Free Kibble dot com

I read an article about this girl in People magazine. This twelve-year-old girl has loved animals all her life and has created two websites: freekibble.com and freekibblekat.com. Each day there is a trivia question, and whether you get it wrong or right doesn't matter- just answer the question and donate ten pieces of kibble to help feed a stray animal. Here is a banner that you can click on to bring you automatically to Freekibble.com.








And to Freekibblekat.com

TV Shows-- the Cheesy Kind

These days kiddie television shows are made on the foundations of bad acting and cheesy music- much like Hannah Montana and the High School Musical movies. All of them.

The other day I was watching the Disney Channel (a.k.a cheesy TV central) and there was a trailer for some show called "Imagination Movers".

a. the word "Movers" is obviously not the right term for what they mean. When I think of a "Mover" I think of extremely ripped men in muscle shirts hauling furniture into a huge van. I think that by "Movers" they meant like, dancing and stuff. You'd never guess that. You'd think they meant people who wished they were Mr. Universe Clones.

b. What is UP with mouse puppets?

c. They ALL smile and do bad, stupid dance moves.

d. HELLO??? There is a reason most grownups don't act like children!!!

And don't get me started on Barney. If I could meet the creator of Barney, these are the questions I would ask him.

• Um, why purple?
• Have you ever noticed how fake Barney looks?
• Why aren't those kids scared when their toy dinosaur comes to life and starts singing? I know I would be.

But to tell the truth, I have no objection to Sesame Street. That show is a work of art. But all the others: SHAME ON YOU!!! And now I will end this the same way cheesy television shows end: Everyone becomes friends, we all sing a song about our day, and then the credits show while a mouse puppet plays the xylophone.

An Inconvenient Truth: Homework or Whatever

Between play rehearsals, family, my dog, and everything good in life, homework doesn't really fit in that well. And then teachers are all like, "Do it by next class typed and four pages long and if it's not perfect you fail!" Which, of course, makes me cry.

I have two days to do my homework, but with the amount of homework which is piled up on my each night, who cares? Two days isn't enough! Don't they realize that I have a life I have to attend to? One which isn't centered around the crap they expect me to complete in two days. On almost every day of the week I have play rehearsals from 4:00 to 6:00 pm, and I have to do all my homework in between lines.

Then there are the teachers who don't realize, or simply don't care or pretend to notice, this fact, and they decide to give you a test which you have only two days to study for. So now, on top of the homework, memorizing my lines, my dog, and my general life... *sharp intake of breath*... I have to study for a test on a summer reading book I read in June.

So do they simply refuse to understand the burden they bestow upon us? Or are they really deaf to the cries of children, weak under the weight of their backpacks?

Well, guess what? I'M HOME SICK TODAY! Yup, I stay up until nine o'clock to finish all of my homework, and now I don't even have to turn it in!

Not that I'm not glad for a day off school, seeing as how bad I felt yesterday. I have a science test tomorrow and I have all day to study. But still... my life sucks.

Like right after today, I have a test. YIPEE. I get to spend my one free day from school STUDYING! Seriously, what's the difference? I might as well go to school.