Presented by Victoria as Tiffany, Sarah as the Lay’s Potato Chip Girl, the crowd as themselves, Carrie on the editing and photo shooting, Bella with the cue cards, Emile with the pledge

write something involving Halloween candy – what do favorite candies say about yourself – the candy that “saved the day” once upon a time – a secret message in candy wrappers – made up original ingredients for some candies – those are just suggestions…

so a new week – which means a sad, sad goodbye to twilight – yet again…

“life and death” – so meyer wrote a companion piece in honor of the 10th anniversary of the book that changed all of our lives for the better – gave us the wonderfulness of the movies and those actors – anyway, i’ll say this… not many authors would ever write – or rewrite – 387 pages for what would essentially be labeled fan fiction – she obviously left herself vulnerable to people who don’t like the series – and they have already responded in droves – and i can’t offer original criticism, but i do think the essential premise of the companion piece was wrong – it was called a “re-imagining” – and i think with the movies, it really can’t be re-imagined anymore – or maybe it’s just me, but i never could get the roles right – i just read edward for edythe and bella for beau – it didn’t seem any different – and it really should’ve

starring Victoria as Clara Clayton (BTF III reference) and Alexa on recorder and Carrie as Biffy, the Bat Slayer…

from www.themrsmith.com/writing/minions-your-minions-muhahahahaha

you get a set of minions for a week – what do you do? what do you accomplish?

weekly reading…

“twin ambitions” – great running book by britain’s own mo farrah – great story of how one can become an elite runner – over time – through incredible work – mo didn’t just wake up running world class – lots of valuable lessons in there about all things in life

“show them jesus” – a book recommended to me for my sunday kids – and it was good – the basic point was that you can’t talk/show jesus enough in the lessons you lead – that your lessons shouldn’t just be “this teaches us how to be good people” – b/c, in actuality, being good has nothing to do with it – or shouldn’t – but somewhere along the line, sunday mornings became about being shiny and good – i’ve definitely worked to put what i learned into my life

“junior seau” – this book was really, really sad – ya’ll left me for the parade and i had that to comfort me – except it was the story about an NFL hall-of-famer who took his own life at age 40-something and left behind his parents and his family – truly sad – how do those things happen? it’s not like we’ll ever know, but i do think fame can be a curse sometimes

happy reading – i have the new meyer rewrite of twilight coming to me – i’m excited

j

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you get a magical set of sidewalk chalk – anything you draw comes to life – either describe what you would do with the chalk or what rules you’d create with the chalk

a video only billy could love:) (appreciate/understand:)

and for the books:

“fast girl” – not coming to a BOB or a school near you anytime soon:) but i got a lot out of the book – for the essay last week, it was what i wrote about – i don’t think i’ll get over anytime soon the fact that hamilton cried when she won the high school championship xc title as a freshman – b/c she knew she could never lose again without upsetting people – i think highly gifted people get that

“you’re never weird on the internet (almost)” – it was a good week to read:) another book with things to learn about being gifted – felicia day was in buffy – she was in dr horrible – she’s from huntsville – she has created a ton of material – her book was just the latest neat thing she’d done – and reminded me how important it is to protect our creators – the people that make us laugh – make us think – they often have deep valleys they trudge through

happy columbus day tomorrow

mayfield

tell the story of halloween from the point of view of a piece of candy

(thanks to hope for this one)