What I Did This Weekend
Besides stuffing myself with turkey and all the trimmings, besides writing until my eyeballs bled, besides doing all my shopping on Black Friday...this weekend, I did the bird tree.
What the heck is a bird tree? And how does one do it, exactly?
Well, Minions, the fam and I decided we wanted some family time together and we also completely adore the birds and squirrels that frequent our back patio. So we put up a tree back there with pretty lights and then commenced to stringing popcorn and cranberries, and pasting pinecones with peanut butter and rolling them in birdseed. The cranberries and popcorn became garland, and the pinecones became ornaments. And now...one particularly chunky lil squirrel is pigging out. The birds are sure to follow.
We had a blast.
But today...today it's back to writing, and the ever looming deadlines.
What did you do this weekend, Minions?
What the heck is a bird tree? And how does one do it, exactly?
Well, Minions, the fam and I decided we wanted some family time together and we also completely adore the birds and squirrels that frequent our back patio. So we put up a tree back there with pretty lights and then commenced to stringing popcorn and cranberries, and pasting pinecones with peanut butter and rolling them in birdseed. The cranberries and popcorn became garland, and the pinecones became ornaments. And now...one particularly chunky lil squirrel is pigging out. The birds are sure to follow.
We had a blast.
But today...today it's back to writing, and the ever looming deadlines.
What did you do this weekend, Minions?
posted by Heather Brewer at 6:50 AM
78 Comments:
i seen my family at thanksgiving, and we got our tree!!!! it looks great! i'm soo happy, the place we always get our tree's did not have any soo we went to a diff place that is like 2 minutes from my house and we got ours dir, how has our Auntie been?
Luv AVL
well besides eating some lovely thanksgiving left overs i sat in the car for 4 hours on my way back from VA x] by the time we reached MD me and my brother were ready to kill each other. i think we're going to put up our tree this week... we have a fake one cas my little brother is allergic to like 10 different trees
does anyone know where i can get jet black n bloody red hair color?
Luv AVL
Black is as close as your grocery store (I use L'Oreal), but Blood Red by Special Effects you have to order online. Plus, don't forget to bleach hair (I use White Out bleach from Hot Topic) before you dye it with the red, for maximum color.
Interesting... Someday I want to dye my hair black. (I have blond hair, so bleaching is unnecessary)
We mostly laid around and did nothing this weekend, I turned a cartwheel and made brownies yesterday but... that's about it, and you already know about my hat (look at other comments if you don't) :)
o0o0o0o0o0o0o thanks auntie heather!!!!! now i just gotta see my ma....don don don LoL
but i am leaving for my gram's house in a min, so bye bye till tomorrow *insert sniffle*
Luv AVL
I have brown hair..i want red in it but my parents...i don't think they care actually...cool!
My weekend was...family, turkey, looking for clothes (Sunday), and hearing about the man who got trampled on Black Friday.
People are insane, that's all i have to say abotu that
Jess
i feel soooo bad for that guy.
i have brown hair too, not really dark but not light, prob like those girls on commericals wit brown hair? just not shiny and a lil darker LoL.
my mom said i can get highlights (she wont go 4the black cuz (no offense) she dont really like black hair, well she dont like it on me) n she dont want me having it but i am waiting to see if i can get it all the way, i think its cuz she just dont want me to change my hair.
Luv AVL
Fun.... my mom would call me 'Miss Goth' until it was all gone if I had black hair.
My mom wouldn't care :) but she wouldn't be happy with it. She likes my hair...i wish my hair was more red liek my moms...oh well.
I felt bad for that guy adn the pregnent lady who got nocked over adn had a miscarriage.
Again, peopel are insane!
Jess
OMG a pregnant lady got nocked down and then had a miscarriage, i did not know that! awwwwwwww, poor baby. like, i miss vlad a lot, i love hiM! hey does anyone here get the bathory gazzette? you know the email news letter thing? cuz i never got one even tho it said it was set up.
luv AVL
AVL, I just sent a Gazette out the other day - you might want to watch your spam folder, and it wouldn't hurt to sign up again, just in case.
Thanks Auntie Heather, i'll try en sign up again o_0 ( ) see he has fangs! that would have been real stupid of me if i've beeen getten it all along and i deleted it in my spam folder, man.
luv AVL thanks again Auntie
o_0 vlad vlad vlad vlad vlad vlad
( )
This is what i tried to do, he has fangs, but it did not work, i dont know if it will work this time LoL
luv AVL
OMG THAT NEW CONTEST LOOKS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!! I JUST SEEN IT AND I AM GOING TO GET TO WORK LIKE RIGHT NOW!!!!!
I have been very busy Heather!!! I have three (or more) papers I need to write, three days of school I'll be missing and need to do all the work for, and a trip to El Salvador to pack for and work out the final plans! (Never mind paying for it...)
Thanksgiving I would have normally spent all that time working but I ended up luckily going to my friend's (Sam's) for Thanksgiving dinner with my family. On Friday we went to my Godmothers in Mass. (4 hour drive) and then from there on Sat. we went to RI to have another Thanksgiving with some family. Sunday we came home and I got sick...
Other than that crazy weekend and the ones coming up I have been procrastinating and doing work in my clubs.
I am a very busy minion!
I made all my family watch the movie Howl's Moving Castle. They had no choice. Bwahahaha >:D Anyway, they loved it in the end and thought it was great! I also found out there was a book and read that. It was quite different but still cool. Auntie you must see and read Howl's Moving Castle!! Same to my fellow Minions! Also, if you like the movie you should check out some of Hayao Miyazaki's other works like Spirited Away and Kiki's Delivery Service. Each movie is a masterpiece.
I want to see it someday, though I doubt my mom would approve (just something about it doesn't seem right...)
What is Howl's moving castle?
Luv AVL
It's an anime.
Have you seen Princess Monoke yet, Camidee?
Oh my gosh! Princess Monoke is the best movie ever!! Sorry, my computer has been infected or something, so I just got it fixed today....I love that movie! I got to see my family over the weekend, but unfortunately, my cousin had a staph infection. I felt so bad for him cause he was in a lot of pain the whole time :( hopefully it will clear up soon. Oh, and Howl's Moving Castle is great as well!! Camidee I totally agree, every single movie is a masterpiece!
Hayao Miyazaki is a total GENIUS. Princess Mononoke is probably one of my favorite movies, and I loved Howl's Moving Castle too :D (The novel of Howl's Moving Castle is amazing as well. I love it to bits!) Almost my whole family is made up of Miyazaki fans :)
My weekend was pretty uneventful (Visiting my grandmother, seeing relatives, being slightly bored, etc. etc.) until I went over to my cousin's house... and we started watching clips from Japanese game shows, which is my favorite boredom-killing method ;)
Aaand on the previous topic of hairdye (I have to give my two cents ^^; Hairdye is love.) The first time I suggested dyeing my hair to my mom, she was kinda not for it very much. Now she helps me dye it, and I think she actually likes it xD
I'm sorry for rambling... that was a really long message o_o;
My brother Jimmy came up about a week ago or a week and a half ago, his car broke down, we only got to see him for a day, he has been in the city, trying to get it fixed, and he has to be back to day to his Naval Base (dec 3 Wed) so me and my mom are driving him down to VA, i wanted to go, i want to go, i love those long car trips, but i feel so bad for my brother, he only got to stay with us one day, and we seen him the other day for like a few hours, and now he is going to have to take a 8hour car trip. but i am going to love going, listening to music, reading, writing, studying, and thinking for 8hours there and 8hours back; oh yeah, my type of long trip. dude, i'm not joking about the going to love the things listed above me, i'm anxious for them.
I love Princess Monoke! It's one of my favorite movie!
....i know a guy who has red strip in teh middle of his black hair adn his mom helped him with it, dyeing and bleechign it.
It looks flippin' awesome! I want to dye my hair, if only i had time to...
My brother won't stop trying to show me a card trick -_-
Jess
Lol, i am leaving in a min, till tomorrow fellow minions o_0 vlad vlad vlad vlad vlad vlad vlad vlad vlad vlad vlad( )
Luv AVL
I went to Florida to meet with my familia, but it was more stressful than relaxing. Oh well. At least none of my cousins recieved a fatal stab wound by my hand...
VLADIMIR TOD!!!!!
i re-read Twilight and New Moon. i also watched my dad put up the christmas lights. :D
my sisters and i put up our fake christmas tree and decorated it.
we also drove around the neighborhood and looked at peeples christmas lights.
there is this one guy who completely covers his house in lights. and they are hooked up to a computer and the computer "tells" the light when to go on and off. and if you go by his house and turn the radio in the car to a certain station, the lights blink to follow the song. its sooooooo cool.
oh!!!!
i'm writing a werewolf story and i need to find a enemy of a werewolf, but i don't want the enemy to be a vampire.
does any one have any idea what a good enemy can be???
I haven't seen Princess Mononoke yet, only one little part because I missed it when it came on tv. (Stupid party) So I missed it, but my friend might get it for me for Christmas if she can find it, that or Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. Those two, Porco Rosso, and Castle in the Sky are the only other movies I haven't seen yet. I use to own Kiki's Delivery Service before the Katrina flood but it got washed away, and I use to rent Totoro at Best Buy every time I went when I was younger. XD They don't have it anymore though. D:
Good enemy for a werewolf? Hmm, well in terms of mythical enemies, maybe some other kind of shapeshifting creature? Or if you're looking for something more unique maybe gorgons, or golems, or even a pheonix. Although if you're looking for something less mythical, any kind of hunter carrying something silver like a dagger or bullet, or wolfsbane, or sometimes (as said in some countries) rye and mistletoe. >_> Anyway, if you need more mythical enemies just look it up on google and you'll fina tons.
That really sux that it got washed away. I ahev the video but no video player (so sad). I hope you find it again.
A enemy for a werewolf? A witch, a...hunter? idk. Maybe a fallen angel or soemthing...or a demon! a demon might be one
Now i'm satrtign to loose my mind....so sad.
Jess
I would say a slayer, someone who's had a hard life and is a hardened assassin or something to that nature... Or something like a shade from the Inheritance cycle (someone controlled by demons who has lost their own soul and is a walking shell of demon, very, very, very evil. And a very, very, very difficult foe to defeat)
I myself am having trouble, how can you have a couple of slightly magical characters, but they never 'do' any magic? I'm kind of stuck in that area...It'll probably come to me eventually.
i'm doing a demon in my book (bad guys; one demon, and a few evil vampires), it good cuz you can never get a demon to be to evil, there is no limit so you can make them as bad as you want, ya' know? so its a good enemy for use.
luv AVL
um, RJ i'll look into some creatures, but i cannot right now, srry. i will prob get the chance to l8rrrR.
luv AVL
Awww darn it.... I would normally compete in the contest but, i have been swamped with too much work. I have hours upon hours of homework, i need to find a kendo dojo, and i need to find a part time job i like, so i can save up enough money to go on my japan trip next year.
Also i agree Princess Mononoke is the best it was the first anime i have ever seen and my favorite. i can watch that show for days without end.
Minion 38-14 how old r u? no i meant that i am using a demon and evil vampires as charactors in my book, (real book). i am doing a vampire story with bad vamps as the bad guys in my short story, i am doing 2, and i am going to chose (and have my mom help me chose) which one to enter.
Luv AVL
I'm not looking for creatures, they are both fleshed out characters already. Human-like-people who have been around a bit longer (a few centuries) than any mortal thing could, and I don't know how to tone them down enough to make them uninspiring when it comes to magic.
Example being, one of them does something magical, but the story never states this or dwell on it very much (only very slightly implied) then we see them a century later, exactly the same.
Thanks you guys!
I might do some kind of hunter or slayer.
Now i have to research some werewolf legends.
Yay, research. I've found pages of insight on weird websites, like neopets, for example. Wikipedia is a great place to start, though you probably already have places to look.
mayb u could do something like (RJ, this is what i am doing for my real book, but i'm not gonna spoil the surprise) were your charactor was attacked or something, saved before turning, but becoming immortal, except if soething kills you. just an idea thats what i am doing for my book just i left out some things, (You will all know once i finish it, if i will even be able to finish it)
Luv AVL
Ah research, a writers best friend....or enemy, idk.
Wkipedia is the best! not counting the fact it might be false info...but w/e.
Jess
I cant find the vlad and lexie blog, is it still on here? or like does anyone know were i can find it on here, or if anyone can post what link to type in.....
Luv AVL thanks
Hm, it's apparently gone, though no one's posted anything since Valentine's day last year.
I already have them fleshed out (as in, they have personalities and back stories. I was just musing aloud I guess.)
oh thats cool RJ, oh man! i liked the vlad and lexie thing LoL. i have the one story for the contest done, i am making two, i will start the second one in like a sec, and then once my brothers (my two older ones,) and tiff (eldest bro's girlfriend) come home, i will have them all (mom dad brothers tiff) read them and give the opinion on which one to send in, this should take place like maybe christmas or christmas eve, i might even have a few family members on christmas eve (we go to my mother's mom on christmas eve,) and see what they think, but w.e they aint gonna like em anyway (my bro's prob will, i talking about my aunts and cuz and stuff,) so i dont have expectations,
srry for rambling!
luv AVL
AVL i am 16............... in this life>:)=
That anonymous was me i accidently hit the enter key :(
haha i didnt know were are that old LOL (minion 38-14)
Luv AVL
That not old, i'm 14....
Jess
I know, I thought he was 14.... mesze 12
Luv AVL
Thanks. It's kind of confused right now but I don't really need to think much on it until the third part of a story I'm writing (like the third book) and I'm in the beginning of the first 0.o
I know this is completely off-topic, but is it too late for me to enter for the short story contest?=x
no i think auntie said that we can enter until jan 23....by email i think it has to be recieved by snail mail like jan 17, check the 'win things' page and it will tell you.... that is cool RJ, i am doing a series, if it even goes anywhere, (meaning my book even gets a few sales,) but i'd prob write more anyway, at least so i'll know how the story will end
#_0. what is your book bout?
Luv AVL
Ohh ok!
I just started yesterday, but i wanted to submit within a week.
I'm doubt mine would win, but thats probably only cos i dont have much confidence =p
Mine's about the usual, human<3vampire thing =]
LoL. i have no confidence either, my mom is always like your good at this or something and i'm like no i'm not.. ::))=. i don't think mine will win, i'm sure a much much better one will win.,
Luv AVL
Aw i'm sure your's win :D
I've never won anything before, so..xD
I'm gonna attempt a story for the contest, but I seriously doubt I'll win xD My mom always tells me I'm a great writer, but that's how moms are, y'know? Apparently my English teacher thinks I'm a good writer too, but I really don't. Wow, I fail at confidence, huh? xD Good luck to everyone who's entering! :)
I'm submitting mine soon...hopefully...
I doubt that i'll win, but i have low self-esteem (i think) so confidence is not really my deparment...all the time.
i say we wish each other luck, whoever wins at least it will be fair.
Jess
how bout everybody writes a comment with only 'good luck' writen on it,
luv AVL
Good Luck!
luv AVL
Good luck!
Jess
Good luck!
-Julz
Good luck!
And I have more to say, it's a (from my limited knowledge) a new (well, in some areas) take on vampires.
"They've existed for a century. And soon, they'll be among us."
Take from that what you will. It COULD be a tagline of sorts I guess... kinda.
Hi. I learned how to juggle this weekend! My fourth grade teacher started teaching us how to do it, but I gave up after fourth grade was over. I barely started again, and I'm pretty good, actually!
Good Luck! =)
i know this is EXTREMELY off topic and that we mentioned this like FOREVER ago, but i was think Cheslea staub would be a good Meredith, or somebody like that, if no body knows who she is (which is prob the case) she was in minutemen and an episode of wizards of waverly place,i know her from minutemen, like u can look her up on images.google.con of imdb (google has MUCH better pics, and more), just a thought.
luv AVL
whoops forgot to say with the thought of the vlad movie blog, if auntie ever did a movie.
luv AVL
man i keep making mistakes, images.google.COM OR imdb.com, man what is with me today?!
Luv AVL
Okay. I'll look her up.
Am I the only person on here who is even remotely interested in the Batman franchise?
my brother got a break from the army base and came home!!!!!!! YAY!!!! but now hes gone again :( :(
You're not alone, RJ :D I'm a pretty big Batman fan :)
i kno some batman stuff.Did you see the Dark Night movie?
Jess
Dark Knight.
Yes, I want it for Christmas.
Yay! I'm NOT ALONE!!! Well, the link on my name has a couple of batman stories...
Awesome, I'll have to check those out sometime :D
Kewl.
I loved that movie! One of the best
Jess
I loveee dark knight, me and my bro were going to see it, (he is one of those guys who knows when a movie will be out like 6months before) so we were waiting that long but then he was in va so me pete my dad and mom went lol.
Luv AVL
Thanks! I have the unfortunate tendency to write at odd intervals during the week and other things like that so I don't have very many readers. :(
I'll read it....when i find time (life has o extra time handy lately).
I went with my friends to see Dark Night cause nothing else we wanted to see was out....it was awesome!
Jess
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