My Favorite Songs (Month of November)

 Hi, everyone! It's been a while since I posted last! Anyway,  today I would like to share the songs I've been listening to this month. Here they are: 

5. Paul Revere - Beastie Boys

    xD The insane lyrics and the amazing beat is why I really like this song. I don't even like rap. Gah, I love the Beastie Boys!

                             

4. Into the West - Annie Lennox

   This song was used in the credits in the last Lord of the Rings movie, the Return of the King. It is so beautiful. We've actually used it in a few of our videos. It was based on Namarie, also known as Galadriel's Lament, and I also think bits of it come from Legolas's song at the end of the book. Even if you're not a fan of LOTR, you can still enjoy this song to the fullest.

                                    

3. When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin

  Oh, that drum beat! This song is just a classic. I could listen to it all day! :D

                                   

2. Be Chrool to Your Scuel - Twisted Sister and Alice Cooper

 The video for this is extremely hilarious, and the song is fantastic. I think Twisted Sister and Alice Cooper is a match made in heaven! What I find really funny is the fact that this video was banned from MTV.

                                       

1. Too Close - Alex Clare

 You probably know this song from the Internet Explorer 9 commerical. I looked it up online, as did a lot of people, and found it is called Too Close. I love Alex Clare's soulful voice paired with the dubstep. I'm not usually a fan of dubstep, but his voice makes it amazing!

 

I hope you enjoy the beautiful music!

 

-Holly Casey Davis

 

Ooo! Spooky New Background!

  I'm not sure if you guys noticed, but Peppermintsoup has a new Dolloween themed background. Here it is:

  
It was edited on PicMonkey; our new photo editing site of choice since Picnik was closed. They have some nice Halloween editing tools open now.

   On the subject of Dolloween, I am happy to announce that we will be doing our first ever Dolloween video! Last year, we joined in November, so we didn't get to be around for all of the spooky festivities. We came up with the video idea last night, and we're going to start working on it very soon!

     Another thing before I end this post. We're going to work on a new AGMV as well. The song is a secret for now, but I'll give you a hint. It is by Florence + the Machine.

                     Have a Happy (and Haunted) October,
                               Holly Casey Davis

First Video on My Channel!

Important News!

    Hello, people who read this blog! It is Holly with some important news. The "My YouTube" tab will now take you to a different YouTube channel. WHY?! Because I got my own channel for vlogs and junk! The channel name is HollyCaseyBaggins.

LINK: http://youtube.com/user/HollyCaseyBaggins

    I'll try to post vlogs on it as often as possible. SUBSCRIBE!

       -Holly Casey Davis (or Baggins, as I sometimes like to be called)

Art, Music, and Volunteering

   Wow. I haven't posted in a while! I NEED to update you on some things!

   First off, starting today, I've been volunteering at my church's vacation bible school. I'm doing the games as usual. This year's theme is Babylon. I would've picked Middle-earth, but hey, that's me.

    Next week, I will be away at camp for a week, so probably no internet access. HOW WILL I SURVIVE?!?!? xD Speaking of which, I painted a sign last night to set outside of my tent. It says "Speak friend and enter" in Lord of the Rings inspired calligraphy. It looks pretty great. The phrase comes from The Fellowship of the Ring. It was written in elvish on the gate at the Mines of Moria. I'll add a picture as soon as one becomes available!

   I've been listening to music like CRAZY lately, so I wanted to share with you some of my top picks! These are songs that I've had in my head ALL WEEK.

  5. Florence + the Machine "Spectrum"

      I. LOVE. THIS. SONG.

   
4. Valentines "Buttercup"

  I actually first found this as a joke (long story), but I really love this song now. Also, Bon Scott of AC/DC is in this version which adds to the awesomeness. I haven't been able to get it out of my head, and I'll just start singing it randomly at stores. xD

   3.  Alice Cooper "Hey Stoopid"

       Don't ask.

          
      2. Alice Cooper "Go To Hell"

      If you like Lady Gaga for her onstage antics, you'll probably love Alice Cooper. You actually have probably heard an Alice Cooper song before without knowing it (ever hear "School's Out"?).  This is my favorite song of his. Believe it or not, he's actually very normal offstage.

            
    1. Florence + the Machine "Only If For A Night"

        And the top spot goes to Florence + the Machine! This song has been playing in my head all. day. long.

                  

                          -Holly Casey Davis

YESSSSS! :D

  Good news, my friends! I took all three of my Skills for Health finals, the multiple choice half of my Honors English II finals, and the entire Honors World History final. They were sooo much easier than I thought they'd be! I got a 100% on my history, english, and two of my health tests. (On the other health test, I only missed 1!)

   As you know, I'm cyberschooled, so this means I will be able to finish school early! I thought the finals would be much harder, and I've been dreading them for weeks. A HUGE weight has been lifted from my shoulders, and I can now finally enjoy my upcoming summer vacation! :D

        -Holly Casey Davis

P.S. This means more videos!

UGUGHGUGFHGUDFUFHISJN

   My. Brain. Is. Frazzled. SOOOOOO much schoolwork! I don't think summer vacation will ever come!

   My finals are next week, I have to complete a 10 minute long short movie (which I am 80% done with. Thank goodness!), and myy room is a disaster! My life is crazy.

   Anyway, I have decided that I would like my first home to be a hobbit hole. Sigh, I can see it now... My human's father actually loves the idea as well, so who knows? Maybe she could get him to build her a hobbit hole when she needs her own place. :D One can dream...

    It's just such a brilliant idea. Hobbit holes are ADORABLE, and (for you freakish enviromentalists) since it's underground, there would be no need for air conditioning or heat. In the summer it would stay cool and it the winter it would be warm. The pizza guy would have NO problem finding your house. "Yeah, it's the one with the round door and the lawn mower and the roof. You can't miss it!"

     Here is Bag End (Bilbo and Frodo's home). I would love to live there...
      
          

                       -Holly Casey Davis
                
                

Ah, it's a good day! :D

The Ronald Reagan letter wasn't the only thing that brightened my day today. A few hours after posting, a package came in the mail.

THE ONE RING IS IN MY HOUSE!

 Yes, it is true. Every ringer's lifelong dream of owning a wonderful replica of the One Ring was finally fullfilled for me. *dreamy sigh* I love it to death.

  *PICTURES COMING SOON!*

              -Holly Casey Davis

BEST. PRESIDENT. EVER. (Apart from Theodore Roosevelt)

   I don't know if any of you have Yahoo! as your homepage, but today there is an article up that made me smile. It's much better than the usual crap Yahoo! puts up about the Kardashians and Obama.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/funny-letter-ronald-reagan-seventh-grader-surfaces-160857855.html

   Former president Ronald Reagan received a letter from a seventh grader:

"Today my mother declared my bedroom a disaster area. I would like to request federal funds to hire a crew to clean up my room."

  And Ronald Reagan wrote back:

"Dear Andy:

I'm sorry to be so late in answering your letter but as you know I've been in China and found your letter here upon my return.

Your application for disaster relief has been duly noted but I must point out one technical problem; the authority declaring the disaster is supposed to make the request. In this case your mother.

However setting that aside I'll have to point out the larger problem of available funds. This has been a year of disasters, 539 hurricanes as of May 4th and several more since, numerous floods, forest fires, drought in Texas and a number of earthquakes. What I'm getting at is that funds are dangerously low.

May I make a suggestion? This administration, believing that government has done many things that could better be done by volunteers at the local level, has sponsored a Private Sector Initiative program, calling upon people to practice voluntarism in the solving of a number of local problems.

Your situation appears to be a natural. I'm sure your mother was fully justified in proclaiming your room a disaster. Therefore you are in an excellent position to launch another volunteer program to go along with the more than 3,000 already underway in our nation—congratulations.

Give my best regards to your mother.

Sincerely, Ronald Reagan"

       xD He was a hilarious guy, and the last great president. Even after someone attempted to kill him, he still cracked a joke ("I forgot to duck.")

                -Holly Casey Davis


                       

Hairstyle Tutorial with MEEEE!

 I don't know if any of you watched this, but I am in a new hairstyle tutorial on the Peppermintsoup channel.

         
  While I would've preferred being in the last video (it had Lord of the Rings music in it!), I did enjoy being the only doll in this one. TAKE THAT, SISTAS! :D

  The song featured in the video (Landslide) is an amazing song and I recommend that you go listen to the full version on YouTube. I get goosebumps everytime I listen to it.

                      -Holly Casey Davis

Randomness and Pancakes

 Hello. How are you today? I am good...So, I really don't have all that much to talk about right now...I'll just tell you some random stuff.

1. Did you hear Florence and the Machine's newest song? It is for some movie with that creepy pale girl from Twilight. I've been listening to the song NON-STOP. I LOVE IT. 

   Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSXlkc9UFE4

2. My human is reading Macbeth for her Honors English 2 course...True story. I looked at a bit and (since it's set in Scotland) I tried to read it in a Scottish accent. I failed miserably.

3. Last night, I watched some "People of Walmart" videos. Viewer discretion is adivised. (VERY DISTURBING IMAGES...HOW DID WALMART NOT KICK THEM OUT?!?!)

4.  Pancakes. True story.

5. I can not believe that it is May already. My brain is somewhere back in February or March. I honestly do not know how the time went so fast. Now, I can only think about SUMMER VACATION! :D

                           -Holly Casey Davis

Developing my Elvish skills

         HOLA! Last night, I got the entire LOTR trilogy on DVD. YAY! I watched The Fellowship of the Ring (The first movie) first. I can't watch the other two until I finish them. Poos.
        So, today I was on the Arwen Undomiel website. They are amazing in the Elvish category. I've learned some very useful phrases in Sindarin. Here are two:

                       
                              Labo vi Orodruin (Lah-boe vee Ore-oh-DROO-inn)
                                             Translation: Go jump in Mount Doom

          Burn! (Pun intended) Here's the next one:

                     
                                      Hu nin mant han (Hoo neen mahnt hahn)
                                                  Translation: My dog ate it

           I'm going to have to use that one. Especially considering I'm cyberschooled. xD Here's the page I found these on:

                                     http://arwen-undomiel.com/elvish/phrases.html

             I also found my name in elvish which was interesting. Basically, they took the meaning of specific names and translated that into Sindarin and then formed it into a name. These names aren't actual examples of Tolkien's work, but are neat, nonetheless.

                    
                                                   Ercassiel (Air-kahs-see-ell)
        
                    My name looks pretty awesome. I might have to change my banner, eh? xD

                Now, I thought I'd add my human's name, because hers was pretty awesome, too.

                                
                                                    Lithoniel (Lee-thone-ee-ell)

                   That is Ashley. I really like it. I have no idea why. Anyway, they translated over 1,100 names into Elvish, so I'm sure yours might be in there somewhere. I'll give you the link to the girls' list (because I assume you are a lady).

                                    http://arwen-undomiel.com/elvish/girlnames.html

                    I hope you enjoy those links, and learn a bit of elvish. Freak out your friends, trick your teachers, sound awesome. I'm telling you; it's going to be the language to learn. xD

                        -Holly Casey Davis

                          
                                    

                                        

BEST. DREAM. EVER.

  Oh my gosh...I had the best dream ever last night. Somehow I managed to combine Avatar: The Last Airbender, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Storage Wars, and Britain's Got Talent. xD

    In my dream, I was Aang and I found out from Dumbledore or Gandalf (I couldn't tell the difference) that the One Ring had fallen into Voldemort's possession. Apparently, he was hiding it in a book that was in a desk in the library of a hobbit hole. I used my Invisibility Cloak (Yes, that invisibility cloak) and I snuck into the hobbit hole. I opened up the desk and found the yellow book that contained the One Ring. Somehow, one of Voldemort's minions noticed the desk open and close. Voldemort knew it was me, and I had to run out of the hobbit hole very quickly before he could grab my cloak.

    The outside of the hobbit hole looked exactly like my human's house. We live in a rural area, so we have a very large backyard. It was night and was filled with firebenders and dementors. Saka's head was lying on the ground (it looked as if it had been blown off). Voldemort and Prince Zuko's uncle (whose name escapes me at the moment) were searching the backyard for me. I ran until morning when I found a KFC.

    There, I met up with Dumbledore/Gandalf and some supporters like Saka (how his head got back on, I have no idea), Prince Zuko, and Katara. I told them I didn't want to carry the One Ring around because it was dangerous, so we decided to hide it. I came up with the brilliant idea to hide the book with the One Ring on the roof of the KFC *sarcasm*. Dumbledore/Gandalf and I climbed to the roof and I found the perfect spot to hide the book. Then, D/G noticed two people hiding in a tree nearby. They happened to be Darrell and Brandon from Storage Wars and were spies for Voldemort. D/G and I pretended to plant the book on the roof, but we really took it back inside the KFC.

   Then, we tried to find a new hiding spot for the ring. We went to my human's grandparent's house and looked for spots in her backyard. We couldn't find anywhere to hide it, so we went back to the hobbit hole/ my human's house that Voldemort abandoned. It was completely my human's house now, and there was no trace of the hobbit hole. There, I tried to destroy the ring (which is impossible because it can only be destroyed by the fires of Mt. Doom). When I couldn't inflict any damage, I thought of flushing it down the toilet. D/G told me not to because Voldemort would surely search the sewers. I realized it was best to keep the ring close to me at all times.

          (Somewhere during the last paragraph, Brandi and Jarrod from Storage Wars appraised the One Ring. I forget where exactly)

       D/G, my supporters, and I went back to the KFC. We discovered that the roof had been torn up. Darrell and Brandon the spies must've told Voldemort that we planted the book on the roof. When Voldemort found no book, he destroyed the roof (and probably Darrell and Brandon. I don't know for sure.). We walked inside the KFC, only to discover it had been transformed into a dojo. Then, we saw Voldemort's army was outside. I found a trap door leading down into a cellar. I decided that I would store the One Ring there while I fight.

     Voldemort's firebending army blasted the doors of the dojo open and war began. I leapt outside and was waterbending and firebending like a mad person. After destroying a lot of enemies, I came face-to-face with Prince Zuko's uncle who was pretty high up in Voldemort's army. He started firebending awesomely and I shot a blast of water his way. The blast was so hard it killed him, causing me to do a little victory dance. I noticed the rest of the army stopped fighting. They were fighting on Voldemort's side by force and now that the uncle was dead (and apparently Voldemort, too. Some else must've killed him) they were on our side.

        The battle was over, and I walked back to the dojo/ KFC where D/G was crying happy tears on the steps. Prince Zuko was declared Firelord, and I walked back inside the dojo to get the One Ring. D/G and I heard giggling coming from the cellar. For some reason, I was convinced it was Ant and Dec from Britain's Got Talent (don't ask xD). D/G went down and pulled out two skinny, red headed hairy guys. They complained in a southern accent that they weren't allowed to fight in the army because they were too hairy (?) so they decided to steal the One Ring. Then, everything was happy.

          THE END.

                   -Holly Casey Davis

Welcome to my new blog!

       Hello, everybody! It is Holly Casey Davis here with my blog! :D I'm so glad I decided to make one. I can now share with you some purty crazy stuff.


      Now, you're probably thinking "What the heck does 'Holly's Menel' mean?". Well, Holly is obviously my name. But you knew that...I do hope you knew that...Anyway, "menel" is the Sindarin word for "heaven". So my blog's name is "Holly's Heaven". Now you're probably wondering "What the heck is Sindarin?!". Sindarin is an elven language made up by J.R.R. Tolkien for the book series "The Lord of the Rings". They happen to be my favorite books, so I decided to learn a little Sindarin. You may have also noticed from my banner that I can write in the elvish script. I messed up and wrote it in the Quenya style (oops) which isn't that different than Sidarin; the vowels are just placed in different spots.


     If you're interested in learning elvish, here's a wonderful dictionary:
  http://www.arwen-undomiel.com/elvish/eng_to_elv.html


    Here's where I learned how to write in the elvish script:
http://www.starchamber.com/paracelsus/elvish/elvish-in-ten-minutes.html




     I will keep you all updated on my life and all Peppermintsoup affairs! You might just learn some elvish along the way...


                      -Holly Casey Davis