Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Dog: Overcoming Your Fears
Recently my dog has developed a fear of walking on wooden floors. She seems to be okay with walking on wooden floors where objects are near, such as chairs or walls or stairs. But in places such as the kitchen or dining room, she refuses to cross. I think she does not want to slip and fall, because when she does cross (only in the most dire situations), she flops around in a cacophony of claws scratching and legs wobbling around. She also is afraid of vacuums. Yesterday, when my mother was vacuuming the house, I decided my dog needed to face her fears. I took several dog beds and flimsy rug things from the house and slid her around on them, yet she did put up a fight. She stiffened her whole body and outstretched her claws but I kept sliding her around the house. My mother had taken a break from vacuuming and had left the machine in the kitchen. As we slid around, I brought the dog and I to the vacuum. She became increasingly afraid, and her claws stretched out even more. I have come to the conclusion that the amount of claw stretched-ness is an excellent tool for measuring scared-ness. I hoped that vacuum sight-seeing would remove the fear that the vacuum was going to kill her. But my dog is still terrified of vacuums and probably even more afraid of wooden floors. As I reflect on this now I have realized that this was quite torturous to my dog.
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Old things
Old things are nice
Old clothes are different and smell weird and I like them
Old books have pretty covers and the pages are yellow and the fonts are nice
Old buildings are homey and vintage and warm and frankly they don't make them like they used to
Old times seem much nicer and carefree, although that is probably not the case
Old cameras are nice because the colors look old and they are better than any modern camera
Old movies are nice because they are sweeter and cuter and more heart warming
Old people are nice because they might have the things mentioned above, as well as great stories to tell
Old clothes are different and smell weird and I like them
Old books have pretty covers and the pages are yellow and the fonts are nice
Old buildings are homey and vintage and warm and frankly they don't make them like they used to
Old times seem much nicer and carefree, although that is probably not the case
Old cameras are nice because the colors look old and they are better than any modern camera
Old movies are nice because they are sweeter and cuter and more heart warming
Old people are nice because they might have the things mentioned above, as well as great stories to tell
Friday, December 14, 2012
A Basic Summary Of 'The Hobbit' In My Understanding
An old little man in a house of cylindrical door opening nook areas writes a story, where he dots his A's with 3 little dots above them, about a time very long ago when dwarf people lived in a mountain and had a great kingdom where they mined for gold to please their dwarf king, who is a hoarder. One particular dwarf was mining when he found a peculiar stone that shone brightly and had colors, and the king claimed it as his own. The fortress prospered until an unidentified dragon attacked and defeated the dwarves, who fled as their elven friends watched from a hill with their reindeer. The elves left with their reindeer and long hair and the dwarves felt betrayed.
Again, it was a much more recent time, and the old man was back, writing a story, with his familiar looking hobbit son.
And again, it was in a time a long time ago but not so long as the time of the dragon-dwarf assault. The old man was instead a young man, frolicking in his hobbit land of little farms and mosses and flowers, when a large, eccentric wizard man came and scribbled an F on his door in some type of blue magical ink. For some reason this F summoned all of the wizard's dwarf friends to come to the young hobbit's house (whose name has turned out to be Bilbo Baggins) and eat all his food. This was a very distressing time in the movie because the dwarves were presumably destroying Mr. Bilbo's house and no questions were answered as to why these large small, rugged men were acting buffoonery. Then a mysterious dwarf arrived late and everyone got serious, they discussed getting their dwarven kingdom back and asked Bilbo to be their burglar and gave him a Terms & Services contract thing. The dwarves got very sad and sang a dismal song. The next morning Bilbo awoke to an empty house, but had a change in heart about being the burglar of the dwarves, and chased after them. He was given a pony when he caught up with them, and reluctantly mounted and they began their journey to somewhere that I don't really know.
Another flashback to an earlier time when a battle was fought against the Turks and their leader whose name was the Defiler (later we learn that Defiler is not actually the leader and it is instead a large creature with a gobble) The hoarder king's head is cut off by Defiler, and his grandson (who is the mysterious dwarf who arrived late) cuts off Defiler's arm using only a log. Dwarves apparently live a very long time so that is why mysterious late-arriver exists in the time long ago and the more recent time with Bilbo.
The dwarves and their hobbit and their wizard of an unknown species continue to venture and I can't remember exactly what happens. The Turks become aware of the dwarf group and begin to chase them.
Next, there is another unnamed dwarf-wizard running through a forest and looking quite grief-stricken, because there are deer and rabbits and other woodland creatures laying dead on the ground. At the sight of an ill hedgehog, the man gets very distressed and takes him back to his hut, where more (and healthier) hedgehogs are revealed. The man makes many attempts to save the hedgehog, but large spiders begin to attack his house. Finally, he pulls a small blue glass apparatus from his box of magic and sucks the soul out of the hedgehog, which saves it and makes the spiders go away. He is very confused by the presence of the spiders so he gets his rabbit sleigh and shimmies over to an abandoned castle.
The group sets up camp at and old farmers shack, and Gandolf (the wizard) runs off. The dwarves discover that two of their ponies have disappeared, and they trick Bilbo into retrieving them from the Trolls that stole the horses. The plan goes awry and Bilbo ends up getting used as a troll Kleenex. The dwarves come to his aid but are incapacitated by the trolls and set up to be cooked. Gandolf comes and splits a rock to reveal the sunrise, which turns the trolls into stone. The dwarves find the cave that the trolls have been hiding out in and they discover Elven swords. The meet up with the hedgehog man and he tells them of the Necromancer he found at the castle, and the sword he retrieved from a bearded ghost man.
The Turks and their dog sidekicks are close by, so Hedgehog man makes a diversion with his rabbit sleigh so the group can escape. They make a precarious getaway under a rock, thanks to a few Elves. The pathway under the rock leads to the Elf city, and the dwarves are mad because they hate them, but they go anyway.
Gandolf talks to weird graceful elf officials, including a beautiful woman that he can speak to in his head, and he shows them the sword that hedgehog man found, which turns out to be buried with an old elf a long time ago. He realizes that the dwarves, including Bilbo, have left without him. They climb through the mountains, and get caught in the middle of a mountain battle, and the rocks that they are standing on become the legs and knees of a giant mountain boxer. They all survive and sleep in a cave, in which the floor collapses in the middle of the night and they are thrown into a trap, where Turk men come and take them away, but Bilbo escapes. One last lonely Turk attacks Bilbo, and they fall deep down into the bottoms of the cave. Bilbo wakes up, hidden behind a rash of mushrooms, and finds a weird little man eating the Turk that fell with him. The little guy drops a ring and Bilbo takes it. The deprived looking man sneaks up on Bilbo, and he turns out to be a raspy-voiced schizophrenic. They play a game of riddles, and Bilbo wins, but Gollum tries to kill Bilbo anyway, and he puts on the ring and suddenly turns invisible, and is sent into a 'sketchy realm.'
Meanwhile, Gandolf comes to the aid of the other dwarves, who are about to be tortured and killed to the musical palette of the Turk leader with a gobble, and they escape in a completely absurd and impossible manner. Bilbo manages to get past Gollum and meets up again with the other dwarves, who thought that he left to return back to his cylindrical doorway hobbit house.
All too soon, the Turks and their canines attack, and the group runs, but they come to a cliff, so they are forced to climb the evergreen trees. The dogs and the Turks and the Defiler arrive, who was previously thought to be dead and a defiler-no-more, and the dogs jump and snap at the trees, who fall in a domino effect, and all the dwarves miraculously transfer to the last evergreen tree at the tip of the cliff. Gandolf finds a rare yellow butterfly that is his friend and says something to it and it flies away.
Defiler is savoring the moment when Gandolf finds a pinecone and lights it with his stick wand thing and throws it into the fallen trees below. Soon the whole group is lighting pinecones and creating pinecone grenades, until the trees below are a giant inferno that the Turks cannot permeate. The tree that the dwarves have taken shelter is is beginning to fall off the cliff, and the dopey looking dwarf and another one dangle from Gandolf's pinecone lighting stick. The mysterious late-arriver decides to be brave and avenge his grandfather, and attacks the Defiler, who defeats him viciously with his large-toothed dog. However, Bilbo attacks and the other dwarves follow suit, and they are starting to gain back the cliff when Gandolf's butterfly's bird cousins swoop in and rescue the Dwarf group. They fly around until they perch on a random cliff and the short-lived birds leave. Mysterious man turns out okay, and pats on the back are given. The group begins to make their way to the mountain inhabited by evil dragon. A smaller and stupider bird hits a nut repeatedly against the Dragon's castle wall, and the irritating tattoo wakes up the dragon and it arises from the gold that it was for some reason laying under.
That is the end of this movie
Again, it was a much more recent time, and the old man was back, writing a story, with his familiar looking hobbit son.
And again, it was in a time a long time ago but not so long as the time of the dragon-dwarf assault. The old man was instead a young man, frolicking in his hobbit land of little farms and mosses and flowers, when a large, eccentric wizard man came and scribbled an F on his door in some type of blue magical ink. For some reason this F summoned all of the wizard's dwarf friends to come to the young hobbit's house (whose name has turned out to be Bilbo Baggins) and eat all his food. This was a very distressing time in the movie because the dwarves were presumably destroying Mr. Bilbo's house and no questions were answered as to why these large small, rugged men were acting buffoonery. Then a mysterious dwarf arrived late and everyone got serious, they discussed getting their dwarven kingdom back and asked Bilbo to be their burglar and gave him a Terms & Services contract thing. The dwarves got very sad and sang a dismal song. The next morning Bilbo awoke to an empty house, but had a change in heart about being the burglar of the dwarves, and chased after them. He was given a pony when he caught up with them, and reluctantly mounted and they began their journey to somewhere that I don't really know.
Another flashback to an earlier time when a battle was fought against the Turks and their leader whose name was the Defiler (later we learn that Defiler is not actually the leader and it is instead a large creature with a gobble) The hoarder king's head is cut off by Defiler, and his grandson (who is the mysterious dwarf who arrived late) cuts off Defiler's arm using only a log. Dwarves apparently live a very long time so that is why mysterious late-arriver exists in the time long ago and the more recent time with Bilbo.
The dwarves and their hobbit and their wizard of an unknown species continue to venture and I can't remember exactly what happens. The Turks become aware of the dwarf group and begin to chase them.
Next, there is another unnamed dwarf-wizard running through a forest and looking quite grief-stricken, because there are deer and rabbits and other woodland creatures laying dead on the ground. At the sight of an ill hedgehog, the man gets very distressed and takes him back to his hut, where more (and healthier) hedgehogs are revealed. The man makes many attempts to save the hedgehog, but large spiders begin to attack his house. Finally, he pulls a small blue glass apparatus from his box of magic and sucks the soul out of the hedgehog, which saves it and makes the spiders go away. He is very confused by the presence of the spiders so he gets his rabbit sleigh and shimmies over to an abandoned castle.
The group sets up camp at and old farmers shack, and Gandolf (the wizard) runs off. The dwarves discover that two of their ponies have disappeared, and they trick Bilbo into retrieving them from the Trolls that stole the horses. The plan goes awry and Bilbo ends up getting used as a troll Kleenex. The dwarves come to his aid but are incapacitated by the trolls and set up to be cooked. Gandolf comes and splits a rock to reveal the sunrise, which turns the trolls into stone. The dwarves find the cave that the trolls have been hiding out in and they discover Elven swords. The meet up with the hedgehog man and he tells them of the Necromancer he found at the castle, and the sword he retrieved from a bearded ghost man.
The Turks and their dog sidekicks are close by, so Hedgehog man makes a diversion with his rabbit sleigh so the group can escape. They make a precarious getaway under a rock, thanks to a few Elves. The pathway under the rock leads to the Elf city, and the dwarves are mad because they hate them, but they go anyway.
Gandolf talks to weird graceful elf officials, including a beautiful woman that he can speak to in his head, and he shows them the sword that hedgehog man found, which turns out to be buried with an old elf a long time ago. He realizes that the dwarves, including Bilbo, have left without him. They climb through the mountains, and get caught in the middle of a mountain battle, and the rocks that they are standing on become the legs and knees of a giant mountain boxer. They all survive and sleep in a cave, in which the floor collapses in the middle of the night and they are thrown into a trap, where Turk men come and take them away, but Bilbo escapes. One last lonely Turk attacks Bilbo, and they fall deep down into the bottoms of the cave. Bilbo wakes up, hidden behind a rash of mushrooms, and finds a weird little man eating the Turk that fell with him. The little guy drops a ring and Bilbo takes it. The deprived looking man sneaks up on Bilbo, and he turns out to be a raspy-voiced schizophrenic. They play a game of riddles, and Bilbo wins, but Gollum tries to kill Bilbo anyway, and he puts on the ring and suddenly turns invisible, and is sent into a 'sketchy realm.'
Meanwhile, Gandolf comes to the aid of the other dwarves, who are about to be tortured and killed to the musical palette of the Turk leader with a gobble, and they escape in a completely absurd and impossible manner. Bilbo manages to get past Gollum and meets up again with the other dwarves, who thought that he left to return back to his cylindrical doorway hobbit house.
All too soon, the Turks and their canines attack, and the group runs, but they come to a cliff, so they are forced to climb the evergreen trees. The dogs and the Turks and the Defiler arrive, who was previously thought to be dead and a defiler-no-more, and the dogs jump and snap at the trees, who fall in a domino effect, and all the dwarves miraculously transfer to the last evergreen tree at the tip of the cliff. Gandolf finds a rare yellow butterfly that is his friend and says something to it and it flies away.
Defiler is savoring the moment when Gandolf finds a pinecone and lights it with his stick wand thing and throws it into the fallen trees below. Soon the whole group is lighting pinecones and creating pinecone grenades, until the trees below are a giant inferno that the Turks cannot permeate. The tree that the dwarves have taken shelter is is beginning to fall off the cliff, and the dopey looking dwarf and another one dangle from Gandolf's pinecone lighting stick. The mysterious late-arriver decides to be brave and avenge his grandfather, and attacks the Defiler, who defeats him viciously with his large-toothed dog. However, Bilbo attacks and the other dwarves follow suit, and they are starting to gain back the cliff when Gandolf's butterfly's bird cousins swoop in and rescue the Dwarf group. They fly around until they perch on a random cliff and the short-lived birds leave. Mysterious man turns out okay, and pats on the back are given. The group begins to make their way to the mountain inhabited by evil dragon. A smaller and stupider bird hits a nut repeatedly against the Dragon's castle wall, and the irritating tattoo wakes up the dragon and it arises from the gold that it was for some reason laying under.
That is the end of this movie
Anti-fear list Friday???
- Very small objects (except for absurd small fries from McDonalds - although the cuteness was tempting)
- Playing guess whats on your head at lunch and ensuing trickery
- The Prince of Egypt
- Opening garage while singing passionately
- Sentence frag
- ADVENTURES IN RILEY TRAILS
- Cardigans and Cardigan hugs
- The tangents Mr. Norton goes off on in AP Lang
- Listening to computer audio babbling in AP Lang
- Uncomfortably SSR-ing while Midge yells at Mr. Norton about her synthesis essay grade
- AB FEGUS
- Trying to differentiate if Bergie is communicating with Ricky or I
- Hiding under the table during lunch and throwing carrots at unsuspecting victims
- Attempting to bargain for a Samurai A slip in return for a Chewy bar
- Keeping a spoon in my pocket for callbacks that was never put to use
- Using Bergie's shrub as a Christmas tree and hang a little decoration object that says "JOY" on it
ADVENTURE
Today when walking to my home from my ridiculously absurd place of bus dropping I heard that the big tree cutting machines were at it again in riley trails. Many dead trees have fell due to notorious tree eating beetles. The loud machine cuts down the trees, picks them up, and puts them down in piles. I ran through the clearing, pretending to be a war refugee escaping from the monster machine apparatus. I attempted to climb trees but was stymied by my all too tight jeans, and scampered around, hiding behind trees and piles and plants. I probably got too close to the perilous machine but I was deeply infatuated with examining it to discover how it works. I roamed around like a 5 year old, hiding behind things and pretending to be incredibly afraid and out of breath like in intense action movies. I ran to the pitiful pond and tried to cross the slippery mud on a stick but i slipped and fell anyway and created a small lesion in my hand. There was a small layer of ice on the water that interested me so I attempted to cross it but the ice broke into big pieces that I held and threw and appreciated. As this was happening the operator of tree cutting machine exited his vehicle!! He was dragging a small tree when he called out to me: "Son! Do not get too close to my machine when It's going because If I don't see you and you don't know what's going on I might drop a tree on you. And that won't feel too good" the burly machine man said in an irritating tone. I answered with a "yes" or "alright" and dashed to retrieve my coat and cardigan which I had carelessly left in a tree. I was perfectly aware of the risk but alas, I like to live dangerously. The man drove off with his sputtering tractor thing and I fled the scene and walked back home.
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)