Sunday, February 24, 2008

what the hell??!

Warning: I wrote this really fast. oh my god, reading this over is making me laugh, but i refuse to retype it in a civil way.

So it's actually like T-shirt weather at a steaming 33 degrees (not kidding, it was very sunny) but because of windchill, and the fact that it was 33 degrees, I wore a sweatshirt. To the park. I walked to the park. God this post is going to be crappy. I dunno i'm on the adrenlinish blast that you get after seeing an action movie. Action movies are awesome. But i'll get to that later. So I walked the park and it was a freaking sauna and the park was very pretty. I wanted to take pictures of all of the pretty things I saw but didn't have the camera with me. The coolest things were what I just decided to call Squirrel Highways, little trails between trees that squirrels and other small animals seem to develop. I guess one will go that way, and another follows and soon all of the small animals are taking the paths of smallest resistance through the snow, which are were their brethren have trod before. So I saw one linking like 5 trees in all, it was so awesome. you could see all of their little paws. And then i decide to go check out that big open area behind the park because it's always really pretty and it's covered in ice and snow. So I hang out there for a while and it was really pretty and then I look over at the other side of this mini channel. There were a bunch of trees there and I was remembering visiting these two willows with my neighbor last spring.
I remembered that we called on mushroom willow because it had a bunch of mushrooms on it. Mushrooms, I mean willows are my favorite trees. And for anybody who doesn't know my ex-favorite tree/willow was cut down in the spring of sixth grade. It was really awesome because you could climb in it and it had a bunch of memories and willows are awesome. But anyway, I look over at the trees. And I realize that none of them were willows. AND THEN I SAW THE STUMP it was amazing that I could have missed it. That I could have missed the smell. Or the sight of the somewhat fresh (it was sort of orange colored) stump stuck in the ground with a pile of fresh shavings sitting next to it. I stood there for like three minutes with my hand over my mouth before I realized I was somewhat suffocating myself. So I went over and sat on the stump and was fuming. THEN I SAW THE SECOND STUMP Augh!!!! it was the two willows that I remember!! Both!! they were both cut down! i can't believe I didn't look for the second one when i noticed the first one was cut down. There was also this huge area between the trees with a bunch of willow shreddings. The smell was so sickening because it reminds me of the carnage of my own willow. Dead willow isn't something that you forget. Sort of like how I can't forget the smell of the strong incense and flowers they had at my grandpa's funeral in first grade. So that freaking pissed me off and was a huge surprise. I wrote RIP Willow in the snow on both of their stumps and left. But I brought some of their twigs home.

So afterwards, on a much happier note, I went to see Jumper. Two of my cousins canceled so it was just me, my dad, my aunt and my cousin. But it was really good. I enjoy action movies, like i cannot be a tough critic on action movies. Some people might call it garbage, but I was entertained, I was into the plot. I can enjoy like any movie as long as it's meant for a slightly mature audience and isn't trying to funny when it isn't. I hate "haha i'm dumb isn't this a funny movie" movies. But yeah, in my humblest opinion Jumper was an awesome movie. OH HA! The male lead was played by Hayden Christiansen, who was really good (he was Anikan in the 2nd and 3rd movie, but don't judge him by that) and I think that he should have been Edward instead of Cedric diggory (ick). And the girl that is going to play Bella in twilight was in the movie! she made a brief appearance at the end. Just long enough for Hayden to be in the same scene at her and for them to glare at eachother hostily for a second. That was such a funny coincidence. I think she'll be a good bella, btw.

Fin.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

i just heard about that movie from another friend!

Will said...

That's terrible, about the trees. I have a willow in my backyard. It is massive. One of these days there is going to a giant wind storm and it will fall and crush my house. There used to be two more willows in my backyard, but they fell over long ago, before they were tall enough to fall very far. It was so warm today! I went to lake of the isles to do some photography and all I had to wear was a light jacket. The action movie I really want to see is "In Bruges." It was showing at the uptown last weekend, but it might have moved onto the Lagoon by now. The main reason I want to see it is because they used a Pixies song in the trailer. :)

Anonymous said...

ha, what a good reason to see a movie :)

Anonymous said...

im sad to say that we had these giant oaks in our yard but they had to get cut down because they were sick and were rotting. now we have some maples. not nearly as big or cool.

Elesar said...

:( All tree slaughter is sad, even when you know that it has a good reason. I love how warm it was. These warm blasts in winter really stop me from going insane.
Ya, that movie is definitely awesome, it only has one really short "icky" part though. Sadly the trailer doesn't do it too much justice. Go pixies!

Phisoa said...

THAT IS SO SAD!
The poor trees!
How depressing!
Is there some kind of tree disease that effect only willows, or something?

Elesar said...

No, they're just apparently worrisome for foresters or whatever. The very first one was because they thought it was hollow, and it turned out not to be.