School

So I'm taking Children's Lit right now.  And let me just say, there are some dumb people in the class.  It's annoying.  We spent two days going over ridiculous questions that had already been answered and were in the syllabus.  (My class is almost 3.5 hours long).  We spent a good fifteen minutes one night talking about where you can purchase a book.  We covered the different book stores in town, all of the libraries, and second-hand stores as well.  But, the saddest thing was last night, when our teacher said she needed to discuss some things about grammar with the class.

The first thing she said is "never start a sentence with the word "me."  Wow.  The fact that she had to tell this to a group of people who want to teach children is scary to me.  She also told us not to use "I" at the end of a sentence.  This is one of my biggest pet peeves.  People were corrected for so long, that now they overuse "I."  The next thing she told us was not to use the word "was."  As in "we was."  Yikes.  Not to sound mean, but if some of these people become teachers, I may have to home school my children...

Anywho, we had to make poetry books for the class, and I think mine is cute.  I made everything myself, out of construction paper and scrapbook paper.  (Well, except for the title, Lindy's Cricut made those letters).

 The Monster Museum

 Let's Go Hunt Dragons

 A Sea-Serpent Saw a Big Tanker

 Its Fangs Were Red

 So Big!

 The Truth About the Abominable Footprint

I think my teacher liked it.

Cat Transporting Service

So my mom and Andrew are moving into a new house.  My mom had to be out of her old place on Saturday, but they could not move in to the new place yet.  We moved everything to her office and Andrew's house.  Including the cats.  That's where I come in.  I'm good at cat wrangling...  Anywho, my mom, Krissie, and I moved all three cats at once.  In my car.  Across town.  It was hilarious.

We only have one pet taxi.  Daisy likes car rides, so we weren't worried about her.  Puppy is okay as long as someone is petting him (or so we thought).  Timmy is just a freak, so we decided he would be in the box.

It was so hard to get him into that stupid pet taxi.  The other cats wanted in, but not him.  So we got Timmy and Puppy into the car.  Then came Daisy.  She is a beast.  I chased her around the house while she hissed and tried to attack me.  I got a big scratch on my arm.  I had to wrap her in a towel so she would not maul me.

Once we got all the cats in, Timmy was wailing, Puppy was wailing and frantically moving around the car, and Daisy was trying to fight Puppy.  It was hilarious.  Then my mom let Timmy out.  Then she put Puppy into the pet taxi and he continued to wail for the rest of the trip.  Timmy just clung to the seat and moved his tongue around weirdly, kind of like a dog panting.  Daisy tried to fight Timmy. Then she came up front and sat between Krissie and me with the a/c blasting in her face.  She loved it.  Anyway, we made it.  And it was hilarious.  And we have to move them all again.  Haha.

Enjoy the pictures.  There were too many good ones.  Also, my mom is going to hate me for posting these...

 Timmy

 Puppy

 Daisy

Crappy Movie Club

So, Jesse and I have been able to get a lot of free rentals from Blockbuster thanks to promo codes.  Since there aren't a lot of movies out there worth seeing, and since they are free, we decided to start renting really crappy movies that we could laugh at.  Sometimes we just read the synopsis of the movies and pick whichever one sounds the worst.  It's actually quite fun (but only because it's free.  We would never spend money on some of these movies.  Not even a dollar).  Anywho, I thought I'd give some reviews, in case any of you were planning on watching these movies.  They are not quality movies.

We rented a few movies that we thought could go either way.  Limitless and Source Code were pretty good.  The Adjustment Bureau was OK, but definitely ridiculously over the top. Well, I guess the other two were pretty over the top as well...

Anyway, let me start with Battle: Los Angeles.  Surprisingly not that bad.  Certainly the most watchable of our craptastic movies so far.  The premise was stupid, for sure.  Aliens invade L.A. with guns and bombs and a lot of fire, and the Marines go and fight them.  It was entertaining, though.

Then we watched I Am Number Four.  And we thought movies couldn't get any worse than that.  We had no idea it would be some lame teen drama.  It was like watching Twilight movies all over again.  And the villains were stupid.  And they looked stupid. 

But we were wrong.  We found an even worse movie.  We watched it last night.  It was just so stupid.  That movie:  Skyline.  It had not point. There was no explanation for anything.  Aliens come, pull people in with a blue light and tear apart L.A.  A bunch of people die.  The aliens take people's brains and put them into new aliens.  And that was about it.  Oh, and apparently, the aliens couldn't be over water, but that was never confirmed. 

Anyway, we've got some more movies on our list.  Next up:  Red Riding Hood.  And Season of the Witch.  It has Nicolas Cage, so it's bound to be terrible.