So we still had no soap because it melted and also couldn't change. All three suitcase were also broken.

If it doesn't seem like it gets much worse, when I finally could get to the beach I was so excited until I realized the first beach I'd stumbled onto was a nude beach. And it was packed. And oh my god I think I was blind for about a day. The last two and a half days of the trip were okay though. I wrote a lovely complaint letter to the airlines and sent it in claiming I was my father and they gave us our money back plus a voucher for a flight in first class so I guess it kind of worked out in the end.

But as for why I haven't been on the site lately... First off, Total Drama Island: For Your Entertainment is still going to happen of course. I'm not going to just give up on it that quickly. Unfortunately I might not be able to have all of the drawings of the characters up by the time the story comes out. Their bios will all be up by then though. I haven't been able to work on it lately due to working on the newest chapter of [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4900448/1/Total_Drama_Island_Again Total Drama Island: Again! ] on FF.net. I kind of owe it to the readers over there since I've been taking so long with it. Unfortunately I accidentally deleted the almost finished chapter recently and will have to rewrite it all over again (in my defense, I'd titled it Ch22 and I had an essay called C22 on the book "Catch 22". That's only one letter off so I confused the two. :P). TDI:A! is kind of first on my list of writing priorities so I need to get the next chapter up before I can really focus on TDI:FYE.

So in short, I'll be back online soon! Just not yet!