Dramatic Scene.

I remember the smell of smoke. of burned bodies and blood.
i remember the bodies of millions of dead warriors,
who had rushed into battle without thinking, their only goal
to protect our kingdom.
i remember tears rolling down my cheeks, as i thought to myself,
"what is happening?" suddenly, my mother rushed toward me and picked me up, still running.
i tried to ask her what was going on, but she silenced me,
and tears began to fill her eyes.
she ran for miles, or so it seemed, until finally, she stopped.
she stood as still as a rock. looked left, then right,
and put me behind a bush, telling me to stay there, and be quiet.
i waited, obediently, until i heard a scream, the sound of a blade swishing through the air,
and then, blood. my mother's blood, Splattered across my face.
i looked down in horror, and sat there for a minute, in shock,
not believing what had just happened.
then i got up, and began walking back toward the kingdom,
being careful to tiptoe around my mother's body without looking.
i wanted my father. i wanted to bury my face in his shirt, and cry until
i didn't miss her anymore, but after hours of desperatly searching the castle top to bottom,
i found nothing. in despair, i curled up in a corner and cried.
someone heard me, and rushed toward my corner, picking me up and rocking me back and forth. i opened my eyes to find that it was my nanny, alana.
"wheres daddy?" i asked, tears still filling my eyes.
"i don't know." she said, still rocking me back and forth. "i don't know."

aaaand, scene!

Sardines & Cardinals.

hello! you will all be glad to hear that Owen's leg is expected to heal very soon.
he's standing now, not walking but standing, and can put some weight on his
casted leg. it no longer hurts at all, so he's taken to scooting around the house
instead of using his wheelchair.
anyway, let's talk about something relevant to the title.
first: Cardinals.
a long time ago my dad made a sort of bottomless cage
to keep plants in, so that the squirrels don't get them.
since then we have just kept it outside, not really doing anything with it.
today we were raking the backyard, when i saw a Cardinal stuck in the cage!
it was flying around, desperately trying to escape, and eventually got itself
caught in a hole in the cage, that, unfortunatly, wasn't big enough for it to get out.
so i ran to get my mom, using the back door because i thought it would be quicker.
turns out the door was locked and i had to ring the bell and knock on the door
for a very long time before mom would answer the door.
when she saw the cardinal she asked me to go get a pair of gloves, so i could hold the bird,
while she got something to cut it free. luckily though, it freed
itself from the hole by the time we got back, and was flying around the inside of the cage again.
and so it was as easy as lifting the cage.
it flew away without so much as a thank you, but it felt good to help a creature in need.
plus, i got to see a cardinal REALLY close up!
now, for sardines.
ever since my mom developed a taste for sardines, she has been nagging me to try them.
well today i finally did, and it turned out, if they're skinless and boneless,
and packed in water, although my mom says olive oil is better,
they look and taste just like tiny salmon! and that is how i developed a taste for sardines.
on one last note, i am writing a book for the NaNoWriMo young writers program.
so far, i have somewhere around 10,000 words. all i know is, it's more than ten thousand,
which is my word goal, and that is good.
bye for now! expect another post which is really just a dramatic scene i dreamed up in the car.

Tibia.

OMG PPL! owen is having the worst day. why? he broke his leg.
his tibia is fractured in two places. ouch. he was screaming his head off, but everyone thought it was twisted except me. <:( now he's laying on the couch playing video games. any movement puts his leg in pain, so we can't use the couch now. he has commented that his current condition makes him an easy target for cabin fever. rough. :-(

BUGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We have a lot of bugs in our house latley.
it started when my friend gave me a monarch caterpillar who i named simon. monarchs are my favorite!
then one day we discovered that there is a cricket in our backroom, who i named camren.
then, (this is funny, guys!) we went to the farmers market and on one of the cabbages we found the cocoon of a cabbage moth. they let us take home the leaf it was on. i named the cocoon sally.
finally, today when mom was watering the plants, she noticed a caterpillar on the parsley.
long story short, its a Black Swallowtail, (moms favorite!) whom i call selena.
also, i have a spider-plant outside called courtney, right? well today it sprouted a long stem
(roughly 24 inches) with pretty white flowers, some still budding. i'm starting to doubt that its a spider plant because i've never heard of them doing that. if you have, or if you know what kind of plant it is, please comment!!!!!!!

Words words and words.

Ok. today i showed my dad that i was reading 20,000 leauges under the sea,
and i told him i had found three new words for my collection (now with 217 words!)
so we started looking up pictures of wierd fish. (wait for it!)
but then my mom asked what a league was, and we looked it up. pretty soon, we were looking up interesting words and stuff on the internet. heres some pretty impressive ones.

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia which, ironically, is the fear of long words.

Floccinaucinihilipilification

Antidisestablishmentarianism

and, psuedofollicular.

but the longest word in the world, containing over 1,800 letters, is;

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one thing. does anyone here know what Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious means?
if you don't know, just make it up. either way, send it in as a comment so me, and other readers of this blog can see. thanks!

Bugs and Challah.

last night i had the wierdest dream.
i was trying to raise baby animals in a jar, see?
well actually, they were snails, and bugs called ravens that sting you. but then the raven bugs got out, and i chased them until i found this valley, full of talking animals in bunk beds. then, for some reason, the whole dream shifted to the topic of raisin challah.

Tape and feet.

hi hi hi! OMG i haven't posted in SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO long.
ok, well maybe i'm exaggerating just a little.
nah, probably not.
anyway, last month, or possibly earlier,
we were going to the park with my cousin nate. (and at the same time introducing him
to my friend K and her kids L A E and R.) so when we leave, we get in the car.
i'm sitting in the front to make room for owen and nate.
i try to shut the door, but it won't shut all the way. one more time,
and we realize it's broken. so i have to squeeze myself into the backseat while mom tapes
and ties the door shut. so we drive to the mechanics, drop off the car, and walk home.
also, while we were walking, owen (and possibly nate too) had his shirt pulled up over his head,
made up to look like a turban. why? we were stuck trekking the desert to get home
because our camel had a meltdown and had to be dropped off at the trainers.

another thing that happened:
recently i realized that my shoes had shrunk.
a quick examination showed that my feet are now bigger than mom's.
cool, huh?