Six Little Curly Fries: June 2011

Thursday, June 30, 2011

It's Virgil's BIRFDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Today (this very day) is Virgil's (our very own Virgil's) BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was decided earlier that we would leave the site as is (you know, Potter festivities are sort of Virgil's thing) but there will be a new picture (possibly banner) going up soon. AAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VIRGIL!!!!! We all love you sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much!!!!!!!!! I miss you loads and just reading about reading camp made me feel like I like I was reading about some amazing person that I could only dream of meeting. BUT GUESS WHAT? I actually know you!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gah!!!! You just make me wanna bounce up and down. Especially since it's your birthday. I bought you a special present, too (just letting you know). GAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was telling all my friends at school today that one of my best friends' birthday is today and they sort of stared at me. I DON'T CARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay. Have an awesome day.

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The rest of this post is back to normal Momo:

So, as I have already announced many times, I am in Germanland. Last week was such horrible weather (cold and rainy and gray) but, luckily, things have cleared up. Just in time for school. Bah.

School has been great so far. All the kids (all girls except for 5 boys) are SUPER nice. They all ask me questions like, "What are pilgrims?" and "Are there really cheerleaders?" which normally continues as " Wait, wait, wait. Like, they're real?!?" and I laugh and nod. And then they ask me, "Do you really have the same classes every day?" and I nod and they almost faint.

They are so funny.

It's also lovely because I know most of the stuff that they are doing since we're already done with school.

I love how esily impressed everyone is. I went to band yesterday and sight read music from "West Side Story" and they were all astounded.

I also love the teachers. They barely ever give homework and they are so interested with me. The Latin teacher found it astounding when I told him (and the class. Whenever I talk to a teacher, it becomes really quiet) that I translated Latin into English which I then translate into German.

I just love everything here.

I love the scheduling most of all, though. Every day is a different set of classes starting at 8:00 and going (normally) until 1:00. Some days, like Tuesday, for example, start and hour later. Some days, like today, go until 1:00 with an hour break and then continue until four. But the bestest of all are the days, like tomorrow, that start at 8:00 and end around 10:00.

I really do miss all of you, though. I hope you are all having fun, productive summers!!! :)

Happy birthday, Virgil!!!!!

Secret Message? Blah. Don't feel in the mood.

Love,

Momo

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Book Tuesday!!!! (I'm Old Gregg!!!)

<< VERY IMPORTANT UPDATE THAT ALSO INVOLVES BOOKS!!!
JOHN GREEN HAS ANNOUNCED THE TITLE OF HIS NEW NOVEL, "THE FAULT IN OUR STARS"!!!!
AND HE'S SIGNING ALL OF THE PREORDER COPIES!!!
I MADE A COVER AND POSTED IT IN YOUR PANTS, HERE IT IS:

THAT IS ALL. CONTINUE READING THE POST AS USUAL.

Today, I am going to talk about books. But before I do that, I have to get something off my chest.

16 DAYS UNTIL HARRY POTTER
**HYPERVENTILATES**
OH MY ROWLING
HOW DID THIS HAPPEN
HARRY POTTER SHALL NEVER ENDDD
**dies**

Okay, okay. I'll try to breathe normally. But while I'm on the topic of OMG HARRY POTTER, I'm going to talk about Pottermore. OH WAIT. There isn't anything to talk about because nobody has any idea what Pottermore is!! Grrr >.< That announcement video was so vague. She just went up and was like, "This is going to be a brand-new online experience internet thingy that has something to do with the eBooks and you're all going to love it and OMG LOOK THERE'S AN OWL GO FOLLOW IT!!!" I'm not saying that I'm not excited to find out more, because I'm really pumped for whatever Jo is throwing at us. I'm just annoyed because the way it's presented, it makes it look like the whole thing is explained, when really it just raises more questions about what this thing really is.
I just hope it doesn't cost money.

Go watch Alex Day's video "What the f-ck is Pottermore?" on YouTube. He agrees with me.

Okay, now I'll move onto the actual post. First things first: theme song time!!
La la la la, la la la la, Virgil's world! La la la la, la la la la, Virgil's world! Virgil loves Reading Camp, and APUSH too! That's Virgil's worrrllddd!!!

I have a lot to talk about, but all of the various subjects are related because they all involve BOOKS!!

NUMBER ONE:
I am reading A LOT of books right now. I don't even know how this happened. I'll list them in no particular order:
Shipbreaker Paolo Bacigalupi - okay, I actually just finished this one the other day, so it's not really current. It was recommended by Hank Green in a video a few months ago and I just got around to reading it. A bit more YA-ish than I normally prefer, but it was really good and had some really interesting world-building.
The Moses Quest by Will Adams - really good so far, but I've just started it, so I haven't formed an opinion yet.
Academ's Fury by Jim Butcher - The second book in a series called "The Codex Alera." JIMBUTCHERJIMBUTCHERJIMBUTCHER AHHHHHH
Thirteen Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson - I've never read any of her stuff before, so I found this and started it, but then I kind of put it down and didn't pick it up again. But I'm still technically in the middle of reading it, and I still plan on finishing it. Eventually.
The Aeneid by Me - just rereading my own work. You know how it is. Always room for improvement!
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose - it's just so totally awesome that she's a writer and her last name is "Prose." That just blows my mind.
I Am America (And So Can You) by Stephen Colbert - I love this guy. He's hilarious. And totally not a liberal... ;)
The American Pageant - lol no comment. I finished the first chapter today!!

NUMBER TWO:
Reading Camp was amazing!!! My kids were great, and they all improved so much! It's awesome to see how much of a difference a little bit of one-on-one attention can do for a kid's reading skills, and also just overall confidence. They all grew so much over the course of one week, and I am so proud. It was really hard work, and I got no sleep at all, and one of my campers wet the bed and I had to do the laundry which was NOT FUN, and I got eaten alive by mosquitoes, but everything was worth it. I also bonded with the other counselors. We had a blast during our time off (which was like 9:30 pm onwards every night) and we spent the wee hours of the morning watching YouTube videos, eating junk food, giving each other straddle-massages (because any sense of decency disappears when you're at camp), attempting to free-draw maps of Africa, and playing Connect Four.

I love Reading Camp. :)

Have any of you seen the YouTube video called Old Gregg? Don't look it up. This is a cult that you DON'T want to be in.
At first I thought it was a sea anemone... the second half of this quote isn't appropriate for the 6LCF blog

NOO DON'T GO LOOK IT UP ON YOUTUBE IT'LL SCAR YOU FOR LIFE I SWEAR!!!
do it.
NUMBER THREE:
I swear I had a number three, but now I've forgotten what it was.

Okay, that is all.

Best wishes!
Virgil

Monday, June 27, 2011

cough...you didn't see nothin', honest!

Hello!

It's Monday...as I type. Yep, it's Monday.

So...

Virgil dearest's birthday is coming up very soon. It's June 30th, this FRIDAY!!!

Guess what else???? :D

JULY 15TH!!! JULY 15TH!!!

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JULY 15TH!!! JULY 15TH!!!

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JULY 15TH!!!JULY 15TH!!!JULY 15TH!!!JULY 15TH!!!

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JULY 15TH!!! JULY 15TH!!

JULY 15TH!!! JULY 15TH!!!

JULY 15TH!!!

PART 2!!! (that woulda taken too long)

On a sadder more annoying note, I'm sick. Grrrrr...*cough* *clutches head* The phlegmy cough followed by a pounding headache. *sigh* It's annoying because it's summer, and I've got a cold. Not to mention, it's a rainy and gray summer so far. It feels like LONDON (though I can't be sure, as I've never gone to London).

On a happier note, Momo's in Germanland, in school, learnin' in German, and teaching other chilluns about balancing equations...WHICH I NO LONGER HAVE TO DO!!! (the balancing equations...I don't know much German, my vocab includes "Guten morgen" <--spelling?, and "Gseundheit" <--I know I spelled that wrong. In fact, I'm not sure if "Gseundheit" is German. I know it's not French. "Ah-tesu-wey" is French...erm, not the spelling though...)

Have a great life,

Lynda

P.S.I'm going back to Lynda. Kat's just too...non-Lynda >.< It's so confusiiiiinnngg....

Sunday, June 26, 2011

summer summer summer and APUSH

Hullo.

House is on vacation, chillaxing on the East Coast. Personally, I think Lord Buddha got the coordinates wrong when He dropped me off in Hefei, China; I was supposed to have been born either in London, Paris, or Boston. But that's okay. The squinty eye thing is pretty swag.

At the moment, I've got a lovely view of the bay; the room smells of saltwater; the neighbors are taking their dogs for rides around in golf carts. The kitchen is stocked with so. much. food. I like totally love it here :) {The kids that live here just got out of school! Like, omg. They have to make up so many days for snow and heat and other days off, so their schoolyear extends like wayyy far. Mental.}

On the drive over here (12 freakin hours), I was like totally determined to get ~~all~~ ~~most~~ some of my APUSH homework done. So far, I have 1/2 the Chapter One vocab completed ^.^"(However, I did totally finish this online health course thing we have to do {in exchange for slaving away in a boring classroom for one whole wasted semester}! yayyy. now I just have to take the final... [Fun fact: Today is International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.])

Anyway. Sorry, guys. I don't have much time to type, since I'm supposed to be getting ready to go to my grandparents' 56 {zomg} anniversary dinner.

Bai! Hope all of you guys are enjoying summer :)
With all due respect,
House.

Saturday, June 25, 2011

I have a couple secret obsessions...

Woot woot. Carrie has decided to add a little theme to her post today: SECRET OBSESSIONS!! I actually have quite a few... heh. heh.

Also, before I begin, I found a horcrux, but since I'm not on my normal computer (and won't be until July 4th) I can't post the screen shot I made. :/ BUT I FOUND ONE! I'll hopefully post it later. :)

Anyway, onto the obsessions...

1) Home furnishings: Well, I suppose we'll start with the strangest ones first. I absolutely love home furnishings. I don't care what kind of house I live in, as long as the inside is beautiful. See, it all started when my mom and I began going to Pier One Imports to purchase new napkins. They have this HUGE wall full of pillows, and for those who know me, I LOVE pillows. With a burning passion. I just think pillows are amazing. They're so fluffy. :3 Anyways, back to the story... I decided to drift away from my mom to look at all the pretty mirrors in the back and all the pillows on the wall and all the nice sample table settings they have up. I then decided that the one thing, if anything, in life that I absolutely wanted was a beautifully furnished house. Even if I end up living in an apartment, or even a shack, it would be beautifully furnished. I just adore home furnishings. I would have the nicest tasting parties (and all the 6LCFs would be invited, of course) and I just imagine everybody complimenting me on how beautiful my home is. That, and I think it would just feel so nice coming home to something that you love seeing and admiring. I also think it would set a nice impression on those who meet me. They do say that you can tell a lot about a person on what their home looks like... or something like that, or maybe I just made that up. Oh well, that's really just why I love home furnishings and how they ended up as one of my secret obsessions.

2) Techno/ Dubstep: I suppose that most of you are familiar with at least one of the prior said music genres? I also suppose that most of the most who are familiar are more familiar with techno and not dubstep? If you have not heard of dubstep and enjoy techno to a certain extent, I would suggest looking it up on Youtube or something of the sort (I would personally suggest Tetris by Doctor P). If you don't particularly likie techno, don't look into dubstep, unless of course you're curious. Then by all means go ahead. :) Anyway, I just really like techno and music like that. It's the kind of music I love listening to when I'm either really happy or hyper. It just makes me want to get up and dance! Sometimes, I don't understand people who don't like that type of music, but then again I do understand if it's just not their preference. Yeah, that's about it for that...

3) Car shows: Okay, this one was probably a little bit unexpected. I love car shows. My grandparents would always take me to at least one every year since I was super little. I've just grown up with them. In fact, I just went to one today. :) My grandpa brought and entered his '66 Cadillac Eldorado. It's a beautiful car. I had a lovely time. I just think older cars and car shows are always so interesting. You always learn something new, and oddly enough, it's just become part of my lifestyle. :)

4) Raisinets: Did I spell that correctly? I love them, but I can't spell them. :P I think it's really ironic since I hate normal raisins, but I could just eat Raisinets all day long. I think they taste like chocolate covered gummy bears. :3 I just think they're delicious. Especially the dark chocolate ones. Mmmmmm... Anyway, I'm just gonna move on before I make myself too hungry.

Huh, I actually thinks that's it. Wow. I thought I had more secret obsessions than that. :P Oh well, I think it's enough either way.

Today was kind of my first official day of summer. The only unfortunate part was that I had to wake up at 6. One whole hour earlier than I've already been waking up for the past 2 weeks. -.-" meehhhh. Luckily, tomorrow I can sleep in. [Insert happy dance here.] I was just sooo exhausted by the time I got home, I took a nap. I have the feeling that naps might become some of my best friends this summer...

Phew! That was a lot of typing! It was worth it. :D Hope y'all had fun learning a little more about me.
DFTBA!!! ♥

Smiles, hugs, and lots of love,
Carrie

Friday, June 24, 2011

I just got braces for the second time. FML.

My mother, in her apparently neverending quest to make my teeth perfect,decided on the day I was supposed to get my braces off that, oh no wait a minute, how about we get four of your teeth pulled so that those silly top teeth won't be sticking out quite so badly, hm?

DO NOT WANT DO NOT WANT DO NOT WANT DO NOT WANT. D:

But arguing was useless, and so it was decided (entirely by my mother, I might add) that my teeth were going to be pulled. She went to some dentist she's apparently friends with (I have never seen that dentist previously in my life) and got said dentist to be all, "Honey, your teeth are sticking out so much that you cant close your mouth properly; see, look, your teeth are pushing your lips outward! Let's pull them out so that you won't regret it later~*"

Might I add at this point that at the time of the visit, I had only gotten half my braces off for about a week? Thus, I had a) half a centimeter of metal and wire still cemented to my bottom teeth and b) only had a week to adjust to not having the aforementioned amount of metal and wire cemented in a similar manner to my top teeth? It's having braces that makes my mouth difficult to close, and it's not like I'd had any time to get used to my newly-stripped teeth; my lips hadn't adjusted to the gap yet.

In fact, after I got the braces put back onto my top teeth today (I really am annoyed by my mother sometimes), it's become actually consciously difficult for me to fully close my mouth again. So now I look like an idiot, and I'll continue to look like an idiot through a good portion of stupid high school because of the stupid dentist and my stupid mother** (what's sad is that the orthodontist is the only one at least partly on my side >.<) and their stupid tooth-pulling schemes.

(This place is reserved for capslock expletives that, for the sake of family friendliness, never made it onto the post.)

Anyway. Speaking of putting on the braces again (have I mentioned that I really am annoyed by my mother sometimes?), I had to sit (no, wait, it wasn't sitting, oh no, it was lying down at an uncomfortable angle so that the back of my head was completely numb) with my mouth stretched (uncomfortably!) open while people poked metal things in my mouth and sucked all the moisture out of it at the same time. So by the end of it, my tongue was completely dried out, I had an awful taste in the back of my throat from I-don't-know-what, the back of my head felt really weird, my mouth hurt, I had another pointy half-centimeter of metal and wire stuck once again on my teeth, and my mouth couldn't close properly.

And hey, guess what? NONE OF IT HAS GONE AWAY.

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*And then, of course, she went on to relate horror stories about people who didn't want to pull teeth when they were teenagers and then had to foot the bill for major oral surgery later; etc, etc.

**Okay, fine, she's not stupid and I really do love her and every decision she makes is for my own good. I know. But sometimes I need to vent, alright?

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Guten Morgen, 6LCF!!!

Hello, my dearest darlings! <-- Don't know why I said that...

I write to you from Germany, where I am, for the next 6-ish weeks, residing. How is life over there in the U. S. of A.? It's been rather rainy here, but yesterday and the day before were both warm enough for us to be outside. Then it started to rain again. BUT! It was so sunny while it was raining that we saw not one, not three, but 2 whole rainbows. AT THE SAME TIME!!!! So, yeah. It was pretty hard core. All dem rainbows up in da sky.

Hee hee! I just realized that even though I'm writing this at 8:00 in the morning here, it's only 2:00 in the morning there. I can almost sense House staring through the darkness into the depths of her computer screen whereas here, there is bright sun-light streaming through my window.

I have noticed an issue that has occurred several times. Communication. It seems that we have had a few problems (especially recently) with communication. It seems that some of us don't always read all of the posts and/or comments. That's fine, I guess. I think we should make sure that whatever goes on in the comments/posts (if it's important) should also go on Facebook or be somehow communicated otherwise.

That is all.:)

Also, we have only found five of the now 8 horcruxes (it seems that a certain xiy might be in league with Voldemort and created an 8th horcrux that Lynda found). I already posted 2. I think that maybe, if possible, Lynda should have to find another horcrux and Carrie still has yet to find one. That's okay. Not everyone can be as perfect, amazing, cool, or wonderful as a Hufflepuff. Remember, if all the horcruxes are not found in time, we shall all perish. :(

That's all I have ~~effort~~ time for.

xiy and I both had all the horcruxes found last week, yo. I was first, though. :D

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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

I'm at reading camp right now... POST FROM DA PAST!!

ALSDJHASKFJH it accidentally posted anyway.
This is weird, because it says "Tuesday, June 21" on the date up there ^^ but IT'S A LIEE!!!

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Hey, guys!! I'm at Reading Camp right now, having loads of fun with books and stuff :) yay! I wrote this on Saturday and set it to go up on Tuesday - hopefully it works.

Since last week I kinda forgot to do the theme, I figured I'd write-up a "childhood fears" post for ya'll.

First of all, theme song!!! (So that you'll believe it's the REAL ME.)
La la la la, la la la la, Virgil's world! La la la la, la la la la, Virgil's world! Virgil loves Reading Camp and YouTube too! That's Virgil's wooorrrrrllldd.

[By the way, this is probably going to be the last post for quite a few weeks from me that isn't completely OMG OMG OMG HARRY POTTER!!!]

Okay, so... childhood fears.
I had a very inventive mind as a child. I still have quite the imagination, but when I was little, I wasn't quite as good at distinguishing the imaginary things from the real things. (I still occasionally have trouble with that. Every once in a while, someone looks me in the eye and tells me that Hogwarts isn't real, and I die a little bit inside. Except now it actually is real - in Orlando, Florida! ^_^ )

Okay, so first of all, let's go over the definition of the word "doldrums." It can either mean a) a period of depression or b) a region of the ocean where there's no wind. There's your little vocabulary lesson. THIS IS HOW IT RELATES TO CHILDHOOD FEARS: when I was young, maybe like five or six, I must have heard that word somewhere and made up my own definition; in my head, that was the name of the place where the evil monsters came from. And they were VERY VERY EVIL. They came at night.

I HEARD THEM COMING.
You know when it gets really quiet when you're about to go to sleep and you can sort of hear the blood pounding in your ears?
THAT'S THEIR FOOTSTEPS!!!

They were the Doldrum Monsters. They were mean, they were scary, and they came every evening to eat every child who wasn't asleep in bed by 8:00. I would shut my eyes tight and hold Pooh Bear close and pray to Santa Clause for protection, but there was always a risk. The time at which they came inexplicably got later as I got older - maybe they were in league with my parents and knew what time I had to be in bed!!

And then after 9/11 happened, I was really freaked out (long story) and somehow convinced myself that the Doldrum Monsters would always come at 9:11.

So, yeah. That's my little story.

In other news, my comment is at the top of a YouTube video for like the first time ever. I feel famous.Check it out:
(You have to click into YouTube to see the comments, but also watch the video because it's hilarious. I love HorribleFiction!)

(I'm naginitheawesome)

Okay, that's about it.

DFTBA & Love,
Virgil

Monday, June 20, 2011

In the darkness...

Hello!

I didn't realize it was a theme week last week, so here's ma theme thing...

When I was a young child, I had a great fear of the dark. Not so much as the dark, as what could be in the dark. I was also terrified of being in the dark...alone. *shiver* I still have that fear. So anyways, one night, after I had watched a horror film that day, (DURING THE DAY-I never watch horror films at night. Never.) my parents mentioned that they needed to go to the lab and do something (some strange acronym-y thing that was science-y). I didn't realize that they meant, that night, in fact, I thought they were just thinking about it, for the next day. BUT THEY MEANT THAT NIGHT!!! So they left me. Little Kat, at home, in the darkness of the night...

This is me, innocently playing with my stuffed bunny, "Rabbie"...notice my parents sneaking off in the background?

As I was sitting there, quite happy, playing with Rabbie (okay, so it's not that inventive of a name, but I still love Rabbie), I heard a door slam. Investigating it, I found that both my parents were gone (this is before I had siblings), and then I started freaking out. The only light on was the one in the living room, where I was, and everything else was dark. My only option to hide from the murderers (influence from the horror film) was to turn off all the lights. Otherwise, it'd be like spotlighting where I was, and then they could see me. I wouldn't be able to see them skulking in the darkness...but they could see me.

THEY COULD SEE ME

So...I curled up into a ball, and didn't move. I kept on the ground, in the middle of the room, because that was open ground, and I could run if need be. Also, moving wasn't an option. THEY WOULD HEAR ME.

That's little Kat...terrified

I stayed like that for the longest time...it felt like 10 years had gone by...

Then my mom and dad came home.

I was SAVED.

They were completely shocked to see all the lights off, and their little daughter, crouching in the middle of the living room, looking like she was mad/crazy, with near bloodshot eyes (I didn't blink...they could feel me moving).

This happened...oh, every time my parents needed to do something at night...

It got worse when I saw my first...thing.

Yes, that thing.

So now, instead of just murderers, which is one thing (I mean, when you get killed, whatevs, right?), there were things. Things that could....*shudder*

As I got older, I progressed. Instead of crouching in the middle of the room, in the utter darkness with a stuffed rabbit named Rabbie...

With a much improved hairstyle, too!

I crouch in the darkness with a stainless steel frying pan, with non-stick coating, and a 30-year warranty. The warranty is helpful, just in case I accidentally crack it when hitting murderers and nasty things.

In the daylight, however, my fear of things is much worse than murderers ('cuz obviously murderers don't attack you in bright daylight). And in daylight, I do not crouch in the middle of the room (or park, classroom, car, etc.). Instead, I jump away from the thing. Grab the person nearest to me. And start screaming. "KILL IT! KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

And that is how I have matured. :)
Happy Monday!
<3,

Kat

Sunday, June 19, 2011

slytherins can find things, too.

{*cue Hank Green's "Fathers of the Founding Fathers"*}

To the dads of the 6LCF/the dad of anyone reading this/YOU, if you are a dad:

Happy Father's Day!!! <3

You guys definitely deserve a day to be recognized.

Thank you so much for being so very awesome (and raising such awesome kids) :]

We hope today that you celebrated accordingly ^.^

Yay, summer!!! Ahh, we're on break! Yay :D
Okay. Now that formalities are out of the way...
So, my post from last week technically counts as my childhood fear.
However.
I was a rather, um, emotional child, and I had a lot of fears. And when I went digging through my old files for a picture I drew a little while ago for no apparent reason, I found this:

The year is divided into two seasons for me: PINK sweatpants time (fall/winter) and not sweatpants time (summer/spring)

Okay, for you, they all probably make enough sense except for the jellyfish.
I just don't like jellyfish, okay?
When I was little, roaming the beaches of the East Coast, I spotted a bubble of saltwater sitting in the middle of the sand. I was like, "Oh, how fun! A bubble of water! Hooray!! :D :D :D <3 " But then I poked it AND IT WAS A WASHED-UP JELLYFISH AND IT WAS HORRIBLE. >.<

So now I get all twitchy and paranoid if I'm walking barefooted on a beach.
*shivers*
Let's move on.

I found a horcrux! Even though I'm not in the ~~nonexistent~~ ~~ridiculous~~ special ~~Huffle~~Jigglypuff House, I managed to summon (lol, accio) up the necessary brain cell to **find** something.

WHATEVER YOU SEARCH IS NOW A LIE

I plan to send this horcrux and a letter asking how this happened to both JK Rowling and the people at Google. When things this large and important to the world turn out to be corrupt and evil, ~~it's called politics~~ it might be wise to have large, important people aware of the problem that needs to be addressed.
Or I might just ring up my homeskillet Voldemort and ask him to pretty please with a tortured muggle on top to undid this doodle.

*sighs* Time to do summer homework. Bai!

With all due respect,
House.

Friday, June 17, 2011

Horcruxes #1 + #2 + #3 + #4

Have no fear, Curly Fries! I, Momo, have already found not one, not three, but 2 horcruxes.

Now I have to find a way to destroy them both .

I don't happen to have a basilisk venom or the sword of Gryffindor or Fiendfire* on hand ...

Instead, I will use a Killing Curse. There's not much else to say about that.

I don't think I'm allowed to find anymore Horcruxes. :( Oh well.

Also, our magical cloud of tags is also a Horcrux. ~~I'm too lazy to take a screenshot, but it's ther~~e.
Nevermind, here you go (I have had to do this three times today. Blogger is being silly):

I shall kill it by way of basilisk fang to the metaphorical heart.

Ooh! I found one! (and another one/2/3...but I'll let y'all find the rest)

Note from Voldemort: this is what I would call an "accidental Horcrux" and if you guys are including this in your hunt, then there are actually 8 total.

As Momo is banned from Fiendfyre, I shall use it, and BURN IT! lol...I saw the HP7-IT ALL ENDS HERE thing, and I started to hyperventilate and stuff....G'luck on finding the rest, I found 5...have to find the rest :)

-Momo, with help from xiy, and assistance from ~~Lynda~~ Kat

I found another Horcrux while writing this post. That is a hint btw. Gahh!!! I found another one!!!!!!!On the right cough cough. I can't help it; I'm a Hufflepuff. I'm getting off this site before I find too many more.

*a note from xiy: Keep looking on the right side! Even the last Horcrux can be found on the right, if you do it correctly. [And also there's a kind of cheating way to do it, but I hope you all don't have to resort to such dirty tactics!]

*Lynda says I can't play with fire anymore. I'm just assuming the same applies with magical fire.

so you're all going to laugh at me, but. . .

(This is only one of xiy's numerous strange and not-exactly-a-fear-but-holy-crap-it-made-sleeping-difficult childhood terrors.)

And also: PLEASE DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU HAVE READ HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS. I IMAGINE THAT MOST OF YOU READING THIS EITHER HAVE ALREADY READ THE BOOK OR OTHERWISE DO NOT CARE, BUT I GUESS A SPOILER WARNING IS NECESSARY?

When I was a smallish child, I was scared of a lot of things, and all these things could best be termed as "unknown things lurking in the dark." When I was a smallish child, I also enjoyed reading voraciously, since I had no other social life outside of perhaps school.

Thus, I read the first HP book in second grade (which seems relatively late compared to most of you) and it wasn't so terribly awful, though the whole Forbidden Forest thing creeped me out to no end afterward. And then I got it into my head to read the Chamber of Secrets, which turned out to be a very bad idea.

GAHHH.

Because, you see, in that book, there is a) mysterious almost-murder, b) snakes, c) loads of mysterious "KILL THEM ALL RAWR" messages, d) blood, e) tramps through the Forbidden Forest (and it wasn't so much Aragog that scared me as just the freakin' creepiness of a dark forest in the middle of the night), f) a BASILISK, g) scary possessing Horcrux-diaries; and apparently that was a bit too much for my eight-year-old brain to handle.

I started out innocently enough:


"Is a book? Ooh, book! I will read the book!"

And, really, I didn't mind the mysterious creepiness of the book so much until our dear protagonist(s) were treated to Riddle's creepy Horcrux-diary and then Hermione was all, "OMG BASILISK." Because then there was the whole "her skeleton will lie in the Chamber forever" that scared me so badly (and it still is vaguely unsettling now, even when I know the ending), and let me tell you that the whole Moaning Myrtle revelation (I don't know why; it was just creepy) and also Harry entering the Chamber was possibly the scariest thing I had read in my short and tender life up until that point.

Yeah, that was kind of my reaction.

And then, if that weren't bad enough, the basilisk coming out of Slytherin's mouth and Tom Riddle being all, "YARR* I BE VOLDEMORT MWAHAHAHA" scared me in that sort of morbid way that made me want to keep reading on. So this was kind of how the whole process went:

>.< (The basilisk was fun to draw, though.)

And then I basically spent the next few nights in mortal terror of giant, slithery, blood-crazed Slytherinian (is that the adjective form of 'Slytherin'?) monsters coming out through my walls to kill me.

Yeah. asjhasdfjkgdfashdf

Because it's not like I'm afraid of snakes, even. I think what scared me is just the fact that there could be one lurking somewhere in the darkness, wanting to kill itself some little girl. :|

(Oh, and for some reason I ended up watching the movie not too soon after, I think. The horror of it is too great to be retold [and anyway, it was pretty much like the book experience but TEN TIMES WORSE.])

Now you can all point and laugh at the silly girl who was turned off of Harry Potter for years afterward because of the second book. (I would like to say here that the second book is still by far the creepiest for me, and I really don't know why.) Point and laugh.

xiy

*For some reason, I gave him a pirate voice. I do not know why.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Momo Has No Known Fears bam

Good day, countrymen, women, and scarecrows!!!!

I think some people *coughcoughVirgilandLynda/Kat* forgot that this week is a theme week. When House posted her post on Sunday about being afraid of bees, it was decided (either on Facebook or in the comments) that we would be having a theme week about our childhood fears.

You guys are so cute. You were afraid of things when you were little.

Well, let me tell you something. I do not know the meaning of fear nor have I ever experienced it.

I AM FREAKING PETER PAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [Peter Pan isn't afraid of anything, right?]

Anywho. I guess that maybe when I was, like, 2 months old or something, I might have feared....*runs and asks parents*.

Nope. They just confirmed it. My father says in these exact words that I was afraid of "nothing in particular. I can't remember any."

Ha. And you all thought that I was just being silly.

I guess, when you think about it, the closet going upstairs to my room is rather frightening. But only because I'm pretty sure a murderer lives in there.

It's a justifiable "fear".

*******

Once it's summer, you realize how incredibly boring and uneventful your life is. I've been trying to do at least one productive thing each day. For example: hanging out with other humans, cleaning my room, staring at the unfinished APUSH homework and willing it to do itself, feeding squirrels* (who now enjoy the comfort of my very own lap), writing lists about things that I may do, etc., etc..

*******

I just got a haircut. I have to go all Euro-retro so I fit in in Germanland. Well, actually, my hair was just getting long. Yeah.

I hope to hear about all of your childhood fears!

My sister also got her driver's license which means I now have 3 chauffeurs.

MOmo

*This is a 10 second clip of my dearest squirrel and me. :D

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

I went to the dentist today and they put pink stuff on my teeth.

So... it's been summer for a whole week. Yayy.

I don't have much to talk about. Uh, I've been working out a lot. And walking my neighbors' dog a lot. And I went shopping TWICE! (That's more times than I went shopping this entire school year!) And I bought a journal for the APUSH notes (haven't actually started the notes yet, though. I put my name on the journal - that counts for something!).

I auditioned for an orchestra, but I haven't found out if I got in yet.

Ummm.... I don't have much to write about. I miss you guys. We should have a get-together before Momo goes to Germanland.

Virgil

Oh P.S. I won't be able to post next week because I'll be at Reading Camp. I might remember to pre-write something and set it to post next Tuesday, but it's possible that I'll forget.

cough video...

OUR VIDEO IS UP! YAY! Watch the video, and then go and read Virgil's post. I'm trying to be sort of subtle with the post...so it's below Virgil's...you know, to not take away the spotlight and all...

Have fun watching and reading Virgil's post...

-Kat