Cleaning and Cooking Abalone

Today was my mother's 5oth birthday. As a big surprise, my sister ordered really expensive abalone, her favorite food that she hasn't had in years. For seventy bucks, you'd think that they would at least clean the things for us or maybe take them out of their shells?

Wrong!

Here's a picture of the cute little things as we got them. They had just died an hour ago. (At least we knew they were fresh).

And they were so freaking small!

It was my job to be the beast and take the organs and gooey stuff out because my sister has problem with organs and bodily fluids of sea snails.

And I was BEAST!! I grabbed those organs and I took them off the meat and I scrubbed the black stuff off of them. But it took a LONG time and we barely got any meat. My sister was totally ripped off. She may have a sensitive stomach but she certainly does not have a sensitive mouth. She will be contacting the supplier. Here comes Hurricane Megan!

But mom loved them anyway. We were afraid to cook them because they were so small and delicate so we waited for her to get home to do it. She was so surprised. She thought we were just going to take her to Applebee's.

She said it was her best birthday ever! I also made her favorite dessert: pineapple upside-down cake. It was my first time making it and she said I did perfect on it! I'm so happy. It was so cute too because we got balloons and a "Happy Birthday" streamer.

Here's pictures:

Before cleaning, after cleaning and the cake.

Didn't I Learn These Words in 3rd Grade?

Hey reader,

Today, after three weeks of not going to school, I started independent study. I got my work from my teacher, let's just call him Mr..... Pat! Mister Pat. He was explaining my English work and I almost laughed out loud when I saw the vocabulary words: hunk, scarves, huddled, igloo, mumbled. Wow. If you're in tenth grade and you don't know what an igloo or scarf is, you should really be ashamed of yourself. And so should the school district who let you pass through all these years.

I just really hope I get into Middle College high school. That's where one of my oldest friends goes and it's perfect for me since it isn't a religious school and is for the most part non-violent. I missed the application date but we have the district manager on our side trying to pull a few strings for us.

For now I shall do all my work at independent study and try to finish up my credits for the year. Lucky for me, I'll have time to work on my books. Maybe I'll be able to finish my first book by the middle or end of summer.

See you later. I think later on I'll post an essay that I wrote that I am particularly proud of.

Writer's Block Sucks... and so do vampires.

Ugh! Ever since I read the first few chapters of Hooked by Les Edgerton, explaining to me how crucial the first chapter, scene, paragraph and line are I can't write! I've rewritten the opening scene for the Green-Blooded Myths series's first novel four times the past day (of course if you were counting the past three years, that number would be around ninety-two or more).

Of course I already knew that but this book just reinforced it. So I don't even know how to start off the series now. What should be the opening scene? Should Junior (my protagonist) be taking the Shiletel Test, an exam of the Shiletel Laws that she must pass before she can legally use her powers? Should she meet Lem in the first scene? Should it be her going to school with her cousins Beth and Benjy? Ugh!

And I bet you have no idea what I'm talking (or writing) about. But... what would you like to see the first scene? Please comment if you have any ideas!

Now on to the second part of the title. I'm sick of vampires. I just got done reading the second book of the Vladimir Tod series and, even though the first book was decent, this one sucked. Literally. I'm sick of every time I bring a book to a family function one of my older uncles thinks I'm reading Twilight.

I'm sick of vampires falling in love with their dinner basically. So, even though I love the paranormal, after I finish up (and yes no matter how awful the last book was I will) the Vladimir Tod series books that I already have I'm going to be staying away from vampires for a while.

This is why I created my own creatures for my books: Shiletels (Shy-ah-tells). So none of my readers can get sick of them too much because there aren't any other books about them.

Blessed be and if you would like to check out my review of Ninth Grade Slays by Heather Brewer, just go to my other blog, The Witch Reads. The badge leading to the blog is on my sidebar.

I Couldn't Stay Away

It's true. I just could not stay away from blogging. As soon as I officially discontinued The Pentagram Diaries, I got taken out of school to be put in independent study to finish out the year. Two weeks of staying home with nothing to do but gaze onto the computer screen at other people's awesome blogs.

So now, I am opening The Flying Muskrat. I hope I'll get much better feedback on this site then on my previous one and I hope that I'll find much more stuff to talk about. I cancelled The Pentagram Diaries because it seemed that I didn't have much to discuss. But I just can't stay away from blogging.

For those of you who have never read The Pentagram Diaries, this is a fresh start for me in the blogging world. I am a gothic Wiccan teenager who loves to write and is currently writing a book series that I call either The Shiletel Series or The Green-Blooded Myths series. Which do you like better?

I will post more of my writings since I'll have more time to write them and maybe some stuff on Wicca and you'll probably experience a few of my rants. I like to rant when I'm angry. It helps me get it out. So now that I've settled what this blog will be about, will you join me on my ride through the vast brooding wilderness that is my life? (I have a big backyard with two fierce guard dogs named Jasper and Delilah).

Here's pictures of their beastliness: