The King of Cheese

They say that the early bird gets the worm...but doesn't the second mouse always get the cheese?
oh well, it doesn't really matter because I don't eat worms anymore and I ate the last of the cheese yesterday. :) I grated it. Don't you just love grated cheese? It's so much more fun to eat, and it makes a whole lot more cheese. (logically, I know this is not true, because if you have one piece of cheese and you cut it in half you DO have two pieces of cheese but it's still the same AMOUNT of cheese, but really, theoretically, it LOOKS like more cheese, so just go with it.)

What kind of cheese do you like?

I really only like cheddar, though I have been known to eat swiss or smoked cheddar (food-gasm, just saying) and some other kind of cheese with green flecks...asparagus? green beans? I don't know. But I only like those cheeses with something else because, let's face it, green bean cheese by itself? GUH! The only cheese I can eat by itself is cheddar.

Cheddar cheese is so much more godly and glorious by itself anyways. I mean, the king of all cheeses doesn't need to go with a cracker, or a sandwich, or a burger. It can just chill by itself and get grated or sliced and just plain eaten. But then the beauty of cheddar is that it can ALSO be with those things. You know? It's like a little multi-tasker. Multi-racel. No food is too un-cool for cheddar cheese! he'll be their pal!

It can even go on LLAMA!!!



The only thing better than grated cheddar cheese is macaroni and cheese.

Actually, they're about equal.

...except if the macaroni's overdone, or underdone, or the sauce is too runny, or too chunky...

It's gotta be perfect, you know?

And cheddar cheese IS!

Potter-Holic, Please Rescue Me From Myself

Harry Potter.

Sit back. Recline in your easy chair.

Close your eyes. Kick off your shoes.

Grab a snack. Heck, pull out your pipe and light that sucker!

Just relax for a moment, take a deep breath, and think.

Harry Potter.

Two words that every person on the planet has probably heard at least once. Every person knows who he is, whether they've read the books, seen the movies, or not. Harry Potter is like Shakespeare, or Milton, or Poe; everyone knows who he is. Everyone knows what you're talking about when you mention Hogwarts, or Voldemort, or Expelliarmus. It's just one of those cultural things, I suppose - or maybe it's more. Maybe, it's WOLRD DOMINATION!!!



Avada Cadavra...and stuff...


I'm just kidding...well, mostly.

Harry Potter kind of HAS taken over the world, even if he is just a fictional character in seven huge books. But he's more than that, isn't he? There are posters, keychains, Disney Land rides, fake wands, brooms, action figures. He's everywhere, and everyone knows him.

Isn't that close enough to be considered world domination?

I'm only bringing this up because yesterday I watched the final Harry Potter movie's trailer. Okay...well, technically I watched 3 different trailers...and then I watched each of them about 5 times...but that's unimportant. :) The point is, is that I watched the trailer(s) and then I cried. Then I read the whole seventh book in approximately 5 hours (okay, so I skipped parts in the middle...but, really? is all that camping stuff REALLY essential? No.) And then I cried.

To be completely honest, the final "installment" kind of freaks me out a little. I mean, Harry Potter has been being written/filmed for most of my life. It's one of those things that's always there: "Oh, I wonder when the next movie is coming out." "Oh, I just went down to the store and bought the next HP book, isn't that exciting?!" And now it's ENDING?!! NOOOO!

So, like any eccentric super-duper-mega-fan would do, I spent the last 4 hours googling all that is Harry Potter. My google conquest started with looking up spells. I read through all of them (omg there are A LOT) and from there clicked on different links to different things, like from Patronus Charm I went to Lethifolds (which are deadly creatures living in tropical areas that look like floating cloaks; therefore, "lethal" and "folds" like the folds of a cloak.) The Patronus is the only spell that can conceivably destroy/fend off a Lethifold, just in case you were curious.

From Lethifolds (the Magical Creatures page) I went to character's patronuses. I scrolled through all of the known patronuses (wow...who knew that Flavius Belby's patronus was "something with horns"? (he used it to defeat a Lethifold.) who even knew who Flavius Belby was?) From there I started looking at Ms. Luna Lovegood because I love her so much, and was shocked because her page had a "later life" portion and it was here that I found the juicy details. J.K.Rowling apparently devised complicated life stories for each main character. omg!!! so excited! Apparently Luna married a fellow eccentric "magizoologist" named Rolf Scamander (whom she met when searching for a Crumple-Horned Snorkack) and together they had twin boys named Lorcan and Lysander.

From Luna's page, I, of course, investigated her children because they weren't mentioned in the book and I was curious. They each have their own page and actually have some background too. :D from there I went to Harry/Ginny's offspring, and read more about their children (their daughter Lily's middle name is Luna, after Luna Lovegood) and then went to Ron/Hermione's offspring (anyone else notice that Rose and Hugo are R and H like their parents? O_O). From there I of course went to visit Mr. Draco Malfoy's child Scorpius. I'm a little obsessed with this child, for some unknown reason. His full name is Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy and his mother is Astoria Greengrass.

When I got to Scorpius I got a little interested in the names, so I googled for Harry Potter name meanings and found a website where people actually discuss this sort of stuff (I need to go sign up) and it was crazy what stuff they came up with. For instance, one fanatic researched Xenophilius Lovegood. his name Xenophilius is like Xenophily which is the extreme love of unusual places, things, or people. AHHH! J.K.Rowling is a GENIUS! all her names fit so perfectly!!! like Voldemort, in french (Vol de mort) it means Theif of Death.
Anyways, I looked up other stuff, like how relationships affect people's patronuses (Lily and Sev's both are a Doe because Sev loves Lily; Lily's is a doe and she married James who's is a Stag (and whom is also a stag); Harry thought his patronus was a horse at first, and then he married Ginny who's is a horse; Hermione's is an otter and she married Ron who lived in Otterly).

So, now I'm so obsessed with Harry Potter that I looked up the family trees and former teachers (is it not amazing that she invented all these characters that aren't even in the books?!) and...ah! I'll stop now because this blog is getting long and you're all probably getting bored.

I really need to get a good hobby, or discover some other wonderful books because this is just getting ridiculous...I'm like a druggy. I need to go to HPFA - Harry Potter Fanatics Anonymous - for help.

I can't wait!!!

Anyways....

The message I'm trying to get across, though, is that you should all READ HARRY POTTER if you haven't because they are amazing books, and it's not "witchcraft" okay? I'm sorry, but that's just ridiculous! Harry Potter is not even ABOUT that kind of stuff, well, not in that sense anyway, and everyone should be able to read them/watch them because they're, for lack of a better phrase, "wicked!".

Harry Potter is taking over the world, are you going to sit by and let that happen without your knowledge? Or are you going to be A PART OF IT?!! xD

There's A Philanthropist In The Cockpit

When I was young people were always asking me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I never really knew what I wanted to be. I would say "veterinarian" or "teacher" or "rockstar" because that's what everyone else said. And, honestly, what 5 year old girl doesn't want to be a vet; all those cute kitties and puppies. You just want to help them ALL! I also claimed I wanted to be a farmer (come on, all those cute sheep and pigs and cows!!!), a doctor, and a philanthropist (I still have no idea what that is...but it sounds cool and intelligent).

The one thing I never wanted to be was an astronaut. Space scares the crap out of me! Seriously? Who wants to go up in the sky in a tiny little rocket? Then you almost catch on fire leaving the atmosphere, and then you're just stranded up there, floating... O_O not to mention the minor NO-OXYGEN issue (what if you ran out?!) or, Oh!, the minute problem of WHAT IF YOU GOT EJECTED FROM THE TEENY-TINY ROCKET AND WENT SPINNING OUT INTO SPACE WHERE THERE IS NO GRAVITY AND YOU PRETTY MUCH ARE SCREWED?! Oh yeah...AND THEN YOU DIE!!!!!

I think I have the opposite of clausterphobia...it's what I like to call: toomuchopenspaceaphobia. Would agoraphobia cover that? The fear of open or public places in which escape would be difficult? very open...no escape...maybe not so public (oh yeah...I forget to mention the whole ALIEN thing!).

Definitely content to stay on THIS planet for the rest of my life. thank you very much, someone suicidal can go up in the little rocket and meet E.T.

Anyways, I'm only bringing this up because today was the last day of 10th grade, which means next year I'm going to be a JUNIOR!!! so, I need to figure out what the heck I'm going to do with my life. EEEEP!!!

So, since I am now semi-grown up, I will share with you my updated list of  Future Plans/Career Ideas...thingy...

1.)Writer. I want to write something life-changing...or maybe just funny.
2.)Musician. I looooove music. I want to compose it and sell it on a CD...or maybe just play it in the park on the weekends.
3.)Editer. I correct people's grammar ALL the time! so I guess I'm good at it.
4.)Psychologist/Psychiatrist. I never can discern between the two, no matter how many times I google them...but I want to help people who have disorders and problems and stuff.
5.)Actor. Theatre is the bomb and I want to continue to become someone else and speak in iambic pantameter.

Although some of these things DO go together, they don't exactly WORK together. At the moment, the one I'm leaning toward is writer. I love writing (as you can tell) and, I don't know, I just want to write something and see it there on a shelf, and think "I did something with my life. look, there it is, for hundreds of generations to read or maybe not read." I want to write out poetry and have people analyze it in english class. I want to write lyrics that people can sing along to during long trips. I want to fill empty, blank pages with meaning and make people question their lives. I want to change the world, or maybe just one person; a tiny piece.

And that's all any of us really want, isn't it? To change a little piece of this world. To leave our thumbprint on something. To be able to sit back when death knocks at our window and say to ourselves "I did something. I gave back. I accomplished something. I left a mark and the world will never be the same again, whether for good or bad."

I just don't want to end up living my life based on other people's dreams. I don't want to blink and find myself teaching a bunch of teenagers who aren't even listening. I don't want to blink and realize that I'm majoring in philanthropy and suddenly wonder "what is that?" I don't want to wake up inside the cockpit of a tiny rocket floating through outer space. I don't want to live someone else's life.

I've seen a veterinarian at work, and it's not all cute kitties and puppies.

I want to be me.