GOLFING!!!!!

For some reason now that it's the end of the year, I feel like I am missing a lot of stuff at school with so little to do homework wise. So I felt like I should write this blog now rather than on Sunday when I normally do it. I was just out golfing and it was insane!!! I had so much fun testing out my new clubs. The new clubs are Adams, which I had never heard about before until my dad took me out to go buy them. So I went to the driving range today and tested out my new clubs. They were very easy to hit, except for my driver, which I fixed after a while. It felt so good watching that ball just zoom out onto the grass when I would smack the ball with little effort on my part. I honestly don't know how golfing works. They're just really tiny clubs that for some reason fly super far when you hit a hard compact ball! Anyway, it was a fun experience and shooting golf balls onto the range is the best. Oh dang, my dad came in with a friend so I was forced to stop writing this so I lost my train of thought. Now it's 10:10 p.m. at night (yea I know what I wrote) and I'm still not done with this very important piece of writing. And when I saw the discussion board post that said that we would get honor's credit and not a grade, I felt relieved. This year was all about trial and error for me. I figured out what worked for me at school and what didn't work and I'm ready to try it out in high school! And of course I'm extremely excited for high school! And this was really cool, I though that by the end of that last sentence I had written 300 words. I checked it on Microsoft Word, and I had exactly 300 words! That is so cool! I really know how this kind of a system works now. Just as you had us copy that quote at the beginning of the year about how if you write a certain amount of words on a daily basis you'll get better, I feel as if I'm gaining something big out of this blog! I never thought I would learn to write well just typing random things on a blog! But when I checked my writing thus far, it was full of grammar mistakes, so just so you guys know it might not be exactly 300 words if you don't believe me and decide to check for yourself. Oh well, I seem to be getting the hang of finding topics while I'm writing to come up with the topics I'll need to succeed. When you had us write that free verse poem today, I wondered how I would ever get that done. I just started with a basketball line and the poem just came out from there! I'm a better writer than I thought!!!

Parents

Sorry about that last post, but I felt that I needed to write that for someone. But now I'm going to talk about my new experience as the teacher's quorum president. We are planning an etiquette dinner for our mutual this week. And for some reason my parents are trying to make it the biggest deal in the entire world! They seem to be back-seat judging me as I perform in this task! What I don't understand is the huge deal they're making about it. It seems that if I have to call someone my dad is right on top of it telling me to get on it ASAP! It seems that I won't have a free moment to myself when I plan all this. And beside the fact that my dad seems to still be in pain from his recent shoulder surgery and probably gets really angry at someone if they don't do something perfect and the way that he wants it done. And my parents read this blog every week so they probably will read every word that I'm writing. My leaders seem relaxed about it and it's only my parents that seem the most concerned about the outcome of this activity. It's going to be FINE!!!!

And I know that I've already said this before, but I am extremely excited for high school. It's the chance to start off with a clean slate in classes and hopefully to do the best I can and make a good impression. Once again, my parents are edging me towards the most difficult classes to make a good application for jobs and college. Honestly though, I feel like I'm doing very well in school and that they want everything perfect or else I'm a failure! A's and B's are good grades to have in school, the only problem I would be having is if I were having D's, C's, or F's. But once I'm in high school I can do everything on my own. My brother seems to put himself to bed every night and can do all his homework by himself so I'm wondering why I can't do that now. I'm old enough to handle the pressures of real life; I'm facing one right now with the etiquette dinner. It seems that the only thing that matters to them is that I do everything perfect; they want it to take a long time and so I can work as hard as I can with my entire life. I already know what I want to be and if my brother can do all the stuff he does on a regular basis, so can I.

And another thing about growing up, my parents want me to be perfect in one or two things. But I don't feel that comfortable making a commitment in just a few things when I like to explore around and want to be good at a many things and not just perfect in a few things. Whatever, I still love my parents in spite of all of this.

Do not read if you don't want a spiritual lesson

Unfortunately, I procrastinated writing this blog so now I'm writing it at 9:30 at night. But I'm really excited for tomorrow. It feels likes it's going to be a good day tomorrow. I'm feeling the spirit so strong right now that he just feels so great. I don't want this to interrupt my spiritual flow and I know that I have to write it. I don't know if I'm going to actually get 500 words in this blog. I know that my parents have been reading my blog and sometimes I use this blog to let them know about things that I don't have the courage to tell them face-to-face. I wish that the moment I just had could have lasted forever. But then my dad came in and started deleting some apps. So now it's stopped and I know that I must 500 words. It seems so important to my parents that I work all the time and so close to the end of the year and I don't feel that overwhelmed anymore. 3rd term was my hardest though; I got a really bad grade that term. I thought that I would never be able to bounce back from that trial. But here I am, actually working pretty well in all these assignments. And I've got more stuff to do as the new teacher's quorum president! With all this stuff I wonder why on earth could they have chosen me. I don't know why I'm so special, what I could have to do with this plan. Then I was reading in Genesis in the bible about the creation of the world and everything on it. I know that he must have thought about what I was going to do very carefully. Heavenly Father knew that I would have trials like this and that I got to choose what my ending was going to be. I just hope that I get the wonderful ending. I feel so loved right now, both by my parents and heavenly father. Sorry that I'm going about the church right now but I feel like this will benefit somebody and that I have to write about this. Every night I read my scriptures, but not all the nights I end up actually studying the scriptures with pure intent. I know that the days that I actually study the scriptures thoroughly are the days that seem to go by the best. I hope that soon these days will come by for all of us that are in need of a little rest. In the words of Jesus in the new testament, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." It feels like I'm giving a sacrament talk, but I know that Jesus will give unto us his yoke which is easy and we shall rest through a peaceful day, just like I have had to.

High school, the ACT, mothers day, and the primary

All right, so I seem to be getting the hang of this blog writing. Every time that I write on this blog it gets easier and easier to write 500 words! I may just keep writing in this blog once I'm done with honors english. So it seems that for high school I have a lot of honors classes that my parents and counselors are urging me to do, so of course I end up doing it. So next year is going to blow in terms of work and stuff like that. My older brother who's a senior at Davis High is laughing at all the challenges that I will end up having to do in high school.

And on an unrelated note, yesterday my mom asked me to take this ACT practice test for the english portion which my brother says isn't that hard and I ended up getting a 25!! Now if you know anything about the ACT you should know that a grade that high is good! And that was just my first time! I can't wait to end up taking the ACT in high school and knowing that I can score higher than that! It seems like that ACT is the hardest thing that you can possibly do. My brother said it was hard after he finished, even though he scored really high! My older brother took so many preparation classes and bought so many ACT preperation books that I was wondering how he could possibly remember all the information that was told to him. The ACT score is probably the only score that I will be nervous about in my lifetime. I won't be so worried about that UTIPS thing that we took in Thompson last week (which by the way was really easy) but the ACT will make me nervous.

And how about today, Mother's Day! Unfortunatly, we couldn't give my mom the breakfast in bed that we usually do because we have an 8:30 church time so that was too early. So we just ate this nice lunch with chicken (which my mom is allergic to), carrots, and bread. Luckily my mom thought ahead and had my dad make her a salmon just for her. A special Mother's day salmon, how thoughtful of my dad to make that for her.

And today I had to help out with the primary because it was Mother's Day, so I had to play the piano. Unfortunatly I got the songs I was supposed to play like 1 hour before I had to play them, so I had no practice time. Fortunatly I only had to play the melody while our leader sang a song for the children with symbolism about mothers. At least I didn't end up making a fool of myself in front of the entire primary class. And it was the senior class too! So future young women and men were watching me play piano. If it was the junior primary I wouldn't get so freaked out because they wouldn't pay that much attention to it. Oh, and good bye from Junior Mint!!!

Big Brothers

The thing about big brothers is that they seem to get the last say in almost everything. Like if I want to get a new game that I think would be very cool and almost everyone else thinks so. If I went to him and asked him to buy it and I thought that he would enjoy the game as well, he would have the deciding vote as to if we get the game or not. Now I know that's very personal and very specific and yes there is a story behind that but I won't let you in on that little part of my life.

And I was just playing some light basketball in the rain and jumping on the trampoline with some neighbors. And I thought that it was super easy and that I didn't exert myself at all. Sure enough when I get back inside I sit next to my dad and he says if I've been sweating. I said of course not, that it was the easiest exercise ever, but he thought I was. And as a matter of fact I do smell I tiny bit, but how do you sweat in the rain when you're hardly doing a thing?!

And I remember back to the good old days, when I was young, carefree, and enjoyed the simple Legend of Zelda game on the old Nintendo 64. Now I'm a teenager, have to worry about the deciding grades for high school and if I'm going to get into a good college, and only satisfied with a game if it has good grafics. Yet I still enjoy the classic Nintendo 64. A lot changes in just 7 years. I wish that I could go back in time and relieve the good old days. Those were the times that I could relax and not have to worry about writing 500 words every week (which isn't that hard anymore).

When I was young, I could get away with reading the silliest children books, like some of my favorites were the old bionicle series books. Not so sure why I used to like them, but hey, I was a kid. Now I have to read some of the more challenging books like The Count of Monte Cristo, A Tale of Two Cities, and To Kill a Mockingbird, which isn't required in this class but my dad and older brother told me to read it so I thought I would give it a shot. Turns out that I still haven't started it yet and I need to hurry or I'll fall behind.

Oh, and my mom always tells me that I should check this post for grammar mistakes and to make sure that it makes sense every time. It always requires no further examination besides copying it into Microsoft word and then checking for any grammar or spelling mistakes. And I always seem to procrastinate this blog until the second before we have to watch a movie or something. And one more question for Mr. T, when are we going to have a new discussion board question???

Midterms

So I'm getting nervous for midterms. I'm wondering what's going to happen to my grades over the weekend and if it will either drop or raise my grade. I checked my grades on Friday, and they were surprisingly better than I thought they would be. And I seriously am wondering what my teacher's are going to write about me. I always get this nervous when midterms come around, but whatever.

And I know that my blog isn't the fanciest blog out there, but at least I'm meeting the requirements. And this computer I'm working on didn't have the word didn't or isn't in it's dictionary. I mean, what's up with that. It's an old computer, but it should have those words, they aren't that new. And it didn't have the word aren't either! My dad just told me that they are all contractions, which makes me wonder why the creators of this computer could have overlooked that. And my dad's listening to Kelly Clarkson as I'm writing this so I'm getting into the rhythm.

It's about this time that I start to run out of ideas to write about. So yesterday I was earning the bird study merit badge. And yesterday it was insanely cold so I was freezing looking for birds that I had no idea about. And the bird instructor looked as if he knew what every bird in the entire bird's name was. Those are the kinds of things that I wonder why you know about. Like I don't understand who would have the patience to sit is bushes, watching birds, and trying to identify new birds. That just seems too much for me. And the names that they come up with them are really insane. Take egret for example, what kind of a name is that? Who watches birds, identifies them as a new species, and then thinks, I should name it an egret! NO, that can't be correct! It's like they come up with the most challenging names for birds and other animals so that kids have to study them, take tests on them, and then forget the names after the test and will never touch upon the subject again.

Once I get rolling on some subject in this blog, I just roll along for 100 words without even knowing it. I just did that with the bird study and the challenging names back there. It went by insanely fast. I'm just getting on top of my classes in this term, and a good thing too. I promised my parents that I would get all A's or a 4.0 this term, and so far it looks like I'll accomplish it. I hate it when you forget one assignment or a day at school and the class does a huge thing that day or makes the assignment worth a ton of points. When you're absent you don't have the patience or resolve to do the work so you put it off until it's too late. And when you miss an assignment you better hope the teacher is nice and will help you out.

Driving

So I've gotten my driver's permit a long time ago. Now once I finish this blog, my mom tells me that I'll get to drive to my grandma's house. Now to get there, I'm going to have to go on the highway, through some intersections, and make a few turns along the way. It's going to be extremely difficult.

Now I've gone to my grandma's house before, it's just that when I was going I had to make a left turn, which normally doesn't sound too bad. But my dad was warning about stuff and my mom told me things to do, and I drove too far into the intersection and had to back up. So I'm pretty nervous about this trip. However, I want to hurry and finish this up so I can start. Driving is really fun, but to drive I have to finish this blog, and this blog needs to be 500 words. Dang, my brother just read my blog so far and is making fun of me for messing up on the driving, well at least I have driven before. I can't wait until I get my license, it's one of the things that a guy must have. Unfortunately my mom wants me to get my eagle before my license, and my eagle is one of the hardest things people have ever had to do.

First of all, I'm a life scout, which is almost to an eagle, but the jump from life to eagle is tremendous. You have to earn 10 more merit badges to earn it, and to earn those merit badges I have to record exercise, chores, and my income for 3 months! That's a lot of time staring you in the face. And of course the infamous eagle project, which I still have no idea about. I have no clue about the time requirements or which project I should be doing. Then I have to get interviewed which is a huge part of my dread, because to me they always seem out to get me. Then I must get honored at the official ceremony, which is just a little too much for me to handle.

And the only comforting thing I have to look forward too today is the amazing race, which is why I need to hurry up with the blog. I really want to hurry to my grandma's house, which is actually pretty far away. And of course my mom is going to freak out when I'm driving, which is something that I don't understand. It's like she thinks that all teens are not thinking when they drive so she has to be in control and monitor me as I'm driving. Now my brother is in here just focusing my dad's camera at the ceiling and now his hand! He gets so annoying sometimes. Now my other brother came in and they're yelling at each other so I hope that I'm almost done with this.

Spring Break

I know that a lot of people stayed at home for the holiday. But my family and I went to Cancun, Mexico! It was amazing! We had actual sun there with no clouds covering the sky overcast. We went snorkeling, played some water volleyball, and spent some time in the ocean. We also saw some of the famous Mayan ruins such as Chichen Itza, Coba, and Tulum. At first glance the place doesn't see that special. Chichen Itza was a special tower that the Mayans used that helped to tell time and the fundamentals of their calendar. Coba is just a big tower with 120 steps that stretches above the forest surrounding it. And you can actually climb Coba! Tulum was the only Mayan ruin to be found by the ocean. It's actually next to the second largest coral reef in the world! All in all it was a fabulous trip.

Returning back to Utah was tough. My family and I had to look forward to a 5-hour flight back! It was so long but we got to watch the movie Bedtime Stories on the way back, so it sped the time along. When we got back, we had to hurry through security and find our bags. We got back to our home at 10 o'clock! It was great to finally sleep in our own beds again. The beds at our hotel in Cancun were like rocks! I really needed a massage when I got back home.

The funniest part of the whole trip was actually going to Cancun. My brother forgot to put his toothpaste in his check-in bag like you’re supposed too, so he put it into his carry on. Unfortunately for him you aren’t supposed to put toothpaste into a carry on bag, so he had to get a full search and he had his huge tube of toothpaste taken away! It was so funny, and he was in a bad mood until we arrived in Cancun.

Arriving in Cancun was difficult. We had to go through customs, and by the time that was finished we wanted to hurry and check in to our hotel. But my parents wanted to stop by a travel agent and chat with him for a bit. He tried to offer us a timeshare in Cancun, which was the exact opposite of what we wanted. We almost missed our van because we were talking to him. Then when we arrived at the hotel, we had to wait even longer for my parents to get our room keys that took a substantial amount of time. By the time we made it to our rooms we had another person ask us to buy a timeshare there! We were so tired of listening to people talk about timeshares it wasn’t even funny. That first day was hard, adjusting to the heat and all the other things that make Mexico Mexico, but all in all, it was a fabulous trip. I only don’t miss the timeshare salesman.

So much piano!!!!!!!!!!

Today I played a special musical number in sacrament meeting! It went well, but when I was practicing the song it sounded awful! I'm surprised that I didn't die of being too nervous. It was a huge relief when it was done. The title is too much piano, and there is a reason why that's the title. That was a very nervous part of it, but I had much more piano that I had already done. In piano, they have this program called AIM, which means Achievement in Music. I had already completed a level 4 program back in Oregon but here I had a new teacher so I had to start from level 3 but it was still an enjoyable class to take. It was really difficult as well. I chose to take it so I had to learn some scales and then sight read a song that I had no clue about when I started. I was told today that I got 98 out of 100! So I did pretty well to start off.

My cat loves to play. We'll throw her a toy and she'll play with it by herself for 10 minutes before she'll get tired of it. She also enjoys our printer. Whenever I print something, she'll be right next to it, trying to whack the ink cartridge with her paw! She was just typing on the computer, stepping on the keys with her paws and erasing the things that I was writing. It was really funny! Now she's just right next to the computer, staring at the screen as if she knows what I'm writing about her. She also will never eat her cat food unless it's changed every few days. She loves to eat our meat! Now she's attacking the pointer on the screen, anything that she can attack had better be careful of her, she's a force to be reckoned with. When I picked her off the keyboard and started to pet her a lot, I must touched a wrong place because she started to bite and claw at me. She's such a nice kitty and her bites don't her too bad but she enjoys playing with us anyway.

I saw the musical The Music Man yesterday. It was hilarious! Kole was awesome and everyone else just made the play one of the best things that I've seen in a long time. Thank you cast of Music Man!

I can't believe how hard it was snowing today. When I finished with my song in sacrament meeting and I looked outside, I couldn't believe how hard it was snowing! Now I have to shovel the walkway and the driveway and help with other people’s walkways and driveways! It was so close to finishing winter and getting on with spring! I was so excited to be able to play basketball in my backyard and jump on my trampoline and feel the warmth of spring almost here! But then it snowed and that put a big damper on my spring plans.

Life and times of a teenager

I am missing so many of the due dates in honor's english. I looked at the site and I looked at the comma tutorial due date and it was due clear back in february!! I totally thought that I had more time. This term flew by fast but it was one of the harder ones for me. It is teaching me so many things about high school work that I need to get started on. Oh, and my brother is playing lacrosse and he had a game saturday. He unfortunately lost by 1 point! This was his team's first game and they almost won against a school who had a lacrosse program for 5 years. Not bad when you think about it.

I managed to complete 15 service hours for honor's society. I sewed hats all last week for 12 and 1/2 hours and passed out fliers for my mom's role in the church for 2 1/2 hours! That last week was one of the hardest weeks of my life! Finishing something at the last minute is a definite no go.

Today I also watched the Amazing Race. It's this show about groups of 2 people traveling around the world performing tasks that the natives do there. At the end of every leg, the last team to finish might be eliminated from the game and not receive the ultimate prize of $1,000,000! Today the teams were in Russia and one teammate had to strip down to their underwear and run 1.4 miles to the end. Plus, it was in winter, so there was still ice and many other obstacles blocking their way. It was funny to watch them run around in their underwear. Tonight the last team wasn't eliminated but they get a penalty during the next leg of the race. It was pretty depressing to see that team survive and not the last week's team that was eliminated. Last week's challenges were much harder than normal. I thought for sure that they wouldn't be eliminated when the final team jumped on the finish line.

I think that I told you guys about this last week but I can finally solve a rubik's cube! When I first learned to solve it, I still had to watch the video and follow the instructions closely to make sure I didn't make a mistake. Now I can do it really quickly and I've memorized the instructions and everything that I have to do in order to solve the cube that is so hard to master!

I'm also in the spanish plays and I'm super nervous to get started. Monday is the dreaded day when my mom is going to bring the camcorder and video tape me making a fool of myself. It's going to be so embarrassing watching that video later! I'm the wolf in little red riding hood and I'm a little nervous about putting on my costume mainly because the nose smells of that awful plastic scent. I'll have to wear that all day and make sure that I don't mess up my lines. It's going to be a very tough day.

Life's woes

Now, I'm in honor's society and I'm also in honor's english. Doing both of these jobs is extremely difficult. For me to be able to do all of these jobs is a stress that no person should have. For honor's society I have to do 15 hours of service by this friday. Right now I've done 4 at the most. So this week I have to accomplish 10 or 11 more hours of service just this week! That is one of the most challenging tasks that I have ever faced. It seems as if the whole world is just asking me to drop one of these programs and soon enough I will have to drop one or both of these programs. My parents will kill me if I get dropped from the honor's society and they will also kill me if I get dropped from honor's english. This is forcing me to have a little or no social life or to just not do one of these tasks. It is just way too hard to be able to do all of this.

I was just watching the celebrity apprentice on NBC.com, it was the first episode, and I was astonished about what was going on in that show. The person who got fired totally blew off his job because he didn't want to harm his reputation. But now that it has been broadcasted to the entire United States I think that will harm his reputation more than wearing a stupid apron. He was so stupid, one of the people that was most popular just sat in the van and didn't want to show his face. I thought that what he did was one of the most stupid things that anyone could have done. Those 2 people were the ones that were most responsible for their loss. The girls destroyed the guys with their win and the guys also chose the dumbest name that I could have ever listened to. Their name was kotu, which stands for kings of the universe. The girls were athena, which was a much smarter name than kotu. The project manager chose that name, and I believe that the people who were watching the show thought about how they could have ever come up with such a stupid name. Even Donald Trump hated the name. He though that they whould have chosen a better name for their team.

I'm also trying to earn my eagle for two reasons. 1. I have to earn my eagle before I can get my driver's liscense. 2. I want to put that on my resume so that I will have a better show of getting into BYU. But I still have to do my eagle project and earn so many merit badges! For me, the eagle is going to be my most lofty goal and I just want to get it out of the way so that it will be one of those things that I can look back and be proud of.

impossible

Right, so according to my blog type thingy, I have written 19 blogs so far.  That means that this is number 20.  That isn't too amazing, but it's astonishing to me to know that I have written a total of 20 blogs each with 500 words.  Now if we multiply that, we get a total of ten thousand words!  That's a lot of words for a young boy such as myself to write.  That's not however why my theme is called impossible.  That will be revealed right now.

So I've been trying for a long time to solve one of man's modern mysteries, how to solve the rubik's cube.  Now when I watch someone try to solve one of these impossible little puzzles, they seem to just be repeating the same thing over and over again.  I didn't know how in the world they managed to do that but now after many youtube videos I finally figured out why.  They're called algorithims and it just means that if you repeat them enough times, it will return back to normal.  This isn't the key to them solving it however.  No algorithim repeated enough times will return an entirely mixed up cube back to it's normal form.  There is multiple algorithims one must memorize in order to solve one of these evil little concotions.  So far all I've been able to solve it the green side and the entire top row.  I'm getting there, and once I solve that retched puzzle it will be so sweet to show everyone.  The one I'm solving is the 3x3x3 cube when a 2x2x2 would probably be an easier puzzle to solve.  However it's the only one I own, what are you going to do about it?

And one of my cousins a few weeks ago achieved a back flip on his snowboard!  Now that really seems impossible, I don't even know how to do a back flip on a trampoline!  Lots of people say that it's the easiest flip that you can do, but I just don't like the idea of putting my head in danger even though I already do that in a front flip.  If anyone has tried to do a backflip and failed, you know what I'm talking about.  I don't know how anyone could do a back flip!  

Now I really want to get back to solving my rubik's cube, but I still need to read more pages in A Tale of Two Cities.  It's finally getting more interesting, but I still have a long way to go before I'm ready to take an AR test or answer any questions about the book.  It's been really slow reading, and I also have to read a book for biology, so I have to read like every day this week in order to finish on time.  Don't get me wrong, I do love to read a good book, but every day just seems a little tiredsome, I have to have some fun in my life.  It's time to get back to the rubik's cube; hopefully I can solve it!

skiing

I'm probably not the best writer in the entire world, far from it.  I probably am the worst writer in history.  I have tried to develop these skills for a long time now and it just hasn't come true.  That's what I guess these blogs are for.  We have to choose a topic and develop 500 words about it.  This is definently going to end up helping me in the long run.  

 I got my ipod thing to work, but it obviously is super hard to write 500 words on a tiny ipod.  So I've given up on the idea.  But I'm excited for the job interview things; I really want a job.  I just want some money to hang onto just in case.  And, of course, to spend on some of my favorite things.  Like getting a new snowboard.  The snowboard that I have now I got some 3 years ago and I've outgrown it.  So now I need one that will fit me nicely and be able to go through some of the things that I enjoy about snowboarding.  Number 1: I love to carve down the hill heel toe just like the pros do.  Number 2: It needs to be light so that I can ride in powder.  That is one of my favorite parts about snowboarding.  When you go on powder you don't have to worry about "keeping an edge" or about how hard the ground will be when you fall.  Going through powder is the best but will only work with a wood core.  The wood core will enable my snowboard to be lighter and also allow it to add more pressure to the back of the snowboard enabling me to stay above the tough powder walk that dreads so many unexperienced powder runners.  Number 3: It has to be able to grind and jump.  Recently I have been in love with jumping.  It just feels so cool being weightless for a second and then trying to land in one of your most favorite methods.  Mine is for the back end to hit first so it slaps the front down thereby reducing the shock of your landing.  I used to not like jumping.  That started when I was in Oregon and I was stupid and went straight down a steep hill, didn't slow down once, and went off a jump.  This jump was icy and I easily went 3 feet in the air.  I landed right on my butt.  It hurt like none other, and it took me so long to recover from the pain.  After that, I avoided jumping like the plague; it was one of those things that I didn't care for and have a fear about.

When you get told something or experience something as a little child, it remains with you for the rest of your life.  Like when I went to the auto show and someone told me that I should never by a Chevrolet car, I always thought of them as a bad car company.  Now I love their cars and I wonder why I ever used to hate them.

Sick thats gross

So as you can guess from the title I'm sick.  I have a sore throat, a runny nose, and a fever.  And when I didn't go to school kids kept asking me why I wasn't at school!  After a while, it get extremely annoying.  Most of you probably already know this, but being sick stinks like a skunk.  Every time that I swallow, my throat starts to kill, and that adds to my alreaddy growing discomfort.  So I try to take a pill to ease my throat.  Then I can't swallow it because I don't want to experience something falling down an already pained throat.  So I'm forced to have a liquid medicine.  That kind of medicine tastes like raw cow heart, bagh!  It tastes so bad that my throat might heal itself so it doesn't have to experience the awful pain of the horrible tasting medicine.  And speaking of sickness, when I was watching the office, Michael runs over Meredith in his car.  So he takes all of the office to the hospital to talk with her and wish her well.  So when he walks into the hospital he has this disgusted expression on his face.  Then he says to the camera, "ugh, I hate hospitals.  In my mind they're associated with sickness."

Well duh they're associated with sickness, it's a hospital for Pete's sake.  They have to have some sick people in them otherwise the hospital for no reason.  And I also tried to use my ipod touch so that I could write on this without oing onto the computer.  I'm writing this one on the computer as I'm syncing my ipod for the application.  So for now I'm stuck writing on a computer.  And also when I'm trying to read the book A Tale of Two Cities for honors english I just get completely mixed up in the story line.  It's written in probably the hardest way to understand and completely old english style.  That just makes it even more confusing.  Then I have to write about what is going on in the story so I have to read it all over again to make sense of the plot.  And man oh man is it hard to wake up early for school.  Now that I'm sick, I can't wake up as easily or grudginly as I used to.  Now I have the hardest time to wake up.  Like this morning, I woke up and I was still super tired and was sick.  So I didn't go to church.  And once again, people were asking me where I was that day?  It just is super annoying to be asked that when I though I already told them that I was sick.  And I just tried to set up my blog on my ipod; it didn't work.  I put in the url, I typed in my username and my password, and nothing happened.  It stinks bad.  And this is completely jumping around, but the past few forum topics are all about the next few chapters in the book.  *That is just wrong, I don't think you need to be asked when you read, but when you finish and take the AR test and what score you recieved.  That should be what should count.*  Those astrices are just to let our teacher know what I believe he should read, and I hope he will take my suggestion.  I believe that it is a very good idea.

Super Bowl 43

Right, so it's super bowl sunday, and it's the Arizona Cardinals vs. the Pittsburgh Steelers.  I really want the Cardinals to win!!  Though I'm ready for the Steelers to win too.  They are a hardcore team.  They might just be the best team in the league.  Yet this is the first time the cardinals have been in a super bowl.  They deserve to win; the steelers have won a bunch of super bowls already.  And I did place a "bet" with my teacher saying that if the Cardinals won, that I would get 100% on the next assingment without even lifting a finger.  However, if the steelers win, I have a double-leanth assignment.  That a lot of work for me to do.  So I'll be watching, and hoping that the steelers lose this super bowl. 

I'm also extremely excited for wednesday.  It's our ward ski day!  We get to go to wolf mountain and shred the slopes for 4 hours.  It's a small mountain and a very easy mountain too, but I'm not there to practice my form.  I'm going to practice the all important jumping!  Especially grinding, it seems really easy to jump on that rail and just ride it down.  The only part I'm worried about is that you cant lean to one side when you're on the rail.  If you do, then you'll wipe out and smack the snow hard.  That's the only thing that will make me hesitate, but it's not enough.  This wednesday, I'm going to at least try to grind...

So this write is after the super bowl.  The Steelers won, much to my dismay.  The Cardinals had it in the bag!  They were 3 points up and then they gave the ball to Pittsburgh.  When they had the chance to sack, they just let him walk right by.  It was so frustrating.  And the refs seemed to call every foul on the Cardinals that they could.  So now I have a long assignment that will be given to me tomorrow.  That will not be fun.  Usually the assignments I'm given I can finish in class, with the exception of a few of these Sine and Cosine problems.  Now I have a huge maybe hour long assignment that will be given to me!  That will suck!  And I just watched the new office.  A heart attack, some hurtful comments, and a pretty funny movie were thrown into the mix of things.  I cannot believe how long the super bowl was.  It took FOREVER!!!  And they kept reviewing the play where the interception was returned 100 yards for the touchdown.  It took forever for the new office to even start to premiere.  Yet the commercials were hilarious.  I loved the first doritos commercial, the one where the snow globe can tell the future.  And many others made you laugh.  It was a very fun super bowl.  It didn't make me the happiest man in the world, but it still made me laugh.  Good night UTAH!!!!

MY NEW CAT

This is a long overdue blog. I've had my new cat for at least a month now since my cat died and I may have mentioned this before but I'll write about it again. I have a new all black cat. She has these black stripes down the side of her that are invisible except in bright light, so if you put her under a bed you won't be able to see her unless she turns her eyes towards you. She's awfully nice. She's a very energetic kit; we'll throw a ball covered with feathers and she'll dash after it and rip all the feathers off. She's done this to 5 of 6 feather balls. Only 5 because we won't let her play with the last one completely.

She also is a fighter. She will attack our fingers when we scratch her belly, but she knows that it's a play fight so she scratches and bites really soft so that it tickles. I had trouble at first letting her put my finger in her mouth. It's just a really awkward feeling. And she is still learning about where she can scratch. She'll claw up the carpet and couches, yet she doesn't pull any strings out of the couches.

Just a little off topic, the honors English books. We have to read either Unexpected Help, or A Tale of Two Cities. I'm reading the latter, and man o man is it boring. When I try to read something like that, it just fries my brain. It will kill my eyes reading the small text to not even understand what it means! It's the absolute worst.

I've also figured out that if you write just a big 1 paragraph write, nobody will read it. Yet if you have a multiple short paragraph piece of work, then everyone will want to read. It is a general concept that has come true many times. I don't know why this is, but maybe because it seems easier to read. And my cat just jumped on the chair I'm sitting on, and accidentally clawed my back. It scared me but she just wanted some attention.

My parents were also gone all of last week and just got back today. This was fine by me. We got to stay up later, and sit and play video games with a little break to play with friends or do some homework. It was a very fun week and I've managed to also keep my grades up.

Since the new term just started, we all start with 100% in all of our classes. So far, I've managed to keep the grades in A's last week, and I hope to get all A's by the end of the term. I really want a 4.0 bad, and I can't wait to see that grade in the mail. That will be such a sweet moment when I can show my family and finally be completely at ease with the grades that I have received.

Christmas break is over :(

Finally, the christmas break has ended.  Yet I don't mind that much, except for one thing.  I hate waking up so early for school.  During the break I got to totally sleep in.  Now I have to wake up early almost every morning the entire week!  I loved my christmas though.  I got a push golf cart (I really don't know how to describe it differently), an air soft gun, which is a pump action rifle, and many more gifts.  And even better was the present we got a few weeks ago.  We got a brand new cat!  Our old one died of a liver disease, and the house just seemed empty without a little cat.  So we searched around for a cat, we looked at Petsmart and the animal shelter.  But we finally decided on a cat from Petco, which we named cocoa, in memory of the holiday season.  She's a really tiny kit, all black, and she's very playful.  We bought these feather things that she just rips apart!  It's so much fun with her around.

And of course I loved the new years eve celebration.  One of my main reasons that I like new years eve is that I can finally stay up past midnight.  Usually I'm forced to bed around 10 or 11, but on that day I can stay up really late.  Plus playing with all our family and friends was just a blast.  

Yet the new year makes me sad as well.  It marks the end of the holiday break, which means that I can't go skiing on the weekdays anymore.  And it marks the start of school, and that made me feel tired just thinking about it.  It stunk the first day of school, after sunday, which I couldn't sleep in on, to wake up at 7 to a "get up, you'll be late to school!"  Those were the last words I wanted to hear, so I had to pull myself out of bed, shower, get dressed, eat a small breakfast compared to the winter break breakfasts, and run out into the cold to catch a bus that was late!  Then I had to try and remember all the work that we did last and recall math formulas.  That was such a pain.

Yet for honors english I got to relax from writing blogs for the entire winter break!  That didn't help me much when I realized I still had stuff to do for this class.  And so I had to rush to the library checking out books and reading them extremely hard.  It was a horrible week last week.

The only good thing about last week was that I was able to ski on last saturday.  It was great, till I hurt myself on the slopes and now have trouble walking.  I still love skiing, but not when it hurts me so badly.  My cousin showed me up, preforming jumps that I would never dare, and grinding on one of the rails they put in the terrain park.  That's what I need to improve on, jumps and actually learning to do tricks.