Not exactly Part III

I don't think there was anything left to put in Part III. I really thought there would be more, but I guess I kinda squished some stuff together. I squigethered stuff. Maybe.
I wanted everyone's opinion on something (and help if your brains are all working!). Some friends of mine and Belegwen's from co-op want to do a pirates of the caribbean movie with us. Not exactly a #3 or anything, just using the characters for a new movie. I came up with a plot and wanted peoples' opinions on it. I also need some help with a problem at the end.
If you haven't seen PotC III, you probably won't want to read this. It's not directly about the movie, but there are spoilers if you haven't seen it yet. Just skip until you see the big bold THE END sign.

Plot:

Barbossa's ghost is out to get Capt. Jack Sparrow, and he has the makings of his own fleet: the Interceptor II (stolen from His Majesty's Royal Fleet) and a pact with the Flying Dutchman. He offers Davy Jones Jack Sparrow in return for 5 men from the Flying Dutchman's crew. ("Jack is, after all, worth 100 souls, as you yourself said.") He receives the 5 men, including Wyvern and Bootstrap Bill Turner. Barbossa is marked with the black spot until he delivers Jack, to insure that his promise will be made good, and he's threatened with the kraken. Barbossa also agrees to return Davy Jones' heart to him.
Jack can't run forever: he must face his fears in the shape of Barbossa's ghost. Meanwhile Will's marriage is again interrupted by Jack, who comes to demand Will's help in return for freeing his father (Bootstrap Bill). When Norrington comes to Gov. Swann and says he would like to help by dissuading Will from helping Jack, Swann accepts. Then Elizabeth discovers what her father has done and runs away to save Will from Norrington.
Jack wants to vanquish Barbossa's ghost and kill Davy Jones, and when Will helps only under the condition that Jack return's the Interceptor II, Jack agrees, keeping in his mind that he'll barter the ship back to Becket in return for Jones' heart. (Jack will then have killed Barbossa and Davy Jones, and he will be free). He would also like the Pearl back if possible.
Will wants to free his father and marry Elizabeth, along with returning the Interceptor II to the Navy. He tells Jack that he'll help him in return for his father, but only if Jack returns the Interceptor II.
Norrington wants to kill Will and Jack. He is now commander of the Dauntless and has naval authority from Becket to do so.
Barbossa wants to kill Jack. If possible, he also wants to double-cross Davy Jones and become the "Immortal Captain of the Flying Dutchman." He has his monkey.
Elizabeth wants to marry Will, but first she has to save him from Norrington. She also wants to help Will in any way possible.
Gov. Swann wants to keep Elizabeth out of harm, and to dissuade Will from helping Jack.
Becket wants to kill Will and Jack.


Becket commissions Norrington to kill Captain Jack Sparrow and capture Will Turner dead or alive, but devises his own scheme when Jack shows up at his front door with the Interceptor II looking for the heart of Davy Jones. He decides to capture Jack on his way out, but unfortunately for Becket Jack sends a decoy: Will, dressed as Jack. Will escapes with the heart of Davy Jones, but without a ship. He lies and tells Jack that he lost the heart, for he intends to trade it to Barbossa in return for his father. Barbossa won't break his pact with Jones (or kill him) until he's killed Jack, and he asks Will to help him. Will refuses, so Barbossa takes him as prisoner, but Will won't reveal where the heart is. In truth, he gave it to Elizabeth in Port Royal for safekeeping. When Jack shows up on the Black Pearl (after visiting Tia Dalma) to kill Barbossa, he brings Elizabeth along as a hostage, because he learned from Norrington that Will had lied. Jack doesn't know that Elizabeth has the heart. Norrington failed to take Jack so he was decommissioned. Will takes the heart back from Elizabeth, and tells Jack he'll give him the heart if Jack will let Elizabeth go and abide by the former terms (i.e. Interceptor II is already returned, but Jack must free Will's father). Jack agrees. Will won't surrender the heart until he has his father back, but Jack needs the heart in order to barter for the father. He explains this and Will trusts him (never trust a pirate).
Tia Dalma has given Jack Barbossa's heart, which Jack must stab in order to kill Barbossa. Nobody knows this yet except Jack and Tia Dalma. She gave him Barbossa's heart and raised the Black Pearl from the depths in return for Jack ridding the world of Davy Jones. Jack tells Barbossa that he'll give him Davy Jones' heart in return for Bootstrap, but he gives him his own (Barbossa's) heart instead. They fight, because Barbossa is supposed to bring Jack to Davy Jones. Jack lets Barbossa win (but not obviously). Barbossa brings Jack to the Flying Dutchman, intending to bring Jones' heart to him but to stab it before his eyes. He will then kill Jack, who is bound. Jack informs Will of the "change of hearts," and they form a plan. Will will sneak onto the Flying Dutchman, and will set Jack free in time for him to stab Jones' heart before Jones kills him. All goes according to plan: Barbossa stabs his own heart and dies; Will unbinds Jack and gives him Jones' heart, which he'd held onto to ensure that Jack's promise would be kept. Jack kills Jones, frees Will's father, and then starts his own fleet with the Flying Dutchman and the Black Pearl. Will and his father are re-united, and he and Elizabeth are married. Jack's new crew is comprised of Gibbs and the old crew, plus the Flying Dutchman crew.

Now the only thing left is…what to do with Norrington? That's my problem. See, I thought about giving him amnesia, but I thought that would be a little too cliché. I don't really want to do that. Plus, I thought killing him off would be a little mean. I mean, he's not quite deserving of death. At least I don't think so. The thought crossed my mind of marooning him, but either we'd need to do a sequel after that (which I don't think they want to) or that would be considered killing him. My dad said he should fall in love or Tia Dalma should cast a spell on him, or both. What do you guys think?

THE END

Okay, whoever didn't read that can come back now. Sorry, just needed an opinion. It's funny--the things I do that don't matter too much, I get really worried about other peoples' opinions. Like if I cook something or if I have an idea, as long as I'm not totally passionate about it, I ask like 5 times "what do you think of it?" But when it comes to my beliefs or stuff like dressing conservatively or something that I've made up my mind to do no matter what people think, then I'm really confidend and independent and don't worry about their opinions. I guess it's better that way than the other way around...

;)

I miss you peoples!!!!! It sounds to me like everyone is kind of getting tired or worn out or something. It's probably the weather and getting really involved in school stuff.

Are you back yet Eowyn and Michaela? Did you have tons of fun?!?!?!?!?!?!?

So, everyone tell me at least on interesting thing they've done in the past week. I miss hearing from all of you.

Namarie, melloni nin!

~Verya

P.S.

I'm entering a story contest next month. When I've finished writing my story, I'll post it and see what you guys think of it.

Part II (Doesn't that title seem way too short? Maybe it needs a song lyric or somthing...)

There I go with the dot-dot-dots again. :( I'll never outgrow it. I guess old habits die hard.
Ok, before I go on to part II, I want to talk about two days ago and what I did, and also the movie we watched a couple nights ago (grossness!). Well, I guess that all is part of Part II.
I'd like to preface this by saying that we don't watch movies everyday, because it may start to seem like that. We only get about three channels on TV, so we watch more movies than the average household, but not that many. Just lately, we've activated a Christmas gift we got from my grandparents: 3 months of free Netflix. So Mom wants to watch the movies and get them sent back soon. And we've had a lot of free nights after busy days. Just didn't want you all to think that all we do is watch movies. ;)
So two nights ago we watched Red Eye. Just came out recently, and it's this movie about an assassin dude on a plane, and he basically uses the pretty hotel manager next to him to help him kill the government guy. Only she doesn't co-operate. You can all guess how Hollywood ends it (same as every other movie of course), but it was so gross because she had to get away, and she ends up sticking a pen in his throat. :( *sickness*
Yeah.
And then he grabs a scarf to wrap around the hole in his windpipe while he's chasing her around the airport, and he can hardly breathe.
I get a little squeamish when it comes to sticking pens in peoples' throats. You can't really blame me for that now, can you?
Then yesterday we watched Poseidon, which was supposed to have my second cousin in it, only they cut out her scene (she was an extra). Go figure. They always do that to the extras...
But it was really really really good. And Klaus Badelt did the music!!!!!!!
Mr. Pirates of the Caribbean piraty music dude. At least, for the first movie. Until he and Mr. Director got in a fight and Hans Zimmer had to do the second one...not a bad replacement though:) Ha-ha.
Oh yeah, everyone go haunt Belegwen's blog because she promised me she'd post. And she wants lots of comments.
But Poseidon was pretty clean, all things considered (lot less swearing than you would think for a movie about a ship getting hit by a rogue wave and flipping over and then taking a long time to sink). And I knew a couple of the actors (Kurt Russel and Josh Lucas) from other movies, so that's always cool.
And today we went to the theater because through my orthodontist I get free movie tickets after every teeth cleaning. That's really sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We saw One Night With the King. It's a movie about Esther, and that whole story, and it was really well done. And the actors! I knew like half the cast!
To start with, uncle Mordecai is our beloved dwarf Gimli (John Rhys-Davies), and then we have the power-hungry delusional prince who wants to become king (again, every stinkin' movie!) with a long, hard-to-pronounce name, played by our favorite bad guy (after Sean Bean, of course), Denethor, lord and steward of Gondor (John Noble). And then the eunich (I really can't hear that word without thinking of Pirates, lovely singing voice though; eunich!) who takes care of Esther was the black pirate from PotC, the one who hits Elizabeth at the beginning. I don't know his name...I could look it up if I really cared that much I guess... Then king Xerxes looked familiar, but I'll have to look it up to see if I know him from anything. And the last guy was the king's general, who was played by Omar Sharif, who is the sheik dude in Hidalgo.
I was waiting for a few mor LotR members, but, you know, you can't hog 'em all! It was a really good movie though.
Two nights ago during Red Eye, my dad made popcorn. I honestly hope that someday you all have a chance to savor the heaven of my dad's popcorn, but until that day, Belegwen is my witness that it's the best in the world. Without question.
Yes, I have braces. No, I haven't had any of my dad's famous popcorn since I got them on over a year ago. Yes, I had some!!!!!!!!!!! *happy sigh*
Also had a Honeycrisp apple. Have you tried them? They're those huge ones as big as your face (well, if you have a super-small face that is) that cost like $2/lb. And I know why now....heaven.....
Oh and the other thing! I finally got pictures taken of me and my cats! I mean, professionally. And they turned out so great!!! Besides the fact that Comet was a major major pill. But she mellowed down some at the end. And Lil was great! And I also got some shots of just me. I'll post some of the cats when we get them. If anyone wants to see some, let me know and I'll e-mail them to you. It was a lot of fun.
Yesterday I got bored so I made chocolate mousse cups. You make chocolate mousse (a project in itself) and then you put it inside these cups that you make by: taking a muffin cup thingy and painting melted chocolate chips into it. Then you let it harden. Then you do another layer. Then you let it harden. Then you do another layer. Then (can you guess? I'll give you a big hint....we've been doing it ALL DAY LONG!!!!!!!!!!!) you let it harden. And finally you take the muffin wrappers off and put the mousse in.
Then you eat them all.
Well, maybe save one or two for your parents...I guess. *evil laugh* Mwahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!! *laughs evilly and hysterically*
I'm so glad the Seahawks won today!!!!!!! Because my dad was happy instead of grumpy!!!!!!!
Really, football's ok, but it's not my thing. My dad confuses me when he tries to talk about stats and explain details, and my mom and dad scream like crazy people when they watch the games and it get weird. I like it, but not nearly like I love baseball. It was a great game though. Really quickly: We were winning 27-21 over the Rams with like 2 1/2 minutes left in the game, then they scored a touchdown to make it 28-27. Then we used I think two downs to get it to the 45 yrd line (or somewhere in there, I'm sure dad would be correcting me left and right: "It was 2 min. 36 sec.! It was the third down! So and so passed it and what's his face rushed it! It wasn't 45 it was the 56th yrd. line! You get the picture. I don't pay much attention to detail. That's why I'm bad at chemistry, ha-ha). Anyway, we had to kick it from there, with literally 3 seconds left on the clock. Long story short ('cause I know you don't want my dad's version) we made it as the buzzer went off the win the game 30-28. It was very intense and exciting.
W/E
:) ;)
The only other thing I wanted to tell everyone was that I submitted and application for a volunteer position at the library, and should be hearing back next week as to wether I'm excepted or not. I really hope I am!!! This is something I've wanted to do for a while, and if I do volunteer work there for a while, then maybe I can try out for a job there in a couple years! We'll see...
Thanks everyone for listening to my ramblings once again. It so nice to be back on!
Verya

Back from the dead... Also known as: Friday, October 13th, with a new moon.

Ok, I hope it won't be like this every year when school starts. Just like Lego said, I didn't miss it that much (blogging, I mean), but now that I'm back, I'm wondering how I ever lived without it. I feel like I've missed so much, and I really miss all of you guys. I hope everything will be like it was again soon.
That's the thing about me - I don't like change. I hate having to move on and continually adapt to newness. Is everyone like that? Or do some people relish the continual movement and freshness of their lives? I like new, just not change and adaptation.
Sorry.
Ok, so this mini story of my life may take place in several parts. Part I, starting now.
"Ladies, gentlemen and other persons: Please pay very attentive attention to this serial, or at bare minimum feign, profess, simulate, or produce any other type of masked emotion to pretend you are interested. Please turn off all pagers, cell-phones, televisions, radios, palm-pilots, lights, electronic clocks, electronic musical instruments, baby monitors, model airplane remotes, or any other electronically controlled devices that may become distracting to you with the exception of your CPU and monitor components of your computer. We ask that you remain in your current postition at all times, and do not make any changes to that position. (i.e. do not close your mouth that may be hanging open, do not change your hair length or style, do not apply or remove any makeup or other cover-up devices, do not make voluntary use of muscles not used to govern natural, involuntary bodily functions). Lastly and most importantly of all, do not slurp your soda or loudly and obnoxiously crunch your popcorn, as this is disturbing to your neighbor and can cause annoyance, which, as you know, leads to irritability, which is the number one symptom of the first (Prodromal) stage of feline rabies. As a last word, we hope you survive through Part I without loss of any important items, such as brain cells, shoes, or pet wallabies. Thank you, and enjoy your trip home after the First Part. We hope you are coherent enough to wish to return for Part II at the end.
Ma chere, mademoiselle. It is with depest pride, and greatest pleasure that we welcome you tonight. And now, we invite you to relax, let us pull up a chair, as the dining room proudly presents: you dinner.
Be our guest, be our guest/Put our service to the test/Tie your napkin 'round you neck cherie/and we'll provide the rest/Soup tou jour/hot ourderves/why we only live to serve/try the gray stuff it's delicious/don't believe me, ask the dishes/they can sing/they can dance/after all miss/this is France/and a dinner here is never second best/come on unfold your menu/take a glance and then you'll/be our guest/oui our guest/be our guest...
Trying to memorize, have the first verse down, and the tag. It's coming along though.

So, I guess Part I can be vacation. Last week we went on vacation to Ashland, OR. We left Saturday morning, and I promptly discovered that I had forgotten my chemistry book "somewhere." I knew it wasn't at home, it obviously wan't in my bags, so it had to be at the co-op church, or someone took it home. We were near the church so we went and looked around and through lost and found, but it wasn't anywhere! So I called a friend who had started taking the class but had switched after the second week to see if I could borrow her book. She was home and said yes. Thank the Lord, I got my chemistry done, and my teacher had noticed that I forgot my book and had taken it home with her! So I got all my homework done.
We drove to Portland, and spent the night with my mom's aunt and uncle (the same aunt I went to India with). We went to Chinese for dinner, and I drank 8 cups of tea (it's addicting...yeah), then we played cards together until about midnight, and then went to bed. We have a few games that we always play together when we go down.
I'm so glad I type 45 wmp. I just got tested, hehe!
So the next morning we packed up and headed south. And speaking in up-down terms, north. I didn't know southern OR was so mountainous! Now I know. We got to our hotel about 5ish, and got settled in. I took a shower, then we got ready to go.
I don't know if you know, but Ashland every year hosts a great Shakespeare festival. That's why we went. They do lots of plays, basically. So Sunday night was Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
I really don't want to talk about it much, because I know I can't do it justice. It was sooooo good! I'd much rather tell people face-to-face or over the phone, but since I can't, I'll just say that the actor who played Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde was absolutely fantabulous!!!!!! (Yes, I made that up and I have copywrite). Really though, he did such a great job! The play overall was very good, maybe even fantastic, except that they changed the story a little. Ex.: They gave Jekyll a sister and a niece and nephew, and also added a maid and added some not-so-great stuff to it. What else can you expect though? It wasn't too bad, for a live play in this day and age. The cast made up for everything.
Ok, so Sunday's over. Wait no it's not! This it too funny not to tell! I was pretty much famished at the end because we never really ate dinner, so we were gonna go to a fast food place really quick and grab something (because they were the only places open after 11:00). So we pull into Burger King parking lot, and just as we pull in - the lights go out and they close. Go figure. Just our luck. Then all the McDonald's and other places are closed at 11:00. Finally, we found a Jack in the Box that was open. Thank goodness!!!
Ok, now Sunday's over. Monday we went to Crater Lake. So blue!!! I'll try to post pics of it tomorrow. If you haven't seen it, all I can say is: go see it. It was really incredible! But cold!!! Rogue River was also fascinating. Then Monday night we went to this Family Fun Center in the same town as our hotel, where we'd noticed a cute mini-golf course place thingy. So mom bought some tokens and we played some arcade games, won a bunch of tickets, bought a hackisack and a bunch of Tootsie rolls, then played golf. Let's just say it wasn't great where I was concerned...but it was a lot of fun!!! Putting's not my greatest area in golf... Anyway, they also had a little driving range there, so dad and I split a bucket of balls and hit at the driving range for a while. And: I hit the golf cart dude who was sweeping up the golf balls! don't panick, he's protected by plexiglass, but it was kinda cool. I don't know why I yelled Fore, there was nothing he could have done and he couldn't possibly here me, plus he wasn't in any danger. Habit I guess.
Teusday we just sorta bummed around most of the day. We played games, went to Borders bookstore and read and hung out, then drove around looking for something to do. When we couldn't find anything, we went back to the hotel and watched some baseball. Playoff games stuff. I hope St. Louis Cardinals win the World Series!!! Then dad and I went to the driving range again, and mom hung out and read. We met at Sherry's right next to the hotel and had breakfast for dinner, before going to see the Merry Wives of Windsor. Agian, fantabulous! It's a comedy, and they sure played it up! It was really good. They had some fantastic actors/actresses! Both plays were extremely well done.
So, the hotel had high-speed, but it was beyond finicky, so I couldn't really post. We did the number game and got up to 309 (mostly because we used the mile marker signs until we reached WA again, cheating, pirates). The hotel also had a killer continental breakfast (why do they call them that? continental?) with awesome waffles that you make yourself. They have the batter made, and they have this awesome waffle maker thay you basically just pour the batter in, flip the iron, and wait for the timer to go off. Perfect every time. And really good syrup, and whipped cream and strawberries!
Wednesday we came home, and I got to see my kitties again!!!!!!! *goes crazy* Kitties!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love my cats.
Ok, that's vacation. My eyes are starting to close, so, adieu! Parting is such sweet sorrow and all that rot and rubbish. Stay tuned for Part II. Namarie.