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I dunno, they all look a lot more real than the one I’ve got…
Oooh man. Smashing windshields in a junkyard would be SO MUCH FUN. Dude… if you ever do that, you need to make a video and post it on YouTube! You could even make yourself a Witchking costume if you wanted to go all out. 😀
Oh, yes! I have a few wooden swords too… well, two shinais and a bokken. For kendo. ^_^ I really want to buy a nice katana.
Rusti wrote:drag0nfeathers wrote:Rusti wrote:ruffian wrote:umm ya we already covered mine
butterflies
and I cant have my food touch other food on my plate
Don’t feel too bad, my sister is scared to death of ticks and grandaddy longlegs.
AAACCK!!!! I’m not scared of ticks but I do loath them!!! We get tons of them around here in the summer!
Hee! But do you dance around and wail at someone to ‘get it off!’ instead of picking the tick off yourself?
I do that…
Ah… swords… so many… swords…
I want more swords! D: All I have is one cheapo sword and a cheapo dagger! Must… buy… swords. 8D~~~
That’s a fantastic collection. The morning star and the axe are awesome! I bet you could really clobber someone with those… Oww..
emerald212 wrote:starbreeze wrote:Chessapeaka wrote:I finally found a copy of Howl’s Moving Castle!
Let me know if you like it. I love Howl’s Moving Castle. Have you seen the movie? They changed the plot a bit for the movie, but the book and the movie are both very good.
I haven’t read the book, but the movie is very good. I enjoyed it a lot.
I saw the movie. It’s so beautiful… and I didn’t even realize it was a book until after I’d watched the movie.
I love Howl. Especially when he turned into goo. <3
Ok… that bunny flipped a circuit. I bet after this video was filmed it just fell over and had a heart attack or something.
… Then again, our bunny will chase chickens and cats whenever she has the opportunity–so maybe there is a mean streak in our cute lil bunnyrabbits!
SPark wrote:Dune is great! At least the original books, especially the first four. The later ones are okay, but the ones by his son suck, I think. But I love Children of Dune! I read it the first time when I was 12. I didn’t understand half of it, but I liked it anyhow.
Yeah! I’ve never been much for sci-fi, but Dune is great!
Wow… I love your ceiling! Putting stuff on the ceiling is something I’ve never been able to do, since I have a canopy bed, but the concept has always been very attractive to me. XD You have a LOT of stuff.
I’m reading Children of Dune. And I finally found a copy of Howl’s Moving Castle! And The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke was given to me for Christmas, so I’ll be reading that next. Omnomnomnom. Those are mostly kiddy books though… well, exept for Dune.
Hmm, I guess that doesn’t help you too much… Read Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman!
*Everyone should read Neverwhere! Read it, I say, read it! (commences to do wild dance of fanaticism) READ EEEET!!*
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ruffian wrote:Does anyone else wonder if someone at the factory is sitting there reading all this as we wait, stareing at the EmPea curls just to see what we will say next to keep occupied?
Ummm no comment.
Hey, like I said, there’s some good things about being homeschooled! But lately I HAVEN’T been finishing my work early, and I have the added pain in the butt of not having any social contact, either. *shrug* I know a lot of people hate/d highschool and would rather be/have been homeschooled… that’s their problem. They don’t know the PAIN. ( 😛 Kidding!) Anyways… Yeah, homeschool=twice as much freetime. That’s the good thing. Also, a flexible schedule. But what people don’t realize is that school is school no matter how you deal with it–there’s still the stress of learning stuff. Not ALL the suffering of public school comes from peer pressure! You still have your parents and yourself to deal with. (My parents are cool, but they suffer from “our children are angels” disease… which they usually will acknowledge, but.. eh… I don’t like having my ego stroked when its not deserved. It’s always made me squeamish.)
Besides, there’s also the “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” deal. Being homeschooled can sometimes pave the path TOO well.
SPark wrote:But homeschooling is a lot of effort! My mom tried it one year with us. It didn’t work out very well. We ended up doing nothing most of the time.
Lalala… what? … Schoolwork? What’s that…? I, uh, sorta have that problem too. >.> I usually end up doing all my schoolwork in very sporadic bursts throughout the day, avoiding it whenever I can.
But about phobias… I have a serious phobia of collard greens. LOOKING at them makes me want to upchuck. I also really hate it when people screech fingernails across chalkboards… but that’s a standard thing, I think. Hrrr.
I noticed some of you talking about homeschool in the phobia topic, and started to post there–only to realize that my rant had gotten, er, a bit long… and that I was dragging things off topic a bit too violently. 😆 So, as I am homeschooled, I thought I’d offer my own take on it.
My opinion on homeschooling is that it’s great for some kids and horrible for others. I hate it. My brother’s happier at home than at a public school–but I HATE HATE HATE being at home. I’m constantly worried about my education and stressing out over whether or not I’m doing as well as kids who have a ‘real’ teacher and go to ‘real’ classes. Also, I have extreme difficulties when it comes to concentration–there are sooo many distractions… and weirdly enough, I didn’t have that problem at all when I was in public school. And, speaking of distractions, I do miss the social aspect… being trapped in Hell with a bunch of sympathetic kids united against a common enemy just isn’t the same as being a girl scout. (Not that I ever was, but I’ve participated in a lot of extracurricular stuff.) Haha.
Anyway, sorry for the rant! I just go off on this subject a lot, because it annoys me somethin’ awful. My personal opinion is that it’s great to homeschool kids through middle school, but for high school and elementary, being in a classroom is important. Also, if you intend to homeschool through high school, be prepared to teach your student stuff that you don’t have a clue about… like precalculus. My mom is NO help whatsoever on the subject, and I’m left to flail around miserably by myself when it comes to being walked through an exercise–I have a precalc teacher that gives online lessons, but it’s not the same as having someone THERE standing over your shoulder as you work through something. Of course, if your kid is a whiz at math, this probably won’t be a problem. It just is for me ’cause I’m a doofus with anything that’s not English or History…
So anyway, that is my negative opinion of homeschooling. There are some great things about being at home, too, but in my case they don’t outweigh the bad. Or if they do, it’s not by much. And as I said, it works WONDERFULLY for some people.. and horribly for others. It just depends on the personality of your kid.
BiPolarBear wrote:I don’t know abotu taking down the float’s but I know helping decorater them is a blast! You get to see every float up close and personal. I’ve helped decorate many floats over a period of about four years. It was fun going to decorate the floats every year with my uncles, cousins, father, and sisters. Then they started making you pay for the privledge because it got to popular of an event. But I have some great memories. Like the time I was in about a hundred pictures because me and my dad were asigned to pick flowers off their stems in this flower room right near the line of tourists that pay to get an early view of the floats. Or watching big bird shed thousands of yellow petals as they tested him out for the first time fully decorated and then judged him for awards. The best thing was watching it on tv and looking for close ups of areas you personally decorated. The whole nation got to see my family’s patch of yellow roses one year it was great.
Wow, I didn’t know you ever did that! How cool! I always wondered how they managed to decorate all those things. Using volunteers is a natural way to deal with it though… but… making volunteers PAY means they aren’t exactly volunteers anymore, huh? Customers, rather.
SPark wrote:You know, I’ve never worn a full suit out in public except at conventions and things. Not that I wouldn’t, I’ve just never had the opportunity, really. (Funny thing. I make suits every day, but right now I don’t own a single one! I just make lots of other people’s.) I do wear a tail around a lot though. It’s really hilarious the reactions you get.
Oh gosh! Wearing tails is so much fun! One time Vantid and I wore our tails to a show at the Getty art museum. Not only were we recieving looks for the tails, but we were like the only people there in jeans and a t-shirt. Everyone was wearing fancy stuff! It was HILARIOUS. Most people just tried to ignore us. And then there was the time we were at the Beanery in Corvallis, listening to some live music, and the musicians saw Vantid with her tail and made her go up and show it off. XD I was so glad I had decided not to wear mine. Bwahaha.
