Dancel and Metal and the search for the Keebler Elf

This is a fairy tale I wrote sometime for creative writing in grade school, and I just found it while looking at old junk in the basement. I completely forgot I ever wrote it, but it's pretty hilarious to look back at, so here it is word for word.

Part I

Once upon a time, when elephants always forgot, and Michael Jackson was normal, there was a brother and sister named Dancel and Metal. Unlike their friends, they lived with a witch named Mrs. Fields in a gingerbread house in the forest. Every day they went into the enchanted forest and said hello to their friends. They passed the four little pigs - the typical ones, and their less famous brother Clarence. They passed Snow White and the six dwarves (R.I.P. Dopey) and the mansion of the Keebler Elf.
Sometimes, though, they would go to town and not even pass through the enchanted forest. Today was one of those days. They came into town, and Daisyfeather, the bakery owner, wasn't wearing his usual smile. Dancel and Metal immediately knew something was wrong. Metal inquired the proprietor's long face.
"Haven't you heard?" he snapped, "the Keebler Elf is missing!"
Dancel and Metal replied in unison, "Oh no, what will we do?"
"I dunno," quipped Daisyfeather, with a far-off look in his eyes.
"We need to find the Keebler Elf, and soon," said Dancel.

Part II

Dancel and Metal scurried back to the old gingerbread house, where Mrs. Fields was throwing out another batch of botched cookies.
"That'll be the day when I beat that dad-burned Keebler Elf at baking," she muttered to herself.
"Mrs. Fields! Mrs. Fields! The Keebler Elf was kidnapped!" yelled the kids as they entered the house.
"Oh, um....that's, uh, too bad," replied the kindly old witch, holding back a smile. Definitely quite, um, a tragedy. He'll be missed," she said, desperately trying not to chuckle.
"He's not dead yet," replied the kids matter-of-factly, "At least we don't think he is."
"So sad, seeing that he'll miss the World Cookie Championship. I guess I'll just have to beat him," she sighed in mock sadness. Dancel and Metal exchanged glances suspiciously. They decided to go out into the forest and discuss the mystery. Both of them agreed that Mrs. Fields was acting strange when the kidnapping was mentioned. They decided to go talk to Daisyfeather about it.

Part III

The tandem entered the bakery to see two other customers talking to Daisyfeather. Dancel and Metal asked the shopkeeper about the two customers.
"This is Shortbread Ned and Macaroon June. They're here for the World Cookie Championship," he answered, "They're a husband-wife team who has blown away the competition in all the regional meets. They've come here hoping to defeat the top two finishers of the last two championships - The Keebler Elf and Mrs. Fields. Speaking of Mrs. Fields, she's supposed to be here dropping off her entry for the judging. Do you kids know where she is?"
Suddenly, the couple slipped out the door. They ran into their horse and buggy and galloped away. In the light, Dancel could make out the outlines of the Keebler Elf and Mrs. Fields.
"They're the kidnappers! We need to stop them!" screamed Metal.
Dancel looked around. Suddenly, he saw Harry Potter, who was munching on some Bertie Botts Every-Flavour Beans.
"Put a spell on that carriage! We need to stop them!"
Harry pointed his wand toward the buggy and yelled, "Evil-us Carriage-us vanishium!" and the entire buggy disappeared except for Mrs. Fields and the Keebler Elf.
"How did that work?" Harry questioned, "I did the completely wrong spell!"
"Well, this is a fairly tale," replied Mrs. Fields. Everybody laughed and, of course, lived happily ever after.

Let's play "Blog Post" with the help of Laura Hall and Linda Taylor

What do I even blog about ever? It seems so pointless. I like reading other people's blogs though, so I guess it'd be selfish of me to stop.

Well, this weekend I went to the cross country meet near Fond du Lac. That was pretty neat. Evan came up and watched the meet too, for the first time. I think he enjoyed it, meets are pretty cool.

I also got to visit with Becca, her friend Sara, Dave Moldenhauer ("hey! that rhymes!" "Dude! You're right!"), and Phil Hunter. This meet is always great because nearly all the area Lutheran high school attend, so I get to see a lot of camp people and such. Managing cross country is a lot of fun, aside from the whole getting up early thing. I've gotten to know so many quality people through it.

Earlier this afternoon we did the picture comic again. That's really fun to do, I ejoy scrambling to come up with stuff, and the finished product is really neat. I hope Sydnie can help out too, she had some of the first ideas. Maybe if she can drive on Mondays. I think the comic has a bright future. I'm curious to know what Charlie will think when he sees them.

Until then, War and Peace out.

There's the pitch, slow and straight, all I have to do is swing and I'm a hero

Oh crap. I'm in another one of those moods. "I feel all high school so why don't I make a blog post." Well you know what, it's going to suck if I go with that.

Well, let's not put it that way. I'm definitely nowhere near as high school and emotional as many people I know. Whatever.

All right, so, about the weekend? We had a football game, so thusly, I had pep band. It was pretty fun, playing baritone's always fun, and then for a little I played 1st trumpet. I was pretty proud of myself, I'm a lot better at trumpet now than I was when I actually played trumpet. Jordy, Eric, Jon and I went to McDonalds before the game. I love those kids.

Yesterday I went to Miller Park with my parents to see Evan play the national anthem with Platteville's marching band. I guess that was sort of cool, Jake and Kelsey were there.

After that, Steve V and I completed something we had always hoped to do - go to the other's dance. I went to Fox Valley's back to school dance. It was really really fun hanging out with Steve for the fast dances. The slow dances were a little weird, because I didn't know basically anyone, but Steve realized this and hooked me up a few times. Thanks Steve.

Well, so, today was just a lazy sunday. I enjoy fantasy football. I just felt like I needed to make a post.

Good night, Pat Summerall

The popular new game show "Advertise Us"

Dude, I got a cell phone. I don't really know what to do with it. I've been getting people's numbers (and taking some of Evan's contacts), but I don't really call people. At all. I'm bad at the phone.

So the other day, our classes decided on our homecoming themes. The school theme is "game shows" so we have to pick our class game show with which to base our float, mural, etc.. on. Our class held a meeting to do this, and the class advisors (two faculty members) decided to have the class officers (my friend Caleb and me) lead it. Caleb and I thought we could get this over with quick, and just end up with something like "wheel of fortune" and be done with it. Nonetheless, we took a tally of what game shows people actually wanted, and "The Price is Right" was the majority, with the remaining guys and girls split between "Legends of the Hidden Temple" and "The Newlywed Game" About 6 people chose "Wheel of Fortune"

We got news that Price is Right was taken by the senior class, so Caleb and I had an interesting predicament. We knew that if we took either "Legends of the Hidden Temple" (an old-school nickolodeon game show that I very vaguely remember) or "The Newlywed game" we'd have a completely divisive gender split. Not something we wanted. When we pitched Wheel of Fortune again (which was obviously supported by Caleb and I..as a neutral choice and easy to make a float for) about 3 people joined us.

So now we were stuck with opposing forces, a few random suggestions from the audience, and a whole lot of whining from the general public. Eventually Caleb and I convinced what was "close enough" to a majority to go for Wheel of Fortune, and chose it.

It was kind of funny though. We got a piece of paper where we could put our 1st and 2nd choices. For our first choice we put Wheel of Fortune, and Caleb got so frustrated that he put "Douchebags" down for our second choice. We had a good laugh about that one.

Other than that though? I can't complain. Homecoming will probably be really fun, my friend Danielle and I are campaigning like mad for us as junior class reps (so we get to ride in a car for the homecoming parade in street clothes, rather than march it in uniforms).

Caleb Schmiege and I also played a song he wrote in chapel. It was really cool. We didn't have much time to practice it, but it went really well. Props to The Dude Upstairs. I don't talk like that.

What else is going down...We had our first cross country meet, that went really well. And I'm also going to Fox Valley's back to school dance I believe. That will be nifty times ten.

Alright, well, it's late, and I'm listening to Anatomy of the Tongue and Cheek. What a great album.

War and Peace out.