Fire is Catching...

SO TODAY CATCHING FIRE COMES OUT!!! YAY! I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS MOVIE THAT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR A YEAR AND A HALF TO SEE! I'M NOT EXCITED ABOUT THE ENDING THOUGH BECAUSE THE BOOK ENDING IS LIKE TOTAL CLIFF HANGER TO THE MAX!! ANYWAYS, I AM JUST SO EXCITED TO SEE KATNISS, PEETA, AND GALE AGAIN AND ALSO... ALSO... *SNIFF* FINNICK ODAIR (AIRY SIGH) HAHA :) I AM LIKE FREAKING OUT!! IT'S ONLY FOUR HOURS AWAY!!! 8D 8D 8D 8D




May the Odds be EVER in your Favor...

ENDER'S GAME

I SAW IT AND IT WAS AWESOME SO GO AND WATCH IT.
Despite the fact that the charcters and initial plot is not my favorite the ENDING MAKES THE MOVIE AWESOME AND OH MY GOSH JUST THE ENDING AND THE MESSAGE OF THAT MOVIE AND AKFLJADKLFJSDKLFJKLDSJFKLDSJFKLDSJKLDS

Yeah, so... 8 out of 10.

Go see it.

Neow.

But read the book first. O_o

The day is nearly upon us...

The day when I shall loose my dreaded braces!! (well...half of them) The day is tomorrow! Also tomorrow, I am getting my haircut. This is the first time I've gone somewhere and had it cut in years. Normally, my mom cuts it but we got a coupon so my mom's like 'Okay, we can go get it cut.' and I'm like 8D haha so anyways...on Thursday, me and my sister are going to go see the new Thor movie (yay!) and I should really be catching up on school so bye!!

I AM REALLY EXCITED!

Okay so I have had my braces on for almost three years now, AAAND! In eight days I WILL BE RID OF HALF OF MY BRACES!!! :D The top half of my braces will be coming off next Tuesday, November 5th. I am like FREAKING OUT I AM SOOO ECXITED!!! :D Anyways, just thought I'd share that little tid bit :)

Upcoming Reviews on the Spilled Inkwell...

^ The title says it. ^
Here, this gives you something to look forward too

P.A. (procrastinators anonymous)

Hi, I'm Liz and I'm a procrastinator...seriously. 

So, today (actually right now) I should be doing school, but being the procrastinator that I am, I am on the computer. If my mom were here...she'd be yelling my ear off *involuntary shudder*. Anyways! I have like 1 1/2 lessons of math to do and a chemistry quiz that are all due tomorrow...

...not to mention that I haven't studied for said chemistry quiz. :D

What can I say? I procrastinate. I think every modern teenager does. In the end, I get my school done, so who cares when I do it?

I know I'm not the only procrastinator...but I just thought I'd share my stress :) Oh, and on top of that, I have P.E. today and my brother's last football game is today. So, my day is booked. I should really get back to math...

Slow Teachers >:(

So I was planning on doing my History and Logic quizzes today, BUT... NO ONE IS RESPONDING TO OUR EMAILS.

By "our" I mean myself and all the other students. I mean, gosh, teachers. It's Monday. Respond to the questions we have please. For some reason the History quiz isn't up yet, which is weird and I'm kind of hoping that because it isn't up and we were supposed to do it last week maybe there ISN'T a Week 6 history quiz.

Wouldn't that be nice.

So two of my classmates have emailed my history teacher who is probably my best teacher and very on top of things. They're like, "Where's the Week 6 History Quiz? Is there actually a Week 6 History Quiz?"

And there is no answer from Mr. N.

AND ALSO... I have no bloody idea what is going on in my head that is preventing me from understanding last week's Logic lesson, but it may have something to do with my profound hate of grammar. So I emailed my teacher, "Mr. M, I don't understand last week's lecture, could you go over it with me please?"

I emailed him on Friday and he got back to me this morning with, and I kid you not, "It's okay that you don't understand. I'll write out an email later on this afternoon."


Soooooooooooo here I am blogging and such. I also finished House of Hades, Liz. I shall get a review up soon. :P

This girl is on FIIIRE!!

So, this morning I woke up at 10 to go to history class at 11. I wish I could have slept in longer...but that's life. ANYWAYS! I go to have cereal, and I find out we're out of milk. Now, I love cereal, like...I love it. That it my breakfast staple. I don't really like toast...and like pancakes and waffles are fine, but if I ate them every day I'm like positive I would puke. So, I decide to make myself toast, but with Nutella. You know, the amazing chocolate hazelnut spread? Oh yeah baby! So I put the toast in the toaster, and I stick the knife in the Nutella...but it's kinda crusty. So, I'm like 'what the heck, I'll just put it in the microwave to melt it a little bit.' So, I put it in the microwave for ten seconds. Five seconds later, I hear a loud WHOOSH! I look in the microwave, and the Nutella is on FIRE! Like ENGULFED IN FLAME! And I'm like 'WHOA!' My mom is yelling at me to stop the fire. I shut the microwave off and keep the door closed, despite my mom yelling at me to open the door. I'm pretty sure if something is on fire in the microwave, you're supposed to keep the door closed because if you do, then the fire will put itself out because it will eat up all the oxygen. If you open the door, more oxygen can get inside. SO! The fire went out almost immediately after I turned off the microwave. I opened the door and it smelled horrible. The Nutella was fine, and so was the microwave. My dad grabbed the Nutella, and okay if you know what Nutella looks like, the protective seal thing, is aluminum. Great. The exact thing they say to NOT put in the microwave. Kids, never put aluminum in the microwave. It'll catch fire. Believe me, I know. So that is what, I'm pretty sure, is the cause of the fire. Anyways, during this whole ordeal, my sister was in the shower. So, when she got out I told her the story and she's like "You know, it says right on the Nutella jar 'Do Not Microwave'." And I'm just like *blink* 'Uhhh...' haha :) So ya, that's my story of the day :)

Liz's Wednesday :) hehe sorry ellie, but ur post was so inspirational :)

Today I took the PSAT and it was EXHAUSTING! I woke up at 6:30am and got to the school at 7:30 only to find out that the test didn't start till 9. Great. Turns out the test started at like 9:45 so I spent most of my morning yawning and reading FEEDBACK (sequel to Variant). After I spent 5 hours total at the school taking a stupid test, I got to spend 3 more hours in Math and Chemistry class. Then I got to go home and do history homework which I just got done with (it's 11pm). My day has been crazy and I am SOOO TIRED!! I am going to bed, nighty night!

-Liz 

Ellie's Tuesday

Hello. So today I did school. And - I can't believe the words are comin' out of me mouth - I kind of think that I like geometry. This may be in part because I have an Australian turtle praising me every time I get something right.

See?

   Right now it's raining and thundering outside and I'm sitting in the living room with Matty. We're watching Robin Hood. >:D Guess what? It's BBC.
   I also discovered that asking questions and being a perfectionist sometimes pays off.

   Yesterday I got the worst grade on my Week 5 History quiz that I have ever gotten ever ever. I was a mess. I knew the material for the quiz - I had studied hard. But I rushed through and didn't re-read the questions and my grade was, we'll just say, a low C.

   Today I retook it and got a 90% because one question threw me and I didn't know the answer.

   My quiz grade averaged at 68%, which in a perfectionist like myself's eye is probably equivalent to a large black splot on your favorite book (though that's pretty terrible to think about too).

   Anyway, I emailed my AP History teacher, Mr. N, saying how sorry I was about the dreadful thing and that I was listening in class and I asked him about the question I got wrong.

   Well he replied. And he deleted the original bad grade because he "knew I was trying hard."

   So.

   What have I learned from this?

   Two things.

   I will never ever ever rush through a quiz that way again.

   And it always pays to ask the teachers intellectual questions and openly regret bad grades and participate in class so they know you care.

-Ellie

We Has the Funnies II

We Has The Funnies I

So we both kinda have a nutsy sense of humor

Then

Would you

Read to me

A sustaining

Book

Such as would

Help

And comfort

A wedged

Bear in great

Tightness?

-Winnie the Pooh

Hey Guys!

Elly let me be a part of her blog! So now, we are doing it together. :) We are best friends and my name is Liz. Currently we have over 500 miles separating us, so it's really sad :( But, welcome to our blog!!

It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo.

Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.


Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.


Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?


Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo...

... and it's worth fighting for.

Desert Lobsters

No little green men, but there were desert lobsters. 

In fact, there was an entire restaurant dedicated to them:

Told 'ya.  

I'd like to say we were brave enough to stop in the little ghost mining town of Mina (or was it Luning?) to try some of the lobsters (which, after careful research, we discovered were actually just crayfish). Unfortunately, we had to keep going due to the fact that Death Valley - believe it or not - is really rather hot this time of year.

And need I remind you that my father and brother had no air conditioning in dear old Belle the Blazer. Huzzah for them! 

BUT THEY SURVIVED!

And at noon we reached Las Vegas, stumbled into the hotel and jumped into the [lukewarm] pool.

The temperature? 126 was the highest at about noon, and from about 10 till now, the lowest was 103. 

Tomorrow, we set out at 4 (which means we wake up at 3:30) for Flagstaff, Arizona, and after that - Albuquerque! [Finally].

I never thought I'd be one to say this, but I am actually TIRED of traveling. 

The Biggest Little City in the World

Hello, everyone!!!
 Yesterday afternoon the [best] movers [we've ever had] finished packing up everything until our house was completely empty. 
This morning we woke up at 4:00 in the morning and started our drive to Reno. We got here at 1:30-ish after my brother and my dad nearly died of heat in his infamous Blazer (which has no air conditioning).
To prevent further heat perspiration, we are getting up at ONE THIRTY AYE EM tomorrow morning and driving all the way to Vegas.
Gahhh..............................
My dad pointed out that if we started driving now we'd make it to Sin City by 5:30. 
My mom vetoed that suggestion.

When I next write I will be in Vegas... Or Flagstaff... Or possibly in Albuquerque.

That is if we make it through Death Valley without being abducted by little green men.

Conflicted Apprehension

Someone asked me today if I was scared about moving. And I said NO, because I am not scared. Unlike most teenage girls, I do not worry about making friends. I do worry about leaving behind the ones I already have.

But tomorrow the movers come, and that is a little bit frightening. Just a little. ALL of the things in my room - except for the stuffage we packed in boxes and bags and suitcases to bring with us - are going to be thrown pell-mell into even more boxes and I will not see them until we unpack.

Not scared. Apprehensive.

NOTE: That blog post was from last night, but I couldn't POST it because the internet died. O__O

Of Novels and Big Black Boxes of Stuffage

I am rather busy today.

I can't even remember what I did this morning... hehe....... Wow.

BUT. Today - so far - I have finished packing my Big Black Box of Stuffage (All You Need To Survive a Two-Month Hotel Stay!) and my two suitcases of clothing.

Yes, Les Mis and Percy Jackson fandom shirts are a necessity. 

While I was having so much fun with that, I was brainstorming on how to make Chapter 5 of my novel exciting enough to kick off Chapter 6 which, IMHO, is rather thrilling. :D

Did I mention I was writing a novel? No? Well..... Yep. I am. 

OH MY GOODNESS, this was a boring blog post. We can't have that, can we? Let's brighten things up with a gif - shall we?

Lego Mis!

Something You Should Know About Me (S.Y.S.K.A.M):

I am obsessed with Les Misérables. So obsessed, in fact, that me and my brother, Matty, made an entire Lego Mis. We don't have very many views ( :(  ) So if you care to see it.... Here is the first episode!

And our second. :p

Can't resist the third.

Welcome, Earthlings

Hi! I am Elly Gard and this is my first blog. I asked my friend, Lizzy, to think of a fun word for the name and that is how we got supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, which we spelled wrong on the title. 

Oh well!

In a few days I will be moving from a green state to desert-y one. I shall try to post something every day, as I will have nothing else to do, except write.

I may skip I few days. I'm writing a novel - for realz! 

Also on this blog, you may find random lists (I like lists!), gifs, sometimes pictures, snarky comments and stuff. All of it will be supercalifragilisticexpialadoshus. 

NOTE: I will probably spell supercalifrajilisticexpyalladoshus different every time I write it. ;) And it is probably on purpose.