50th post...

That last post was my.... 50th post!!!!!!!! Hoorayyyy!
And now back to reality.

Mondays

Well, it seems that if I was a cat, I would be Garfield. I love eating and sleeping... and I hate Mondays.

Doodles

My family went to a local mexican restaurant last night, and as several of us were unable to finish our food, we had to get take-home containers. It was a flat markable surface, what can I say?

Cuttlefish are awesome!

We watched a really cool documentary on cuttlefish last night and me mom (being awesome) finded this really cool video. For more about them check out her blog about it. The part where it curves its arms down and sends waves of blackish-blueish-gray and white down itself has a hypnotizing effect on its prey, allowing it to strike from the best angle. When you see it with open ocean behind it, it looks like a flickering outline of the cuttlefish. These things are really amazing so take a few minutes out of your schedule and enjoy God's creation.



By the way, you might wanna scroll down a bit and turn off the music from the sidebar so you can watch the movie in peace. (it has its own music)

PJLCROC

Hmmm, that's an interesting title. Believe it or not, it actually has something to do with my post.


Recently I (along with David and Isaac and Eric and David's bros) attended a program called TeenPact. At first, I thought oh great, another program to waste my time; however, after attending, I realize this is not true...for the most part. TeenPact is a program through which homeschooling highschoolers can learn about their state government and get school credits.

One of the most interesting parts of this course is called TeenPact legislature. As part of their homework, the students of TeenPact are all required to bring and present at least one bill. This bill will be voted on by the legislature, but only if it gets past the committee to which it has been assigned. My committee was PJLCROC (permanent joint legislative contract review oversight committee). Interestingly enough, this is actually a committee in Alabama, although I still haven't the slightest clue as to its purpose. We also held elections. Each committee nominated and selected its own candidates to run for representative and governor. There was one gubernatorial candidate (I think that's how it's spelled) and two representative candidates per committee. Each committee is assigned a party, ours being the nonconsequentialist party. After these preliminary elections were run, the TeenPact Legislature as a whole voted for one governor and three representatives (I got to campaign by passing out candy and supporting our gubernatorial candidate). I'm proud to say that our candidate was, indeed elected governor.

Anyhow, TeenPact provides a way to learn the governmental process of your state hands-on and it is much easier to remember after that. Although it doesn't teach nearly as much as a full government course, it is a notable program through which you learn how to influence government and politics, and make new friends.

The moral of the story is that it's very fun to say PJLCROC and gubernatorial; and it's very fun to sing bananaphone.

Blank...

Do you know what this is? (I made it in paint and I don't think it looks half bad)

Some of my favorite quotes

This contains quotes which I have heard from friends or family which I find funny, interesting, etc, it will probably be added to later and maybe even copied to the sidebar, but here's a start. I've actually forgotten the context of some of these, but that makes them funnier. Some of my favorite quotes will not be posted here due to content. (most of these are relatively inside jokes)

"They're a deeper part of my aboveness." -Isaac G.
"I believe my watch is meant for my wrist, not your toes." -David A. to Isaac G.
"I like 'ism's" -David A.
"philosophical (pronounced fil-AHS-uh-fic-al) -Mom
"I was a variable in my last life." also "I was an egyptian goddess in my last life." -Isaac G.
"Euctalipless leaves" -Bethie (me sis)
"Yours is Punkinheads" -Mom
"I put the dog down up." -Josh (me bro)
"I don't speak.... whatever that is." -Chris V.

Conversations...

[David says something smart]
"David, you're a logophile" -Mom
"I'm a logophobe." -me
"I'm a phogolobe" -Isaac G.

[Mom says something wrong]
"Mom has a pronationunci plobrem" -me
"She put the wrong emphasis (em-FAH-sis) on the wrong syllable (sih-LAH-bul)" -David A.
"Or maybe the right emphasis (em-fah-SIS) on the wrong syllable (sih-luh-BUL)" -me
"Oh, shut up and let me say it right." (something along those lines) -Mom

Add-on story

Alright, before we get started, I'm going to set a few rules. All comments (add-ons) should be between one sentence and one paragraph long, with a few exceptions if absolutely necessary. If you do not want your sentence to be added to, please end it with a period, exclamation point, or question mark. Also, no overly disgusting content; try to keep it pg. Hopefully this will be fun.


Nobody likes me thought Billy as he walked down the sidewalk outside his school. His horrible teacher had just given him an assignment to teach the class next week. Then he saw something very strange in the playground. He squinted, trying to make it out...

Blog...

I just helped mom renovate her blog. Personally, I think it looks a lot cooler than it used to. We found a picture we liked on a free picture site and I changed it to make it look cool. That's the cool deer-type picture at the top left. I also tiled part of the phot to stretch it across the screen. Then I removed the old parts of the blog and after picking out some initial colors, mom helped me fine-tune some of them. It's still not complete, but it's a lot closer. So if you would, please check it out at "Mom's Blog" and let me know what you think.

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Beware

Yesterday I got my driver's license....

Card...

Dis me card.

Music

Hey evvybuddy, I's just wundewwing what kind uv moosic you's be likin'.
Dey's lot's o' types o' moosic dat me likin' so 'tis hard to chooses ones or twoses. I like DC Talk, Newsboys, Postal service (the few songs I've heard), Caedmon's call, Chris Rice, Mozart, Brahms, Switchfoot, Relient K and... yes, David, petra. So anyways, if youses could tell me what you likeses, give suggestionses that me might like, etc, 'twould be great. Sorry for de weerd speekin' but me felt liek it an' yu can't stop mee.

Jekyll and Hyde

After reading Him and Mobius's poem, I was reminded of the lyrics to a song on one of our Petra CDs (by the way they're an awesome band). The song's name is "Jekyll and Hyde" on the CD with the same name and the lyrics are pretty self explanatory.

I have a secret that I let nobody see
An evil shadow that's been hanging over me
My alter ego that I try to hold at bay
But despite my good intentions he can always get away

He does the things that I don't want to do

Sometimes I feel like Jekyll and Hyde
Two men are fighting a war inside

I have this secret that I let nobody see
It's like a split personality
And the one I feed is the one who lives
The one I starve will be the one who gives

He won't do things that I know I should do

Sometimes I feel like Jekyll and Hyde
Two men are fighting a war inside
One gives, one takes, I have to decide
Sometimes I feel like Jekyll and Hyde

I need somebody to rescue me
When personalities clash
I know which person I want to be
With no defiance
Just God-reliance

© 2003 Inpop Records
Lyrics obtained from Christianrocklyrics.com.

I don't know about any of you but I can really relate to this song. Let me know what you guyses thinks. I may also be posting more of their lyrics in the future, and maybe even some songs if I can figure out that process.

Road Trip

Me and my family recently went on a road trip to Nebraska. (The following takes place between Saint Louis and Nebraska) We were getting along fine until about 2 hours into the trip, when my sisters got bored. About an hour after that, me and my brother got bored. It all went downhill from there. From that point on, the trip was mainly fighting or complaining.

Well, we finally made it there, visited the relatives, and had a relatively good time. We played pool, card games, and board games with our cousins. Everything was fine.

Then it was time to head back.

On this trip, I realized that our family desn't do well when put together in a tight place for 14 hours. Now, this might be perfectly normal, but it doesn't seem right; so I tried to figure out why. I think that if we as a family spent more time together (watching TV doesn't count), that we would get along a lot better.

Time

Ever heard the expression "time is money"? In my life it's more like "time is nonexistent". Or is it?

What I've come to realise is that I have a lot of time, I just haven't been using it well. At the beginning of the school year, getting back into the hang of things, I didn't really have a schedule. I just did things as I thought of them. As you can imagine, it didn't work too well. I ended up forgetting assignments or doing them at the last minute (I have a tendency toward procrastination).

This past week, my mom and I (is that the correct grammar?) thought up a schedule. Every day but Monday I follow the same routine; FST at this time, French at this time, Electronics at this time, etc. I've found that this week, even with more work, I have more free time than I did before. I have 9 periods during the day (including lunch); each of these ranges from 30 minutes to an hour. I start school at 8:00am (if I don't sleep in... gasp!) and end at 4:00. Anything I was unable to complete during those periods is homework to finish as I like (within reason).

Now that my life is organised, my school work is done on time, I have more free time, and just about everybody is happy except for my evil messy side. I don't think he'll be a problem though, he only comes out on full moons.