from unicornprince.blogspot.com: I have been in a bit of an emotional slump lately. While my life is filled with joy and happiness and I still wake up singing "Tra-la-la, la-lalala-la-la-lah, tra-la-la" in the mornings, the skip in my step is perhaps not quite as chipper as usual.
I think this means I need a new hobby!
Here are some ideas for hobbies I have not yet tried:
Potential New Hobby
Pros
Cons
Skydiving
Would show the world I am a daredevil to be reckoned with, like Indiana Jones
Pretty scary. Not that I am scared personally, but other people might find it scary to watch me, so I would not want to put them through this emotional trauma
Fashion design
This would allow me to share my beautiful creations with the world (such as, platform shoes that leave sparkle glue footprints wherever you walk)
This hobby would not be much of a challenge, since I am so naturally talented when it comes to fashion
Public urination
This is Baron Snarls von Muchteeth's idea and I am not taking it seriously but I promised him I would include it
See previous column. Also: this is not very classy and I am extremely classy
Newspaper editing
I could help the world by sharing with them important news and also my opinions on music, film, and perhaps even an advice column
None??? THIS IS AN EXCELLENT IDEA. Stay tuned for the first edition of my very own newspaper!!!!!
from unicornprince.blogspot.com: Since yesterday I discussed The Bachelorette, I thought it might be fitting to make this Reality Television Week at Prince ShimmerShine Moondreams' Blogging Adventure!
This season of American Idol has been wonderful as always, but many critics are claiming it has gotten old and boring. Although I do not agree, I think there may be a way to fix it: the theme nights.
If you are not a regular watcher: every year the show does different theme nights. The Top 4 contestants, for example, sing movie songs, and the Top 5 sing Frank Sinatra tunes. However, this is the same year after year.
Perhaps it is time for a change! I humbly make the following suggestions
Week of theme
Current 2010 Theme
My idea for 2011 Theme
Top 12
Rolling Stones
Keep it Rolling Stones except everyone has to sing Paint it Black using a different colour of the rainbow! They should also dress in that colour. I will give extra votes to the contestant who selects purple.
Top 11
Billboard Number 1 Hits
Campfire rounds
Top 10
R&B/Soul
Songs with titles that rhyme with "orange" (this is a tricky one!)
Top 9
Lennon/McCartney songbook
Songs about unicorns (suggestions: The Last Unicorn by America ; I Was Born a Unicorn by the Unicorns ; The Unicorn Song by the Irish Rovers)
Top 8
Elvis Presley
I love Elvis so keep it the same, but also everyone has to perform on a surfboard. They will build a special pool on the American Idol stage just for this. Also mayhap they could add sharks.
Top 7
Inspirational songs
This is my favourite theme so I will keep it the same.
Top 6
Country/Shania Twain
Marching Band theme week!!
Top 5
Frank Sinatra
Scandinavian Death Metal (but only those songs with no profanity, since this is a show for all ages)
Top 4
Songs of the Cinema
Songs from children's television (such as Won't You Be My Neighbour, C is for Cookie, or Harriet's Magic Hats)
from unicornprince.blogspot.com: O my I discovered the most wonderfully romantic bit of television programming this evening: The Bachelorette. How have I not watched this before?? Why have my readers and friends not told me about this??
Previously I was thinking "O dear, this summer will be so boring! While I will enjoy the sun and many music festivals and the return of my battle with my nemeses, the tent caterpillars, my life feels empty." Now I am thinking "Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!! I cannot wait to blog about THE BACHELORETTE every week!"
1. Firstly I must share with you how impressed I am by the gorgeous Ali and her many many potential "hunks."
2. Secondly I must say that I am very upset that some of the hunks question each other's motives, to the point of writing down and putting in a box the name of the man whose motivations are suspect.
This is patently ludicrous and it is clear to see that everyone on the show is there for love. No one would join a programme dedicated to romance without being a Student of Cupid himself. You can see it in their eyes, and the eyes are indeed the doorways to the soul.
3. Thirdly I suppose I should pick my favourite hunk so far! Since I am a Canadian unicorn I was immediately drawn to hunks Justin, the Entertainment Wrestler, and Craig, the Dental Salesman. It was so so so hard to choose but I had to give full points to Craig for having the most beautiful hair:
Craig makes my heart beat like the heart of a lion in chase of a gazelle. If Ali turns him down and he is THE BACHELOR on next year's programme please sign me up to be one of his potential bachelorettes!!!
O my there is so much more to say but I will save it for next week.
from unicornprince.blogspot.com: Today I woke up with an insightful thought: Perhaps I would get more dates if all of you on the "blogosphere" knew that I had a truly outstanding rump?
from unicornprince.blogspot.com: I have been having trouble enjoying my baths lately because of a question weighing heavily on my mind: Should I get a cellular telephone?
The answer seems obvious. If I had a "cell phone", I could post in my blog while out for a walk! I could ask attractive men and women for their phone numbers and have them enter the numbers directly into my phone! Then, while they walk away, I can phone them and say "See? I told you I would call! I am a unicorn of his word!"
Or perhaps I could get a "bluetooth headset" which would properly show the world that I am an important being. I could also program it to play tunes by Cyndi Lauper if I was in line at the post office and bored.
However, there is one major question remaining, and even my lavender-scented bubble bath cannot quell my doubts (I do all my best thinking in the bath) : Do cellular telephones cause brain cancer???
I simply do not know the answer to this question! And until then, I unfortunately cannot purchase a cellular telephone. Of course, since I am a unicorn I cannot get a brain tumour, but imagine how terrible I would feel if one of my friends or even a stranger had cause to borrow my telephone, and got brain cancer from it!?!?
This is the same reason why I do not smoke cigars around babies.
from unicornprince.blogspot.com: Many apologies my exceptionally beautiful and patient readers for this delay in blogging!
Today I had planned to finish the story of how my werewolf friend Baron Snarls von Muchteeth humiliated me at the opera on Tuesday.
However, since I posted PART ONE, Baron Snarls and I have made up. He brought me some magnificent bleeding heart flowers for my garden, to represent his own figurative bleeding heart from the rift in our friendship!
So, all is well and I have completely forgiven him for The Incident.
That makes a spectacular end to this post so, Baron Snarls, if you are reading this, you can definitely stop reading it because the post is finished and there is no more post to it. All other readers, you can keep reading below if you like, even though it would be silly because my post is finished and there is nothing written below that might upset Baron Snarls.
Hee hee hee okay now that Baron Snarls has stopped reading I will tell you the rest. Hee hee did you see what I did there? So clever!!! Some days I impress even myself, and those are the days that end in Y!
So, after seeing how much fun I was having at the opera when I drank Mountain Dew, my werewolf friend decided to get some beer. However, he quickly discovered that although the opera house had 17 different kinds of wine, they only had one particular brand of beer, and no Guinness whatsoever (I do recommend never standing between an Irish werewolf and his Guinness).
In revenge, he bought every single bottle of wine owned by the opera house and flushed it down the toilet. Then he took over the drinks counter and posted this sign:
from unicornprince.blogspot.com: Last night, because I am an extremely cultured and intelligent unicorn, I went to the opera! My friend Baron Snarls von Muchteeth and I saw Wagner's THE FLYING DUTCHMAN in the big city of Toronto, Canada.
Right now I am sure that my favourite readers (i.e.: all of you!) are thinking to themselves, "Well well well that sounds like a lovely evening! It could not possibly be embarrassing because both of those friends are titled nobility: a unicorn Prince and a werewolf Baron! So clearly they would know their opera manners."
I am very sorry to explain to you that this time you are mistaken. Alas, my werewolf friend does not know how to behave in public.
Firstly, he noticed that after I drank two glasses of Mountain Dew I was having much more fun. I put on roller skates and skated down the stairs of the Four Seasons Centre and then I even skated through the gift shop touching all of the scarfs to see which ones felt the most soft and pretty (it was a tie between all of them). Everyone was admiring my grace and one dashing gentleman in a tuxedo bought me a scarf and said "This is for you, because of the joy you bring" and I said "Thank you" because I know my manners (unlike SOME WEREWOLVES).
So, the Baron thought: "Well, if ShimmerShine is enjoying his drinks, I should have some beer!"
This is where the trouble of the evening began!!!
O, I have to go, I see some racoons in my garden. I wonder if they are the ones who stole my plants?? I will finish this story next time.
from unicornprince.blogspot.com: Two years ago, one of my plants vanished, and then was mysteriously returned days later. Because plants are unable to talk, he never did tell me what happened to him.
Now has it happened again? Tonight I went out in my backyard to enjoy the rain and sing songs like "Singin' in the Rain" and "Raindrops Keep Fallin on My Head" and this is the scene that greeted me:
It seems that someone has stolen my plant. (Hence the title of today's post!)
As you can see, I have documented the scene of the crime quite well and I am certain that my skills as a forensic investigation hobbyist will assist me in discovering what has taken place.
My first clue: the large chunk of stick left behind by the thief. What could it mean????
from unicornprince.blogspot.com: Sometimes I think it would be nice to have a pet.
I love dogs, so I asked my good friend the werewolf Baron Snarls von MuchTeeth if he would change into wolf form and hang out in my backyard with me. He could sleep in my kitchen on a towel, and from time to time I would feed him.
I would also give him a new name that was less scary than MuchTeeth, perhaps Princess or Juliet. O, I like Juliet! This is a good one.
Unfortunately he declined, but not before I snapped this photograph!!
I thought about keeping one of my centipedes as a pet but they are pretty ugly.
from unicornprince.blogspot.com: I was watching the charming reality program Young, Autistic, and Stagestruck, and I got to thinking: These autistic youngsters were given their own show! I wondered: How hard would it be to pretend to be autistic?
But then I realized: Could I actually be autistic already?
So I decided to take a survey to get my very own Autism Spectrum Quotient!! My answers are in PINK
<--Yes, extremely
Please specify your gender. Name (optional):ShimmerShine Moondreams
Definitely agree
Slightly agree
Slightly disagree
Definitely disagree
1. I prefer to do things with others rather than on my own. The answer to this depends on who the "others" are. If they are attractive, then yes, always! If not it depends on my mood.
2. I prefer to do things the same way over and over again. O this is a hard question. Practice makes perfect, but variety is the spice of life!!
3. If I try to imagine something, I find it very easy to create a picture in my mind. Yes I am incredibly artistic
4. I frequently get so strongly absorbed in one thing that I lose sight of other things. I lost my plant once. Does this count?? I did find him eventually.
5. I often notice small sounds when others do not. Yes, I have perfect pitch
6. I usually notice car number plates or similar strings of information. PUNCHBUGGY!!!! Hee hee hee.
7. Other people frequently tell me that what I've said is impolite, even though I think it is polite. Yes this happened to me today actually!! And yesterday
8. When I'm reading a story, I can easily imagine what the characters might look like. I like to pretend they all look like me. Then I act out the roles but I give them all different accents. It is excellent practice for my new talent that I like to call "vocal forgery." I am going to add this to my resume as a forensic investigator.
9. I am fascinated by dates. O my yes!!! I find all of my dates fascinating, I promise, so if you would like to date me please contact me!!!
10. In a social group, I can easily keep track of several different people's conversations. Of course!
11. I find social situations easy. Easy and invigorating
12. I tend to notice details that others do not. Yes, actually--I have often speculated that this is what gives me my excellent fashion sense
13. I would rather go to a library than a party. What about a party IN a library????
14. I find making up stories easy. Of course not, I am frequently very truthful
15. I find myself drawn more strongly to people than to things. Yes I love people and they love me. It is a mutual sort of respect and fondness, really.
16. I tend to have very strong interests which I get upset about if I can't pursue. Yes. In particular one example might be my love of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. They still have not contacted me about becoming their new lead harpist. This keeps me up at nights.
17. I enjoy social chit-chat. O so very very much!!!!
18. When I talk, it isn't always easy for others to get a word in edgeways. Yes yes yes this test is reading my mind!!!!!
19. I am fascinated by numbers. Speaking of numbers, this is number 19??? This is a long test
20. When I'm reading a story, I find it difficult to work out the characters' intentions. O my I just scrolled down and it gets even longer as you go. Perhaps I should pause this test and go bake some brownies?
21. I don't particularly enjoy reading fiction.
22. I find it hard to make new friends.
23. I notice patterns in things all the time.
24. I would rather go to the theatre than a museum.
25. It does not upset me if my daily routine is disturbed.
26. I frequently find that I don't know how to keep a conversation going.
27. I find it easy to 'read between the lines' when someone is talking to me.
28. I usually concentrate more on the whole picture, rather than the small details.
29. I am not very good at remembering phone numbers.
30. I don't usually notice small changes in a situation, or a person's appearance.
31. I know how to tell if someone listening to me is getting bored.
32. I find it easy to do more than one thing at a time.
33. When I talk on the phone, I'm not sure when it's my turn to speak.
34. I enjoy doing things spontaneously.
35. I am often the last to understand the point of a joke.
36. I find it easy to work out what someone is thinking or feeling just by looking at their face.
37. If there is an interruption, I can switch back to what I was doing very quickly.
38. I am good a social chit-chat.
39. People often tell me that I keep going on and on about the same thing.
40. When I was young, I used to enjoy playing games involving pretending with other children.
41. I like to collect information about categories of things (e.g. types of cars, birds, trains, plants, etc.).
42. I find it difficult to imagine what it would be like to be someone else.
43. I like to plan any activities I participate in carefully.
44. I enjoy social occasions.
45. I find it difficult to work out people's intentions.
46. New situations make me anxious.
47. I enjoy meeting new people.
48. I am a good diplomat.
49. I am not very good at remembering people's dates of birth.
50. I find it very easy to play games with children that involve pretending.
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