Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Monster High - a book review

I have decided to put a book review on here I wrote for our local library.

 Monster High
and is written by Lisi Harrison

 This book is              
Voltage!
(fav quote of main character)

This book takes the monsters from Dracula, The Creature from the Black Lagoon and, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and puts them into High School AND the 21st century. A new take on fitting in, in high school!

Two new girls have enrolled at Merston High School and things will never be the same. You have the views of Melody, shy, and in love with a geeky boy.  She is a big city girl in a small town, and her life is turning upside down. Then there’s Frankie, also in love with someone who is already taken.  She is outgoing, even with her green skin, an accident waiting to happen that keeps happening and happening… and life just started, literally. 

This story is so huge that one book can’t hold it all!
See you at Monster High in Book Two.           

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Blabber or Babble, somewhat the same!

The Cat's Mother just did a post where she wrote "You are like a spec on the horizon, until someone puts you on the list" She would be referring to that new list for Babble or Blabber ... and  apparently me.  Since when this was written, I wasn't on the list. When I pointed this out, The Cat's mother nominated me and put me on it. 
Afterwards she realized that it was really for Mommy bloggers. 


Maybe my cat counts. 


Talking of the cat in the bowl ...





Sadly, the bowl is no more. 
The Cat's Mother polished the table ...
 cat jumped on bowl ... 
flying bowl ...
cat still in it. 
Or so we think, since we woke up to this.         
   


Though he used to think that being in control of the bowl made him this ...


ps. the bowl was a wedding gift belonging to my parents - really, really old ...

But now you can vote for me here
I'm like No. 170 or something
The Cats Mother is in the Top Ten right now
By Word of Mouth - awesome!
Vote for her too while you are there :)

Monday, October 11, 2010

The Home-school School

Going to School, like getting up and putting on real clothes, no pj's ...
I know we homeschool, but one day a week, I take a few classes at a place call HEED. (Home Education Enrichment Day, put together several years ago by three Homeschool Mom's who researched what was needed and then found professionals in their field to teach) Some of the homeschoolers in my town go there for a "school day", where we get to "socialize". (this seems to be a big concern for many, altho some days we are too busy to do school, so guess we have that covered!) I do geography, art, and science, afterwards there is volley ball.

Well, this is a "normal day" or at least last week's "school day".
First, I struggle to get going and dressed early in the morning, not my norm. I head off to go to class, and today I went upstairs instead of downstairs with The Cats Mother yelling from the car. (note to self, never let a dog sleep in your room, when she is old, snores, scratches and generally keeps you awake).

We learned about Modern day India, a country I really want to visit (and not just for the food) This was better than when we learned about Japan when we were shown part of a video that showed a Samurai killing himself. (I'm serious about this, there were many girls going a little green and I don't mean from an ecological standpoint)

Second period, Art, from here I can't get lost, it's right across the hall! Paint class, always a fav, though today not all of it went on the paper. Today we had learned about henna tattoos, so we all had to give it a try, an awful lot became tattoos.



Of course no one made one like this, but there were a few pretty close now that I think about it (these are at least tattoos The Cat's Mother doesn't mind!)


Third period, lunch. This is definitely the easiest "lesson" of the day, where we hang out and talk, joke, and Nancy Drew always begs for some of my Smarties. (English chocolate candies, most highly prized!) One of my friends decided that she could show everyone I'm extremely ticklish, there was a lot of screaming.

Science is next. Big Dog doesn't think it's Science, since I am taking Creation Science (not that he has read anything about it so until he does, I am not ready to hear his side ...) To little of this,



And too much of this ...



In his opinion ... which I don't remember asking for :)

Volley ball is always at the end of the day, and Miss Kim is just the very best teacher (with huge amounts of patience!) I was hit once, hit the same boy twice, and at one point ran away from the ball.

At the few points I got the ball over the net, the Cat's Mother wasn't watching.

Comments by the Cat's mother: So not true, I watched you serve into the net twice, and then score a winning shot that was not even close to being returned ... thank you very much!
The coach told me you weren't watching one of my good shots!

Another note to self ... Never let your mother check your post before posting.
HEED is great, we get to learn from people out there living and teaching it, they are the real deal!