I am walking in the rain! I am walking in the rain and the thunder and the AAAAAHHHHCK!!!! (Gets electrocuted)

Yeah.  That's what the weather is right now.  At least Tropical Storm Debby isn't dribbling over our heads everyday like she used to.  It's only appropriate that it would rain on the day after Andy Griffith died.  I'm not going to do that "let's have a moment of silence" thing because it's not really that sincere.

Also, in The Hiding Place, I just got to the part where Betsy dies.  I would have cried except it was such a happy moment in the book because she went to somewhere better than where she was.  And also because I while ago I looked up Corrie Ten Boom on Wiki for some reason and it spoiled that part for me.  Really!  There should be SPOILERS at the top of the page.

Well, the storm is getting closer, I'll blog later.

Lifestyles No More

A moment of silence for loss of Lifestyles...

Okay that's long enough!  Yeah, so another company apparently bought Lifestyles, so now the business is going to be LA Fitness.  Hopefully, it will continue to use the old Les Mills classes.  If it doesn't, I'm going to be very annoyed.  If they do happen to change them and do their own thing or whatever, I'm going to be much more than annoyed.  And if they plan on just being a place to run on machines, MUCHO annoyance.  I hope it doesn't end up being like Gold's Gym.  That place scares me.  It doesn't look family friendly to me, it looks more propelled towards body builders or something.  Obviously (points to self) not bodybuilding material.  But I haven't gone there...I don't think.

Off that subject!  I figured out how to make videos my background.  Right now it's a video of Cosmo and Sammy...But mostly Sammy.  And he's playing with the dangling cover on my camera.  And Cosmo walks in and bats a small loop of twisted pipe cleaners around.  I would show you but, remember my rant about how dumb blogger is because it doesn't let me post videos aside from those on YouTube?  No?  Well I just told you what that was about so don't sweat it.

Have I told you about how Muppet wants to make movie with me?  She wants to make one mocking the old tacky black-and-white sci-fi and horror movies.  But she was disappointed when I revealed that my camera only shoots in color.  I wish it could film in black-and-white and Sepia.  If it could do that, it would be the awesome-est camera ever.  But it doesn't.  If it dies, I'm going to get an advanced camera that has more options and a better direction manual.  But it has rechargeable batteries.  So it's not going to die anytime soon.

Aw, I'm listening to my playlist.  The random one that I constructed one day last week.  It's so random that the Beatles song Tell Me Why is played right after the Tell Me Why by Taylor Swift.

Well, I saw the Avengers.  And Brave.  And they were both perfectly good movies.  See, it annoys me when people obsess over good movies like the Avengers because it makes it so that people don't want to see it.  It's like Twilight.  Maybe if people weren't so obsessed with it, I might be more willing to read/watch it.  But everyone is obsessed with either how good or how awful it is.  It makes me not want to read it because lots of people from Drama Camp last year influenced me with how bad they think it is.  Maybe it's not the best grammar (as I've heard), but that doesn't mean it's a bad book.  I also am not fond of how, when it was popular, people in sixth grade and under read them.  That's just wrong.  It's an ADULT book for crying out loud.  When I was in eighth grade, I wasn't aloud to read them.  Why are nine and ten-year-old children reading them?  Because they're popular.  One person must have read them and said, "this is the reading level of a second grader.  Let's let them read them!"  Reading level is not the same as content.  And it's not just Twilight and it's not just books.  I was just using an example.  Movies have equal or more concern.  Young children should not be permitted to see a violent or disturbing movies.

Maybe it's just me, since I never watched PG-13 movies until I was fourteen.  On the other hand, there are ridiculous ratings for some movies.  Like, it Disney remade Dumbo and Pinocchio, they would probably be rated PG-13 because of the appearance of alcohol and cigars.  October Baby was rated PG-13 because of the word abortion and the mention of a drug.  It should be rated PG.  Those are basic things that everyone should know are bad for them.  Some of the Star Wars movies might be PG-13 now.  Speaking of ratings, Monk goes from TV PG to TV-14 in the next season.  Strange.

Well I have things to do (not really).

We go together like...

10 things you should know about me

I don't think I've done a list like this on my blog before.  It might make you feel more welcome if you know a few things about me

1.  I have a cat named Cosmo and I love her very much.

2.  I am part of a family of six: (youngest to oldest) my brother, me, my sister Juniper (blog: juniperstable.blogspot.com), my oldest sister (http://revolutionaries.tumblr.com/), my mother, and my father.  I also love them very much.

3.  I'm obsessed with music of most any type.

4. I like to read books, but am not as quick a reader as my siblings.

5.  My best friend is Muppet (blog: mopheadedmuppet.blogspot.com)

6.  I like to doodle and am quit good at it.  Clothes and cats are my specialty:

7.  One of my favorite past times is blogging.

8.  I like coming up with ideas for books I'll never complete.

9.  I love writing songs in my mind.  I savor them while I'm thinking of them but then I forget them, thus the reason most of them don't make it on my blog

10.  I love God more than everything in the entire world!  And when someone says, "There's nothing He won't do for you," believe it.

I could go on like this for a long time.  I'm going to tell you the ten things I despise:

1. Certain book characters.

2. When our cat Sam knocks my butterfly collection off the bookshelf.

3. Last minute changes (for the worse).

4. Overcast days.

5. Sunburns.

6. All the things I can't eat with braces.

7.  Frowning faces.

8.  Repulsive TV Commercials

9.  Broken pencils and pens with dried up ink.

10. Dreary news.

I could also go on with this subject but this is enough for now.

Pluffy Posts Picture

I'm Pluffy and I Post Picture.  It's completely doodle-icious:

Clicky the Pic-y

I went to Drama Club for the first time since I was gone.  I missed everyone SO much.  But I was annoyed because Z-man wasn't there.  He's usually the Game Guy; that is, he does the game section of Drama Club.  I hope that if he ever quits (which would be really depressing) that maybe I could be Game Girl.

Drama Club went well today.  I'm making fine progress with the script and choreography I feel.  I still need practice, don't get me wrong, but I did well considering I've been away and clueless for a week and a half.  We got to use a different room today.  It was a much smaller room, but it was big enough.

I can't wait for next week!

Muppet Invasion--Throw the WII!

Yes I just butchered that statement.  If you don't know, the line goes like this: "Alien invasion--Throw the CHEESE!"  From one of the many ASDF movies on my blog.  I'm not going to tell you which one, though.  Because either you already know which one it's in or this is a great excuse for you to watch them (for your first time or fifty zillionth).  Also, it's a great way for me to say that I can't remember myself.  But I have my own reasons for not remembering.

After all of that (you probably don't want me to go on this way forever), Muppet came to my house to have some fun and get all--errm--most of our energy out for our next practice for Jerusalem's Most Wanted.

We mostly played on my family's Nintendo Wii and watched movies.  Oh, and talked of course.  And laughed, but if I'm putting that down in my blog, I might as well say we breathed oxygen and used our feet to walk, but that makes it sound like we did absolutely nothing together which would be a complete lie.

First, we watched Into the Woods together; only the first part though.  While we watched Muppet painted my nails (man I really need to post some pictures!).  They are Mario's hat and mushrooms.  Somehow my nails always seem longer when painted.  Maybe it's because I realize how much space there is on my nails to paint a mushroom, butterfly, or panda.  Oh, and when I post this, I'll have only six more posts to go until numero 100.  It seems like so many.  But when I compare that to all the emails passed back and forth between Muppet and I, it's very small for the amount of time passed.  I remember when I counted up our emails and I was excited about number 100, now I think I have something like 1000 emails in my file labeled Muppet...or more.  We had a conversation that went on for 300 emails or something.  I know you want me to shut up about that now but that's TONS more than any one person has sent me...maybe more than several people's added up.  Now I'll shut up.

About that subject.  After nails and movie, we played lots of Lego StarWars, bought 4-LOM, unlocked a bounty hunter mission thing, and swept up enough studs to almost purchase Lego Yoda Ghost.  She showed me what sorts of dance moves to look forward to learning on Thursday and I showed her my doodles of Twig (the main character of the Edge Chronicles) and sketches of dresses I only can imagine.  I donated a bottle to her collection: Ale81 (a brand of ginger-ale soda sold only in Kentucky).  It's pronounced: a-late-one.  I showed Muppet the ASDF movies on my blog, as indicated in my blog title.  Wii played more we.  Wait a second, did I really write that?  I meant we played Wii.  StarWars of course.  I showed her some of the videos I took on vacation that I would also readily show you, my sweet audience, but alas, Blogger doesn't really care to let me post movies.  Fortunately, when I put my pictures onto my computer, you'll see a few photos of deer.

Oh, lunch!  Muppet and I ate souffles for lunch yesterday.  Thanks to my sister.  Not my oldest sister.  She couldn't have possibly prepared food for us since she was visiting her friend the same day.  The funny thing is that both of our friends are short and I think they are almost the same height...But I think Muppet is an inch taller.

Well, I have things to do and read and say besides this blog.  So Adios kitty-os

ABC's (Anne burrell, Braces, Cosmo)

Hello little kitties!  Little kitties everywhere!!  In two weeks I get to say adios to my braces, so...  It was fun.  And I mean that in the sarcastic way because the technician put this yellow playdough like substance on a mouth shaped palate and made me bite down into it.  Afterwards, I had goop stuck all over my face that I was trying to scrub off with a paper towel.  You probably are curious as to what colors I chose for my retainer.  If they can do it, I'll have a purple retainer with pink hearts.  If not, I'll have pink spots.  I didn't want to have stripes because I knew if I did, I would probably choose black and white or red and white, and I didn't want white.  Or stripes.  My older sister has a translucent retainer that's light blue and purple...or was it pink...and my oldest sister has purple and orange checker board.

Later, I laid on the couch and watched much missed cable TV.  But it wasn't just HD channels I missed, it was watching Food Network and having a digital clock on the porch besides the one on my computer.  Sometimes it's a pain to shake the mouse, log on, and wait for the computer to load to know the time.  It's easier just to glance at the cable box.

I watched this new episode of Giada at home (Mozilla once again is annoying me; it thinks that Giada is not a word) in which she cooks for the prince and princess of England.  Or maybe prince/ss is capitalized.  Whatever.  Anyhow (now that I've stopped stalling), it was really funny watching her because she was so excited.  And then her friends made a cake of herself and I was cracking up watching her facial expressions.

Before that, I had watched Secrets of a Restaurant Chef (I think that's what it's called).  Anne Burrell is really funny on that show!  She just talks to her food.  It's hilarious more for me because it reminds me of the craziness I had in the kitchen with Muppet that one time we made brownies and came up with this one tune to the words, "Eating brownies with Jesus" (a phrase we didn't just invent invent but, indeed, perfected).  And then you can tell I start getting excited watching Food Network (well, TV in general) when I start interjecting things [like, "'Oh look!  I'm a shrimp!  Oh no! You're killing me!  Ahh!  I'm dead.' 'You were already dead, man!' 'Oh, I wouldn't know that, I'm missing my brain...Because somebody chopped it off' 'No offense, dude,but you never had a very big brain to begin with.'" (okay so I added to that some!  But I do start saying things like that.  Mostly the food just screams in agony when a top chef chops them up)]

Well, Cosmo just did the oddest thing.  She meowed at me twice and jumped onto the coffee table and flopped down on top of it.  Mostly it was odd because she, first of all, doesn't jump up that high usually; second of all,

(interrupts thought) I like this new song by this new artist called Holly Starr (why am I mentioning it?  Because the song is playing now so I can write the correct lyrics). The refrain goes like this:

You can have money

and cool friends

a ring on your left hand

but it's never gonna be enough

without love, without love

you can have a fast car

a mansion

and everyone's attention

but it's never gonna be enough

without love.

SUCH A CUTE SONG!!!  I'm good now.

second of all (starting again) Cosmo started meowing when this song started playing.  Kind of creepy.  Well, the song above, I only heard once (twice now) on the radio on the way home from my grandparent's house.  I loved it so much I made myself remember the artist and the time the song played so I could go home and see if she was on Jesus Freak Hideout.  To my dismay, she was not.  Probably too new.  Like Dara MacClean was (I think I spelled her name wrong).  But I don't like looking songs up on YouTube because I'm afraid maybe something else will pop up unexpectedly and scar my tender mind.

I think this blog post has gone on long enough...  Ah, the radio station is playing Francesca Battistelli!