31 August 2006

Soundtrack!

I finally bought it! The PotC: Curse of the Black Pearl soundtrack! I'm currently listening to it, in fact. Now all I need is a CD player in my room - or maybe I'll just buy a computer and play it on there. I can't find any headphones, though, which is annoying.
Quizzing registration was fun, though obviously not as fun as quiz practice, because we did have to listen while everything we already know was explained to the rookies. Our new youth pastor was there, too. I can totally not wait to do youth group with him and his wife this year! Oh, and their baby, of course. I'm really excited.

I always burn the top of my mouth when I eat pizza. It's annoying.

Me and my brother (okay, I guess it's my brother and I) did a whole lot of quizzing this morning. We're starting with Acts 1, and he's already got the first thirteen verses memorized. Well, they're a little patchy in bits and by no means word-perfect yet, but it's a really good start. I hope he doesn't lose his zeal as the year progresses - it can be really hard to stick with it, no matter how many verses you're memorizing.
Today has been kinda crazy so far - Dad took a big load of dirt (from digging for the patio) to the dump in a truck he rented. While he was there, the truck broke down, and so of course he called the company to say "um, excuse me, the truck you gave me just broke down, what kind of quality is that?" (well, okay, he didn't say exactly that) and they told him it was his fault for not listening to instructions! This could still be plausible, but the fact is, they didn't give him any instructions. So as you can imagine, he pointed this out. And they told him it was his responsibility to ask for directions, and it turned out that for them to send someone to help him get the truck started, he would have to pay more. So he just called a tow truck - because what kind of policy is THAT? "We'll give you a truck, but no instructions, and if you break it, we get MORE of your money!"
But the good news is, he got a new job, and his old boss gave him the rest of this week and next week off, I think as a sort of thank-you. It makes me feel a lot better about the fact that he's going to Toronto for three weeks for training as part of his new job. We'll be able to help Mike a lot. It really sucks that I'm starting school next week, though, because if I wasn't I could help more, too.
I found a pair of headphones, but the right side isn't working. Which makes the music a little one-dimensional, but it's better than nothing.

~Sil

30 August 2006

Rain

Yes. It's raining. Quite hard. And it's kind of depressing, but it does mean I can wear my new cords today and maybe one of my new shirts. I want the snow to come again so I can make snow ice cream!
Yesterday I did, indeed, go to Mike's. He had a ton of stuff lined up so I was kept pretty busy, except for when I wasn't. If that made any sense at all. So by the time Dad came to pick me up at 10:30 I was pretty wiped! I love hanging around with all those people, though, they're so nice.
And guess what else happened yesterday! Well, for starters, it was August 29th, the day the Special Limited Edition 2-disc set of LotR came out. All three movies, so six discs in total. And I bought them! And I can't believe I have to wait TWO WEEKS for them to get here! You can watch either theatrical or extended versions on the same disc and there's an awesome feature-length documentary of the making of the movie. So I'm pretty hyped about that.
I really need to get to the music store. I need to buy my grade 8 books and hopefully a couple more pop books. My uncle did give me a whole stack of jazz/fake jazz books and sheet music, so I'm pretty excited about those.
This year of school is going to be so crazy! I'm working on my grade 8 piano, I'm starting high school, I'm memorizing all of Acts and going to quiz meets and practices, I'm likely going to be helping with the nomination and maybe an election later in the year (?)...but you know, at least I have a life. It would be way less interesting to sit at home, even though I won't have as much down time this year.
Well, I'm going to go shower and get dressed and do something until 6:30 - QUIZZING REGISTRATION! YAY! I'm soooooo excited!

~Sil

28 August 2006

Last week!

Oh dear, only four more days of freedom before school starts...sigh. Summer went too fast.

Yesterday we had a potluck lunch at church, which was fun, and hung around until about 2:00. Afterwards I came home and worked on the patio all afternoon (with a slurpee break in the middle). Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was on TV last night, so me and my friend watched it at his house and ate PotC M&Ms (I bought them because they were PotC. I couldn't resist!) and popcorn and marshmallows and other unhealthy, yummy stuff. But they skipped the credits! I was so mad! The He's A Pirate song is played during the credits and it's my FAVORITE! I was so mad! I really need to buy the soundtrack.
Tonight I'm babysitting for my favorite twin boys, tomorrow night I'm think I'm going to go to Mike's and help him with some data entry, and Wednesday night is quizzing registration. I'm already getting busier! And school hasn't even started yet!
I fixed my laundry receptacle today, which made me proud of myself - it's a wooden frame with a fabric bag buttoned on and the bag was ripped, so I sewed it, and the frame had broken in one spot, so I glued it. That has been annoying me to no end, I'm glad I finally did something about it.
And the first youth event of the year is, like last year, a trip to the corn maze. Fun fun fun :)

~Sil

26 August 2006

Pancakes

Well! The pancake breakfast was awesome. I met Monte Solberg, which was pretty thrilling, and Mike introduced me as his super-volunteer or something. I mean, come on. I haven't even been there for almost this whole month. But whatever, compliments are ALWAYS a good thing. Boy, I almost feel like not getting any older so that people will keep telling me how awesome it is that I'm involved in politics! By the way, Mike, if you're reading this, I mentioned you again. Now you have three.
Anyway, we had a good time drifting around talking to various people, and there was a fun draw at the end for ten Husky stuffed puppies and two BIG stuffed Huskies. Oh, and six frisbees. Three of my siblings won husky puppies and one of them won a frisbee, but my brother didn't want his puppy so he gave it to me. I didn't win anything. Typical. At the beginning, when I saw the draw was for "Ten Husky puppies and two husky dogs" I was like oh my goodness, REAL dogs? And I was pretty excited for a while until I found out they were little stuffies. Darn. I would be so thrilled to have a Husky, particularly a puppy. My dog would likely be thrilled, too.
I also met Rahim Jaffer, an MP for another part of Edmonton (I forget exactly which), who is pretty cool. We chatted for a bit. I also had a very interesting conversation with Jamie, Minister Solberg's assistant. She was telling me how she got the job and stuff. I love hanging around with political people! It rocks! So we ate pancakes and stuff, and headed home around noon, farming our kids as we went. No, I'm kidding. My sisters went to their friends' houses. So we people with no social lives (tee hee) worked on the patio and my LotR poster puzzle. It's green with Frodo and Sam on it. Now dad is watching football and I'm stealing computer time.

~Sil

25 August 2006

It's Friday!

Yes, it is indeed Friday, the best day of the week in my humble opinion. Again, nothing extremely remarkable happened today. That's why I didn't post yesterday - it was essentially the same as the day before. I did, however, find a really good Pirates of the Caribbean web site - www.keeptothecode.com. The messageboard is the best part.
Pancake breakfast tomorrow! With Monte Solberg - YAY! And this week is bible quizzing registration, which is ALWAYS fun, and then we're going to visit some friends for a couple days. So more interesting things are coming up, my life isn't always this boring.

~Sil

23 August 2006

Still Digging

The title says it all. Well, all of it since about 6 pm.
I got up at 7:45 am (and boy, it was hard dragging myself out of bed) to babysit until 5:30ish. Nothing remarkable happened, besides the dad of the kids coming up with an annoying seemingly unsolvable puzzle with coins and not telling me the answer. It looked like this: (These are circles with dimes () These are circles with pennies [] These are blank circles O)

() () () O [] [] []

So, you had to get all the pennies over to where the dimes were, and vice versa. Once you move a penny left, it can't go back right, and once you move a dime right, it can't go back left. One coin can jump over another coin into an empty space, but it can't jump over two. I spent at least half an hour trying to do this. Then I spent the rest of the time patiently nagging the youngest girl to have a bath and walk her dog while she watched Pippi Longstocking. ("What shall I do today, what shall I do today, what shall I do today, what shall I doooo..." that's what's stuck in my head. And mighty annoying it is, too.)

And so now we're digging and loading 'bad dirt' (dirt full of little red rocks) into our friends' truck. They're going to take it and dump it. Well, I'm not loading, I'm on the computer because we only have four shovels and they're all spoken for.

Other than that, nothing happened today. Oh, but there's going to be a pancake breakfast for Mike (Lake) on Saturday! And guess who's speaking - Monte Solberg! Fun fun FUN! I can't wait!

~Sil

22 August 2006

So hot...

Darn. I just typed a whole post and then accidentally pressed BACK and it deleted it all. So here we go again.

It was super hot today. And when I say 'hot', I mean HEAT hot, not attractive hot. It didn't help that my only clean bottoms were jeans. Not shorts or capris, oh no.
My friend from down the street came over this morning for about half an hour. I should really give my friends alternate names. We'll call this one...Kelly. So, my friend Kelly from down the street came over with her dog this morning, and her dog and my dog had a real play-fest while we talked. I gave her their mail I'd been picking up for three weeks while they were in Prince Edward Island, and hopefully they'll pay me soon. She got me a cute little white stuffed bear that says 'Prince Edward Island' on its stomach.
Then after lunch my other friend, who we'll call Dallas, came over and him, me and my brother played Monopoly for about an hour until we got bored. Then my mom bought us candy so that we would take the littler kids to the playground, which we did, but nobody really played because it was so hot. When we came home my dad put us to work helping with the patio renovation. We stuck our old concrete blocks under the floor in our shed, where we discovered an the unpleasant, decapitated tail of a small dead animal. At least - all I saw was the tail. There was probably more underneath the part of the floor that we didn't pull up. Yuck.
So now I really want a shower and I might have one, if I can steal some conditioner from the upstairs bathroom...

EDIT: But alas...it was not to be. Now we're digging six inches down in the spot where the patio will be. I can't say I exactly enjoy it...but at least there's lots of people working.

~Sil

21 August 2006

A Not-so-Full Day

Not much happened today. I slept in for the first time in a while, and this afternoon me and my brother went for a bike ride and bought candy with my friend *insert name of choice here (for privacy's sake)* , who lives pretty close to us so he can bike over and visit. Then we went to a playground and got some weird looks from the kids there, which was funny, partly because we know we do weird things on the playground and partly because we know we're kind of big for it! My friend was going to come over for supper but he had to go get a haircut.
Other than that, nothing really happened. Which was nice, in a way. I'm currently waiting impatiently for the Eragon movie trailer to be released. The movie comes out December 16th, I think, and the book was extremely similar to LotR so if the movie is too, it should be good! (Heehee)

~Sil

20 August 2006

Full Day

Whew! So much happened today! We left for church at 10, and I met my friend's cousins (who look very alike, it was hard to remember who was who) and they were very nice. I sat with the youth, as usual, and they did silly things like pretend they were detonating bombs inside the church and such. The sermon was about Psalm 42, I believe.
I also discovered the life span of a candy-machine Peek-A-Pooh collectible. The first one I ever got broke this morning, so that makes their life span about a year. Not bad, for a little toy that cost two bucks.
And I got a belated birthday present! A day calendar, Lord of the Rings themed, from Daniel Senior! Yay! I really like it, it made my day. As did other articles I acquired, but that comes later.

Then we made a brief stop at home to drop off everyone except me and my mom at about 12:15, and the two of us went shopping. First we went to Jacob Outlet, because I got a gift certificate for there for my birthday from one of my friends (I love you, by the way!) and I got a pair of black cords and two shirts in the same style, one pink and one green. I was especially thrilled about the cords, because I have an inordinately hard time finding pants. I currently have one semi-fitting pair of jeans and two pair of cords as well as dress pants, and that's about it. Then we searched around for shoes, and found a pair after a while at Winners. I actually have a very interesting story about that particular purchase.

Ahem. Well. We went into Winners and found the shoe department, which had a pretty good selection on the type of shoe I wanted, which were sort of runners that doubled as casual winter shoes. I was a bit puzzled because it seemed like the selection was good, but none of the ones I liked were in my size. I discovered the reason for this when I rounded a corner to go into the next aisle and an Oriental girl about my age was sitting on one of those shoe-trying-on bench thingies, with this MOUND of shoes beside her. I am dead serious, it was an extremely good-sized pile.
She was mostly paying attention to this pair of greeny-blue shoes, so I picked up a shoe off the pile and tried it on. My mom was about ten feet away, watching, and I looked up to tell her I really liked this one, and looked around for the next one. The girl had picked it up, and her and her mom, who was also standing a couple feet away, were looking at me with this affronted expression on their faces, and the mom was talking to her daughter very fast in Chinese. So I realized that she obviously considered me to be intruding on her shoe selection and moved away, giving my mom a what-was-with-that-and-why-does-she-need-all-those-shoes sort of look (looks can be very eloquent and she knew exactly what I meant).
But I really liked those shoes! I really did! I couldn't pull myself away! So, being the unassertive personalities we are, my mom and I lurked around, sort of spying on this mom and her daughter while they took AGES and AGES to pick a stupid pair of shoes! They must have taken half an hour! I was so worried they'd taken the pair I wanted, so as soon as they left I sort of swooped in and dug through the pile to find them.
They were at the very bottom, and this made me kind of mad, because obviously the girl hadn't really wanted them, so why was she so offended when I tried them on? She had probably 20 pairs of shoes there!
Anyway, I loved them, and me and my mom split the cost, which was $50. They're sort of mini-runners, and they're black suede with two red stripes on the sides. They're Aerosole, which means they're SUPER comfy, and I can't wait for winter to start so I can wear them!
And even though I was annoyed...spying on those two was the most fun I had all day!

After that we went to a barbecue for a young adult in our church who went on a missions trip to Slovakia. She showed pictures and answered some questions and we had hamburgers.

I'm pretty exhausted! But I'm so elated that I got shoes and pants!

~Sil

P.S. Thank you for your comments on my story, guys!

19 August 2006

Aha!

Something interesting DID happen! I wrote a fanfic! There's an upcoming fanfic contest on Arwen-Undomiel.com (link is over there --->) and I thought I'd write a little something.

Never to Return
As night fell over the Shire, squeals of happiness could still be heard down below Bag End, where two hobbit-children played, both small girls. It made Sam smile as he strolled down, intending to take Elanor to bed. He stopped, lovingly fingering a few small athelas flowers that he had coaxed to grow outside the hobbit hole, and listened idly to the conversation of the little girls below him.
“My daddy says that Big People do exist.” This came from Elanor, in her customary irrevocable I’m-right-you’re-wrong tone.
“He’s never seen one!” The other little girl demurred solemnly.
“He has too! He can tell you all about them! And he’s seen elfs – lots of elfs!”
Sam smiled at Ela’s mispronunciation, and continued to listen.
“No he hasn’t!”
“’Course he has. And dwoirfs. But he’ll never tell me about those. I think –“
Sam, deciding that this conversation had gone far enough, rounded a corner and unexpectedly swept Elanor up in his arms, making her squeal in surprise. “Time for bed, little one, or you’ll sleep in and miss breakfast tomorrow – and you know how Daddy eats!”
The other hobbit-lass scurried off to her own bed and Elanor giggled. “You eat too much, Daddy!”
Sam only smiled, and put Elanor on his shoulders as he took her inside. As he was about to put her down and enter the perfectly round, green door, she looked up at him very seriously and said, “Daddy, aren’t you forgetting Bella?”
Bella was Elanor’s well-worn stuffed rabbit, a gift from her Uncle Pippin, who knew where to get such things. Sam sighed. “Where have you left her now?”
“Oh, I didn’t, Daddy! She walked away all by herself!”
Sam sighed. “Can you show me where?”
“I don’t know, she looked like she was going pretty fast,” said Elanor doubtfully.
Sam hoisted his small daughter up again. “Well, let’s go have a peep.”
The two of them walked out into the flower patch where the two girls had played, and Elanor showed him exactly where Bella had gone. Sam had an uncomfortable feeling that Bella was now helping keep real baby rabbits warm – the footprints of some rodent were evident in the soft dirt. His daughter had obviously seen Bella moving, but not what moved her. But he and Elanor followed a trail of bits of Bella’s fur, coming off on brambles, over two small fields, until they came to a bit of forest that banded those uninhabited fields, and he reluctantly said to his daughter, “Ela, I don’t think we’ll find Bella. We’d best get you home to bed.”
Little Elanor looked up at him sadly, grasping one of Sam’s work-hardened hands, and said “Please, just a little farther, Daddy?”
Sam could not resist those eyes, and so the two of them ventured into the woods, looking about for the rabbit.
Eventually, just as Sam was about to tell Elanor that they really should get her to bed, he spotted the bunny lying by a large fallen tree and, with a relieved laugh, gave it into Ela’s equally relieved grasp. He sat to rest a minute, and suddenly glimpsed a soft, strange light in the forest. Curiousity piqued, he slid down behind the log, pulling Elanor to him.
She, surprisingly, kept very quiet.
And so it was that Sam and his little daughter watched the slow, sad procession of the last of The Firstborn of Iluvatar, to the Grey Havens from whence they would not return. They were both male and female, and equally fair of face and bearing, but their expressions were wistful - as though they were sad to leave the land that had been theirs for so many years, even to a beautiful one where their beauty would never dim.
Elanor tugged at his shirt and said quietly, “Daddy, are those elfs?”
Sam gave a sad smile before replying “Yes, my little one. Elves.”
“Where are they going?”
There was a long pause before Sam replied, “They are going to the Sea.”
“Why, Daddy?”
“There are ships there, to take them far away.”
“They’re pretty.”
“They’re lovely, Ela.”
As the two of them watched the last of the procession pass, Sam could feel the sadness he’d pushed away for so long. Middle-Earth would never be the same. Men might ever grow in stature and power but the Elves were leaving – and the world was changing forever.
As Sam walked home with his daughter and her rabbit, they were silent until they came again to the green door. Then Ela said, “Daddy, will they come back?”
Sam held her close and they went inside together. As he tucked her into bed she asked again, “Daddy, will they come back?”
And this time Sam replied, “No, little one. They are leaving…never to return.”
Ela nodded soberly. “Goodnight.”
Sam quietly left her room and sat for a long time in front of the fire, smoking contemplatively. Rosie came in and kissed him goodnight but he replied only absentmindedly that he’d come to bed soon.
As he followed her, a few minutes later, he peered through the door to Elanor’s room, which was a little ajar. She slept peacefully, one small hand curled beside her head. Sam smiled and whispered, “Sleep well, little one.”
And as he went to sleep himself, the sadness was still there – but hope remained, too, and Sam knew that as long as he had Ela and Rosie, he could never be sad for too long.

PotC Soundtrack

I would like to thank Hans Zimmer, Klaus Badelt and Howard Shore for writing the BEST soundtrack music ever in the history of the world! Can you guess for which movies? Well, Hans Zimmer did PotC: Dead Man's Chest, and Klaus Badelt did PotC: THe Curse of the Black Pearl. Howard Shore, of course, did all three LotR. I'm currently listening to Moonlight Serenade from CotBP (that means Curse of the Black Pearl, for the uninitiated - it's too cumbersome to type every time) and I love it! I can't get enough of it!
Okay, enough gushing. I learned something very interesting today. You can write to celebrities and they'll send you an autograph! Well, I know you can for Orlando Bloom, I'm not sure for others. Boy, if he ever comes anywhere near here I think I might die of happiness if I got to meet him! Oh dear, I'm still gushing. Let's find something to write about that will interest other people more.
I didn't do anything very interesting (yet) this weekend, besides do chores, which I'm sure you don't want to hear about. But stay tuned!

~Sil

18 August 2006

Money Is Good

I finished (and got paid for!) my full-time babysitting job today. I've had it almost every weekday since August 1st, and it's really helped my bank account, but I'm glad to have some holidays before school starts again. My uncle is on the lookout for a good secondhand Apple laptop for me to buy with all my newfound wealth!
Interesting Thing: My doggy got a haircut today, which makes him look OH so cute, and prevents his fur matting. He's a cocker spaniel/shih-tzu cross, and he's adorable even when his fur is long.
Other than that, nothing of especial importance has happened or is happening today, aside from the fact that I need a shower, it's Friday and America's Funniest Home Videos and SuperNanny SHOULD be on TV, and I'm tired and I can sleep in tomorrow morning! Woohoo!

~Sil

17 August 2006

Annoying Boys

I thought I was going to have a whole lot of trouble coming up with something to post about, but it turns out a subject popped out of thin air. Before I begin, I would like to address a message to all preteen/early teenage boys out there: Try not to be a jerk. Please. If your friend's dad starts yelling at you, you're being a jerk. Stop.
And now, the story behind that statement.
My brother is going to be thirteen in December. (This is where everyone who's known me for at least four or five years goes "GASP! Ben's going to be THIRTEEN?" but that's not the point!) He is a really nice guy, though of course you'll never meet a scrawnier one. And then there are the twenty-odd boys around his age that live in our neighborhood. Perhaps one of them is actually pleasant to be around. No, that's mean. And probably untrue. But anyway, there's this one in particular who is extremely aggravating. Usually he sticks to mean insults and sneering at my brother in particular, but lately he's gone farther - he stomped on my brother's bike wheel, cracking the frame; he was walking past our house while my brother was playing football with some of his friends on our front lawn and started to call them a bunch of losers. This was where my dad got angry (understandably) and came out. I love my dad. We're hoping that this situation resolves itself or that we can resolve it, but right now - please, please, tween boys: be nice.
Interesting Things For Today: I read an intriguing retelling of Beauty and the Beast with a bit of a Persian twist. Today was not especially remarkable, but the book was good. Something not really interesting but that I want to gripe about is that no matter how much I wash my face, the pimples still come in the absolute worst places.

~Sil

16 August 2006

Remodeling

And now, the home improvement part of the summer has REALLY begun, what with us redoing our patio and roof. It was in session earlier, what with my dad painting and installing various bathroom and light fixtures downstairs in my domain, as well as religiously caulking and painting the baseboards down there (which now look FABULOUS) - but now we're getting serious! The game plan for our patio changes, oh, on an average of about every fifteen minutes, rotating between 1) building a ground-level deck, 2) laying gravel, sand and paving stones, 3) using our current boring concrete blocks in a more creative way. Number three is popular because of its low financial aspect, though it is perhaps the least attractive.
But moving on. Interesting things about today (hopefully I can come up with at least one every day!) were: I got a high stack of library books, two-thirds of which will likely be half-read and discarded for lack of literary quality; there was a blurb on CTV News about the Conservative candidate renominations (which are EVIL! EVIL, I tell you!) in which they oddly skewed a few facts but did mention my MP, Mike Lake (he's a rookie, and one of the best guys you could ever meet); and, just now, I discovered that parentheses are a very important form of punctuation. Think of the comma and hyphen troubles we would have without them!

~Sil

15 August 2006

Competition

Well, I thought it was going to be a breeze figuring out things to post every day. It's not. But thankfully, my friend has a blog and so does my cousin, so of course I have to keep up with mine! Or else they would be beating me! And yes, I am fully aware of the fact that competition is not a very good reason to persevere - at least in this instance - but it works for me!
Nothing of an extremely special import has happened in the last few days, except that I have now seen Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest twice, and I feel that it is time for a movie review. Get ready for it. Oh, and if you don't want spoilers, don't read.

Good Elements: The dialogue is hilarious. An absolute ton of one-liners, though there were a few crude jokes that made me roll my eyes. A few extremely interesting characters made a reappearance, including Barbossa and James Norrington, a commodore no longer, as well as the ever-present undead monkey. A few also extremely interesting NEW characters made an appearance, including Tia Dalma, a spooky fortune-teller-person, and of course the infamous Davy Jones and his crew of eerie fish-men hybrids. But now I've said too much. On to the Bad Elements.

Bad Elements: The voodoo stuff was a bit dark and creepy for my liking. The dresses were, as always, annoyingly low-cut, particularly Elizabeth's wedding dress, which she remains in for an inordinately long amount of time (couldn't SOMEBODY have brought her some decent clothes during her stay in the prison cell?) but the worst thing, in my opinion, was the KISS between Elizabeth and Jack, and the preceding dumb attraction they had to each other. And to top it all off, Will saw them and is now feeling like he's been slapped in the face! Elizabeth has the best guy in the world, what is she THINKING!? So that kind of ruined the movie for me. Hopefully they redeem themselves in the third one.

~Sil

13 August 2006

Happy Birthday to Me

Here I am to wish myself a very happy fifteenth, and anyone else who would like to wish me likewise is very welcome to do so. My parents surprised me this morning with new white towels for my bathroom! They came with a fuzzy bath mat and look lovely. Thank you to all my Bible Quizzing buddies who signed my birthday card! I feel so loved. Also a big thank-you to everyone who's wished me Happy Birthday already!

~Sil

12 August 2006

Testing!

This is a test, to see if my name will come out the way it should. Hope it works. And while I'm here, I would like to make clear that my choice of blog name may seem similar to the movie The English Patient, which I have never seen, but I hear it has Colin Firth in it. I quite like him. But I digress - it is entirely accidental, brought on by the fact that I wanted a piratey elvish name for my blog.

~Sil

First Day

Well, hello all you bloggers out there, this is me...I have called myself Silmarillia, which I happen to think is quite a cool name. It ties in with my primary obsession, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. My secondary one is Pirates of the Caribbean. Not so much with the second movie, but more about that later.
Seeing as blogging has become so popular, I've decided to give it a go. I'm going to be fifteen tomorrow, I live in Alberta, Canada and I'm also homeschooled as well as, most importantly, a Christian. That's all anybody really needs to know about me. Oh, and I am a fiend for politics.
Currently I must be off to compile the ingredients for my birthday cake (which is a very yummy concoction involving ice cream, a freezer, and pecans) but I look forward to exploring the world of bloggers!

~Sil