Weekly Short Stories Contest and Company! discussion

I'm Kimmy and i love to act and take pictures! :]

Bonjour!!!

Je m'appelle Amanda and I LOVE to write and create and inspire and help and generally be insanely crazy.

I also suffer from extensive bits of MIA.

I'm insane and think that this is what the "introduce yourself" topic thingey is for...

I joined in... 2008 I think... and there weren't ads then... now there are ads that jump out at ya and you interact with...

Like the Venus ad... NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOUR SMOOTH LEGS!!!

*blinks* Ads like to haunt me... there's always been Ads...

And there will always be cake.

And where there are happy people, there are good times.

CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES! COME ON!

:P Oh the debate!!! *watches with popcorn*

I like laughter and sunshine(and Amanda's cakes...eating her apple pie breakfast)

APPLE PIE FTW!!!!

mmmm I had that for breakfast this morning at camp.

Alright... I'm working A LOT. I have like two sessions that I'm not working. :P

But I get to see a play and go to the Rheo Thompson Chocolate Store for my out trip... hopefully they don't lose my waiver and I still get to go... I think the play is either Kiss Me, Kate or Evita.

So I'm excited for that. :P This afternoon I get to teach older Guiders how to use Blackberries and cell phones and all that Jazz. XD

Hang in there guys, This is day 5 of 11 for me... 6 more days until I come home and you have my full undivided attention when I'm not sleeping. XD

Turns out I saw Peter Pan which was my birthday present back in April... ah well, such is luck and irony.

And the session I was teaching people about phones and such got cancelled. :'( They're loss.

But I'm home now, and two solid nights of sleeping in until 2 in the afternoon... I'm ready for action again.

Alex, that was quite a celebrate.

The celebrate good times thing... ;P

Getting back to two things:
I like linguistics and love learning about the development of languages, and I like making lists...lots of lovely lists.(currently listing all my books on goodreads)

XD Lists are wonderful Jan! Unfortunately I always lose mine... *trails off into thought...*

Check your backpack, the floor in your room, your pockets, or ask me to write you another list.

I swear Jan... there are like little troll people who sneak up when I'm not looking and steal my lists.

That's why I write things on my hand, because if I lose my hand, well I don't think people will expect me to do what I wrote on it.

Nice to know the sky is bluse... didn't know that was a colour...

Silly lass!

Silly lass who traveled to "Afghanistan" and joined a gypsy clan. :P

Got very tired and went to bed
After writing a story which nobody read

There's not much to tell. I'm old and usually in trouble for something.

You've never seen an ocean? You're in for a treat when you do! The ocean's beautiful.

I see that Jan's a listmaker. Hmmm. She seems nice anyway, though.

The Portuguese man-o'-war is one of the interesting sea creatures we used to watch when I lived in Galveston. It's a jellyfish with a sail-like appendage on top, and when it gets too close to shore, it sails itself back out to sea, tacking back and forth just like a sailboat. They would wash up by the hundreds in the spring and get stranded on the beach. I'd find a piece of cardboard box, scoop up jellyfish, fling them out into the waves, and watch them sail off.

I'm learning to play the guitar and I live near the Indian Ocean.

I had a guitar instructor who taught me a chord so complicated it was nearly impossible to make. She said it was the only chord I would ever need, that once I learned it, all I'd have to do was slide my hand up and down the fretboard. I never knew whether she really believed it or had finally given up on my learning chords.

Do you write music, as well? I never got good enough at piano to read sheet music. I would memorize it off the sheet, then play it from memory. I love piano and acoustic guitar, but I'm not very good at either.

Maddie, it was fairly awful! My third guitar instructor finally gave up and told my mother I was unteachable. So my mother enrolled me in piano lessons instead.

I want to learn piano, and I want to learn more languages.

Your "dear sister says otherwise . . ." I think that's funny! Alex, I have to agree with your sister. If anyone had told I would come to love piano, I wouldn't have believed them. How can you like anything you're having to take lessons to learn? Did you say on one of these threads that you're starting college this fall?

Jan, Try French. That's what I'm doing. I gave up learning English a long time ago.

I can already read, speak and write in French. When I was at Uni I read Voltaire's Candide in French. I also learnt a little Italian, and studied Indonesian in school, but have largely forgotten it. I would like to learn German, since English is a Germanic language and I'm interested in how languages develop and the connections between them and how they moved and developed with people as they migrated across the face of the globe. I'd also like to learn Mandarin Chinese because then I would be able to speak to one sixth of all the people on earth. Then if I also learnt Arabic, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Greek and Thai, I'd be able to talk to people all over the place. And then it would be interesting to learn Sanskrit and see how it related to other Indo-European languages. We often host overseas students and I usually try to learn at least one or two expressions in their languages. So I can greet people in Czech and Japanese, say thankyou in a number of languages and recite a nursery rhyme in Russian. So many languages, so little time!
How are you going with French, M?

Thank you, Maddie! That was nice of you to say. I learn in a random fashion rather than stepwise, so I was really a terrible student. Years later I pulled my dusty guitar out from under the bed and fell in love with it. I would play Renaissance festival songs like "Scarborough Fair" and "Greensleeves" late into the night.

OK 2 things ummmmm
Im Lex...well that's a fact...and when I was umm 8 i think? I chopped my mom's wedding dress and made doll dresses of big chunks of material...It was the first and the last time my mom slapped me O_O ..if i were here I would've drown me...BTW HAS ANYONE EVER TRIED 2 DROWN A FISH? cuz i wanna...but i need a fish...or i should use my sister...wait i don't have a sister...life is soo complicated *sigh*
LOL

M wrote: "Thank you, Maddie! That was nice of you to say. I learn in a random fashion rather than stepwise, so I was really a terrible student. Years later I pulled my dusty guitar out from under the bed and..."

M, I like to sing Greensleeves and Scarborough fair.

I was so bad at playing the guitar, my instructor was probably taking night classes so she could get a different career.

I have a desert dog, and I have 20 goats. (I probably should have been born a Bedouin).

I used to have a goat. His name was Angelo.

I have a gardener. He plays works with the goats.

When it comes to goats, there's too many if's, and's, and butts.

Today they're all butting out of the yard to the next door neighbour. I can't take 20 goats with me when I leave.

hi, i'm paul

two (other) things about me

i love swimming in the sea, and i love the Peak District National Park, near where i live

Hi, Paul! Welcome. I went online and looked at photos of the Peak District. It's beautiful.

I haven't heard much about the beaches of England, whether they're rocky or sandy, whether the water's pleasant or cold. In the summer, on the Texas coast, the water is warm, almost like bath water.

The sea around Britain tends to be... bracing. I've mostly been on the Yorkshire coast, the North Sea - facing across to Denmark and on about the same latitude as mid-Newfoundland, but kept a touch warmer by the Gulf Stream. The Celtic Sea off Cornwall is milder, as it's as far South as England goes as well as closest to that Gulf Stream, which also makes for some decent Atlantic breakers.

Unfortunately, I'm about as far from the sea as you can be on this small island, so make the most of the countryside.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pezter/s...

I live about a mile from the Indian Ocean. Today it's going to be 31 C (about 90) The water temperature is about 21 C (70 F). ( Google Earth Perth, Western Australia. Hillarys Boat Harbour....scroll south from there to see the coastline.)

i visited Perth a couple of years ago (in winter fortunately, i don't think i'd have been able to handle the summer heat) and loved swimming at Cottesloe. Gorgeous sea, and i loved the thought that there was nothing but water for six thousand kilometres until you hit South Africa.

A beautiful city you have there. I'd *almost* be tempted to put up with the heat to live there.

Of course it's not summer yet, and you do acclimatise.
Cottesloe beach was closed yesterday due to a shark sighting. There are usually only about ten days in a year that are ridiculously hot. (Over 38C...100F) As long as they don't all come one after the other it's OK.