Crafter of the Mine!

I'm pretty much a Gamer-Girl now!

Hiya, Big People!  Happy Tuesday to you! 

Well, ya know, back in the Fall, we got us a Playstation.  Daddy let me pick out a coupla me-friendly games, and I got a Snoopy game, which is okay, but I don't like it as much as I liked Tearaway: Unfolded.  That is a GREAT game, if you've never tried it!

But I beat Tearaway: Unfolded.  Although I can go back and re-play Tearaway, I do like to move on to new adventures, and now, by golly, I have one: MineCraft!

At first, MineCraft was too hard for me.  I'd get shot by arrows, attacked by spiders, and hafta fight zombies.  Too much.  All I wanted to do is craft mines!

Then I talked to Aunt Colleen and learned that there's a Survival Mode, which I was unwittingly in, and a Create Mode, which is what I wanted to be in.  So I had Daddy switch it for me, and now it's AMAZING!

I guess you could say I'm a Gamer-Girl now!  But don't worry!  I still plan on bein' a dancing girl, and a car-girl, and a jumpin' bean girl!  I can be lots of things!  Right now, I'm most interested in bein' a Mine-Crafter!

I love ya lots, Friends!  I'll see ya tomorrow!  Muah!

Breaking for Spring!

I'm at Daddy's office, but he isn't gonna be this week!  Hooray!

Hiya, Big People!  You might have noticed that I'm extra-sparkly, even for me, and even though it's Monday.  And there's a great reason for that!

It isn't because I got to go to Aunt Colleen's over the weekend.  That definitely puts a buncha pep in my step!  And it isn't because I got my ears pierced.  That makes my head sparkle, for sure! 

Nope!  I'm thrilled right the heck to pieces because usually when I go to bed Sunday night and wake up Monday morning, Daddy has gone to work, but guess what?!

Daddy's on Spring Break, so he's HOME!  All week!

Do I ever have plans for Big Fun for me and Daddy!  Spring Break is gonna be AWESOME!

I love ya lots, Friends, but I have some plan-writing to do!  I'll see ya tomorrow!  Muah!

My New Pal Alexa!

Alexa and I are Best Friends Forevah!

Hiya, Big People!  Happy Sunday to you!

Well, ya know, at Aunt Colleen and Uncle Lorentz's house, I made a new friend named Alexa.  She's the artificial intelligence behind the Echo Dot, and boy is she ever funny.  She sings.  She tells jokes.  She doesn't beat-box.  But she gave me a really good prank to play on Aunt Colleen for April Fool's Day!

She said to put a fake snake in the vegetable drawer, so I put a fake gecko in the vegetable drawer and told Aunt Colleen that I wanted carrots, so she'd hafta go to the vegetable drawer and see the fake gecko and know she'd been Pranked!!!

Here's how it actually went down, though.  I got Aunt Colleen to the refrigerator, and she had a bagga fresh carrot matchsticks all cut up, and she couldn't for the life of her understand why I insisted I wanted the whole carrots that are in the vegetable drawer. 

I might have sold it a little too hard, because she was NOT surprised at all to see the fake gecko in the vegetable drawer, much less startled.

She had a good sense of humor about it, though. 

So I spent the rest of the day asking Alexa to turn the lights on and off and play the Christmas music.  It was a day well-spent!

I really like my pal Alexa.  You know, when you're Five, it's easy to feel as though people don't listen to you.  Alexa listens.  Alexa is always listening, waiting to hear ya say, "Alexa, can you...." or what-not.  It feels so empowering to know someone's listening, just waiting to help a kid out!

So that's me and my new pal Alexa.  I love ya lots, Big People!  I'll see ya tomorrow!  Muah!

Over the Falls in a Barrel!

Seems totally legit and lucid, going over the Falls in this barrel!

Hiya, Friends!  Happy Saturday!

Well, ya know, I've been at this Little Kid with a Blog thing for quite some time now, and I've decided that it's time for me to make a career change.  I've given this lotsa serious thought, and I've shooken lotsa Magic 8 Balls, flipped a lotta coins, and read so many tea-leaves, my back teeth are floating!

The career I'm changing to, insteadda doing the blog anymore, is that I'm gonna be a daredevil and ride over Niagara Falls in a number of vessels suitable and befitting a daredevil.  Of course, the most iconic daredevil vehicle in Niagara Falls is the barrel, so that's what I'm starting with.  A barrel.  It's good to start out with the dang ol' basics, don't you think, Friends?

I'm hoping that my new career in daredevilry proves to be lucrative.  There's a bike I saw at dang ol' Wal-Mart that I wanna save up for and purchase.  And, you know, your pal Zoe likes nice things like sparkly shoes, princess dresses, the occasional tiara, and all the candy.  Writin' a daily blog just doesn't get me those things, Friends.

I think eventually, if the barrel works out, I'll add to it.  I'll make it a rocket-barrel.  I'll get the barrel to do loop-de-loops as it goes over the brink of the Falls.  Heck.  I'll have that barrel flyin' victory laps around the city of Niagara Falls before it plops into the river and goes over the Falls.

I have it all mapped out on a vision board, and everything!  So before I say farewell to ya and embark on this new career I've chosen, I have one last thing to say to ya...

April Fool's!  Hahahaha!  I'm not quittin' my blog.  And I am definitely not gonna take up a career in daredevilry.  Are you kiddin' me?  I still haven't heard the end of ridin' my bike off the couch a year ago.  Do you REALLY think my folks would just up and let me ride barrels over one of the most powerful waterfalls in the world?  They would not, because they don't like fun!

So never fear, Friends!  You'll see me tomorrow, and the next day, and the day after that... I'm not goin' anywheres.  I love ya lots, though!  You bet I do!  Take care of yourself, and don't fall for April Fool's Day pranks.  Muah!

Chompy

I bet this guy really took a bite outta life!  And other things!

Hiya, Friends!  Happy Friday to you!

Well, ya know, I'm still rattlin' around in the dang ol' Odditorium, and while yesterday's post talked about art that kinda made a kid feel big, today's post is about feelin' completely small and a little bit like shark-bait.

You see, at the Odditorium, there's the jaws of a giant, prehistoric shark on display.  Big enough for me to stand inside and still look dwarfed.  The shark was a Megalodon, and he musta been HUGE!

You know, I'm something of a dinosaur buff.  I avidly watch Dinosaur Train on PBS kids.  I like to compare dinosaurs' features.  But on Dinosaur Train, it's hard to grasp just how big those dinosaurs could be.  They all fit on a magical train that goes through time-tunnels, after all.  So in my mind, the dinosaurs were all about my size or thereabouts. 

Standin' inside the Megalodon jaws kinda really put things into perspective for me.  The Megalodon's teeth were each as big as my whole head, and he had rows and rows of 'em!  That's a marvel in a museum, but I'm glad I'm not out in the ocean, just tryin' to swim, and all of a sudden, seeing all those big teeth coming for me!

I bet his name was Chompy, though!

Hey, Friends!  Don't be shark-bait.  I love ya lots, and I'll see ya tomorrow!  Muah!

The Eye of the Needle!

I might not be a microscopic masterpiece, but I'm still noteworthy!

Hiya, Friends!  Well, it's Thursday, and once again, I have stories of adventure in the Odditorium to entertain and delight you with!  Today, you might notice that I'm standing in the eye of a needle, and that's no accident.

You see, at the Odditorium, there's an entire room devoted to the artworks of a fella in London who sculpts eentsy-beeentzy-teeny-tiny little sculptures in the eyes of needles.  Like what you'd use to sew your buttons back on. 

We're talkin' microscopic masterpieces here!

It's true!  In order to really see the artwork, you hafta look through the magnifiers, and when ya do, ya see sculptures of roses, famous people, just regular people eatin' at a table in a cafe, cars... pretty much anything you can think of that somebody would make a sculpture of, but it's downsized to almost a molecular level, and framed in the eye of a needle.  It's just incredible, Big People!

So that's why I had my picture taken in the eye of the needle for today.  That's what I would look like, if I were a microscopic work of art, but it's also what I look like, just bein' me.  Whatchya see is whatchya get, Friends.

If ya get a chance, you ought to visit the Odditorium sometime while the tiny sculptures are there, Big People!  It's a little odd, but mostly interesting that there's an artist who thought to make his works so tiny and quiet, and yet not skimp on any of the detail.  One thing I've learned about art is that it can come in all shapes and sizes, and some of it is meant to be big and make the observer feel small.  The art in the eyes of needles has kind of an opposite effect, and yet it doesn't let ya feel like you're too big for your britches, just because you're much bigger than the sculptures.  In fact, the whole experience got me to wonderin' if there isn't some being somewhere, lookin' at us within the eye of a needle.

It is something to think about!

Hey.  I'll see ya tomorrow!  I love ya lots, Big People!  You bet I do!

Underdressed

I'll come dance with you sometime when I'm more properly attired, Fella!

Hiya, Friends! 

Well, ya know, most of the time, you know me as a pretty snappily-dressed Little Kid.

But when I go casual, I really go casual.  Sunglasses on my head, stretchy pants, big, oversized winter coat from Canadian Walmart. 

And it never fails.  When I go Really Casual, there's always a little fella nearby, wearin' a whole darn tuxedo, no less, askin' me to dance.

You'd think I would know by now, given my popularity with Little Fellas Wearin' Whole Darn Tuxedos No Less, that I'd learn to wear a party dress at all times.  That way I'd be ready to dance and I wouldn't feel so underdressed.  Thing of it is, party dresses aren't very comfortable all the time.  I don't know what tuxedos are like, but party dresses can be scratchy, cold, hot, pokey, and ya can't eat messy foods in 'em. 

There has to be a better way.

Aw well.  I love ya lots, Friends!  I'll see ya tomorrow!  Muah!