NaNoWriMo

www.NaNoWriMo.org is a website that encourages writing novels in the National Novel Writing Month. Basically you sign up and spend your entire November trying to write a novel (approx. 50,000 words) I think it is an intresting idea and decided to try and write for a while, not necessarily a novel and not necessarily in a month but it is writing. Currently a person I know is trying to write a novel to adjust out of a life of technical manuel writing into a life of writing more pleasurable things. Writing is an outlet in any shape or form, and this website is trying to encourage such.

Book Review: The Mixed up Files of Ms. Basil E Frakenwheiler

This book is about a girl and a boy who are siblings that run away to a museum. They live there for a while and the book is about the adventures they have there. The children even take a bath in the fountain during the night and collect the spare change at the bottom! As time passes they wonder about the statue that has been recently given to the museum. Will they find out where the statue is from and if it is real? A truly enchanting classic; you will want to read it again and again.

Book Review: The Goose Girl

The book has a classic fairytale ending but not at all the normal way of reaching it. The main character was a former crown princess until her mother decided that her brother was better for the position. She gets sent off to marry some unknown prince. Unfortunatly her lady-in-waiting has other ideas. There are so many twists and turns you never know that it will turn out Happily Ever After until the very end. It contains many dreams, betrayels and faithful friends. Read it and see what you think!

Cat Adoption Center

My sister is in girl scouts and her troop recently went to a cat adoption center. I was invited to go along so I went. The center was no kill, that meant that they don't put animals to sleep. It said it was a cat adoption center and it was. I mean it had 200 cats. But it also seemed to be a cat rights center. They believe in neutering and spaying but they don't believe in declawing cats, even the ones who scratch people. The odd thing is that they don't accept all of the cats at the center.

The system for taking care of feral (wild) cats is pretty neat. They have links with a few farms and will send the cats strait there. That way the cat can remain wild with lots of prey that the farmers don't like.

I do think they do a good job taking care of the cats. Each has a room they live in with other cats. The room is decided by what food they eat. It smells pretty good in each room. Some cats who don't try to run away get to just hang out on the secound floor. In all it was a good place but I still wanted to take one home (but my cat would have been jealous)