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.