"This is the stuff that dreams are made of." http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carygrant19/ en-us Homeschool Blogger Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:16:00 -0500 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:16:00 -0500 Hey again. Sorry it's been so long. I got a Facebook and, well, you know what that means. But two weeks ago I had driver's ed...which was long, boring, and terrifying at the same time. Last week I had VBS at my church, in which I did skits every morning with my friends. It was a lot of fun! I also helped with drama and woodworking. So today, I'm really tired. But anyway. Drop me a comment! -TPK http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carygrant19/703017/ Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:16:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carygrant19/703017/ Hey everybody. Back again. I've been really busy lately, please forgive me for not writing. Because it is American Idol season again, I haven't watched many movies lately. Sorry! I will say this: I've reviewed 'It Happened One Night' and I've said this but I'll say it again: this is the coolest movie ever. Guess what? I GOT A SUPERIOR AT THE PIANO CONTEST! I am so happy. Now I get to go the the state competition on April 18.....yipes! I'm nervous but excited. Be forewarned....more movie reviews will approach quickly and stealthily as you enter my blog. Do not resist them. Talk to you later, TPK  http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carygrant19/675258/ Thu, 2 Apr 2009 13:39:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carygrant19/675258/ Hey again. I'm so sorry it's been so long since I've written! I have been very, very busy, with school, choirs starting, drama, lit class, homework, piano, memorization, the Super Bowl, the homeschool formal dance, game night, snow, and a billion other things. Yes, I did say the homeschool formal! I went, and it was so much fun. A bunch of my friends and I got ready together, and we all went and danced all night. :) It was fabulous! The Super Bowl was pretty cool; I went to a Super Bowl party and was sort of going for the Steelers. They won! We got quite a bit of snow the other day! My sister and I went out and 'played' in it, which really includes sledding down the hills in the bike jump across the street, having snowball fights, and stuffing snow down each other's pants. Well, write me a comment! "CHESTER CHEETAH!" -one of my youth leaders. -tpk http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carygrant19/655583/ Sat, 7 Feb 2009 09:58:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carygrant19/655583/ Hello again, everybody! My dad is being dorky and asdkfjhkhj banging on the keys. Oh well. Well, since I really haven't watched any other movies recently, besides the last ones, I thought maybe I'd tell you what I'm reading now. -Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen -The Watsons Go To Birmingham, 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis -The Ruby in The Smoke by Phillip Pullman -The Tales of Beetle The Bard by J.K. Rowling -The Prophecy of The Stones by Flavia Bujor -The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkein So, anyway. I really must recommend The Watsons Go To Birmingham 1963 to you. It is very funny and quite well written.                      "Dorkity Porkity and The Creepiest Buzzard"                                  ~~~~~A Fairy Tale~~~~~                     Once upon a time, there was a young boy named Bill. Bill was, unfortunately, just a wee bit dorky, and therefore, the evil bully in the village, Hector, called Bill 'Dorkity Porkity' for lack of a better taunting name. (Porkity was the best rhyme he could come up with.) Bill was terribly sad and lonely, and cried every day, until one day he was walking out in the forest when he met a hag! "Hello, little boy!" shrieked the hag. "Eeep!" yelled Bill/Dorkity Porkity. "You look sad, little boy, are you? Huh?" cried the hag. "Oh, yes, oh, yes, oh, yes, old hag," sobbed Bill. "I have no friends and the village bully calls me 'Dorkity Porkity!' Can you help me?" "Well, shhhhuuuuure!" said the hag, beaming with joy. "But I must warn you first: I am not a very good spell-caster." "Who cares, if I can not be lonely no more!" shreiked Bill. "That's a double negative," hissed the hag. "Whoops!" KAZAAAM! BOOM! "Heeeheeeheeehahahha!" Bill, who had had his eyes squeezed shut, cracked them open. The hag had her arms stretched up in the air and a maniacal grin on her face. Standing in front of her was an old depressed-looking and rather creepy buzzard. "Eew!" said Bill. "This," whispered the hag reverently, "is your new best friend, Drokity-I mean, little boy!" "Ummm...." said Bill. The buzzard just blinked. "That'll be $29.95 plus tax," said the hag. "What?!" yelled Bill. "I have to pay $29.95 plus tax for this creepy buzzard?! I don't even like buzzards!" "Ohhh, but you'll like this one!" said the hag. "Watch!" She tapped the buzzard on the head with a gnarled finger. Nothing happened. "Buzzard!" yelled the hag. "Go!" Nothing happened. "Pweease, wittle buzzard?" moaned Bill, his big deer eyes filling with tears and his lower lip quivering. Suddenly the buzzard started to tap-dance. "Hooray!" yelled the hag and Bill at the same time. And so, when Bill had gone home and pleaded with his mother for $29.95 plus tax, and he had given it to the hag, the buzzard and Bill played together all day long and became bestest friends, and the hag took her $29.95 plus tax and spent it on a big hoagie.                                 THE END. Well, I guess I'll talk to you later. "Well, I don't go a-lookin' for trouble, but if trouble comes a-lookin' for me, I'm gonna be mighty hard to find." -Road To Morocco -tpk     http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carygrant19/643674/ Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:59:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carygrant19/643674/ Hey again, folks. Today's Tuesday in my part of the world, and yesterday school started again. Not so bad, although science is giving me fits at the moment. Chemistry! Yipes! MOVIE REVIEWS: (and a dang lot of them!) Miss Potter: starring Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor. This movie is a biography of the life and times of Beatrix Potter (Zellweger) as she writes such famous children's stories as Peter Rabbit and The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. This is also about her editor, Norman Warne (McGregor) who she falls in love with as she works with him. I won't tell the ending, but it's awfully sad and a very very beautiful movie. King Kong: (1933) starrring Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong. Fay Wray plays a young, out of work girl who's picked up by a movie director (Armstrong) and whisked away to a distant pacific island with a dark secret. When they get there, however, the come upon a native tribe who about offer a girl up as 'the bride of Kong.' The chief notices them, and says that Ann-the girl-would make a much better bride for Kong anyway. 'No way,' says the director, and they run back to the ship. But late that night Ann gets kidnapped by the natives and offered to Kong. Now, when Kong comes out, I must admit that he looks like a stuffed animal, but this movie was top of it's class and first of it's kind at the time, and I think it's worth watching. Modern Times: starring Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard. This movie was also produced and directed by Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin plays a worker in a steel mill who gets thrown out of work and is forced to find another job during the Depression. Goddard plays a young girl whose father is killed in an unemployment riot, and escapes from the juvenile officers who were trying to take her away. Chaplin and Goddard meet and have a series of adventures together. This movie seamlessly mixes physical comedy and social commentary, and although it is a silent film, it is amazingly expressive and very worth watching. We also watched 'It Happened One Night' again. That is SUCH a good movie! Did I already talk about this? I think I did. Well, as they say in France, au revoir. "QUIT BAWLING! QUIT BAWLING!" -It Happened One Night -tpk http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carygrant19/642129/ Tue, 6 Jan 2009 17:41:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carygrant19/642129/ Yaaaaaaah! I'm writing this entry as a viking! Kill whale! Eat! Walrus! Yaaay! Yaaaah! Board ship! Sail away! Yaaaah! That was so stupid that I'm not going to even talk about it. Today was Sunday. We didn't have Sunday School, so we just went to the service. It was pretty cool. I can't wait for the 14th of January! That's when drama starts again! And choir, on the same day. My friend is directing the play this year, and she wrote it, too. I think it'll be really cool. And that thing I wrote with my other friend for the last play? We'll do another one, probably. So exciting. I told you guys that for Christmas we got two plastic lightsabers-blue and red. And so, my sister and I love to act out scenes from Star Wars in the back yard. Dorky? Not! Cool? Totally. Whoever uses the red one can either play Anakin, Darth Vader (yes, there is a difference!), Count Dooku, General Grievous, Darth Maul...basically any Sith. Whoever uses the blue can play Luke or Obi-Wan, but sometimes we just use it for any good guy. Even Leia, sometimes. It's sooooo cool! Greek beets for dinner. Did I say greek beets? Green beans. This entry is not going very well. Well, drop me a comment! "Ah, Obi-Wan. The circle is now complete." -Darth Vader -tpk http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carygrant19/637384/ Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:43:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carygrant19/637384/ Hi again. Merry Christmas! How is everybody? My grandma is here, visiting from TX right now, and we are on break from school. Here's some stuff I got for Christmas: -a plastic lightsaber (yes!) -this beautiful cultured pearl necklace, earrings and bracelet -a new journal -a Calvin and Hobbes book! -a calligraphy set and some other fantastic stuff. My family is so cool and God has blessed us so much. Movie review: Andy Hardy and Debutante: I just saw this yesterday. Starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, this is another movie in the Hardy family series. I didn't see the very first ones, but you can kind of jump in anywhere. Andy Hardy is a boy who lives in a small town with his family, his father, Judge Hardy, his mother and his sister. He idolizes a society belle, collecting her pictures, and even boasting that he met her once. When his father tells him that they're going to New York, the place where the girl lives, Andy's friends pressure him to come back with pictures of him and the girl. This is a very funny movie, although Mickey Rooney is a little hokey sometimes. You should watch it. Plus, over Christmas, we watched It's a Wonderful Life, White Christmas, tons of TV Christmas specials, How The Grinch Stole Christmas (not the real people one, the good one) and a Charlie Brown Christmas, although I missed it while cleaning the cat box. (*sobs*) Did I tell you how the madrigal feast went? It went wonderfully! It was so much fun. Well, drop me a comment! "It's amazing how one man's life touches so many others." "Harry wasn't there to save those men because you weren't there to save Harry!" -It's a Wonderful Life -tpk http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carygrant19/637034/ Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:40:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carygrant19/637034/ Hey again, everyone. Today is Saturday. Yay! I'm so happy. Movie Review: Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace:  This is the beginning of the saga. I actually forgot how much I liked this one. Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) and his apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) are dispatched to the planet of Naboo to settle a Federation/Naboo government dispute. Unfortunately, it doesn't go as planned. They end up escaping, with the queen of Naboo, Queen Amidala (Natalie Portman) to the sandy, desolate planet of Tatooine. There they meet a very interesting little boy named Anakin Skywalker and his mother, and in a desperate deal to get parts for their damaged ship, bet everything on a pod-race. This movie is full of hints toward the future, like Anakin giving Padme the necklace, and how Anakin is 'the one to fulfill the prophecy.' You should watch this one! Well, I forgot to tell you, but the play at church went really, really well! It was fun. Piano lesson went well on Thursday-I got a new Christmas piece! Drop me a comment! Parlez-vous francais? "Pod-racing is a very dangerous sport..." -The Phantom Menace -tpk http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carygrant19/619671/ Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:57:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carygrant19/619671/ Hey again everybody. It's Wednesday afternoon, and today is the last kid's club meeting of the semester. That means an end-of-semester party in catechism and a final rehearsal (before the dress rehearsal) in drama. I'm not really, really  nervous but it is a little scary. But it'll pull together, right? Right. Well, we watched the election returns last night. We voted for McCain-Palin, so it was quite disappointing when we heard that Obama won. Well, whatever God gives us is best, so Obama must be in his plan for this nation. We will have to trust God about this. MOVIE REVIEWS: Gentlemen Prefer Blonds: starring Jane Russell and Marylin Monroe. The two girls play Lorelei (Monroe), a woman who loves her fiancee-but loves diamonds better, and Dorothy (Russell), her best friend. Lorelei's fiancee's father forbids the marriage, but Lorelei comes up with a scheme: go to Paris, the city where the marriage is supposed to take place, and wait while her fiancee trys to convince his father. Dorothy goes along as a chaperone. Unfortunately, Lorelei and Dorothy meet a rich, older man with a diamond mine on the boat, and Lorelei's love for diamonds overtakes her. This is a pretty good movie, although corny in places, but Jane Russell really does sing well, and the musical numbers are not bad. Return of The Jedi: This is a very good movie. I like how the beginning flows, how Leia sneaks into Jabba's palace, and how Luke saves them all. I don't like it quite as much as ESB (The Empire Strikes Back) but that may be because I like the settings of Cloud City and Hoth better than the setting of Endor, but that's just me. This is still a fantastic movie, but WATCH 4 AND 5 FIRST! Some Like It Hot: (I've already talked about this once, but here's the formal review.) Starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marylin Monroe. Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis play two musicians, Jerry and Joe, who witness a shooting. Desperate to get out of town, and to get some money, they join an all-women band, dressed as 'Josephine' and 'Daphne.' On the train, they meet Sugar (Monroe.) They are both naturally attracted to Sugar, but as they are disguised as women, they can't betray their bluffs. When they get to Florida, they place their band is playing, 'Daphne' meets an old millionare who won't stop following him, and 'Josephine' thinks up a brilliant scheme to get Sugar.  This movie is amazingly funny and quite worth watching. (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon are fantastic together.) Well, I've got to go. Drop me a comment! "Daphne! You're leading again!" -Some Like It Hot -tpk http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carygrant19/614991/ Wed, 5 Nov 2008 11:52:01 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carygrant19/614991/ Hello. It's late Wednesday night. I'm very tired. Guess what? We placed 3rd in the tournament! That's pretty good, considering we had 3 injuries at the tournament. It was terrible, actually. We had one girl tear her ACL (for those who know what that is, you know that this is really, really bad), a twisted ankle and a broken arm. Yikes. But even through the injuries were very bad, and this will sound weird, I think we all still had a pretty good time. The middle school got the championship, though, and that was great, so we were happy for them. And then it was my 14th birthday. That was great. We had a hummingbird cake (coconut, pineapple, banana, pecans) with cream cheese icing. Oh, and in my family we have this tradition of putting a favorite character from the year on the top of the cake in icing, so this year I put Hobbes from Calvin and Hobbes, the comic strip. (They wouldn't let me do Anakin Skywalker!) But Hobbes was really cute. Did I write about my Chopin waltz? That's the Romantic piece I picked. It's very old, very long and very famous. I love it but it's seriously killer. And now, 2 weeks of birthday cakes, waltzes, broken arms, algebra, French, creepy priests (don't ask,) and snow have past and it's Wednesday night. Well, drop me a comment! "Goodnight, Sugar!" -Some Like It Hot -tpk  P.S. THIS IS MY 100TH ENTRY! YAY! http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carygrant19/611998/ Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:15:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/carygrant19/611998/