Sugar, We’re Going Down

Wow okay so it’s been a very very long time. I have to admit, I honestly forgot I even had a blog for a month or so there D; umumum…yeah. I think I’m pretty bad at this blogging thing. I’ve had one blog before and it failed epicly. I just get distracted with other things and completely forget about it. And as we know, it’s very. easy. for me to get distracted o3o
Anyways I’ll stop dissing myself now and start the bloggings.

First: I HAVE A KITTEN!
His name’s Aslan, yes like the lion from Narnia, he was a stray that we found outside with three other siblings. My mom decided to let me keep him since I liked him so much and I’ve been wanting a kitten for…who knows how long. So I took him inside today, and he’s been with me ever since :3 At the mo’ he’s rubbing my face and purring. I’m pretty sure he wants something but I don’t know what it is cause he just ate D: Aouwwhh he’s so affectionate 83. His siblings are outside in the cold though D: I feel really bad for them. But if we took all four kittens in I know my dad would throw a fit. I was nervous he’d throw a fit about just one kitten, but I’m glad he didn’t. Yeah so back to the sibling kittens- we have this dogloo thing, its a dog house shaped like an igloo, so we got it up near where the kittens are and put a whole lot of straw in it for them to lay on, and luckily they really seemed to like it, so at least it’s warmer in there.
My friend Iris told me I should make a facebook for Aslan, since Pam made a facebook for her kitty. So I did. His name is Aslan Goesroar LOL :3

Pam, my friend Severa, her brother Mitchell and I are all planning on having a Saw movie day here at our house this weekend. Eight hours+ of Saw HAHA D: I’ve been wondering what I’m gonna do with Aslan while we’re watching. Naturally you’d think I would just keep him with us, but I wonder if maybe it’s a bad idea for him to watch the Saw movies LOL o_o

SECOND: Books <3
Yeah so I’ve read alot of books since my last blog. Though it may not seem like alot to yous D: So here’s a list of the books I’ve read in the past two months:

The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers – Lilian Jackson Braun
I borrowed this book from my gramma. Was visiting her one day, and noticed there was a shelf completely full of books that had previously only had some picture frames and random nicknacks on it. I started looking through them and she told me I could take some home with me if I saw any that looked interesting. Then I found ‘The Cat Who…’ books and she told me they were really entertaining to read, so I picked one and finished reading it within a few days. It was quite a small book actually, but it was good and, like my gramma said, really entertaining to read. It was about a newspaper article writer, who lives with his two Siamese cats, I can’t remember their names at the mo’ but they’re cute names. Anyway the newspaper writer, he investigates a crime and odd happenings that all relate to a few of the same things. And his cats help in investigate, while they also predict the future. One of the cats would stare at the window, and the writer would know that someone was about to knock on the door. Or they’d stare at the phone before it rang. And the one cat would let out a particular screeching howl whenever someone has been murdered. So it is an interesting book, and it had me laughing a good bit at some parts. The characters have a wide range between liking some and hating some, and leaving some in the middle, not knowing weather you like them or not.
‘The Cat Who…” Books are a series of 30+ books, not following the same story each time, so you can read them in any order.

Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception – Eoin Colfer
One of my favorites in the Artemis Fowl series so far I’m not gonna do a whole review on each book. cause there’s alot of books. But yeah I really liked this one, it was inteeeense.

Howl’s Moving Castle – Diana Wynne Jones
I loved this book so much that it’ll probably be only the second book in my life that I’ve read twice :3 I’d never seen the movie all the way through before I  read the book, so I didn’t have that annoyance of “oh it wasn’t like that in the movie. this didn’t happen in the movie” but of course a few weeks after I read the book, Pam got the movie on Netflix and the whole time we were watching it I was thinking “this was so much more detailed in the book. THEY COMPLETELY CUT THAT PART OUT” But yes. I really liked the book.

Castle in the Air – Diana Wynne Jones
Sequel to Howl’s Moving Castle, I liked this one a good bit, but not as much as the first. I’m not gonna go into detail about it seeing as there’s eight other books for me to list Dx

Blood and Chocolate – Annette Curtis Klause
Ok I recommend you DON’T read this, but DO watch the movie. The movie was AT LEAST twelve times better. In the book, the main character, Vivian is supposed to be 16. My age. She acts, dresses and is described to look/act/dress about five years older than she’s supposed to be. So the whole time I was reading it I’m thinking to myself “Wow this girl is a slut, she needs to be put on a leash”. But in the movie the characters are all adults, so it all flows much nicer.

Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony – Eoin Colfer
Again a great book. Also one of my favorites :3

The Book of Dead Days – Marcus Sedgwick
This is an amazing book. You must read it. In fact, if you’re not half way to the library already, I’ll cut your toes off. The story is about a boy named Boy, yes Boy. That’s his name. He’s an orphan, who was taken in by Valerian, a magician. Valerian has some secrets about his past that he’s not too keen on telling Boy, and Boy, being used to Valerian hitting him every time he spoke, never pressed the situation. I’d so be able to tell you more, but sadly it was a library book and I don’t have it with me, AND I’m getting pretty tired and distracted, so I can hardly remember everything. D:

Hoot – Carl Hiaasen
Anybody that has read this will tell you it was a great book, and they most likely loved it. It’s about a kid who moves to Florida, and sees this strange bare-footed boy running along the street. He tries to find out more about this strange boy and looks for him at school, but doesn’t find him. Then the huge scary-looking athletic girl of the school who seems like she could break a mailbox in half with her little toe tells him to stop sticking his nose where it doesn’t belong. The plot thickens. Anyway I hardly have enough brain power to finish a sentence, so basically it follows the kids as they try to save these owls that burrow and live underground from a pancake house You should read it. It’s gooood.

The Hunter’s Moon – O.R. Melling
An awesome book of fairies and irishfolk. I’m half Irish so I really enjoyed this, course I don’t actually speak any Irish, so the scattered bits of it throughout the book (although they’re translated) aren’t as cool as they would be if I could understand them. I recommend reading this if you enjoy fairies, fey, faeries, however you want to say it :3

The Dark Flight Down – Marcus Sedgwick
Sequel to The Book of Dead Days, this book had me equally enthralled as the first, and I was very anxious to finish reading it and see how it all wrapped together. Definitely not one of those “Oh the sequel ruined the series” books

The Light-Bearer’s Daughter – O.R. Melling
In the same series as The Hunter’s Moon, though you can read them in any order. I didn’t like this one quite as much as The Hunter’s Moon, but that’s probably because the other one had more descriptions of what the faeries looked like and such, while this one was still descriptive, there just weren’t as many faeries in it. And I guess I was just in a faerie mood D: But the storyline is still very good. It’s about a little girl, Dana, who is promised one wish, but she must go through daring adventures to gain that wish. So yeah. Good story, just more about odd creatures and such than faeries.

The Alchemyst: Secrets of the immortal Nicholas Flammel – Michael Scott
A pretty good book, and a great story. Obviously about Nicholas Flammel. But also about a pair of fraternal twins who discover there’s alot they don’t know about themselves and a whole lot more they thought was only myth but is actually real happenings of the past. I’m not sure if that’s even making sense. POINT IS. It’s a good storyline, but I wasn’t too fond of the writing style, nothing particularly wrong with it, I just kinda felt like it repeated a bunch of stuff a few times.

And that’s it for the books. Bet you’re happy it’’s over aren’t you -glares-

THIRD: I got bit by a dog
About a month ago I was staying up late sitting on the couch talking to my mom with her dog next to me. Chloe (her dog) is a bit of a bitch, in the original sense of the term. She’s very protective over her space, and her space happens to be the couch. Now normally she’s not bitchy at all with people, when she’s awake and stuff. But she wasn’t awake completely. I leaned down to give her a kiss on her face like I always do and had done about four minutes before, and she thought I was a dog so she bit me subconsciously. Got nine stitches, one week later got them out, and ever since then I’ve been putting this gel on it twice a day, but starting yesterday it’s only once a day It definitely looks A LOT better than it did a month or even two weeks ago xD

Anyways I’ve had enough of this for the evening. I’m going to go read some Artemis Fowl

I’m not even gonna mention the long amount of time it’s been D; My mommy cut my hair ^^ gave me straight-across bangs I’m not sure how this picture thing is really gonna work out, I’m SO not a computer person. If Pam was home, she’d make it work, but at the mo’ she’s visiting her friend in Wisconsin. I miss her loooots but at the same time enjoying the time without her.

Reading:
I’ve been reading oh so much lately! I love it I’ve got two chapters of Artemis Fowl: the Eternity Code left, gonna finish those tonight, and possibly (though probably not) start the other library book I have, Flavor of the Week. But might save that for another day. Just so long as I’m done reading it by the 20th or so it’ll be fine and won’t interfere with packing for our camping trip. We were going to go to the beach today, and I was gonna read Flavor of the Week todaaaaay buuuut my aunt called yesterday and canceled cause there was supposed to be bad weather down at the beach ):
Wow you can tell I’m tired, I just smushed camping, reading and the beach in one paragraph. That’s not supposed to happen D:

Camping Trip/Shopping for it:
I can’t wait till we leave! AHHH I LOVE CAMPING D:< We’re leaving on the 22nd,  and getting back on the 30th, nice long trip, I love those So for the next week after Pam gets back from Wisconsin *this saturday* I’m gonna be packing like nuts with a little downtime for piano and reading So yeah my mom and I are gonna leave around 9-9:30am tomorrow to go shopping for a bunch of stuff for our trip. Which means I have to get up at 7am to get a shower(without being rushed) and eat and everything while giving her enough time to wake up and shower. I’m tired just thinking about it. Or maybe I’m just tired D: But I get some new stuff that I need so that’s sort of exciting. Like new panties/bras, some light-fabric long sleeved shirts, shorts/pants. I might even get ambitious and get a pair of JEANS. GASP. I haven’t worn jeans in……well a very long time. Probably about a year or so. Possibly longer. I tried putting a pair on a few months ago, and besides the fact that they were the wrong size, I just couldn’t stand them haha. Jeans are so uncomfortable, especially now that I’ve gotten so used to just wearing skirts/leggings and shorts. I’d rather wear a pair of slacks than a pair of jeans. And at this point in my life, I don’t even have any jeans hah. Anyway, got really off topic there…sorry. We’ll probably go to like 45 different stores tomorrow D: well no…the sad part is, I’m not sure we even have the option of 45 different stores available without being in the car for two hours. Including the two different malls we have. I live in a pathetic, pathetic place.

Sleepover:
My (old) friend, Severa came over and spent the night on monday/tuesday She’s gonna come over and take care of our kitties while we’re camping. It was awesome fun having a friend over for once. Like an actual friend that I can actually talk to and not some lame person who I feel like I constantly have to entertain or they’ll never come back. She’s such an awesome person, she knows how to talk to people and at the same time knows how to listen, which isn’t a common mixture. Usually I find that it’s one extreme or the other. But yeah years and years and YEARS ago we danced together and were the best of friends, then she had to quit dancing and I changed dance schools. But she found me on facebook one day and we added each other and now we’re good friends again, I love it . I forgot what it was like to have real friends that don’t live half-way across the country or in Canada Not that I don’t LOVE my other friends, it’s just fun to have someone to hang out with She brought Harry Potter Clue. I had the most fun playing a board game than I’ve had in YEARS. I need that game. My mom and I are gonna see if we can find it tomorrow XD I hope we do. But that’s not all we did while she was here. The fun is only just beginning. Even though it’s 11pm and I’m about to fall asleep while typing. THE FUN. IS JUST. BEGINNING! Yeah sorry, off topic again. We played another board game, called Origins, we’ve had it FOREVER and I’ve never played it before cause it looks like it was for smart people so it scared me. (err my mom said she and my dad tried playing with Pam and I when we were little but we didn’t get it at all) But we played it and I learned some neat stuff did you know that “news” came from North East West South? Isn’t that interesting? 8D Then we got pizza hut pizza <3 along with those orgasmicly good desert bread stick things they have. We watched a movie with the pizza, I believe it was called the Blowdryer, and no it’s not a sexual themed movie. actually there’s only one kiss in it and it’s completely innocent. It has Alan Rickman in it, Pam’s gonna kill me when she finds out we watched an Alan Rickman movie without her. Which is actually part of the reason we watched it HAHA. It was a pretty good movie actually, about hairdressers of course. Alan Rickman, the  ex-wife (who sadly has cancer), their son, and the ex-wife’s girlfriend (yeah I know right?) they end up entering a hairdressing contest in a little town that nothing ever happens in. The story’s actually alot better than that but I’m half asleep so give me a break D:

So yeah I’m asleep now. bai<3

Bedtime inspiration
When I’m laying in bed at night trying to fall asleep, I always get maddening inspiration for drawings, so maddening I’m seriously tempted to throw the covers off my bed, run downstairs to my pad and pencil and draw it, but I figure by the time I get downstairs the picture in my head would be gone or I just know that if I drew it, it’d look totally different and not nearly as good as the image in my head. So I tell myself I’ll just try to remember it and draw it in the morning or afternoon. When waking up the next morning, my thoughts aren’t anywhere near picture drawing at all, so obviously this is a problem D: Maybe I’m just one of those weird people that only gets good talent at night when I’m really tired. Like there’s this guy who would make astonishing artwork in his sleep. When he woke up he had no idea what had happened, but sold the paintings for lots of moolah.  Lucky him haha. So I think I might try leaving my pad and pencil at the foot of my bed tonight and maybe a crazy strike of inspiration will come.

Assateague Island
About a week ago Pam, my mom and our aunt Deb went to the beach, Assateague Island. It was really fun! My mom took her puppy dog, though not really a puppy anymore, Chloe. Chloe of course had fun, she liked the water as long as my mom was in there with her, other wise she’d run from the waves as they washed up on the shore. I applied sunblock three times. I still got really bad sunburn on my shoulders and lower back hahh..It was really painful for a while, that night when we finally got home, I took a shower and then got a towel wet with cold water and wrapped myself in it. That definitely helped. And luckily the sunburn’s almost completely gone now. Back to the beach..I was scared of going out too far in the water of course – since I can’t swim – but eventually Pam talked me into sharing the boogie board with her and floating atop the waves. It was sooo fun And of course there was lots of eye candy there. If you know what I mean.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
I can easily say that it was the awesomest, funniest Harry Potter movie yet. I’m not gonna say any details so I don’t ruin it for anybody. But it was definitely awesome . Pam and I wore our t-shirts, mine saying “Give me more Dumbledore” and her’s saying “I’d be sleazy for Ron Weasley” also had our shobes (shirt-robes), painted our nails, mine black to go with hufflepuff’s house colors, we made headbands and bracelets in house colors too It was really fun making all the stuff. And even funner wearing it haha! xD. When we got there, we had perfect timing, there was a huuuuuge crowd waiting outside for their tickets, but we preordered ours, so we just waltzed right in and right when we finished getting the tickets, the gates opened and we walked with the people at the front to theatre 8 and we managed to get almost the best seats. We got the row right in front of the bar which is our favorite, and we were almost on center, but that doesn’t matter quite as much. We were there two hours early, so we had to wait a while, obviously. When we had about 30 minutes before the movie started Pam and I decided to go get a drink, and there was a mob of people who apparently had the exact same idea at the exact same time. So we waited in line for 20 minutes just to get two sodas. But luckily some random nice dude came up behind us and started talking with us. He was quite entertaining, told us he liked our costumes – if you wanna call them that – too . He asked our names and I told him they were “confidential. we’re with the CIA, we’re not even supposed to be here” and he said “I’m with the CIA so I’d have to know who you are” he was really funny xD We never did tell him our names haha.

Books
Yesterday Pam and I went to the library! I was so excited. It’s a new(ish) library in Thurmont. But apparently it’s not “new” it’s more like the building is new, and the old one moved there. Cause Pam had a library card from the old one that was still in the system or whatever. I got one book, didn’t want to get more than that because you have to return it after 22 days, or renew it. And I’m already reading The Neverending Story, I’m not quite sure if I’d do well reading two books at once, soo I’m hoping I can finish the remaining 21 chapters of this and read the whole other book which has 275 pages. I know what you’re thinking “that’s not that big of a book” yeah well I read really slow, so shut up. Oh yes the book I got from the library is the second Artemis Fowl book, “the arctic incident” I really loved the first one, so I really wanted to read the rest of the series. So right now I have six whole books I want to read, including the one I’m reading…so there’s :
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Artemis Fowl The Arctic Incident – Eoin Colfer
Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
Howl’s Moving Castle – Diana Wynne Jones
Castle in the Air – Diana Wynne Jones
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling

And yeah hopefully I can read all those before the 7th Harry Potter movie comes out. And again I’m sure you’re thinking “you have plenty of time the first half of the movie doesn’t come out till later next year” but again, I read slow.

Woo. So it’s been a while eh? Ah well I was busy :]
Today was exciting ^^ my sister and I went to the mall, and bought things so awesome right? Yeah now that gift card from my Aunt is gone though. Well I suppose it’d be more interesting if I talked about what I got and stuff…But I really suck at remembering what happened in what order so I’m just gonna throw it all out there kay?

Window shopped for a little bit. Went to Bath & Body Works and got some stuff for my mom. Ate lunch at subway, yumm. Went to a clothes store of some sort, cant remember the name sadly, and I got two shirts there each for $9 they’re long, one is purple, the other is grey and smack-you-in-the-face yellow stripes. And lastly we went to Barnes & Noble, the best store in the entire mall, not that it’s really that big. And I got three books there . The first one, Blood And Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause, obviously the first thing i noticed was the huge word CHOCOLATE on the front of the cover, so I picked that up, here’s the description on the back:

“Vivian Gandillon relishes the change, the sweet, fierce ache that carries her from girl to wolf. At sixteen,she is beautiful and strong, and all the young wolves are on her tail. But Vivian still grieves for her dead father; her pack remains leaderless and in disarray, and she feels lost in the suburbs of Maryland. She longs for a normal life. But what is normal for a werewolf?
Then Vivian falls in love with a human, a meat-boy. Aiden is kind and gentle, a welcome relief from the squabbling pack. He’s fascinated by magic and Vivian longs to reveal herself to him. Surely he would understand her and delight in the wonder of her dual nature, not fear her as an ordinary human would.
Vivian’s divided loyalties are strained further when a burtal murder theatens to expose the pack. Moving between two worlds, she does not seem to belong in either. What is she really – human or beats? Which tastes sweeter – blood or chocolate?”

So that one actually looked interesting, I really like the fantasy books, werewolves, faries, vampires. Though not so much on the vampire these days, cause if you say vampire anywhere hordes of scary teenage girls start stampeding you screaming “EDWARD CULLEN I LOVE YOUUUUU!!”. So anyway, back to my books. The other two are a series, Howl’s Moving Castle and Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones. I love love looove the anime movie of these so I figured the book might be good too. In case you don’t know the story, I’ll write out the little description on them.

Howl’s Moving Castle:
Sophie lived in the town of Market Chipping, which was in Ingary, a land in which anything could happen, and often did – especially when the Witch of the Waste got her dander up. Which was often. As her younger sisters set out to seek their fortunes, Sophie stayed in her father’s hat shop. Which proved most unadventurous, until the Witch of the Waste came in to buy a bonnet, but was not pleased. Which is why she turned Sophie into an old lady. Which was spiteful witchery.
Noy Sophie must seek her own fortune. Which means striking a bargain with the lecherous Wizard Howl. Which means entering his ever-moving castle, taming a blue fire-demon, and meeting the Witch of the Waste head-on. Which was more than Sophie bargained for….

Castle in the Air (book two):
Far to the south of the land of Ingary, in the Sultanates of Rashpuht, there lived in the city of Zanzib a young and not very prosperous carpet dealer named Abdullah who loved to spend his time daydreaming. He was content with his life and his daydreams untill, one day, a stranger sold him a magic carpet.
That very night, the carpet flew him to an enchanted garden, There, he met and fell in love with the beauteous princeses Flower-in-the-Night, only to have her snatched away, right under his very nose, by a wicked djinn. With only his magic carpet and his wits to help him, Abdullah sets off to rescue his princess….

I’m personally excited to read them, but I’m saving them for when we go camping, since I used my gift card to get them, and the gift card was given to me to spend on stuff for the camping trip xD
Speaking of books, I’m currently reading Artemis Fowl, just the first one, I’m not sure how many are after it but someone told me there’s more. Anyways I’m almost done reading I’m on the last chapter, and I almost have that whole thing at the bottom translated, did alot of it in the car today xD. I noticed as I was reading that the chapters were exceptionally long. Like I’d felt like the chapter should be over for a few pages so I flipped ahead to the end of the chapter and there were about fourteen pages left, it’s nuts haha. I really like short chapters, guess cause then it’s easier to say “lemme just finish this chapter then I’ll help you” and it’s easier to put the book down xD.

Oh gosh so new subject, these kittens are getting so biiiiig. Keira and King Arthur are sleeping in my lap on a blanket right now and Isolde is just walking around meowing, she’s not tired I just had her up here and she won’t calm down :\ But yeah they eat hard food now, I’m so proud of them ^^ and they’ve started to learn to use the litter box :3 so that’s like…a big awesome thing right there.

You know Gatorade? Yeah everyone knows Gatorade, well the tops of them are just too damn big. And they’re almost impossible to open. But like seriously, why is the mouth hole thing so huge?? Do they think that athletes have like ginormous mouths or something? Not like only athletes drink the stuff anyway D:

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I’m too tired to go on, sorry ;[

So today, I was out all day with my mom, sounds fun right? Well yes and no, haha. At about 9:30am we left the house to the MVA so I could take the test to get my learner’s permit, and I was all hyped up and excited. Turns out I didn’t even get to take the dang thing, cause the laws changed since last year when my sister went in to get hers, so now I MUST have my birth certificate, that I have, and my social security card, which I don’t have, of course. So we had to sit there forever for the nice lady to tell us what we’re supposed to do, untill eventually she told us if I had some legal document from a federal office of some sort like a doctor’s office or a school, then I could take that and my birth certificate to the social security office and they should accept it. So we went to the Dr.’s office, got that taken care off, went to the social security office, got to sit there forever and eventually filled out the peice of paper and talked to the lady who had to verify that I am who I say I am, then she said that my card should arrive by mail within two weeks. Can’t wait for that!

After all that, we went to get gifts for my cousin’s bridal shower this saturday, she’s having a girl :] We went to Burlington Coat Factory, spent probably about an hour there, only found one thing that was on her directory thing. Went to Target, my mom found a really adorable set of three whinnie the pooh onsies, and matching socks, I’m gonna give those to my cousin from me, hope she likes them. While my mom managed to find a few good things that were still in stock on the directory. I swear like half that store’s items were out of stock, it was so frustrating.

Couldn’t find any good wrapping paper at Target, continued the journey to Barnes And Noble or Borders, I can’t remember which. Didn’t find anything satisfying there, but I was seriously tempted to beg my mom to let me get a book, decided it could wait though. My mom spotted a whole display of twilight stuff, with Edward Cullen’s face all over the place, she said “Hey look! ” I just moaned and glared at it, she forgot his face makes me nauseous xD

So we continued to the next store over, Micheal’s, it’s an artsy craftsy kinda store, so I figured it’d be lucky for us. And it was, eventually. It took my mom like 981702873 hours, but eventually she picked out some white wrapping, and pink and brown ribbons, she’s really good with wrapping presents, so I think it’ll turn out good :] and I just got lazy, got a cute little bag that says “baby” on it and some matching tissue paper.

By the time we got home, it was nearly 5pm @_@

So new subject! I noticed today, that I really hate logging into things. I got an email from a site that I had signed up to a while ago, and y’know how they sign you out after a while, well it asked me to sign back in, and I just said “forget this” and closed it xD I don’t know why it’s such an annoyance having to sign into things, I guess cause I always have to remember the password and username and make sure it’s all spelled right, it’s just a hassle xD

You know I used to hate reading books, but up untill sometime last year, I just wanna read all the books on the planet. As long as they’re in English ;D. It kinda started with the twilight books, I love those books, but I despise the movie, it’s so completely different, the actors can’t act, and the actors give me headaches. But yeah I started liking the books BEFORE it was “cool” to like them, so nyah. My best friend, Iris, introduced me to the first one before it was even released in America. So like…I win nah I’m joking. But anyway, I just really like the whole concept of reading. Cause for a little while, you can just jump inside the book and pretend nothing else exists, unless your dog keeps licking your foot, it makes it a little difficult xD

Well that’s it for my first blog, urr…hope it wasn’t boring ttfn~