So I'm kinda bored...

I'm bored and my head hurts. Like, OWWW! Cuz I've got a sinus infection AGAIN. But I'm taking the leftover antibiotics from last time so hopefully I'll be feeling better soon. I think I type better with my eyes closed. Anyway, today we went Christmas shopping. SO tired. It was tiring. I didn't have all that much energy to begin with. So I'm pretty exhausted. My whole face hurts from my wretched sinuses. I should start a IHMS club: I Hate My Sinuses. Or IHMWS, see above. Or I Hate My Painful Sinuses. Or I Strongly Dislike My Painful Sinuses. Ok, I'll stop rambling/complaining now. I got most of my christmas shopping done at least.

I cooked breakfast (with Hannah) and dinner today. Nothing fancy. Just pancakes and ham and leftover muffins and peel your own clementines for breakfast--oh, chocolate chip pancakes!! And grilled cheese and chips and salsa and bananas with cheerios for dinner. Not cheerios with bananas. The other way around. So that's probably the most I've ever "cooked" in one day in my life. OH but don't let me forget my helpers--Hannah actually cooked the pancakes mostly, and Hannah and Abby cleaned up dinner.

Would someone hurry up and get online so I can talk to you??

wow, that was kinda cool. Ten minutes later I'm talking to 3 people. And ten minutes after that I have to get off. Oh well.

HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE

The bad news: My dance class was canceled last night.
The good news: WE WENT TO SEE HP4!!!

It was amazing!!! My first thoughts were, "Wow, this is soooo fast paced!" And then I thought, "oh, it has to be, doesn't it?" There was absolutely no extraneous material--and I don't mean the funny bits, I mean actually plot line things. There were plenty of funny things, but I didn't get the feeling that I did in HP3 that, "OK, enough of this, why didn't you cut it and put THIS in?" Everything in the movie was very cool.

SPOILERS:
There was no:
Ludo Bagman
Winky
Mrs. Weasley
Mr. Roberts
The Durslys
Ministry refusal to believe dear old baldywart was back (we're going to be murdered in our beds) (ha) (or NOT)
Dobby

Those were the main things, I think. And there was pretty much nobody but Harry, Ron, and Hermione. Like, there was, but there were tons of minor characters. Fred, George and Neville took greater prominance. And Filch. IT"S SNOWING!!!! Anyway...there was practically no Sirius. But they did have the school song! We loved that!

I always imagined the Priori Incantatem to be more quietly intense, not so chaotic. And the echo people were not as JK described them and therefore I don't think they were how anyone imagined them.

In the lake was pretty cool--sufficiently creepy. The dragon was sweet. Anddddd.....I think I'll go eat monkey bread or something.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! I'm hoping to post later! :-)

i guesss i won't post anyway (no caps allowed)

i feel like eating ice cream now but I just have a few things to say...

i have a cold and a horrible pressure headache
despite that, i had a ton of fun rockin with my sisters to "meant to live" and the mood ring song (cuz we would rock and then pretend to be emotional girls)
and...i like switchfoot but i think reliant k has to grow on me, not extremely rhythmic

and i'm going to go eat something cold and soothing...or go to bed early...either way i'm "going going gone...like frank sinatra's mom...or somthing..."

Un otra vez, aquí estoy, preguntando qué hacer para los últimos minutos de Español. Yo pregunto si hay programas donde puede hablas en otra lenguas con gente que habla eso lengua. Así un amigo de pluma. Yo podría escribir a mis primos que está aprendiendo Español.

Nadie necesita leer eso, sólo estoy aburrido y no estoy motivado. Estoy enfermero. Y muy, muy, muy cansado. Yo tenido muchas noches demasiado tarde. Lo será interesante ver qué esto dice. Babelfish no es muy confiable, pero es mejor que sólo un diccionario. Y ahora, veremos. Y verás.

I am again, here, asking what to do for the last minutes of Spanish. I ask actually I wonderif there are programs where she can you you can speak in another languages with people who speak that language. Thus like a pen friend. I could write to my cousins who are learning Spanish.

Nobody needs to read that, I am only boring BOREDand I am not motivated. I am nurse sick. And very, very, very tired. I had many nights too much late. He will be it interesting it will be interesting to see what this says. Babelfish is not very reliable, hence all the pinkbut it is better than only a dictionary. And now, we will see. And you will see. Y ahora, tú ves! And now, you see! And now I´m done with Spanish!

HI I'M SO HYPER!!

I"m hyper a lot of the time actually, like every other day, although this time I think it's owing to the delicious piece of spice cake with amazing muy rico caramel frosting that I just ate.

So today's the big day, Nov. 18th. HP IS OUT!!!! Dad really wanted to go see it today, and I did kinda too, and I think just the two of us could've made it but the other three couldn't. Mom's not feeling well, Abby's seeing a movie tonight, and Hannah had too much school. And of course it wouldn't be as much fun to see it not as a family. But we'll see it soon. If you've seen it...I'm not as strict about not finding out what happens with the movies because we already know what happens. But don't tell me anything anyway, anything more than what you thought of it! We might see it next Wednesday after ROAD.

I'm taking a half hour break before piano because I feel like it, GOSH. :-D

I'm listening to switchfoot, the Beautiful Letdown. Got it from the library to see if I want it for Christmas. Abby got to it first and decided even if I don't want it, she does. And I got 2 Reliant K cds.

NEXT WEEK IS THANKSGIVING! IT SNOWED! 19 DAYS OF BEING 15 YEARS OLD LEFT! Oh, and it's so funny, cuz Dad always prays on our birthday that the next year would be even better than the year before, but I'm not totally sure that's possible. Fifteen has been a reeeeeaaally good year. hhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmm-hhhhhhhhhhmmmmmm...

WOW. I THINK I LIKE THIS CD. {WE WERE MEANT TO LIVE FOR SO MUCH MORE} Or maybe it's just the electric guitar. I think electric is one of the things I thrive on. OH AND GUESS WHAT!! My dance song has ELECTRIC GUITAR in it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was so excited when I heard it!

I think I'd better stop shouting now. HAVE A GOOD LIFE!

So life's goin' pretty well...if not great...

Tonight I did a back walkover off the hassock (little round heavy footstool type thing) and seeing as I have never kicked over off anything that is a big improvement. Also I really need to learn how to do it cuz there's only a few of us in my class who can't do it (rock ON fishy!!!). Annnnnd...Sunday was of course terrific, we played Balderdash the whole two hours of youth group. I laughed so hard!!!!! SO hard. And Brittani P and I won. Blonde Brittani, not Brunette Brittani. And...I've only got a little bit here...oh, don't let me make it sound like life is all of a sudden peachy and relaxed, it's actually peachy and INSANE! I don't know how I do it except maybe owing it to my morning routine and my wonderful boyfriend...lol!!! :-) Routine being wake up to Ordinary Day, the lyrics of which I will post sometime...hey, why not now...

Woke up this morning, went to the window, saw a rainy day
Feeling the pressure from all of the things I gotta face today
All of my days are totally crazy
Can't do nothing right
It's an ordinary day

Every minute feels like an hour slowly creeping by
All of this stress, but I do my best to take it all in stride
I need to decidde need to unwind all these things are on my mind
It's an ordinary day

Things are crazy but it's alright
You make me feel alive again
When it rains You are the sunshine
That lights me up from deep within
I can finally treasure this love beyond a measure
You've given me the pleasure of an ordinary day

And also I blink along to the music, which is a new addition to keep my eyes open while I read my One Year Bibble. lol. Sure, Bibble. yeah. So where was I going with that? OH, that's how I make it through life in general. :-D Well I'll get off now so abby can have some time before the biggest loser.

Meet Tiddlywinks

Say hi to Tiddlywinks. I don't know how I got her where she is, it was sheer dumb luck (and I mean the dumb part, I know next to nothing about HTML). WARNING: DO NOT WASTE TIME PLAYING WITH TIDDLYWINKS THAT SHOULD BE SPENT DOING SOMETHING MEANINGFUL WITH YOUR LIFE!!!! It's very easy to do. Cuz she's so cute! :)

Diez mas minutos de Español

Decidió ya que tengo diez mas minutos de español puedo escribir en mi...blog. Ñ'= oh, he olvidado que no puedo escribir caras que sonrir cuando tengo los adjustos de español.

Estoy seguro que nada de esto es claro, pero puedo entender español más mejor que puedo escribo o hablo.

Cinco más minutos. Me crees voy a traducer este en altavista.com.

It decided since I have ten but minutes of Spanish I can write in my... blog. Ñ' = oh, I have forgotten that I cannot write expensive that to sonrir when I have the adjustos of Spanish. I am sure that nothing of this is sure but can understand Spanish better than I can I write or I speak. Five more minutes. You create to me I am going to traducer this in altavista.com.

Wow, fue terrible.

Decidió ya que tengo diez mas minutos de español puedo escribir en mi...blog. Ñ'= oh, he olvidado que no puedo escribir caras con sonrisas cuando tengo los ajustes de español.

Estoy seguro que nada de esto es correcto, pero puedo entender español más mejor que yo puedo escribirlo o hablarlo.

Cinco más minutos. Pienso voy a traducir este en altavista.com.

Ok, that time it came out better. Time´s up! Supongo necesito más que un computadora saber si este es correcto o no.

These past few days

Ok, so Thursday was the worst day I've had in MONTHS. I woke up, watched my hamster die, and then the day kind of just went downhill from there. I wasn't actually too sad about the hamster, he's pretty old and now I don't have to take care of him for nothing in return (like getting to get him out and play with him sometimes would be all the return I would need, but we never had time). But watching your hamster dying isn't a good way to start your day, I don't recommend it. Then I had a million algebra problems and the whole thing was just really annoying becuase I took 3 review tests and then I took form A of the test and there were so many questions that I didn't know how to do. You'd think that when you're getting tested on two years' worth of material they'd give you decent review sheets! So Mom said that I didn't have to relearn all the stuff, I just had to go back through and find out how to do the problems I didn't know how to do, and do them. So I spent the entire morning doing that, plus a little reading when my brain was about to burst. "The entire morning"=9-1, so 4 hours of algebra. That'll put anyone in a bad mood. And then my grandparents arrived, but we still had work to do. I did get to go on a lovely walk with Mom, the weather was really nice. But I finished school at like 7 something, which included dinner and a walk, but still! That was a depressing day. But I was kinda proud of myself once I got un-depressed enough to notice that I actually accomplished a lot. Just a little bit.

Then yesterday we did school in the morning, but we got it all done in time to go see Dreamer with my grandpa at 12:45. It was pretty good. Not one of my favorites, because it's one of those horse stories that 10 year old girls love but are really predictable. Speaking of predictable, I'm going to be really surprised if the sister in Kira-Kira, which I just got from the libray, makes it to the end of the book. I'm just saying it now so that when she ends up dying I have proof that I thought of it before I read it. :-D Anyway, we went to Outback for Mom's birthday dinner, which was really nice (and really delicious!) My grandma just gushed about how I was eating vegetables. "I never thought I'd see the day!" Et cetera. That was funny. I'm thinking, as she's gushing: I'm almost sixteen, I have to eat vegetables sometime! Actually I really like veggies with rice and chicken. SO good. I still don't like salad though. :-)

Then this morning I totally wore myself out by raking leaves and then playing in them with Daniel and Tyler H, who were over cuz their dad was chopping up firewood. It was Tyler's idea to make a pile of leaves, and I wasn't too enthusiastic at first, but I'm like, he probably doesn't have that many trees in his yard, I'll make one (we have sooo many leaves and trees), and then I ended up having more fun than he did! So now I'm tired and blogging and then I'm going to call some friends...or not, cuz we're watching a movie, but we still have long distance tomorrow, so whatever!

And...anything else going on? Tomorrow's sunday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE SUNDAY! So...we're going to watch the second Indiana Jones, I think. Oh, and on the subject of movies, we saw a trailer for Narnia, and it looks really good. I don't often look forward to movies and I don't often really want to see movies before they come out on DVD and we can get them from the library, but I now I've got two: Harry potter, which is a given, and Narnia, which looks amazing. AND it's coming out close to my birthday, so I might ask to go see it as a present. I'm having trouble thinking up presents. Oh, do you have any CD suggestions, like Reliant K or Switchfoot? I put beautiful letdown and mmhmm and happy (mat. west) on hold at the library, to see if I'll like them. So, if you have any CDs that you think I'd like comment on them. :-D I'm leaving now. :-) Oh, and guess what *cracking up at myself* we didn't really have dinner, because we were so full of outback leftovers from lunch that we just got Dairy Queen (not real food, ice cream) and now we'll just have some snacky thing.

After 2 mil postscripts, I'm really stopping! Extra KT pts if you read the whole thing. Don't ask what kt pts are cuz I don't know.

WHERE DOES ALL THE TIME GO?

Tyler H. can read, Leah Hr. is in Sunday School, next month is Thanksgiving, which is when we put up the Christmas decorations, and in between Christmas and Thanksgiving I'm turning sixteen and I'm going to be learning to drive soon, half my friends are turning seventeen shortly after the new year (isn't Kailee L supposed to be 17? She's part of the older crowd of the highschoolers in my homeschool group). Doreeee's starting highschool, we have a job, the half of my friends that are turning 17 is also graduating from highschool at the end of next year (aren't Patrick and Adam doing that?). I just don't get the teenagers who can't wait to be adults or 18 or 21 because time flies just fine all by itself without us blowing on it.

Another Snapshot of my current life.

My life is soooooooooooooooooo crazy, like...sooooooooooo crazy. I'm doing school in four days in order to have Wednesday off, which really isn't that bad, it just makes Thursday and Friday a little busier than usual. Usually they're my "easier days" which end up being just as long as Monday and Tuesday because I have the mindset that I don't have as much work to do so I kind of take it easy.

Then piano's crazy because I'm trying to figure out how I'm supposed to learn all this scales and arpeggios stuff when he said only to spend 15-20 minutes on them. I could easily spend half an hour learning all the stuff I'm supposed to learn. Plus there's the stuff to learn for Wednesdays which is really only one song a week but I've only got 2 or 3 songs, so adding another one is adding quite a bit. Learning my lesson songs is going quite well though.

Then there's choir, which isn't all that crazy, it just takes up mindspace sometimes trying to remember to look up a skit...hmmm...what was it supposed to be about? BAD Katie...at least some of you are in my group.

Dance is good, I've been trying to really try, because that's what my teacher looks for. Even if you do the step right, if you don't do it with everything you've got she doesn't...like it? appreciate it? And half the time --no, actually, 99% of the time--it's when you DON'T have the step right and you're not giving it everything you've got that she doesn't like it. So that's not just energy expending, it takes up a lot of CPU too. I like that, I think CPU will be my new code for mindspace. And then I'm trying to make friends with the girls at dance too, so there goes more CPU.

It would be cool if I could see a little window like the CTRL-ALT-DEL one that has all the processes and how much CPU they're taking up for my brain. Ha. That's really tangential. Oh boy, I just made up a new word. Yay.

UMMMMMMwhat else. I don't know. All that other stuff. :-D Whatever. I don't have CPU to spare at the moment :-) Oh, I did have something else but it's so nifty (nifty, huh?) I'm putting it in a separate post.

The Piano Job and other Random Excerpts from My Current Life

This Wednesday, Doreeeee and I went to our first day of the piano job. Another pianist was also there to help us out. It went really well. We both got rave reviews and had fun doing it. The only thing I'm not completely happy about is I don't think I did my very best, but there's always next week. And we need a few slower songs, so this week I'm focusing on maintaining the songs I've learned and learning my lesson songs and Beauty and the Beast for a slower warm-up song. Not that we did a bad job playing or anything, but I think the reason we got such rave reviews is that we were nice and open to instruction, not because we played complicated amazing music.

UMMM I was going to mention something else on here but I forget what it was. OHHHHH welllll.

Aiee, life is insane

So today was nonstop, mostly because when I was sick I just did the bare necessities, so I'm not behind in reading or anything. But there was a lot of extra stuff like a history test and art paper that I didn't do, so I did a lot of that stuff today.

And, this is good, but the current application to real life is bad, I got a job. A good job. A job that pays well. A job I think I'll like. If I can just get some piano music into my fingers. Doreeeeee and I are both doing it. There's a dance class in the public schools that has acommpianists, and the accompianist for the Wooster one is out of town for awhile, like a long while, like moving away for awhile then coming back later, so Doreeeee and I are going to do it. It's on Wednesdays, like all schoolday. We went to a similar class Monday, and I loved it, it's 4th and 5th graders, like my favorite age of kids (ok I like a lot of ages of kids), it was really high energy and I think I'll really like it, but learning at least the beginnings of at least 5 songs (really hopefully a lot more than that) by next Wednesday is a daunting prospect. I like the learning songs, but then if I practice piano for half an hour longer than usual I pretty much don't get done with school till dinnertime--at least I didn't today. And I had a lot of extra catching up stuff to do, so that didn't help. Actually I think that was mainly responsible for how late I got done. So piano didn't help.

And this Saturday, on top of everything else, I'm taking the PSAT. But as Mom said, that's done Saturday and I don't have to think about it again. I really hope my brain is in good working order Sat. It's all in there if my brain just dredges it out. Everything seems so logical when you've got the right answers in front of you and you can see what you did wrong. But it's so confusing when you don't know what the most logical thing is.

I have to go to bed, because you really get the effects of a good or bad night's sleep the day after the next day. So. Yeah. I just keep listening to my music (JUMP5, Newsboys, ZOEgirl) to keep me from going completely insane and I think I'll be ok.

A conversation between friends

I just thought this was kind of funny.

ktyack: i think my left eardrum is about to burst
sonikid: IT IS!?
ktyack: i dunno
ktyack: lol
ktyack: it might be
sonikid: DUCK 'N' COVER PEEPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ktyack: rotfl
sonikid: kidding

American History Essay

I find it interesting that many people (such as the founding fathers) in my American History readings are described as knowing how to use their minds. How many people today know how to use their minds? How many people think about and talk about politics and society and people in general?

People back in the 1700's and before didn't think that people could rule themselves, but I look at some of the kings and wonder if they could rule themselves, let alone an entire nation. People didn't think that all men were created equal, even those who were the ones at the bottom of the ladderbelieved that they weren't as important as the noblemen. All people are equal? Even slaves? Even women? Even peasants? They're just as important as men or kings? All are created equal?

How many people think that radically today? I don't think many do. I think people still think that some people are better than others--whether it's between blacks and whites or freshmen and seniors or the janitor and the CEO. People don't show other people the respect they deserve.

And I know I'm criticizing society in general, and that there are people in society in general who live up to this nation's claim that all men are created equal (and, Meghan, I mean all mankind, I'm just quoting the Declaration of Independence), but I wish they'd be more prominent and more radical. It's much more noticeable when you see someone do something wrong than something right, and therefore it takes a lot more of people doing things right to make everyone notice.

So I wish everyone would use their minds and make things happen and make people notice, make people notice that you treat everyone with respect, whether it's the janitor or your boss. The revolution truly was first in the minds and hearts of the people. Because when people use what they've got in their heads, big things happen. Unless you call the forming of a nation an incident not to be noticed or remembered.

New antibiotic and the "PPSAT"

Last night I had my first dose of my new antibiotic, a liquid this time, in my most cherished shade of pink. I was going to wait to take it until after consuming my delicious french bread pizza, but I decided that the pizza would taste better without the threat of medicine hanging over it, so I took all two tspfulls.

IT WAS SO YUMMY! I mean it tasted like someone had dissolved sugar into water until it was thick with the sugar. Then there was a nasty aftertaste, and that's when I was glad I had taken it before the pizza, cuz I could just eat and therefore it didn't taste bad at all. So that's a GIANT relief.

And then today, practically first thing in the morning (all of 11:45, but it was the first serious thing I did all day) I took the Practice PSAT that they give you when you sign up for the PSAT. I'm not sure how I did. I answered all the questions, and I scored above average, but I made some seriously stupid mistakes on the math stuff (90x2 isn't 80, and 2+3, my arch nemesis of arimetic, is, once again, not 6!) So I did ok besides those. And I need to be a little more thorough in checking my answers, but I had plenty of time to check on the word ones.

Time to go take yummy pink stuff!

Update on sickness

I woke up this morning seriously thirsty and dehydrated (even though I drank A LOT of water yesterday). Then Dad checked my temperature and it was 102.9. Not good. So I took some Advil and ate a popsicle and went to the doctor. She said I have a sinus infection. I'm the only one in our family who gets them. I've only gotten one once before, in February 2004, right before our trip to Florida, but it was more like a never ending cold then.

It's really not too terrible to be sick--I mostly feel ok if my head's resting on something, and I just get to lay around and listen to HP on tape and eat popsicles. The bad parts are: I'm going to have a lot of schoolwork to catch up on and I have to take antibiotics. I hate taking medicine, though I'm sadly getting good at it. It's not a pill, it's chewable, and it tastes better than "the purple stuff" (which is my ultimate medicine nemesis) but it's still medicine.

I'm going to watch the Princess Bride this afternoon I think, because the boy in it is sick. :) It seems like he had what I have--fever and a bit of a cough. But until then, Jelly Blobs of Doom, Kiko Match, and Freaky Factory await.

Random things about my current life

1. I'm sick. I had a fever of 101.5 this morning and I lost my voice over the weekend. I took some advil and my fever went down. But that's not much fun. I just did reading stuff for school today.

2. I had a really fun weekend. Ok, actually about half of it was fun. The middle half. With a fourth on each end not-so-fun. All day Saturday we cleaned. I actually got off pretty easy, but cleaning is just tiring. Then Saturday night we had the annual church hayride, which marks the beginning of the fun half. The weather was soooo nice. I took off my sweatshirt for the sunny parts. It was pretty amazing. We had hot dogs (I did mine and it ended up being cold by the time I got to the end because I wasn't patient enough to stand by the fire that long) and S'MORES!!! so yummy.

We brought brucedashark, tinkerbell6458 and supergurl101 home from the hayride and played MAFIA! That was fun. By this time my voice was well gone. Yes, it is twisted that the church youth group's favorite game is Mafia. Don't ask me why that is--actually, I think it's because we're just good at it, and have lots of fun playing it.

Sunday morning was church, which is always fun, we had a lot of people in Sunday School this week (it's been going every other: 5, a lot, 5, a lot), which was fun, and the songs were good.

Then we got home and I crashed (here begins not-so-fun second fourth). I think I had been having so much fun that I didn't notice that I wasn't feeling so great. But when all friends were gone, I was just dead on my feet. So I read HP6 all afternoon, got through about 2/3 of it. I haven't reread it since the first time. It wasn't a thouroughly unpleasant afternoon, when I was just laying there my head didn't feel funny, and HP6 is a good book, even if Swift says it's not. The ending might be a bit sad and mean, but that doesn't mean the rest isn't good.

Ummmmm this concludes my random (sort of) things about my current life. I think I'll go read more HP6 and eat some frozen fruit stuff (which is like a popsicle cake, I suppose). Good for someone needing fluids and Vitamin C. :)

Quotes

Yeah, so I haven't posted for awhile, but I'm going to do a random post of my AIM profile first...haha!

if you're looking at this, you rock...have a nice day!

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Mt 6:33

IMPACT, you really rock...and anyone else who went to LT, for that matter...

"...we fools who love..." "...the choice between what is right and what is easy..." ~Dumbledore, HP5 and 4, respectively

You know the saying, "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence?" Well, it's true, cuz it really is greener over here!

"You are the most insensitive wart I have ever had the misfortune to meet!"
"Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have!" ~Hermione, HP5, both about Ron. Ha!

"I am no man!" ~Eowyn, at the thrilling climax of LOTR3

"I can't do it Sam."
"I know.
It's all wrong.
By rights we shouldn't even be here.

But we are.
It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered.
Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end, cuz how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?

victory! we have victory!

But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come.
And when the sun shines it'll shine the clearer.
Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something, even if you were too small to understand why.
But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories...had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't, they kept going, because they were holding onto something."

"What are we holding onto, Sam?"

"That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo.
And it's worth fighting for."

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. -George Bernard Shaw (don't be afraid to get a little dirt under your nails!) I got that off my cousin's profile, and I liked it, so here it is.

"You're not going to spend eternity with your dirty laundry," so invest in the things that matter.

Harry Potter

Arg! So I'm on my HP web site (mugglenet!), which I have a link to, and I see they have a picture of Mad-Eye Moody as he appears in the movie. So I go look at that, and under that there's a link saying something about "Not all Christians are anti-HP," so I click on the link and it goes to Christianity Today's website. There are a bunch of articles about Harry Potter, some for, some against, and I go to one of the against ones because I love ranting at them. But then of course I needed someplace to rant and someone to rant to, so I go to my blog.

YES witchcraft is real. YES HP has witchcraft in it. NO the witchcraft in HP IS NOT real. YES, some kids think it is, which is why the books are not for all kids. My argument goes down to the bottom line that parents should decide whether or not their kids should read the books. Some kids are too imaginative and shouldn't read them, but if they know that it isn't real and it's just for fun, let them read it! Also, don't be anti-Harry Potter without reading the books. The magic is a minimal part of the story and is usually very humorous. When I think about HP I think about the friendships and conflicts and characters, not the magic. Ok, if I write much more I should just put on my 7th or 8th grade HP report (which isnt' a bad idea...) So I'll stop now.