As we mostly know (those of us who do not hail from the States might not), it’s officially Thanksgiving. Here is all what I’m most thankful for, by category, but not by order of importance.

Human

• Chris, because I love him and he does try really hard to understand me. My life would be a lot less funny without him *hug*
• My family, for their tangible and intangible support…and the company they provide me with, whether I want it or not!  :P
• Melody, because she’s my friend in spite of the seemingly bizarre things I’m sure I do. That poem especially.
• K because she’s still my friend in spite of how frustrating it probably is when I’m slow to do exactly as she says.
• Mike, because he’s probably the only person who has officially friend-dumped me…and also the only one who’s ever been enough of a friend to want to try and fix things and start over  :)
• The very nice net friends I’ve had the pleasure of meeting this past year…they are several, but among them are Jester, Mother Star, Doctor Raven, Whisper, OragamiRose, etc. I’m glad I met you guys  :)
• My pastor, for being so kind as to attempt to read my short stories. I haven’t had a chance to talk to him about them yet, but I'm just pleased that he would bother with them on top of everything else he has to do.
• Anyone who’s ever said genuinely nice things about me. I would say more about why I’m being thankful for these people (it’s not because I’m being self-centered), but that is a story for a different post.
• The Sky Demon.

Animal

• Domino. She sounds like a descendent of Garm, but it makes me happy to know that someone’s excited to see me every day.
• Lemony because she loves everyone. I’m not mean, but she’d probably still love me to death if I were.
• Timmy because he’s fun to chase, and because he’s been with us since I was a wee junior higher…and he still loves us  :)
• Licorice (Chris’s cat) because he’s my bff and the mastermind behind our secret plot to take over the world.

Vegetable

• Erm…my bamboo plant. It’s the only plant I’ve ever been able to keep alive for longer than a few weeks. I’d miss it if something happened to it.
• My mom’s jade plant. I bought it for her for Mother’s Day when I was maybe in sixth grade…and it’s still hanging around. Amazing.
• Paper. I heart my books, even if they do often insist on reminding me of things I’d rather forget. I don’t know what I would do without them.

Mineral

• My ring… it’s sparkly.
• The puppy fangs I collected when Domino and Lemony lost their teeth. I need to get to a crafts store and find something to set them in and make me some puppy fang jewelery.

Intangible

• The interweb. It’s one of my ways out of the house. Plus…without it, I wouldn’t have met you lovely people.
• Wolf and Dog. I get frustrated with them a lot, but I don’t know if I’d want to be without either of them.
• The Gothic. It turns out we’d known each other for a while…but I’m glad we’ve become such good friends.
• The opportunity I had this year to publish two short stories and three poems. That’s pretty amazing to me.
• Music.

Spiritual

• Jesus. I don’t know what I’d do without him. Probably…I’d actually go insane instead of just talking about it like I’m wont to do  ;)
  And at the risk of sounding really sappy, it’s to him that I’m thankful for all this other stuff. I know I don’t talk about it a whole lot, but when I bother to look over the things that have happened to me and continue to happen…I know, in a way that I typically don’t anymore, that he must be looking out for me after all.
  I’m kind of at a loss about how to end this post…so I’ll just borrow the floundering words of one of the poor souls here mentioned and say, “The Lord works in mysterious ways.” It’s so cliché…but so very true.

End.

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Tomorrow I will maybe say something holiday related. In the mean time, I am far too lazy.

What font do you use in filling out your surveys?

Times New Roman. I’m awesome like that.

Is the last person you kissed your current significant other?

That or someone cleverly disguised like him.

Are you easily offended?

Nope. You have to either work at it, or say just the right thing to make Dog and Cat annoyed with you. Wolf will maybe threaten to murder you, but usually we won’t let him. Usually.

What color shirt were you wearing yesterday?

Grey.

What was the reason behind the last time you said "F*ck my life"?

You know…I don’t say that.

Was the last time your heart pounded like crazy for a good or bad reason?

It was actually because my alarm clock went off…for some reason, I occasionally get this paranoia that I’m going to be late for class, even though I graduated in May.

Do you own a turtleneck?

Nope. I used to…but it died.

How often do you update your iPod/MP3 player?

Now and then. Depends.

For school, do you use multiple one-subject notebooks or one notebook with dividers?

I liked to use marble notebooks because they don’t come apart that easily like spiral notebooks do.

Was the last person that made you mad male or female?

Female.

Ever had a forbidden love?

Nope.

Are you friends with someone who's had relationships but never initiated a break up?

…what? How would I know?

When was the last time you went to the beach?

Eew…beach…um…back in July. There were LOTS of dead things because it was low tide.

Do you always buy new swimwear every single year?

I don’t swim, and I don’t like to wear bathing suits because all the women’s options show off a lot more than I’m comfortable with the whole world seeing, thanks. I wouldn’t go out in public in my underwear, and that’s about all swimsuits are.

Who was the last friend that came over to visit?

Jesse. I don’t get visited by many friends.

Ever had multiple people romantically interested in you at the same time?

I suspected it, but none of them came forward. I’m engaged now, so it doesn’t matter  :)

Are you the type of person that likes to blog a lot?

I like to write posts, but the snob bloggers wouldn’t say this is blogging. They’d say it was “journaling” or something to make me sound inferior to their socio-political-religious-are-crocks-acceptable-as-fashion-blogging.

Where is the music you're currently listening to coming from?

*shifty eyes* South Africa…  o.o

Hm. And…I have to get my laundry out of the dryer. Sorry…that has nothing to do with the question, but maybe if I write it down, I’ll remember to do it when I finish this, eh? Maybe.

What is your relationship with the last person you text messaged?

We’re engaged.

End.

Reeser

*Reeser is listening to Chris sing along with The Awakening, when suddenly Chris makes a terrible noise*

Reeser: What on earth…?

Chris: It’s those weird noises he makes! I was singing along nice, but I feel wrong if I don’t make fun of him a little bit.

Reeser: Ah. Do you now?

Chris: Yes. I feel…feelings that should not be felt.

Reeser: *quizzical expression*

Chris: Fine. I like this song. Happy? But I feel like I have a crush on him if I don’t mock him.

Reeser: *laughing* Well, you were the one who blurted out last summer—

Chris: You can leave that out of this conversation.

Reeser: —“how am I supposed to compete with this guy?! He's beautiful!”

Chris: You know what…

Reeser: Aaw, poor Chrisface.

(ah, they do make me laugh  ^_^)

Heya hey! I’m currently enjoying my new keyboard—it’s so quiet and so clean and new!  :D  :D  :D

It’s that amazing. The new mouse is slightly less amazing, because it’s crazy sensitive and the slightest movement on my part sends the arrow/cursor/whatever flying far, far away through cyberspace. Still…it’s nice and new, too, so yay!

And now it’s time for my third and final review of Hans Christian Anderson’s stories, and this time I’m actually trying to tell you that you should read them, instead of trying to keep you from making blunders with your kids’ bedtime stories.

Selection:

The Complete Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Anderson, translated by Lily Owens

Synopsis:

This is a more-or-less comprehensive collection of Anderson fairy tales. The book includes well known stories like The Little Mermaid and The Emperor’s New Suit, and many more obscure fairy tales and morality stories like The Saucy Boy and The Bird of Popular Song.

Packing in over 130 short stories and several illustrations, this book will certainly keep you occupied, whether you read them yourself or dare to read them to your children before bed.

Reeser’s Opinion:

Here is the third installment of this review. There are a LOT of Anderson fairy tales that you’re probably not going to hear about because they’re kind of dull. There are a few though, that I really enjoyed and thought I’d tell you about since you probably won’t ever hear of them unless you happen to have a thing for fairy tales.

I know you might not enjoy these particular ones, but hearing about a few that I liked is better than hearing about none at all, right?

The Jewish Maiden:

This one isn’t scary or morbid, and I liked it a lot. It’s a very sweet story about a little Jewish girl who gradually becomes a Christian. She never officially converts, and doesn’t get buried in the “Christian” cemetery when she dies, but Anderson makes it pretty clear that she probably was a Christian in the end. I probably like it because I so hate all these hoops that different Christians put up that other people have to jump through if they want to “prove” that they’re Christian.

I don’t know if you’d want to read it to your kid, but I like the message of the story enough that I might read it with an older kid and have a discussion about it.

The Shadow:

This is a disturbing story. I came across it when I took a Science Fiction class during my sophomore year of college…and this story isn’t about science fiction, but it is about doubles, which is what I wrote one of my papers about.

The story is about a man who loses his shadow. Eventually he grows a new one, but he always wonders what happened to his first shadow. Then one day a man visits him and claims to be his old shadow that he lost. The Shadow says that he met Poetry when he was separated from the Man, and that he learned so much from poetry that he became human.

Eventually things sort of get switched around between the two, and the Shadow starts saying he is the man, and the Man is his shadow. Finally, the Man threatens to tell people the truth about the Shadow, and the Shadow has him killed.

There are a lot of ways one could interpret this story, but…I don’t know…I guess it bothers me a bit because I’m one of those people that has two personas that don’t always match up, much as I try to make that happen. I worry often enough that the things “Reeser” says are going to get me.

Not sure if this is a good kids’ story, but it brings up a lot of interesting things to think about.

The Marsh King’s Daughter:

This story is amazing. Like…I could totally see this as a movie by Guillermo del Toro (director of Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy). It’s got everything that you could want for a fantasy movie: sorcery, talking animals, swan women (Valkyries), mummies, swamp monsters, Vikings, zombie priests, horses, and warriors, demonic possession, angels, and vampires.

Basically, it’s about an Egyptian Valkyrie (blame Anderson if that doesn’t make sense) whose father is very sick. She goes into a pyramid and asks the pharaohs’ mummies to tell her how to heal him, and they tell her to go to the land of the Vikings and get a special water flower. She flies there with two other Valkyries, but when she takes off her swan coat, they rip it up and fly home without her. The Egyptian girl gets picked up by the Marsh King, who is basically a swamp monster, and they have a little girl.

A talking stork finds the baby in the marsh and has an idea to take it to a Viking woman who has no children. He drops the baby off, and the Viking woman is happy, even though the baby is always crying and fighting. Then she finds out that the baby turns into a big fat frog at night, and that freaks her out a bit, but she’s determined to keep it.

The girl grows up to be really wild and violent, and she loves hurting animals and helping out with sacrifices. Eventually, a Christian priest comes along and starts speaking out against the Norse gods. The Vikings lock him up and decide to use him as a sacrifice to the gods, and the girl is very excited about this. She begs and begs to be the one to kill the priest, but before that’s decided she turns into a frog for the night. She’s always been much gentler as a frog, so her mother takes her aside and tells her how she feels about her wild, violent behaviour, and we find out that the Viking woman thinks there might be something to what the priest is saying.

The girl feels bad, so even though she’s a frog, she helps the priest escape and they ride off on her horse. But when she turns back into a girl, she’s as awful as ever and the priest has to fight her and cast a demon out of her before they can go further. After the demon leaves, the girl is kind of dazed, and the priest says he’s taking her to a Christian town to be baptized, but before they get there, a bunch of robbers jump them. They break the horse’s neck and bash out the priest’s brains with an axe, but before they can get to the girl, she turns into a frog and they freak out and run away.

Since she’s a frog again, the girl feels terrible for the priest and horse, so she tries to bury them and can’t because of her stubby frog arms. Then she tries piling stones on them, and that doesn’t work well either. She starts crying, and as she’s crying, her frog skin comes loose and she pulls it off and is a girl again. Then, the priest and horse are somehow reanimated, although they are still clearly dead, and they offer to carry the girl through the wilderness. As they go, an entire army of dead warriors and horses and vampires rise up and go with them until dawn when they sink into the ground again.

The girl is left by a pond where she looks in and sees a face that looks like hers, but isn’t. She reaches in and pulls out a woman who is none other than her real mother! Then the old talking stork comes back into the story, because he’s been gathering up swan feathers just in case the Egyptian Valkyrie ever came back up from the pond. The women put on the swan coats and fly to the Viking woman’s house to say goodbye before flying back to Egypt with the flower to heal the old man.

Then the story skips ahead to the wild girl being grown and getting married. But right before her wedding to an Arab prince, the dead Christian priest visits her and she asks him if she could see heaven, just for a minute. He agrees to take her, but when she comes back, she doesn’t know anyone. She asks a young stork about where everybody is, and explains who she is, but he tells her that she supposedly disappeared years and years ago on her wedding day.

It’s a pretty awesome story, considering how very many of Anderson’s stories were boring or annoying. And it probably won’t ever happen, but I’d love to see this done as a movie, seeing as there are SO many story elements to pick and choose from…

That’s all I’ve got for now on our buddy, HCA. Next I’ll be reviewing a teen series that I’ve enjoyed re-reading so much that I’m trying to talk my parents into giving me used copies of the five books I’m missing for Christmas. I still need to get down to the library so I can pick up Hurt Go Happy…but hopefully I’ll be able to do that sometime soon after Thanksgiving.

Cheers.

Reeser

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So, it’s 1:35 and I’m just now starting my post. Fail. I should totally work out a way to get online at an earlier time so I don’t start things at odd hours like this. Hm.

That aside, I’m sure any of you who actually read this (hey—in most cases you subscribed to me first) probably know that the New Moon movie is finally out. I’ve had to hear about it off and on the last few days because my sisters LOVE the Twilight series. Personally, I didn’t enjoy it…but I concede that lots of people don’t enjoy books I like, either.

Fine. We’re even.

Picking on Twilight has also gotten boring since I’ve read sooo many blog posts about how awful it is and isn’t Stephanie Meyers a horrible writer?, or how wonderful it is and wouldn’t you want your S.O. to be just like Edward?

Yes, okay. And no, never. That’s not what I wanted to post about though.

I’ve seen a lot of people commenting on these blogs with questions like, “why would anyone fall in love with a monster that wants to kill you and drink your blood?” or “um, vampires used to be monsters. How are they emo kids with glittery skin now?” and even “how on earth could vampires produce biological children? Meyers must be an idiot,” since, apparently, Bella and Edward have a baby.

All of these are very good points, but it kind of annoys me that everyone either loves vampires or loves to hate them or loves to hate Meyers’ interpretation of them without actually knowing much at all about other historic and or literary vampire stories.

Not that I expect anyone reading this to care, really…but it bugs me a lot when people complain about stuff I like, and never bother to learn about it so they can at least make informed complaints.

So, to break the monotony of survey posts and book reviews, and for my own personal amusement, I’d like to try and answer some of the questions about vampires that have most annoyed me. Yay.

1. Why would anyone fall in love with a monster that wants to kill you and drink your blood?

Why indeed. This question is beyond me to answer because there are so many answers…I mean, why do people love other creepy/abusive/evil people? Ineffable, that. Why do people go out and live amongst gorillas or grizzly bears or wolves? Because. People will insist on loving things that are dangerous, for widely varying reasons.

It’s a good question, but also very pointless.

2. How on earth could vampires produce biological children? Meyers must be an idiot.

I can’t make any valid claims on Stephanie Meyers’ mental capacities. I also don’t know if she threw in the half-vampire baby because she thought it would be a fresh take on the vampire story…or if she did it because she read up on some vampire folklore and found out that, yes, some cultures believed that half-vampire babies could exist.

At the 2008 Cornerstone Festival, I went to a seminar about vampires, and I also read about this in Matthew Bunson’s book, The Vampire Encyclopedia, so I assume that this information is true…but each of them told me that various Gypsy groups believed that men who died and became vampires would come back to visit their widows, resulting in dhampir—half-vampire—babies.

At worst, this was just a cover story for widows who needed an excuse for suddenly getting pregnant. At best, the dhampir’s clan would believe that the dhampir had special powers that would allow it to defend the clan against future attacks by vampires. Either way…Meyer’s story of Nessie, the half-vampire baby, fits right in with already existing vampire lore. Gypsies were apparently not concerned with the impossible biology of dhampirs and their dead, bloodless fathers, so I don’t see why Meyers would have to be.

3. Um, vampires used to be monsters. How are they emo kids with glittery skin now?

I can’t explain the glittery skin, and it’s one of the elements of Meyers’ vampire characters that I hate the most. I don’t have a problem with her vampires going out in daylight though. I mean, Dracula did it and he’s the quintessential literary vampire.

The other parts of this question are a little bit more difficult, I think.

I think that part of the reason vampires transitioned from being monsters to being glittery emo kids is because people in this present time don’t believe as strongly in demons or spirits or in sins as being seriously morally wrong.

Some vampire folklore talks about demons or evil spirits reanimating corpses and either drinking the blood of the living, or eating them. If you don’t believe in demons or spirits, then it’s harder to be interested in a story like that, which is why today’s zombies are mostly the results of viruses instead of evil spirits or witchcraft like in zombie folklore.

The idea of sinful people becoming vampires when they die doesn’t work either, since so many people now don’t believe in heaven and hell, or at least they don’t believe in hell, and certainly if there is a hell or some kind of afterlife punishment, it won’t happen to them.

It’s very hard for vampires to be scary in the way they used to be, because we’re not worried about losing our souls and becoming like them if we do bad things, and we sort of prefer to look at their “immortality” as something we want, rather than as a punishment, and if one doesn’t believe in an afterlife…yeah, okay. I can see how the idea of living forever as a vampire becomes appealing.

Even if we’re not scared of them anymore, our society has obviously still got some sort of deep, inexplicable attraction to them, and if we weren’t going to give them up, they had to change to fit the way we think.

So they don’t become vampires because they’re sinful. Most of the vampires I’ve read about—Dracula included—seem to become vampires at random, because another vampire took a fancy to them and “turned” them. Vampirism becomes more like a sickness than a punishment, except that as a sickness, it doesn’t seem all that undesirable because it gives the newly turned vampire the immortality and beauty and strength that seem so desirable in our current society.

On the other hand, there’s still the dilemma that various literary vampires have about killing people. Anne Rice’s vampires try to only kill “evil” people. Laurel Hamilton’s more moral vampires don’t kill people to get blood, and Stephanie Meyers’ moral vampires drink the blood of animals.

Yes, these vampires all still claim to be dangerous, and they might be if you got on their bad sides…but I think that the reason Meyers’ vampires are far from being scary is because they’ve been more successful than most of the other literary vampires I know of at sticking to a non-human diet. More than the others, they seem to have the most squeaky-clean form of vampirism. Be immortal, be good looking, have a supernatural power, eat meat…no worries.

I think Edward does try to tell Bella that being a vampire is worse than all that though—that she’ll go to hell, that she might kill people, etc…but Bella, like an awful lot of people, thinks that there isn’t a hell, or that it couldn’t be as bad as life without Edward (okay, most people don’t think that), and that she’d rather be immortal than live out her “boring” life.

And that’s how vampires went from scary and damned to being emo, because even if they still believe in heaven and hell and damnation and that killing is wrong, they know that humans don’t believe in most of that anymore. Certainly teenaged girls like Bella would rather stay young and pretty with a gorgeous S.O. for eternity. Who cares if they might have to kill? They’re not going to hell for it.

Anyway…time for sleeping now.

Cheers.

Reeser

“Goodnight werewolf, goodnight ghosts, goodnight vampires who pine the most. Goodnight zombies, comeback soon. Goodnight bats, goodnight moon.”

Doctor Raven’s Facebook status.

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I gotta go to bed now...and I really really will do a non-survey, non-review entry soon. Promise!  D:

Do you have brothers & sisters?

One brother, three sisters.

What are their names?

Eh, just pick through my old entries. You’ll figure them out.

Is there a scissor near by?

A scissor? Like…just the one? I always thought they came in pairs, so I’m not really sure how to answer that. I think I have to rethink my worldview and the difference between plural and singular. Then maybe I’ll be able to tell you.

Did you get lost today?

Nope. I’m awesome that way.

Are you wearing something red? What is it?

Well, there is a little red embroidered apple on my shirt, and red, Christmassy bowties on the Scottish terriers on my socks.

Was yesterday Sunday?

No, that’s todayt. So…ask me tomorrow and I’ll say yes.

Last awful thing you smelled?

Hmm…not sure.

Have you ever been pregnant?

Nope, although when I was trying to get medicine for a kidney infection, the people at the urgent care place didn’t believe me and billed us for a test anyway. Makes me hate some doctors because they don’t believe that not everyone sleeps with their boyfriends/girlfriends. Why even ask if you think I’m going to lie anyway? Kind of like how my dentist thinks I smoke because my teeth had some stains…grr.

Have you ever had to clean up puke?

Cat and dog and my own.

Last party you went to, where was it?

Hmm…party? I must’ve gone to one…but I don’t remember where or for whom.

Did you have a good time?

Yeah. That whole not remembering thing…still happening. Probably though, I didn’t. I don’t like parties.

Can you drive stick shift?

Can I drive at all?

Do you have work tomorrow?

I’d like to. So…yeah. Give me a job.

What time do you have to be there?

…

Are you thirsty?

Thirsty? No. Dehydrated? Very probably.

What's your favorite soda?

Doctor Pepper.

What was the last thing to scare you?

Aliens, man. David Bowie is gonna make me kill myself…I’ll have to ask the Sky Demon to put in a good word for me.

Who did you last share a cigarette with?

Dude, I don’t smoke.

Did you have a good childhood?

I probably did. If I compare it with other people’s, I don’t feel that bad about it.

Are both of your parents alive?

Yep.

Have you ever fallen asleep in a bathroom?

Hmm…might’ve started to doze off in a tub once.

What is something you're really good at?

Reading.

What's your hidden talent?

Hidden talent? I don’t hide mine…whatever I have at my disposal, I try to use.

What's the name of the street you live on?

Street.

What state do you live in?

Paranoia.

Are you afraid of heights?

Not so much.

Spiders?

No, but that doesn’t mean I like them running free in my living space.

Needles?

Yes. Don’t talk to me about needles. I think that’s part of why I was flipping out on Friday…because my parents were all like, “yeah, we got a doctor’s appointment for your ear infection, and btw, we want to see if you can get two shots, too.” Um—no! I hate shots, and I very often hate blood. I don’t like needles and I have a sort of anxiety about hospitals because of all this…

Best roller coaster?

Maybe…almost any indoor one, because those are always cooler and have stuff inside that glows…or the Kracken at Marineland.

Last time you went to a zoo?

Mmm…back in June? July?

Last city you visited?

Chicago. Didn’t stay very long though…

What does your purse/bag look like?

Charcoal with black leopard print and skulls here and there, with a black leather flap that folds over and had a set of brass knuckles hanging from it.

What's a weird food you like?

First: define weird.

Has your bedroom ever been painted lime green?

No, but it’s been purple and turquoise, red and black, and probably other things, but that was when I was a little kid.

Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend?

Nope. I have a fiancé.

Is so, where is he/she now?

He’s at home, probably sleeping.

Are you sure of that?

Yep. I have spy cameras set up at strategic locations so I can know everything he does, every moment of every day. (j/k)

Does being single on Valentines Day bother you?

It did. That’s why, when it coincided with the Bible study I led during my senior year in high school, I brought heart shaped cookies. With black icing.

What do you think of no sex before marriage?

I wish everyone would stop acting like they expect me to think it’s okay. I can’t tell anyone else what to do, but honestly…does it really kill anyone to wait? Like, seriously?

Do you feel drowsy?

No, but my eyes are feeling funny.

What color is the shirt you're wearing?

Do you even need to ask this question anymore? More than half of the clothes I own are black.

Do you own purple pants?

Ha. No.

When was the last time you wore converse sneakers?

To-day.

We're all gunna be doomed in 2012…what do you think?

You’re doomed right now, honey, because that’s an idiot question. Nothing bad will happen except the things caused by the psychos who buy into that whole 2012 thing.

How do you get to the nearest bathroom from where you're sitting?

Get up, walk around the desks and chairs in the loft, go down the hall and ta-da! Bathroom.

What's the longest amount of time you've gone without brushing your teeth?

Well, when I was a baby, I couldn’t because they were still in the gums.

Favorite thing to eat on Thanksgiving?

Turkey! Reeser hearts some turkey…  *drool*

Of course, everyone thinks I’m a weirdo because I like really dry turkey meat. Apparently this is a culinary sin.

Where is your best friend right now?

Who are we talking about?

What are you doing this year for Thanksgiving?

Eating.

What holidays do you celebrate?

New Year, Valentine’s Day (halfheartedly…I still don’t appreciate the holiday, even if I am engaged), Easter, my birthday (we kind of skip celebrating Independence Day), Chris’s and my anniversary, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas.

Could you ever go vegan?

No. I enjoy meat too much.

Are you German in any way?

I have some German ancestors, yeah. Along with Irish, English, and Cherokee.

What are you allergic to?

You.

Who was the last hot guy you saw?

Hahahahaha. I think I’ll just leave this question here for the sake of not answering it.

Is your house relatively clean?

Mum doesn’t think so, but Chris’s mum and I discussed clean houses (very briefly) and she said she just gave up on keeping theirs spotless. My mum just doesn’t believe other people have messy houses, I guess.

What color is your toothbrush?

Red and white.

Does you take advantage of coupons?

Sometimes.

Favorite movie you've seen in the past year?

HP6.

What would be a good reason NOT to believe in love?

People lie.

What does your last incoming text say?

“Alright. It’s about my bedtime. Catch you later  :) ”

What color was the blanket you slept with last night?

My quilt is red, the down blanket on top of it is red and white plaid. The down quilt on top of that is powder blue, and the thin blanket on top of that is black/navy/white/pink/orange plaid.

Would you ever wear real fur? Why/why not?

No. I don’t believe in killing animals for their skins. I can, however, deal with leather products because usually the other cow parts get used, unlike…say…beaver or mink or fox.

Do you remember your 4th grade teacher's name?

Mrs. Crooks. I didn’t like her much.

Do you call it primary school or elementary school?

Elementary.

What is something you're not proud of?

That I don’t recycle. I wish we did that at my house.

End.

Reeser

*arguing about the Marble Hornets YouTube series*

Reeser: You know, what if Slender Man isn’t evil? We don’t have any proof that he is.

Chris: Oh, he’s evil.

Reeser: But how do you know? What if the reason he’s following Alex is because he wants to warn him about something else that’s evil?

Chris: Oh…that’s a good idea. It’s a possibility.

Reeser: See? I’m not convinced that he’s evil.

Chris: He probably is.

Reeser: Ugh…

Chris: I’ll find you some pictures of him. People have made pictures of Slender Man, and he’s like, super tall. And he’s got two extra arms—

Reeser: Are you serious?! He’s a bug! *laughs*

Chris: You laugh now. Just wait.

Reeser: Oh, I am not about to get caught by this guy. I know how to survive scary movie villains. (pause) You know, never mind. I’d better stop being so flippant. That’s how you know they’ll get you.

Chris: Yep. They will.

Reeser: I’d better start showing some respect for the creatures of darkness…*bursts out laughing* I bet they heard that one. If I’m in a scary movie, I’m so dead.