Jo and Marie

"Whatever Floats your Boat" Brownie recipe!!

Hey Guys! Found a delicious brownie recipe Foods.com!  
~JO!
Ingredients:

Servings:
16
Units: US | Metric
1/2 cup butter, melted
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
1/2 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon salt

WHATEVER FLOATS YOUR BOAT ADDITIONS
1 -2 cup chocolate chips (semisweet, white, butterscotch, peanut butter)
1 -2 cup raisins
1 -2 cup chopped maraschino cherry
1 -2 cup chopped nuts
1 -2 cup M&M'
1 -2 cup Reese's pieces
1 -2 cup miniature marshmallow
Directions:

1
Preheat oven to 350°F.
2
Grease an 8 inch square pan or line with foil.
3
In a medium bowl combine melted butter and cocoa and stir until cocoa is dissolved.
4
Add sugar and mix well.
5
Add eggs one at a time and stir until well combined.
6
Stir in vanilla, flour and salt until you no longer see any flour (do not overmix).
7
Fold in "WHATEVER FLOATS YOUR BOAT"!
8
Spread in pan and bake for approximately 25 minutes.
9
DO NOT OVER-BAKE -- your brownies will come out dry. Adjust time/temp accordingly for your oven. If you do the knife/toothpick test, it should come out with moist crumbs, not clean.
10
Cool completely before cutting into squares.
11
For vegetarian omit the marshmallows.
12
For double recipe, bake in 9x12 pan and add 5 minutes to baking time

Read more: <a href="http://www.food.com/recipe/quot-whatever-floats-your-boat-quot-brownies-32204?oc=linkback">http://www.food.com/recipe/quot-whatever-floats-your-boat-quot-brownies-32204?oc=linkback</a>

Book Review!: Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

*WARNING*: May contain minor spoilers!!

I apologize for stuttering and not making eye contact, I was reading my script on google docs. If you want this review written, please comment and I'll do that as soon as possible! Thanks guys! This review is also on my blog, Click here to check it out!

Some Random Science Stuff

     I'm am dying of boredom so I decided I may as well do a couple science things. Let's start with a video.

     There ya go. Have fun with that. I know I did*^-^* Now it's time for RFF. Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh.
     That's about all I have for you people right now, so enjoy that until I return
     ~Marie

Book Reviews!!

Hey everyone! It's me again, Jo. Your probably tired of hearing from me, but, it's my life, so deal. ANYWAY!!! So, I think we should start doing book reviews!!! So if there's a book you might have heard about or want to read, we can do a book review about them and give you our opinions and a summary of the book!!! So, we'll both read the same book, and both share our opinions possibly? If Marie agrees. So, I can do both videos, and I can write it down! Thanks!

Science! A Small Taste of Everything That Will Be Posted Here!!

     Hello! Marie here! And just like the title says, I'm going to be giving you a small taste of what this section will be like. So let's get to it!

     ~Astronomy lessons!
That there is a link to an astronomy lesson about stars. So go read that.
     ~Experiments!
I'm going to be posting experiments here too. Everything from Science Fair Projects, to things I tried and tested out myself.
     ~Theories!
That's right. Theories. Most of them will be from actual qualified scientists, but occasionally I'll throw in one of my own theories.
     ~Updates on New Horizons!
If you don't know what New Horizons is, it's a satellite making it's way to Pluto. If I get any info about it's journey, it will be in this section.
     ~When eclipses and all that jazz will happen!
That's right. I'm going to step up to the task of finding this things out, and I will tell you about them here.
     ~RFF
RFF stands for Random Fact Factory. I'll give you random little pieces of knowledge to enjoy.
     ~Science Videos!
If I find any science videos that I really like on Youtube, they will be posted here.
     ~Anything else science related!

     So that's about it! I hope all you science nerds out there will cherish this section. So, until my first real post here, pożegnanie! (That's Polish for "goodbye". Extra points if you can figure out why I like Polish out of all the languages I don't speak. Leave your guesses in the comments.)
     ~Marie

Ideas

     You people haven't heard from me yet, so . . . uhmm . . . hi?
     You, Jo, asked what my number one rule for writing was. And here's my amazing answer. It's similar in ways to your's.

     Ideas.

     "Ideas?" you may be asking. "How do you keep that a rule?" It's quite possible, let me tell you.
     I like fast moving plots. Like City of Bones. The plot was very fast moving and had tons of action. I couldn't put it down and that's why I stayed up all night reading. But hey, it's summer. It doesn't matter if I stay up all night, as long as I sleep the next night.
      Anyway. Getting off topic. In order to keep a plot nice and quick, you need ideas. Don't even sit down to write if you don't have any ideas. You're story will be as bored as you are.
     With ideas you can create plot twists, turn trusted characters into villians, make your villian convince one of the protagonists of something that isn't true. You can do anything, as long as you have ideas.
     ~Marie

Stories!

Hey! I wanted to share some parts of some of our stories! Just to give you a feel of how we write some cliffhangers(: Hope you enjoy! Comment!

ALICE  THOUGHT THE FUN ENDED WHEN SHE WAS ARRESTED, but she was wrong.  As usual, she thought as the officer locked her wrists in the familiar feel of the hand-cuffs.

“I’m not the one you're looking for sir, I promise it wasn’t me! It was him! I swear!” She complained.

“Alice, I’m sorry but we have no evidence it was him, but you, you were on the crime scene. You had all of the stolen riches in your locker. It sure seems to me that you did it.” The officer replied. She studied him for a moment. His eyes were a deep brown, his skin oak wood brown,  his features were sharp but gentle in a way, his build was lean and long. His hair was in it’s usual greased back wave and you can see hints of a beard and mustache.

“Officer Blain, you don’t believe me?” Alice said with a bit of strain in her voice.

“Alice, the law comes first. I honestly don’t know, but I can’t take sides. I have to do my job.”

Perhaps I should explain what is going on.  For you to understand, we will have to go the very beginning of the story.

By: Jo

Scene From: Short Story: Summer Circus

One guy smiled mischievously, and smirked.

“You think your going to be a spy? You”re just a pathetic excuse for a spy, just a little girl playing pretend.” He said. I started to get really angry. This kid was making me mad. I smiled sweetly.

“Oh really, could a little girl do, this?” I grabbed his arm and and judo flipped him. He groaned and laid on the ground unconscious. The other boy just looked at me in surprise. I stepped forward.

“What are you looking at? Do you want a piece of me too?” I asked angrily. He smiled cockily.

“I’ll take two.” I glared at him. Then he charged me and I just barely managed to dodge him, but he grabbed me by my collar and walked over to the edge. He dangled me over the edge and let go. I desperately grabbed onto anything I could get my hand on. I managed to grab on to the edge. I held on by my fingertips. I couldn’t fall off the building, I just couldn’t. I looked up at the boy. He smiled wickedly and stomped on my left fingers. I let go of the building with my left hand, I couldn’t feel my left fingers anymore. I hoped that he wouldn’t step on my right hand, but that was too much to hope for. He was trying to kill me, of course he would step on my right hand. And he did. My right fingers slipped and I tried desperately to grab hold again, but I couldn’t. I was falling through the air.

By: Marie

Scene From: Our Book: Y.S. Ping

Baking!

Want to learn some delicious recipes for cupcakes, cakes, pies, etc.? Well, we'd like to introduce our baking page!!! Brought to you by our astronomer, Marie!! She has the best recipes and baking tips to help you make some delicious treats!!
 Yummy!!

Introducing, our SCIENCE PAGE!!!

We're scientists! So, we're starting an Astronomy/ Science in general page! So, if you love science experiments and facts and want to learn more about Astronomy, this is the page for you!!! I hope you enjoy!!

Here's an Idea of our Work!

Welcome to our wonderful artist page where we show off some of our works and latest projects! I'm going to show you one of each of our art work! The first one is by Marie, and the second one is by me, Jo.


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Imagination

My number one rule of writing, is to use your imagination. Use your imagination to come up with something different that anything else. Imagination is an amazing thing, something that many people have forgotten. But, imagination will never be forgotten in writing. It is the heart and soul of all arts. Just like creativity is as well. Use your imagination. What about you Marie? What's your number one rule for writing?

~Jo

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