Monday, November 25, 2013

Food inspried


Although small, these chocolate mice mean a lot to me. Every year for Christmas my grandma and I always make these little mice together. She always dips the cherry in the chocolate while I assemble the ears and the face together. I've always enjoyed making them with her because I feel like I don't spend a whole lot of time seeing her because of how busy I am on a day to day basis leaves me little time to visit, so Christmas is when I'm finally able to be with my family and spend quality time with them even though I don't necessarily enjoy cooking or baking, these are easy and fast to make. I feel as though my family may not be as traditional every year for Christmas, like we don't have a set date to put up the Christmas tree, and we don't always wait till morning to open our presents; but I always make time for making these treats with my grandmother. They’ve been our tradition ever since I can remember them, even when my grandparents used to live in Texas and they would come here for the holidays she would always bring these mice that she made the day before so we could have them while we celebrate Christmas.

 

I also feel as though I have a lot of food connections with my grandma on my dad’s side because she really loves to cook, she’s always cooked the best things I can remember from enchilada Wednesdays to back bone soup most of her dishes are that of more Mexican cultured, being that my dad’s side of the family derives from both Mexico and Spain so naturally most of the meals we do eat usually have the stereotypical rice and beans on the side. But that doesn’t mean we aren’t open to trying new things, like my mom’s corn beef and cabbage that she grew up with, and her meat loaf or Sheppard’s pie. So I guess it really just depends on who’s cooking supper that day, but in the end that bowl of guacamole looks pretty good.

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Movie Quiz Results


    YOUR PERSONALITY
    Take a look at how you scored on the Big Five personality dimensions below.
    Your scores, compared with the responses of other people, suggest that you may be described as follows:

    YOU ARE 50% EXTRAVERTED. You are moderate in activity and enthusiasm. You enjoy the company of others but you also value your privacy.

    YOU ARE 83% AGREEABLE. You are generally warm, trusting, and agreeable, but you can sometimes be stubborn and competitive.

    YOU ARE 42% CONSCIENTIOUS. You are easygoing, not very well organized, and sometimes careless. You prefer not to make plans.

    YOU ARE 67% EMOTIONALLY STABLE. You are generally calm and able to deal with stress, but you sometimes experience feelings of guilt, anger and sadness.

    YOU ARE 83% OPEN TO NEW EXPERIENCES. You are practical but willing to consider new ways of doing things. You try to seek a balance between the old and the new.

Friday, November 15, 2013

My Dog Lima (children's story)

My dog Lima liked to roam. One day Lima left his home. he came back all nice and clean, where oh where had Lima been?
 
My dog pinto likes to roam. One day Pinto left his home. He came back all nice and clean, where oh where had Pinto been?
 
My dog Coffee likes to roam. One day Coffee left her home. she came back all nice and clean,  where oh where has Coffee been?
 
My dog Jelly likes to roam. One day Jelly left his home. he came back all nice and clean where oh where had Jelly been?
 
My dog Green likes to roam. One day Green left his home. he came back all nice and clean, where oh where had Green been?
 
My dog Soy likes to roan. One day Soy left her home. she came back all nice and clean, where oh where had Soy been?

 

Monday, November 11, 2013

This is moo photo poem ( and prose)

             
                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                    mo       mo
                                                                                                                  m moo moo 
                                                                                                                mooo moo moo 
                                                                                                               m moo moo moo moo
                                                                                                               moo moo moo moo mooo
                                           moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo mooo
                                    m  mo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo mooo
                                 mo mo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo  moo moo
                               m    moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo
                              m    moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo
                             m      moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo
                             m      moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo  mo
                             m      oomooooo              moo moo moo moo                    moo mo
                             m      moo mooo                  moo moo moo                        moomo
                                      moo moo                      o      o      o                           moooo
                                      moo moo                                                                   moooo
                                      moo moo                                                                   moom
                                      moo moo                                                                   moom
         moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo
         moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo
         moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo
         moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo
         moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo
         moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo
         moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo
         moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo
                                                                        *sizzling meat*




Prose:
Moo moo mooooooo moooooooooooooo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo moooooo mooo moo
moo moo moooo. moo moo moo moo, moo. moo moo moo moo moooo; moo moo moo. moo moo moo moo moooooooooooooo moo moo mo moooo moooo mmmooooooo. moo moo " moo moo moo" moo moo: moo moo, moo, moooooo, moo moo. moo moo moo moo moo (moooooooooo) moo moo moo moo, mooo mooo moooo. moooo moo moo mooo moo moo moo moo moo moo moo; moo moo moo moo mooooooo moo moo moo. "Mooo moo moooooooo!" *sizzling meat*

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Knuffle Bunny

  • Title of book: Knuffle Bunny
  • Author of Book: Mo Willems
  • The author's bio is located at the back of the book and it says that Mo Willems has won six Emmy awards for his writing on sesame street, the creator of Cartoon Network's Sheep in the big city, and is head writer of Codename: kids next door
  • the cover of the book is an actual black and white photo of a staircase leading to a house with a chain fence located at the base of the staircase in New York where there is a person shown from the waist down who is wearing blue jeans and brown shoes. The person shown as a male has a watch on his hand that is patting the little girl's head shown in front of the man's legs. the little girl has three tufts of blonde hair on the top of her head, big round eyes, a pointy nose, a big smiling grin with three teeth on the top of her mouth and two located on the bottom, she is also wearing a pink shirt with matching shoes and orange overalls with red-orange buttons. And lastly, in her right arm she is shown holding a cream colored stuffed rabbit (Knuffle Bunny).
  • number of pages: 18
  • Characters: Trixie, Mom, and Dad (and Knuffle bunny although an inanimate object is still really important to Trixie, might as well be a real person to her.)
  • Setting: a house, a park, and a Laundromat located in New York
  • Summary: Trixie and her dad went to a local Laundromat to do their laundry but when her dad wasn't looking he accidentally put Knuffle bunny into the washing machine. On their way home Trixie realized what had happened and tried to tell her dad, but since she's only a little girl she can only speak gibberish. When they got home her mom realized what the problem was so the whole family ran back to the Laundromat to retrieve Knuffle bunny, which inevitably were Trixie's first words.
  • This book technically has an animal character (Knuffle bunny)
  • this book doesn't use rhyme
  • This book didn't really teach a lesson of some kind unless you're a parent, then the lesson is to listen to your kids and pay attention to what you put in the washing machine.
  • this book didn't have ay monsters in it.
  • this book did have a kid as a character.
  • this book did contain adults as characters.
  • this book did use humor.
  • this book did have illustrations.
  • this book did use color, as well as black and white.
  • this book did use actual photos.
  • this book did have a sort of sentimental/ lovely tone.
  • there were not a lot of words per page
  • there wasn't a word or phrase repeated throughout the book
  • most favorite/interesting sentence: "Aggle Flaggle Klabble!" 
  • recommended age for this book: 2-5
  • why?: Because it talks about Trixie's first words.
  • yes, I believe I would have liked this book as a kid.
  • Why?: because I really liked stuffed animals, especially bunnies.

Monday, November 4, 2013

Childhood Memories

1.) I don't think i really have a childhood memory that sticks out the most, but rather just random memories that i can remember from when i was younger. I don't really remember much but what i do all sticks out to me the earliest memory i do have must've been from when i was a baby because that's when my parents have said it came from when i described what i remembered to them. the memory was that i was sitting on my dad's lap while he was playing a computer game in a white living room; the carpet was white and the walls were white and there was a single tan couch against the back wall. The desk was black that the monitor part of the computer stood on and it was metal framed. That's pretty much all i remember from when i lived in California was the apartment that my parents lived in while they were in the Navy.

2.) My mom was probably the most important person to me back then, i was attached at her hip and i was really shy. she was also going through college when i was around so i don't think i made it easy on her to say the least. I remember that we would always watch Barney together no matter how much she didn't like it; she even took me to see all of the Barney movies that were made.

3.)If i could have been granted adulthood as a child i would probably have used it up by now on something like what we were going to have for dinner(candy), and things like going to bed at a later time, and especially not taking a bath because I'm the adult and i can do whatever i want. But if i could use the childhood card as an adult i would spend it when I'm really REALLY old, like near death old so i could relive memories and remember what it was to feel younger again. (although I'd probably just sleep anyway, but at least I'd have no responsibilities for the time being)

4.) i moved around a lot, and my friends have always stayed kind of the same (Carissa and I have been friends since 5th grade, i think that's seven years..) So I've never had to really loose a close friend due to outgrowing each other; but if i had to choose one person it would probably have to me Kim Thomas. she's probably the one person whom I've made friends with in 6th grade who changed the most, we don't even glance over in each others direction anymore.

6.) I loved the TV shows: The Rugrats, Courage the cowardly dog, tele tubbies, Barney, Elmo, hey Arnold!, Ed Edd and Eddy, the Power puff girls, Invader Zim, Dora the explorer, catdog, the wild thornberrys, as told by ginger, Lizzie McGuire, Phil of the future, and so many more~ and yeah, i would probably watch  a remake if someone decided to do one of any of the cartoons, i mean, i watch all the remade star trek movies....