Winter Vacation!!!

Hey Everyone!

Today is super exciting, because it marks the start of winter vacation! I am so ready to relax and have fun with family and friends. I actually just finished putting up some last minute Christmas lights outside, and so I'm freezing. My mom is going to make me some hot cocoa, so this might be rather short.

After dinner, I plan on relaxing in ways that include playing the Sims 3 and watching TV on our brand new 58' Plasma. It's so awesome! (Movies at my house!) I love it. Also, I hope to read a lot during break. I already have to read that book for my Jerusalem trip, but I hope to find some other works of fiction. Hopefully I'll get some for Christmas.

How was everyone's KK experience? Did you not expect whoever had you? I know I had lots of fun buying gifts for Ellen, and I don't think she knew it was me (right?). I loved her face this morning when I said I had her for KK. It was priceless. And it let me know that I did a pretty good job keeping my identity secret.

Well, I'm super excited for break. Let's hope it snows!

BTW, there is no Photoshop picture of the week because I'm posting this from my home computer and I don't have my pictures on this computer. So yeah. Come up with a mental image. I'll post one next Friday, on Christmas Eve*.

Love Y'all lots!

-Nathalia

*Subject to change. It's Christmas Eve. I might forget :D

Hi Lindsay.

Hi Lindsay. Are you wearing your leg warmers right now? YOU'D BETTER BE.

Anyway I have to study for Chem and French, and then I'm DONNNNEEE for the night! WHOOOHOOO. Besides reading Ben Franklin that is... eww.

ANYWAY Conge was amazing! I love ice skating so much! What did you think?
Cailyn: you should have come on the ice :)

In other news, KK day one today! I love my gift, a pretty penguin necklace and a really pretty purple sparkley wallet. :) I hope you all found your gifts satisfactorily as well. LINDSAY PUT ON THOSE LEG WARMERS NOW.

Yep, that's Ellen's day.
Oh, we watched How to Train Your Dragon in Math Club today. I love that movie. So much.

Well that's all for now!

Joke: sorry if it's a bit morbid, but it reminds me of school!

Q: What do you get if you deep fry Santa Claus?









A: Crisp Cringle.

Over and Out.
Cheers,
Ellen :)

A little late

Hey! sorry I didn't post yesterday.
I don't have too much to say...
Stayed home sick Monday, home again today.
Missed the math test.
Taking it after school Thursday.
Spanish test tomorrow
FML
<3
bye.
-Kylie

Hi

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Terribly interesting post don'cha think?
--TTFN
PS: comment if you find the hidden word - i won't say what it is because then you can ctrl+find...suckers <3

T-8 days till Braces.

This post is going to be short because I have so much to do in the way of everything.

1) Study for APUSH.

2) Do my English reading.

3) Study for math.

4) Do my other English reading.

5) Do my math homework.

6) Bake my Kris Kringle some cookies.

7) Transfer some video files.

8) Crush two cups of peppermint for said cookies.

9) Edit said video files.

10) Feast wishes.

11) Figure out why Zune isn't working.

12) Not implode.

Now I have to go away and work!!!

Katie's Weekly Challenge ---> Hang in there till break. We've got this.

Song of the Week ---> A Great Big Pile of Leaves by All Time Low.

Katie ---> out. MWAH.

A Very Glee Christmas

Right now I'm listening to the Glee Christmas Album which has inspired my title for this week's post. Glee music really helps me focus when I'm doing homework, although sometimes I find myself singing along while I have my pencil paused over my math homework. Then of course my brother comes along to tell me to be quiet, which of course makes me only want to sing louder :D .

I've been working pretty hard this evening on homework. How about you guys? I know it's really hard to focus, so maybe put some upbeat music on or take a break? Actually, I just came back from my hour long break (hehe). I was watching Smallville with my fam, and then I learn after a totally epic ending to an episode, the series doesn't pick up again until January 28th! I don't want to wait that long! Ugh. Well whatever. I still have my Glee.

In other exciting words, I got my renewed passport! I'm okay with my picture, but it could have been better. My dad thinks it makes me look like I'm 12... thanks dad. Getting my passport just gets me all excited about Jerusalem. Speaking of which, I need to start reading that book that Segall gave us... However, I'll do that when I have less pressing things to do, like APUSH reading, APUSH worksheet, Feast Wish letters (! - I got the Matrix), and math homework among various other things.

Just looking around my room though keeps me motivated to keep going. I have a mini pink Christmas tree here on my desk, complete with ornaments, along with a string of pink lights above my bed and winter garlands around my windows. I love getting into the Holiday spirit, because before you know it, it's gone.

Ok, now I want your opinions: Do you think playing pokemon at our age would make us losers? Because I don't think so, but a certain friend of mine needs a little convincing...(you know who you are!) So yeah, leave a comment with what you think about that. Speaking of video games, do you guys have any suggestions for fun games? I know I have a few on my Christmas list.(LEGO Harry Potter anyone?) You know, it's okay to like video games. I do not frown upon them; in fact, studies have shown that people who play more video games have faster reflexes. So that's a good reason to play. Although that's more like action games, like Halo and Call of Duty. Not like I would know... Ok, yes, I'll admit it. I really do like playing a lot of my brother's video games. But most of the time he won't let me play them because he's afraid I'll "mess up" his game. You know, I think it's perfectly ok if I want to just ride around a horse in Red Dead Redemption, or shoot a few aliens down in Halo. I mean, seriously, sometimes you just need a good killing spree to release some stress. [This applies only to video games!] So yeah. Go waste an hour in front of your Xbox or Wii or even your computer.


So I haven't been really creative lately due to homework restraints, so here's a picture I did a while back in Photoshop. It's the Hollywood sign, but made to look like it's on a small scale, like in a tiny town or something.




Thanks for reading, and have a great weekend!

-Nathalia

The Post

Sorry, I couldn't think of a better name ;)

Anyways...I'm just going to post some random stuff on here cause I don't have anything too significant to talk about.

Umm.....OH! Hey peoples- don't forget your $5 for the sweatshirts. We really need to order those!!!! (hopefully by next week)

I had spaghetti and cornnnn for dinner. I'm hungry though now. : Thought you all need to know that.

Uh. We're still VERY dysfunctional- as well as FR teachers :)

OHH EUREKA!!!!

WHO DO Y'ALL HAVE FOR FEAST WISHES???? Hope you like your teachers- I know I do :)
I have Monsieur Kendrick et FEET! ....fun! Kylie and Cailyn- we need to talk this weekend while we write those leters :)

Wow- I just realized that we have only a week left of school before break! What do y'all want to do during break? I would like to sleep. Yes, that would be nice.

AH! I need to leave because my sister needs to lose my laptop (home computer crashed).

See you later alligators!
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Hello Sissy's friends! I think I am writing on a blog. That's what the website says. My name is Emilee Kuo and I'm the bestest kid in the whole wide world. Shh....don't tell my Sissy I'm on this blog thing. Uh oh....my Sissy is coming and I think I need to go. night night.

Hehe, I'm going to post this thingy though to make her mad :)

LOVE THE BESTEST EMILEE

Twenty Things

OMG it's MY day to post! Yay.
1st: My cousin and I definitely watched Totoro this summer, so Kylie you owe me something :)
2nd: Feta (my fish) runs away from the food I give him, and then all the other fish eat it. EAT FETA EAT. :[
3rd: I want food
4th: O.O (<--cute face)
5th: TOO MUCH HOMEWORK (<--nothing new)
6th: Ms. M gave us hot chocolate in Advisory today!
7th: I still have to catch up the Buried Life Finale and the last two Glee Episodes
8th: I ALMOST got to write to Mr. Shoemaker. LINDSAY! :[ Just kidding its no big deal :)
9th: APUSH TEST MONDAY AHHHH SHOOT ME. But not really because I like life
10th: I don't know if Kathryn reads this blog, but my joke for today reminded me of her. Except she is not TALL like a giraffe. Just making that clear. She is not tall.

Why don't giraffes do drugs?
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Because they're naturally high!

11th: Yep that's all.
12th: 70 days until Jerusalem (71 if you count the Thursday we fly out... should I count that day? Let me know!)
13th: I AM SO EFFING EXCITED FOR JERUSALEM BAKIHPOIGFUWEPOIRUOIF SLDKFJPOSIF OH MY GOD.
14th: QWOP is ridiculous.
15th: JV PLAYED SO AMAZING YESTERDAY.
16th: How many birthdays I will have had come January.
17th: How old Harry Potter is when he saves the world.
19th: Exegesis is dumb
20th: Over and Out.
Cheers,
Ellen :)

20.5th: I skipped 18...

To-toro; to-to-ro

I love Totoro. It's such a great movie. If you haven't seen it, then watch it this break! If you do and comment on it in your post, I'll give you something. I don't know what it will be yet but I'll figure that out later.

I'm after school until 7:00 tonight. That'll be fun.

So last night the plan was that after glee was over, 5:20ish, I was going to go hang out with my mom (who's taking MS drama pics) and she had a burrito for me to heat up for dinner. So my other mom shows up and says that she is taking me home early so that I don't need to stay at school until 7:00. That's good, right? Here's the catch: I don't get my burrito at 5:20, I have to wait until I got home. Then mom thought I was high because I kept talking about my burrito on the way home...haha. But I was looking forward to that burrito all freaking day! I was really disappointed. Ohwell.

what else is new?
^not meaning I'm always dissapoint=ed, meaning what else has happened lately...ok.
We set our Christmas village up! It's really pretty :)
And we got our tree. But we don't have any ornaments on it yet haha.

Is anyone else sort of stressed lately? I am, just a little bit, but still. School is sort of crazy before break just because of tests. but 6 more days of school! (7 for people that aren't in spanish).

I literally have zero inspiration right now.

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You get an extra bonus if you comment about what you think it is. besides sideways mountains or dots.

okay I'm going to go. I'll right more if something comes to mind.
Bye guys, sorry for the lame post.

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Solitude

Doncha just hate it when you have something you can finally talk about for more than three inches of blog-wall and then when it's your day...its just gone.  

Anyways.  I just thought of a depressing topic.  I have no idea why (Okay i do, im listening to it on pandora and I have no idea why its on my channel... >.<)

Solitude (the song's title) - amazing how you can feel so alone in a crowd of people ...Okay. No. Wtf is this???? I'm not taking about this, i have no idea how to continue....

Also, the song just changed!

ANYWAYS.  So....I guess I will talk about.. about about about aboutaboutabouuuuut.  hmmm.

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*sigh*  STEREOTYPES!!!

(i just saw my new STILETTOS)

so, why is is that when someone hears the word Stiletto...they think stripper/hooker/pro?  When I told people over the past few days about my new (definitely not hooker-ish) shoes they asked "like stripper heels"? I feel bad for my poor shoes, all that they did was make me taller :) .

You guys, this is pathetic -.- I'm completely out of juice.

The problem is I have no idea how many people actually read what we write, and who I might ward off with my opinions. Sure I have a count and the names of followers...but what about those random folks who have the link saved but would rather not commit?

*sigh*  maybe someday I won't give a shit about offending others (okay thats a bit extreme) and just write about whatever the hell i feel like...LIKE HOW BLAINE AND KURT ARE SOOOOOO CUTE

http://www.hulu.com/watch/198555/glee-baby-its-cold-outside

I LOVE THIS VIDEO.  it will make you smile if you are at all cool and/or are having a bad day.

Okay, that was a bad example, I really don't care if people are annoyed at my advertising cute glee scenes.  :D

Shout-out to Ms. Boerth.  I WANT THE NEW POSTERS WHEN YOU'RE FINISHED WITH THEM!~!!!

Y'all should make sure to swing by the library to check them out and vote for your favorite! <3

--TTFN tout le monde :)

SATurDAYYYY (and sUnDaY)

Heylloooooo. Today is Saturday night. Tonight is Saturday? I don't know. But I am bouncing with energy and I don't know why. I need a good book.

I just got back from babysitting my cousins! I love them so much. Except my cousin Caroline almost started crying when I didn't know how to get their Wii to work. >:|

I am undecided about Winter Ball. To go, or not to go! If I do go, I'll invite this really hot guy I know from Sequim named Mason. He'll have to sleep at my house that night. HMMMMM. This could be interesting...

Or I could invite Sam. But honestly, Sam and I do not click like Mason and I.

Even though I haven't seen Mason in over a year.

ALL THE MORE REASON TO INVITE HIM.

Except he's like 6 feet tall.

I hate being short.

And young, because I'll be one of the only people who can't drive on the softball team. DAMN.

Katie's Weekly Challenge ---> Find something that you do not like about your life and turn it into something you love.

Song of the Week: The Dog Days are Over by Florence + the Machine

Katie ---> out. MWAH.

I'm Back!

And she's back! After a very busy couple of weeks and cooperating wireless, the Friday Poster has returned! Sorry about not being able to post... But that's behind us. Right? Well I would hope so. Let's see. This week was kind of busy, but not at the same time. Like we had to get back into the routine of school and shiz, but really, I don't feel like we had a ton of homework. It was so nice to have a field trip in the middle of the week; it broke up the tension of the rest of the week, although I am going to be quite busy this weekend. And Spanish gets another field trip next week! W00t!

You know, you can have a lot of fun with finger puppets and some friends... just saying. (Hehe, Cailyn/Kylie/Catherine)

I have a mini Christmas tree in my room! It's on my desk. It has pink lights and cute little ornaments, but it's nothing compared to everything else we put up around our house. Sigh. I love the holidays. I mean seriously, in the last two days, I've managed to watch Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer twice, Santa Claus is coming to Town, and some Madagascar Christmas special. Yeah. And I added a Christmas station to my Pandora radio. It's pretty intense.


What are you all doing to get prepared for the Holidays? Leave a comment and let us know! BTW, anyone else just like super excited for Kris Kringle? I know I am! I already have one of my presents for my KK. It's going to be interesting to see when I can go and get the other presents. Probably not this weekend...

Also, here's the Photoshop picture of the week (bet you guys missed it, huh?!)



I actually made it last week during the Snow Days, but if you want, you can download and use it the next time we have a snow day, either as an icon for IM or your background.

Now I really need to crack down on homework. :(

So Adios for now!

-Nathalia

Dysfunctional

If you really think about it, we're WEIRD. I could name hundreds of things that make us dorks...

#1. We give teachers nicknames- FEET, FLAMEBOI, CHACOS, etc

#2. We like to eat lunch....in the gym foyer.

#3. We stay up late- oh, not doing hw....playing flable.

#4. We spend our time playing LIFE.

#5. One of us is a "puffkin"- with pressure points

#6. We dub ourselves "dwarfs"...oh, but now "Sleepy, Sneezy, etc"- more like "Chill, Neurotic, Undefined"

#7. We have a Pink Blob.

#8. We're Gleeks :)

#9. We call each other idiots.

#10. We predict the end of the world.

#11. <------Bad Number

#12. The fact that I am writing this at 11:22 P.M (<-------another bad number) makes me nuts.

Dysfunctional.

Yup, that defines the bunch of us.

GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE WITH A MATH QUIZ TMRW- WE SHALL NOT FAIL. (haha, fat chance)

the Scarlet Letter!

As you know, today we saw the play the Scarlet Letter! Personally, I loved it. It was definitely a variation of the book, but it was portrayed very well. Some parts were a little odd, and there was a lot of yelling, but overall it was really good! What did you think?
On another note, but on the same topic, some of the audience was ... immature for lack of a better word. I did laugh at some of the comments made, but that doesn't mean I appreciated them. I mean, seriously people.
Other than that, I didn't do anything today!
For Kylie, books I recommend:
--The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
--I am the Messenger by Marcus Zusak
--The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex
--Artemis Fowl Series by Eoin Colfer
--Airman by Eoin Colfer
--My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
--A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle - I haven't actually finished this yet, but I've started and its good

Movies I recommend: - WATCH AT LEAST ONE OF THESE THIS WEEKEND
--Catch Me if You Can
--21
--Pokemon (Cailyn BAHAHAH)
--Finding Nemo
--Monster's Inc.
--The Lion King
--The Incredibles
--HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (I want this movie fore Christmas XD)

Okay so this joke is basically really lame, but I miss my cousin right now and after Kelly told him this super lame joke, he kept saying it. So I thought of it because I miss him.

Knock Knock!
--Who's There?
El!
--El who?
ELEPHANT.

OK, wasn't that terrible? But I laugh when I think of it :)
Over and Out.
Cheers,
Ellen :)

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

...or at least it was beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Now the snow is melted, but hopefully we will get more later!
What's on your Christmas list? this is mine:

>Money for Jerusalem
>a sing-a-ma-jig
>Gift card to Sephora
>DVDs
>Gift cards to Barnes and Noble
>Shoes (high heels, toms, snow boots)

That's it :)

COUNTDOWN!
24 days until Christmas!
12 1/2 days of school
Not counting: Conge, Scarlet letter field trip, feast wishes, spanish field trip:
9 DAYS OF LEARNING!
:D
this is exciting.

OH! I went to the Harry potter movie again with Natasha. More mistakes:
18. They didn;t go to the joke shop
19. On James Potter's tomb stone, his birthday was written as the 17th of March, but it is actually the 27th.
20. Harry didn't read the bottom writting on his parent's grave (the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death)
21. The trio didn't make Dobby a tomb stone!! (Here lies Dobby, a free elf)

But it was fun to go again.

What else is new guys?
I'm in RUSH right now (regular united states history, SO much cooler than APUSH)

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Rachel and made unicorn/narwal horns today.

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Catherine and I just had a heart attack. #^$*@&#%#$^%@

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It's okay now.

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What's with that random scarecrow in the history room?

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SCARLET LETTER FIELD TRIP TOMORROW :D
This is exciting. Remember dressy free dress! Like Bea said, guidelines are in the hand book. Thank's Bea!

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I'm getting a hair cut soon. Just a trim. should i get side bangs (well, better ones) again? I think I'm going to. heavy and long ones so they aren't all short and weird and can be pushed back easily.

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I started watching Pretty Little Liars. It's not like it's a good show, but I'm addicted now. It stars again in January. Ahh!

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I'll post more tonight. Stay tuned :)

Back!
I just made Ms. Cantu Cupcakes for the teen feed on Friday! The batter is SO good!
Does anyone have any good book recommendations? comment on this post, or include them in your posts! I should go work on HW!
BAYEE
-Kylie

Heyy

Okay.  I'll admit it.  I've lied to you.

Last Week, I had already known that I had completely abandoned my attempt at a NaNoWriMo.  Purely because I just don't have the time right now.  In between everything I have going on...I must play Bubble Shooter.  Which is why I now hate humanity.  It's too hard to resist and completely depressing.  I mean.  I've wanted to write for a while...and all of a sudden.

WHAM

you now have a bubble shooter addiction.  Thanks...Thanks a lot.

Go waste your time...Just so i don't feel so pathetic -.-
http://www.cybersalt.org/b/bubble-shooter

Also, with the addictions.  I can't stop eating those cookie chocolate sticks.  Though, I'm positive I could quit that anytime i wanted.

The Problem is...I don't want to quit.... >.<

Anyways.  I gotta go, I got homework to do...*sigh* maybe it will help kick my Bubble Shooting habits. :)

--TTFN

An Islandy Saturday

I am currently on an island... and my fingers are hella cold.

Let's hope they don't fall off, shall we?

I played beer pong yesterday! It was fun. Except there were very limited supplies (i.e. one can) and the beer was the root kind so it was not as climactic as we would have hoped. Oh well.

Guys, I think you should post... because this is the second week in a row where there has not been a Thursday or a Friday.

Guess what!

I bought a hat.. with a button on it. :D

I love being up on San Juan. It's a much needed break from the crazy happenings on the mainland.

How were your guys' Thanksgivings?

Mine was good (ish), except I got attacked (kind of) by a satanic dog. GAH.

My cousins were cool, though. Molly, she's five, was playing with her Nativity Scene Playmobil along with Megan, and all of a sudden we hear her shout "It's SUPER JESUS!" Hella funny.

Katie's Weekly Challenge: Help a friend in need.

Song of the Week: Marry You by the Cast of Glee.

PS: GLEE!!!! (I love it)

Katie - - -> out. MWAH.

Bubbles

I have always wanted to blow bubbles in below freezing weather. What would happen? They would freeze right? HOW COOL? But I don't think 29 degrees is quite cold enough...

So. What's up? It's vacation! A full week of it :)
But homework... ewwwwwwwwww.
Let us not talk about those indecencies.

I wish this snow was packable, because then I would make a snowman. Teeheehee.
I also left my Harry Potter book at my mom's house, but I wish I had it over here so I could enjoy it and use it to distract myself from indecencies like APUSH. So I started reading A Wrinkle in Time and I like it so far! You should read it, I think, I'll give another report when I finish.

Well I don't have much to say right now, maybe I'll post something more later.
Without further ado, the joke. Well not really a joke, just a good line from Calvin and Hobbes.
"Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in a lottery."
Which is funny, because us Washingtonians are super happy with an inch of snow. :)
Okay when I find a better one, I'll post that.
Over and Out.
Cheers,
Ellen :)

Snow day: installment dos

Happy snow day #2 everybody!

This morning mom woke me up with pancakes. I had one bite and literally spit them out. EWW buckwheat pancakes taste like soggy warm uncooked almond butter batter things. GROSS! It's almost two o'clock and I haven't eaten anything yet...I should do that.

HARRY POTTER (If you haven't seen the movie, and don't want any spoilers, skip this post completely, but it doesn't give away really anything. Just my complaints :) plus a few likes...)

Harry Potter 7 is my favorite book. I've read it twice (going on more!) and I thought the movie really screwed it up. They left out so many important things. Heres a list (no order)

1. Harry didn't take Madeye Moody's eye from Umbridge's door at the Ministry. And unless you were paying close attention you would never know it was there. There was no mention of this afterwards.
2. Harry didn't put the snitch in his mouth the night of recieving it from Dumbledoor's will, instead he waited a few months then randomly popped it in his mouth for no appearent reason.
3. At Mr. Lovegood's house there was no mention of radishes! And if you didn't read the book, you wouldn't know why he had to keep Harry at his house! PLUS THEY LEFT OUT THE CRUMPLEHORN SNORKACK!! ahhhhhhhhhhh
4. Bellatrix carved MUDBLOOD into Hermione's arm
5. It seemed to me that after a bad thing happened (Hedwig's death, Madeye's death, his eye at the ministry. the prosecution and skepticism of 'muggles' at the ministry etc.) no one made mention of it, they were just like OMG Madeye died, but then didn't seem to care a minute later.
6. They don't save muggles at the ministry, they only save themselves.
7. Harry doesn't go to Fleur and Bill's wedding as a cousin, he just shows up as himself.
8. I don't think there was any mention of shell cottage.
9. In the book, Harry and Voldemort had an ongoing connection and Voldemort shared images and sounds with Harry, such as the Gregorovich and the thief. In the movie, Harry had one or two visions of Gregorovich being a wand maker and of the blonde thief taking it. There ws no mystery or build up.
10. At Godrick's Hollow, Nagini just explodes from Batilda Bagshot, instead of protruding from her neck as she does in the book.
11. There is no mention of how horrible and false Reeta Skeeter's: The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore is.
12. In addition to this, and maybe it will come in part two, there is no mention to the battle between Grindelwald, Albus, and Aberforth in which Ariana dies, or the battle between Albus and Grindelwald. Also there is no mention to Dumbledore's family life (his sister being a squib, his mother taking her away to the Hollow, his father being sent to Azkaban etc.)
13. I just think that a lot of things were left hanging and unexplained, like the snatchers, Undesirable #1 etc.
14. NO MENTION OF THE TABOO ON VOLDEMORT'S NAME :O
15. So at the frozen forest pool, Harry said accio sword, and it moved a little but was stuck in the ice. Once Harry meltes the ice, why didn't he just try again instead of skinny dipping?
16. They didn't try to figure out who cast the deer patronus. They just accepted that a random one was randomly in the woods and randomly led them to the freaking SWORD OF GRYFFINDOR! Bloody hell...
17. In the book, Hedwig's cage falls off the moterbike and then she is hit, In the movie she's just randomly flying around and then shot down. I cried non-the-less :( I also cried when Dobby died! They did a very good job on that I think.

OK theres so much more, but that's enough for now.

Things I liked about the movie:

1. How they did the tale of the Three Brothers in semi-cartoon animation.
2. Harry and Hermione dancing! That was cute because there was no romantic chemistry, but Harry was just trying to cheer her up. Also I LOVE THE SONG PLAYED! (o' children by Nick Cave. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKWydA69o9E )
3. A lot of people didn't but I liked the locket scene. I thought they did a good job on making the images of Harry and Hermione look unreal. It did go a little too far, but ohwell. The things that they screwed up in this scene was that Voldemort doesn't come out of the locket (I don't think?) and also it goes on for longer than 30 seconds.
4. The colors were nice in the film. It wasn't happy obviously but it wasn't a super dark feel either.
5. I loved Hermione's beaded bag! hahaha

Ohkay sorry for rambling. <3 <3 <3
What were your likes and dislikes reguarding HP7.0 movie? comments!

Event time! Yesterday was fun. this was my day:
6:00: wake up, chek FR website, no snow day :(
6:05: go back to sleep till 6:30
6:30: mom wakes me up, tells me there is no snow day.
6:31: I die inside
6:40: I check again, jsut to be sure. SNOW DAY CONFIRMED! Call Jane then go back to bed
9:30: Wake up for real, get ressed, straighten hair, walk to Toads with Jane around 11:00
1:00: walk home from Toads, stop at library and check out 13 CDs to listen to.
3:50: head home, work on some homework, make soup and cookies
6:00: dinner time!
8:00: snowshoe around the block while mom cross country skis. No injuries reported.
10:00: Drive to Natasha's house in the snow! scary!
10:30: convince Natashas mom to let her come in the car while I do donuts in the deserted outletmall parking lot.
10:40: We win!
10:40-11:30: DONUTS and figure eights and fish-tails and slidding etc.
11:40: drop Natasha off
1:00 ish: fall asleep :)

Quote of the night (inbetween slides)
-Me: One sec, I gotta take my sweatshirt off!
-Mom: Let's just turn the heat down
-Natasha: It's freezing!
-Me: BUT I HAVE PLASTIC PANTS ON

Fun times.



Kylie.

SNOWWW DAYYY

YES.  OHMIGOSH.  so.  I was at my youth group meeting, and at the end, we all prayed for snow.  AND IT WORKED! :D  It's sooo amaaaazinggg

anyways. Walden.  I was supposed to read to page 85 last week...as in last monday.   Unfortunately, i couldn't even get past page 35.  (im on 34 now....so almost)  anyways, nowww, im supposed to be in the hundreds somewhere...but I'd rather not think about this right now.

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Well, actually.  I'm sure most of you have better things to be doing that reading this blog right now...like play in the snow? lol.  I bet you aren't even going to be reading this today.  so you should go!  go play in the snowww, and si tu veux you can leave me a comment about it! :D

--TTFN - imma go make me-self some hot chocolate :3