Happy Tag

given to me by Ellie

Books that make me happy- these are mainly children's books. But that's fine. These are the most comforting.
Junonia by Kevin Henkes

A little girl goes to a beach house with her family, just like every year. It's her very favorite place, fairytaleish to her. But this year, some of her favorite people- other vacationers that arrive around the same time as her family- are missing due to weather and scheduling errors. New people, strangers, are there too. Naturally, this is very uncomfortable and disappointing for a ten year old who expects certain things from a yearly vacation. Some may say that this is a silly thing to be upset about, but I can tell you, this is exactly how I felt

Copy and paste

Artists and authors and scientists and mathematicians,
eaters of breakfast cereals, watchers of rain, criers of tears and shedders of blood
I welcome you all to Copy And Paste, in which I spew onto the screen the recent goings-on of my mind. Despite the magnificent introduction to this post, it is no where near as fancy or profound as you may have expected. Nay, I reckon it'll be pretty odd. It's just bits and pieces from my Notes app.
But the oddness is is what you're here for, isn't it?
HERE WE GOOOO!

Shout out to the kids who kept nose-picking well into the 4th grade and developed that "if I cover my nose with one hand I can pick freely with the other" technique.
Shout out to the kids who have since discovered that doesn't really work.

A lazy Tuesday afternoon

Preview:

"And old Johnny Dashwood was like "Oh shoot. Me ol daddys done dead and now I've got all this money on my hands, which I should totally give to my sisters and mommy 'cause I'm a kindly old dude. It really beats me why he couldn't have divided up the money so they and I could have equal parts and do just fine, but it's the 18th century, for god's sakes, we cant be fair to the womenfolk!"

It was rather hot yeaterday, but the somewhat comfortable sort of hot, not the "oh-dang-we're-stuck-in-a-pit-of-hell-I-think-my-eyebrows-got-singed-off!" sort of hot. In the afternoon it had cooled down enough to have an enjoyable time outside for any length of time. 

Ahem.

Well hello!!! Fancy seeing you here! What's that you say? I've been absent? Huh. Well.... I've been off on lovely 8th grade adventures. So I won't be boring you to death with the story of my week, I'll just bore you into a coma.

I read the hunger games! It was very much a page turner. In all honesty, I didn't like it. I refused to read the last few pages because I knew that katniss would not go home and see prim before the book ended. [actually, I may be wrong. I don't know, I didn't read the last pages!] The nastiness of the Capitol really bothered me. I just have a problem with things like that. I wouldn't finish Warriors: into the wild either because tiger claw is just too evil. It makes me winder why Voldemort didn't bother me. Its not the author I don't like , I think, because I read another series by Suzanne Collins that I enjoyed greatly. Gregor the Overlander is the first book, if you want it. So I think part of It is that I don't like the first person point of view (but Im writing in first person- how hypocritical is that?) Also, The hunger games didn't appeal to me because it's lack in magic. Now when I say magic Im not referring to the awesomeness factor of books, but the amazing, inexplicable happenings in the story. Like, actual magic. The hunger games is set in a futuristic, dystopian society. No magic. But in Gregor the overlamder, he travels to a forgotten land miles underground where humans ride on giant bats and are on the brink of war with giant rats. Magic. Harry Potter. Duh. Magic. The amulet of samarkand. Magic. The leviathan trilogy in an alternate WWI where people fly around in whales genetically modified to be blimps. Sort of magic.

one night I took a break from reading the hunger games. I went to wikipedia and wrote down all the cool things about uranium. I like wikipedia way too much. I hand the paper yo my buddy William, who is going to make a model of a uranium atom for science and he says "yeah I read that all on wikipedia last night." That makes two of us.

 Anyone else like wikipedia? Or science? 

So those were the vaguely interesting things that happened this week [Oh wait! I accidentally squirted mustard in my eye! the classic, stupid way- "why isn't any coming out?" *peers into bottle* I was laughing at myself too hard to notice if it hurt or not.]

Are you ready to get to the doll stuff? yeah, me too.

 I didn't play with my dolls all week and that made me sad. So today I decorated their room for christmas! Nope. no tree yet, just red paper and lights. not quiiiiiite done.

Just so you know this is not our christmas picture. I would look way better in my christmas picture. Thanks for that, Lilly.

I just love christmas lights.

Ok that was really short, compared to the hunger games opinions. To reward you for your trouble, I have a little something extra.

 Hey, readers of Gwyn's blog! Andie here. Im glad the 1/2 inch of frozen snow melted, but its still not dry or light enough for me to go outside and practice cartwheels after school. [hey Gwyn? when will you post something that actually happened this month? I just did, silly. *scrolls up* oh. thats from today, even! cool!]

 Why is it that i can balance my dolls on their heads better than their feet?

*sighs* I miss the roses.

Good night, everyone! 

With much love and doll enthusiasm,

Gwynnefar