Hey there!
Um, my author's note has gotten frightening long these past few chapters so we'll skip to the review replies.
Review replies:
Dancingchocolatesmudge – Yes! I saw her and I right about had an internal freak attack spasm because I love Belle! That's alright. My mother makes predictions during EVERY MOVIE WE WATCH TOGETHER. (And she's always right.) Predict all you need to, just don't say it loudly in my ear repeatedly like some people have done on occasion. :) Glad you were entertained! :)
Luna Baudelaire – Yes, I do too! I most likely will, but it just might take a bit longer than planned because homework is still eating me like it was last semester. :p Oh my gosh, that sucks! I would be so completely and utterly furious if that happened to me if it took two months to come up with a chapter. Oh yeah, I heard about that Mega Con. I want to meet the Weasley twins! Where is it exactly? Your name is Purseaphone? Woah, that is amazing! What if Persephone was, like, your patron or something like Hera is for Jason? O.o Aw, thank you! Really? I'm one of two? I feel so special now thank you very much! :)
KlausBaudelaireTheBookworm – Haha, if it helps, I'm a complete fangirl over things like Disney movies and new toothpaste. :) Are you taking Chemistry, too? Goodness, isn't it awful? It's eating me. Literally. Aw, thank you! I really am flattered you are doing that just to read my story, but I think you should get some sleep. Just a little bit. :)
CaffeinatedKitty – I love it, too! Maybe I'm Dreaming is my morning album and I actually haven't listened to All Things Bright And Beautiful all the way through yet. I've heard all the songs, just not all together. One on CD. You should get his old album Of June if you don't already, his older works are so pretty. :) (Actually they all are…) Really? I've never noticed that! Now I have to charge my ipod for the first time in two months and to try that! Anywho…my teacher caught me typing on the keyboard andI was just treating it like an instrument for Early Birdie and he was all "What are you doing?!" and I was all "I'm just typing, the keyboard is so soft!" Haha, well, I'm happy the chapter entertained you! It really was just randomness that sprouted from my boredom. :)
Aphroditegirl700 – I love that song too; it's my morning song! :D And I love enchanted, I squealed like an immense fangirl the first time I heard it. :) Really? Is she crazy really mean one you told me about? If so, congratulations! You were awarded temporary magical unicorn luck-ness! Isadora being a bridesmaid…that is not a bad idea…I was planning for a wedding chapter anyways…Aww, you're so lucky! We haven't blown anything up yet, but I'm an Aunt Josephine when it comes to science, I will be standing as far away as possible when the experiment is being done. Anywho, thank you very much, I will keep trying. :)
IzzyQuagmire0907 – xD You know, I think it probably did! The magic of Owl City is with us! :D
Zoe Snow – Haha yeah, I love mine too, but they always find a way to annoy me in the littlest way. But none of them as bad as Marie and Noah…I think….:)
Nuttierthansquirelpoop – Aww thank you! Ew, a Noah. That can't be good. Those kinds of children are terribly annoying. :p Thanks again. :)
Flora11 – Haha thank you so much, I'm glad it was entertaining for you! As for the chemistry, thanks for caring, hopefully the good luck will kick in and I will get out of it alive. :)
Dude with the Tattoo – Woah, you're not seriously like the cousins, are you? They're supposed to be terrible! xD Yeah, my mom is like that too, but the weirdness of mothers is part of why you love them. X) Thanks for the tip, I'll try to keep that in mind. Maybe I should stop being lazy, too, that might help…especially since I've been procrastinating all day when I should have been studying asif my life depended on it with all the tests I'm having Tuesday. *dies* Hopefully the good luck will kick in, thanks for that. :) You're welcome, it's the least I could give. X)
FreezingSapphire – Good, I was starting to get a bit worried about my brother. He also loves Disney Princess movies. Like he doesn't obsess over them he just likes watching them…is that weird? Should I be concerned? He's honestly not as terrifying as I thought he was but the work will eat me alive. I started Chemistry not last Thursday but the Thursday before. Aw, poop it. I'll fix it…eventually, like, when I have absolutely nothing to do. Thank you! All the reviews are very much appreciated and I'm so grateful! :)
Nutellaa – I'll do my best not to die! I just might take a short break, that's all, I promise! Do you seriously do that? *thankful amazement* Haha, yes there will definitely be some Nutella at their wedding! :)
Smoreo1235 – Cool! Even though I'm not in Slytherin, I admire that House. It's so…Slytherin. Your godly dad hates me by the way. *cough* um…I think I may be a part of Nerdom, because I am very nerdy when it comes to fandoms, but you may have already come to that conclusion. :) Haha yes the Aunt Josie thing…I didn't actually notice it until a few minutes after I typed it. I fail. Well, I don't have an Instagram but I have a really boring Facebook and a really boring Twitter. Well, I'm glad you liked the chapter keep being a Smoreo! :)
Book lover – Yes, that love triangle is coming very soon in the story and it will be hinted at (just a little bit) in this chapter. Oh, and I'll be giving credit to you for the idea, you brilliance. :) Thanks for the review, I'm happy you liked the chapter! :)
Pottergirl1 – Aw, that really sucks. :/ As good as an idea as that sounds, I might not be able to stick it in here…but I could make it into a one-shot for you! Will that make you feel better? :) Thank you, I'm very happy you like them! But could you clarify on what you meant by the themes? I'm sorry, it's three am and I can't think straight. Thanks again. :)
Thank you so much everyone! Really! So please enjoy the chapter while I pass out from complete exhaustion!
The Isadora Diaries:
Update:
Friday, March 23rd (Evening)
Salutations, my little laptop.
I am currently locked in my room, isolated from the human race because I am currently mad at it.
Mmm, maybe 'mad' isn't the right word here…how about 'frustrated'?
Yes, that's better. I am currently frustrated with the species that are humans.
Laptop if you were looking forward to another update on my dramatically awkwardness yet sweet moments with Klaus then you might as well shut yourself down right now because that is not what you are getting. I'm going to put this whole diary thing to use and actually talk about things that are supposed to magically help me after I type it all down.
Why?
Because I haven't learned anything in the six months I've been using this darn thing(like I should have been) and if there is anytime I need some sort of psychological help that I could magically get by typing all my problems down, that time is now.
So we'll start with something that irks me to no end.
Really stupid people.
Otherwise known as idiots.
And, no, I am not talking about Bea. She's a therapist's daughter of course she's not that normal. I'm talking about real and true idiots who don't know anything about anything.
Let us start with the mainstream annoyances that overuse anything that becomes popular in all the wrong ways.
More specifically, my cousin.
My cousin, Marie, has an obsession with the acronym 'YOLO'.
She just got here this afternoon and I've heard her use it about 78 times already.
Duncan's been jotting tally marks in a notebook every time she's said it.
When my Aunt Josie and her kids arrived, they had about enough bags to fill up our living room. Those bags were mainly Marie's. My first thought was, "Good God, you're staying for a week, not a bloody century." When Aunt Josie told her to bring her bags up to her guest room (that I was so honored to lead her to *sarcasm*) Marie deliberately ignored her mother's orders and said, "YOLO." Then she pulled out her iPhone and walked upstairs herself as if she magically knew where her room was.
When Marie finally found her room (that I oh-so-graciously helped her to find) she asked me where her private bathroom was.
Let's take a moment and let that sink in.
Marie is a guest in my house. A cousin, but a guest nonetheless. Yet she asks about a private bathroom as if she were staying in a hotel instead of my house.
I informed Marie that there was a perfectly usable bathroom down the hall that she could use and she responded with a scoff and, "YOLO."
Okay, what is 'YOLO' even to supposed to mean in this situation? You Only Live Once so you should be entitled to your own private bathroom? Is that what she meant?
About an hour later, my mom called me into the living room with her Aunt Josie and they asked me if I could please bring Marie down for them. I obeyed and went upstairs to retrieve Marie. When I got to her room, I found her aimlessly scrolling through Facebook on her iPad. I told her that her mum wanted her and she simply said, "I'll go down there when I'm finished here."
I felt the need to be a bit of a smart mouth at that particular moment so I said to her, "Don't you think your mom is more important than Facebook?"
Do you know what her response was?
That's right.
"YOLO."
You Only Live Once so you should ignore your own mother who is the one that bought you the iPad that you are scrolling through Facebook on. Isn't that a lesson brilliantly learned?
And I said that to her, too. She only said, "Oh, shut up, Isadora, what do you know about anything? You have absolutely no life. I found your Facebook by the way and you don't even have 500 friends. Get a social life and then you'll understand just how busy I am."
I should record her the next time she starts talking and then replay it for her so that she can hear just how stupid she sounds.
I have also learned today just how crazily stupid Marie is. She's not just regular stupid she's also a crazy stupid. If you want your Klaus update savor he little bit you're going to get while you have it because here it is:
Klaus was walking me home after we watched The Avengers together. It was amazing by the way.
I cried.
Anywho…
We were walking across the street when this monstrous vehicle comes swerving and skidding all the way down road—while Klaus and I were standing in the middle of it! If Klaus hadn't pulled me back to the safety haven of his lawn I'd be a pancake right now because I had absolutely no idea where to run to. The car was literally just slamming into the sidewalk then swerving into the sidewalk on the other side of the road, all the while going about 70 to 80 miles per hour.
You have absolutely no idea how I felt when the car pulled into my driveway and almost ran straight through my house.
Thank goodness that mad man of a driver found the brakes.
Klaus and I curiously crossed the street to find out who the mysterious driver was. The driver was none other than Marie. She stepped out of the car while she was texting.
Please don't text and drive, you'll only kill people and everyone will think you are an immense idiot which you probably are if you text and drive.
I don't know why I'm telling you this. You're a laptop; you don't do anything but sit on my bed all day.
Anywho…
Instead of greeting my cousin with a 'hello' like a normal relative who is capable for holding in her feelings of wanting to seriously maim another relative, the first thing I said to her was, "Who on this corrupted earth would put you behind the wheel of an actual car on an actual road with actual pedestrians that you could actually run over and kill because you were too busy texting to notice that Klaus and I were walking across the street and you almost killed us."
Marie rolled her eyes and said, "Oh my gosh, calm down. It's not like I did kill you."
It was around that time that she spotted Klaus next to me and started an eye spasm which I think was meant to be her winking.
And that is Marie for you.
As for Noah...he's a little brat that gets whatever he wants by screaming and crying.
Go figure.
He likes to bother my poor brother, Duncan, by going into his room and throwing all of his clothes from the drawers onto the floor. He hasn't even been here all day and he's done it three times already. He also found out about Duncan's crush on Bea (there's a picture of them together on his nightstand…it's not that hard to conclude...) and now Noah is constantly terrorizing poor Duncan on how much Duncan is supposedly in love with Bea.
"Duncan's got a girlfriend!"
"I bet you dream about her every night."
"I'm going to go to her house and tell her you're in love with her."
I feel really bad for him.
Like really.
As for my Aunt Josie I have a feeling that Mr. Snicket based Aunt Josephine from the ASOUE series off of my Aunt Josie.
Aunt Josephine.
Aunt Josie.
It's not that hard to put together.
Aunt Josie, however, doesn't know about Aunt Josephine because she has never read the ASOUE series. She's afraid of reading because she might get a paper cut when she flips the page and she might not have a Band-Aid on her and she'll get infected with some disease uncommon in our country like Ebola and die an awful, terrifying death.
But she'll let her daughter text and drive while they are in the same car together.
Yeah. Okay.
We had to give Aunt Josie a room on the ground floor because she's afraid of stairs. (She might trip on something fall up the stairs and break her neck and die.) We had to put a house phone in her room just in case she starts having a heart attack or something drastic and random and we're too far away to help her and she'll die on the spot. We also had to give Aunt Josie her dinner blended together because she's afraid of choking on food and dying because the people around her might not know the Heimlich maneuver and she'll die at the dinner table. I think she's forgotten that my mother has a medical degree. I also think that there is one rational fear that is the reason for all of her irrational fears.
And that fear is Death.
I believe that death is normal fear. I mean, no one knows what really happens when you die. People have strong opinions that they might believe are facts, but no one actually knows or has any proof of what goes on over on the other side. Crossing over being alive to being dead is like crossing into unknown territory and I think that is too much to handle for my poor irrational aunt.
After Aunt Josephine stated her fear of microwaves and falling refrigerators (sound familiar?), I suggested very nicely that she started seeing a therapist as soon as possible and my own therapist only lived a few houses down and would love to meet her.
I got grounded.
But, since I still have my laptop, it's only a mild grounding. Even if it was a bit rude, I do think that my parents fully agreed with me and I think they'll make sure that Aunt Josie gets a session with Mr. Snicket before she leaves next week.
A nice straitjacket would work for her, too. Actually it work for all three of them.
By the way, I can be mean about the three of them because they are not actually blood. Aunt Josie is my dad's cousin (which technically makes her my cousin but I have to call her 'Aunt' out of respect for something) and, get this:
She was adopted.
So, actually, I am not real blood to any of these people!
I think my dad enjoys this fact more than I do and I really don't know why. After Aunt Josie, Marie and Noah arrived, my dad pulled me and my brothers aside and asked, "Alright, do you remember what I told you about your Aunt Josie?"
"That she's adopted!" Duncan said, proudly knowing the answer.
"Yes, and what else?" my father asked, looking at Quigley.
"Don't do anything at all while we are in her presence," Quigley answered.
Dad nodded. "Yes. But why…?" my Dad turned to me and I answered, "Because she's afraid of everything."
My dad clapped his hands together and smiled. "Precisely. Now go out there and try not to breathe too hard. Maybe we'll get out of this alive."
That's what my dad does just about every time we have to be around Aunt Josie for any period of time. We have rules on how to act around Marie and Noah as well.
One: Always smile when talking to them.
Two: Seriously maim them if they anything even remotely stupid.
Okay, so the second one isn't really a rule, I came up with that. But that would be a rule I could follow. I honestly cannot bring myself to be nice to Marie and Noah whenever I talk to them, so I try to talk to them as little as possible. They don't really pay much attention to me anyways. Noah is always following Duncan around, terrorizing him tremendously; Marie is usually too busy texting or scrolling through Facebook to tease me as much as she used to; and Aunt Josie is always asking Quigley to do favors for her.
She literally works that poor boy to the bone. And Quigley doesn't want to be rude so he does what she says. And her requests gradually get weirder and weirder as the day goes on.
It started out with the request of Quigley bringing her bags to her room. That's a pretty normal task.
But then her requests got a bit strange. She would ask Quigley to help stretch her arms and to fetch her some onions.
The strangest one however, was the one where I watched her pull a half-alive goldfish in a bag out of her purse and asked him to give it a bath.
She's irrationally afraid of everything but she can keep a goldfish in a bag in her purse.
Okay.
And the fact that she wants Quigley to give it a bath was just…I can't even…you get it.
It is people like my Aunt Josie and cousins Marie and Noah that make me super mega ultra-frustrated with the world because I know there are more people out in this world just like them. Even though I know isolating myself in my room won't keep them away, it helps.
So take and run away with it, Laptop, my unrelated relatives are seriously crazy.
If there's anything that I learned in the time it took me to type all this, it's that they're crazy. Period.
I'll probably be back with more complaints on them so, until then, good night!
When I came up with The Isadora Diaries, I wanted it to be full of chapters like this one and better. And now it's basically a Kladora love story.
EPIC FAIL.
So, just so you guys know, I will not be uploading next week.
Why?
Because I am unhealthily stressed, that's why.
I have several pounds of homework to do and I'm super sleepy but I haven't been getting any sleep and I'm stressing about uploading so…I just need a week to get my bearing. My sleeping schedule is seriously jacked up and the bags under my eyes are getting worse and I'm getting really self-conscious about them. So I'm not disappearing for a month, I just need this week to create a normal healthy return that I can rely on for a specific time for everything (and I won't have to go to bed at midnight every night) and I'll upload at the end of next week, as usual.
So, please understand, because I might drop and have a mental breakdown anytime soon.
"What if I stay forever? What if there's no goodbye? Frozen for a moment here in time, yeah. If you tell me the sky is falling, or say that the stars collide, the only thing that matters in my life is You And I Tonight…"
~ You And I Tonight by Faber Drive
Well that was a really random irrelevant song to pick for the end of this chapter. But it's awesome so go listen to it—right now!
See you in a couple of weeks.
;)