NaNoWriMo and Protons and Neutrons and Hank! November 19, 2009

Hey guys! I’ve missed you, but I’ve been pretty busy with NaNoWriMo. My story is coming along swimmingly!

WROCKSTOCK. Wrockstock, Wrockstock, Wrockstock. It was fabulous. It was marvelous. I cannot do justice to it in one blog post. Also, I have been very busy this November. And that is why the Wrockstock blog is in progress. It will be coming soon, I swear. Very soon.

Sooo… NaNoWriMo. Yay NaNoWriMo!

This post is just going to have lists because that’s what I do when I’m lazy.

Stuff you should check out:

1. My mom’s blog post about Zen, Nerdfighters, and Protons and Neutrons

2. Protons and Neutrons

3. Thea’s new blog (Stay away if you don’t like swearing)

4. Effing Hilarious

My brain really isn’t on blog mode right now. But the Wrockstock post will come soon, I swear!

Awesome: NaNoWriMo!
Unawesome: Ummm…. I don’t know.
Word count: 18,109

P.S. Last night I got This Machine Pwns N00bs and it is AMAZING! The shirt is awesome and the poster is awesome and Sharkeye Jones’s artwork is amazing and SIGNED PICK! SIGNED PICK! I GOT A PICK AND IT WAS SIGNED BY HANK GREEN!

October 30, 2009

Hi guys! IT’S MY BIRTHDAY! I’M TWELVE! Well, not officially until sometime tonight, but still.

I’m just at Mum’s office, hanging out. A while ago, I decided to watch every single Vlogbrothers’s video ever, and I’m working on that right now.

Tonight, I’m going to the Spaghetti Factory, which everyone in my family does for their birthday, and I’m excited! That’s why I’m blogging right now. Also, I’ll just keep watching videos, but I’ll blog while they’re loading up. Off to watch “Harry Potter Nerds Win at Life”.

Alright, I’m done. That video was awesome.

So, today’s been totally awesome so far! I slept in and then ate some coffee cake. Before I continue, let me explain something. This is my mother’s coffee cake. She makes it on every one of my birthdays and has since I was one. It tastes like everything good in the universe riding on the back of a unicorn. So I ate some of that, and it was amazing, and I also had some orange juice mixed with Sprite, and that was amazing. Then I went to the office.

You know what that means.

That means that I can sit around watching Vlogbrothers’s videos. My life rules. Then Mum gave me a birthday present of Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen by Lauren Myracle. I started reading them, and they are pretty jokes so far. Off to watch “Twenty Questions and Michael Collins”.

Alright, I’m back. Then Mum said that we could go anywhere for lunch, and I, um, said, “Hires.” Hires is amazing. If you don’t know, Hires is this burger place in Utah that serves amazing food and, as far as I’m aware, practically invented frysauce. I know that sounds pretty weird of me, because Hires is a burger place and I’m a vegetarian, but it has other stuff, too.

So we had a very delicious lunch during which we had a conversation about Star Trek. At one point, Mum was like, “And then the doctor… oh !@()#*@!() what is his name??? I KNOW IT!” And so we asked the nice guy next to us and he informed us that it was Dr. McCoy and then we proceeded to bang our heads on the table in shame. Off to watch another video. Actually, never mind. I’ve already seen that one.

So now I’m watching Vlogbrothers’s videos, and it rocks. I love my life. And I know that this is the last blog day of October, but never fear! I will be back.

Off to watch more videos… Happy Almost-Halloween!

Awesome: My birthday! Halloween! My godfather Dan! The signs Uncle Dan put around his dogs’ necks!
Unawesome: I don’t even know.

Days until Wrockstock: 7
Days until my birthday: NONE! (lol… Mooser Pooser!)
Days until Halloween: ONE! YAY!

Skeletons, NaNoWriMo, and not-Herpes! October 29, 2009

Hi guys!
Today was pretty awesome. I wrote a bit and made some delicious cookies that tasted like everything good in the world riding on a uinicorn.
*TEAM UNICORN!* Also, I watched a movie from the 60’s called Jason and the Argonauts. Let me talk a bit about that.

Jason and the Argonauts was awesome. The special effects were pretty great considering when it was made. I don’t know if you know the story of Jason and the Argonauts. That’s fine. The movie didn’t actually have to do that much with the actual myth. Well, it did, but it borrowed from a lot of other myths, like when Jason fought a Hydra. That’s Hercules, folks.

There was also another scene that isn’t in the myth where the people from Medea’s island or whatever take the teeth of the dead Hydra (which did have to do with another myth, but it was a dragon), and then they grew into skeletons with swords and shields! OMG! Then three of the Argonauts had to fight the skeletons and somehow overcame them, which is weird since skeletons don’t have anything to stab. Mostly, they just pushed the skeletons off a cliff. Anyway, everything was all quiet and then the skeletons charged with this hilarious scream thing. That reminds me of Battlestar Galactica. They always yell when they’re happy. Also, Argonauts sound like some kind of space people, which would make sense given the movies I like, but they’re just called that because their ship is called the Argo.

It was pretty awesome.

Thea’s brother, Max, also took us to this amazing store called Pib’s Exchange to find Thea’s Halloween costume. Pib’s is basically where you can take your old clothes and things, but also you can buy clothes and costumes. Oh, the costumes! It’s amazing.

Thea wanted to be a bloody mime, so we started looking for mime-ish clothes, but then we found a Pope costume!!!! So Thea decided she wanted to be a Pope, but there was one major flaw. One extremely huge flaw: this Pope costume did not have a hat. Popes always have hats. That is just a rule.

So we were walking out with the mime stuff when we found a Pope costume with a hat! The costume-package thing included a hat, a sash, and a belt. We still needed a robe, but we decided we’d make one ourselves out of a bedsheet or something, so we went to the DI. I’m just assuming that there are DIs everywhere, so I’m not even going to explain the amazingness that is the Deseret Industries thriftstore.

My dad just carved a jack-o-lantern face out of an apple. He rocks.

Anyway, we didn’t find a sheet there, but Kim has some tableclothes that might work.

Also, I’ve been checking out NaNoWriMo! I have officially decided…

I AM DOING NANOWRIMO. If you’re under 13, you can’t do the one that I linked to up above, but there is one for young writers and I’m doing it! It looks better for me, anyway, because you can choose your word goal instead of just having to write 50,000 words or more. My goal for now is 13,000. I’m excited!

On a less happy note, I have some kind of virus-things that gives me blisters on my throat. That sucks. It’s only contagious through, like, spit, so I don’t have to worry about anyone else getting it. Hooray! It does hurt, though, and the medicine tastes like death.

Last night, when I went to the IHC to check it out, the insane doctor lady tried to tell me that I had Herpes, and I was like, “Um, I’m a virgin.” Then Mum explained that that was a different type of Herpes. So I’m just paranoid.  Also, I don’t have any type of Herpes. It’s called an “entero virus” and it’s about as common as a cold. :p

Well, I have to go! Bye!

Awesome: This. It’s probably really disrespectful and sacreligious, and I’m probably going to get arrested for posting it (I didn’t make it!), but you have to admit that Pope Ratzinger looks like a Sith. And his name is hilarious.
Unawsome: My throat.

Days until Wrockstock: 9
Days until my birthday: 2
Days until Halloween: 3

Birthdaytastic! October 27, 2009

Hi guys! Sorry for the super-short post on Saturday. I was really busy and it was really late.
So, on Saturday, I had a bunch of friends over for a birthday party because I’M TURNING TWELVE! soon. It was awesome to see all the friends I haven’t seen in ages, as well as the friends I’ve seen recently (it still feels like ages, though!).
We had a spectacular time, and we (being Mum, Nemo, and I) made an awesome piñata with Quirrell’s face on one side and Voldemort’s on the other.

Unfortunately, Cate had been up really late and couldn’t come, which was sad, but I’ll see her soon.

Random side note: I’m listening to Hank Green’s “Luck of my Life” right now, it’s adorable, and we should be grateful for the Hank Greens in this world. Also, if you happen to know someone like Hank Green, please contact me, because I’m pretty sure the world would explode of awesome if there were any more people like Hank, and I’m concerned for the safety of our planet. /fangirling

So anyway, we all hung out a lot, and it was super awesome, and we had a cake that Nemo and I decorated with Brad Neely’s Harry, Ron, and Hermione. That’s not the actual picture we drew, but that’s the best picture I could find online.

It was delicious.

We had a totally random game of Red Rover, which was really freaking fun! There were a couple of almost-deaths, but it was quite fun.

Also, I got a bunch of awesome presents, including Let it Snow by John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle, an “Oh, Won’t You be in Nerdfighterlike with me?” shirt, The Key to the Golden Firebird by Maureen Johnson, Hank’s album “So Jokes”, a DFTBA compilation, a necklace that says “best” on it (Anne has the “friends” and Cate has the “forever”), and a plethora of other awesome stuff, including, of course, a bunch of gift cards. Woohoo!

We made a Pin-the-sweetheart necklace-0n-Won Won poster, but didn’t get to it until the very end, and Lila, Thea, Emily, and I were the only ones left, but it was super jokes!

When everyone left, we babysat Zora, which was fun, and then we watched Battlestar Galactica. It was such a perfect day! I read Let it Snow, which is absolutely sublimely amazing, and now I’m reading Golden Firebird, which seems pretty sublimely amazing so far.

I have to go, but I’ll see you tomorrow!

Awesome: My birthday!
Unawesome: I’m having difficulty thinking of unawesome things right now.

Days until Wrockstock: 11!!!!
Days until my birthday: OMG 4!
Days until Halloween: OMG 5!

P.S. It was an HP party, if you didn’t notice.
P.P.S. I swear I’ll do a punishment soon.

Birthday Party! October 25, 2009

Hi guys! I just had an amazing party and I saw a bunch of my friends and it was awesome. Cate couldn’t come, unfortunately, because she was up late and couldn’t wake up, but we’ll hang out soon.

It was totally awesome, and my parents got the most nerdtastically awesome presents ever- The Key to the Golden Firebird by Maureen Johnson, Let it Snow by John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle, Hank Green’s album So Jokes, and a DFTBA Records compilation. It was so much fun!

I just remembered that I needed to blog, so I can talk for long, but I’ll describe the party tomorrow.

See you soon!

Awesome: Basically everything.
Unawesome: Basically nothing. Oh. Getting hit with apples.

Days until Wrockstock: 13
Days until my birthday: 6
Days until Halloween: 7

THE HOUSE PARTY!!!!! OMG!!!!! October 23, 2009

Last night was the freaking best!!!!!! If you don’t remember, the Whomping Willows and Justin Finch-Fletchley and the Sugar Quills just came to our house and played a made of awesome show!!! At our house!!!! It was so awesome!
Matt and Justin are seriously so nice, plus, they’re friends of one of our good friends, Cryssy Nelson. In fact, she told them to hug us or they’d be in big trouble.
Mum picked Thea and I up from her house and hurried home to set some things up, and then someone knocked on the door and I was like, “OHMYGAWD IT’S THEM HOLY CRAP HOLY CRAP!” They came in and we introduced and then we ordered some amazing pizza and ate it. At one point, I just sat down and said, “I. Am. So. Full.” And Justin asked me how many pieces of pizza I had, and I admitted only one, but those slices were huge! And he just said, “I had three. And I think pizza is coming out of my eyes.” I love those guys.
They started setting up some merch and a few people started showing up. It was awesome to see my friends who came. Cate, Lila, Lizzy, and Thea were there at first, but Ruth, Gus, Sonia, and Abby (Thompsen) showed up later. I haven’t freaking seen Roo in like, months. It was so awesome to finally see her again.
Then they started playing, and it was amazing. It turned into a full-blown wizard dance party after a very short time, and they kept alternating between Justin’s songs and Matt’s songs, playing back-up for each other. It’s crazy how fun it is just screaming “Krum” and dancing with your friends. I love my life. And oh oh oh! They had me lead the dancing on “On Behalf of Neville”!!!!!!!! I don’t know if you know, but I effing daydream about stuff like that happening to me.

They finished off with “In Which Draco and Harry Secretly Want to Make Out”, which I absolutely love, and instead of saying “Dumbledore and Grindlewald” at the end, they said, “Gandalf and Dumbledore”, which was totally hilariously awesome!

Afterwards, we bought some merch and hung out. I had issues not buying every single thing, but I decided that I would get more at Wrockstock. I ended up getting a “Madame Pomfrey, What Up?” shirt, a Ravenclaw eyepatch (designed by Cryssy), a Hufflepuff eyepatch (designed by Brandi), and a Let Love Grow shirt. Mum got an “Oh, we love you Viktor Krum!” shirt, a JFF is my BFF glass, the live Yule Ball CD of Matt’s, a Ravenclaw eyepatch, and a Trees are People Too shirt. Nemo got a “Madame Pomfrey, What Up?” shirt, a “Let Love Grow” shirt, and a Slytherin eyepatch (designed by Nate!).

After everyone left (Thea stayed over), we lit a fire outside and hung out for a bit. I gave Matt and Justin matchboxes that I decorated, and they really liked them! Justin’s had a pizza on one side, “I can’t fit into a matchbox” on the other side, and lots of black and yellow glitter. Matt’s had the Welcome To the House of Awesome picture on one side, the HPA’s logo on the other side, and green, brown, and red glitter. And GUESS WHAT THEY GAVE ME?!?!??!????? They gave me the guitar strings that they broke during the show!!!!! SQUEEEE!!!!!

Then Thea and I went to bed and discussed cat anatomy and how amazing that was!

In the morning, Matt, Justin, Mum, Nemo, Thea, and I went to this place called the Blue Plate Diner and it was awesome (the food was, but also mostly just the fact that I was having breakfast with the Whomping Willow and Justin Finch-Fletchley)!

Then they had to leave ;( , but before they left they gave us all hugs and it was totally squeetastically amazing OMG OMG OMG!!!! When Thea hugged Matt she said in this little voice, “Goodbye, Whompy!” and it was like a little kid squeaking, “Goodbye, Santa!” and it was adorable. Now I really miss them. Really really really. I AM SO EXCITED FOR WROCKSTOCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, I have to go. I have a buttload of stuff to do. That was amazingly amazing amazing. I am so happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

P.S. Matt said that the picture of Matt and I with Bre and Lila was one of his favorite tour pictures. I almost fainted.
P.P.S. Stupid iMovie said that YouTube published my video from a few days ago. IT LIED. I know I have to be punished, but can it wait until things calm down a bit? Please?
P.P.P.S. Can I be Matt Maggiacomo when I grow up?

Awesome: Matt and Justin.
Unawesome: The fact that they left.

Days until Wrockstock: 15
Days until my birthday: 8
Days until Halloween: 9

THIS POST HAS HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS SPOILERS!!!!! BEWARE!!!!!! October 21, 2009

BEWARE! THIS POST HAS HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS SPOILERS!!!!!!!! DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT READ HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS! I just thought this would be a fun discussion for the Potterheads, but I certainly do not want to spoil anyone. Proceed at your own risk.

Hi guys! It’s Daisy! I wonder why I say that? It’s like, “No, I thought you were Albus Dumbledore!” For the record, hi, my name is Daisy. I am not Albus Dumbledore.
Guess what??!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?! THE WHOMPY AND JFF HOUSE PARTY IS TOMORROW NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Matt and Justin are going to be IN OUR HOUSE! OMG!!!!! I totally won’t be able to concentrate tomorrow. I’m totally freaking out!

I was just listening to MC Kreacher. He is freaking amazing. He is my hero. Speaking of ***DEATHLY HALLOWS SPOILERS!!!!!*******, doesn’t DH just make you love Kreacher? It even makes you like Regulus, because he was just so nice to Kreacher. I mean, I know he was a DE, but once he realized why Kreacher was in the cave and that he was about to die, Regulus saved him from certain Inferi-related death. And when it would have been so easy for Regulus to make Kreacher drink the potion, he didn’t.

Look, I love love love Sirius. But, and I quote, “if you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals”, and Sirius treated Kreacher horribly. That’s one of the problems in the wizarding world. Just thinking about House-Elves, hardly anyone that we hear of treats House-Elves fairly. Hermione does, Dumbledore does, Harry learns to, and Regulus does. In fact, Regulus not only treated Kreacher fairly, Kreacher seemed to be one of Regulus’s best and closest friends. In fact, this brings me to my next point.

House-Elves will obey their masters because they have to, but the only people they will be nice to is the people who are nice to them. Dobby loved Harry because Harry set him free and, for the most part, treated him very well. The Hogwarts House-Elves, as far as we see, seem to like Dumbledore quite a lot. Winky is a strange case, because Mr. Crouch treated her poorly and she loved him. Also, she simply loved Barty, Jr. We never really get his full story, and correct me if I am wrong, but he seemed to have treated her okay as far as we know. Kreacher loved Regulus, who was probably his best friend, and started being nice to the Trio when they all started being nice to him, and, grudgingly at first, stopped calling Hermione “the Mudblood”. When Bellatrix and Narcissa came back, I’m guessing that Kreacher told them everything because they were kind to him. The evidence shows that Mrs. Black wasn’t mean to Kreacher, and we saw how much he loved her.

It’s probably pretty obvious how much I love House-Elves.

/S.P.E.W.-y rant.

Anyway, I should probably clean up my room (*sigh*) a bit so that Justin can sleep there! Squeee! I’m so excited!!!!!!!!!

Bye!

Awesome: Kreacher.
Unawesome: The way that people treat House-Elves.

Days until Wrockstock: 17
Days until the House Party: TOMORROW!
Days until my birthday: 10
Days until Halloween: 11

Whatcha say? October 19, 2009

I say that I am in love with Lauren Fairweather’s newish song ,“Whatcha Say, Jason DeRulo?” That song is amazing! I don’t know Jason DeRulo or Imogen Heap, but that song is so jokes.

Today has been really fun! I did some art and got months of videos uploaded to the computer and deleted all the stuff on my camera, which I’ve been meaning to do for a long time, and worked on a secret project! I would tell you about the secret project, but it’s a secret! Hahahaha!

We’re almost ready to paint the back entry, I think, so we got to paint primer graffiti over the hideous yellow paint, because we’re going to paint it anyway. It was awesome! I was going to take pictures of it for you, but it’s so dark outside that the lighting sucks, so I’ll take some tomorrow, probably. I’ll let you speculate what is on the graffiti, but rest assured that it has to do with HP and Paper Towns. I mean, how could you graffiti a crazy, torn-up little room that probably looks a crapload like Margo’s hidey-hole without making Paper Towns graffiti?

I love that book. If you have not read it, go read it RIGHT NOW. I love John Green.

In related news, I thought that I would be the lucky nerdfighter who finally found puppy-sized elephants today, but I was wrong. Nemo mentioned something about Congolese pygmy elephants, and I freaked out, thinking that they were puppy-sized, but apparently, they’re freaking huge, just, you know, smaller than normal elephants.

We’re homemade having pizza and watching the third episode of Battlestar Galactica tonight! I love my life. Oh, and in case you’re wondering, it’s the old Battlestar, not the new one.

Alright, I have to go! See you tomorrow!

Awesome: Margo Roth Spiegelman.
Unawesome: Humans killing off the puppy-sized elephants. Not cool, guys. Not cool.

Days until Wrockstock: 19
Days until the House Party: 3
Days until my birthday: 12
Days until Halloween: 13

Mum just licked our cat. October 17, 2009

Seriously. She just licked our cat, Lexie. It was awesome. We were just standing there, talking, and she put her face on Lexie’s head a little bit and was like, “I did it.” And I was like, “You did what?” And she was like, “I licked her. I licked Lexie.” And I was like, “You licked our cat when my camera wasn’t on???” And she was like, “I’ll do it again.”

So I got out my camera and filmed her licking Lexie. It was awesome. I’ll post it sometime.
So, today was marvelous! Mainly, I just watched Vlogbrother videos all day. Currently, I’m attempting to watch every single Vlogbrother video ever, starting at January 1st, 2007. I started sometime in the summer and currently, I’m sometime in 2009 (June, I think).

So for your entertainment, and because I’m madly in fangirlish love with John and Hank Green, I’m going to link some of their awesome videos that I watched today. I would do, like, the best Vlogbrothers videos EVER, but that would take too long.

Squirrel Attack

I’m Not Edward Cullen 

I Know (A Song in Ten Words)

The World’s Largest Balls

DFTBA

WROCK! (the fact that they like wrock makes me love them so much more)

Leaky Con Fun!

I Will Call Him Louis: Australia Rocks!

Eating a FAT SANDWICH

I love the Vlogbrothers so much. *Nerdfighters!*

Oh, and if you don’t know what a nerdfighter is, we’re nerds, but instead of being made of bones and guts and stuff, we’re made of AWESOME.

Anyway, I’m going to my little cousin Zora’s birthday party tomorrow! Her actual birthday is on the 19th. Yay!

Well, I should probably go! Best wishes! DFTBA!

Awesome: The Vlogbrothers. Also, Nerdfighters.
Unawesome: Decepticons.

Days until Wrockstock: 21
Days until the House Party: 5!!!!
Days until my birthday: 14
Days until Halloween: 15

I think my tongue is broken October 14, 2009

Hi, guys!
Today has been pretty awesome. I learned some Latin and read some Hobbit and played some guitar. I learned how to play part of Big Rock Candy Mountain (la la la I painted my cat blue). Maria came over and we did some surprisingly relatively painless math. It was probably relatively painless partly because I’ve already done this stuff before, but still. Also, it was Maria. And I love Maria. She’s just such a nice person.

Also, if you subscribe to my vlog (bookwormdaisy), then you’ll know all about the Ferret/Monkey/Chinchilla/Lemur. I’m sorry if you already know this story, but it just has to be told.

So yesterday, Thea, Kim and I were reading Sir Gawain and the Not So Jolly Green Giant Green Knight, and Max and Miles (Thea’s older brothers) walked in. Here is the dialogue that occured:

Miles: We are not the weirdest people in this neighborhood.

Me: You… aren’t?

Miles: The Baileys have a monkey in their garage.

Me: …?

So it turns out, Max and Miles were just walking or something, and they saw into the Baileys’ garage, and they saw A MONKEY OR LEMUR OR SOMETHING JUMPING AROUND IN A CAGE. I know. And it *did* occur to me (actually, it occurred to Kim first, and then it made sense) that Max and Miles might have been lying. Many teenage boys like lying to their little sisters. Especially about monkeys…?

So Thea and I tried to see into the tiny garage window, but it was covered up with a little piece of paper or something, so we couldn’t see in. So we disguised ourselves (ever so brilliantly), Thea as a boy and me with different clothes. And glasses. And we walked up to the Baileys’ house, knocked on the door, and a lady answered.

Me: Hi, my friend dared me to come up to all the houses on this street and ask people if they were keeping anything weird in their garage.

Thea: *giggle*

Lady: Um… we have a lot of weird things in our garage. I couldn’t really name them all. We have some license plates from the 50’s and some old hubcaps.

My brain: Like… monkeys?

Me: Okay. Thanks.

And a strange thing I noticed was that she was wearing those plastic glove things, and I was like, “Hmmm… monkey gloves?”

Curious.

So Thea crept up to the window again to see if she could see the monkey thing. She glanced at it and hissed, “DAISY. It’s a chinchilla.” And I was like, “A chinchilla?”

So I sneaked (snuck?) up to the window and peered in. If you looked down past the paper you could see a rabbit cage. I said, “I only see a cage. And a shadow.” And Thea was like, “That’s it.” So I looked at it again and saw something black, furry, and asleep. “OHMYGOD is that a chinchilla?”

The moral of this story is that people are weird. And have things that are possible monkeys or chinchillas or lemurs. Also, it was jumping when Max and Miles saw it. Apparently. I’m pretty sure chinchillas don’t jump.

Bye!

Awesome: NINJAS!
Unawesome: Smaug. Sorry. That was the only thing I could currently think of that was unawesome.

Days until Wrockstock: 23
Days until the House Party: 7
Days until my birthday: 16
Days until Halloween: 17