Photography on Monday

I haven't posted in a long time. So now I am compelled to write (or type) everything down. Gris-Gris (little gray cat) is going travelling. And will probably go to some sort of Tower. And be dropped. :P So I have to make him a harness of sorts. And... I have also been doing quite a bit of photography with nature.. and flowers. I still have to upload a bunch of pictures to my flickr page, but if you want to check it out, click here. And a parcel arrived in the mail on May 7th, I believe. Ironically; it looks a lot like my friend, who celebrated her birthday, that day. So, if she ever reads this; Happy Belated birthday, An.! (An. is the first two letters of her name. I know much too many 'A.'s.) And my other friend, E., celebrated her birthday May 25th. So, happy birthday to her too. And, among other things, I'm on my school yearbook committee, and I've finished that- mostly. I had an orientation last Tuesday (Jun. 1st), which was pretty cool; for an orientation, anyway. And I have a four-day school trip, starting tomorrow. I think that pretty much sums it up.
-Camille & Co.

Laughter

Hi, everyone. I realize we haven't updated in a while.. sorry. We have a lot to do.. besides which; Camille has been busy. With her sketchbook. And sits in front of the television. Watching reruns of 'The Vampire Diaries'. And draws while she listens to Elena and Caroline and Bonnie and Stefan and Damon and Jeremy and.. and.. I don't actually remember all the character names.. :D

In other news.. Camille got her bottom braces on. Did we mention that she has braces? I guess not.. But, I'll move onto a more pleasant topic. Books! [No, we're not doing proper paragraphs and all that jazz here today. Much too lazy.] Most people have read Harry Potter, I believe. Really, honestly, reading J.K. Rowling's books will be the best thing you ever do with your life. Aside from publishing your own books.. and getting a job and a family. When you're older. Although I think some people dislike the she Rowling writes in third person.., I believe that they're biased. [I'm not! I read anything with some semblance of a plot that I can get my hands on!] The books are really magic. Metaphorically speaking. And then; I suggest you read Rick Riordan's novels. The Percy Jackson & The Olympians series was fabulous. And tomorrow, his first book of a new series, The Kane Chronicles, is out in stores. It sounds interesting. I think it's centered around Egyptian Mythology, rather than Greek Mythology. And another fairly good author is Erin Hunter. Who is actually three different writers. Pretty cool, huh? She writes the Seekers series and the Warrior[cat]s Series. And then.. there is Melissa de la Cruz.. author of the Blue Bloods series. And Lisi Harrison, author of The Clique, and Alphas. Then there is Sarah Dessen.. she writes many good books. And.. hmm. I'm trying to think of more. And just to mention this; the vampire novels are rather 'edgy' compared to others.. Oh. Wait. Here's another good author: Ally Carter. Author Of the Heist Society series and the Gallagher Girls series. I've written a little more than I intended to. Ah well. Congrats to Sitara from Mari Luna's Wonderful Blog at opening her Etsy shop; and finishing her movie, Cloak and Dagger. I think that is it. Sort of.

-Nicki Fleming

P.S. The cat in the picture is Pud, Camille's family's first cat. Well as a family. Her parents grew up on farms that had many cats. Her dad only ever got to really named one cat, who he named Baba Looey, after the character from the Quick Draw McGraw television show. And her mom's favourite cat; a pure white female, was called Bobby. I thought that was kinda funny.

P.P.S. (or P.S.S., I'm not sure which one it is) You can see Camille's legs and crocs in the picture of Pud. It would be helpful if you just look at Pud.

The Fifth Night

Well, in all technicalities (this is Camille posting here, if you were uncertain-- Nicki seems to have borrowed some of my fabulous-ness. No, I'm kidding, I'm not that narcissistic. When I say "that" I mean to say; my schoolfriends think I'm a bit (a bit is just a little bit of an understatement) of a bragger. Although, asides from that, I do have more to say. First of all; from the picture, you may notice that one of the dolls (Nicki Fleming) is wearing some Liberty Jane boots. We're quite pleased with the whole thing. This is the first thing I've ever gotten from LJC, and I have to say-- I'm quite impressed. Also; the Mint Vivacity arrived too. I don't really have any pictures because I pressed a button of the powershot and the screen went black until we fixed it; but by then it was too dark outside. So yeah..
And in the sports column we have a bit about hockey tryouts, and some about cross country running. I'm not trying to brag here.. but I cam in 5th place on the 2k run. Nicki said it is a violent sport.. which might be true. A third grader got pushed down a hill. Because he was rather small. Speaking of hills.. nevermind. My friend K. came in 4th place and my other friend C. came first! And my friend E. came twelth, and my friend I. came thirteenth. So.. as you may note, I'm very happy. :D
-Camille
P.S. Thank you, Avery V. for all your comments!

More rambling updates..

Yup, the title says it all. More of me (Nicki!) rambling about life. Life, which I'm not going to waste my time defining... has been a little harsh. Harsh, harsh, harsh. Noticeably, we changed the header. Yay! I like the new one.. it says more about us. I won't go on about the whole "harsh" part, unless you want me to ramble about Camille's social life, and how it's taking a nosedive.. I'm being very vague, yes. Well, Camille celebrated her birthday this past Thursday, April 15th. Her sister gave her the Miga and Quatchi Olympic mascot key-chain-plush. Now she has all four mascots.. she's very happy about that. She got a set of oil paints.. although we'll probably never see them, since she's not allowed to use them in her bedroom. Blah.. Other than the fact that Camille just went through a whole boxed set of books this past week, and the new Lisi Harrison 'Alphas' novel, and that she had Cross Country team runoffs. She got slammed into a wall while she tried to punch someone while running. I've learned that cross country is a very violent sport.. Huh.

And, the meet is on Monday. Speaking of meets, Camille's on her school swim team, but they drained the pool where the competition's supposed to be.

And, Glee is on air again. That, if you haven't heard of it, is the coolest thing since Percy Jackson & the Olympians and Harry Potter and paintbrushes...

And, I am rambling again. So I'll just finish here with a prologue Camille wrote.

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The world was numb. It spun too fast, too slow. It could overwhelm a tidal wave of memories. The heat was penetrating, burning through flesh. I could hear screams. Yells. Sirens wailing.

Fiery sparks of flame flashed before my eyes, destroying all that blocked its path. The paramedics yelled, pulling stretchers, screaming orders. I could feel a cold, numbing pain. It felt like death. I looked at the girl on the stretcher, her face rendered unrecognizable by the angry flames. She looked so familiar.
Then it dawned on me.

It wasn't stranger.

I was the girl lying on the stretcher; edging towards death.

-Nicki

The Celebration of Easter and Passover

Well.. It seems time passes quickly. Really quickly. It's already April, and there's only eleven days until Camille's Birthday, and yesterday, several, or most of the Melody Valerie Couture Spring line is sold out. We somehow, against all odds, managed to get our hands on a 'Mint Vivacity' dress, which is, of course, downright stunning. And I cannot begin to describe MVC's masterpieces, because there are no possible words to describe them. And, among other things, today, we are celebrating Easter here at Half Moon Ridge (did we mention that that is the name of the street we live on?). Gris-Gris and I got to go outside and enjoy the warm early spring weather. It was windy and sunny. There's a family of possums living under the woodpile at the side of the house. The cat, Max, isn't really allowed outside right now, due to these curious little nocturnal creatures.

Among other things, we have lots of projects, and Camille is beginning to enjoy the upsides of the Canon Powershot; although she prefers the idea of the Rebel. And also, the other day, she climbed twenty feet or so up high in the tree in her backyard. Which she claims is immensely exhilerating. Which I don't doubt, but she may have gotten her spine broken, in some cases, which would not be very good at all. And Congratulations to MVC for selling so well! :P

-Nicolette Laurel Fleming (or just Nicki) :D

[Camille's Note: Street and town names in this post are entirely fictional. Some are named at things like my YouTube Channel.]

P.S. Camille wanted to say that she added her friend the Lulumelons' website to her 'Blogs of Interest' column. I don't know if it works properly.. :P But you should visit them on YouTube. They're the Lulumelons. Oddly, Camille has checked may times to see if she hallucinating, LibertyJaneClothing has subscribed to them. She also wants you all to visit 'HalfMoonLily' (aka Camille) on YouTube. I think she wants more subscribers. :P She's not a very good video-maker. Her words not mine. Except for her art. She's really proud of that.

Blog Neglect!

Ack...! I have been neglecting my blog... Sorry. Despite that I have six (?) followers... yes. I had March [or Spring] Break. And I was messing with my parents' Canon Powershot. Their last camera bid them a farewell. It conked out, I think. That cat shown on the right, is Max (at this moment, my dad was repeating his name..) or typically, Furriness. He has long fur. Never leave your house at the mercy of a long-haired cat for seven days.

Yup.. That's pretty much it for now. I'm doing a slide this summer, or spring, called "The Flower Garden" and.. that's it. I'll post this weekend, hopefully.

-Camille, Chrissa & Co.

February the Nineteenth

Today, Friday, February the Nineteenth, it is my friend A.'s Birthday. A very Happy Birthday to her... and Best Wishes. Moving on.... as you've noticed; my friend's Julie, my Ruthie and Nicki posted for Valentine's dayome pictures did not show up, sadly. Therefore I shall show thee. Undoubtedly, thy pictures are not amazing. In other words; I am being sligh

tly random at the moment, hmm. Well I suppose we'll continue thus far. I shall tell you about dearest Milly. [Pictured below is Milly's twin brother, Gris-Gris.] Milly, who I am slightly uncertain is possible to find now, first entered my life at the semi-annual

[Gris-Gris's Note: 'Semi' meaning sometimes every year, sometimes every two years.]

- Ganz Warehouse Sale. I was digging through an 'As is' bin, looking for plush snowmen and such trinkets. I pulled out, luckily enough, an adorable gray-and-cream kitty. I, at the time, had forgotten about Gris-Gris, who was hidden away in a time capsule created in the fourth grade. I picked her up, and could not bear to put her down, I didn't know what I would do if some hobbly oldpackrat-grandmother picked her up as a hamster-chew-toy. I went digging through some other bins and found Cinnamon, a slightly disproportianate, but still cute, little cocker-spaniel. I promptly purchased the both of them, as they were one dollar each, and so lovely.
I came to love the two of them and, to my great regrets, tookthem everywhere with me; and my camera. Seeing this... at a hockey game in a small town and hour away from my home, I lost my beloved camera. And darling Milly and Cinnamon...
So that, is my sad, tearful, story.

-Camille

P.S. I've decided to try and post twice a week. I'd really appreciate it if you comment all my posts; by the way. Every month I'll do 'From the Files of HalfMoonLily', a Picture Story, I forget what else, -style posts, so please stay tuned :D.

[Gris-Gris's Note: Check the Link to HalfMoonLily's (Camille's) YouTube. She has a new video up of her artwork.]