Monday, November 25, 2013

All right, so I have been slacking...

DISCLAIMER: THE FOLLOWING POST WAS WRITTEN BY A SLEEP-DEPRIVED NANOWRIMO PARTICIPANT WHO WAS RECENTLY INTERRUPTED IN THE MIDST OF WRITING HER NOVEL. A perilous venture indeed; don't try it unless you're either bringing her a cup of tea or making her laugh so hard she can't attack you. Anyway... READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.

As my brother has very kindly informed me, I have been slacking off on this blog lately.

The reason? Well, partially... it's November. :D And everyone should know what that means: http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/ (or http://nanowrimo.org/ if you're brave and amazing... *cough* Jael *cough*)

And as I have been attempting to write 30,000 words and keep on top of school and other stuff, another "interesting" aspect of life has been my very entertaining bunch of siblings!

A few days ago, I was innocently sitting at my desk studying, when I looked up to see this:



Yeah, well, I'm afraid Gloria may have ruined the drama of the moment. ;)

Then, this evening, I was working on my novel, when my sisters started doing this:

And they kept it up for about half an hour... I finally just tuned them out and kept on writing. I'm not sure how coherent that writing was; it's hard to tune them out completely...

Right before that, this conversation happened between Cecily and me:
Cecily: Um... Sylvia, can I have my rubber band?
Sylvia: *looking up from her laptop* Oh, is that what just flew over my head?
Cecily: ...Yeah.
(Sylvia tries to shoot the rubber band back at Cecily, but misses by about three feet. She's only sitting about five feet away from Cecily.)
Sylvia: ...Ow.
(Cecily bursts out laughing)
Sylvia: Yeah, that's typical me... try to shoot a rubber band; end up harming myself but completely missing the target.
Cecily: Yeah, you missed me by three or four feet...


And just because you so need more Peterson craziness...

(French assignment, filling in comparative or superlative forms.  The assignment: "Je mange ___ Henri." (Literally, "I ate __ Henry.")
Mom: You may do "I ate MORE THAN Henry" or "I ate LESS THAN Henry," but you may NOT do "I ate the most of Henry!"
Cecily: But Henry was the name of my apple yesterday! And I ate most of it!

Bjorn: It's boring.
Mom: BORING? Good; it's almost 10:00 at night! Go to sleep!

Sylvia: Or better yet, coat them with red duct tape!
Cecily: ...Cook them with red duct tape? O_O

Mom: There was some mold on the cantaloupe in the fridge... I should have saved it for Knut's Biology assignment.

Papa: What's the second law of thermodynamics?
Cecily: the Law of Splat.

Knut: Stevie did it!
Sylvia: Which Steve?
Knut: Stevie.
Sylvia: The monkey?
Knut: Not necessarily...
Sylvia: Which Stevie, then?
Knut: Stevie.
Sylvia: Who's Stevie?
Knut: ...I don't know, but he did it!

Papa: Sylvia, could you... uh... um... *tries to say something, but can't find the words*
(Sylvia starts raking up the leaves by the curb)
Papa: It's lovely when you can read my mind.

Knut: When I was 4 and Thor had just been born, when Thor hit me with his hammer, my brain died. Fortunately, I had made a replacement brain, 'cause I wasn't quite sure to expect, since I'd never had a little brother before. Good thing I took precautions. So when my brain died 'cause Thor hit it with the hammer, the replacement one took over. But it's kinda weird, since... I made it... and it needs chocolate to work.
Papa: It works??
Knut: Sort of. And it would die if I didn't have chocolate at least once a week.
Sylvia: Only once a week?
Knut: At LEAST once a week. But if it's only once a week, then it... fades and deteriorates and doesn't work very well. I have to have chocolate at least four times a day for it to function at its full capacity.

Mom: Like, I gave up on getting Sylvia to switch to cursive. But then after I gave up, she switched.
Mom and Sylvia together: ...Story of my life.

Mom: Knut, you should have most of this already in your own personal computer... called your brain.

Papa: You know, we always used to have quiet children... right up until the time Knut was born. 

Mom: If he gets out the jug of milk, stop him.
Sylvia: Slap him!?!?
...Cecily: Ooh, don't warn him! I wanna do it!

Cecily: No dead people allowed in the house???
Sylvia: WHAT!?
Cecily: Gloria just said that...
Sylvia: Oh... I thought it was a French sentence you were trying to translate!

Thor: It's number A of letter 2.

Knut: New rule! Thou shalt eat like a civilized human being.
Papa: What's that? Thou shalt eat the civilized human being?
Mom: There has been way too much talk about "eaters of men" around here...

Rosemary: The ice cream truck is a runaway chicken.
Bjorn: No, the ice cream MAN!

Bjorn: This is how you eat.
Cecily: That's how YOU eat; it's not how I eat.

Cecily: We were playing outside being Ninjas and hoping nobody called the police on us.

 Cecily: Yankee Doodle went to town, riding on a pony; stuck a feather in his cat... um... I meant hat... and threw it out the window.
Sylvia: You are so strange.
Cecily: I really like "Old McDonald had a farm and threw it out the window."


Anyway... back to studying and writing and coming up with ways to take over the world... um, in my novel, of course... *very innocent expression*


Sunday, November 24, 2013

Whiteboard Ninja War - Guest post by Knut


Abbi Trinkline and I had a whiteboard ninja war after the concert on Sunday. She played Kai, (The orange ninja in the picture) and I played Sensei Wu(The random person in the hat drinking tea.) Since the writing isn’t too legible  we provided a transcript below. (We were writing and drawing on both sides of the board, and switching back and forth to reply to the other person’s last comment. The other side isn’t shown since we didn’t have time to take a picture of it, but it was about a giant potato falling and squashing Abbi.*nod nod* Don’t listen to her if she says it fell on me.)

 

Knut=Black
Abbi=Orange

Transcript for the above picture in case you can’t read it.

*Sign pointing to the picture of Kai falling off the training poles*
FAIL.
Gimme a break, I’ve only been here a day or two.
Phttt. I was perfect on day one.
Yeah right. Besides, you’re the one teaching me.
HA! You admit that I am better.
For now! Wait till we rescue you later.
I escaped less than a second after they caught me. I don’t need rescuing.
Yeah, that’s what they all say.
*Arrow pointing to the picture of Sensei Wu drinking tea*
See, I’m back drinking tea already.
My Sensei Wu is better than yours.
I drew mine much faster.
I drew Kai too.
Yea, but I drew him. *Arrow pointing to the big black ninja*
I drew him… *Arrow pointing to Kai holding the sugar cup* …and him… *Arrow pointing to Sensei Wu* …and him… *Arrow pointing to Kai falling off the training poles* …and him. *Arrow pointing to a ninja in the bottom right*
*Arrow coming from the ninja falling off the training poles*
Wait, you’re a “him?”
You were the one who put my name there.
It’s still you.
I don’t follow your logic.
You’re brain isn’t strong enough to comprehend my logic.
Illogic.                                                            
Logic.
Illogic.
Logic.
*Apart from everything else that was going on… in the center of the board the orange ninja(Kai) is holding a cup of sugar. Sensei Wu is pouring himself a cup of tea just to the left of Kai.*
Kai: Is that one sugar or two?
Sensei Wu: Fourteen.
Kai: No wonder you’re so crazy.
Sensei Wu: True.


This entire thing just goes to show how crazy homeschoolers can be. And yes, I did post this without Sylvia's knowledge. *ninjaface*
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