Christmas is Coming!

Hey, sorry I haven't updated for a while. For some reason I always seemed to have something that needed to be done until now. Anyway, here's what I've been doing over the last 12 days:

First of all we're halfway through decorating our living room with Christmas decorations. I think it looks really nice and can't wait until Christmas :P

(It looks a lot better in real life...)
If you're wondering what that odd yellowish light at the bottom of the Christmas tree is, it's a trail of slightly creepy angel lights.


Mari, Kelli and my stockings are the only stockings currently empty. We still put up Jesse, Leah, and CJ's stockings even though we know you're not coming :( They currently have two items each in them :D

Kelli is coming next Monday which will be really cool :D
We're not sure whether or not to ask Isabelle (our cleaning lady) to clean the spare room. It's really disgusting after Alain the "Zen Buddhist" slept in there. The dogs won't even go near it, so we don't really want to make Isabelle go in there...



Mari made these along with the star on the tree for the Christmas Market thing near her school. She gave the red moon to me :D
They hold candles and slowly spin. :)

Mari and I bought everyone presents at the Christmas market. Here's a picture of them all together :D

The green one at the back is Kelli's. We didn't get her any stocking fillings yet because we weren't sure what to get :P

Oh yeah, and Thomas got me and Mari some advent calenders! The chocolate in them is wonderful :D


Mari and I did some baking today. We were thinking about trying to make some gingerbread people but decided against it. We made sugar cookies that I didn't have time to take a photo of because I was reading Harry Potter to Mari and she ate the lot without my notice. I want to try and make a modern Gingerbread house though like this one (joke):


I do however actually want to learn how to make these 3D snowflakes:

There's a really cool (and complicated) ghttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifuide here.

I've read a lot of articles on how people have just discovered that animals are smarted than we think. I've read an article on Chimps,Crows and dogs.

There was a Mysterious mammal caught on film on the BBC web site. It says he/she can be found in deserts in Mongolia and China. I absolutely love their tails! I didn't notice a second ago :D


And, if you haven't had enough of my animal links,
Japanese scientists create mice with no fear of cats!

My mom gave me a link to the thing I truly would love to get for Christmas. The Tales of Beedle the Bard... Sadly its being auctioned off tonight and I've not yet saved up the £40,000 needed. I've never wanted something as much as this before... If I had it, I'd probably be too scared to let anyone else touch it :P


And sadly I have to end this post with a bit of bad news. Iris was finally fixed a couple days ago and is in a bit of pain at the moment. The worst part of it all is that she has some fleas on her that make annoying bites she now can't scratch because of her head thingy. We can't give her the flea medicine because the vet (or my mom, I can't remember) said not to.


Anyway, Thats all I have time for tonight. I have many guild members waiting for their leader and need some sleep. I'll update again soon :D

I finished the layout!

I worked for about two hours on this layout so I hope you like it! The previous one was a default one, but looked like I made it :P

Okay, moving on I did some embroidery lessons with Isabelle and here's what I've done so far:

I'm spelling Meadhbh the quicker way because its my first try. It'll be Maeve when I'm finished :D
Its all made up from a bunch little X's and lines. as you can see here:


Well anyway, I have to go to bed now. Its very late.
I'll update again soon! :D

Neovision results...

The craziest and funniest possible thing happened to me a couple of days ago. Mari and I were browsing NeoPets as we do on boring days, looking for a background to put on Mari's pet when all of the sudden we saw that the new NeoVision contest entries had been chosen. We clicked the ugly banner

and scanned the winners' list. It took us a couple of looks up and down before we saw it. We had won the NeoVision contest. TNT had actually fell for our acting and has posted it for all the Neopians to see it. Here's the proof:



I ran up the stairs, not able to breathe with laughter, and woke up mom. We went to Thomas's office to watch it. Sadly they showed this annoying advert about a toy parrot that talks then we laughed at how funny it was that out of 150,013,073 NeoPets users our video got chosen. I hate the level of work people expect from children. It's always so low... only users older than 10 can enter the NeoVision contest, so they're not all five or anything. The only way to win seems to be to act stupid and blend with the rest :P

Oh yeah, and you can watch all of the videos here.

Anyway, away from NeoPets I have had quite a fun four days. Today Mari and I watched the first Harry Potter film again today. All the characters are so small and are so bad at acting. :P It's very funny to watch. We also watched the fifth Harry Potter movie about seven times since it arrived here. :D

Thomas and I took the dogs on a longer than usual walk today. We walked up near where the hunters hunt. We realised, while coming back, that we had scared off all of the rabbits and birds with our calls, whistles and clicks to Gracie and Iris. The hunters weren't pleased :P

Mari and Thomas also bought a Christmas wreath when they browsed the selection of Christmas Trees for sale. I decorated the wreath with a bow so far :D I will be adding some bobbles when Christmas comes :)

It looks kinda fake but its real. It smells so nice :D

The cat comes inside almost daily now. He's actually sleeping on a chair at the moment :) His fur has gotten even thicker since I last posted :D

You'll all be glad to hear that the stitches in Gracie's face have been removed. She seems happier that they're gone :P

The sun sets really oddly as you can see here:


And here's a few random pictures of Iris. I find them funny. She's so cute :P


That's all for tonight I'm afraid. I'm doing some embroidery lessons with Isabelle, our cleaner, so I'll post about that soon :)
I also might do some cooking... It depends :P

Tags: cat dogs "NeoVision Victory" wreath "TNT is stupid"

Fake NeoVision Entry.

I've been having a bit of trouble with making a new blog layout. I keep having to start over because it's wrong or doesn't look right :S
But I'll fix it soon, don't worry :P

Over the last two weeks I've started up a new NeoPets graphics site here, Mari and I beat the video game we were playing :P, I helped build my new bed, Mari and I made a fake NeoVision contest entry (more about that in a minute), I updated the pet timez, Thopmson (our cat) decided it was cold enough for him to come inside the house, the weather has gotten windy and cold, etc.

I don't think I mentioned it before but only two of the baby mice are left. They're both very healthy though, there about 3/4 the size their mother was and run around a lot. They seem very happy :D

This is my and Mari's FAKE NeoVision video. We decided to make it to test if TNT (The Neopets Team) would buy it :P
They haven't announced the winners yet :D

We're very hopeful XD


You'll all be glad to hear that Gracie's nose is fine. It didn't get infected or anything and we'll be taking out the stitches very soon. :)

That's all I have time for tonight I'm afraid. I hope you'll like the layout when I make it :P

Tags: animals dogs mice NeoPets "NeoPets Graphics" "NeoVision Contest" "New layout to come" "Pirate Cat"

My Birthday!

Hey everyone.
As you all probably already heard it was my b-day on the 4th of November!


We ate sushi and cake! It was WAY to filling... We gave some to Théo and little Thomas.

I want to write this post as a thanks to everyone who got me a present :D

I'll start with my mom. She got me a pair or Really nice roller-skates that are so good and fast that I had to start all over again in the skate park :D They're so much better then the old ones! :P

Thomas got me a T.V. and a replacement game-cube! (Iris broke the last one :o)
I was very surprised to get two presents from mom and Thomas actually. Which makes it even more of a surprise :-D

Jesse got me a couple of really nice books and some chocolates that were extremely nice and that I have now forgotten the name of :3 I've started on one of the books but can't seem to stop! That often happens to me :P

Leah got me a really cool solar energy kit and a card so big that it won't fit in my card drawer! I can't wait to try the solar energy kit out :) Its really nice :D

Nan got me a set of nice bath soaps, a book on countries and flags and a book series on animals :)
(Tell Nan I say thanks :D)

CJ got me a very pretty necklace and a lovely card :F
I love them <3

Freddie got me a very cute chicken teddy. (She was aiming for a pigeon but couldn't find one mom says :P)

And last but not least, Dad got me a lovely set of faerie themed tarot cards :D They're very nice and are even more interesting then I though they were. :)

Oh and I almost forgot. Alan and Raphael's present was a triangular rip in Gracie's face by their dog, Isis.
Mari and I were feeding them and it all went a bit wrong... I now have four teeth marks in one finger. It doesn't hurt though and its very clean. :)

The vet stitched Gracie's gash up very well. Its almost not noticeable now.
And Gracie is even happier now that she's back home.
As they say, "absence makes the heart grow fonder".
("If only that worked on teachers..." as Mari once said :P)

I'm sorry I didn't post this sooner. The internet airport went all funny (again). It always seems to happen when I want to write a post for some odd reason...

That's all I have time for for tonight though.

I'll post again soon!

Tags: birthday cake presents "dog bite" "roller skates" faeries

Halloween!

Hey again,

Halloween was really fun. Me, Mari, Raphael (I spelled it wrong), Théo and little Thomas went trick or treating!
Here are a few pictures:

This is Mari and Raphael. They dressed as vampire-skeletons! It's a great idea if you ask me :P


This is a picture of Isis, Iris and Gracie sitting next to me. :D


And this is a picture of Isis, Iris and Gracie running away from me. Isis already left. :P

We got a load of candy and had a sleep-over. We watched "The nightmare before Christmas" which is one of my favourite movies :D

I also made some cupcakes:

They're supposed to look like they have blood on them. We sort of went half-assed towards the end :P

A rather sad thing happened today. I had cleaned my hamster cage, and was ready to clean the mouse cage where I found the mother mouse and one of her children had passed away :(
My mom thinks the mother may have left that poor baby mouse to die because it had a disease. The mother may have caught the disease off of him/her.
I think the mother mouse may have just died of old age. She was fully grown when Mari got her last Christmas. Maybe she just hung on until she knew her babies could look after themselves. Meaning they could eat whole foods. And she left that other mouse because he/she was the smallest one. Mother mice often do that.
Whether the baby died of disease or because it was the smallest, it was the mother instinct to leave it I suppose...

But luckily the babies are doing fine so far. They're all eating whole food and running around a bit. I put them near the fireplace to keep a bit warm. I can hear them now :P
I'll keep checking back on them every couple of hours in the day. They'll be OK I hope...

This is the smallest one living. I'm glad he/she is eating :D


They're so cute aren't they?

It's my Thirteenth birthday in 1 day and 11 hours and 43 minutes. Just in case anyone forgot :P (only joking)
I think it will be really fun. Mom keeps saying stuff like "there might have been a package for you today" or "Someone not from the family, that you don't expect is getting you something" I don't know whether she's trying to trick me or not! But it's fun nevertheless :D

I won't be getting a pigeon this year mom says, though I really want one. I find them really cool. Here are a few pictures of random pigeons:


I find these pigeons beautiful. They're called Victorian Crowned Pigeons. The name suits them well :P


I like white pigeons a lot. I love how their eyes show up brighter.



This is an 8" long stuffed pigeon. I found it randomly :P

**Note to mom, this is not a "hint" of any kind, I'm just bored and like these photos**

I've just updated The Pet Timez so please have a look at it :)

That's all I have time for for tonight. I'll update in a few days :)

Tags: Pigeons Halloween Skeletons Dogs Mice "Birthday Countdown" "The Pet Timez"

I'm back!

I finally finished with my NeoVision contest entry so I finally have time to write a post!

It took many tries for me to enter the NeoVision contest but Thomas and I found out how to Upload it to NeoPets. Here's what the final project looks like on YouTube:

I did everything myself besides most of the editing which was by Thomas. Please tell me what you think. :D

There's a thing called the Cookie Crumbles Contest going on on YouTube and we've entered it.
Here's our video:

Five finalists have been chosen and I'm about 99.999 percent sure that one particular video was chosen.
I want to tell you all that the five finalists aren't allowed to announce themselves. I can't remember when the winner will be chosen but it's soon :)

I entered a video as well but it was taken off because I was making fun of this lady:


My video:


Heres some of my replies to random comments:

Random person (Probably the lady) : "What a sad family effort to submarine someone else's contest entry. Good values you're teaching these kids."

Me: "Family effort? This is just me and (sort of) my mom's video. Theres no "family effort" in it what so ever.

Is it a crime for kids to make fun of adults? This lady, whoever she is, obviously treats children like they're objects. I highly doubt she ever treated her children (if she had any) like real people. Most parents don't even have normal conversations with their children...

I have my own mind unlike most children. I can make decisions by my self if I decide to. I decided to make fun of this woman because I think her explination of cookies is wrong and because I wanted to try out my long forgotten Katharine Hepburn imitation :P

Just because I have a sense of humour doesn't mean my mom is raising me, or any of my sisters "improperly"."

(She doesn't reply)

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She sent this today:
Subject: Not shouting, just talking
Ok, so I figure my beef is with you and not yr Mom. I finally managed to watch the whole 8+ minutes, b/c I want to be fair. I still think the only thing you're making fun of is the speaker. If you were going to make fun of what she was saying, you'd need to alter the text, or perform specific words with even greater emphasis. So, why make fun of the speaker? From the post at your video site, I think it's b/c "The Cookie Lady" sounds condescending. But if you're commenting on tone, you need to have a tone of your own. The Katherine Hepburn voice is a charicature (sic) of an old woman, not a condescending one. It's not meant to be flattering, right? So I assume it's meant to be insulting. But I know that I don't know what you're thinking. I would like to know.
I told your mom, I think mouthy broads need to stick together, and that's why I keep talking.

Me:
Oh I see. My moms too big of a challenge for you to take on so you decided the 12 year old would be better. Whatever makes you more comfortable...

What I was thinking was that "The Cookie Lady" (as you re-describe her) Was being VERY condescending to all viewers. It made me feel like I was back at my French school if you must know. Where they talked to me like I had never been to school before and had never heard a word of French. I don't think anyone should talk or be talked too like that. "The Cookie Lady" should change her form of speech in my opinion. The optimistic vibe was OK but the way she looked at the viewers through the camera and the way she waved her arms about was extremely annoying. And the bookshelf in the background was both distracting and irritating.

I was not offending her as I said before. She shouldn't take it so personally. And I didn't need to alter the text because it was good enough already. I liked how it went on for so long. It was good for my Katherine Hepburn imitation. It sounded like an old person who never stops talking :P
Thats not to offend "The Cookie Lady". She went on to explain. Really old people go on just because.


Anyway I think I have said enough.
I have more important stuff to be getting on with...

-Meadhbh.
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That's all.

I'll update my blog again in a couple of days. I hope you enjoy reading my writing as usual!

Tags: "The Cookie Lady" "Cookie Crumbles Contest" NeoPets "NeoVision Contest Entry"

Pumpkin carving!

Yesterday we got four pumpkins and I carved two of them :D Here is a photo of them:


They look better when you seem them properly :/ I'll probably take more pictures of them anyway. :F

We have had a LOT of animals in our house since I last posted. Here are a few pictures of them:







You can read all about them on the PetTimez.
They're so cute :D

Today I made a really bad pumpkin pie. I think I did a mistake copying it from the computer. It had way too much liquid in it D:
But tomorrow I'm going to make an apple pie and hopefully it will be good :D (I'll take some pictures too.)

I'm going to work harder on the neovision contest tomorrow. I only have until the 28th of October and I want to submit a couple days early. I think I'll be able to do it as long as I try :)

Me and my mom had a fight with PeTA through emails. It's really stupid and funny and I think I'll post it tomorrow :P
I now hate PeTA and will be making "I hate PeTA" badges. I'll swap the humane mouse trap info with it :D

I will update this blog layout over the next week. I like changing layouts :P

Well that's all for today. I'll be posting soon about the next set of pumpkins in a few days :D

Tags: "Apple Pie" Dogs Hamsters "I Hate PeTA" "Blogger Layout"

Hey everyone. I'm sorry I haven't posted in a while. I'm doing a thing on neopets called neovision. I have to make a Halloween themed video and I'll show you it when I'm done. If I win you'll see extremely long post of Celebration. I'm making my video completely different to all the others (I'm hoping). I know thousands of people will do trick or treating for example so I'm keeping well away from that.

Anyway, I looked more closely at the bee hive tunnel thing in our garden and was that the bees are taking things from the hole in the ground. They fly out with little stone like objects that I can't really see and then fly away (all in different directions for some reason). I really can't figure out what it could be. It sorta looks like sugar but I don't think it is. Its near two plums and a cherry tree. And theres a lot of mole holes around.

I also made a REALLY good apple pie the other day (if I may say so myself :P). I think next time 'll take the skin of the apples off though :P And I'll take a picture :D

Moving on, I must get back to Neopets, a have guild members waiting and a Neovision contest ideas to work on So I have a lot to do.

I'll be posting a longer message on the weekend probably.

Oh yeah and Thomson has been spotted fighting the Neighbours cat that we have been trying to cure for months because she has a hurt eye. Our cat always loses to theirs says our other Neighbour who feeds everyones cat. I love the cat Thomson is fighting. She looks like a pirate :P

Heres a picture of a glow in the dark rabbit!

It suppose to be art :/ They put some jellyfish DNA in her from what I understood. And she doesn't glow all of the time, only in some light. But still I don't think its a good idea to mix animal DNA for art work.

Thats all I have time for. For now anyway. Keep checking back :D

Bee and hamster pics, interesting science information etc.

Today I took a picture of the bee-hive in the ground. Just so you all know, I zoomed in. I'm not stupid enough to go really close to them. What if the flash was on? At one point, actually, I convinced myself that I was about to use flash and ended up making a rather embarrassing video that was quickly erased. :P
Anyway here are my photos:


The bees aren't that big really but there are loads of them (obviously). My dog Iris was trying to warn us and kept barking at us when we came near :P Se so cute.

Me and my little sister took my hamsters out into the parking place around the church today. The parking place has about a 5 by 10 meter space of grass with a tree in the center. We couldn't play with the hamsters in our garden because our dog Iris was a little too interested in the hamsters. Anyway, we took a bunch of photos and I think they're pretty cute:



As they would, my hamsters stuffed their cheeks with food when they realized we were leaving which was very cute. Dookie took a nap when she found a comfortable place, and Dakota almost went down another rodent's burrow. I was lucky to pull her out before it was too late :D

I (meaning my mom) found a really cool article on plants communicating with each other! Its really amazing! I love science :P You should have a look around that site. I found many cool things :D

I also found a youtube video on Fainting Goats. Its a really funny video and it explains this species of goat more simply than other sites I've tried :)

Well that's all I have time for at the moment. Be sure to check out the new layout I made on The Pet Timez. I've chosen an Autumn look to suit the season :)
I'll be updating this blog layout soon :D

That's all.

Tags: "fainting goats" hamsters "swarming bees" "talking plants"

Hamsters, Paris, interesting stuff etc.

I went to Paris a couple of days ago with my mom and step-dad. We were going to a furniture fashion show. It was animal furniture so I wasn't at ALL interested. But I did enjoy going out into Paris and seeing the beautiful buildings and stuff. And the dinner I had was good, I had salmon. We cook it all the time so it was nothing special. I liked it anyway though :D

I made a new guild (club) on NeoPets and its going quite well. A lot of people have joined and they seem to like it. I would send you a link to my brilliant guild homepage but You'd all have to make neopets accounts and it would be kinda ridiculous :P

I did some more posting on The Pet Timez.
so do read it. Its about the mice and hamsters and stuff :)

My little sister went for a walk with my step-father and two dogs in the woods and they found this deformed conker shell with 26 little conkers in it. I took a picture to show you all:


The leaves here are all brown, yellow and orange and it's already turning into Autumn here. I can't wait until pumpkin carving starts :D I'm rather good at it :D I'll put some pictures up when I do start carving (in a couple of weeks). It's very nice in the morning here because the air smells of Halloween and it's brilliant at about sunset time because it looks like Halloween in Massachusetts for a moment :D
As you can probably tell I love Autunm :D

I changed around the front room a couple of days ago and was cutting some bamboo from the back of the garden to put in a vase and suddenly I was swarmed with loads of bees coming from a bee-hive in the ground! It was so scary. My dog had been stung and had long since run to the house. I didn't get stung but bees in the ground are one of my few fears. Well at the time it is anyway. I'll upload a picture tomorrow of the bees. Swarming.

Well that's all for now really. I'll write another long post in a couple of days so Keep checking back :D

Tags: Autumn Neopets "odd conker" Paris "swarming bees"

Autumn is here!

I have joined a blog called The Pet Times With a girl called Jenna most of you don't know. Please have a look at it to see the latest updates on my and Jenna's pets :D

It was the first day of Autumn the other day and my hamsters have already started hibernating! Heres some photos of Dakota! (Skinny was sleeping, photos of her to come)



And heres a list of hamsters' Christmas wishes :P





Monsieur Balzac was seen twice since I last posted. Once near the compost one once eating his food. We all know now that our punishment from bringing other dogs here will be over soon.

Me and my mom were looking at a really cool wind up computer on the internet:

Its brilliant because if you buy one another one will be sent to kids in other countries that can't afford it :( :D

I as have updated my neopets userlookup graphics page! I know this isn't that important to most of you but click it anyway. I made them all by myself :D

I had to work out a really hard math question for my math homework. "A pyramid has a square base and all edges are 100 meters long.
What is its volume?"
We worked it out and the answer is 707105 meters long... I think... And I also found out how to solve cryptograms! Its super fun. There are 12 rules. You can read more about math on my teacher (who I've never met)'s Blog. He is brilliant at math.

Well thats all I have to say for now. I'll update in a couple of days :D