Cat's Blog

2004-01-05T04:00:00.000-08:00

I've got a new blog, at http://www27.brinkster.com/catherineh/blog/mainblog.html. there will soon be a link on my splash page.

2004-01-03T11:46:00.000-08:00

I've been reading the "Confessions of Georgia Nicolson" series by Louise Rennison. They're the journals of a very self obsessed, silly fourteen year old british girl. They are hilarious and very popular over here. I wonder how close Georgia is to real British teenagers. I know she can't be anything like them because she is almost to silly to be believable. It doesn't matter, but I need someone else my own age to talk to. I'm starting to talk to myself again. And she's not very interesting, is she. No, of course not, so go talk to your shoe. Go get some wit, you cathy-wannabee. What?! I'm the real cathy, you loser.

Excuse me, my personalities need discipline. But you can see what happens to me after two weeks of total isolation.

2003-12-21T12:44:00.000-08:00

My dad played Santa Claus for a bunch of kindergardners. It was really cute. More research ensues. One kid asked how rudolph got his red nose.

2003-12-20T15:02:00.000-08:00

It's getting very close. In two days my braces come off, in five it's christmas, and in nine days we move to England.

We went to brunch with our Romainan Neighbors, the Turcecu-Stans, and my dad got a part playing Santa Claus for a party of kindergardners. I'm hoping they let me come along to help. I love kids and their suspention of disbelief on Santa Claus. But I know the real thing. There's not one Santa, but a team of many. There's just no way that one man can distribute gifts to billions of kids in less then 24 hours, even if he has a sled that can travel at the speed of light and magic on his side. The answer must be a team of Santas to do the job. They all hang out around the north pole and each have a team of reighndeer. They are criminals, who, through the magic of Christmas, have dedicated their lives to doing good to make up for their crimes. Their sleighs and reighndeer fly using a magic dust that comes from crushed children's teeth. At least that's what I think.

In the meantime, I shall wait for that night and do some research from an authority on the subject, mr L Frank Baum.

2003-12-13T07:51:00.000-08:00

I'm definatly develloping an obsession with checking my email. It's the third time I've opened it in the past hour.

2003-12-11T16:04:00.000-08:00

You know, I think I've been comparing myself to other people too much. I've also been staring at the mirror and sorting people in categories at school. We've got the Sophes, they're the people who are always part of the band, in the plays, doing the art shows, and part of the music shows. They run the cultural quarters of the school. Then there are the Potheads, who are smoking something, and they think they're so poetic, but really it's just the cannibus eating away at their brain. There's also the dirties, who hang around the potheads to try to get their supposed coolness secondhand, but all they're really getting is second hand smoke. There's also the freaks who do really well in school and win all of the math and science contests, they're also the people who think it's cool to join air cadets and support the military, who think that Monty Python and Royal Canadian Air Farce are high culture, (you know who I'm referring to now) who really want to be a part of the Sophes, but never will, because they're really just empty shells with no imagination or creativity. And then there's the lowest and biggest rank of them all: the preps. They have no individuality, and where stupid clothes and act stupid. That's basically all I can describe them as. They talk as loud as they can, about the stupidest things.
So where do I fit in? Well I am, and will always be, part eccentric, spectrum defender violet knight, Lida Rose, and Renaissance Girl.

My point? That everyone's got a story they're going to tell in their blog, 'cept mine's the best.

2003-12-04T03:11:00.000-08:00

School's Been Cancelled!!!!!!! No band!!!!!!!!!

2003-12-04T02:37:00.000-08:00

Mr Bannerman is the reincartnation of a slave driver. That is the only possible answer for all this Musical torture.

2003-11-10T15:53:00.000-08:00

wow. Such a long time since I've typed anything. I most certainly do feel guilty. Anyho, today we had rememberance day ceremonies at our school, which meant I have to play traditional wartime music in the band. It was very long and boring. But, I'm glad I participated in it. I hate war. I can't explain in words how much I do. It is the only thing I truly do hate. I hate video games that glorify it. I hate all soldiers except for peace keepers. I hate anyone who ever thought that war games are fun. Maybe they would think differently if they realized what a great plague it is on our world. But as long as there are greedy and intolerant people in the world, we'll have it.

2003-09-20T14:53:00.000-07:00

On friday I got in trouble for asking to many questions in math. My math teacher told the vice principal that I was causing trouble.
Yesterday was the annual walkathon, to raise money for school dances and events and stuff.. I raised money for it even though I don't attend any of the stuff it funds. Thon, in french, means tuna. So whenever I hear walkathon, I think of a bunch of teenagers walking their tuna over Brown's mountain

2003-08-24T04:01:00.000-07:00

Yesterday my computer blew a fuse and all of my files are now sitting on my computer with no place to go. Thank heavens for floppy disks, and that I had the good sense to use them. I don't know if it's worth getting fixed, because the repairs will probably cost more then the computer itself.
I have managed to get the Spacing Guild website running. You can view it at ca.geocities.com/spacingguilstaff.
I can't believe that there's only one week left to summer. I had so much to do before school started!

2003-08-22T14:49:00.000-07:00

I spent the past few days at with Danielle at her cottage. We worked on stories and drawings, went walking through thorn patches, went canoeing, and swimming. Summer days are made of this. I am so glad that I am an only child, because Danielle's little sister Michelle followed us everywhere. If I were you, I would bookmark Danielle's Webcomic.

2003-08-19T04:43:00.000-07:00

Hi guys, I've been filling up these past days with Roller Coaster Tycoon (damn computer game habit), writing the rules and storyline for my newest game, setting up the Spacing Guild website and writing. Danielle and James are coming over this afternoon to discuss the Spacing Guild.

I just did a search for "milankie" in google, and I am surprised to find that two of the links lead to me. The first is too Heroquest, a role playing game which I am the top writer on, and my blog. Scary.

Ah, but I must leave you now my friends, for I have much to do. Era Of Aquila, Spacing Guild, Internet Course Preparation. Oh summer, must you end so soon?

2003-08-13T08:34:00.000-07:00

I know I know it's been a while since I wrote. We got back on August 3rd, although now it feels like it was ages ago. I've got so much stuff to do, planning HTML courses that I'm going to teach this fall, setting up the spacing guild, reading as many books as I can before school starts, writing until my fingers bleed, designing board game. But all I want to do is fool around on the computer and watch star trek all day. What a pathetic life I live. All of my friends have gone away, it seems. Meaghan's in PEI, Danielle's in Guysborough, Pierre's in europe (typped with a touch of jealousy), Sam's in Cape Breton. I can feel the insanity starting to fall in. I think a third personality is pushing aside Cat and Milankie........

2003-07-22T17:53:00.000-07:00

2003-07-19T17:52:00.000-07:00

We saw the hulk yesterday. I thought it was an okay movie. Worse then Whale Rider but better then Superman. My dad, the comic book fanatic said that it was all wrong, and that he shouldn't have needed both the genetic enginering and the gamma rays both at the same time to become the Hulk. It runs in my mind that Superman got his powers from a genetically engineered spider when in the original it was a radioactive spider, and that the X-men where genetic mutants. Hollywood, I tell you, trying to clone us all.

2003-07-19T17:45:00.000-07:00

I guess today was another experiment in mass chaos. All off my Huffman relatives came over at once. Mass Chaos, I tell you! Between Brocoli boogers, static slides and sticky popsicles, I guess I had fun.

2003-07-17T08:55:00.000-07:00

I'm at my uncle Ken's house and Katie is bugging me to play "grand ball", a game inwhich they dress up in ballroom dresses and go to a ball and beat up inanimate objects by pretending they are boys.

2003-07-16T12:06:00.000-07:00

Hi guys, I'm now at the music library at OSU. We went to Dayton yesterday and saw the air force museum. We saw many aircraft used in various wars. It was very fascinating for some, I'm sure, but I am not at all interested in Mechanical Warfare, and it was a bit boring. Mark W. would have loved it. To bad there's now way of recording memories. We also returned to Dad's old stomping ground. We went to the forest that he used to play in which has now been converted into an arboritum, and he showed me where he used to search for fossils. We saw his old house. His house is no longer there, and only the foundation remains. The story of what became of the house is quite funny: after my dad and his family moved out, my grandfather rented it to some people. They decided to leave before the lease went up, and took the stove with them. My grandfather told the heating company to keep the house fueled so that the pipes would not freeze while he waited for a new tenant. Well, the gas leaked out of the pipe where the stove had been, and it filled up the house until it reached the attic, hit a flame, and the house blew up.

2003-07-11T09:38:00.000-07:00

Last night we (my parents, my grandparents and I) went to a Korean restaurant. It was very good. They served us little apetisers before our entres came in that came in little dishes. Mom tried one and said it was very fishy. Then My grandmother looked over and said, aren't those little minos? it was true. They were entire little minos cleverly disguised as noodles. I took one look at that and said, "well, I'm not having any of that." Well, my cousin Marissa is bugging me about taking her clothes off so I guess I'd better go settle it.

2003-07-04T17:21:00.000-07:00

Independence Day, also Ohio's bicentenial. My cousins all came over today and made quite a racket. Me so tired now from babysitting all day. eck.

2003-07-02T09:28:00.000-07:00

Today I went to the library again. My days have consisted of reading in the morning, writing in the afternoon and Internet in the evening, to beat the boredom of being away from my friends. My Aunt Marcia will be bringing her kids to Grandma's house on the fourth, and she expects me to plan a birthday party for my four year old cousin, Mattie. Check for Updates on my stories, Cat

2003-06-29T05:51:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, I'm here in Westerville, OH visiting with relatives. I've been reading alot, the library here rocks! I've also been writing much more for my stories. I also got a DVD out of the library called Metropolis which is a science fiction anime by the same guy who did Astroboy. We did some site seeing on the way here, we stopped at Olana and the Catskills and Minute Man Natl Park. That's the bunch of it, gtg.

2003-06-19T02:00:00.000-07:00

A wet sponge, that's what I am. A sponge for knowledge. Did you know that stan is an ancient persian word for land? That is why so many contries have a stan after them in central asia. For example, Afganistan is the land if the Afgans, etc. I've also been reading a lot about Egyptian mythology. There are a few differences between the Egyptian gods and the greek gods: the Egyptians all had heads of different animals, and were not immortal. Now, if only the writers of Yu Gi Oh would write their plot around the real mythology, other than some hocus pocus story made up just to sell their cards. So much useless information, when I really should be studying for my Science Exam.

2003-06-19T01:49:00.000-07:00

I am not an Exama Llama. I am not one of those people who can brush through exams as if they don't have a care in the world. By the time I was done writing my Math exam, I was shaking. Well, Math was the hardest exam, and now I only have two left; English and Science. Then I'm off for summer!!!!!!!

2003-06-17T12:05:00.000-07:00

There is a crow who attacks anyone who walks past the cathedral. It has attacked me and my father a number of times. It latched itself on to the head of a friend of one of my parent's and she had to get a tetanus shot. Another girl had to get sitches. I assume that he attacks because of a nest somewhere in the trees in front of the cathedral. Well, because of this, I walk to school on the other side of the street. Infact, I have to say that I am a bit afraid of crows now. James met up with me on the way to school and decided to walk on the other side of the street. Of course, he was attacked by the crow. Some people just don't take me seriously.

2003-06-17T11:51:00.000-07:00

Two exams today, social studies and french. Both were very simple. Now I am very exhausted. We have math tomorrow. I can't believe it, summer is only three exams away.

2003-06-14T06:29:00.000-07:00

Hi again, Sorry I haven't written for a while. The Screen Savers had a special guest on named Rebecca who wrote a number of books on blogging. It made me ashamed that I don't write enough about my own life when I write tons of stories. Well, her hair style was pretty cool. I think I'll give it to a character in one of my stories.

It's the weekend again, and once again I have many projects to complete, as well as studying for my exams. I got all my projects for last week done. My project now is to redsign and update my entire webpage before we leave Canada. I'm doing this because I want to be able to have a place where I can publish and share all of my work over the summer with my friends. I also want to apply for a job with the recreation departement of my town to teach a workshop on Internet safety and web design, and I want to impress my employers.

2003-06-06T02:40:00.000-07:00

Yay! Only one more full week of school left! Then I have exams.
For those of you who want to know what's up, Here are my current projects:
I'm having an Interstellar Sheep Tournament in my back yard today. Interstellar Sheep is one of the board games I invented.
I'm typing up the end of the second part of the "Era of Aquila". My English teacher has it now but I'll add it when she returns it.
I'm also writing a french story called "L'annee de destine"
Danielle and I are planning for the Spacing Guild. The Spacing Guild is a club we want to start at our school dedicated to the literairy imagination.
I'm making a series of watercolor paintings to decorate the wall where those old pictures used to be. The first one is of the acropolis at Sunset, the second of the Eagle Nebula, the third is a tree that comes out of the "Era Of Aquila", and the fourth is of the moon and a castle by the ocean.

2003-05-11T06:54:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, I'm back for round two.

Okay, weekend. What have I done so far: I've created an animated card for Mother's Day I finally returned the chinese book to Marlena before she moves, I did some of my french work, and I wrote a little of "the Era Of Aquila". I'm trying to write a ballad to go along with the story, like Tolkien used to do in LOTR. This is part of it:

Once while I travelled

I came cross a land

That seemed not unravelled

By the Touch of time's Hand

Secrets Hidden in the Sand

Of a gateway to a better Place

When Five nations, United, stand

To find paradise with a brave Face

As you can see, It still needs alot of work.

2003-05-09T02:25:00.000-07:00

This week is spring fling week. Last night they had Damant, the hypnotist, which was really cool. Tonight we have a video dance. It was interesting how he told the audience to not follow the directions that he gave the people on the stage to do because they might get hypnotized also. He got one person to run around the gym, with a broom between his legs, screaming, "Get out, Get out, The British Are Coming!" Another funny thing they did was he told all the boys that they didn't have a belly button and to describe it for him. He also got them to forget the number six and try to count their fingers.
In other news, the school newspaper came out today and the editor desided to publish my to articles. People other grades gave me praise for them. My best friend, Danielle, who draws a comic called "Average Jane" drew me as one of the characters. That was cool.
Yesterday in band, Mr Bannerman made us march around the cafeteria playing Invergarvill. I think I started going off in the second phrase when I started laughing. It is a bit hard to keep an amberchure when climbing up stairs.
Well, that's my boring life.

2003-04-17T18:01:00.000-07:00

I have written the first part of my science fiction epic, (that's because it will probably be the only one I have the patience to write) The Era Of Aquila. Oh yeah, some people may think I'm paranoid, but I'm really just crazy.

2003-04-13T14:44:00.000-07:00

Another sunday, another day of doing nothing. Although I did get rid of all my tickets for band. Oh yeah, did I mention we won gold standing? That means we won a invitation to play in the national. We have sewing class first period monday, and just my luck, I'm in a class with a bunch of bozo wangsters. I hate Wangsters.

2003-04-09T03:31:00.000-07:00

Sorry I did not write anything for the past week, I have been very busy. We have a band festival on thursday that will determine whether we compete in Toronto or not. So this, of course, means more band rehersals. In fact, I have one this morning which shouldn't take that long and I will miss only Woodworking if it stays on longer.

Anyway, in other news, I have made up a list of all the improvements that I will do to my website and when they should be out. Sometimes I think, what's the point? I only have about three to five visitors per month to my website. I bet not very many people have even looked at my blog.

2003-03-30T15:43:00.000-08:00

During the week I get really good ideas for projects that I want to do during the week-end. Then, on the weekend I bring home a small pile of homework. But I always end up doing nothing and just watching television and playing on the computer all weekend long and doing my homework in a rush on monday morning. Well, this weekend was different. I decided to make a list of things to do and I did them all today. I've created a Flash animation for my french class, wrote my collumn for the newspaper, wrote my project on Anne Frank, and redesigned my photo album. I'm also hooked on to manga stories, Eversummer Eve and Cascadia

2003-03-28T16:13:00.000-08:00

After seeing Danielle's website , I have decided to do many improvements to my website. For example, I am going to finally finish my Star Trek website, and I am going to change the photo album so it won't be as ugly. I plan to do this by the end of next week so that I can start the "spectrum Defenders" website.

2003-03-28T16:04:00.000-08:00

Tomorrow is Pierre's birthday. He will be fourteen, Happy Birthday!

2003-03-15T09:40:00.000-08:00

Granddad saw the pool mattresses in the pool and thought the idea of having a floating bed in the pool was hillarious. Our neighbors have a giant couch floating in theirs. I only have one day left before we have to return to Nova Scotia.

2003-03-14T18:09:00.000-08:00

Today we went to Naples and saw an art gallery and an orchid show. We got caught in some pretty bad traffic on the way home. Grandma and mom are trying to find the Pelicans of paradise of Fort Myers.
I've been reading "Feed" by MT Anderson. It is a book about a distopia where everyone has computers inside their brains that make them mindless zombies that want to be like everyone else. It's kind of like the preps at my school who all want to wear the same name brand clothing as everyone else. GTG C@T

2003-03-13T16:49:00.000-08:00

We went to "kiss me, Kate" now no one can get the song "we open in Venice" out of their heads. Nooooooooooooooooo.......................................

2003-03-12T10:21:00.000-08:00

We went to the beach again today. I made a giant portrait of a palm tree in the sand, but no one seemed to notice it (:() I read "the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" It is hillarius. It claims that mice created the Earth for study.

2003-03-10T15:50:00.000-08:00

today we went to the beach and collected seashells. then we went to the library. and such a library it was. it had a great selection. I could have spent hours in it.

2003-03-08T18:27:00.000-08:00

I am writing this from my grandmothers house in Florida. The road from the airport to her house is littered with banks, gasoline stations and grocery stores. There is Publix (a brand of supermarket) on every corner.
The plane from Boston to Fort Myers was beautiful. It was at sunset and the light created an aurora of colors in the clouds. At one point I thought I saw something that had wings and a halo. I yelled "whoa" when I saw it but it turned out to be the jet trail from a smaller plane underneath it. My mom keeps on making fun of me for that. GRRRR.......

2003-03-07T16:37:00.000-08:00

In 12 hours I will be leaving Antigonish for Florida. As mementos, I am going to collect seashells and make hemp necklaces out of them.

2003-03-07T03:15:00.000-08:00

Okay, today I will go to school even if I'm not completely cured. If I spend another day watching star Trek and programming blogs, I will scream.

2003-03-06T05:54:00.000-08:00

Argh!!!!! Blogger seems to be dishing out problem after problem for me. Everytime that I think I've fixed one problem, two more pop up. And the only way I can get support is if I pay money. If anyone knows how to move that stupid add that Blogger puts on your page without paying the fee, please tell me! My advice to anyone thinking of changing their template: don't do it unless you're willing to put up with these headakes!

2003-03-06T05:35:00.000-08:00

I've changed the blog template so that I'm no longer using a template that came off of the website. I think it's really ugly. but at least I can say that I'm no copycat. It doesn't seem to be up yet but maybe I just need to wait a second. I'll try again later

2003-03-06T05:18:00.000-08:00

I have been sick for the past couple days. I hope this clears up before we leave for florida in 2 Yes TWO days! Also check the China Blob. They've got pictures of Claire there. She's so Cute!

2003-03-03T03:41:00.000-08:00

I've been reading my Uncle and Aunt's china blog or "blob" as Grandma calls it. It's at http://www.maypark.com/~ken/blog/
Countdown: 5

2003-03-03T03:39:00.000-08:00

We had to write our opinion on the high costs for heating in Nova Scotia during the winter. My last line was "If you don't like it, you can always move to Florida!"

2003-03-01T06:17:00.000-08:00

Yesterday in science we did these puzzles involving phrases with numbers. For example, 9 P in our SS is Nine Planets in our Solar System. Mom says "How about 7 D until F!"

2003-02-28T17:14:00.000-08:00

By the reports of my grandmother, my uncle and aunt are in China adopting my cousin whose name will be Claire. My uncle has set up a blog to follow their trip. Grandma says,"What's a blob? Catherine will have to explain it to me when she's in Florida.

2003-02-28T17:07:00.000-08:00

Only one more week of snow before Florida! Yahoo!

2003-02-20T02:29:00.000-08:00

Please, Please School be cancelled. Well actually, there's nothing really bad about today, I have no major tests or projects to hand in, I survived the math competition. I won't have to walk to school since Gerarda has been driving me. The math competition wasn't as hard as I thought. Except for the last two questions, which were probably designed to see who are the geniuses and who aren't. There were a few english concepts that I didn't know, but I maneged to figure it out. Reminder to self: hit Laird with something heavier then a binder next time I see him.

2003-02-18T08:26:00.000-08:00

I finally got the blog to work yesterday. I will be very busy today since I have Band and Pathfinder Enrollement. See you later.

2003-02-17T08:28:00.000-08:00

Halleljah!

2003-02-17T08:27:00.000-08:00
test test.....

2003-02-17T08:26:00.000-08:00

test test.......