That's Cheese

So guess what happened today. I had to recite The Ages of Man for my English class. And I got a 100%. What was that? That was snap. Not to mention I got a 70% on my Tale of Two Cities Test. Which is good because I was positive I had failed it ( got the essay wrong, never read the book) but I passed. Guess what else was amazing? I saw a girl who worked at stop and shop named Francesca. Legit. I was so excited, because I never saw anyone with that name ( that I know of). Also I finished Enders game, which was AMAZING. So sad, so good. It was cheese. Cheese by the way is my new name for 'cool'. A Liz original. Anyways I haven't done a short story yet so I'll do it now.

Terry

Terry walked down the driveway on her way to the bus stop. Another boring day. All of a sudden freakin’ huge hummer car came out of nowhere and hit her.When Terry waked up the first thing she noticed was that the sky was violet. And she was blue. But Terry got the idea she could brown if she wanted to. Maybe even be Grace Kelly is she tried. She started to get up when she realized she was in a hummer. Driving one actually. Terry had no idea what she was doing till she realized she had just run over a girl. Crap. Terry got out to see if the girl was all right when she saw a 99 red balloons in the sky. Instantly the girl was forgotten. Mama Mia Terry cried, red balloons in the sky! Look! She cried, But Terry realized she was talking to nobody and was being an idiot. She slapped herself. Then she did it again for good luck. Terry looked down the street. I don’t think I have to go to school she thought. So Terry went to go drink a coca cola. And it was cheese.

ok you don't have to name the songs I used in the this because it's obvious. Have a great Day!
-Liz

Phrank: May time!

Kind of a late post for me siblings, but at least two of you know why! I'm home for the evening! Surprise! I was going to do it earlier in the day, but I ended up going to Mass since today is also the Ascension of Christ. Yay for Catholicism!
In other news, I saw grandpa today, he was looking alright.
My allergies continue to act up even though I've started taking a knock-off claritin product to help. Also, I'm done with finals in 9 days! OMG! That's right, with the start of May, it's just a short jump till May 10th when I wrap up with finals. Also siblings, two weeks, keep it marked down. Maybe next week I'll post a wish list for those struggling to come up with ideas. Gloriously enough, I get to post on that day!
There seems to be an issue over some word choices I made in a comment on someone else's post, however I maintain that it does not violate a PG rating by the standardized movie rating system so it leaves me in the clear. Stop being so puritanical, Bill, you're Catholic! I refuse to accept any punishment on this topic since I did nothing wrong. End of story.

Now to the meat of the post, something I was thinking about earlier today. People don't believe in religion anymore, not most people. Even most people who go to Church don't really bring Christ with them into their lives. After this semester, and being influenced by several sources, one being my Bible and literature course, another being Chapel Choir and a third being my own life, I started thinking about why that is and how to change it. Whenever I meet people who are lukewarm in their faith,they tell me that they don't see the role of religion in everyday life. Our ever increasing secular society teaches us to push religion to the fringe, in the name of religious freedom which is a cruel irony. Also, many people erroneously believe that science has disproved much of religion and see it as a defunct tradition. This belief is dead wrong, science has disproved nothing, at least from the Catholic standpoint. Evolution does not disprove the Bible. It is a different perspective to see the sacred Scripture's truth. In fact, Catholic teaching approves of evolution. The Bible is a tough book to understand and to not take the easy way and simplify the hard truths it teaches. You want tough questions in the Bible? Read the book of Job. Read Genesis, and a glaring problem will face you almost right off the bat. There are two Creation stories. The material is important, though challenging.
I know this sounds preachy, but in addition to the lukewarm nature of religion, I see a growing belief in materialism and a growing number of miserable people who just seem lost. The things I learned this semester lead me to believe that a true active faith in Christianity is a relief from this misery and loss of direction. I've got a bunch of ideas that I've been thinking about and I'll post here in good time, I think this post has rambled on long enough though. So I'll leave you with three (paraphrased) quotes from the Bible, which I'll explain in more detail later. The first is spoken by God, the second and third are spoken by Jesus. They touch on the theme of being lost, what it means to be Christian and the promise of Christianity.
"Where are you?"
"Who do you say I am?"
"See, I am making all things new."

Short Story Challenge Response

Mukashi mukashi...*
*Once upon a time, in a far away land...

Here is the tale of the Great Dance, and the awesome people who channeled their power into defeating the zombie horde.

The zombie horde had carefully planned their attack and on a bright sunny day in April they launched their offensive. Outbreaks of the zombie virus were everywhere, and the human population was terrified and helpless. And paranoid.

You see, the zombies weren't you usual brain-eating shamblings messes. They looked pretty normal, and could imitate the emotions they had seen in their human prey. Which was pretty much limited to sadness, horror, and pain.

As these hordes ate away at the remaining bastions of humanity, a cry went out across the land for the brightest, toughest, and bravest to come together to find a way to defeat the horde. The message was carried from safe house to safe house, whispered about so quietly it was like the twitter of a passing bird. They came from all over- different countries, different continents. They spoke different languages and did their hair different and had different unique talents. But everyone knew that a gathering of this many great people was completely awesome.

Naturally, the security at this meeting was tight. Everyone had to pass stringent anti-zombie tests, and we're not talking about answering some stupid questions, either. This naturally took a long time, so there were a lot of people standing in lines, waiting for their turn.

All of a sudden, a woman named Lisa shouted. She ran across the room and tackled a young man standing in one of the aforementioned lines. At first people were scared- was she a zombie, trying to eat his brains? But no, Lisa had just recognized her twue wuv, Chester and was so excited she forgot everything else. Once it was explained, everyone started smiling and laughing, glad to see the two reunited. Some one even broke out some crazy dance music, and order disintegrated as everyone started dancing.

Well, almost everyone. Like Cylons, some zombies had infiltrated the gathering. They watched in amazement as the humans celebrated Lisa and Chester's twue wuv. They had never seen such happy dances before! Overwhelmed, their zombie minds couldn't take such awesome and the evil zombie infection lost as the awesome infected their bodies. The zombies started twitching and shaking, and while some just thought it was a new type of dance, a few of the nerdy fighters recognized what was happening.

Immediately, they threw open the doors. "Spread the happy dance!" they yelled. The remaining humans did. They tangoed and twisted through the zombie horde, their awesome dance moves created a kind of safety dance, protecting them from the zombie virus, as well as curing their infected friends. As the former zombies became human again, they joined in.

And so the zombie horde was defeated and everyone lived happily ever after!



Love and shurikens!
~Anne

P.S. I forgot to mention in my comment that I am also a ballerina secret agent veterinarian

Chapter 6

In this episode of our story Tracy has just escaped from the evil Ninjas and was rescued by the lovable pirates. Let see what happens now....

"Chapter 6: A Pirate Picnic"

As Tracy the unicorn lies down by the fire in the Pirate camp it is nursed back to health from the attacks on it by the Ninjas in Chapter 3 and 4. The pirate captain comes into the glow of the fire and quietly asks. "Is you going to make it there, Rhino?" Tracy looked up with a puzzled look on it's face which was scared from all the chipmunk scratches and ninja cuts and said. "Rhino? I can't be a rhino, why I am a giraffe." At this point one of the pirates that has a soft voice but walks like a man stood up. "Why yea can't be a giraffe, cause you can talk and everyone knows giraffes are mute. And ya got that horn and four hooves you must be a rhino." Tracy looks over to the pirate the helped it in the escape from the clutches of the evil ninja lord. "Pat, you know I'm more elusive than a Rhino, why I might even consider myself a Unicorn, if one wants to think of it that way." With the word unicorn the entire pirate camp laughs and says the unicorns don't exist and that Tracy wouldn't know one if one gored it in the butt. Tracy the unicorn laughs just with the rest of them and in between laughs "I rhino I am."

This post was supposed be longer but i'm sick right now and really tired. Next week I won't jump around in the story line, i have to write about the evil foe that haunts pirates.

A Ninja, HI-YA!

A Ninja, HI-YA!
A fat ninja I might be.
But ninja I am.

Go ask a ninja
Bruce Lee got nothing on me.
Speed aint everything

Gotta know where's at.
Shaking it like Sammo Hung
Ninja Power - YA!

Catch a ride with me.
Flip out and kill every one.
Pirates got no glee.

I choose the Ninja
That is my answer Phankie
Haiku, my payback.