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[glacier_kitty]

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I do a fun video survey! Hope it's not too long lol. One day I won't stutter when saying "post," but apparently not today. :P I thought I said it better the second time, I didn't realize I struggled that much till I watched the video again! *glares at word* Hopefully you have fun watching anyway :P

Mom and Ryan and I went blueberry picking on Murphy Dome again this weekend..there were still lots of berries left (they're really good in milkshakes!) and I always love the views up there. <3 Jo also had friends over, to celebrate his and another friend's birthday. I'd never met her before, or any of her friends, so I was kind of panicking again, but Jo's friends that I knew were all sitting by the fire, so I joined them and was fine (and in a better mood haha). I was definitely tired at the end of the day :P

Yesterday Donald came over for CDs again, and Abby went to say hi and explored the hallway. We talked and then I went back inside..I heard a faint meow and was like "huh, that's weird.." and then heard it again a few minutes later and then realized Abby was still in the hallway!!! OMG I felt so bad haha, and apologized to her, but she yelled at me anyway LOL..oops :P


11-5-03
I would like to change where I live cause I HATE Texas with a passion! I would move to the Scottish Highlands, Waimea (Highland Hills), Hawaii, or London. My brother said that I should move to a place where I can see a golf course cause there’s hills and it would remind me of the Highlands. I was like BIG GREEN LUSH hills, not tiny hills. And not all hills remind me of the Highlands. I HAVE to get out of Texas! I was (and am) going crazy cause I lent my Blind Guardian CD to someone and couldn’t listen to it. I got it back just now, and we might listen to it in history. [We did listen to it in one of my classes! How cool lol.] The person might even buy it she thought it was so good! Wait till I tell ShallHonorArise that another person liked it! The line “through violence and horror shall honor arise” is SO true! I wonder when they wrote the song

11-6-03
I don’t have 1 book cause it would be way too hard to figure out. I like all the Shannara books, and all of them are so good I can’t choose 1 that’s better! Terry Brooks makes them so good and exciting! Especially the battles in the Elfstones of Shannara, so exciting! And the battle for the city of Tyrsis in The Sword of Shannara. I liked the Heritage of Shannara series a lot (I made the mistake of reading the 3rd book 1st), especially my fave character of all time, Morgan Leah, is in those books. The only Shannara book I don’t really like is The Elf Queen of Shannara. I hate Wren Ohmsford!

11-7-03
*HOUSE FOR SALE*

A 4 story house with 3 balconies and a courtyard by the city of Glenfinnin in the Scottish Highlands
Plenty of space for everyone!
4 acres of land overlooked by Loch Sheil and green, lush hills
Only $10,000! (Pounds in Scotland) [Yeahhh that house would be WAY more that lol]
Lots of trees!
Close to Elian Donan Castle and Loch Ness
Maybe you can meet my Highlander Internet friend Lianachan!

11-10-03
I am a famous fencer on the UA Fencing Team. There is no posistion really, you just fight with the sword and try to get the most touches to win. I really do know someone who was an Olympic fencer and got lots of metals. [My fencing coach’s husband!] I have fencing Tuesdays and Thursdays. My weekend was fun. I saw “Radio.” It was good. And I found out that ShallHonorArise doesn’t have the Blind Guardian CD - he downloaded “Battlefield” only. He wants the CD. I was doing a “Battle of the Wits” with a troll (someone who’s mean) and someone said they will bet a second mortagage on me if I win!

11-10-03
I would take my computer (INTERNET!), my Blind Guardian CD and all my other CDs, my Terry Brooks books, clothes, my LOTR movies and lots of books on the Star Ship Enterprise. I wouldn’t really want to go to space, but if I had to than that’s what I would take. I think space travel would be scary! But it would be kinda cool to see Earth from space. I would want to see all the countries and water and clouds how they look from space. I heard you can see the Great Barrier Reef and the Great Wall of China from space! [Reef yes, Great Wall, no, that’s a myth.] I think when I was younger that I was obsessed with space

11-11-03
The worst thing that could happen would that the gene wouldn’t grant the best wish I made or he could grant me a wish that I made and I would be totally unhappy. I wonder what would happen if genes really existed. I’m glad they are not real and just made up. It would be cool to have a flying carpet, though! It would talk and it would have a Scottish accent! *biggrin* [*rolls eyes*]

11-12-03
I don’t have a favorite nursery rhyme and I don’t think I ever did. I have favorite poems, though. One is -

Where is the horse and the rider
Where is the horn that was blowing
They have passed like rain on the mountains, like wind in the meadow
The days have gone down in the west, behind the hills, into shadow

It is from LOTR (I memorized it from watching TTT so many times!
I just got back from speech [therapy]. It was terrible! I hate it when I get treated like a baby. It’s my pet peeve. I was in a good mood till I went to speech

11-13-03
Resume:

Name - Karen M (mom)
Adress - Flower Mound, TX
Jobs - Piolet, air traffic controller, store worker
Education - College
Grades - Average-good
Likes - Planes, traveling, reading, the piano

11-17-03
If I spent $300.00 on a trashcan commercial I would say that it would be robotic and pick up your trash around the house and take it out for you. It would also talk. I’m not sure anyone would believe me either. I wouldn’t want to sell trashcans either. I saw Master & Commander over the weekend! It was cool, but they had the volume up way to loud and when there were battles it made you feel like you were right there. Billy Boyd (the Scottish person who played Pippen in LOTR) was in it. I was the only person going crazy when during the previews the ROTK trailer came on! The Two Towers Extended Edition comes out tomorrow Tuesday. I can’t wait to get it!

11-17-03
If my desk could talk, I think it would say that we are talkative or sleeply or it doesn’t like all of the things piled on top of it cause it’s too heavy. Or if it’s made out of wood it could tell the story of how it came to be and what tree it came from. So if the desk could talk, maybe the tree or whatever it’s made of could talk. I think I really can talk to trees and they talk back in my mind. That’s something that a little kid would say! If my desk could talk, it would have a Scottish accent! *biggrin*

11-18-03
I would send the recipie for manicoti. You have to get cheese and beef and cook it in a pan. It smells really good! Then you have to stuff the manicotti noodles with it. Then put it in a bowl or tray, put spagettii sauce on it, then bake it at 280. [Mmmm now I’m hungry. :P] Then enjoy! We made manacotti in Home Ec in 8th grade. It was SO good! We also made Jello, [my teacher said “if you can’t cook Jello, you should not be in Home Ec” haha!] cookies, caramel, breakfast burrittos, pretzels, sataeed onions, and other stuff. It always tasted really good! My mom says for our trip this summer we might go to London, rest of England, Scotland and...SWITZERLAND!! *hairrise* Why in the world would I want to go there?!

11-19-03
Turkey sandwich - get 2 pieces of bread, spread mayonase, put turkey on, and enjoy! Now this is making me hungry! I didn't have to go to speech today! Yay! I liked my old speech teacher at McKamy. She rocked! In 8th grade we didn't really do any learning! We went out to the courtyard and played games, went on the Internet, and just talked! Her name was Mrs. Russel. And she DIDN’T treat me like a baby! My favorite teacher ever at McKamy was Mrs. Harriss, the library teacher. She was SO nice and I went to the library before & after school (if I didn’t go to the courtyard). Mrs. Baker (the head librarian) was also pretty cool. No, I should say IS cause they’re still cool! And they’ve read the Shannara books by Terry Brooks! And they like LOTR!

11-19-03
Compairing the movies
I think that the movies were kinda alike cause they both told of Shakespeare & Romeo & Juliet. Their different cause “Romeo & Juliet” tells about the play & “Shakespeare in Love” tells about him writing the play & producing it. Both of the movies were really cool!

11-20-03
Book - there are words and paper. People read this. An author wrote it. You need a bookmark if you want to keep your place. You read it if you’re bored or if you just want to. There are millions of these around the world. You can go to a library or a ceirtain kind of store to buy this or check it out. What am I? Yeah, it’s probably easy to guess. Maybe I should have done courtyard…McKamy’s courtyard…

12-1-03
I didn’t really do anything except for going on the Internet & watching movies. My brother had a fencing tournament and he got 2nd place. The movies I saw were - LOTR, Highlander, Mortal Kombat, Gladiator, The 3 Musketeers, and Beneath Loch Ness. I broke my record of how long I can stay on the Internet - 15 hours and 14 minutes! [O__o] *hairrise* My mom says I’m not allowed to do that anymore and I don’t want to! All my friends were on the boards - even Lianachan! Did you know he’s 32 years old? [He was the same age as I am right now. O_o] There is another person who’s 56! Most of the people there are adults. There are a few kids my age and below my age. There’s this 10 year old that says he doesn’t live with his parents. I’m like riigghhtt… [Maybe he lived with his grandparents?]

12-1-03
They shouldn’t change the school year from 9 [to] 12 months cause you wouldn’t have a 2 month summer vacation and you would go to school when others are out on summer. Why would you want to go to a year round school anyway? Too much thinking! Well, a year round school would be cool at McKamy! COURTYARD!! 9 months is great for a school year. Except when you’re at McKamy [and] the year is going by speedy-fast [I think I got that phrase from the Junie B. Jones books LOL. Like I’ve said before, I adopt other people’s saying VERY easily :P] and you don’t want it to cause it is a cool school and you’re moving on to a school that doesn’t have a courtyard. *cough*personal experience*cough* *- those things rule! **************************!! [Ok then LOL.] Um, what now?

12-2-03
If I could go back and change an event, I would change the fate of William Wallace and help him defeat the British like the others after he did did. Then he would be a proud and free Scotsman. Mel Gibson played a really good Wallace. And how did he do that fake Scottish accent?! It seems that Mel Gibson belongs in battle moves, for some reason. He’s really good with a sword! So is Orlando Bloom and Viggo Mortensen! There are tons of movies coming out that I wanna see, like ROTK!

12-3-03
WANTED!
NEW ENGLISH TEACHER FOR UA!

*Like teaching - come here!
*Need a new job? This is it!
*Get paid!
*Great kids to teach
[So convincing. :P Though to be fair, I wrote to the teacher at the top of the page that I had been in speech therapy and couldn’t finish it]

12-4-03
My class project would be on December 17. We would all go see Return of the King. I’ve seen the trailer and it looks SO awesome! I saw Fellowship 1 time and Towers 5 times in theaters! I heard ROTK is better than Fellowship and Towers combined! But I heard they are cutting out tons of cool scenes that are in the book (well, that’s what the people on IMDb say). It would be awesome to go to the premeire of ROTK in New Zealand. Someone on the boards did! She got to see Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) and Orlando Bloom (Legolas) and all the other people! Well, it was easy for her to go cause she lives in New Zealand! I envy her! I want to go to New Zealand now. But it would take A LOT of traveling to get there

I always wonder if my Internet friends wonder where I am or miss me when I’m not there. I haven’t been on the Internet in 2 days! Since I’m doing bad in math (71 is not bad!) I can’t go on the Net on school nights till I raise my math grade (sometimes my nice, wonderful, sweet mom makes exceptions!). [LOL] I hope to see ROTK on the opening day (Dec 17) after school. It’ll probably be all sold out. My mom and brother saw Towers on the opening day and didn’t tell me till I told my brother I saw it without him! He went on a field trip and that’s why he saw it

12-8-03
The weather is sunny with the sky clear blue and the temp is cool but nice. It’s very refreshing, and it makes me feel like I’m in the Highlands. I FOUND THE BEST POEM *EVER!* “My Heart’s in the Highlands” by a Scottish poe[t] who I forgot his name. [Robert Burns] “My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart’s not here…” SO TRUE! I went crazy when I found it!

12-8-03
Well, my mom says I can’t go on the Internet till I raise my math grade, which I don’t like cause I can’t talk to my friends. I’m not gonna have kids, but if I did, I would help them if they needed help and not ban something on school days. I just think that’s unfair. My mom could at least compromise. We did that for awhile but then she made this current rule. MY INTERNET FRIENDS PROBABLY MISS ME!! *sob* And Lianachan (who I don’t see often) comes on and I miss him. When someone said something about Scotland to me I typed back “KILTS!!” Men in plaid skirts. *yummy* I watched Braveheart yesterday and it left me (trying) to talk with a Scottish accent. It did sound kinda Scottish!

12-9-03
Me at age 30 - my job will be a botanist or arborist living in (surprise) the Scottish Highlands, and I will have a little Scottish accent! I can imagine myself just sitting outside in the Highland air feeling the breeze smelling of wildflowers and admiring the lush, green hills. And I'll get to be called Highlander and see the Loch Ness Monster (LOL, just kidding!) and maybe I’ll see Lianachan and not know it (that would be weird). Lian says you can see the northern lights there! Lian is 31 [Earlier I said 32..weird] and he was born in the Highlands. A true Highlander, wo-hoo! MY MOM LET ME GO ON THE INTERNET YESTERDAY!! That compromise I talked about yesterday - my mom might do it! Yay! I’M GONNA BE 30 LIVING IN THE HIGHLANDS, NOT TEXAS!! [So much for that. :P But Fairbanks has lush, green hills too, so maybe my past self would have like that haha]

12-10-03
My favorite month? I guess it’s a tie between June and July cause we’re out of school and my birthday’s on June 8, and it’s just fun. Only drawback is the Texas summer in those months (and August) is REALLY hot, so you can’t do much without burning up (except swimming). I always travel a lot in the summer. Next summer I get to travel to Scotland! YAY!!

I'm not really in a good mood now cause of my STUPID SPEECH TEACHER! Shades, I can't stand her! She's like “I pick on you cause you're a girl.” I'm thinking what the heck?! Now, I hate you more! Shades! I don't think I need to be in speech. She said I am because I'm having trouble defining words (yeah, right) and cause of my social skills and body language (shure whatever you say). She said she's been a speech teacher for 27 years. *hairrise* We were talking about Sean Connery and she said he was cute and not Orlando Bloom! *hairrise* She said Sean had a lateral lisp (so technical are you?), which means that when you make an “S” sound it comes out the side. I wish my old speech teacher (Mrs. Russel) would come over here! That would be cool! We probably wouldn't do anything! *winkgrin*

12-11-03
I already wrote the words to my favorite song - “Battlefield” by Blind Guardian. The entry is 11-4-03. Other BG songs I like are “Precious Jerusalem,” “The Soulforged,” “Punishment Divine,” “And Then There Was Silence,” and others. I don’t have the words memorized, though. “And Then There Was Silence” is a 14 minute (!) song about the Battle of Troy. Some of the words in that song and the way they sing them is awesome! “The flame of Troy will shine bright.” “Never give up, never give in, be on our side so we can win.” “Turn your head and see the field of flames.” “The nightmare shall be over now there’s nothing more to fear.” And there’s other cool lines that I can’t think of. Lots of the song lyrics have “shall” in them. I think the word shall makes you sound smart! Another cool lyric is “vanished to the point of no return” from “Punishment Divine.” And “let the saints set up the courtyard.” Yay for courtyards!!

12-12-03
My foreign exchange student would be from the Scottish Highlands, of course! I would ask if it’s cold, if they speak Gaelic, if they’ve been to lots of cool places, if they could play the bagpipes. That kinda stuff

Did you know that my Internet friend ShallHonorArise is mad at me. Here’s the whole story: I went on IMDb at the dentist (how nice!) and I checked my PMs. Where “ShallHonorArise” used to be, there was “Jerry Only.” To prove it was the same person, I looked at his profile, and it was. I was in major shock (and still am) to see that he changed his name from Honor to Jerry. I PMed him “WHY DID YOU CHANGE YOUR NAME?!?!” but I couldn’t see his answer cause I had to go. I went to fencing and out to eat and when I got home, I still couldn’t go on, cause my brother went on. Well, when I did go on I PMd him something about how I didn’t like his name and he goy *so* mad! [Well yeah..no matter how much I didn’t like it, it was his choice! I could have reacted to that so much better. Our friendship was never really the same after that. :/] I apologized in the best way I could possibly do and I think he’s still mad at me. I’m gonna explain to him when I get home about how I’m still sorry and I don’t like change. He’ll still be my Honor no matter what! To make him happy, I’ll call him Jerry Honor (even though I despise the name Jerry). I’ve asked him about a million times where he got his name and hasn’t told me yet! I hope no one else is mad at me [ugh, so uncomfortable to read this again..I hate losing friends by doing something stupid D:]

12-16-03
If *I* won the lottery I would build a summerhome in the Scottish Highlands and in the winter I would have a house in Waimea, Hawaii, so I could see lush, green hills [are you drunk yet?? LOLOL] no matter what! I would also buy a digital vidio camera, something I really want! And I would hope to meet one of my Internet friends (Mistlerose, Jerry Honor, Rosie, Lianachan, Lady-Eowyn, Akallabeth, RingwraithFreak, Lady-of-Rohan, or never-poke-a-squirrel. [LOL] All the cool people!)

1-5-04
What did I learn over Christmas break? That time goes too fast when you’re not bored. [Wait till you’re an adult, it somehow gets faster every year!] I was always on the Internet talking to my Internet friends. It was really fun!

1-6-04
I spend the night in a “haunted” house. What happends? Well, the house always creaked cause it was really old and tree branches always scraped the windows cause it was windy. I don’t believe in ghosts, [what?? I saw one when I was a kid!] so the house wasn’t haunted, just scary. My friends were surprised I wasn’t scared after cause everyone else was

Kay, I wanna talk about my Christmas break! It was fun! I saw ROTK, Cold Mountain, and The Last Samurai. ROTK is an AWESOME movie! I loved the battles! Eowyn rocked in battle! I’ve seen ROTK twice. I also talked to my Internet friends, of course. Honor changed his name again - to MasterofSauron. That name is cool, better than Jerry Only. He’s not mad at me anymore. I’m still gonna call him honor. I got more Blind Guardian CDs and HammerFall (Honor reccomended HammerFall). HammerFall is cool too. They don’t scream like BG, so I guess there the better band, as Honor says. “Heeding the Call” is an awesome battle song. I love the line “heeding the call, one and for all, never surrender with glory we fall. Brothers unite, let’s stand up and fight…we are heeding the call!” Yeah!


28. What do you usually drink with breakfast? Orange juice

29. How many closets does your house have? Three

30. What year is your car? I don't have a car

31. What’s the largest animal you’ve ever had as a pet? A dog

Today's trivia: The Northern cardinal is the most popular state bird. Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia all picked it as their favorite species