Apr. 28, 2008 - And I'm posting again!
If you read my entire entry I'll give you a lolcat picture that will dissolve you into a pool of helplessly laughing jelly, k? K. So I haven't been posting much lately and I don't really want to go into that...suffice it to say that I've been very busy and more then a little unbalanced in my lifestyle lately and blogging hasn't been a top priority. But it's going to become one again because I've really missed all you guys! I've been thinking lately about the fact that one day I'm going to have to give account of every idle word I've spoken- and trust me, there's going to be alot of them! And since I know that I've already accumulated quite a list of idle words ('Yongle Diadan' has nothing on me) I definitly don't want to add anymore! I don't think it's possible to never speak an idle word but there are so many silly or downright idiotic things I say- the sort of thing that you immidiatly want to take back- that I wonder how seriously people are taking me. So I'll be thinking a bit more about what a write and say and hopefully I'll be posting more. So thanks for reading all of that stuff and here's your pic! :)
And another!
K that's all!
Cleo
May. 16, 2007 - Another template
kay, this is a new template I'm trying. I know it looks really boring right now but there's a pic i'm going to put in the corner. Can you guys see my entrys??? Cuz I can't and it's driving me crazy!! I know they aren't deleted I just can't see them on my blog.
Well, later.
Cleo
Feb. 27, 2007 - Blogging is Hard
Sure, it seemed SO easy. Just write about your daily experiences. Hah. Sure. Right . Whatever. I think of great things to blog about but there's never time when it's new and when it's old, who wants to hear about it? I mean, I could tell you about how it snowed...three days ago. But I barely even remember what the front yard looked like when it was covered with a fresh blanket of snow. Now it's patchy and ugly and wet. Yech! I'm falling asleep while I write this. I had a productive day today and you know what those can do to ya 
. So I guess this is it for now. Sorry that these posts are so short, I'll try to do better when I'm 14 ;). For now though, I'll...I....want....to do....is...*snore*
Cleo
Jan. 31, 2007 - Another TITLE?!?!?!
I really wanna do this tag that Erin did but it has 26 questions so I'll do my best.
A- Avalible or Married? Excuse me while I wipe away tears of extreme hilarity. OH, and I love they way you phrased it 'AVALIBLE or Married'. No, to both questions.
B-Best Friend? Bailey!!!!
C-Cake or Pie? Definitly Cake
D-Drink of Choice? Welchs White Grape and Peach juice, or else Dr.Pepper Berries and Cream
E-Essential item? Toughie.....I'd have to say lip-gloss. No comments on that, please.
F-Favorite color? Purplish Blue
G-Gummie Bears or Worms? Worms, esp the sour kind!!!
H-Hometown? Seacret. Ha Ha.
I-Idulgence? Man, there are so many! My favorite is wearing my pajamas all day!
J-January or Febuary? What kind of a question is that?
K-Kids and Names? Well, I don't have any kids, but I do have favorite boy/girl names. Natalie and Nathaniel!
L-Life is incomplete without? I think just about anything I have would make my life incomplete if it weren't there.
M-Marrige Date? Couldn't you think of something else for M? Like M&Ms or Skittles, in which case, M&Ms
N-Number of Siblings? 5
O-Oranges or Apples? Oranges, if I don't have to peel 'em
P-Phobias/Fears? People being mad at me, large rodents with long tails, becoming termially ill, throwing up on a bus.....
Q-Favorite Qoute? can't pick just one
R-Reason to smile? Well, my current, worldly (not of eternal value) reason is that my mom is letting me eat dinner in front of the computer.
S-Season? Autumn
T-Tag three people! How about the three people who read this blog :P
U-Unknown fact about me: I eat Chex Mix. Hey, that was unknown by y'all until now!
W-Worst habit? Biting my nails
Y-Your favorite food? I don't know
Z-Zodiac? No offense if you do, but- who cares?
Is it just me, or does this tag have a stutter....
Oh, the qoute for today is actually an original from my little brother. It's so rare that he says anything cute these days (like once in a purple with pink polka dots moon rare) that I thought it was blog worthy. What happened was, he was messing around on the keyboard and this message popped up saying he'd activated StickyKeys. He explained to me in his best condesending voice that that is when the keys get all hot and sticky and burn your fingers. And I contained myself until I was by myself and then I busted a gut laughing. And now he's saying that he KNEW what it was, that it was when you press down a key it won't go down. So, yeah, he's quite the computer expert. 
Jan. 11, 2007 - Hi!
I've made up a kind of 'tag' I guess. If any of y'all have read Little Women, you'll remember when Miss Kate suggested they play the game were everybody made up a bit of a story, and then stopped at a cliffhanger, for the nest person to continue. Well, I thought that would be fun to do, espesially among those of us who enjoy writing. I'll begin, and then tag somebody to continue it. Please keep your contributions realitivly short and paste the story thus far onto your entry before continuing with your bit. Thanks! And now....
Once upon a time, a long time ago, high on a hill, there lived a young man. Every morning he went to work, made enough money to live comfortably, came home, ate the dinner his cook had prepared for hime (for he was really pretty well off) and stayed up half the night reading and smoking his pipe (which was what everybody smoked back then). One night, as he sat in his armchair, smoking and reading a particularly thrilling bit of a story, he heard a strange noise. He looked up. The sound continued, but he couldn't quite place it. He got up and headed for the kitchen, where the noise seemed to be coming from. He opened the back door, and there on the stoop was a baby! But he barely even noticed it, as remarkable as it was, because something else was even more amazing. He looked out and saw-
Old Fashioned Girl! Your turn! Have fun! Sry, I was kinda long winded.
Cleo
Jan. 10, 2007 - Fairest
Hi everybody! I wrote this review and then acciedently deleted it so your going to get the short ,sweet version.
Fairest
By Gail Carson Levine
As those of you who have read this authors Newbery Honor book, Ella Enchanted, know, Gail Carson Levine has a standard of excellence. Her characters are strong, defined, and well-developed and her writing is marvelous. Her books for girls 8 and up are mostly based on well-known fairytales. I'm using based in the losest sense of the word. She twists, revamps, tweaks and molds those dusty old storys into award-winning novels! Some have more of the original plot in them then others. Fairest is one of the others. It's the story of Aza, a young Ayothian girl with a beutiful singing voice and little or no physical beauty. In fact, by Ayorthian standards, she is downright hideous! She is avoided, teased, and even feared. She was left in an inn when she was a baby and raised by a kindly inkeeper and his wife like one of their own children. When she is about 15, she goes to a royal wedding with a guest at her fathers inn, and then her real problems begin. She falls in love with the Prince and is yanked into a web of deception spun by the new Queen. Will the prince believe her or Queen Ivi (a bratty, imature woman, barely older then Aza herself, who will do anything to be the Fairest) when the queen denounces Aza as an ogress and a liar? Or will he, the only person, it seems, outside of her family, who loved her despite her apperance, give up on her? And what will she find out about her shadowy past? There's alot more to the story and alot more I could tell you, but (partly because I'm sick of writing about it, and partly because you should just read it) I'm not going to. I would definitly reccomend it, tho, along with Ella Enchanted and The Princess Tales (also by Gail Carson Levine).
I hope you enjoyed it and read the book!
Cleo
Jan. 7, 2007 - Links
Just a quick post to say that something's wacko with my blog and (tho I haven't had time to try them all out) if I'm on your friends list the link probably doesn't work. I'm trying to fix it but y'all may have to delete me and add me again, after I get it fixed.
Sorry for any inconvience
Cleo
Jan. 5, 2007 - Hi Everyone!
Hello everybody/anybody! Nothing much is going on around here, just getting back into the hum-drum routine....eat, school, eat, chores, eat, sleep, wake up, repeat.....blah blah blah...lately I’ve been keeping the books I read for History beside my bed and when I wake up in the middle of the night (I’m practically an insomniac, but I’m better then I used to be, because I make a point to exercise all thru the day.) I read them until I can go back to sleep again. That way, even if my restless sleep means I get up late, I have at least one school subject out of the way (except I have to answer questions about what I read.). Right now History is my favorite subject because I’m reading The World of Columbus and Sons, and it’s really cool. I’m using the Beautiful Feet curriculum. Does anybody else use it? I like the approach a lot. Well, I guess that’s all for now!
Cleo J
Jan. 2, 2007 - Hi Y'all!
Wow, it's after New Years and I still haven't told you about Christmas! GASP! Shame on me! Well I'm not going to. I don't feel like it and there are too many other things to talk about. It was a great Christmas, I got lots of money and thats it. Before we move on to current events I'd like to mention one lil thing. Around here in January some extremly wacko people (unless one of you guys reading this does this, in which case they are very nice, mature, interesting people) who found that beating themselves with chains was out-dated and they'd have to think of another method of self-tourter, decided to go swimming in unheated water, outside, in January. This is called the Polar Bear Plunge, and consistes mainly of male college students, wearing hawian flowered swimming shorts running into icey water while the wind whistles thru one blue ear and out the other, proving the absence of anything in between. Tell me, can these people be sane??? Who, when given the choice, would rather get wet and uncomfortable in sub-zero tempatures then watch other people do it? I have no clue. If any of you guys do this, please explain what goes thru your brain when you decide to go for it. Because I am truly interested. Sorry about all the mistakes in this post, so little time, so much to say.
ttyl, CLEO
Jan. 1, 2007 - Happy New Year!!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!
My new years resolutions:
!Be more faithful about writing to Laura!!!!
!Eat less junk (like thats gonna happen)
!Blog about things that make sense (" " " ")
Hope your 2007 is the best!
Cleo
Dec. 30, 2006 - You know you live in 2006...
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Dec. 30, 2006 - Babysitting Hints and Tips
I do alot of babysitting (mostly for just one client, but she needs me alot), and I just thought I'd share a few of the things I've learned that I've never found in a babysitting handbook. Wether these help anybody or not, they're here for your perusal.
1.ALWAYS bring an easy to read watch. I have (no joke) spent entire jobs searching for clock. This may partly be because I make it a rule never to go into master bedrooms or anything like that. Anyway, I once found myself in the backyard of a house I was sitting at gazing at the sky mumbling "If the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, the parents will be home in an hour, give or take 59 minutes."
2.Bring one stick of cheap chapstick (like from a huge pack of lipsmakers) and hide any lipgloss (or anything expensive) in inside pockets on your clothes. Toddlers are like pickpockets, espcially the males. The girls will demolish any and all lotions, chapsticks, fingernail files- anything. I don't wear makeup (unless you count lipgloss) but if you do, DON'T bring any! You can also use lotions and chapsticks to calm hysterical little girls. And once they've used a chapstick, put their initials on it and save it for the next time you babysit them.
3.If you go for a walk or something, keep it short and promise a treat like a movie or a snack for when you get back. I can't explain why, but it just works better that way.
4.When showing a kid how to jump rope, make sure you are not under a ceiling fan. Better yet, just do it outside.
5.If you play indoor hide-and-seek, please note the following:
-Remember which kids are claustrophobic and afraid of the dark and don't put them in a closet by themselves.
-Never put a kid, no matter how small in a drawer, cabinet or suspened cloth laundry hamper. You'll end up with a stuck, screaming kid and lots of sweat. (This has NEVER happend while I was in charge.)
-If you are babysitting older kids, make sure everybody understands that the laundry chute is NOT A HIDING PLACE!
-Always hide with the youngest person (unless they're over 6)
-Only be the seeker if there is another hider over 8 supervising the other hiders.
6. Games you will want to discourage your charges from playing:
-Jump on the babysitter!
-Pull the Babysitter off the couch and Jump on her!
-Make the Babysitter pull US off the couch so we can break both ankles!
-Run outside stark naked and head for the Highway!
-Irritate the dogs into attaking us!
-Electrical Outlet Bingo!
Plus all the games adorable little boys who aren't potty trained yet love to play with their diapers! All in all I'd say babysitting is good practice, lots of fun and pays well, so it's a good job and (for me) hobby!
That's all for now!
Cleo
