Games
Let go of my LEGO!!!
LEGO BUILDERS UNITE!
I am going to build my last Lego scene. It is the fight at Glod Durgur, Gold Digger, Dol Guldor. That’s it. Dol Guldor.
It has the last of the Lego characters I need to finish off my Bilogy. That’s two parts of the Trilogy. The first was the Gilogy. (Gandalf was the most important there.) Bilogy (Bilbo), the second movie, and the last movie, the Trilogy (Obviously Thorin.) My mind is a wonderland of amazement, sometimes even to me. Anyway, I have all the Major Characters so far. The only ones missing are the Eagles, and any that Sir Peter might throw in on the way home. The characters, Arkenstone, the characters. Right I have Gandalf, Bilbo, Thorin and the 12 Dwarves, Saruman, Radagast, Thranduil, Goblin King, Beorn, (he’s sooooo cute) Gollum, Legolas, Tauriel, Master of Lake town, Azog, Necromancer, Orcs, Goblins, Elves, soldiers and Wargs. Plus two big-ass spiders. I’ve decided that since I also have a poster of the map of Middle Earth I should lay the map down on the table and put the little Lego people at the places on the map with the little Dwarves marching along in a row.
So I think everyone out there who got Lego for their birthday or Christmas, or Yule, or Hanukkah or whatever holiday, or just went out and bought them should try to make a little diorama. You can use any thing in the scenes you need but you can’t just use the Lego built scene. See I would win. I have all the scenes. Yes, all of them. Including some from LOTR. I have one with Gandalf and Saruman that has the Big eye. It revolves. How about that? We’ll maybe have a vote with a prize. A bracelet with charms depicting the Movies…..I’ve just received a new order of cross bow charms. I had someone tell me the swords looked dangerous and some idiot would probably try to use it as a real weapon. I figured it would be themselves. Mwahaha. So here are the rules. I don’t do well with rules, and it’s my game, so they won’t be real hard.
All you have to do:
1. Write to me at village_witch at yahoo dot com and tell me you going to do a scene using Lego characters.
2. Tell me which characters you are going to use.
3. Take a couple of pictures and send them to me in jpeg form so I can put them in a blog. On sending in your picture, you will receive a number, so no one will know who they are voting for.
4. Vote on the one you like the best. You cannot vote for yourself and I will not be competing.
5. The Winner (the one with the most votes) will receive a One of a Kind Thorin’s Adventure Bracelet made by me. The runner up (second most votes) will receive a cup with a picture of their entry on it and their name.
Okay, then. Feel free to borrow your children’s Lego too, since I’m not asking you to send them to me. Orcrist thinks I have enough, thank you very much. Good luck to all and I hope I get a lot of entries.
Touch this picture. It will take you to a link.
If you don’t laugh, you don’t have a sense of humor.
Disclaimer: Everyone is invited to enter and you can do whatever you feel comfortable with doing to and with child’s toy. However, understand, that any pornographic pictures (you know what that is as well as I do) will not be displayed and will be deleted without comment. Let’s just say if you even have a passing thought that someone will be offended, I probably will be and so will someone else. Let’s keep it fun and clean.
I’m on a Soapbox Today…
Why I am on a soapbox today?
I am an avid reader. So blame my parents. Back in the day, when we did something wrong we were sent to our rooms. We didn’t have TV, computers, IPads, XBoxs, or any of those electronic devices we give our children, then rarely take away as punishment. Like Bilbo Baggins, the only entertainment I had back then had been my books. We weren’t punished with a 5 minute timeout. It was a 5-day time out. My favorite things were taken away and not returned until my punishment was over. I turned out pretty good, if I do say so myself. I respect my elders. I say “yes sir, and no, ma,am.” I say “please and thank you.” I understand personal space. I very rarely swear, even though I was a sailor. I never use the “F-word.” Young people nowadays use it because they think it is cool to type. It only makes them look stupid and illiterate. When my husband is playing an internet game he can immediately pick out the under 25 year olds. They are the ones who still use racial, sexist, and swear words during game play. Of course, they are usually thrown off the board almost immediately, but they just go to another board, under another name. Sometimes they use their parents ID. Then Dad or Mom is banned from the site. They have to go back on and explain to the Administrator of the site it was “someone else who hacked their computer.” Why do they do it? Because their parents haven’t taught them any better. Their parents haven’t taught them manners. They believe they are entitled. I was talking to my young nephew yesterday about personal space. Before we could even have an intelligent conversation, I had to explain what personal space was. It was sad.
I can put two words together and make a sentence. I can spell. I can write cursive. I don’t use internet abbreviations unless I have to. I don’t actually know most of them. I have to look them up. A friend of mine sent me a copy of a resume she got for an Executive Assistant job she’d advertised for. It was written almost completely in internet language. You know with pictures of eyes for the word “I” , “R” for “are” , etc. She sent back a picture of her throwing it in the trash can, with a note that said “when they learned how to write a resume she would consider them. Did you see the resume floating around the internet done in “My Little Pony” style? And they want six-figure jobs? What if I told you 69 percent of our college graduates cannot read at or above a “proficient” level.
To set the stage, a new disciplinary action guide-book has been written for the company where one had never existed. I have to write a lesson plan to teach a group of SUPERVISORS how to investigate and dispense disciplinary action evenly throughout a small company based on this new guidebook. There has been no set standard of practice and it is imperative that it be done. This group will include the Chief Financial Officer, President, and General Operating Manager, plus five Department Heads. All of them have at least a 4-year college education, some with Advanced Degrees.
I have to write the lesson plan as if I were writing it for students in the 8th grade just to make sure they all understand what I am saying.
That’s why I’m on a soapbox today, because I got in trouble and my parents made me read. I learned. I became aware. I wanted more. I am like a sponge absorbing information. I never quit learning.
As my sister the Wicked Witch of West would say–
“What a world, what a world.”