Sunday at Mammoth

I only talked about the Saturday of the Mammoth weekend and now i will talk about the Sunday. Sunday was the best. The day went like this. I woke up and sat at the table upstairs with almost everyone, there was one friend still sleeping. I came to actually eat breakfast but apparently we didn't then. Instead we played cards. We actually played Texas hold 'em but we didn't have chips but we had a large bowl of pistachios so we used those. The guy on the left of me was talking about his past experiences of losing at poker and eventually he won the whole thing. We got tired of that so my dad dealt two cards to each of us and told us to put up one and he did that after the betting round and everything until we each had 5 cards with 4 turned up. I had already lost all my pistachios in Texas hold 'em and so did the guy next to me so we played but betting with the pistachios in the bowl. It was weird and the guy to the left of me still won. Then my dad told me to get dressed and told me we weren't going snowboarding because the adults didn't want to and the main guy had a fractured rib. So we went back and we started to play rummy and the two kids said alright lets go skiing and snowboarding and that got my hopes up a little and eventually we went down there and signed me up for snowboarding lessons at 12:45 until 4:00 which is when the mountain closes. We also rented the snowboard and boots and that's pretty much all we rented and we brought it back to the condo. We left the other two kids there and my dad and his friends went to eat. So we arrived at a restaurant and ordered drinks and then my dad was telling the main guy how we could get much better food and a fancier place and they were debating on leaving or not and then we left and they hadn't even served the drinks yet. We ate at a much potentially better place, we didn't really know because we didn't eat at the other place but this place had the best pancakes i had ever had in my life. They were awesome so it was most likely better than the other place. I was starting to get worried about not making it to the lesson on time but we did. We went to the condo to get the snowboard and gear and everything for me. We arrived down there and the instructor inspected what i was wearing. I was wearing two pairs of cotton socks which apparently feels and acts like sandpaper when its wet so i was supposed to get snowboarding socks. I was wearing Reebok spandex pants which were okay. Blue Jeans which weren't, and baggy blue waterproof pants which could have been less baggy. All that was tucked into the boot and it wasn't supposed to be tucked in there and he fit his hand inside the boot which he explained to me as being way to loose so he tightened it up and i was okay there. I was wearing a red turtle neck shirt, then a red long sleeve shirt, then my regular jacket, then a snowboard jacket. There wasn't anything wrong with that. Then i had my beanie with my really dark glasses under it. No helmet of snowboard goggles. Everyone else had dressed normally though. I was wearing the craziest stuff i guess. Oh well. So we started with getting up after we attached our boots to the snowboard and stopping on our heels. It was easy for me. I caught on the quickest because i just loved it. Then we learned how to turn. Everything was easy. People were falling and couldn't get up though. It was hard to walk back up the little slope we were on because of the thin air. It got really hot so i took off my snow jacket but it kept flying off the fence so i put it under the instructor's board because he was helping other people and not using his board. Eventually we went on the ski lift for awhile and we didn't even get strapped in or anything. What if we fell! I didn't though. No one did to my knowledge. I went down the slope the fastest and i turned the board to go fast and i tried to stop too fast so i fell really hard on my tailbone and lied there in pain for awhile. Then i got back up and went down and i was waiting for the rest of the group and i didn't see them at all so i went back to the lift and went down and saw the instructor with the group in the middle of the mountain and apparently we were supposed to stop there to learn something new but when he was talking about flags before we went down, i thought he was just saying not to go past them as in not falling off the cliff. So the group was learning something new which was snowboarding on your toes and stopping like that so pretty much going backwards. It was crazy and i didn't try. I was a little relieved though because i think i would have fallen a lot more but i might have gotten it quick. By then we went back to the meeting spot and we were done so i left to go back to the lift and snowboarded the mountain again and then my dad came and as i was nearing the bottom i turned the board to go fast and then stopped going really fast and the board caught snow and i fell straight onto my face like a big old smack! It was kinda cool. I went down the mountain again and then we left. We saw one of the group members in the learning session and he told my dad that i learned super quick and better than any one. We then returned everything and went on the road and apparently the people we were with had already left and packed up while we were snowboarding so we hit the road. My dad realized as we passed the restaurant that we left to go to the other one that he left his camera there So he sent me to get it so i tried opening the door and then banging on it and it didn't open and no one came. I tried the back door and heard music back there and saw lights on but no one came. My dad then called the place and they said they had it and that they weer open. I tried the front door again and it actually opened. I was mad that they didn't open it in the first place so they gave us the camera and we left. We got home by about 10:30 which was great. That's the Sunday. Hope you enjoyed the burden of reading my longest post yet. By the way, the snowboarding was probably the best thing ever and it was definitely the highlight of the day.

Mammoth Mountain

For the whole weekend my dad and i got invited to Mammoth so go skiing and snowboarding with some friends. I wanted to go snowboarding rather than skiing so Sunday i did but the mountain closed when we got there on Saturday. When we went to diner, the main friend who invited everyone bought the most expensive wine at type place we went to eat at which 'm pretty sure was Wine Creek. He bought a $300 wine called Opus one! I don't think it was exactly $300 but it sure was pretty damn close to it. It smelt wonderful apparently and my dad took it home with him. The condo was awesome. It was practically 3 stories! The main friend's worker let him rent it for half price. The owner rents his condo out to people and so he makes money off of it and also gets to use it as a vacationing place if he ever wants to go skiing or snowboarding or whatever he does. That was pretty much Saturday because the drive which took about 5 hours was most of the day. Before everything, we had to go to my brother's and Sister's wrestling tournament.

Chango Bars

I'm not sure if that's how you spell it but I'm pretty sure it is. My sister found a recipe for chango bars which is some kind of fluffy bread with nuts and chocolate chips in it. Its alright. It fills you up right after you just ate a lot of dinner. She found it in a book she was reading for school called jalapeno bagels. It sounds pretty weird but the i think i saw some other recipes in there. I really don't have much to say about the chango bars except that they are fluffy bread with nuts and chocolate chips in them.

Ipods

I do not have an Ipod although i wish i had an iphone or itouch because that would be awesome. I have a sansa that is good though. I think i would rather have a Zune if i couldn't have an itouch. But my problem with other people having them is that they always have them in their ear and then you are trying to talk to them but they don't hear you and then they start to say what a lot and that bothers me a little. What really bothers me is that when they see you coming they take out an ear bud but I'm not planning on speaking to them. Then later i think of something small to say and say it which causes them to take out an ear bud and then be reluctant to put it back in. I just feel like it bothers them and i don't like that so i usually have to restrain saying those small things. Also on the bus, which is my reading time. People always have their music so high everyone can hear it, but i usually am able to go deep into my book. I am reading Messenger which is awesome just like The Giver, and Gathering Blue which i intend to write about. I also sometimes look their way but not directly at them and they take out their ear bud and say what. I have to say i didn't say anything. Then they are reluctant to put it back in and in my head i am just thinking just put it back in already! It could have something to do with my minimal amount of OCD which i think is actually getting to be greater. But some of my friends just put it back in right after i talk to them. That also bothers me. OH well. There really isn't anything i can do about it. If you have a similar or same incident, post a comment about it. I would like to hear about it.

Facebook

On these big topics like facebook, i am always thinking that people like you reading this expect me to say something courageous, or fancy, or great but I'm just going to say my thoughts. Just a note. I have a facebook and i love it. I never had a myspace because i didn't want to have to go through all the trouble and work to customize it and make it look cool and everything and i also heard myspace is dying anyways and facebook is the awesome thing now and i made a facebook before it got popular and i pretty much love the games. If you click on my profile, it will be all game updates, actually just mafia wars and farmville. I love farmville, its so addicting. I don't know how its fun because its very repetitive but its fun. I like to go into chats with friends sometimes. I think its kind of funny that people have chats on their wall or comments on photos or anything like that. I think its much faster and convenient to just go into a chat. Although i thought myself a hypocrite because i think its actually kind of fun to let people see your chats. I think I've only done that once with my friend about school during math class and i told her to just go into a chat and we did. But the conversation we had was long. This is how the conversation started: I found a turtle in farmville so i put it up for adoption and my friend commented saying "i have a turtle" and then we got into this weird conversation of inside jokes and all that. It was funny. I wanted that turtle too! I guess you can't adopt the animals you find. Too bad. But i have always wanted to start a group that will get millions of fans so i have been semi-talking to my friend's about it. That's pretty much my goal on facebook: to start an epic group. I sometimes update my status. Some people update it like twitter, like my dad but he doesn't have a twitter. Its crazy. He's always on facebook. Even on his phone. He used to tell me to update facebook in the car. Its crazy. I can go on and on about facebook, but i think I'll just end it here. Maybe some other time i can elaborate more on the topic of facebook.

Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES)

I have a SNES and i just love it. My dad can download the games from for the SNES on his phone because he has a SNES app. Its kind of weird to play on his phone though because of the small screen and the buttons are flat and the controls are hard to press at once because your thumb will press a lot of controls while trying to just press two at the same time but i managed for awhile and then got tired of it because i kept dying. So i found ours because i new we had one and i couldn't figure out how to plug it into our component box and make it work but then i just decided to try to plug it into an empty slot in the TV (which i think is 42"). It worked then, sound and everything and it was on the input AV1. I have two controllers for it and i think the one with the dog bite in it works the best (surprisingly) so i just used that one. I didn't try the other one yet but i will today hopefully. So it was hard to get far on the phone but on the SNES, i got far so fast. I practically beat the levels i played without dying once. The games i could find though were, Super Mario Bros, Star Wars, and i think Killing Instinct which i haven't heard of and I'm not sure if that's what it says because the tag was over it and i think i saw ki...ng...inst...t. I'm pretty sure it said killing instinct though. Maybe i will become the only person to own one of those and make a lot of money by selling it. That would be awesome.

The Blind Side

I saw the Blind side with my mom yesterday and it was so touching if you know what i mean. I don't cry during movies ever but i feel the emotion i just don't cry. I could tell that my mom was crying because of how much emotion was with this movie. So i asked her after the movie and she said yeah, a lot. I bet a bunch of other people cried too but the movie was just full of everything: emotion, action, and comedy. The whole theater would laugh at a lot of the stuff in the movie. It was awesome. The main character's name is Big Mike but his really name is just Michael. He has no home and has an IQ of i think 60. He did very poorly in everything accept protective skills which he got a 98% in. It's rated PG13 and i didn't really see anything too bad in there. I just loved it and the movie had some action. I love how the other main character who takes care of Big Mike talks and how she handles things. She can see through lies and doesn't take no for an answer and definitely knows how to take care of business. Apparently the movie is based on true facts and at the end of the movie it tells you some interesting facts about the real people in real life and shows you actual pictures of them. I definitely recommend this movie to anyone. I would definitely see it again and hope i do. I probably will.

Karma Police

I just started to learn this song Karma Police by Radiohead today. I'm only on the second line and I'm playing it with my brother. I just love it. The song is great and hearing myself play it is also awesome. Also let me note that i don't have a piano teacher so no lessons. I used to take lessons but i can't remember the last lesson i had. So that means my dad printed the song out for me and told me it had some great piano in it as well as guitar and he said one of his friend's (probably from facebook) recommended the song. Many many people know i play the piano and my dad posted me playing on his facebook page and he probably has 120 friends exactly. I just checked. Wow i have more friends than him. Anyway during the song, or the first two lines, i kept pulling songs out of the sound of the song. I pulled out only a couple that i remember and those were Knights of Cydonia, and Cold as ice. Of course i had to change some notes around a little but it turned out to be parts of those. I thought that was interesting and cool but then i would start to play those and drift off of Karma Police which i wanted to play. But It's just a great song. My brother is really good at it too.

Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow apparently wrote a new book. The book that i heave read of his are "Down and out in the Magic Kingdom", and "Little Brother" and they were both awesome. So he is now giving away 200 copies of his new book "For the Win"or FTW. All i had to do or you have to do if you want the book, and i do recommend his books, is email this address torpublicity@tor.com and you might actually be able to win. If i were you though, i would read his other two books that i posted here and see if you like what he writes because my dad and i definitely do. Here is the link to the information about what to email and say in the email and all that good stuff. http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/11/200-free-copies-of-m-1.html. If you want to try to win the book, then go ahead and email the info. I doubt that you'll get it though because its only 200 people and I'm sure by now 200 people have heard of it and emailed him already and I'd be very lucky to win it. Also to win the book, you have to promise to write about it in you blog which i promised to do since i would do that anyways there's no trouble in that for me. Also the 200 people that get it, get it for free and before it comes out. Heck, ill even blog about getting it.

geometry

Frign geometry. I hate it. I almost capitalized the g in geometry except i rethought and corrected myself because i think that lowly of geometry. The chapter I'm on is impossible. Today the teacher in the back of the class asked out loud if anyone finished the homework and no one raised their hand and the like 2 people did. Its just hard. I asked the teacher if we could skip this chapter but of course she just laughed. I was really being serious about it too. Its impossible and they should only teach us what we are going to use in our later on jobs but we aren't going to use any of that in our jobs unless of course you are planning on being a geometry teacher but I'm sure that none of us in the classroom are. Maybe our teacher is just not good at her job. But i think she is i just can't seem to understand it. I get frustrated and give up and then tears start to roll down my cheeks and i get all hot and get up and walk around and start to bump into stuff and then fall to the ground and grunt and then go in my bed and read and that calms me down and then i can't do anymore frign geometry for the rest of the day. I have always been bad at geometry and hated it. Its just ridiculous. I don't even think we should take geometry. I was much better at all the algebra courses that i took in middle school. I got straight A's in middle school. Why can't i do it now. Because it actually counts for something now, not just your parents being proud of you, of course that would happen but you will a have a good life if you set your mind to it. I really need some help with geometry because the teacher doesn't have enough time on her hands to help me the whole time. Whenever i do geometry, i feel stupid.

Shamrock Shake

The Shamrock shake which is the best shake are made at McDonalds. Just like everything that tastes good but is bad for you. But i am Irish. Gotta have the shamrock shake. We pretty much get it every year. Except this time i bought it with my own money. Worth it though as it always is. It is green and its like ice cream when its almost all frozen except its impossible to eat in the cup because if you get the chance to freeze it it will most likely be all frozen at the bottom. By the way, I'm drinking/eating one right now. Its frozen so its hard to eat/drink. Its like heaven. Green of course though, not white and fluffy or however heaven is supposed to look like. To cover it all, its a green minty heaven in a cup.

Flying

This morning at 11:00 my brother and i went flying in an airplane. Not like an airport airplane but a small one. It was at the Santa Paula airport and a car show was going on as well. They had some pretty sweet cars, but the plane in the picture isn't the exact one we went in, but it looks like it. It was white and the pilot owned the airplane and said he flew about 100 hours every year. He said he flew it as much as he could and he has actually been in a crash before. He named it Lola. So we would refer to the plane as she. We would say has she ever crashed or something like that. He would say ya and i had to put a new propeller on her and whatever she wants she gets. He said that she likes to fly in the cool weather. It was cool when we flew. My dad told me we were going to fly the airplane and we did it was awesome. My brother got to sit in the passenger seat though. I wanted to and we couldn't switch seats because he said it was too small and complicated so i had to steer kneeling behind his chair which was pretty uncomfortable but i was glad i still got to fly it. Another kid from a different family joined us apparently and this kid was annoying. The pilot gave us headsets to talk to each other through and to protect our ears from the loud engine. So the kid every half a minute or so would say whhhoaaa. In a sort of a whisper. Not a loud WWHOOOAA! That would just drive me crazy. Buy in a sort of quiet but annoying tone. This kid was a little chubby and young. He was also too scared to fly the plane! That was just ridiculous. So then later on the pilot asked us if we wanted to go in 2 G's which is double gravity which would make our double our wait and we all said yeah, cool. So we did and that was cool. Then he asked us if we wanted to go in 0 G's! And he explained how when he held his pen up it would float like in space but he wasn't perfect at it so it would go back. So then my brother and i said yeah while the other kid said no because he didn't want to drive it. So we explained to him how he wasn't going fly it the pilot was and he kept on with his argument and then maybe a little later after explaining to him that he wasn't going to fly it he finally gave in and started to take his seat belt off and i had to keep telling him that the pilot was going to fly and he said OK and still didn't know what was going on but then he went in zero G's and let his pen go and it floated for awhile and then went in the back like he said. It was pretty cool. Probably the best part of the ride and then we landed. In the beginning before we lifted off, i had to push the wing to turn it and he pulled from the other side, and that plane was SO light. It was super easy to push the wing. I was so surprised. When we landed we got our certificates for flying in the plane apparently. And then we went home. That was so great and i definitely hope to do it again next year.

Soccer Game

I had a soccer game today and we kicked serious @$$! They didn't even score once! One of their teammates always practices with us because apparently his team sucks and i guess no one notices. He's really good too. He's a god dribbler and fast. But of course that's because he practices with us. He was the one on the other team shooting the whole time but our goalies blocked 'em all. It was raining really hard throughout the whole game and when it was done, it got all sunny. Its OK though because i like the rain. I made some really good passes and the best was when i was running to the ball and the kid that practices was too from the left of me and i got there first and i kicked it straight to the kid on our team and i tripped over the kid who practices with us but i knew we scored because it was a perfect pass and as i predicted we did. It was just awesome. Another time i dribbled past this one guy and then through another kid's legs perfectly to a teammate but i don't think we scored right then. It was an awesome game. I started out as defence and told the girl that was next to me to cover the right which was her position and she did and it was a good call because the ball came straight there and she kicked it away from out goal. I was proud of everyone one. We won the game like 10 to 0.

Blue Car Syndrome

Apparently the blue car syndrome is when you buy a blue car, you start to notice them all over the place. Before you bought the blue car, you didn't notice them and really didn't care if they were blue. But that sort of thing happens to people all the time. I know it did to me. Today even, maybe. So this morning i had a science test that was really vital for me to get an A on since i didn't even have my science book for 2 weeks or so and i couldn't study that so i used my friend's book but that obviously wasn't enough. I needed it for the whole time. But she needed it at some point of course. So i studied as much as i could. So this morning while i was waiting for the bus, i got bored and decided to pray mostly for the joy of being ironic. Praying for a Science test is pretty ironic. I'm not even religious. Well i guess i really haven't chosen yet. But it was probably my first time praying on my own. So then later on after the second class i had, i found a silver ring with a cross on it and a flower in the middle. I was sort of freaked out. I told my dad about it later and he said it was creepy and then said Blue Car Syndrome and told me to look it up. I did, but didn't really realize how this related to that. I like to pick stuff off of the ground, but i wasn't noticing anything really religious. I just happened to pick up this ring off the floor that had a cross on it. It is pretty creepy though. I hope it means i got an A on the test though.

Customizing shoes

I love shoes. I always look at peoples shoes and sometimes judge them by their shoes. I found two companies that you can customize shoes on, Nike, and Vans. I learned about Vans first and then heard about Nike but never checked it out until today. I think Nike's is much more advanced but a lot more expensive. I customized a shoe on Vans and it costs $60 bucks. With Nike it costs $110! That's a lot of money to pay for a shoe. I also found these shoes with my friends in prog1 class called Vans Chukka Fleece shoes they are Vans shoes with fuzziness inside! Right when we found them we kinda started to fight. My friends were like to each other and me, if you get those shoes, I'm gonna kill you. They were obviously not being serious... hopefully. But i really want those shoes so badly. I'm pretty much dying over them. The website with them has been left on my computer for like a day because i just put my computer to sleep. I guess I'm just too lazy to save it to a download file or something. OH well. I even put a picture of them on my flash drive which i use for school. I think i am obsessing over them. Plus i think they are sold out.

The Game

For those of you who don't know the game. You are now a part of it. If you think of the game, then you lose. Since i am writing this, it pretty much means i lost today. It is almost impossible to not think about the game. Also all of you just lost. I want The Game T-shirt. The green one. I put in a picture so i should be good on that. It is a mental game. To win, all you have to do is forget the game even exists. Almost impossible for em since my two friends always try to make each other lost by saying "The Game". So i pretty much lose everyday except for weekends because i think about what i am going to do on the weekend instead of the game. The goal of whoever made the game was to spread it out throughout the whole planet pretty much which would be awesome. Its like a mind virus. It spreads very easily. Because once you know about it, you lose for every time you think about it and you can't forget about it because pretty much every time you here something about a game, you immediately think about The Game and lose. So good luck with The Game.

Songs stuck in your head

Don't you just hate when songs get stuck in my head. My dad told me that when songs get stuck in your head then do math. I replied, I'd rather have the song stuck in my head. I thought that was pretty funny to say and it was true. But even if its a good song that is stuck in your head, it gets annoying after a short period of time. I usually try to sing the song and end it to get it out of my head. I'm pretty sure it works. I can't remember. I think i did it today but that is probably because i like to sing. When I'm alone of course. I also talk to myself before i sing. I don't know why though. I like to hear myself sing. But i have multiple songs stuck in my head probably because i just got out of the car and listened to a couple songs. I like to a song with two different parts to it like a background singer singing at the same time as the main singer but they are singing different words or lines or whatever you want to call them. I like it because i think its pretty cool that i can multi task in my head because i can't sing two parts out loud of course. I would be amazed if anyone could. My god i hope you know what I'm trying to explain.

GROW game

There is this game called GROW. Its a very clever game. Its crazy what people can think of and its super fun to see what happens too. There are different games too. Like GROW 1,2,3, etc. I once bumped into the game a long time ago by accident. I guess i did again and wanted to share it with everyone! The company the made it is EYEZMAZE. They are just awesome. The things that you grow level up as the game goes along and you have to be able to do the right combination to master all the level ups so they are all leveled up all the way. That is almost impossible. I have only done that in one and it was awesome. Here see for yourself. http://www.eyezmaze.com/

Halo 3

I love to play this game when i playing multi player, probably because i kick every one's a$$. Yesterday i was playing with my brother and dad. My brother is okay, and my dad is... well, lets just say not so good. I told he sucked while we were playing. I won every round. I love ramming into my dad with any of the machines. It just so hilarious. But yesterday he was getting sort of mad. He started to say that he didn't like the game and me and my brother were just cracking up so hard. It was so hilarious. I kept killing him over, and over, and over again. He was always in last place. He was saying stuff like "How come i shoot at you like crazy and you just come and elbow me and that kills me!!!" I was laughing so hard and my brother and i would just tell him because we were shooting at him too and then elbowed him so that weakens him a lot. He would just say "Well i shooting the crap out of you both!!!. Just more laughs. I'm pretty sure he laughed in there. He wants to play again tonight. He says hes going to play everyday and practice and then kick our a$$e$. I think its funny. He knows i am the best out of everyone in my house.

Science

I lost my science book! I think it was about a week ago and i looked throughout my whole house, my friend's house, and i even called the the bus transit that i take and they said that they haven't had a science book turned it and so i think its gone forever. But i am borrowing my friend's book for the weekend because apparently she says she likes the do the work the last day so the information stays in her head for the test. We hand in our homework on the day of the test. So she does it the day before. I was very skeptical and still are. I asked her what she had in that class and she said a C or D. I was like, wow its definitely not working but she wasn't going to take it home anyways so i might as well borrow it since i am in need of one. I study all the time and always finish my homework, the only problem i have is turning it in. But i am getting some science done with this borrowed book. I really don't have any choice. I looked everywhere for my book. I went up to the office, which had a lost and found. I also went to the library but they didn't have it. I really to fix all these problems i have though.

Soccer Practice

I have always loved soccer and i have tried out a lot of sports, well the common ones. Like baseball, and football and i liked and was best at soccer and apparently i am better than i thought i was. I was up against the coach's son in a game we played and everyone got out except for us and i tired him out good and he also tired me out good. We supposed to shoot goals on each other and if you miss on the shot then you go in the goal, if you make the shot, you go back in line, if you get your shot block then you go in the goal. If you get scored on twice then you are out and you have too collect balls for the coach to roll to us. Its a really run and tiring game. But apparently I'm really good at it. I almost won the whole thing but he made it on me because i was SO tired. We were going for a long time after the practice was done, maybe 10-15 minutes but i love the game. We ill probably scrimmage next time or we will play the same game or he might introduce a new game to us. Last practice we just scrimmaged. It was fun. I can't wait until next practice because i just love soccer.

Sick

Apparently I'm sort of getting a cold. I had a sore throat about 2 days ago and i thought it would go away and then it happened the next day and today i have been having coughing fits. I usually never ever get sick at all. I think my best friend got me sick because i hang out with her all the time and apparently shes been telling me that she sneezes on me a lot and that's true and i guess she was sick. But i just really really hope i don't get so sick that i cant go to school because i cannot miss even one day of high school because then it will be close to impossible to catch up. But i definitely can't go to the gym today because i usually go everyday. Maybe that's good because maybe i do need to lay off the gym fer some time. I hope i don't miss soccer because there are a couple really cute girls apparently. Apparently the teams had to get split into Co Ed teams which are just mixed genders obviously but we weren't expecting that at all. It will be different. But i will probably get more into that on probably Thursday because that's when i have soccer practice.

Clocks

My brother and i play the song Clocks by Coldplay. He plays the guitar and i play the piano. All we really need is the drums to complete it but none of us play the drums. My sister plays the violin and my dad and mom don't have time to learn anything obviously. I sing the song because i have never sung a song in front of people and i thought i might as well start. Plus i kind of don't like my brothers singing because he has a super high voice. It just annoys me so badly. I sometimes get a headache from just talking to him. It sucks. i can;t wait until his voice gets a lot lower. The reason i wrote about this is because my brother just now came into my room and asked me to play it with him. So then i was like, hey, i can write about it. I get pleasure from writing these posts and it gives other people pleasure to read them. I like way the words come up on the screen as i type and also the sound it makes when i hit the keys. Its sort of the same with writing with a pen or pencil and paper. But i am going to go downstairs right now and play clocks!

Supernatural

There is this TV show called Supernatural and its crazy! Its about a school which has a ghost that possesses nerds and people who get picked on and messes around with the bullies. I first saw it at the gym when i was riding the bike there and it just looked super attracting and i really want to watch the whole series now. The first death was when a bully called a girl and ugly fat pig. The scene then changes to the bathroom and the bully was crying and the girl was just standing right there behind her and she said "So you think i'm ugly?". The bully then says no i'm sorry in a whining sort of a tone and then the bully turns around and the possessed girl grabs her neck and shoves it into the window and she is bleeding and then the possessed girl throws her into the stall and close it and gives the bully a swirly and then she drowns and dies. Then you see some thick black liquid just pour from her eyes. The next thing i saw was when a bully asked a nerd to give him some math homework so he wouldn't have to do it and then the nerd refuses and says some really mean stuff to the bully and he gets mad.This is all probably either in a cooking class or science class because there is a blender on right in front of them. The nerd then asks him a question and he says yes and the nerd smiles and takes his hand very quickly and shoves it straight into the blender and there is blood spurting everywhere and the bully is screaming obviously and a girl comes and helps him and everyone just vacates the room. An investigator then goes back and sees the nerd fall to the ground. The nerd then is conscious again and asks what happened and the investigator sees the same thick black liquid pour out of the nerd's ear. Hope you liked the story and if you'd like you can look it up on youtube.

Right of light

There is a band called Right of light and my friend is in the band. She is actually in my Geometry class and my she is apparently the most awesomest singer ever. She's great and she gets really into the songs and i just aw her in her band for the first time tonight. It was at a mother son dance thing for Hollow Hills and i helped out. It was for a bunch of 1st-6th graders and she told me that she just loved to do concerts with the little kids because they are super fun and get into it and dance and they are just a lot of fun she said. She kept giving High-Fives to everyone. I thought it was funny. They were selling T-Shirts too. A lot of people bought some. My dad even bought one for me. I was glad. I was going to ask him to get one after they were done. So a kid bought a T-Shirt and while he was dancing, he threw off his shirt so he was shirtless and i started to crack up and then put on his Right Of Light Shirt. I thought that kid was going to Rock Out without a shirt one. It was hilarious. The band also had a pumped up clear beach ball thing that had their stickers on it and a glow stick and they threw it out and kids were going crazy over the thing. They were hitting each other too. It was so funny. I was laughing so much. One times this kid hit the ball and it hit the kid in the face right in front of him. I LaUgHeD SO hard. It was just hilarious. But this band is so great.

Reading/Books

I am reading The Outsiders and it is a really good book. I was talking to my dad about how people like to read and i said i hate reading i just like the content of the books, i realized how can that make sense. I've been trying to make it make sense. I just can't figure it out. What i was thinking though is that reading takes up time for other more fun things that i could do but when i am bored or in trouble and can't do anything except read, that is my choice and i kind of get hooked on it. Its just weird to not like to read yet love what you are reading. I think i like every book i have read. I really can't think of one that i didn't like. Usually if i don't like a book i stop reading it. I don't remember doing that with any book. I'm pretty sure that i have decided that The Giver is my favorite book. I don't really know how to explain it without explaining the book. Its just that the whole story and plot was awesome and there were so many secrets and crazy things going on. I just loved it. I don't know, maybe i do like to read. I know i like to read the best when I'm bored or have nothing to do.

GTA IV

GTA IV as you know is Grand Theft Auto 4 is a really fun and addicting game. I only know it to be for the Xbox 360 and i played it almost all weekend. I got pretty far i guess. There is a lot of talk about sex and drugs and a lot of inappropriate stuff. There are some funny parts though. Before every mission there is a little story to it. It has great graphics which is awesome because it is pretty important to me that the graphics are good. Or great or in this case awesome. On the disk apparently there is another game called the lost and the damned and i guess the lost is a gang. I don't know about the damned though. I know the lost is a gang because in the GTA IV i had to kill that gang. They are a biker gang. I didn't really do anything on the other game because i just wanted to play GTA instead of the other game. Maybe when i beat GTA i will play the lost and the damned. But i can't really talk much about the game because of the inappropriateness.

Xbox 360

Over the weekend, last weekend i think we all went to visit my uncle and soon-to-be aunt. We were visiting for my uncle's birthday which was on Ground Hog day. So we went there and spent the night and a whole day almost and has a PS3 and an Xbox 360. Well he used to have one but we will get to that. So the day we got there my brother remembered playing a game called full auto on the Xbox and he loved it and so he asked my uncle if he could play it. So we went upstairs to play and we pressed the power button and guess what, it had the Red Ring of Death. Its pretty much a red circle flashing around your Xbox power button. It means its broken. So he said he hasn't played it in a very long time so he gave it to us. I was SO happy because i have sort of always wanted a 360. So we took it home and i hoped that it had warranty on it still but we haven't tried taking it in to get a new one or fix it or anything like that. So i looked on YouTube to see how to fix it and this guy said you have to wrap a towel around it and leave it on for about 20 minutes to overheat it. He said in a comment on the video that he wrapped a couple more to make it extra toasty. I was very sceptical about that. Overheating it? Sounds bad doesn't it. So i tried it while my friend was over. I only wrapped one around it and left it for maybe 40-50 minutes because i was playing a game with my friend and his dad and pretty much our family. So then when we were done i went to check it. So i checked it and the red light was still flashing. So i turned it off and on and the light wasn't flashing anymore! I showed my dad and he was wide-eyed and his jaw was hanging like a surprised sort of a look. I was so happy and he told me to turn it off because we apparently weren't gonna play it then. So my friend's left and my dad and I put in Halo 3. Also let me remind you hat my uncle had the Xbox pretty much when it came out or a little bit after. So he had some really good games but he didn't have much games. The three that i was interested in: Halo 3, Grand theft auto IV(4), and full auto. So we put in in hoping it would work and it did. We just had to figure out how to play multi player so my dad found the Halo 3 book and found out and i kicked his butt in pretty much every round we played. Which was t2 or 3. He killed me in a round twice and that's probably about it because i won every round. But after we were done playing we went to put the game away and found GTA IV! He had the same look as when i fixed the Xbox. I was also very happy. So that's about it and everything works. I only played the games i was interested in though. But GTA was so very addicting. I played it almost all day yesterday.

The Hangover

I saw the Hangover a couple nights ago i think and i heard lots of good stuff about it. I even got hit in the face with a hat by my friend for not having seen it before. It was more like a playful hit than a hurtful one. But then i watched and i really thought it was overrated. Yeah, it was funny and a good movie and i usually love all movies but i don't know about this one. It was good but not wonderful. The credits when they show you the pictures of what happened was funny. Actually maybe that i am rethinking the movie, i think i like it better than i thought. But still not as much as my friends say. It was hilarious though. There was a lot of the most random stuff in there. I wanted to know the chicken's story. How did the chicken get in there? Maybe they stole that from Mike Tyson too. Who knows. I thought the baby was hilarious too.

Homework

I get lots and lots of homework. I didn't do so well last semester because i procrastinated a lot and that hurt me some but this semester i promised to be on top of everything. And i am and i am getting much more homework than last semester and if i were to procrastinate still then i would be so behind this semester. but i think i have a lot more free time than last semester. I finished Spanish, and science homework today and Spanish is due Tuesday and science is due Friday! That means the only science that ill have to do is on Wednesday because we usually get a lab to do and write up on that day because each class is 2 hours. But i get so much Math homework. I still have a page of Math and i finished a page of it today too. Nothing in English. We rarely get anything in that class for homework.

rubber band ball

Sp i have always wanted to make a rubber band ball out of just rubber bands. Other people make them around a ball and i think that is like cheating. So yesterday i bout 2 bags of 85 rubber bands each and they were only 50 cents each!!! I thought that was pretty cheap. So i already used up one bag of them and i started it by knotting a couple of them together and its a fairly regular size i guess i could say. I definitely want it bigger though so i am going to have to use the other bag up on the ball too. Maybe ill leave some for myself though because i like rubber bands. So i don't know what else i can say on the point of a rubber band ball.

Age of empires

So there is this really old game called age of empires and i used to play it a lot and then my brother started to play pretty recently and i remembered how i used to love the game so now i started to play it yesterday and i guess got pretty into it. Its just such a fun game. Its really old though but still fun. I wanted to play my brother because i know that it is 2 players and we couldn't get it going so we asked our dad to fix it and it took a VERY long time but he did it. I don't know how because i started to think that it was impossible to play it with me because i have a more powerful computer than the both of them. But he finally got it started which was crazy. So then we started to play but i had to press pause and when i did my computer said that the game has stopped working and then i had to press close which just closed the whole program and i was kicking my dads butt and i was gone from the game but i was still killing my dad just not controlling anything. I thought it was hilarious. You pretty much make guys and build stuff and you have to upgrade your town and get more powerful people to kill the enemy. So yeah. That's all i really have to say about it.

flash drives

So i have been looking a lot for flash drives of all kinds particularly cheap 2GB ones for my comp apps class and i searched types of animals. I searched squirrels, pandas, Dino's, domos, spiders, all kinds but they were kinda too much for me. So then i came across a grenade flash drive! Now its $20 apparently and that's not cheap but i really want that flash drive. SO badly. It looks so cool. It comes in orange, black, white, and blue! It even has a key chain ring and i wanted a flash drive like that. So i think i might have to work a deal with my dad. I'm 99% sure that he wont do anything to help me get i though. So i think i might have to do this all by myself or just ask my mom to pitch in some money. The thing is with my dad is that he had one and gave it to me but i wanted my own that looked cool that had a key chain and now Ive found it. The one he gave me didn't have a key chain or anything. So well have to see.

TAP class

So TAP isn't the dancing class its like a school required class only on block days. Its sort of like a homeroom except in the middle of the day. It basically tells you the rules and announcements which are in a news channel sort of a format on the TV. But today we got a valentines bubble in sheet to see who we were compatible with. I felt like it was work so i decided to put the most ridiculous answers and put my name as THE ZOHAN just to be funny. I thought it was pretty funny. One question went something like this: What do you do when you forgot your homework an i put Run down the halls screaming. That was a choice! It was ridiculous but i wonder who THE ZOHAN is compatible with. Anyways i think you have buy a sheet printout and the last question asked you if you were going o buy one and i put No. So we'll see.

Today

Today was pretty boring. It is a block day so we have periods 2,4, and 6 for 2 hours. I started my classes with Science and that was actually sort of fun because i have a lot of friends in that class and i even finished my lab and talked with my friends and made jokes and all that stuff. Then i had 2 hours of comp prog. 1. (computer programming 1) That's was a nightmare of boring. It was SO boring. All we did was watch two History informal movies about the Internet and computers and it was just killing me and my friends so then i just started to read my book. I got through a lot too. I tried to watch the movies but it was just too painfully boring. I couldn't take it. I just decided to read. I actually got through 30 or 40 pages too. I almost to page 100. I moving through the book at a good fast rate. The book is called Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry. I read the giver and it might have been my favorite book and that was also by her. So after comp. prog.1 i had my TAP class for like 15 or 20 minutes and then went to lunch. Then there was Geometry where i got a crap load of work. Easy but times consuming work. The work we are doing is square roots and ratios. Mostly dividing. Super easy stuff. I had to finish 4 math assignments today. She just likes to rain work upon us. Its so annoying and i don't like it. Also my friend drew on my face with blue ink and told me i was turning into an Avatar. I thought that was funny but i didn't really think she was writing on me. But somewhere deep down i knew she was and let her. But then i asked people if there was writing they mostly said no. Then i asked the teacher if had anything on my face mostly to be funny because i didn't think there was anything there and then she asked me who drew on my face and of course i had to tell her who it was. Plus i could tell she knew it was the girl sitting behind me because i always talk to her. Shes like my best friend. Then she moved her to the front right hand corner next to the sink. It got kind of lonely. I told her to just sit where she was originally sitting on Friday because we don't have that class tomorrow. Tomorrow is the 3,5, and 7 period block days. So then i asked my teacher if i could go to the bathroom and wash it off and she said to finish my warm up and then i could go. I thought that was pure ridiculousness. Yes that's a word. So i got down to 2 more problems left and then she said to the class to put it away because we were taking notes. So now i have to take notes and then i could go. So i did and went and looked into the mirror. It wasn't really that bad and i guess that's why the class hadn't really laughed. I was sort of confused why there wasn't much laughing going on. On my right side cheek there was a graph paper sort of shape and on the left, blue vain looking shapes. And then i found some on my nose! I don''t even remember her writing on my nose but apparently she did. So i washed it off and went back to class. And then all the rest of the stuff was just normal non important stuff that happened in my day. So that's how my day went. Phew! I didn't know i could write that much about a 3 period block day. It's crazy. I didn't reread this like most of my posts that i write so there might be a ton of mistakes.

2nd Semester

So i got an A on my science and English final. :) That's awesome. But i got a B on my Geometry final. That's not good. I wish i had gotten an A but that final was specifically hard for some unknown reason to me. The only reason i got an A on my English final was because she threw out 15 questions. She said she only threw out the questions that 10 or people got wrong and i got a lot of those wrong. So I got saved there. I still don't know what i got for my Spanish final. Lets cross our fingers i did good though. You never really know because last time i got my hopes up super high and was extremely confident that i got an A on a science test it turned out to be a C. That is horrible. But i am glad i did good in science and English. The only class that moved for me was comp. apps. because i had obviously completed that class last semester along with everyone else. I am in comp. prog.1 and i have a lot of friends in that class too so i am very glad. The teacher looks pretty cool too. The problem for my P.E. class though is a bunch of cool people that i hung out with transferred out but some of my friends stayed and complained about them leaving. I also complained though. But that's all i really have to say on that point. So ill get back to you on my Spanish final if i remember because i usually don't remember stuff well until it is sort of too late.

Milkquarius

So there is this weird show i guess on YouTube called milkquarius and i guess a guy named White Gold has the best milk or something and a bunch of schools had a contest to make recreate an episode and the first place winner gets $20,000 toward the school and 2nd place gets $10,000 and the top ten get $2,500. The show is just ridiculous and milkquarius has a guitar filled with milk that he shoots bad people with. There is a bunch of music as well. But I'm in the drama club at school and the main person i guess made an episode for our school for his senior project and won first place! I just now found out and my dad and i burst out in excitement and happiness so i have to congratulate my drama club friend. If you want to see it type into YouTube milkquarius sshs and its starts with a guy riding a cow. Its weird and funny.

New Semester

So last semester for me was pretty bad. Mostly the second quarter though because i didn't hand in a bunch of stuff. But I'm pretty sure finals went really good so that good make my grades better than the previous quarter. But apparently since its the new semester my dad told me to clean my room so i id. Then he comes in and pulls out my metal file thing and goes through everything with e and i thought it wasn't so bad but he started to just throw away crap and i really didn't like the idea of my dad throwing away everything that i had. So i got really pissed off so then that was done i thought it was all over. It wasn't. He took my backpack and then pretty much threw away everything in there and that when i got super pissed because i needed a lot of papers in there. Then he started to throw away my clothes and some shoes and pants and that REALLY set me off. I got SO pissed that i apparently kicked an indent into my wall. I was pretty much crying the angriest tears of my life because i love my clothes and especially my shoes. He pretty much raided my whole room. He even changed where my desk is to where my bed was and now its on separate sides of my room but my room looks very surprisingly clean. I worried that I'm going to need a bunch of stuff though and then not know where it is because its either in the trash or anywhere in the house pretty much! The whole day was crazy. He pretty much moved every single thing in my room. There is a lot more room here though. Its weird. But very clean. I don't know how he could put up with e the whole day but usually I'm angry for a very short period of time after hes done making me mad. I stopped being mad pretty much right when he was done with everything because i knew there wasn't anything else to throw away or change. So that day was pretty much what i thought at that time the worse day of life. I don't know about that now but it was a pretty bad day.

Everybpdy hates my Spanish teacher

So since the procrastination thing, i screwed everything up. In Spanish, my teacher yelled at me for "lying" to her. I didn't think i was lying to her. She hates me and she is a total B word. I just really dislike her very much. I don't want to really put my real attitude about her because there would be a lot of cussing on here. Probably more cussing about her than real words. Gosh, i just really hate her. She does things for other people that she wouldn't do for me. No one likes her either. She should get fired. She gives me such a bad score on pretty much all of my project scores. So i have to make up for that in tests but i have screwed up tests before too. Everyone knows that she hates me the most out of everyone. I really want to know why though. I mean yeah i kinda of put a bad impression in the beginning of school by apparently making people laugh a lot but she doesn't have to hold a fu**ing grudge forever on me. I don't even have a chance to be good because she is always picking on me for everything. Its not fair. I also definitely hope she isn't reading this. I doubt she is, but if she is, then I'm dead because she might actually figure out who it is.

Procrastination

This time, procrastination has affected me great deal. So i procrastinated my Cornell note project thing for English which was To Kill a Mockingbird. I was supposed to write a short summary of each chapter and then answer about 4-5 questions on each chapter. Well i only got to ch. 8. My friend even told me she stayed up until 2:00 doing the Cornell notes but i just thought i cud finish it. i am a rally huge procrastinator but it usually works out for me. Obviously not this time. I have actually been procrastinating another thing for English which is another even huger project called a Creative literature project. This is due Thursday. I have had these both since before Winter Break! I never even worked on it a bit during those times. The Cornell notes were due Friday but she gave us an extension for today but i started the notes yesterday. Yeah, not smart. The Creative Literature project requires 3 parts. 1. written component. You have to write i think 3 paragraphs about how your project relates to the story you chose. 2. Project component, choose a project out of about 100 choices, some are making a film, crossword puzzle, poem, song, timeline, all kinds of stuff. 3. Presentation component, if you have a film,insert disk or tape and watch, play, obviously act it out in front of the class. I chose my project today! Yeah and its due in 3 days! I picked a crossword puzzle. Ive made word searches online but never a crossword which is what I've wanted to do before an now i can do it for a project! I actually started it at 5:00 and finished it at 7:00. You had to do 20 up and 20 down which means 40 questions and Answers(Q and A)!!! It was actually fun. I haven't started the written component yet and for the presentation,all you do is make like 30 copies and give one to each person in your class and then grade them after they finish. That's a lot of grading! But OH well. SO this has definitely taught me not to procrastinate!!!.

Back to School

So now I'm back to school. it seems like nothing really changed except my geometry teacher is stricter now and she cut her hair. I definitely didn't think she needed to cut her hair even SHORTER than it was. But now its just ridiculously short. Some of my friends dyed their hair a different color. But i was expecting this day to be like leisurely back to school day and then get back to doing work the next. Well for the most part it was. We talked about our break almost he whole time in English and in Spanish we were sort of talking about it but we did work in that class. In geometry, it was strait to doing work as well as in science. Except i only got homework in geometry. After maybe the second period, it started to feel like i never eve had a break. Like i went the day before and everyday and had no break. So it is sort of a new fresh start, but i feel like i never left. So yeah, that's what back to school is like.

School

School is starting up again tomorrow. Well for me it is. My friend actually starts i think either near the end of this week or sometime next week. He is lucky. I don't think i really want to go back to school yet. I don't want to have to think so hard like before. But it had to start again sometime, right? So i guess that means today i have to set up my backpack for school with all of my school supplies. Get my head in a school/work sort of a gear. You know, like in elementary school how they used to tell you to get your thinking caps on. I guess i don't really know what else to say. I had a good winter break.

Zombies!!!

So in the zombies game we played you get a game piece. The game piece is a guy holding a shotgun. They come in different colors like black, red, green, etc. You place your person on the town square map tile. That's the first development of the game. At the beginning of each turn you have to place down another map tile. Some tiles have buildings in which you put zombies on and life tokens and bullet tokens. You start out with three hearts and bullets. The order of operations of your turn goes something like this. 1. place a map tile 2. combat any zombies on your space 3. draw up to three event cards if you have less than three 4. make a movement roll 5. make a zombie movement roll 6. discard one card if you wish. Then after that the game moves clockwise around the table. You may use a card at any time during the game to help yourself or hurt someone else. You may only use one a round. So when the beginning of your turn comes, then you can use another one. When combating a zombie, you have to roll a 4, 5, or 6 to beat it. If you roll a 1, 2, or 3 then you can either use a bullets to boost your roll or choose to loose a heart and try to beat it again. If and when you kill a zombie, it becomes yours. You must combat a zombie if you move into one during the movement phase. If you lose all your lives then you lose half of your zombies rounded down and you move back to the town center and get 3 hearts and 3 bullets like in the beginning. The goal of the game is to either get to the center of the helipad map piece, or to collect 25 zombies. The helipad is placed at the bottom of the map tile deck. There are also expansions to this game and different versions. It is a super fun game and we all just love it. So have fun if you decide to play Zombies!!!

New Years Day

So yesterday my family went to the 10k run. My brother is a runner and actually a great runner so he ran his second 10k and the first one was at Universal Studios i think. He ran that in about 48 minutes which is really fast. The second one which was yesterday he ran in about 58 minutes. But this one had lots of hills. The bikers probably went slower up the hills than the runners. They were pretty steep. The first person came in about 42 minutes but this guy was pretty hardcore. It was crazy. So after that we went to the beach to meet up with friends and so the polar bear swim. The water was super cold but the sun was out so it was okay. My legs actually went numb in the water. That's how cold it was. So after all that we went to our friend's party which was at her house. It was a fun party. We did all this last year as well. So we knew they had a wii so we brought our wii controllers. We played their summer sports game which we don't have. We also played a game called Zombies. The goal is to get the heli pad. Ill probably explain the game in a whole post because it is a pretty big game. I won that this year and we also played Settlers of Catan with my new expansion that i got for Christmas. I also won that so i was a double winner that night. It was awesome. I ate SO much though and my stomach hurt pretty badly. But i wanted to eat more of the junk they had. It was good food. I also ate a McDonald's cheese burger on the way home. My stomach also hurt today. It was pretty late when we got home. So apparently i fell asleep in the car singing. That's pretty funny. But i still had a great time.

Netbook

I am using my mom's new netbook (small laptop) to post this right now. My dad got it for her for Christmas. It is super small and light. I'm not too fond of the keyboard though. Well i do actually really like the keyboard but when i want to press the backspace its too high up and small so it keeps pressing the equal sign, and it is super annoying. But i am actually using my dad's Droid phone to get Internet and its actually working. Its super convenient. Its wireless network everywhere! The netbook is a shiny blue. Not like a sparkly girly blue but its looks like a brand new shiny blue because it is. It is just so convenient. My dad says it costs about $250. I think that's a great price. He says it came with an accessory kit. The company is acer. So check it out online maybe, its awesome.

New Years Eve

Well it is New Years eve. Me and my dad usually stay up all night. Well i think we actually just stayed up until midnight because in past years that was a treat for me, now i stay up until midnight all the time so maybe we will stay up the whole night. But i unfortunately doubt it. I don't even know what we are going to do today. I think my mom and dad usually stay up and drink a small glass of wine. I of course don't get any but i think it tastes gross anyway. This day might just be like everyday. But i don't know for sure. I know that i will probably hang out with my friend if he is available today. I'm not sure because its new years eve and some people stay in and i guess somehow celebrate. That's just a speculation though. I cant be sure. So happy New Years Eve.

The Stand

I am currently reading The Stand by Stephen King and i think so far that it is a great book. Its really exciting and i definitely enjoy reading it. The book definitely gets you hooked on it. It has some pretty questionable content though. Like sex and major drinking. I don't think i have come across any drugs though. I guess you could say that the payday candy bar us like a drug to fat Harold Lauder. I think there is something suspicious going on with him and Nadine Cross. Those are just a couple characters. There are so many characters in that book. Nick is a deaf-mute but he can read lips perfectly. He is even part of "government" committee which they call the Free-Zone committee that him and many others set up to get things up and running. The place that they are living in along with many other survivors of the "Super flu" is called the Free Zone. There is another section which there isn't a name for yet but there are supposedly the bad guys. I'm about 3/4s of the way through the book. I think its a great book so ill get back to you when i finish the book.

Avatar

I saw Avatar last night and it was just awesome. Lots of action again. And you know i love action if you've read previous posts. But there was a lot of blowing up things and destroying and killing. I thought the whole story plot was clever. The movie was a about two and a half hours long. The movie ended at about 10:40. I wasn't that tired but i read until twelve so i guess that makes me tired now. 11:00 is my real bedtime. Its pretty much much about a crippled marine who's brother died who was supposedly a great marine but he got shot or i think robbed. I'm pretty sure the guy explained it by saying he got shot "for the paper in his wallet." So that pretty much means he was robbed and now his brother is taking his place and his avatar. What the marine people want is the stuff the aliens are living on called unobtainium. Its really expensive and valuable. The movie is set pretty far into the future. The marines have big robots which the go into and connect sensors to their hands and they can control the robot by making it walk and it has a huge gun and apparently a huge knife as well. The movie reminded me of District nine. I thought it was a lot like that movie but i think i liked Avatar a lot better than District nine. I also saw Avatar in 3D and it was great. I think you should do the same and definitely see this movie.

Sherlock Holmes

I saw the new Sherlock Holmes movie last night and i was there until about 1:00am. I loved the movie and the parts especially when Sherlock plans out what he does ahead of time and you get to see it in slow motion as he explains each move. And then you get to see him do it for real. I All the ear stuff that he did, i already knew about but not so much the other stuff he did to people. I loved how the movie was also a comedy. It was hilarious. I loved the one part how the guy tried to shoot Lord Blackwood and then was immediately set on fire. It was just great. I also liked all the action and fighting. I love fighting where people get beat up in movies. I thought it was funny how Sherlock was always testing his concoctions on his friend's dog. That was funny. So that's what i have to say on the movie because i don't want to spoil it for you. So definitely go see the new Sherlock Holmes movie.

Redsteel

So i got this game called Redsteel for the Wii and it is super fun. Its a sword and gun game. You use the Wii remote to swing your sword and to aim your gun. Pretty much any motion you do, the game does the exact same thing. If you have a gun in our hand and you turn the Wii remote sideways, the gun will also turn sideways. When you have a gun and you go into lock on mode to follow an enemy, you can move your remote forward and it will zoom in for a more precise shot. I played with my brother on Christmas and hes now addicted to it and hes playing with my dad right now downstairs. My brother is really good at that game too. He kicked my butt on some levels on 2-player and I'm pretty sure hes kicking my dads butt right now. The game is like a Japanese samurai game. You can get respect by not striking your opponent down to kill in a sword fight when he gets on his knees. You fight him until he gets on his knees. Its a super fun game and i can't wait to play my dad who so genuinely thinks he can beat me but we will have to see about that.

Christmas eve and Christmas

We got so many Christmas presents. I opened a couple of them on Christmas eve too. My friend and dad's friend came over. My friend is actually my dad's friend's son. So they came over for Christmas eve and for Christmas. It is was fun. On Christmas eve we watched a couple of comedy shows called the Big Bang Theory, and the IT Crowd. I had already most of the Big Bang Theory with my friend because he stayed over but then we got dropped off at Starbucks so my dad could pick up my brother and sister from the Boys and Girls club because there wasn't enough seats so my friend's dad came to pick us up and we ate Chinese food and then watched the shows over. I had already previously watched the IT crowd shows with the same friend too but we watched a new episode. So the on Christmas we opened half the presents with the, because they came late and we had already planned for them to come over for Christmas. We had presents for them and they had present for us too. From them i got a spider man bobble head pen and a couple spider man pins and binoculars. I was actually the present hand out person but my sister started to take them for her self and i got agitated and then told her to stop but she didn't and then my brother started to take them for himself too and that's when i apparently stopped being the present hand outer person. We all took pictures. Over all of what i can remember for my presents. I got a jacket, couple shirts, socks, boxers, a hat, sunglasses, flannel sheets and fur moccasins (which i picked out with my mom), a book called the Cheese, a grateful dead CD called American Beauty which i am listening to right now, a velvet poster to draw on, the binoculars, spider man pen, and pins. I think that's all of it. So how was your Christmas?

Winter Break

So i like to get my long nice sleep that i deserve without being bothered. But apparently that cant happen unless i am in a super deep sleep. Today my mom comes in and irons her clothes for work but that is totally unnecessary. She says if she uses it in her room that the electricity will go out, which is a likely situation because that is was caused a lot of the other black outs in our house. Probably because my dad is a computer programmer and is always working in his room and has tons of devices plugged in the power strips and those power strips connected to other ones and its just crazy. Today, she didn't have to go in my room and iron, she could have done it in my brother's room which would have been a lot more convenient because my brother and sister have to wake up early because they go to a daycare thing since there isn't really they can do here except bother me and my dad. I already know not to bother my dad when it his work days. Which is the weekdays. Over the summer, since my sister wakes up early all the time anyway, she used to wake up my brother and then go and bother me in my sleep and that always used to piss me off. Now i don't let them in my room so they can't really bother me. Although they do come in when they get the chance which is when either one of my parents are in here like today when my mom was ironing, my sister came in for really no reason. I think they just like to come in here. My sister really likes to go on my bed. I don't really know why but its probably because i have a bunk bed and no one else does. But i have definitely been getting a lot of sleep and i usually appreciate waking up early because i have more time in the day to get all of my chores and stuff done earlier which allows me some free time. Of course, when i get told to get off of my free time and go down stairs which is at my brother's bedtime, i get immediately mad. I don't like to get mad like that, but its like a reflex i can;t control. I hate it but i really like it when i am doing something i like. I'm usually playing games on my computer. But it just really pisses me off and i need someway to fix it. But i really just need to control myself. That's pretty much the key point to many things.

Presents

There was a knock on the door about 10 or 15 minutes ago and it was the UPS guys delivering packages. There were 4 packages. MY grandmother always sen packages every Christmas but never this much as i can remember. There was a huge heavy box for my brother, sister, and me. There was a light box for my brother with a Lego box in it. Two other boxes were for my mom and dad. Some of the packages were ripped so i got a sort of glimpse of the presents. One of my packages was a shirt. Yesterday i went shopping with my mom to gt me presents and i picked out flannel sheets, and moccasins with fur in them and you can was around outside with them and they are super comfortable. We also got a popcorn maker for my brother and some pink binoculars for my sister. I don't know what else she got or everybody else because she dropped me off at home and then went out to do more shopping. I had to go home because i had a lot of stuff to do. My mom still wanted to wrap my present and i even helped her wrap them. So i can't wait to finally open my presents. By the way, on the post before this, I'm not taking the study skills course over the summer but actually over the winter break which is now. And on the mad science club thing, they put name that bad guy. Not so funny but i thought i might add it.

Games on PC

So on my computer which is fairly advanced has different games then on older PCs. It has this game called inkball, which i got caught playing when i wasn't supposed to. There is solitare, spidersolitare, hearts, chess titans, freecell, majong titans, minesweeper, and purble (not purple) place, which all look different and cooler than on the old PCs. Chess titans, majong titans, purble place, and inkball are all new ones. There are pretty fun too. I got the game bioshock so it adds it to the game explorer. If you get other games it adds it on there too. On Inkball there are different colored balls in some levels and you have a pen and you make lines for the balls to bounce off of and your supposed to make it go in their own color. There are like 5 different levels of difficulty obviously getting harder as the difficulty gets higher. Its sort of fun. Chess titans is just chess. Purble place is really weird and stupid. Its for little kids like asking you to make a cake according to the picture. Its just really stupid. Majong is just majong when you have to match up the tiles. You can just press hint the whole time and then you win. I did that once. Its pretty weird. So there are the newer games.

Science Test

So i had a test on Wednesday and i knew i needed to get an A on it. I had a choice the day before the test to sleep over at my friends house since it is right next to the school so i can just walk there instead of taking the bus. So i chose to go there and i knew my friends dad would study with me and he did and he is very good to study with. He definitely takes care of business. So i studied with him but we didn't quite get through both of the chapters. I also studied with my friend. Then the next morning i had a paper sitting in front of my door and it was faxed science noted from home which i was sure i didn't need. My dad had faxed them to me and i told him i didn't need them and apparently that was the worst choice of words for that moment. My dad asked me stuff on it and i didn't know any of the stuff on there because i had different definitions. I guess both of the definitions were correct. My dad didn't like too much that i didn't know the terminology on the paper. So we argued a lot that day. I went to school and since it was a 2 hour period we did a bingo study thing before the test and then we did the test. I thought i knew the answers right when i read the questions and i was going to get an A for sure. So then 2 days later on Friday we get the test scored back. I got a 34 out of 50 which is a C. I thought it was a high B. So i get a text message from my dad saying you got a C no the test, we will talk. I was very disappointed because i had never gotten a C on a test in that class. So we talked this morning when we were working on a puzzle after all the kids went upstairs and he told me everything that happened and cam to the conclusion that i am going to take a study skills course online over the summer. The whole time i nodded and said mmhhmm because i didn't want to argue because i knew it wouldn't do any good in changing any body's mind. Plus i want to do anything to get all A's in that class. I will just have to do everything my dads plans out for me that is not too extreme and i guess taking a course online isn't very extreme.

candy canes

Yes, of course you have to get candy candy canes for Christmas. I bought a 24 pack of them from the 99 cent store last year and i gave them to my friends of course there wasn't enough because i have a lot of friends but I'm sure it was fine. But the big box full of them was sticking out of my backpack. This time i had to buy from the dollar tree and i couldn't find the big box like before so i bought every different kind there and it was three different flavors from the same company who made them. Blueberry, peppermint, and cinnamon. When i was leaving i saw a rainbow one and i was sort of disappointed that i didn't buy it. I couldn't because my dad was waiting for me outside. But no biggy. Today when i gave them away, i would ask them, peppermint, cinnamon, or blueberry and almost everyone asked for blueberry and i only had 12 of those and i had 2 blueberry ones before school even started! But everyone definitely appreciated it. I thought the peppermint was pretty gross but some people asked for it. I didn't warn them. The blueberry was definitely the best and cinnamon was good too but peppermint was just ok. There was this one girl who had been mad at me for maybe about 2 weeks because of no valid reason. Her back was turned to me and i offered her one to be friend; because i as trying to get her to stop being mad. she shook her head no with her back still turned to me. I different the people around us one and they said yes. Then she faced forward and i offered her one again because she started too look at them. I knew she wanted one. She said yes and that was pretty much the end of her being mad at me. She laughed too. I also offered our Spanish substitute teacher one and he took it with a thanks. I gave away a lot of candy canes. So i am very generous and definitely feel good about myself.

to kill a mockingbird

Many many many people have read this book and i am reading it for my English class. I am maybe 2/3 of the way through. I just got done with the jury part and that went on for a lot of chapters. It is a really good book. Usually you would think that if you are reading a book for school that its not going to be enjoyable, but this one actually is. Its got lot of detail in it and its sort of suspenseful and its about children and its a super popular book. Sometimes our teacher laughs at some of the stuff in the book and when she reads it, she reads it with some sort of an accent. I thought it was hilarious when i first heard her read it. So yeah if you haven't read it, i definitely recommend it.

Great Balls of Fire!

Do you know this popular song by the pianist Jerry Le. Well i obviously do because i am a pianist and I've heard this song a million times. I can even play maybe half of it. Well i didn't really post about the song. But i posted about the movie. I thought it was a great movie but i usually think movies are great unless they are totally ridiculous and not that funny like Nacho Libre which was my first post. But i definitely liked this movie. Its based on a true story. Jerry Le marries his 13 year old cousin! That's ridiculous. Who would do that. Well he does say many times over and over that he really does love her and that's what makes right. I guess i agree with that. They do very much love each other. That may make it right. What do you think?

env touch

I want the env touch because its a touch screen and it has a keyboard. And mostly because my phones about to break. They don't even make my phone anymore. I have an Alias. I sort of want the Alias 2 but i really want the env touch. I've actually wanted it ever since it came out. I cant get the new droid phone (which is the best phone ever) because it is a lot of money and you have to pay a monthly fee because it is a smart phone. The env touch isn't a smart phone and its still awesome. I want it because it takes good pictures and plays music great and its really cool. I mean it has a touch screen so it has to be cool. I've always wanted a physical keyboard phone and a touch screen phone and this is just perfect. So hopefully i will get it.

Rain

I know some people like the rain and some people don't but i happen to be one of those people in the middle. I don't like being cold but playing in the beautiful rain is fun. I like to be wet sort of. I just think its fun. Its usually always sunny and i guess its nice to have a little change during the day. But on the other hand those changes could be fatal. They could lead to landslides. And i mean major landslides. But i like how some times thunder and lightning come. I love the flash in the sky and the sound is cool too. The colorful streak in the sky is also very beautiful. I remember that time i was in Virginia visiting my aunt and uncle and friends and two little cousins. They are so cute. But one time when i was riding my uncle's 4-wheeler i stopped to look at the lightning. I don't even think it was raining, but maybe it was. But one time i think a drop came down and got under my seat and i heard a loud sound and i was scared so i got off and it was smoking. Nothing actually happened thank god but something could have happened. But yeah, i guess you could say i love the rain.

Random Thing

So whenever i go to bed or feel excited or something or just any time i make it happen, i get a weird surge through my whole body and its super hard to explain but its weird and it feels like it shakes my whole body and my hands fingers stretch out so you can see the tendons or something that go through you fingers. Its crazy and awesome and i don't even know if i like it. I think i might though. It happens to me when I'm really hyper like when i wake up. Its crazy and it hard to explain. I sort of feels like I'm doing the worm sort of. Its just weird. So you know, just think about it.

Spanish class

So i have Spanish class and ever since one day near the beginning of the year i started to act up a little and started to make people laugh and then my teacher saw what was going on and said something to me that included Mr funny or something but that was a sign to stop and so i did but ever since then, she hasn't really liked me. And I'm not so great of a Spanish person because i don't know if I'm right or not but i try, but i just give up because i don't want to be wrong. I like to be right though. But my "friend" who sits behind me somehow gets me in trouble a lot and she told me she would because its entertaining. I find that ridiculous and i did talk to her about it and how i needed an A in that class so she should stop and i guess that actually worked and she hasn't been getting me in trouble lately. So for the moment I'm trouble free in that class and all other classes. But still my Spanish teacher isn't really too fond of me.

Pokemon

I remember this really old game that i used to be almost obsessed with. Well now some people actually bring their gameboys and actually play them at school. Its crazy because who would first of all bring a gameboy to school, and second bring Pokemon, and third play it during class. You are supposed to be learning during class. Its just ridiculous. My friend plays it everyday during geometry class. His girlfriend got sort of embarrassed when i told her about it because she knew he does that but hates how hes obsessed with it. She told me that she always complains to him about spending time with her and not the game. She told me about one instance when they were at her house and he was playing on her bed and she was just sitting there watching TV. I thought how boring that would be and how messed up that is too. But oh well .Some people just get hooked on that game like its some sort of drug.

Organizing with time

I think its crazy how time flies by so fast. But mostly when your having fun and I'm usually having fun. Especially with high school. I'm always hearing how your high school years go by so fast that you cant even believe it because its four year. Unless obviously if your a super genius and know everything so well that you can skip a grade. That's pretty rare though. But everyday know for me, time is sort of a dilemma. I am always trying to organize things in some amount of time. I am always thinking about time and how fast i can get something done but actually knowing the material. I like to limit my time like eating breakfast in the morning which i was very slow at and still am. But i am always organizing all my school work in some amount of time in between the due date. I am definitely organizing much better these days because that's pretty much what high school is, organizing. But i am a procrastinator which does not help me, but i am fixing that problem. I like to spread things apart and not do everything all on one day. Like yesterday i finished my math homework. Today i am going to finish my science lab. If not today, tomorrow i will finish my Spanish and reading for English. I like to plan things out ahead of time. It just makes things much easier.

Settlers of Catan

I just got finished with a game of Settlers of Catan. Which is a very popular German game where you have resources and you can trade them to the bank or to other players. Trading to the bank costs more than what you might be able to negotiate with the other players. There are development cards that let you do different things like have extra points, move the thief which don't let the player who is on that hex get the resource there and you get to steal a card from them, take two cards from the bank, build 2 free roads to extend your abilities to settle, or call a resource out and you get however many of that resource tat all players have. Your goal is to get the winning amount of points. You can get points by having settlements, cities, the longest road, or the largest army, or the special extra point card. If you have at least 5 roads and it is the longest, you get the longest road card. The largest army is if you have played the knight at least 3 times and you have the most of those. Anyways, our guests played with us and it was fun but the game took way too long. My dad was 1 point from winning so our gust called the game off and let my dad win. Everyone was getting a little fidgety anyways. That does indeed include myself though. It is pretty late. But it definitely was a pretty fun game.

Droid Phone

So my dad finally got the new droid phone which he has been wanting since it came out which is not long ago since its the newest phone out. It costs $200 but he had a $50 off thing so it cost him only $150! That's a lot of money but it doesn't stop there. Its a smart phone so you have to pay $30 every month! So there is definitely a lot of money associated with the thing but i pretty sure it was worth it because it is freaking awesome! I am so jealous now because i only have the alias which they stopped making. I want the EnV touch really badly. I mean i obviously want the droid the most but i know I'm not getting that because of all the money involved. So my next step is the EnV touch. That costs $100! So i don't really know about that.

Mad Science Club

So when i get to my Math class, there is a bunch of writing on the white board. At the top in big letters it says, Mad Science Club. I'm not a part of it and don't plan to be. What they do and think of is crazy and I'm pretty sure the club is at lunch because my math class is at lunch. They write pretty much outrageous stuff but it is funny. I cant really remember anything but there was locker-ovens, and then they do crazy drawings. Today there was a 3 or 4 headed turkey. It was weird. I think they constructed a rocket looking sort of thing. It looked like it was going to fall apart if anyone touched it so i didn't touch it. I think i once walked in on the club because i left lunch pretty early but i think they were just wrapping up. So yeah, if i see anything more that i think is at least mildly funny, ill write about it.

Modern Warfare 2

So there is this new game out for PS3 and Xbox360 called Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. My friends were talking about how great it is and i don't even have any of those new systems. My friend told me to ask Santa to hook me up with a 360 or he will do it for me. So apparently hes gonna do it for me. But the other day i actually got to play it on my friend's Xbox Live and it was fun and addicting and just great. I really want a 360 now. Really badly and i hope to get one, but i just don't know if i will have time to play it because i never have time to do anything with game systems really. But that's probably because i have a short focus span so i get off track really easily but the 360 would definitely be an incentive and i would most likely not ease off my homework so easily. But life is good.

Sea World

I don't even know the last time i went to sea world. All i know is that it was fun. Whenever i think of Sea World, i think boring and then i actually go and it is fantastic. I went yesterday and we arrived at the hotel which is right by Sea World. Its awesome.

Hypothetical Situations

So sometimes i get these thoughts where i think of situations then stretch them out beyond what can really happen. So its pretty much making up a hypothetical situation. I kinda of make them go into the future, like i set my hypothetical situation into the future sometimes. I like to do that. But when i think of the situation, I'm usually trying to be funny and yeah, its funny. You are probably wanting me to give you some kind of situation like I'm talking about but i don't really remember it. I can only remember right when i am making up the hypothetical situation. Ill try to remember the situation so i can post it but i think I'm going to set up a twitter so i can tweet my thoughts, hopefully soon. The thing is though, its gonna be a lot of typing in those situations. Plus i don't even know if people would be entertained by them. I like to entertain people, not by making myself look stupid though. I don't do that. I like to be funny though. But ill probably post about Twitter once i get one.

Soccer Game

We finally won our soccer game for the first time and it was our last game. We should have won the others, all we had to do was play like we did today. I think we won because for the first time, i think, our side where the parents and people watching the game cheered us on. Every time we even got close to the goal they started to cheer and then when we scored, every time they got all happy and jumped up and did all of their crazy cheering that i think pumped us up for the next goal. I know it pumped me up to do great and i did. I ran my @$$ off in that game and worked so hard like i always do but this game was a special one. I'm still kind of disappointed that we never won any other game but at least we one once. Its better than none at all.

Brother and mom

My brother really has my cold now and so does my mom. I can tell that it is definitely in my mom because she was really weary and intolerable of everything around her. It was just really annoying and i could barely stand it and now I'm in trouble. i can tell that my brother definitely has it because he is coughing constantly like i was. Its kind of annoying too because its weird now that they are coughing everywhere. Even my computer apps teacher was coughing today but I'm pretty sure that wasn't my fault. I just wish no one was sick. I mean I'm pretty sure I'm immune to it now but still its germs flying around everywhere. School is really annoying because if someone coughs even a little bit like one cough, they are all on you about the swine flu and that just gets really annoying. I just feel lie telling them to shut-up because they do need to shut-up and plus the swine flu isn't even that big of a deal. Sometimes i do tell them to shut-up but oh well. So yeah, i hope my brother and mom get better soon.

Spread

I have spread my cold on to my brother and my mom. My brother has it because he saw me drink out of water bottle when i was sick and then he drank it right after me even through i was warning and telling him not to but he didn't care and now he is paying the price for it. That just shows him to listen to his brother because he is smart and knows whats good for you and should always listen to him. He cant really afford to be sick because he has got a running meet coming up and then his running practices so he better heal quick or else things are going to be a disaster for him. He should have listened to me. He is coughing a lot and his temp. is going up. My mom just occasionally coughs. No big deal but maybe she will catch it.

Bioshock

So the Bioshock package finally arrived on i think Monday because my dad ordered it. He opened it up and it was the Bioshock book and so we were a little disappointed so he took it back and got the game. So now we are happy and so we set it up yesterday. Apparently when you move the mouse its not smooth and its really annoying so now we need to fix that problem. We have no idea how but we really need to figure out how because it is really annoying and i don't know how we are supposed to play the game with the mouse all jacked up like it is. My dad tried fixing it yesterday but couldn't so hopefully he can fix it today.

Tests

I got a little lucky today and not so lucky as well. So i forgot that i had a 100 question Health test today after school and i forgot to study for it and so i thought i was going to b in a tough situation. I had 4 other tests today. I had my science, English, computer apps, and math test. They were all kinda of difficult except for the English test which was extremely easy. But i could have had 5 tests today if i had to take the health test but my dad emailed the proctor for my tests and explained my whole situation of not being ready and she emailed back saying i could do it next week so i could prepare for it. So actually right now i am studying and i was saved by my dad's plus my proctor's generosity.

Cold

I think i might have a cold which is rare because i never get sick. I doubt it to be the swine flu. I don't think I'm gonna get that. The problem with me getting sick is now everyone in m house is going to get it because if it hits me, its definitely going to hit them. I think i have the strongest immune system in my family. I think my sister is going to be first because i heard her coughing today after i got home. I think my dad will get it after my sister because i spend a lot of time with him. Then my brother and then my mom because spends the least time in the house than the rest of us. So yeah. Its pretty ironic because i was just studying my health course yesterday and then i get a cold. Its pretty crazy. I think i got the cold from my friend because i slept over at his house when he was sick and then slept over there again yesterday and he was coughing so i probably got it from him but my cold should go away soon.

Tests

So I'm not really great at English tests but when it comes to science tests I'm pretty good. I took my midterm a week ago on Wednesday and i got an A-! I'm very proud and happy because the test was 125 questions! But i thought we had a test today in science but apparently the website was wrong an i am happy for that. Our Spanish teacher even moved her test date to tomorrow. I am extra happy about that because i don't think i was ready at all. I should have been ready though. I was ready for my science test though. I totally studied for that a lot. I need to because i promised my dad an A in that class so i need to live up to it. He also got me Bioshock which i have been wanting. So now i really don't have a choice. So there you go.

Halloween

For Halloween i was going to slash paint around my face and maybe do the saw thing with the red swirl thing on my cheeks and then go out and trick or treat because i really don't have anything else to do and I'm definitely not going to hand out candy! I'm a kid, i shouldn't have to hand out candy. So i told my dad what i was going to do for Halloween and then he told me I'm not aloud to trick or treat! That is just inhumane. Its like I'm in trouble and hes taking away my whole entire Halloween. That's what he is pretty much doing that! He doesn't realize it because he doesn't take the time to try! It just not fair. I didn't do anything bad. Ive been a good person. No sins right? I just don't get it. Its gonna be horrible. I didn't even get to go to Knott's Scary Farm. Everything for me sucks.

Midterm

I had my science midterm today and it was 125 questions. 28 of those questions were true or false. The rest were just multiple choice. The test was surprisingly easy. I know for sure that i got at least one wrong because i looked it up in the book right after i handed in the test. It had something to do feldspar and quartzite. The choices that i remember was Andesitic composition, Basaltic composition, and Ultramafic. At first i picket basaltic composition. But i went back and changed it to andesitic composition. I looked it up in the book and learned that it was actually basaltic composition so apparently i should have stuck with my first answer. I am pretty disappointed that i got that one wrong out of any of them because me and my dad studied that one over and over and then i studied it on my own a lot too and i still got it wrong so all the time i spent studying that one thing all went down the toilet. But after the test i asked my teacher if we could listen to our i-pods with one ear bud because he lets us do that after he is done giving a lecture so he said yes. So my friend and i listened to her i-pod and we actually listened to I'm bo yo and sung almost all day together. It was fun. So the midterm wasn't that bad at all.