Watermelon: The Saga of Hamlet and Tonto

Well I can now add movie making to my list of accomplishments! Well... Actually I just wrote the movie.Anyhow, it's a remake of Hamlet... set in the wild west. Tonto is his faithful Indian friend and the bad Sheriff murdered his father and the mayor fell off a cliff after hallucinating about Ninjas. Besides all that, the time line is all out of whack and the mayor left his son a TEXT before he died!And what exactly does the mysterious green stuff on that badge mean? Que theme music and dramatic lights! Dun Dun Dun!! Did I mention I wrote the whole thing in about 15 minuets?!

Exciting right? We'll see... At any rate, it can not be any worse then the Transformers movie I went to see this weekend... The special effects were pretty good. Infact, it looked like at one point Megan Fox was actually crying!! The whole movie lacked plot and emotion... and as hard as it is for me to say it... the acting was a joke.

luv u guys!


Mickey

Happy Daddy Day!!

Something like that right?

Are'nt dads great? I wanted to write my dad a poem or something, but my poems end up like a graceful duck's love life... they just don't. Anyhow, I don't think he would read it. For father's day this year, we all got sick. Mom and I decided to call it the five pound bug. We're thinking we might offer it out too. "Come spend a day with the Spauldings and loose 5 pounds in 24 hours!" What do you think? Would it sell? I'm ok with the idea since I'm pretty well over it anyhow, but poor dad "Had to go get a new book to read". The poor baby :P

Happy D-Day everyone!

Mickey

There's a snake in my house!

or at least there was until I put him out :)

I was on the phone with my mom yesterday while she was at the store and as I walked into the front room I noticed a snake slithering across the floor. Now, we live in the country and snakes are not all that uncommon. (I have never found one in the house before though) I just walked right on past with a simple thought of "Oh neat a snake." I hadn't gotten very far before I realized what I had just seen and did a double take. this time my though was more along the lines of: "OH MY GOSH A SNAKE!!" In fact I'm pretty sure I said that bit aloud, into the phone and hung up. I picked him up and put him back outside were I assumed he'd be happier. Mom called back.

Mom: "Did you say a SNAKE?"

Me: "Yeah but he's gone now."

Mom "INSIDE?"

Me "Not anymore."

Mom "Uhhh... elaborate please. Was it just crawling across the floor?"

Well he wasn't crawling since that would require legs (Something snakes lack for all you city slickers ;) but yes, he seemed quite cool about the whole thing... except maybe the being thrown outside bit...


Mickey

Quotes

These are some of my favorite quotes of all times. What are yours? Leave them as a comment!

Pirates of the Caribbean:

Jack: "Just to clear up one thing. This girl, how far would you go for her?"
Will: "I would die for her!"
Jack: "Oh good. No worries then."


Dude: "You're mad!"
Jack: "If I weren't this would probably never work"

Jack: "Why is the rum ALWAYS gone?" (stands up and wobbles drunkenly) "Oh that's why."


Batman:

Alfred: "Will you be taking the batmobile then sir?"
Bruce: "In the middle of the day Alfred? Not very subtle."
Alfred: "The Lamborgihni then. Much more subtle."

Random

"The art of flying is to fall and miss the ground."
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

"There is no price for total awesomeness or attractiveness."
Kung Fu Panda

"Would you just shut up when your talking?"
Talk show host

"Banana"

"When you are surrounded by idiots, just remember that murder is illegal and sarcasm is so much more rewarding."
Unknown

"Sarcasm. That bodies natural defence against stupidity."
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"Aglabra was invented by the Turks. It is the terrorists plot to melt the brains of American children"
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And this last one is from The Importance of being Ernest

Jack: "Algey that's nonsense. Your always talking nonsense."
Algey: "That is better then listening to it."

hope you got at least one laugh!

luv ya lots!

Mickey

Noveling

Well, nothing like last minute rush to get you motivated! I've been sulking around for months, trying to motivate myself to rewrite my novel, and have simply lack almost all motivation to even look over it. Last night, something hit me. I had been writing a scene in my mind for some time and I just finally kicked into gear and started writing. It looks like I might actually meat my June deadline! I'm so excited! I can tell a lot of improvement over the first draft and I think the second will be much longer too. I'm adding at least one more significant character, and he should change the course of the story up quite a bit, but at this point, it wouldn't work without him :) I still think it will be a trilogy, but I really have no idea how it will end. I don't know if any of you have ever written a book, but for me at least, I seem to have little control of my characters. They make choices that I don't like and do things that really turn the story as I planned it upside down. They have already ruined my original draft with a few twists of their own :) lol this is so much fun! It's almost more like reading a book or watching a movie, except you know the people in the story so much better then you would if someone else had written it! My favorite part is when people ask how it ends, and I can honestly say "I don't know." My character fell in love, I didn't plan that. She doesn't like the boy I gave her to like, that's a big problem. It is pretty cool for me to be able to look at my book and draw parallels with my main character and myself. I didn't intentionally base her off of me (Except the exceptionally beautiful part. That was intentional ;) but I can definitely see bits of me in her.That's pretty neat...


lol that was probably pretty confusing to everyone huh? That's me trying to explain writing to you :) I wonder if all novelists feel the same way I do about it?

Mickey

Food Grade Poison

Ok, so can you tell me what's wrong in that statement?

Yesterday I was making soap and was running low on lye. I ran over to my friends house to grab a container from her, and noticed this odd labeling:

"Food Grade Sodium Hydroxide" For those of you who don't know, sodium hydroxide is a poison. So, how can a poison be food grade? Don't ask me. I'm still trying to figure it out. I did get a bit of it in my mouth and I can tell you it's not pleasant.I guess if you kill yourself with it, at least you know it was food grade and I can now officially say that my soap is made with ONLY food grade ingredients. Even the poison!!

Mickey

A Two Year Olds Logic

My little sister Natylee has a hard road ahead of her. The second youngest of eleven children and too bossy for her own good. To bad for her, she'll only ever have one little sister to boss around. Anyway, today in the car ride home, I listened to her talking to Tamara. The conversation went something like this.

Natylee screeches at her brother, and threatens to kill him.

Tamara. "Natylee, that is not ok!You need to be nice to your brother. Why did you do that?"

Natylee. "Because."

Tamara. "Because... what?"

Natylee. "Because"

Tamara. "No, because is not an answer. Tell me why."

Natylee. "Because why."


You just can't win an argument with a two year old.