AwesomeLand’s First Installment

Once upon a time, in the depths of a mystical land called by its dwellers, AwesomeLand, there grew a forest. The forest was entirely made up of pine and fir tress in the exactly right shades of teal-ish green-ish blue-ish forest-ishy green. Whimsical woodland creatures frolicked happily through the foliage-covered floors. Rays of yellow sunlight climbed through the gaps in the branches and greeted the ground to help bright wild flowers grow. In AwesomeLand, there was a huge city with tall glass buildings; comically colorful automobiles hummed about like busy bumblebees. The people dashed through the Big City, as it was called, smiling and laughing. Everyone wore the wackiest clothes they could find, and everyone was happy because they were expressing themselves, and no one was jealous and called anybody a hipster because nobody was insecure or hated themselves. The Big City was pretty cool. The Big City would slowly turn into a length of suburbia, where everyone was slightly less cool, and slightly more conservatively gray-wearing, and slightly less everything. This length of suburbia was suitably called The Suburbia of Slightly Less. In The Suburbia of Slightly Less, there were several different places to live. One place had cozy, agelessly endearing, pastel-colored houses with neat trim and drafty windows, where either elderly folks or cute families lived with cute children lived. Another bubble within The Suburbia of Slightly Less Cool had conforming, cookie-cutter houses that all looked the same, but as it was AwesomeLand, the houses were covered in a patchwork pattern of colors and prints that set each apart. Basically, there was the Cute part of The Suburbia of Slightly Less, and then there was the Cuter part with pastel colored houses. Beyond The Suburbia, farms grew crops of fanciful cotton candy and sickeningly sweet candy corn, as well as your prosaic vegetables and grains, but in outrageous, cheerful colors. Barns and quaint farmhouses dotted this beautiful countryside like the puffy clouds in the divinely blue sky. Oak and maple trees that had sprung up decades before grew in clusters, twining with the apple trees as if embracing. Wild grasses covered acres; sunflowers towered.
But how, you ask, does our impeccable hued forest tie in to this pretty little picture? Well, I will tell you. Far off, where the number of farmhouses dwindled, where nature had gone wild and untamed, where no one was thought to live, our very favorite forest grew. There, in that forest, the woodland creatures frolicked. The fairies whispered and sung. The ancient, sprawling trees stretched their arms covered in rough, burlap skin and drank the water hiding in the ground. And a little cottage with stone walls and a thatched roof sat.

CAMP and Other Lovely Stuff

Finally, another video! Sorry about the lack thereof in the past month! Yikes! I’ve had some rather busy weekends, which is usually when I film, so I was happy I could record this one. I expect to have a video completely devoted to camp in the next week or so which I may or may not post on my blog. You all have a link to my Vimeo account (Contact the Human), so you have absolutely no excuse to be all “Ellieeeeeeeeeee, I couldn’t find it to waaaaaaatch it!” Anyway, watch this video! That I made! For you!

 

CAMP and Other Lovely Stuff from Ellie Shackelford on Vimeo.

Thanks for watching, love; I appreciate it and hope you liked it!

Much love,
Ellie
P.S. Special guests! Oooooooo.

Hey, You, Awesome Person. Yeah, You- Oh. No. The Guy Next To You. Yeah, You!

I’ve been checking out my stats, and one of my favorite things to look at is how people have found my blog. Usually they’ve found it through Facebook, or WordPress, or Googling my blogs title, but there are a few truly GORGEOUS searches that people have found my blog from. One of my very favorites is “hide yo kids hide yo wife harry potter”. Whoever searched that and then clicked the link that Google so graciously offered to you that brought you HERE, I adore you. You are basically a brilliant person. Are you reading this? Because I  hope you are so you can tell me WHY you searched that and then clicked MY blog. That is quite silly and hilarious. Indeed.

In the next couple days, there will be a video being posted with a VERY SPECIAL GUEST, who I hope you will all warmly welcome, because she is wonderful. I am über excited, so excited I even put the effort into putting the little ¨ above the u. THAT’s how excited.

At this very moment, I am listening to Best Coast  because they make me happy and cheerful and all “oh, yay, it’s summer but NOT, because it’s winter!”

Oy. I recommend them to all of you. My favorite songs are Crazy For You and The End and Bratty B and ALL OF THEM. Yep.

I’m in the computer lab at the high school my dad works at, and it is very shiny and white and smooth because this is the first year with their lovely Mac lab.  have no glasses on though, so everything looks blurry as well.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Guess what.

Oh. Nothing.

I’m going to the library today to get some CDs that I have on request. I have some Christina Perri, OneRepublic, The Script, and…oh wait. That’s all.

Am I boring you? I’m sorry. Maybe you should go read something exciting and important, like Vampire Academy!

It’s probably time to end a blog post when you can’t remember what you first talked about.

GOOD BYE. I’M OFF TO LISTEN TO MUSIC AND WHATNOT.

Ellie

Vlog for Blog: First Ever

A new idea I’m trying out! Check out my Vimeo account!

Thanks for watching! You’re awesome by default!

Fare thee well,

Ellie