My creepy neighbours....

I decided to hit the 'next blog button' at the top of my page to discover what other people were blogging about. Stop reading now if you don't witness my transformation into a troll.

Okay, you seem to have read this far. It took me two clicks to reach a blog named 'name not disclosed because I can't be stuffed remembering it' This blog, is what I guess I could call my neighbour, a blog two clicks down from mine. And it was shocking, quite hilarious really.

First off I come across this gem of a post:

At first, when I was reading I thought that they were joking around 'Bike rides with God!!' 

But they weren't.

The post continued to quote and reference the bible. Relating scriptures to things like grass, rocks, cracks in unused paths, people in cars as opposed to people on bikes. This guy had a full on spiritual journey on his bike! I'm pretty sure that God wasn't riding his bike, you know. He's not Santa, he probably gave his bike to Jesus. Who in turn came to earth and tried to baptize the bike by throwing it over some cliff. That holy bike still sits at the bottom of the ocean today.

Anyway I read the slightest little inklings of this post which included: 

'Everything in this world is going to try and keep you from staying on the narrow path to McDonalds. to get you to quit, to defeat you...to make you give up, buy a car, stop riding your bike, stop calling Jenny craig, stop passing on those french fries. . . . BUT Jesus says its going to be hard but oh so worth it! 

Let me stop here for a moment, and present you with a number of other things that Jesus (as found on google) claims  'hard but oh so worth it!' #1 being the topic most websites were about, getting less and less popular the higher the number:

- #8 Jesus suggests buying a solid shampoo bar - its hard (literally) but oh so worth it!

- #7 Keeping your head up (while swimming, I guess) - sometimes hard but oh so worth it!

- #6 Jesus advises to help your deb date look nice - sometimes hard but oh so worth it!

- #5 Jesus suggests creating a killer app - sometimes hard but oh so worth it!

- #4 Jesus' Guide to Marriage - sometimes hard but oh so worth it!

- #3 Jesus' Potty Training - sometimes hard but oh so worth it!

- #2 Jesus suggests 'Raise your Kids!' - sometimes hard but oh so worth it!

-  #1 Jesus suggests: Slim Down Detox Diet - sometimes hard but oh so worth it!

I think I'll have fun with my new neighbour (lucky they have no chance of actually finding my blog...) By the way I just discovered that his name is Jeff, his about section is very informaing. His name is pretty much all it can tell me. Well, that and .......

I'll be posting again soon, seeya.

I can't get my bloody bookshelf back!

I am very annoyed. Annoyed with the fact that I can't put a bookshelf at the bottom of my page. It is very irritating. So instead I've added a number of other cool gadgets - like the Hunger Games Widget, the two surveys down the side, a 'featured comments' thing down the bottom.

Also I was invited to be an editor on a website YAY! (well like, not an important one anyway. Just some random as I am)
So back to the point, I need to know when/what sort of widgets I should be putting in on the side. Anything special? I may put in some more countdown widgets (however these might be for books you don't know about ect)
Plus I have found out some devastating news - I WILL BE ON A SCHOOL TRIP WHEN THE HUNGER GAMES COMES OUT!

But the way, you can find a link to the official Hunger Games Teaser Trailer Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecmP1nrPk2I&fmt=22  

It isn't just for the US, anyone from any region can access youtube so YAY! Who's excited - I AM!!!
And so yes, I will be in France on the 23rd of March. But I have not given up hope. If I happen to be with my host family, on one of those days where we can go out and do anything then maybe...just maybe....the movie might be in english and over there, and I could go see it! However there would be subtitles which could get distracting (no way am I seeing dubbed) And I'll be off to check that in just a moment!

THE HUNGER GAMES

EXCITEMENT!!!!!!

Guess what - too late I'm going to tell you: THE HUNGER GAMES IS GOING TO BE A MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Heres the official teaser poster:

Isn't it amazing? Ok so the Hunger Games is a book series, which, by the way, is AWESOMELY amazing. It had me crying my eyes out and spending a whole day reading, only stopping when I got threats like 'your sister is going to eat your food if you don't get here this minute' so effectively I only stopped to eat, and sleep (and I only really slept cause it was necessary) 

By the way it only took me under about eight hours to finish it. 

BUT THATS NOT THE POINT!!!! The point is that now I've finished the whole series. So I googled to see if there was a movie - and there is - and its nearly done!!!! 

I am so excited. (you couldn't tell could you?) 

Anyway I am going to spend them remainder of my time jumping up and down trying to get people to read the damn thing. (By the way if YOU haven't read it, you should, its quite short (I made up the eight hours thing because I have some kind of lapse in time-memory-recall where I don't actually know how much time has passed without looking at a clock) and back to my point of READ IT, preferably before the movie comes out, movies tend to make people lazy)

Honestly this book got me like no other before it (and people I've read twilight, Harry Potter, The Mortal Instruments - also becoming a movie (but I hate the main character, Hunger Games is better), Vampire Academy, The Luxe, Inkheart, The divide) I was crying after the first chapter! The first people! 

So um, yeah, you should probably go and read that book...you know..if you can be bothered.......

IM SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!

Update: I just added a Hunger Games countdown widget. I find it quite hilarious that it keeps burning after the music bit. So if you are suddenly trapped in an awkward conversation/silence. Open up this blog and your awkward silences can be highlighted by this weird burning sound. Sorry if its annoying. But it was necessary. 

PS: There may be some other changes to the blog, but I'll be altering them after I post this so yeah.

Childhood Misadventures of Brother and I

YAY HAPPY 20th POST TO ME!

And now down to business.

When I was small, a prep or perhaps it began when I was even younger, my brother and I like to be 'mischievous' and sneak out at night. We'd been sent to bed, as you are when you are small. So we would 'spy crawl' down to un-neccassarily long hallway (ducking through sliding door and checking if the coast was clear) now the real problem (as my sister and I would discover countless times years later) is that in order to get to the kitchen (our destination) the door to the lounge must be open. If it is closed you clearly have to open it. Which makes noise, too much noise. Of course noise doesn't matter if the parentals are asleep.

But they weren't. In fact, on most of our 'missions' our parents always seemed to be awake. I think it increased the risk factor and made it way more fun. This particular time Mum and Dad were watching a movie, the door was slightly open, each 10 seconds we'd more the door a centimeter wider, untill we could slip through. I'm pretty sure the movie was titanic.

Brother and I hurried in, hiding behind the crouch, being the skillful ninjas we were, we didn't make a sound.














Bad picture, but you get the idea. From there we would sneak into the kitchen, steal a cup, locate the lolly (from memory I believe they were MnM's) hiding place and fill it up.

Then under the cover of night we'd leave, otherwise we'd act like those creepy children in movies (which we hadn't seen, it was all natural, we didn't know what we were doing) and hang around. climbing onto high benches and watching/staring (like stalkers) our parents.

I think they could kind of sense that we were there like a presence, lingering, a ghost hiding there....

Anyway, this would carry on, most of the time we were caught and sent back to bed, or we got bored and gave ourselves up. We had quite the obsession with sweet things. We used to get the sugar bowl and shove teaspoons of sugar into our mouths.

There was also this really tasty sweet stuff, I don't remember what it was called. Some sort of energizer name. Anyway it was a bright orange powder, probably the kind of stuff body builders put into water or something. The point was we really liked to eat it, it tasted like fizzy oranges, so as with the sugar we'd get a-hold of the tub and heap tea-spoons into our mouths. The parents did not approve 

One night my brother and I tried a different approach, I don't know how we pulled it off but we tried the 'wait until after closing hours' technique, like in those jewel heists where they wait in the toilets. Mind you we were like 5 and 6 years old so we did pretty well. At the time we had these:

(Now we have blinds) But the point was that we had such tiny bodies that we could wrap ourselves inside an opened one of these curtains and no one would be any the wiser. We had also pretended to go to bed beforehand (stuffing pillows and soft toys under our blankets, the hair was very realistic. By age 9 I was a pro at making fake-sleeping bodies)

Once everyone had left we got to work, getting to the kitchen, collecting spoons and shutting ourselves up in the pantry. We soon found the 'attempted to be hidden' orange powder stuff. We feasted.

Meanwhile the Dad re-entered the lounge-kitchen room and our uncle was with him.  Which we weren't too concerned about, although we had to turn the pantry light off (which was activated by the pantry door so we had to shut it) so we had not light but that was okay.

We whispered about our dad and uncle and watching them through the crack in the door. We had a few close calls where we thought the were going to open the cupboard (which is essentially what the pantry is, you can fit in one person, or in our case, two small children)

They went to watch the TV and just when we thought we'd gotten away with it my uncle was back:

He was very confused, he actually found it very hilarious (being my dads younger brother he would find it funny that his older brothers two 5/6 year old kids were playing tricks on him)

we were not so happy. Our plan was bust.

And we were sent to bed. Our family went through a number of those orange tubs. I don't really remember why or how we stopped getting them, I do remember though, at one point when I was in junior primary school. My brother hid a tub under the decking so that we could access it whenever we wanted, although his new partner in crime was that kid from next door. And I'd found I enjoy being the boss by partnering up with my younger sister. Who was also very fun because not only did she like stealing food and sneaking around. But she also like dolls.

Sometimes we did things in threes, sometimes my brother and I did things to my younger sister (before she joined up with us) But I'll write about that later.

I will post something good soon. But not yet.

Hi. I'm putting off biology homework which is due tomorrow by doing everything in my power to 'relevantly' put off a boring medial task. I've actually just got a lot of things I'd like to be doing instead of writing about genetics. Yet as the minutes tick by its less and less time I'll have to do the work. In a class where all I'll be doing is making paper lanterns like a good student who isn't paying attention.

For the record my paper lanterns are awesome. So here is my dilemma. I sit in my room like this...

Doing internet stuff as I do. Then off to the side I have my science book sitting there like a little beacon going "DUE TOMORROW DUE TOMORROW"

Then I turn back to my laptop which is going "FUNFUFUNFUNFUNFUNFUNFUNFUN"

and I randomly have Vogue on my beside table/drawers thingo going: 

And so yes.  I really should be getting onto that work. The thing is I can't find a pen. I also have amnesia and don't know where I left my school bag, which conveniently contains my workbook.

So anyway, I made this post, to say that my next post will be a lot more interesting. With more pictures. 

I also wanted to point out how accurate this picture  <---- was (by showing you a real photo):

Photo:

Ok, the drawing is a lot more colourful. ON the subject of art, I will finish this post with a painting I got into an exhibition (that sound so much fancier and formal-er when than it is) and I got a $25 encouragement award (don't worry, they don't keep the painting. I wouldn't give stuff away for $25)

Its better in real life because you can see all the oil textures an paintings in general look better in the flesh.

Seeya

The Yahoo! vs Google thing.

You know, I never really concerned myself with the whole "Yahoo! Vs Google" thing. That was until google rejected me because (Can't be bothered explaining so I shall use an extremely long tale instead)

Here, I'll tell you a story.

Once there were two little not-friends. Their names were Google and Yahoo!

Now, Google was born first and quickly got used to a life in the spotlight, outshining all the other search engines.  Then along came yahoo! with its colourful layout, over-joyful and jazzy font. Yahoo offered mail, news and a whole lot more.

Because of googles age it still maintained popularity, especially as there were people who needed immediate answers (and yahoo isn't exactly a search engine)

Then in 2009 I got a yahoo mail account. Because it was simple easy and I didn't want 'hotmail'

Then about a few weeks ago I used google to ask 'whats the best tracking system to check for hits on your website/s?' and google, loving itself and being 'completely modest' positions itself all over the first page.

So I clicked it. Turns out I needed a GOOGLE account to sign up for the free software. I felt discriminated against. It was cold. I was shut down. it went something like this:

I happily skipped over to the 'sign up for our free software desk' with 'I have yahoo email practically plastered to my forehead. Trust me google knew - see:

So anyway, my imaginary google desk clerk was like:

I was crushed. I bet that desk clerks office looks something like this:

So yes. I still don't have that software. All you stalkers can keep on stalking (pfft.. like I have stalkers! No randoms even read this blog!)

Good Bye. (Aren't I awesome! I totally just posted two nights in a row!) 

WITH INTERNET THERE IS EVERYTHING!

hi. Guess what. Today I had a day off school. I am still trying to come up with a valid reason. If truth be told I do have a valid reason: I took the day off because school is really boring on Monday's (and the rest of the week, except maybe fridays) and I wanted to use the right side of my brain (creative thinking) not the left (logic thinking) and so today I painted for about 7 hours straight. I was wearing my egyptian-poppykettle-like t-shirt, over my white t-shirt (that got ruined anyway), brown and blue glasses and a floral headband.

I looked something like this:

Of course, all my clothes were covered in paint, especially my jeans.

Anyway, now my feet really hurt from standing up that whole time. BUT IT WAS A GREAT USE OF TIME! an excellent educational day, it was relaxing and stress-free. Now I'm getting stressed again from the prospect of waking up tomorrow and going to school. God something is wrong with me.

Also the most important thing today - Just a few hours ago WE GOT INTERNET!. And by we I mean my family, duh if you read the information on my profile you'd gather that I still live at home.
When dad announced the internet, I just acted cool (because I was consumed with painting) but inside I was

Super. excited. So now I am doing all my good internet deeds. And at the same time trying to come up with a 'teacher approved valid reason' for being away. She was already highly skeptical about my last three excuses which included 'bad headaches' 'the flu' and 'headcold'

I got good old faithful:

To help me out, it gave me these wonderful excuses: (that I didn't make up myself)

-Theoretically, the class met at the appointed time. However, I adhere to the philosophy of solipsism, and therefore since I was not in class, for the the class had no subjective reality to it. Since the damn thing wasn't real, can you honestly be so bold as to say I should have attended it? Don't you think that's a little high and mighty of you?




- MTV was running a Spice- girls marathon, and I had to lift my T.V. out of the window all by myself. 


-No really I was here, I was just hiding. under my invisible jacket.


-Dear Miss: If I came to school today, I would have killed you. I stayed home for your sake, really. 


- I just killed my neighbor, so I have a few legal things to take care of. 


- My neck broke as I tripped over the obese kids that were playing in the mud pool in their backyard


- My sea monkeys died, I'm too depressed to come in. 


- Spontaneous Combustion.


-I thought I was getting a tension headache, by the afternoon I remembered I had my headband on. It was too late to come to school by then. 


-Personal reasons. (Said in a concerned tone of voice - discourages any further questions, assuming your teacher has even a grain of emotion.) Mine probably doesn't! Bam!


- I hit some crazy woman's dog and she stole my homework and beat me up.


- I had the most disturbing and contagious case of Death. *cough*


-My cat was lonely


- I have a 24 hour tumor


- The dog ate our car


- The dog ate my brain


- The dog exploded


- Bill gates ate the dog.


I think I'll go with the last one (it'll really catch her off guard) 


Update: Just discovered that Mum already rang the school. Yes! Now for more internet surfing!