After a bizarrely warm November, it's starting to get pretty cold indeed around these parts. Christmas decorations are everywhere. Shopping queues are getting longer. This morning I heard "Merry Christmas (The War is Over)" on the radio- the first Christmas song I've heard in 2011. And a few days ago I posted a TON of cards and letters to readers who had written to me- so it is OFFICIALLY close to Christmas. I can now safely announce it.
You may rejoice.
And the competition winners may ALSO rejoice, because the books I have to sign have finally arrived. I'll sign them all this weekend, have them ready to be picked up on Monday or Tuesday, and then hopefully you'll be getting your prizes over the next few weeks. It'd be cool if you could get them BEFORE Christmas, so that's what we're working towards.
There's still a lot of work going on in my house. I'm getting one of the rooms refurbished- COMPLETELY redesigning it- as well as the kitchen redone, and that's been going on since the start of October. Basically, it means a lot of noise and hassle and interruptions, so I haven't been able to focus on Book Seven, which I really would have liked to have started by now. But hey, I'm not worried. My house is going to RULE when it's all finished, because finally I'll have a proper place to store my toys.
A lot of you may not know this, but I love toys. I collect movie memorabilia and props and stuff, and also comic-book statues. To give you an idea of the kind of things I'm talking about, here are a few action figures...
... and a rather large Iron Man (I've put a book beside him to give you an idea of scale)...
Oh, and here's a 12 inch figure of Sweeny Todd about to give a 12 inch Ichabod Crane a very close shave...
Boy oh boy do I love toys...
As you can imagine, my place is full of equipment boxes right now, so I'm going to leave you with a picture of one of my cats- Pooper- doing what cats love best: clambering into cardboard boxes for no apparent reason.
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«Oldest ‹Older 2601 – 2800 of 4817 Newer› Newest»Oh, It's really pretty, and in other places I find it really soothing, but we were looking stressedly because we were headed to the 'Harry Potter Exhibition' at the Powerhouse Museum...
Depends...
Actually, no it doesn't I'm from NSW.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGUQfJ7xfME
Ha ha! LOL! i looked at this one
Yeah, that's the first episode.
BTW Russia's (that's me by the way) human name is Ivan Braginski.
omg same!
(didn't realise we had so much in common... it's scary)
You should watch it...
Do you understand the concept?
Countries are portrayed by really cute guys.
omg...
... COOL!
-just watched itlay/germany, and now watching english
K, got it!
hey is anyone here
Rosella, I hope you don't mind, I have your email SO I CAN SEND YOU MY STORY, okay? I sent something to you, asking if you wanted to read it the rest of what I've written so far and it says "It's Val!" for I think the subject. So If you want the story (I think you do, right?) just say so, and I'll send it to you.
yeah, thats okay. I saw the emails (i'm waiting for nyx to actually discover that she has a billion unread emails from me)
Anyway, thanx. Just don't give it out, plz
hey val what up
Rosella...
I want to rad that Christmas fanfic now...
*sighs*
READ. I meant read.
can i send someone my story because i dont want to post it yet because its not finished but i would like someone to let me know how im going with it
You can post it here, and then delete the comment.
@sparky
c'mon! i've barley written a paragraph!
its a long story
Hi amelie
Yeah, you can do what sparky just said. Thats what we did.
but i guess i could put it here
Okay...
Sorry Rosella...
thanks ive seen it now
?
what are you sorry about, Sparky?
Okay, Rosella, I'll send you my story, and Amelie, I will read your when I get it.
And by the way, what country are you guys from? I know Sparky's Australian, but what about you guys?
*giggles*
Their both Aussies as well.
Australian, too
I was hiding in a not so normal spot, hiding from the creatures of the night. No one really knew what they were or what they looked like because nobody and I mean nobody survived seeing one to be able to describe it. All we knew about the creatures is that they would come out at night, find the closest person and rip their throat out then dismember them in the most horrific way imaginable. I was the first one to see what a person looked like after an attack. They were always in a secluded room no one else in ear or eye sight , the walls would be covered in all their different organs and blood, arms and legs in different corners of the room but the head , the head was always placed in cupboard or somewhere out of sight unless you went looking.
I came across this site not on purpose but on my daily walk. I was walking through a nice clean neighbourhood and I heard a baby crying, it was coming from a house that was not in a very good way. The door was open and I thought I would go check it out to see if it was okay. I walked into the lounge room and found it covered in a dismembered body but the thing that actually grossed me out was that when I walked over to the crib, the child with in it was a deep scarlet colour from the bloodshed. I figured it would be best if I called the police, so I pulled my mobile out of the back pocket of my jeans and dialled. It wasn’t long until they arrived I was allowed to help them with the child until they found some family for her.
I had to go down to the police station to make a formal statement about what happened. It took fifteen minutes to get to the station and then another half an hour for them to take my statement. They couldn’t find anyone to take care of her until they could find her family so I volunteered to look after her. I didn’t have my car with me so I had to get the police to drop me off home. I cleaned her up as well as I could then I had to go get her some new clothes and other baby stuff, so I drove to the shopping centre to get the things I needed.
We arrived at the centre and I knew I would get weird looks because she was still slightly red and her clothes were still a deep scarlet colour. I just tried to ignore the people staring. I walked around for a while trying to find a baby shop but I couldn’t, so I went to find someone that could help me. I found a young mother, who looked to be in her twenties, and thought I would ask her. “Excuse me miss do you know where I could find a baby clothing shop” I asked nervously. “oh yes are you new around here “ she answered confidently .
“No but I’m looking after this adorable little girl and I need to find her some clothes and items that I may need”
“Oh may I see her I can show you where you can get all the stuff you need”
“Thank you” ,I said showing her the baby girl
“Oh what’s her name she asked before she could see her properly, oh and why is she all red”
“um I’m not really sure of her name you see I found her and her family was dead so I called the police and I’m helping them by looking after her “
“ok well if you follow me I can show you what you are going to need”
I followed the young women and after a while we had most of the stuff that I would need to look after her. The young women whose name was Madeline gave me her number so that if I needed any
help I could call. I drove home and place her down on the couch whilst I started putting together the furniture.
I finally had some clothes so I gave her a bath after I had finished setting everything up. When I was finished she wasn’t red anymore and was seemingly happy. It was dark when I finished so I fed her and put her to sleep. Once I had done that I went into the kitchen to make myself some dinner. I was tired so I only made a sandwich and then I went to lie on the coach to eat my sandwich and read a book. Before long I had eaten my sandwich and had fallen asleep with the book open in my hands resting on my chest.
It was almost midnight when I woke up to her crying, I put my book down and went over to the cot I would move into my room later. I picked her up and tried to rock her back to sleep, when that didn’t work I thought she might be hungry, that didn’t work either. So it was almost midnight and I had a crying baby that wouldn’t go back to sleep and I couldn’t even figure out how to get it back to sleep. I finally got her back to sleep my alarm went off and woke her up again. I decided to call Madeline for help she answered the phone and said she would be over in fifteen minutes because she had to dress her little boy Michael. Twenty minutes later she arrived and invited her in for a drink. I explained what happened and she said that it could just be that she was cold or just wanted a cuddle. I was intrigued because I thought they only cried when they were hungry, thirsty, tired or needed to be changed.
After an hour or so we had decided to meet up again on Saturday after I went to the police station to see what progress had been made since I was looking after her the force let me have time off, I also wanted to see if they figured out her name yet because this was getting difficult without her having a name.
The week rolled past quickly and it was Saturday. I had to get up early so that I could be ready to go to the station and meet up with Madeline. The trip to the station takes ten minutes so I arrived just after ten. I was taken into the sergeants office and she started to explain that they found out her name, it was ashlee and she was two. They hadn’t been able to get in contact with any family yet so I was to keep looking after her but they should be able to contact them within a couple of days
thats all that i have so far
are people still here :)
wow....
thats really good, amelie!
thanks rosella its not finished yet
why is no one here
*waves*
I'm still here...
yay bt why werent you talking
i don't know...
... i'm so sorry amelie, but i have to go now too...
... see you later! Well done with your writing!
I'm here, just being a complete freak somewhere else at the same time...
SEEYA ROSELLA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What are you doing Val V?
ok what can we do
*sees Scapegrace walking up behind amelie with an army of zombies following him*
Okay.
*grabs Makaira and runs at zombies, blurring with speed*
* attacks scrapegrace with fire and water and then backflips and kicks him in the face*
hello..................?
Watch. Out.
*splays hands forward, sending a weak shockwave through the zombies, making them stagger*
And. Stand. Back.
*sprints into the middle of the army of zombies, holding the at bay with the sword*
I need to go now.
*throughs sword into air*
BYE!!!
*jumps, vaults off Thrasher's head, catches sword and disappears in a flash of lightening*
NO SPARKY PLEASE DON'T GO!!! PLEASE DON'T!!! WHAT COULD BE MORE IMPORTANT THAN ME???
(Trust me, I know, I'm incredibly humble XD)
I want to draw something...
At first it's going to SUCK...
But it'll get better.
BYE!!!
YOU CAN DRAW SOMETHING AND BE HERE AT THE SAME TIME!!! YOU HAVE TO STAY!!!
*thinks of threat* I'll call Fletcher and tell him to stab you with his hair if you don't stay. I will.
*is irritated that Spark is leaving*
*lays down, still irritated, then suddenly bolts upright* OH NO. I FORGOT ABOUT MY ALGEBRA HOMEWORK. OH NO OH NO OH NO. *checks what horros await in my homework* *sighs in relief* Okay, okay, only 12 problems... *checks again* I HAVE TO GRAPH THOSE?!
*Sparky, not Spark. Stupid laptop.
I'm back.
*sees Fletcher*
Does your face still hurt?
Fletcher: *backs away*
Good boy.
*is panicing about homework, even though it's pretty easy* y = -x - 4 ??? HOW ON EARTH DO I FIND THE X-INTERCEPT?! THIS IS HIGH SCHOOL MATH, NOT SEVENTH GRADE MATH! WHY DO I HAVE TO BE SMART ENOUGH TO DO THIS?!
Sparky, are you good at Algebra? What number's opposite minus 4 equals zero?!
Just do that in a graph.
Well... Can you write the actual question?
I HAVE TO GRAPH IT ANYWAY!!! *throws math book at wall* *stomps on it* I HATE MATH!!!
...
So do I, but Algebra's fun when you get the hang of it.
*stops and thinks about the previous sentence*
Dear lord... I'M A NERD.
Sure I can write the- *pauses* Wait, did you just call me a dumb-dumb?!
1st
No...
1st
Oh...
1st I guess...
I dedicate this page to the thought of Val V wearing a dress!
*sighs at three things: my Algebra homework, Sparky getting first, and being called a dumb-dumb*
*sighs at a fourth thing: Sparky's dedication*
*glares* I have to wear a dress. It is for a concert. At least it's more than half black, with the rest of it white.
Nah, last week I had to wear a dress.
And heels.
*shudders*
The drawing idea is so corny...
*laughs at Sparky having to wear a dress also* Really? You had to wear a dress? Was it a bright colour? Because that would be funny.
No. It was cream. With mini blue flowers on it...
Val V?
Are you still there?
*shrugs* For my concert, I'm being forced to have a dress with white on top, and black on the bottom (which means black legging and shoes also). If I could pick, I'd just wear all black like I usually do.
Leggings?
I hate leggings.
So do I. I'll probably wear tights.
And off of the slightly embarrassing topic of dresses...
I'M STILL WAITING FOR MY SIGNED BOOKS TO COME TO ME. Sparky, I know you don't know me in person, but you know me well enough to know that I'm very impatient. AND WAITING FOR THE BEST THING EVER TO COME IN THE MAIL IS REALLY TESTING MY PATIENCE. And if that was a test, I'd get something lower than an F.
I get a score so bad, it'd hit the news.
I'd get something like a freaking Z- and I'd probably be baanished or something...
Yeah.
Hey, if in the equation y = 8x - 7 what would x be if I wanted y to be 0?
*slaps Val V*
*slaps Sparky*
*slaps Boxer*
*slaps Sparky and Val V again*
*slaps Fletcher and Caelan*
*grabs Fletcher's hair, messes it up and slams his head against Caelan's*
...
...
It doesn't work like that. But if x=0 that means y=7...
*slaps Sparky, sending her to the ground with the Necromancy used to influence more power in the slap* What was that for, crazy? DON'T SLAP ME!!!
Sparky, that's how these equations work; I know what I'm doing. I just don't know what numbers to use...
Well what we usually do is create a table where you make x=-1, 0, 1 and 2. And then we plot the points on a graph.
im back if you guys are still here
We're still here, trying to figure out how the heck to do some stupid equations.
what equations are you trying to do
I don't even know anymore, and it's my homework.
ok write down what the questionis and im should be able to helo you
hello are you still there
*pokes Val V*
*looks up suddenly*
Uh... The zombies are still here...
*pulls out Makaira and slices three zombies heads off*
what are you guys doing
Eh, they're really confusing. I'll just skip to the easy ones. *looks in different math book* The x-intercept is -2, the y-intercept is -6... I just have to put a little dot on a piece of paper now...
oh cartesion planes ive had to do them what yr are you in
Fighting zombies.
*melts a zombies head*
EWW, ZOMBIE GOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*shakes hand violently, trying to get rid of the goo, ends up wiping it on Val V*
hahaha *runs away from sparky with zombie goo*
*punches Sparky, then throws her towards the zombie horde* *laughs while she curses at me*
Amelie, I'm in the seventh grade, if that's what your asking.
*flips and makes zombies head explode*
yes thats what i was asking realy you seem older then that
(while I may be in the seventh grade, though, I have to do ninth grade level math because I'm just really, really, smart.)
thanks for the feed back val and i know i need to work on mygrammar its horrible i know im not offended
*rips off Thrashers head and tosses it at Val V*
oh thats why you were doing those becasue i only started doing them this yr (9) where are you from val
* arrrrrh thrashers head run away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
I'm from Washington State. NOT WASHINGTON D.C., THAT IS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF AMERICA. *cough Sparky cough*
*burns Thrasher's head with a fireball* *gives Sparky an evil little grin* You can't scare me with zombies.
You did NOT just remind me of that.
*dives at Val V and put magic-binding cuffs on her wrists*
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Caelan?
*stands Caelan on top of Val V*
Have fun, you two.
*chimes*
why r u guys fighting zombies....?
...?
Cause they attacked us.
I'm off to bed... Not by choice, but by force from Mumzy (that really is so fun to say). BYE!!!
And Amelie seventh graders are usually about 13... I'm about a month and a half past 12 1/2. I think I'm the youngest person on here, if you do it by birthday.
AND BYE AGAIN. SPARKY, I'M NOT COMING BACK TILL TOMORROW; DON'T TRY TO GET ME TO COME BACK BECAUSE IT ACTUALLY WON'T WORK.
okay.
Can i join in?
*hovers on the sidelines*
KK.
See you tomorrow.
bye val!
*hugs*
Sure you can join in.
*casually chucks sword into zombie about to buy my head*
Buy? I meant BITE for god's sake.
Yay!
*stands in front of a pack of zombies, weiling a black sword*
*sticks out tongue*
*enrages zombies*
*gets into the minds of zombies ("eww.... even their MINDS are squishy and rotten...!") and blows them apart using telepathy and mindwaves and such*
I can do that too! Sort of...
*stares at zombies*
Attack each other.
*zombies turn to each other and bite each others heads off*
I can also do this!
*sends stream of electricity at zombies head, making it explode*
Sparky: Hello, Mr Zombie, how may i help you?
Zombie: Urghh...... i wanna buy your head....
Sparky: With brains and neurons included?
Zombie: Garrr......yeah...
Sparky: okay....
Zombie: Urgh? I want it NOW!
Sparky: *grins mischeviously* And for a PRICE that YOU WILL PAY!! *throws sword at zombie*
:P
argh! brb
BTW I don't talk like that, but WAY SUPER AWESOME COOL!!!
back...
*casually decapitates zombies with sword*
*kicks a hhole through another*
Hey, hey more FUN!
*sees zombie Fletcher*
I'm not gonna ask.
*slaps Fletcher zombie's head off and then kicks his crotch*
Hee...
FIGHTING MUSIC!!!
*plays 'Fader' while stabbing zombie*
*claps*
Bravo!
*bllasts apart a zombie with energy*
*creates fireworks, hypnotising the zombies*
WHACK THEIR HEADS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*thumps three zombies on the backs of their heads with sword*
BRB.
I'm back!
*strikes zombies with lightening, sends electricity through bloodstream, making movements blurred, makes electricity crackle around hands and punches zombies all around*
*dances to 'death waltz' (:P) around the zombies, and kills each with a brush of fingers as she passses*
hey hey im back
*slices sword to music*
*looks around*
There's only one left.
*looks at Scapegrace*
Run along pus-head.
lol
*grabs scapegrace, puts hims in a cardboard box and duct-tapes him upside down to the top of the harbour bridge*
*chucks a rock at the box*
*joins sparky*
*watches box fall into the harbour*
Gahah...
>:P
I actually feel sorry for poor Scapegrace...
somewhat...
... he get so much negative duress!
i have to go now, i'm sorry.
Bye! See u later!
*hugs*
BYE!!!
Morning!
Great... alone again -.-
I have to go to school now. I'll be on tonight, bye!
helloooooooooooooooooo? *hello echos around the room!*
Bored... '_'
Oh, hi, zoned out for a minute...
ah, ok. how r u?
good, you?
im fine but bored :-|
I'm doing my RE homework on drugs and the Christian point of view... ._.
talking of re, i have to do a poster on the Lodz ghetto
Oh, we did that last year. We did all about the Holocaust and the concentration camps. It was a joint topic with History...
cool,we had to watch part of a film called the pianist, and the nazis chucked a old man in a wheel chair out of the window, it was horrible
We watched Shindler's List, it's about this guy who saves loads of Jews and it's a true story. They had to make it in black and white cuz of all the blood. Although it's really horrible to know ALL of this is true, it's a good film.
i heard of that film, how could jews be treated so badly?
Well... Long story short Hitler needed someone to blame for Germany not winning the first World War and he had hated Jews because one ran an art academy he had wanted to attend but was not good enough to get in. So mix it all together and what have you got? Not bibbity bobbity boo but Jews being killed on streets and Hitler telling everyone to be cruel to them.
o i knew that, but u know... its just horrible what they did to the jews
I know. One of my friends is Jewish and she practically had a nerves breakdown when we did this stuff.
oh,
what's the 'oh' for? It's like you just head butted the keyboard and that's what you got...
no its just .... i was just told to get off the pc by my mum cos she wants to go on the pc. got to go now, byii
Nooooooooooooooo...........
Alone again...
Hello!!
Anyone on??
i ammmmmmm **
o
Hi! :)
hello my dear blog goers
BABY IF YOU LEAVE ME IT WILL RAIN!!!!!!!
*MAKES IT RAIN*
*starts singing in the rain*
cos i;m singing in the rain
what a glorious feelinnnnnnng i'm hap-hap-happe again
im sick of being alone someone come on
Me. hi
me. hi
me how are you
me im fine u?
that isnt helping
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hellllllllllllo *echos* are you just plain right mean im bored *bangs head off wall* ow
Hello?
*awkward silence* So...
*starts singing*
nice to meet you
Nice to meet you too! I'm sort of new here, i've been reading this blog for ages, but never got round to joining!
cool!
my name is phoenix nightslayer but you can cal me flame.. *hands cookie*
so, how long have you been reading sp?
*Noms on cookie* 2 years? Thanks for the cookie! And you can call me Samantha or Tanith or Cookie! Except not cookie...
well sam how are you?
*dissapears in a flurish of shadows*
*reapears with an ice cream*
Great! How are you?
Hi Everyone
hi cookie
im good
so do you have a taken name or write stories or something?
cat *hugs* long time no see
Sorry if it takes me a long time to reappear
since i started coming, every time i write something i have to re-start my browser and re-log in. sorry, but i really dont want to keep this up. its too tiring
HUGS? what is this? no hugs. none. no hugs.
NOOO CAT DON'T CALL ME COOKIE! (I don't mind you can if you like!) And how do you mean Flame? Sorry if i'm being stupid and it's blatantly obvious!
why not?
that happened to me... if you have clicked keep me signed in it wont work.. unclick it and tad ha
yay!
Hi, random people in blog world!
Hi!
dont be calling yourself stupid...
i mean like write stories...
and if you have a taken name like stephanie
and me
mines FLAME PHOENIX
Hi, Tanith! Nice name, by the way.
marian would you happen to be marian grey?
if not nice to meet you!
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