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Friday, December 10, 2010

What would make me feel safe

Knowing that i am indestructible would definitely make me feel safe. Especially if i lived inside a bullet proof house. I would also feel even safer knowing that my parents were right down the hall. The bullet proof house though, would of course have to have an alarm system, just in case someone got in. The car that we would drive would also have to have an alarm system for car crashes. Those are the safety features i would like to add.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Youtube

Youtube is a fun and demented website where you watch other people fail online. I love youtube and I like making videos for it. Speaking of which, Brittany and I make youtube videos called Shmurf™. They suck. But we have fun doing them and that’s what matters. Brittany plays the main character named Shmurf™, while I play his bffl (Best Friend For Life) Frumhs. Something cool about Frumhs is that “Frumhs” is actually “Shmurf™” spelled backwards. Pretty cool isn’t it. I know it is. So if you want to check us out on youtube, just go to chumchum31’s channel and watch Shmurf™.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Marry Poppins

On a windy day when nothing is going right for children Jane and Michael Banks, a woman named Marry Poppins comes floating out of the sky. Umbrella in hand, and ready to be the nanny for Jane and Michael she walks in the house and gets the job. In the wonderful tale of “Marry Poppins” by PL Travers, an amazing nanny takes a visit to the Banks’ house to show the family the importance of spending quality time with each other.


“Marry Poppins” is a romance type of literature. It starts out with a minor conflict then ends with life symbolism. The minor conflict is the Banks’ family trying to find a nanny. That nanny ends up being the magical and wonderful Marry Poppins. Then it ends happily with life symbolism, Mr. Banks (the dad) realizes that he has been putting his job first, instead of the children and his wife.


Except for a couple, most scenes in this movie prove that “Marry Poppins” is a romance. It is unrealistic, but being that way it can also help you escape from reality. This is another characteristic of a romance. If you think about it, it’s kind of impossible to jump in a chalk drawing, unless you’re with Marry Poppins of course. Plus, what family would be able to tolerate getting into a position of their house a couple times a day just to make sure nothing breaks. I know I wouldn’t.


Seeing that “Marry Poppins” is a romance type of literature, it is easy to pick out the symbolism in it. The fancy and luxurious house, and the doves that fly by the old lady outside the church. As you can tell romance stories are probably going to be pretty and fragile, but in this story, that doesn’t seem to follow through in some scenes. For example when Bert shows Marry and the children their “step in time” dance. Despite the fact that everyone is dirty from the chimneys, it’s the house that they should be worried about. When Mr. Banks gets home all the filthy chimney sweepers are running around the house dancing and singing and soiling the fancy house.



“Marry Poppins” is great movie that everyone and anyone should watch. It’s happy and meaningful and most definitely a romance. Throughout the story there are happy times and sad, times but overall, Jane and Michael Banks end up being pretty satisfied. In the end Marry does leave, but they do not need her anymore, the family is as happy and as close together as ever.

Friday, December 3, 2010

Broken Arms

A couple years ago my dad fell off a really tall ladder and broke both of his arms. So that really sucked. What sucked even more though, was that my dad had to take off work because he couldn’t move his arms, and being at home with two broken arms would not be fun. I mean, what would you do? Well, anyways, so we have this cat Andy, and my dad got up to get something and Andy quickly dashed outside. Aaaaaaaaaaaannnnd ran up a tree. Andy is not an outdoor cat so my dad had no choice but to get a ladder, climb up with two broken arms, and retrieve the cat. He got him down but is was hard.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

SNOW

I love to play in snow but sometimes it gets cold and boring, especially if you’re waiting for something, or someone in my case. So a year or two ago my friend Kasia was supposed to come over at 5 p.m. So at about 4:30 I had gone outside to play in the snow and wait for her. Apparently Kasia and her mom had stopped at the hardware store before they came to my house, and at the time they only had one cell phone and her dad had it.But anyways, moving on to my story, so as I was saying I was just out there waiting. Soon it got to be pretty dark, so I called for my parents and they told me what the time was. I was a little confused because they told me it was 6 and Kasia was not yet there. Being as cold and bored as I was I went inside to warm up. At 7 when I had still yet to hear from Kasia, I hopefully walked outside thinking that she would be there. She wasn’t. In about half an hour though she arrived, and also explained why she was so late. Kasia told me it was because her mom wouldn’t stop talking to this one worker there, but I know better by now that it was probably not her mom to be blamed.