You Make Me Wanna Shout!

Okay, so I personally think squirrels are EVIL.  I hear many people talk about how cute and innocent they are, but I tend to diagree.  First off, they are actually pretty ugly creatures when you get a good look at them.  Secondly, they are all out to distract us while we are driving.  Some succeed in their quest to disturb drivers and others fail miserably and end up road kill.

Don’t get me wrong I love animals.  I would never want to cause harm to any living creature, I just want these stupid squirrels to stay out of my way.  There’s actually a quite humorous story behind my disgust for squirrels.  It was about one year ago:

It was a Saturday morning and I felt the sudden urge to head out on a long, relaxing walk.  The day was gorgeous, a nice spring day.  Rugby (our huskey) was pretty anxious so I decided to bring him along (I just want to point out that he is a VERY energetic dog.  I’m no doctor, but I swear he has ADHD). 

As we walked down the driveway, I remembered that we had been having problems with a stupid squirrel that lived in one of our telephone poles.  I looked at Rugby who was bouncing around like a complete psychopath and I knew then that we were going to have a problem.  As we neared the end of the driveway I held his leash a little tighter, but no matter how tight my grip was,  it still wouldn’t have prevented what happened next. 

My strength was no match for a dog cursed with the symptoms of ADHD.  Right when he spotted the squirrel (let’s just call him Fabio) he dashed for it.  The leash became a tangled mess.  I had no idea what was happening and suddenly I noticed that Fabio had somehow gotten in the middle of us.  I was still trying to get myself loose from the leash when Rugby attacked Fabio.  Instead of being an intelligent evil squirrel and running to his home in the telephone pole, Fabio ran at my legs and began attacking me.  Yes, you heard me right.  Fabio attacked me.  At this point, Rugby just stood there staring.  The one moment I need him to flip out and what does he do?  He stands and watches.  There was his ADHD kicking in again.    

Well, as I’m sure you’ve all already noticed, Fabio is a squirrel.  I was attacked by Fabio.  Therefore, I was attacked by a freaking squirrel.  You can laugh, I’ll even pause for moment to let you collect yourself again.

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I could go on and on about my countless  encounters with squirrels, but I think it’s clear enough; squirrels are secretly evil creatures.

Minneota High School sports have been having quite the impressive year this year.  Both volleyball and football are headed to section final games at SMSU.  Congratulations to both teams! 

Last night was an intense night for our school’s volleyball team.  Not only were we playing in the semi-section finals , but we were playing against our biggest rivals of the year, the Canby Lancers.  The Lancers had a record of 30-1 whereas we (Minneota) sat at second seed with a record of 24-5.  Earlier in the season the Lancer volleyball team had beaten us for the first time in a hell of a long time but we stuck it out and took the match to 5 games.  This time, however, (not to brag or anything) but we took all three of the first games, sweeping Canby in about an hour of play. 

Here’s a SHOUT to the Vikings:  Congratulations to the volleyball team and good luck to the Viking football  team who goes up against the Dawson-Boyd Blackjacks in the section finals this afternoon.  I hope to see all of you up at state this year!

Why hello.  Don’t you ever feel as if you just want to SHOUT about some things?  Well welcome to my fantastically awesome blog where everyone is highly encouraged to SHOUT about anything they feel strongly on.  There are definitely a number of things in my life and the world around me that make me want to SHOUT!  So please, try to bear with me as I vent, as well as praise different subjects.   On occasions I’ll have a horrid, annoyed shout and other times it’ll be a vivacious giddy shout.  I try to keep it balanced but now days it seems as though there are rarely things, events, or people to be happy with.  But, today is the day!  I actually have something good to SHOUT about.  It just so happens that it is one of the best things ever thought of, fiction.

What is fiction?  I usually think of the classic fairy tales when I think of fiction.  I’m not talking about the ones that most youngsters know of today; I’m talking about the real fairy tales, the ones known as the Grimms’ fairy tales .  Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are some of my biggest idols.   Their way of writing veers away from the innocence of children’s fairy tales and goes into a deeper and darker form of fiction writing which I love.  Many of the fairy tales that we know of today are merely “cleaned-up” reincarnations of the Grimm brothers works.

 The Grimm brother fairy tales fall into a category that just happens to be my favorite type of writing, fiction.  Whether it is fable, fib, or fantasy; they are all enjoyable to read.  I believe that it takes great talent to be able to write fictional stories.  Anybody can write any old research paper, but it takes true creativity to write an imaginative story that catches readers’ attention all the way through the piece.  So I would like to give a SHOUT out to fictional writers all throughout the world!  I am grateful for your writings because even though I love to write fiction, I do not –in any way, shape, or form- believe that I am any good at it.  So thank you for giving all of us wanna-be fictional writers something better than our own work to read.