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    Shopping Spree

    By Ga-Metruian,

    I GOT A PAIR OF CARGO PANTS YESTERDAY!!! They're REALLY nice!
     
    Why is this something I want to blog about? Because I've been wanting cargo pants for FOREVER but could never find a pair that fit me that cost a reasonable ammount.
     
    I absolutely love pockets in things. It's practically an obsession. I bought a hat one time just because it had a pocket in it. So I guess it's no wonder why I've wanted cargo pants so badly.
     
    I'm telling you, though. I'm totally hooked. I'm now on a cargo-pant craze. I will probably buy nothing but cargo pants to wear from now on. I'll even wear them all through summer! (I've already been wearing pants for the past few summers. My cousin thinks I'm crazy, but I think it's practical.)
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    My how time flies! (Thanks for the tip, Toa Achilles! I probably would have missed this anniversary if you hadn't said anything)
     
    So I now have blogging privilages... what to talk about...?
     
    I've just finished watching the last of the Gargoyle episodes... you know the Gargoyles show, right? It's from Disney, and it's about a bunch of creatures that turn to stone during the day but come alive at night and fight crime, but everyone's scared of them because they look strange? I think they ended the show way too abruptly.
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    We went to blockbuster today and got, among other movies, Howl's Moving Castle. It is one of the weirdest movies I have ever seen.
    Howl, during the short duration of his blonde period in the movie, reminded me strongly of Setzer in Kingdom Hearts II, with his too-big multicolored coat slung nonchalantly over his shoulders.
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    Finished It.

    By Ga-Metruian,

    Who has read the book Capt. Hook, by J. V. Hart? It's interesting. And very weird. It details the life of Captain Hook before he became Captain Hook. It's kind of weird, because, on the one hand, he's the villian. On the other hook, while you're reading the book Capt. Hook, you kind of see a fair(ish) side to him. Compaired to most of the other characters in the book, he's the hero.
    When the story ended, I got the impression that Hart intends to make a sequel to it, for there is a serious gap from the end of the book to the Captian Hook we all know in Neverland. For one thing, Peter has yet to come onto the scene. (you do get to see the possible ansestor of Wendy, John and Michal. He is Hook's main tormentor in the school he attends at the beginning.)
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    Announcement

    By Ga-Metruian,

    I am carving books. Tiny books. Coin size replicas of some of my favorite fantasy novels I have ever read (I prefer fantasy). So far, I have made a miniature of Peter and the Starcatchers Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo and Eragon. I am also in the process of making Raising Dragons, the first book in the Dragons in our Midst series by Bryan Davis, and possibly a few others as well. Hopefully I will be able to put the pictures up in my blog in time. If not, you'll just have to wait until next year to see them.
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    I just saw a Neverland book at Walmart! I bought it! It's really good so far. I like Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson's way of writing. They're funny and serious all at once.
     
    The last Neverland book focused on the rescue of a mermaid from a carnival. This one focuses on a forbidden cave the Lost Boys explore in the hope of finding a treasure (to impress Peter). In both books, the Lost Boys are helped by the natives of Never Land (mainly the chief's daugters).
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    I have wrested control of my blog back from Drakegaurd. That little dragon thinks he's so tough (he's actually only as tall as your hand. Not including wingspan)
     
    I can see that the only reason he took over my blog was because he wanted to know the answer to that riddle he posted. I told it to him a while back, and it has been bothering him for weeks.
     
    ~GM~
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    Ahh! It's that wonderful time of year, agian! The time of year when us poor folk who spend-so-much-on-books-and-art-supplize-that-they-can't-afford-to-purchase-a-premier-membership can have our own few days of blogging! What a glorious system!
     
    I think that the next carving I am going to work on is a Toa action figure. I think I might have an idea of who I want it to be, but... it's still a difficult decision. Which Toa would you carve first?
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    Click Here

    By Ga-Metruian,

    MAY THE FLEES OF A THOUSAND CAMELS INFEST THE ARM PITS OF ALL WHO READ THIS BLOG AND DO NOT POST!! (and may their arms be to short to reach)
     
    *ahem *
     
    I gave the humming bird picture to my dad. I stayed up until midnight to finish it. After I was done with it, I went downstairs to find the paper-cutter to cut the picture down to the proper size so it could fit in the frame (I have a few frames in the basement always handy in case I need them). Axel was watching TV. I sat down on the coffee table and started watching with him. He complained, asking me why I was down there (in the living room) and saying that he was trying to get to sleep. I gave him an odd look. “You’re watching TV”, I said. “So?” he responded. And then he said something about wanting the living room to himself. “You have a room, you know,” I said. “You can have that all to yourself.” Anyway, I stayed to watch the TV for a few more minuets (to vex him), and went upstairs.
     
    I’m thinking about writing a song. Except, I can’t sing.
     
    I need to ride my bike. It was a Christmas present from last year and I still haven’t taken it out, yet. Whenever I want to ride it, though, I realized that the tires were flat, and when I tried to find the pump, I couldn’t find it, so back in the garage it would go.
     
    Maybe I should just do a book report really quick about a book I like, like Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo. (I have to do reports on two assigned books, choose two from a list, and choose two from wherever I like.) Then maybe mom will be satisfied and give me a couple of days break. Unlikely, though.
     
    I just started on the “Edge Chronicles”. I’ve wanted to check it out (from the library) for quite a while, but it was always out. It seems very interesting so far (I’m to the point where Twig’s mother tells Twig that he was adopted and that he has to leave for a while because the Sky Pirates are after him).
     
    Well, I have to go. Better post! *begins to sing, off-key, “when the flees come marching in *
     
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    I had to work on reading a book that mom wants me do a book report on this summer this morning. It’s true that I like books, but this one is so difficult to understand, especially with the style it was written in! You have to read and reread and re-reread a sentence, go on and backtrack to understand it. I suppose I’d like it more if I didn’t have to do a report on it. During summer break.
     
    I’ve heard that Christopher Paolini didn’t take summer breaks (he was homeschooled, too, by the way). He just finished one grade to start another. But, I think I value my breaks too much to do that (not that I have much choice in the matter), even if it would make me a genius.
     
    I think I’m going to get a sitting job, coming up. I believe I’ll use the money to take my cousin out for sundaes. Fudge sounds good. I love fudge. But I loathe chocolate (Milk chocolate, to be precise). It’s weird, because I can have spoonfuls and spoonfuls of fudge, but I can barely choke down a Hershey bar (I like milk chocolate if it’s just coating some things, though. Like Reeses peanut butter cups, and Butterfingers, and Yorks, and Snickers…)
     
    Hey, I have an interesting story about a Snickers bar. Once I was in a group thing (to this day I don’t remember what exactly they were talking about, but) they were doing something where they asked for volunteers to come forward (I was not one of the volunteers, by the way). They had these paper bags that no one knew the contents of. The volunteers were to reach into their assigned bag and (I think) eat whatever it was they pulled out. One of the things that was pulled out of the bags was a mushed up Snickers bar in a diaper. Nobody would eat it. Not even any of the boys. I couldn’t believe it. It was just Snickers bar (a bit squashed up, sure, but OK otherwise) in an obviously-just-pulled-out-of-the-pack diaper. So, when I was absolutely sure nobody else was going to volunteer to eat it, I said “I’ll take it!” and I enjoyed a perfectly good (if slightly mushed up) Free Snickers bar, while everybody else stared on in fascination (I think some of them clapped, too… I still don’t know what the big deal was)
     
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    Ho Hum...

    By Ga-Metruian,

    I made a deal with mom. I have to do school for however many hours she wants, but I can do whatever I want for that time. (if I want to do a bunch of things, or if I want to do just a couple of things, or if I want to do just one thing, I can do it. But I have to do whatever it/they are for however long she wants… which is going to be, like, 3 to 5 hours, I think)
     
    Peter and the Starcatchers is a great book. In it, Peter is sent from his orphanage home (along with other orphans, who later become the Lost Boys) on a ship headed for some other country. Captain Hook doesn’t have his hook yet, and is called Stache. I like how everything in the story explains (most of) what happens in the original Peter Pan. There are still things that want for explaining. But I expect that the authors left the rest of it to the second book that’s coming out.
     
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    My dad’s birthday was two days ago. I wanted to draw (and frame) him a nice picture of some humming birds, because he likes humming birds (all kinds of birds, actually. But hummingbirds are his favorite). Or a Monster From the Black Lagoon picture, he likes the Monster From the Black Lagoon, too. But I’m late with it. I’m always late with birthday presents. And Christmas presents. And stuff like that. That frustrates me.
     
    My dad is very cool. He’s like an encyclopedia, because, when he was a kid, he read lots of books rather than watch TV. You can ask him practically everything and he can give you the answer! He’s also got this really cool memory! He can take simple memories from when he was a kid and turn them into really funny stories (he really enjoys making people laugh and enjoys laughing himself). I would like to take some of them and make it into a book someday!
     
    I went to Walmart with my cousin today. (she had spent the night the other night) We also went and got ice cream sundaes (her treat. I was broke [getting a new hat will do that to you.]. I will have to treat her sometime soon, when I get some money.)
     
    I’m working on some new Matoran plushies. Watch out for them in the art section!
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    First Entry

    By Ga-Metruian,

    Hi, folks! GM here, with her first ever blog! Seriously, this is my first blog ever. I have never had a blog in my life before, on BZPower or anywhere else in cyberspace. So if my blog doesn’t sound at all bloglike, than you’ll know that it’s because I have no experience in the matter, whatsoever!
     
    TO CONTINUE!
     
    I’ll start with explaining a little about myself, I think. My current occupation is book-collecting. If you were to see pictures of my room, you would probably be struck dumb at the quantity of books that I possess. There are books on my desk, books on every shelf (and I have lots of shelves), books on the floor, books under the bed, books on the bed (I keep books in a box on my bed at all times, next to my stuffed animals), posters of books on the walls, books everywhere! And all different kinds of books, too! Chapter books (lots of chapterbooks), picture books (not many of these, though), novels (countless novels), comic books, art books (lots of these), encyclopedias, dictionaries, school books I’ve saved (in case I have the urge to know some odd fact or another), instructional books, graphic novels, books on CD, manga books (mostly consisting of Kingdom Hearts manga), cheap books from goodwill, knew books from the bookstore or ordered off of amazon, I have a lot of books!
     
    But if you were to look at pictures of my room, you would also notice that there’re lots of other things besides books in there, too. You would notice the large quantities of felt, of all different colors, some on the floor, stuffed into what shelf space books don’t completely occupy, under the desk, on top of the desk, and the spools of thread trailing their long colored tails all over the place (this is where such joys as plush Matoran are born). You would also notice colored pencils and sketch diaries (used completely, or almost so), and paper of all colors and cuts strewn here and there, everywhere. And, if the picture were very recent (for my mom hates it when I don’t have the floor regularily vaccumed when I carve) wood chips from my latest wood-carving project (Clover from Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo). (A lot of these items I shall have to move to the basement when my baby brother gets old enough to come sleep in the crib that’s set up in my room. A fine thing that would be if he gets his hands on one of my carving knives or swallows a sewing needle!)
     
    Such is the room of an eccentric homeschooler.
     
    I guess that that’s more about my room than about me. I’ll get back to me!
     
    When I get a job, I’m hoping that my first job will be at the library. No burger-flipping for me, thanks!
     
    I would like to be a writer when I’m old enough to have the brain capacity to write a really great story. As of now, however, I’m reduced to writing stupid stories that half the time I never finish anyway. One, for example, was a story about the tooth fairy who commissions dwarves to make her a butterfly-winged-teddy bear drawn marble, jewel studded sleigh and in return has to find and give the dwarves the “ultimate tooth”, which is in the possession of the tooth fairy’s sister, the Goblin Queen. The story was written at a friends house. I had brought my new laptop to show my friends. After going through all the wallpapers and screensavers, the laptop was handed to me. We stared at the screen for a while. Not knowing what else to do, I started to write a ridiculous story for the amusement of my friends. Hence “The Tooth Fairy and the Goblin Queen” was written. Look for it in the bookstores.
     
    I have two brothers. It’s so weird to be able to say that because, for years, I’ve only had one. But, one Christmas, by brother and I open these T-Shirts that both say “I’m the big sister/brother” (Mine didn’t mean much to me because I’m the already the big sister. But my brothers’ was the puzzle until my aunt figured it out with some help from dad.) that was when we knew we’d have a new sibling this year. He was born just five days ago!
     
    Ok, I know this is a lo-o-ong blog entry, but I’m probably only going to have this blog for a couple of days (since I’m not a premier member), I would like to cram as much into it as I can.
     
    More later, hopefully!
     
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    Plus, if you want to want to have a good time and enjoy a good laugh, visit The Inner Workings of Tums' Brain.
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    Dd?

    By Ga-Metruian,

    Has anybody here heard of the anime/manga called Dragon Drive? I've watched a few episodes on you tube, and it seems pretty cool.
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    I want to make a poseable figure! Is that too much to ask? To be able to make any type of figure I want poseable? Just having them jointed isn't enough anymore! They have to be able to hold a position. I'm trying out wire right now. Wire and clay. It's getting on my nerves. The clay always gets finger-printy before I stick it in the oven. I think I'm just too used to using basswood. With basswood, they only way you'll make an impression is if you gouge it with a knife. But then it takes a really long time to carve something out (if you want it to turn out right, that is)
     
    IF ANYBODY OUT THERE KNOWS OF A GOOD WAY TO MAKE POSEABLE FIGURINES I'D BE HAPPY TO TAKE YOUR SUGGESTIONS!!
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    Argh!

    By Ga-Metruian,

    There was this one person on ebay who I bought something from... or at least tried to. It turned out that he didn't have the item that I purchased... that he'd put it up by mistake. I mean, he gave me a full refund, and I guess I believe that it was an honest mistake, but I'm still upset that I didn't get to have the item I wanted.
     
    ...
     
    Oh the wonderful things I put in my blog during my limited time of blogging privilages!
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