Poem On Manipulation

I wrote this last night. I figured I would post it on Think a Thought. Here you go.

Manipulation

Twist and turn it,

Scorch and burn it,

Til it's something new,

Bend it round your little finger,

Telling your cheap lies,

You'll never ever stop,

Because manipulation doesn't die.
You cannot rid yourself of it,

By lying to yourself,

Lies never help anything, 

They give your honesty bad health.

Lie about this,

Lie about that,

Soon enough the lies will stack,

and one day will all flood back,

But you'll forget one,

Wait and see,

and you'll rat yourself out for eternity,

No longer will anyone lay trust in you,

Instead they'll think your full of poo.

1 Year Anniversary

About 1 year ago, I started Maddie's Think a Thought with a post titled "Lucky, My 8-month Old Puppy". I was 9 at the time. Since then, I have turned 10, Lucky has turned 1, and I have written over 200 posts. My blog has gotten almost 2000 views since then. I have looked at my stats, and I know I have followers who are reading my posts. I am very happy. Thank you to all of my readers.

I have also upgraded my blog from just regular writing posts to chat rooms, fish, shareit's and more. A year ago, I would never think of doing that. I would not even know how to use the computer if it wasn't for Dad. I wanted to say thank you to Dad for helping me with my blog. I would not have been able to run it as well as I do if Dad had not helped me and kept me commited to writing every day. Thanks Dad.

While I am here, I wanted to wish my friend a happy birthday. Kyle runs a blog as well, and his blog can be found here: www.kylesfreespace.blogspot.com  Please check it out. I am sure that Kyle would appreciate it. Happy 11th Birthday Kyle! :)

Maddie
P.S. If you can't see the link for my friend's blog, it is ok. Just click the space that is there and it should take you to his blog :)

The Great Schism

The Great Schism was when 2 popes were elected at once when the French Cardinals rebelled against Pope Urban VI. Urban was a bit crazy and would embarrass the cardinals out in public by throwing a fit and/or tantrum. So the cardinals vowed not to call him their pope anymore, and elected a cardinal to be their pope.  They took him to France, and so forth their became 2 popes: One in France, and one in Italy.

The French Pope was Clement V. Each Pope had 3 countries that followed them. Clement's followers were mainly from Spain, France, and Scotland. Urban had followers from Germany, England, and Italy. The council decided it would be best to wait until one died, and the one left standing would be the one and only Pope. Urban died first, but when he did, his followers still refused to turn to the French, and simply elected another pope. The same happened when Clement died.

The schism lasted from 1378 until 1417. It was finally resolved by the council of Constance. They confirmed the resignation of the old pope, and excommunicated the pope that refused to step down, and then elected Pope Martin V. This essentially ended the schism.

News

It is sometimes hard for me to go back and check all my comments to reply. So from now on, any of your requests and comments go on a page I am creating called Comments and Requests. It will be at the right-hand side of my blog next to the most recent post. Please use this page to leave comments etc. and the post that they are for.
Example:

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Anyway, it is the end of the month which means... BACKGROUND CHANGE!!! I am going to decorate the blog for Halloween. I am thinking of going for pumpkins or something up that alley. I seriously don't know yet, I will have to look in the backgrounds after I finish writing.

I have noticed no one has used the chatroom. Some people are not allowed in because of Java. JAVA WILL NOT DO ANYTHING TO YOUR COMPUTER!!! Just click that you allow Java to run and you are good to go. It has not damaged my computer, and it should not damage yours.

Gravity Falls Characters

Pacifica Northwest

Gravity Falls is a show on Disney Channel. Here are some of the characters:

Mabel Pines

   Mabel is a sweet, dorky girl who is the 12 year old twin of Dipper Pines. She is known to be very air-headed and silly most of the time. Her arch nemesis is Pacifica Northwest. Mabel loves sweaters and glitter.

Dipper Pines

      Dipper is a smart, on edge boy. He is the twin of Mabel Pines. He tends to overthink and gets tired of his sisters' foolishness. Dipper got his name because of his embarrassing birthmark that looks like the big dipper. He started covering it because of teasing. He is known to have a crush on Wendy. His nemesis is Robbie.

   

Wendy

Robbie

  Wendy is a lazy store clerk that is somewhat a tomboy. Dipper has a crush on her. She is a teenager, but is good friends with Dipper anyway. She has a boyfriend named Robbie who Dipper is extremely jealous of. She is very friendly.     

Grunkle Stan

     Stan is a stingy old man who owns the Mystery  Shack. He is the great uncle "grunkle" of Dipper and Mabel. He is strange, and kind of reclusive. He hates loud and noisy events. Stan seems to know what goes on in Gravity Falls, yet won't tell the children.

NJ

New Jersey was great. I did a lot of fun stuff. On the weekend, I went to see a movie with Dad. We also went to a small park and me and my sister just hung out for a little bit. Me and Dad saw Paranorman. It was OK. Not the best one I have seen. On Tuesday we went to see Finding Nemo in 3D. It was not the best picture to see in 3D because it was meant for 2D. It was alright.

On Sunday, everyone went to the aquarium. It was super fun. You should have seen my sister- she kept pressing her face up against the tank and saying "shark" in this amazed voice. It was HILARIOUS. I got to see the sea lion feeding. It was very neat. The sea lions could do some really cool tricks, like retrieving stuff and brushing their teeth. They got rewarded with dead fish and squid- eeewwww!!!

Dad did not get any jobs. That was a real bummer. But the rest of the trip was really fun. We even went to the boardwalk by the ocean. We ate some super good pizza and then went to the rides down at the end of the boardwalk. We loaded up on tickets and had fun. I even got DAD to go on a few rides with me (all though he was complaining about feeling sick after.)

I had a great time.
Maddie

Going down to NJ

Tomorrow, I am leaving for New Jersey. Dad has a few business meetings, so hopefully he will get some clients. I have my fingers crossed that all goes well for him. On Monday and Tuesday he is going to be in New York, so me and Ashleigh will be hanging out with Grandma. It should be fun.

On Saturday and Sunday, I am not sure what we are going to do. I am hoping that Dad might take me and Ashleigh to the zoo, but I don't think so. Hey! A girl can hope. Also, I would like to go to an art museum Dad was telling me about sometime. He said likely when we come up near Thanksgiving.

I can't wait to see the rest of my family. It should be a very fun trip. It will be really great if Dad can pick up a few clients. That would just make the whole trip for me, and for Dad too. Right now, Ashleigh and Grandma just finished packing. I am going to do mine now.
Maddie