Pi Day. Celebrate it!

Okay so National Pi Day is coming! On March 14th, which is a Monday this year, a very slim number of math geeks will celebrate the number 3.14159265.....also known as pi. All you have to do to celebrate pi day is eat a piece of pie. Doesn't matter what kind of pie, it just has to be pie. Easy peasy. Eat a piece of pie. How hard is that?

~WriterChick

Poem of the Week

This is actually a song I wrote. Allow me to give back story to this song. I was trying to write a funeral song but what I wrote went from almost happy to downright morbid. All the while I was listening to 'Savages-part two' from Disney's Pocahontas on youtube. I stopped thinking about what to write and listened to the song. This was the result.


How Loud Are The Drums Of War.

How loud are the drums of war?
Through despair and hope

Through faith and love

How loud are the drums of war?

How loud are the calls of men?

Through sorrow and joy

Through faith and love

How loud are the calls of men?

How loud are my cries?

In this day of sorrow

What will the morrow bring?

How loud are the drums of war?

If I could record myself singing this I would. 

Poem of the Week

I AM poem

I am a writer of fantasy

I am taller than my mom but shorter than my grandfather

I am a reader of many tales

I am a wearer of hats

I am a follower of the ruler of reference

I am a frequent flyer

I am a Hufflepuff

I am a blogger

I am a lover of books, books on paper

I am a lover of hot tea

I am a bronze dragon named Festus

I am a night owl

I am a killer of flowers, I’M SORRY VIOLET!

I am one of the East Geeksters

I am covered in cat hair

I am Grumblebunny

Ladies who can kick/kicked rear end

So in my last post I posted an every increasing list of guys I believe to be better than E. Cullen. Number 42 on that list was "can I add ladies who can kick rear?" well here's the promised post of ladies who can beat your butt black and blue.
!WARNING SOME OF THESE LADIES ACTUALLY LIVED!

1. Æthelflæd, real person
2. Harriet Tubman, real person
3. Joan of Arc, real person
4. Hau Mulan, Chinese legend
5. Atalanta, Greek Mythology
6. Gráinne Ní Mháille, Irish? Legend
7. several of my characters
8. Keladry of Mindalan from Tamora Pierce's First Test
9. Alianne Cooper of Pirate's Swoop from Tamora Pierce's Trickster's Choice
10. Rebekah Cooper from Tamora Pierce's Terrier
11. Daja Kisubo from Tamora Pierce's Daja's Book
12. Sarah from Chelsea M. Campbell's The Rise of Renegade X
13. Holly Short from Eion Colfer's Artemis Fowl
14. Arya from Christopher Paolini's Eragon
15. Nasuada from Christopher Paolini's Eragon
16. Esther from the Old Testament
17. Not Athena because she was a goddess and she doesn't count kind of like Mooch being on the list of guys who are, in my opinion, better than E. Cullen. But Eliran says she does.
18. Eowyn from J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, added by Eliran
19. Angela from Christopher Paolini's Eragon, added by Eliran
20. Hermione Granger from J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter, added by Sarah
21. Annabeth Chase from Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson, added by Sarah
22. Lucy Pevensie from C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, added by Sarah
23. Susan Pevensie from C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, added by Sarah
24. Sybil Luddington, real person
25. Deborah Samson, real person, added by Eesim
26. Piper McLean from Rick Riordan's Heroes of Olympus
27. Artemis counts if Athena does.
28. Mary Read, real person
29. Elizabeth Swan from Pirates of the Caribbean
30. Ann Bonny, real person

Well that's all I, Eliran, Eesim and Sarah can think of and really 29 is a good number.

Guys better than other guys aka E.C.

These are in no particular order I just typed the names as I thought of them.

1. Eragon from Christopher Paolini's Eragon
2. Roran from Christopher Paolini's Eragon
3. Murtagh from Christopher Paolini's Eragon
4. Ponyboy Curtis from S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders
5. Brom from Christopher Paolini's Eragon
6. several male characters in my own unpublished stories
7. my kitten Mooch, oh wait he's not human so he doesn't count
8. Peter Pevensie from C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia
9. Edmund Pevensie from C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia
10. Prince Caspian from C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia
11. Shang from Disney's Mulan
12. Yao from Disney's Mulan
13. Chien-Po from Disney's Mulan
14. Ling from Disney's Mulan
15. Mushu but he's a dragon from Disney's Mulan
16. Peder from Shannon Hale's Princess Academy
17. Ender Wiggin from Orson Scott Card's
18. Alai from Orson Scott Card's
19. Charlie Eppes from Numb3rs
20. Colby Granger from Numb3rs 
21. David Sinclair from Numb3rs
22. Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: Next Generation
23. Data from Star Trek: Next Generation
24. Worf from Star Trek: Next Generation
25. Benjamin Sisko from Star Trek: DS9
26. Tuvok from Star Trek: Voyager
27. Rick Castle from Castle
28. John Sheppard from Stargate Atlantis
29. Ronan Dex from Stargate Atlantis
30. Teal'c from Stargate SG1
31. Daniel Jackson from Stargate SG1
32. Will Zimmerman from Sanctuary 
33. Henry Foss from Sanctuary
34. Robin Longstride from Robin Hood(2010)
35. Bran from Stephen R Lawhead's King Raven trilogy
36. Will Scarlet from Stephen R. Lawhead's King Raven trilogy
37. Lupin from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter
38. Aragorn from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
39. Legolas from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
40. Gandalf from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
41. Gimli(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
42. can I add a few ladies who  can kick rear? next post will be ladies who kicked/ can kick rear

I think 41 is plenty though if you give me more time I'll probably go on to 50 or so.

A lot of laughs

So I recently bought Brisingr and I flipped through it to find my favorite parts and the more I read the more I found that I don't really like Eragon in Brisingr. But Roran, Katerina, and Nausada in the same scene, they're hilarious! Scene paraphrased:
Nausada: I need you to go do this.
Katerina: Are you crazy?! He just got back from almost being killed and he was just half slaughtered!
Roran: *to Katerina* Darling. *to Nausada* I'll do it.
Katerina: Are you crazy?!?!

Makes me laugh.
[insert maniacal laugh]

Cute Cousins

Over the weekend I went camping with my cousins and while I was playing Scrabble with Zach Jesse said
"Your phone is a peacock."
That is one my new inside jokes. Another one is also wrapped around Scrabble.
I was playing Scrabble with my saint of an aunt Aunt Kim and all through out the game we going like
*puts down a 12 point word "beat that"
And then Aunt Kim put down "Quality" which was worth 24 points. I added an E to the beginning but I only got 20 points. And through out the night we joked as we laid down "cat" and "log" "beat that and then equality comes along." We laughed and none of my cousins got it.
And earlier in the day Zach and I flopped around on the floor like a couple of fish. Zach was honking the horn on the RV and Uncle Chris had gotten ticked when Jesse accidentally honked the horn so I wrestled him down to the floor and we flopped around on the floor. We had way too much fun.

Valentine's Day stuff just a few days late.

So a few days ago was Valentine's Day. I made each of my grandparents a cute little something.

 I made a blue five petaled flower for my grandmother.

I made a red heart with a big bow for my grandfather.
I was lucky my grandparents had the metal words that kind of went with what I made. The flower and Peace don't really go together but I only took one picture of the flower. Oops.

Books! Again

So last month I posted a list of books you HAVE to read. Now I'm posting a list for this month.

Warning: Some of these are probably repeats.

Hood by Stephen R. Lawhead
Trickster's Choice by Tamora Pierce
one of mine<not published (yet)
Fairytale Detectives by Michael Buckley
Dealing With Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
Here There Be Dragons by James A. Owens
Magyk by Angie Sage

That's all I can think of right now.

~WriterChick

Poem of the Week

Muffin for your thoughts?

If you only had a muffin.

Yes, if only.

Penny for your thoughts?

If you only had a penny.

Yes, if only.

Cookie for your thoughts?

If you only had a cookie.

Yes, if only.

Dime for your thoughts?

If you only had a dime.

Yes, if only.

Pie for your thoughts?

If you only had a pie.

Yes, if only.

Quarter for your thoughts?

Do you have a quarter?

Actually, yes I do.

Poem of the Week for last week

Part One

What do a raven and a writing desk have in common?

I have one of each.

Who am I? You ask

I am a rose alone

I am a raven on the coast

Forgotten and abandoned.

Part Two

So here I stand violin in hand

Hear my music; hear my pain, my sorrow

Part Three
Here I stand roses in hand

A white dress, a golden crown

A princess I was

I queen I am.
Update 3/8: I just realized I've already published this poem!


New Poem:


Grumblebunny
Oh, Grumblebunny
Tell me your story.
Is there a sack?
Is there a Wolf?
Grumblebunny
Oh, Grumblebunny
Tell me your story.
Are there Beavers?
Are there tall, tall trees?
Grumblebunny
Oh, Grumblebunny
Tell me your story.

Flying Tips from WriterChick

I'm a frequent flyer (but I don't have one of those fancy memberships) and a couple weeks ago I looked up packing tips for my trip to California (where I'm posting from for the next 2 weeks) and some of them were helpful and others were not. I now grace you with my packing tips. If you look up flying tips on google you will find things like:

"Pack only items that match" meaning pack black and white

"Wear your bulkiest items while traveling" DON'T EVER DO THIS! I know that in the US right now they have you taking your shoes, jacket, and hats. Then you'll have to put them all back on. It's easier just to wear jeans, t-shirt and flip flops.

"Vacuum seal your clothes" Okay, let's be honest. How many people have a vacuum sealer gizmo just lying around waiting for you to travel? None that I know.

"Always take toilet paper" To me this says to your host "I don't trust that you'll have tp". So don't.

"Always take a water filter" Um. No.

Please for the sake of the person behind you and the TSA representative:
PLEASE don't wear lots of chains
PLEASE buy your little bottle of water on the other side of security.

~*~*~*~
Now for some things you should do.

Wear light clothing. I know in the US you practically undress so wearing heavy clothes is a bad idea.

Wear flip flops or shoes you can slip on and off easily.

Put on your jacket after security.

If you're traveling with kids, keep plenty of snacks, things to do, and have PLENTY of patience

If you're traveling with kids, let them wear pjs.

If you're not traveling with kids, have PLENTY of patience for those traveling with kids. Most of the time parents have like three brain cells left and those kids are jumping on those three.

Please be kind to everyone no matter who they are.

AHH IT'S ALMOST A NEW WEEK AND I DIDN'T POST A POEM AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay the hissyfit is over.

Twirling skirts
Painted faces
Swirling music
Painted dreams
Once upon a memory

Once upon a memory
I would dance
The dance of dream
Once upon a memory.