Hannah's Random Thoughts #16: In'erestin'

Sometimes I just think... Wow! Writers can create anything!

Othertimes I think.... Wow! I can think of anything!

Stillothertimes I think.... Wow! Why can't what I write capture everything I can think of!

Hannah's Random Thoughts #15: The Poem That Is Not A Poem

Isn't it funny
How this looks like a poem
But
It is not.
It is just normal
Writing
But I clicked
Enter
Every
Once in a while.

Because
If I write it like this:

Isn't it funny how this looks like a poem but it is not. It is is just normal writing but I clicked enter every once in a while.

Is doesn't look so poemy
Anymore.

What deep thoughts
I have
When I can't think
Of any
Random Thoughts.

That was
Sarcasm.

I'm so funny.
Oh dear,
I can't stop this
Poem thing.
It was supposed to
End
Three stanzas ago.

But it is kind of fun
To make you read this
Like a poem
Which I guess
It is
Now.

Hannah's Random Thoughts #14: Dreams

If you know me, you'd probably know that I love telling stories, and especially my dreams. I have a few (okay, many) old favorites that everyone's heard a million times and says the plot before I finish the beginning details.

(You: "Oh, yeah I know this one. The one about the bunny." Me: "Grwhasdf!LETMETELLIT")

Well, I also happen to sometimes write down my dreams. My family encourages it so that I don't ramble on for an hour about a little (very "important") detail and I can keep it nice and precise. So I will write out some personal favorites and maybe you'll scream or laugh or smile or cry at them like I do.

And I know this is like a super long post but hey. I find great joy in retelling my dreams.

THE OLDIE-BUT-GOODIES:
-Most of the dreams I retell fit under this net. But I was just looking through my old dream journal and I forgot some of these! But anyway... These are the tales. (Commentary in the [brackets])

The Macarena:
This was at my elementary school's "Luau" and we were dancing in the gym. Some lady that looked like Tonks from Harry Potter started doing the Macarena and Sarah saw her. Then Sarah started really jamin' and Sarah was twirling, skidding, Macaraning [what kinda word...], and she was the best dancer! Everyone applauded and she was star of the show!

The Blue Bunny:
This huge blue bunny hopped out of the black berries and I was scared. I told Sarah to get behind me and I was about to fly but I couldn't. [I had been able to earlier in the dream]. I couldn't yell either.  [So...frustrating.....] Then the blue bunny turned into a lady [she actually looked like Tonks too] and walked in the woods and said to follow her We did and she led us to a glacier and we had to slide down an ice slide and Sarah did it wrong and fell into shallow water and the lady asked if we were hungry and gave us crab. Then she showed us her world. It was all bright and cheery with toadstools for chairs. It was the best dream ever.

Voldemort and Sledding: [Not a dream I retell very often, but I just found it again in the journal and it's kind of funny... soo...]
Sarah and me were lying on the big chair [maybe in our living room] and Voldemort was planting flowers on the deck. [Yeah... about that...] Then we went to the Middle School Challenge Run but it was at Galbraith and you could use sleds. :) Eventually, I finished first on my sled and we changed to the Ski to Sea parade and all the graduates were there and we had to sign their feet. (Mama cleaned off someone's w/ a wipe) Then we went to the attic and a guy had to bring a motorcycle down. It was a great dream!

The Lady Who Stole Us: [If I've ever told you a dream, it was probably this one]
Sarah and I were at swimming lessons and we had just finished and so we got out of the pool and were about to go up to our parents but all of a sudden this lady -a dark brunette with a short bob with bright red lipstick- shuttled me and Sarah away. "Oh, no, these are my children." Sarah and I were scared and we got in her car and she gave us her cell phone but made us not use it to call anybody but we could play Bejeweled. [hehehe] and then she said, "Oh, I have to go get some bread". So we went to this rustic bread store and a 3rd grade teacher from my elementary school (that I didn't have) saw me and Sarah with her and asked us if we were okay and we said we weren't and he made our kidnapper sit in a time out chair. We were free!

SCARY DREAMS:
-Get ready.

Steve-Steve:
Ok, this was like my scariest dream ever. Sarah and I were sort of with the Cross Country team and we had to stay in this motel thing. It was all made of wood and it was out in the woods and it was dark. But we went in and asked for a room and this "nice" old lady came out and told us around and showed us our room. There was her son or something who was called Steve-Steve. [Menacing, I know]. The creepiest part at this point was that she kept saying, "If you hear anything, just let us know. If you hear the floor creak, or a ball bounce, or anything, just let us know." It was like she WANTED us to tell her of noises she and Steve-Steve were going to make to scare us.
So Sarah and I were kind of freaked out but we went down the hall to our room and Steve-Steve was still there and talking to us. But Sarah and I climbed into the bed and just sort of waited for him to leave, but then there was his coffee cup [Starbucks, good choice, Steve-Steve] in the crook of my arm and I so I reached back behind my head to give it to him. I didn't look back but I just reached my arm back. And then I saw Steve-Steve out of the corner of my eye at the side of the bed and instead of grabbing his coffee HE WAS STRANGLING ME! I woke up with a start, as if someone really had just strangled me and my heart was beating really fast and I was really, really scared.

Sarah's Neck:
My mom asked me for a piece of paper from the printer so I went and gave it to her and then I went over to Sarah who was lying on the couch and I touched her arm and she screamed and I was still holding onto her arm and as she was screaming her neck was getting longer and longer and her arm was getting longer and longer as I was holding onto it. I was afraid of what I had done.

MORE RECENT ODD DREAMS:
-These dreams came from a recent time when I wanted to lucid dream and so I recorded a bunch of my dreams to help with that. (Yes, I eventually was able to lucid dream. What fun!) But here are some notes from that:

Homecoming Kix:
I had a dream the homecoming assembly dance was being planned. We all pretended we were pieces of the cereal Kix, and we dressed up as that by putting flotation things around us. In practice we went to a swimming pool filled with milk and videoed (Not the assembly yet, though, just a practice. At the assembly there was no pool.) Some kids were getting Kix blasted in their face [so dramatic]. At the end we were all in this big room eating dinner and talking. [Next year, Juniors, next year this is happening...]

Hermione and the Bat:
I had a dream we were somewhere with Ron and Hermione and I traveled around a lot with them but Ron wasn't always there. The most memorable place was a field with a big group of people all around. One girl was nervous or something and asked Hermione to pray. When we opened our eyes a white dove flew across the night sky [The prayer was answered?] and landed on a tree. My dream-camera "zoomed in" and it turned out not to be a heavenly dove but an albino bat! [Nasty shock right there, I tell ya]. Once people figured out what it was there was a lot of panic. I had my big fluffy blanket on [in the dream and in real life too] and put that over my body. I felt what I thought was a small person step on my back. I froze and people around me gasped. No, it couldn't be. The bat was on my back! I then felt two sharp points between my shoulder blades that hurt a lot! I woke up with my body positioned like it was in that field.


Sweet dreams, folks, sweet dreams.

Hannah's Random Thoughts #13: Learning

I'm not sure when I thought of this idea, but I know I've thought about it for a while.
Sometimes I think what if something happened and I was on an island with a whole bunch of little children and just me and somehow we had to survive, and there was no contact with civilization. Basically it would be as if the "old world" (this current time etc. What I mean is everything before me and the lil' kids got on this island) was gone and I was the only one to have really experienced it.

Other than thinking about if there was a beast on this island, (heh heh might not want to tell *that* story to the kids...) I think when I am learning things NOW like chemistry and history and even everyday things like how to read and what I know of other languages and places and books I've read and famous people and everything I know I try to really learn it "just in case this happens". And I know it won't or anything but I feel like it makes me want to remember things about everything I'm learning. I mean I would have to educate this whole little tribe of kids! I would be like a living World Book Encyclopedia. And if I was to expect any advances in this society well wouldn't sort of have to come from me?

Think about it. I mean, I wouldn't have to reinvent the wheel, but it took a crazy long time just for us as humans to create sewage systems like we have now, or boats, like I don't even know how to make a boat, or trains or holy cow what about planes, and, oh gosh I don't even want to think about the Internet. Or even things that seem really simple but would probably be really hard to make in reality. Like matches or even paper or knives or hold on, I would be responsible for thousands and thousands of years of knowledge! I mean, I have absolutely no idea how to make a light bulb. So like all the ideas that Edison got and the ideas that inspired the people that inspired him and the people that those people were inspired by would be gone, and we'd have to start hundreds, maybe thousands of years until me and the little ones would ever invent a light bulb.

I don't know if I would say this idea makes me more inspired to learn.. well actually I think it does. I might not be in this hypothetical situation, but what if I was like, stuck in the woods somewhere? What memories of Man vs Wild would I be able to recall? But I do think that it sort of makes me value what I do know, and also makes me feel like there's so much more I could know.

Hannah's Random Thoughts #12: Things I Learned the Hard Way

Listen folks, as you will, allow me to tell you of certain things that I happened to learn in a more difficult way than, perhaps, if someone had just told me.

#1: Plastic is not so different from aluminum.

One time my mom asked me to empty out a bottle of Coca Cola that was in the fridge... I think that she got it from the airport or something. Well, as a dutiful daughter would, I went upstairs and pulled the plastic bottle from the fridge. I was probably around... Oh, nine or so, and I hadn't ever experienced the thrill of shaking a carbonated drink, nor seen the consequences. But, as I took the drink to the sink, something planted a seed in my head that got me thinking. Surely the bubbles only happen when the can is aluminum, after all, it must me some reaction with the metal that causes it to overflow when shaken.

Actually folks, this is not the case. Aluminum is not what causes the reaction, and plastic won't stop it from happening. But, little as I was, these useful bits of information had not yet been gained.

So, the curious child as I was took the bottle and shook it. Everything seem okay. So I unscrewed the lid just as I poured the bottle into the sink. But the Coke did not go down the sink, it actually went all over the place, including some half open drawers that might not have gotten fully cleaned from the disaster.

That is one of those things that I look back on and think oh how silly of me, but, hey, sometimes nine year olds don't quite know how aluminum cans and plastic bottles differ.

#2: DON'T CLICK FORMAT

Another thing that would have been nice to know... If you are playing around on your camera and you've just taken some really nice sunset pictures not to mention a whole spring break load of pictures, then it would be better to not actually click that format button on your camera. It happens to delete all of them, so why it's called format beats me, but if I had known this like all you do now, then I wouldn't have cried. I might have been very happy, actually. What if those pictures made me famous? Well I guess I wouldn't be writing this now and I might not have told you this because I wouldn't have known and then YOU might be famous soon. (So I get the credit guys, c'mon.)

#3: Save. Save. Save. Save.

I don't really want to dwell too much on this one... (To many stressful moments and much frustration) but always save your work on the computer 'cause if you don't..... Well then Papa told ya so.

Other random tidbits: Um, don't eat an orange after drinking milk, uh, it's always a good idea to bring fingernail clippers, bug bite gel, and aloe vera with you on a trip. Hmm.... If you have a sip of water when you have a retainer in and then you go to bed you wake up with worse morning breath than if you take the retainer out to drink the water. (Sorry if that was too gross... It's just one thing if I've found.) oh and spicy food, garlic, and broccoli tend to lead to vivid dreams, at least in my experience.

Hannah's Random Thoughts #11: hee hee

Funny story:

The other day, (actually it was more like several weeks ago), Sarah and I were at school and we were walking down the hall and there was some guy a little ahead of us. He had sort of a big baggy sweatshirt on (you know the type) and obviously a little too big of a shirt because his shirt stuck out from under the sweatshirt just a wee bit.

Sarah kind of laughed a bit and whispered to me "Tuck in your tail, little duck" , and we both quietly stifled our laughter. (That quote is from the Hunger Games. And this certain young man did not seem at all like a "little duck")

I meant to write this a long time ago but anyways there ya go.  

Hannah's Random Thoughts #10: It is rainy and I like it

Last spring break we went to the Grand Canyon but the day before we got there we spent the night in Las Vegas. I remember waking up, looking outside and the first thing I saw was how blue the sky was. I said, "Wow! It's so sunny! Look outside!" and for about 30 seconds I was awestruck at how amazingly blue and clear the sky was.

Then I realized I was not actually in the Pacific Northwest, and in Las Vegas it is sunny a lot of the time.

Ham Fact: Las Vegas has sunny days 80% of the year.

That made me kind of sad, because for me, I would see such a gorgeous day and be really excited and happy but then I realized that people here would wake up and just see a typical sky and probably not even think twice about how awesome it was and just continue their day. So I was sort of sad that nobody else in the city would be as excited about the sky as us Bellinghamsters.

But, today it is rainy and overcast. Welcome to the end of November I suppose. (Although really, this fall has been not the typical crazy windy one we usually get). But I LOVE it when it's this weather. By the end of the summer all I want is lots of rainy overcast weather. I suppose I live in the right place. I just love it because it just feels so cozy and lazy but it could also be wild and adventurous too. It's the best.

I know a lot of people get all sad with all this rainy weather but I like it. I also had a dream last night and I ran outside because it was snowing and the snow was so heavy that if I opened my mouth to catch the flakes by the time I closed it it felt like there was a snowball in my mouth. It was quite nice.
But anyway, hope you like the weather today.

oh and a Ham Fact is just a nice little fact that you can ponder for the day or laugh at or use in an argument someday because they're always true and then you'll win.

Ham Fact: Celeste came up with the name "Ham Fact".

have a great rainy day.