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
11/21/2007
Fake NeoVision Entry.
11/07/2007
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!
11/01/2007
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 :)
10/28/2007
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.
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!
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.