Hitty: Her First Hundred Years Review

      Hitty: Her First Hundred Years is about a doll named Hitty, who is made from mountain-ash wood, which is said to be lucky wood. So it is proven as Hitty writes her memoirs she relates all the tales of her first hundred years, and all the adventures she had, as she went from owner to owner and eventually became an antique.

      Now, I find this story, to be very interesting but slightly confusing, because there are some things that are said in the book, that are overlooked later. But, it is really interesting to hear all her tales and her adventures as she travels through time from colonies to cars. I in all, liked this book and think it would be a good story for kids.

Owl City Concert 9-7-12

OWL-CITY-CONCERT-SEPTEMBER-7TH-WOOOAAAHH!!!! XD

(First song he sang at the TMS concert! 8D

Vocab:

Bramb/Bramblenose: Warrior name of Jenna B. Carson

Mouse/Mouseshadow: Warrior name of ME, Vianelli C. DeLeon

Leopardshadow: Name of my mom

Ravenpaw: Name of my lil' bro Jonathan I. DeLeon

TMS: The Midsummer Station (Owl City's new album released Aug. 21,2012

Adam Young: Owl City

Owl City: the BEST electronica/pop "band" IN THE WORLD!!!!

As you all probably already know , (depends...I lost track on how many people I've told!) My BF4E Bramblenose and I ((I am Mouseshadow)along with my lil' bro (Ravenpaw) and my Ma, (Leopardshadow) went to The Beacham for an OWL CITY concert September 7th!!! 

...And now I have ONE thing to say to you.

It. Was. AMAZIBLE.
(Adam Young reference: Marshmallow-Fluff on TOAST: IT. WAS. DELICIOUS.)
We had SO much F.U.N.!

 I made a shirt. Oo Yes I know that sounds SO WEIRD. 
BUT. I. MADE. A. SHIRT.
It's jet-black material with sparkly golden and silver letters that say:
"I'm an Adam Bomb" on the front and..
"Owl City TMS" on the back! ^^
Bramb and I found that out when we were listening to Bombshell Blonde a while ago. Atom Bomb = Adam Bomb
I'm pretty sure Adam hadn't meant that, but it's OWLSOME!!! 
A while before our discovery, I had started making a shirt but I never really finished it. So then and there, I made up my mind to get that shirt, and turn it into an Owl City shirt! And it was SUCCESSFUL!!!  So I finished it the day before the concert and wore it all day at school, the 2 hour drive over to Orlando, the around 2/3 hour standing up concert, the two hours back, and sleep. Yeah, it was FUN. ^-^

I'm hoping Adam reads this! ^-^ 

At the concert Bramb and I made this sign:

It's the symbol of the dove/holy-spirit.

We were trying to use it as an owl to resemble Hoot Owls,  Owl City etc. I don't think it worked but Oh well! xD
We had fun doing it!
Adam looked at us like: what in the world are they doing? but he smiled at us too which may I say, WAS OWLSOME!!! *smiles back*  Adam's like... THE. BEST role model ever! ^-^ 

We also saw... *gasp. duhn duhn duuuuuuuuuhhnn!!!!*
BEANIE-MAN.
Basically a tall dude in a grey beanie.


Yes... a grey beanie. I say a grey beanie-hat. 

We think we know who Bean1e-man is! 

• We saw Beanie-man walking down the sidewalk were the LOOOOONNNG line was at least 3 times. In which he passed us.
• He had an OWLSOME way of walking
• He had a redish, orange-ish plaid shirt, grey tight jeans (I guess you could call them skinny jeans) and OWLSOME shoes.
• We saw Beanie-man in the bank near Beacham ALL BY HIMSELF taking out money from the machine thing, and he kept glancing at us from inside.
• While he was in there, he was talking to the two security guards and Adam's Base player came and started talking to all of 'em.
• When we were closer to the ticket collector-guy at the beginning of the line, we saw a window. In the window was a fan-light:  one of these ceiling-fans.

We didn't see anything else but it was on and spinning so people MUST be in there right? Bramb and I guessed that inside the room there might be a sofa on one side of the room next to the window that we couldn't see, and Bramb saw black luggage looking stuff, so we guessed that those were the instruments. Adam and the crew must've been up there. Why else would there be a second floor room in the Beacham building?!

• When we FINALLY did get in there, we were standing there like every other Hoot Owl, and we saw BEANIE-MAN come out of the hallway underneath the stage!!!!!

SO. We concluded that Beanie-man MUST be Adam R. Young!!!! Look at out points again and I think you'll Agree. Adam if that was OR wasn't  you tell us pretty please with sugar on top?  ^-^

NOW. on to TMS!!!!!!

Beautiful Mystery!!!

(single)

Paper Tigers!!

(single)

LOVE you're hair Adam! ^-^

Bombshell Blonde
(TMS)

Take it All Away
(TMS)

Gold

(TMS)

Metropolis 
(TMS)
3 cheers 4 Adam, Owl City, The Midsummer Station.... AND SUPERMAN!!!!!

Silhouette

(TMS)

Embers

(TMS)

Good Time ft. Carly Rae Jepsen
(TMS)

WE ALL HAVE A GOOD TIME!!!! ^-^

Speed of Love
(TMS)

I'm Coming After You

(TMS)

DEMENTIA
(TMS)

Shooting Star
(TMS)

Dreams and Disasters
(TMS)

All of the songs from The Midsummer Station in one post!!! yeah!!!!
Now I shall go see if DF replied my PM (Private Message) on FF.net, and listen to Paper Tigers for the Millionth 
time today!!! 8DDD
Adam... You rock!!!!!!!

Your friends, and HOOT OWLS 4EVER!!!
~Mouseshadow (and Bramblenose) 

TV Show Tallies

There are many kids’ TV shows out there, but how are they affecting the minds of kids? I watched two episodes each of three kids’ television shows: “Hannah Montana”, “Wizards of Waverly Place”, and my personal favorite, “How To Rock” to find out.  I kept a tally of the comments that were made to either build people up or tear people down.  I also indicated how each comment was meant to be viewed by the audience: positively (something that is funny or inspirational), negative (something the audience looks down on the character for saying), or neutral (insignificant enough to not have a strong reaction).

The percentages were as follows:

 

Total Build Up                    Positive                      Neutral                 Negative

234                                         137                         97                           0

(39%)                                    59%                        41%                        0%

 

 

Total Put Down                 Positive                  Neutral                 Negative            

367                                         281                         71                           15

(61%)                                    77%                        19%                        4%

 

46% of all the comments tallied were putdowns that were meant to be funny. 

 

My conclusion is that these TV shows are making put-downs seem like they are funny which can really hurt people’s feelings.  This is affecting teens in our society because they inspire bad behavior. So, TV shows can really change many kids because tearing somebody down is not funny.

My Brother Sam is Dead

My Brother Sam is Dead is about a family in the Revolutionary war. The father is a Tory while his son Sam is fighting for the Rebels. It is mainly about Tim though because he, being the youngest in the family, does not understand what the war is about and doesn't know if he is a Tory or a Rebel.

 I liked this book, but at the beginning you don't know who is telling the story, you just know that they are there. I found this frustrating. And throughout the whole book, Sam is alive so you know that eventually he is going to die. But altogether, it was a good book.