Halloween

Tap. Tap. Tap. The sound came from inside the closet. Quietly, I crept toward the door and I screamed!  A bears paw had punched a hole through the door.  It moved and pulled out, the bear slammed against the door and it fell down.  I started to run - the bear chased me! I'm only 5 I don't know what to do! So I slammed the door in it's face and it yet again slammed down the door.  I ran to the white van were I kept all of my Halloween candy from the previous night.   I tired to start the van- but then I realized couldn't drive.  The bear came dashing out of the house and slammed its big paws on the van. He shook it roughly and I screamed trying to get people to help me.  But then I realized again I was in a home in the middle of nowhere, and the closest neighbor wasn't around for miles.
I heard a chainsaw start, then a bear's cry.  I heard a knocking on the van.  A clowns mask stared at me through the window.
"Hello little girl." He mouthed.  The chainsaw was raised.
I screamed and tried to get out of the car. But then I realized the all the doors were broken except for the one the clown was smiling at me from.   
Metal was broken through with the chainsaw and I continued screaming. I had fainted.
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When I had awakened I was back in my bed.  I felt odd. I looked down at her stomach and saw that there had been a large cut that was stitched together.  
The clown had taken my appendix.

TU Tuesday

http://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Legal-cleanup-in-online-aisle-2234594.php

supermarket turf battle 
         turf: place, or property
Price Chopper, with deep local roots,

           roots: A start or origin

Internet advertising is still wild and woolly.
          woolly: Fluffy character or appearance
luring throngs of curious shoppers.
         throng: densely crowded pack of humans

can appeal directly to Google  

             appeal: resort to greater power

This article I read for this week's TU Tuesday is "Legal Cleanup in Online Aisle" by Chris Churchill.  I picked this article because when I saw the title I didn't really understand what online thing could have to do with a supermarket.  Way back when, when everyone in the world didn't have access to computers, advertising would have never been thought to put on the internet. I never thought about a supermarket advertsing on the internet.  This article was about how the owner of Price Chopper sued ShopRite because when you searched Price Chopper on Google, ShopRite's advertisements would come up.  This case is taking place in a federal court in Albany, and Price Chopper is not happy- saying they believe "it and its customers were harmed by the ads."  Some people have argued that Google, and other search engines are to blame.  Since it is search engines who are in charge of the redirecting.  Mr. Drysdale, a co-founder of Outspoken Media, says that the "responsibility is on Google to monitor that."  Mr. Drysdale is knowledgeable because his firm is good with "internet marketing."

The words and phrases I took represent how there is a "supermarket turf battle" going on with Price Chopper and ShopRite in New York. Price Chopper has "deep local roots" meaning they've been here for a long time, while ShopRite on the other hand is newer to the area. Since this was a case over advertising I had thought that it was interesting, I didn't know that "Internet advertising is still wild and woolly."  These advertisements that come from the internet "lur[e] throngs of curious shoppers" into their store.  Since RiteAid's advetisements came up when people searched for Price Chopper, Mr. Drysdale believes that the fault "can appeal directly to Google."  

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061128562?ie=UTF8&tag=top.100-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0061128562

This book was my favorite as a child!  If I ever have kids, or a niece or nephew I will most definately read this to them when they're young.  My mom would always read this to me before I went to bed, and eventually I could read it by myself.  If You Give A Mouse a Cookie, and it's squeals (If You Give a Moose a Muffin, and If You Give a Pig a Pancake.) were my favorite series of picture books!  This crazy mouse story is about how if you give a mouse a cookie then he'll just want more and more! If you don't say no to the mouse after the first time he'll end up taking advantage of you! Throughout the story it keeps connecting items and items! For example if you give a pig a pancake he'll want syrup to go with it, then he will want a plate, and then he'll want to dress up, and somehow the book will end up linking to the pancake again in the last page of the book.  That is how this book went, but with a mouse and cookies.  Milk was a key factor in connecting with the cookie because when you think of cookies, what do you think of? I think of milk and how I don't like chocolate.  As a kid, you would probably just think of milk, because kids love milk! (Unless it's against their religion, and never had it or something weird like that.  Well.. If they are allergic then that's a no too!)  When I was small I would try to draw the mouse from this book with the cookie.  The book's style of art also drew me in. I always love art, and in fact I still do! I loved how the words kept connecting to other things. This book taught me how to keep connecting things with each other. One time when me and my friend, Sterling, did a improvisation camp at Proctors we played a game where we go in a circle and say the next word that comes to make it work.  That game reminds me of this book!