Wall-e!!!!!!!!

I went to see the new movie out called Wall-e. It is about a small trash compactor in a world full of pollution. His job is to clean up the trash every day, and pile up the small squares of trash that he gathers.

One day a spaceship comes, and drops off a robot that is looking for life on the earth. Wall-e falls in love with her, and gives her his most treasured possession- his plant that he found, held by a dirty shoe.

Once he gives "Eve" the plant, she shuts it in her "stomach," and closes up. Wall-e ties a string of lights around her, and does his job while pulling her around with him. When a thunderstorm comes, he repeatedly gets struck by lightning as he holds an umbrella over Eve to protect her from the rain.

After a while, the spaceship comes back, to take Eve away. Wall-e follows this spaceship, and learns that the people on board the ship cannot come back to Earth, because the "Operation Recolonize" has failed, and the earth is too polluted. He tries to help Eve get the plant into a chamber that will then set the spaceship's course to Earth.

One might think that Wall-e is about pollution, and how we need to stop ruining the Earth. At the beginning of the movie, it really seems like the whole film was going to be centered on that.

But it isn't.

The day after I saw the movie, my dad came up to me and said that Wall-e is really about man and wife, and how God wants men to treat women. He told me this,

"Wall-e is the the Adam figure in this story. He has a job that he does faithfully, but he gets lonely. So a female robot comes down from the sky. Her name in the movie is actually Eve, so there is no doubting that the writer of this film means for this to be the point. Well, Wall-e gives her the plant, and she puts it in her 'stomach' and closes up, while saying, 'Directive.' In reality, making, and taking care of life, is the woman's directive.

"When they get on the spaceship, everyone wants to destroy the plant, the life. Wall-e is ready to kill himself to protect it, and Eve. He valiantly gets himself struck by lightning and smashed repeatedly, as long as the plant and Eve stay safe. This is how a man should act for a woman and her child. Everyone wants to destroy the life, and he protects it with all he has."

In the movie, there is a Satan figure, too. It is a robotic wheel, named Otto, who wants everyone on board this "cruise spaceship" to please himself, no one else. He tries to get rid of the plant, and keep the cruiser in space.

This movie is very complex, although it looks like a movie for little kids. I reccomend it for everybody.

Anne of Green Gables

I have finally read the whole series! I am so excited about this, except for the fact that I do not have anything else to read, unless I read it all again. Shoot.

There are eight books in the series, starting with really happy books, then ending in a VERY serious and sad one. All of them are written quite well, though.

I am pretty sure that my favorite has got to be the fourth one, Anne of Windy Poplars. It is really happy, and Anne finds herself in many funny situations. Not saying that she doesn't in the other books, just more so in this one.

The last one is really sad, but keeps butterflies in the reader's stomach the whole time, from beginning to end. It made me cry twice! I am writing about this one individually, because it is the one that I just finished this morning. Unfortunately, I can't say what happened at the end, because the main readers of my blog are also reading the series. And, probably, some other readers are, too. Boo.

These readers started before me in the series, I actually started when they were on the end of the first book, and I was at the very beginning. Now, I am done with the series, and they are only on the second book! They probably will get mad at me for posting this on the Internet, so I will stop gloating and finish this post.

Nintendogs!!!!!!!

I have wanted this game for about a year and a half. I have also wanted to buy the game console that goes with it, as I cannot play without it. I have been saving and saving for a looooooong time.

Now, I just need $15 more and I can buy it! I am so excited, but I just can't wait the 3 weeks needed to raise the money. If you have any ideas, please comment, and tell me!

The Yip Yip Invasion of Old MacDonald's Farm

So, my dad was showing me the "Yip Yips" from the Muppet Show. I think that they are hilarious. Quite cute, too. I finally figured out how to put videos up here, with my dad's help, so here you go: the Yip Yip invasion of Old MacDonald's Farm.

I Was Not the One Who Traveled...

But my brother and dad were. They just got back from a trip to Thailand, quite an adventure if you ask me. I wish I could have gone, but I don't think I could have stood the 37 hour plane trip.

While they were there, my dad called in to the radio station that he works at, to try to get sponsors for these poverty- stricken kids at Compassion International's projects. All of the 300 kids got sponsors in one week! That means, now they can go to school, learn about Jesus, teach their families about Jesus, and have enough food to eat every day! All of this for the kids who had been raised to worship and pray to, their dead ancestors.

While they were there, Justice and Dad went to this elephant camp thing. All of the elephants there were specially trained to do something weird. Some even painted better than I can! To see a video of this, go to my dad's blog at http://www.branthansen.typepad.com/. It's crazy! At the elephant camp, my dad says the employees were geniuses for making money.

Along the trail for the elephants and their riders, were little food stands to buy treats for the elephants. If you didn't want to buy the food along the trail, the elephant was trained to reach up, over his head with his trunk looking for food, to make you feel bad and buy food at the next stand.

The pictures the elephants painted were money makers too. So was the elephants' poo even! They use it to make picture frames for the picture of you on your elephant. Those people are geniuses, I tell ya, geniuses.

Bald Penguins in Wetsuits!!!!

This, obviously is a bald penguin in a wetsuit.

So cute!!!!!!

My Amazing Fort Country

I've always wanted to make something really big and complex with friends. I have FINALLY got that chance!!!!

My friends and I have made a sort of "country" thing in my neighborhood. We have so many different forts, that we decided to organize them together, and trade between them. It is so fun!

I think I am in four of the forts. The only tough thing about that is that sometimes I trade something from one of my forts to another fort I have. And if I find something when I am alone, I don't know which fort to give it to.

When I get together with friends, we collect stuff to trade, work on our forts, make flags, and hide from innocent bystanders. For some reason we don't want ANYBODY to see us in our forts. I guess that's because nobody wants to be thought of as weird.

We haven't totally finished with the organization yet, but I think it's going to work out great! Unless I move to a different neighborhood.

This is Ha-ha-larious!!!!! (Ha ha!!!)

I know that I have already posted on how funny Garfield comics are when things are simply removed, but this is halarious!!!! Totally de-garfed Garfield comics. No Garfield or anything. This is the link for more. I love 'em!

p.s. The very last one isn't totally de-garfed, but it doesnt' show Garfield's thoughts. I think it is halarious!!!!!

Recipie #2 (Still More to Come)

Egg-in-the-Hole Breakfast


You need:

1 large brown egg
salt and pepper
1 slice of good toasting bread
butter or tea oil (butter tastes better)
a skillet
and a glass with a mouth that would fit on top of the bread

You need to:

Start melting the butter on the skillet. Cut a hole out of the bread by using the glass like a cookie cutter. Put both circle of bread and holey bread onto the skillet. Crack your egg into the hole of the larger piece of bread. It will probably seep through, but that doesn't matter. That just spreads around the eggy goodness. Season the egg-in-the-hole along with the bread round, with salt and pepper. Fry until bottom of egg is white, then flip. Season both breads again. Lift up the egg-in-the-hole and put more butter to melting underneath it. This prevents it from sticking to the pan really bad. I have had to do this maybe up to 3 times before my tasty treat was done. When you think your egg-in-the-hole is done, slash the yolk to find out. If the yolk runs, it is not ready.

Bon Appetite!!!

Makes: 1 egg-in-the-hole
Serving: 1 egg-in-the-hole

Recipie #1 (More to Come!!!)

Tuna Pitas Lunch/Dinner

You need:
1 loaf Pita Bread
Lemon Juice
Mayonaise
1 can Tuna
Salt
Pepper

You need to:

Tuna
Open the can of tuna and drain before dumping into a small bowl. Add one squirt of Lemon Juice, along with two full teaspoons of Mayonaise. Put in salt and pepper to your tast. Stir.

Pita
Rip the loaf of Pita Bread in half. Toast the halves. Open the ripped loaves after they have cooled. Drop in half of the tuna in one piece of the Pita Bread. Do the same with the other.

Bon appetite!! :)

Makes: 2 Tuna Pitas Tip! Serve with milk. :)
Serving: 1 Tuna Pita

A P-r-e-t-t-y Cool Sport

See this? This is called horse surfing. I think it is really neat. It looks scary to me, but I might like to try it someday on my future horsey.

The part I would like to do more is the riding. That looks incredibly fun! Also, I would like to fix a major problem for me. I would want to ride alone, so just take out the surfer. Then it would be perfect horse surfing! :)

Another Friend's Blog

This is the link to my friend's blog. Penguin Person is one of my five best friends, in the group that includes Padfoot. Penguin Person would love it if y'all came on her blog and commented. That would be great! She is just starting up so there won't be many posts. The blog is worth the extra time! Please go on the site. That would be cool of you.

My Very Short Penguin Story

There once was a penguin who lived in the northern part of Baja California. Now, this was not an ordinary penguin. He was a very dashing bird with no "normal" penguin colors about him. He wore the colors of sea and sky: blue and green. His name? Frederick Archebald Edwards. He was born (or folded) in the city of Tijuana, Mexico.

Frederick had always wanted to find his real homeland, where his ancestors lived: the Galopagos Islands. He had relatives there, that he had never seen before. His relatives, however, were not rare origami penguins as he was. They were, as Frederick would have liked to call them, strange. His relatives had not nearly as many sharp angles to them as he had. (Now, readers, you must know something about Frederick Archebald. He thought all penguins, especially relatives, were origami, like him.)

Frederick decided to start off on a journey. He said to himself, "I will go to the Galapagos Islands. I will find fortune and friends!"

So he set off. He waddled down, off of his maker's table, on to the floor, and slipped out the back screen door. Our Fred was delighted with the warm, sunny outdoors, which he had never seen before. He reveled in the gentle, yellow sunshine. Then, he started on his way.

Frederick had no idea where the Galapagos Islands were. He did not even know there were directions called north, south, east, and west. But, somehow, maybe by instinct, we will never know how, he set off to the South East.

Frederick waddled, Frederick walked. He looked about himself in wonder, and loved all the world.

That soon changed.

Frederick had newer seen a car, and was never warned about being in the road. As soon as he stepped onto the hard, black asphalt, a car whizzed by, followed by many more, therefore making Fred's dream of crossing the road impossible. Frederick shook his flipper at the cars, without effect. Then, he continued on.

When he reached the Gulf of California, he realized that he would need to swim across. (Reader, I must tell you something more about our penguin. His maker was sloppy while folding Frederick's beak. That flaw was too close to Frederick's brain, and so harmed one small side of it. That side held the smarts about swimming as an origami. Fred did not know that, as paper, he would not swim well.) Frederick plunged in to the chilly waters.

He instantly realized that he could not swim. Frederick also learned that paper doesn't do so well in water. As the water started to pull him under, he saw a huge wave coming towards him from the wake of a passing boat. He quickly decided to concentrate all his energy on avoiding the waves, while waiting for one of the many boats to rescue him. Frederick quickly pushed himself underwater to avoid the worst of the hugh two-foot wave.

He struggled to the surface, only to see another large wave bearing down on him. Fighting to catch his breath, he was forced under the wave that was trying to swallow him. As he was under the water, he bumped into something hard and smooth. The smooth something seemed to be moving very fast. Then, all of a sudden, he was tossed up, right out of the water. Sputtering, he realized that the smooth something was a small speedboat carrying vacationers. He was instantly proud that they had come to be in Baja California.

Frederick heard the shouts of a young girl aboard the speedboat. He watched as the boat slowed, then stopped. A smalll, feminine child in a swimsuit and life jacket jumped out of the boat and started paddling to Frederick's aid.

Fred felt himself being softly picked up by small hands. Oh, how he loved the little girl's touch! He rested in the child's palm as she brought him aboard. As he drifted off to sleep, he heard this:
"
Look, Daddy! Look what it is! And we thought it was a peice of colored newspaper!"
"
Yes, honey, that's a lucky penguin. He was in our immediate wake. That's not as bad as the outer parts."
"
Yep! He's one lucky penguin!"

When Frederick Archebald woke up, he was on the speedboat, far out in the Pacific. He looked about himself. The little girl was sitting on a chair next to the table he was on. She looked at Fred.

"Hello!" said the girl in a soft whisper.

"Hello!" answered our curious penguin. (Now, it was quite normal to them that origami and girl could talk to each other, as they both didn't think about things logically.)

"Where are we going?" asked Fred.

"To the Galapagos Islands!" came the reply.

"Really?!?"

"Yes!" whispered the girl happily. "And we are going to see penguins!!!"

"Really?!? Because I am looking for my relatives there!!!" squeaked Frederick excitedly.

"Oh, I am so glad we found you then! We can drop you off when we get there."

"Thank you so much!"

So, Frederick Archibald Edwards, the six- inch tall origami penguin, traveled from Tijuana, Mexico, to the Galapagos Islands. He was dropped off, greeted warmly by his relatives, and found fortune, along with many friends.

My IMAX Experience

Today, I went to an IMAX show called U2 3D, and it was pretty cool. Actually, what I mean by that is it was AWESOME!!!!

U2 3D is an IMAX, as I have already said, and it is in 3D, as you might have guessed. The film is of a couple performances by U2, with them all edited together. So one song you might be watching them in Argentina, the other in Peru.

I think it was really cool because my dad said afterwards that most of the people at the concerts in South America didn't even speak English, but they knew the lyrics by heart! That really impresses me.

The movie is something definentely worth checking out, if you haven't seen it yet. If you aren't a big U2 fan yet, you will be, at least, in love with their music after you watch it.

My brother said that Adam Clayton, (with the 3D affects) the bassist hit him with his guitar several times!!!

Dance Dance Revolution

Have you ever heard of Dance Dance Revolution?

It is a video game that you use a mat instead of a controller with. To play, one must watch the tv screen which would have arrows showing you what arrows on the mat to step on. All the while music is playing and the steps are to the beat. It takes practice to get the moves right, but it is really fun once you get groovin'!

I love watching people who don't have much practice trying to do it. It is so funny to watch!!!!!

My brother was kind enough to get me the game and the mat for Christmas. I have had it for a little more than a year, now. I love it, and since I have aced almost all the songs on the disk, I think I might get a different disk with different songs that I can master on it. Wahoo!!!!!!!

Just wondering, are good "Revolutioners" really as rare as I think? Please comment and tell me if you are very good at DDR and if you know anybody who is.

Wheeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!! (I just had to be random for once! )

:)

Wow

Bread Totally Rocks!!!!!!!

I wrote this post just because I wanted to put this awesome picture of matzo bread up on my blog. Matzo bread is p-r-e-t-t-y good, too.

I like to write posts on this blog (obviously) and so I go through My Pictures on my family's computer. When I find a pic that I like, I just post it along with some random text that I think up to go with it. Sometimes I can't think of something to write so I just post the picture with something explaining why I just put the picture up (are you following this???). This is one of those times.

Who knew this could be so complicated?

P.S. Does anyone know how to spell matzo bread correctly???? I sure don't know if it has an a or an o at the end.

How Cute Can Chihuahuas Get???

Cuter than you think.

These little Chihuahua puppies were born without front legs for some strange reason, so somebody designed wheelchair thingys for them. They are so cuuuuute!!!!! Awwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!! Now I want a dog with wheels instead of front legs! :)

Some Things to Help You On Your Journey of Life

When you are in a cheerful mood, it sometimes gets a little too cheerful. Here are some poster/picture things to help you get a little demotivated.

Sometimes, you gotta do what you gotta do.

I am Thinking About...

Changing the name of this blog. I don't really like the name any more, so I am taking reccomendations, in case I find one that I like. I will not change it yet, I am just thinking about this. Please give me your ideas!