It will never happen (at least, not now). :'(

So, the girl that I really like and have blogged about several times talking about how I am gonna ask her out and all... it's not gonna happen. I asked her out on Christmas morning, and she said no. The first thing she did say, however, was "I really really wanna say yes." Her two reasons for saying no were because she's going off to the army next year, and her past relationships haven't gone so well, especially her most recent one that I think ended towards the end of this past summer. It sort of pisses me off, too, thinking that if her last relationship hadn't gone so badly, I feel like she may have said yes. But because she is going to the army, I feel like that would've over-ruled the other reason. I see why she said no because of that, as we wouldn't see each other at all really during the school year, but I honestly wouldn't care if it wouldn't work out for us after that, and just during the school year would be plenty for me. I've never had a girlfriend before, and after meeting this girl, I just want that sense of feeling cared about almost more than my own family by another girl.

This girl, every time I see her, or every time I know I'm about to see her, like when I'm driving to school or to her house to hang out, I get really excited and can't wait to say hi and chat. Today was my dad's side's Christmas party, and we do this thing called "White Elephant" where everyone 16+ brings in some kind of either funny, nice or somewhat-shitty gift in to be opened by someone else, and the gifts can also be stolen by other participants up to 3 times. I played in it, and I ended up getting Trouble with the Curve and a box of popcorn. I couldn't  have been happier, as I was dead sure that my friend, this girl, that I really really like, would no doubt ask me to come to her house so she and her family could watch it with me. I was waiting for that text asking me, and about 3/4 of the way through the Packer game, she texted me asking if I would like to come over after the game and watch the movie with them. I obviously said sure, but I knew no "cuddling" or sitting close to each other was gonna happen.

I asked her out, she said no, and now I think she's just trying to keep her distance from me slightly so she doesn't get me thinking maybe she changed her mind. Before I had asked her, any time I went to her house, she would end up sitting real close next to me, and it was great, but now, like tonight, we both ended up sitting on opposite ends of the couch. I think, however, that she was just so tired from the long ride home from Minnesota that she just wanted to rest, which I understood. I just texted her then, haha.

Anyway, I should probably get to bed, as it's almost 1:10 AM, and I haven't gotten to bed earlier than midnight this whole break, and I don't think I'll be doing that until Tuesday night, which is a school night. :( Meh... I'm kinda sad that break is almost over already. Oh well. :\

Christmas break!

I got an early start to my Christmas break this year. You're probably thinking "Wow! That's awesome!". To be honest, it wasn't all that awesome. I was okay with having Thursday off, but I wanted school to be in session on Friday, as I had several tests to take care of on Friday, and since we had off of school due to a huge snow storm Thursday and Friday, those tests now have to wait until after break... which won't be easy to do. For one, I'm not gonna study for those tests all over break, and it's gonna be hard as hell to do anything about them before break is over. Not only does it suck that school was cancelled and I have to wait on those tests now, but I have been EXTREMELY BORED this entire time. I studied for one of my tests that wasn't so bad, so I'm already finished with most of my homework, and the only other order of business for me is finishing up my AP Lang. "This I Believe" paper, which I don't want to do right now. So, as you can assume, I'm so bored every day. I have nothing to do. Absolutely nothing. I get up, eat breakfast, shower, go on my iPad, play some games, watch TV, and sit there. Almost all day long. I HATE IT. I wish I could hang out with some friends, but none of that can really happen until after break is over.

Due to my extreme boredom, I'm nearly ODing on my technology use. Because of the two snow days and break, I've gone on my iPad and laptop more than usual, and done nothing more than usual. I feel so lazy and so unaccomplished lately. Yeah, there's my bed to make and the house to clean, but that's really boring and is just not fun at all (like cleaning your room should be fun to begin with). I have had no life these past 3 days. And this post is here for me to rant on and on about it to the world.

So, as you know, the world was supposed to "end" last Friday, December 21st, but it clearly didn't, and I knew it wouldn't. Many people on the Internet were freaking out about it, asking if it was real or not and what was going to happen and what they should do about it, and I said on literally every one of the posts "The world isn't ending any time soon. If it was gonna end on tomorrow (this time being Thursday) from being hit by a meteor or other planet or something, you would've seen a huge ball in the sky for the past month or so. News agencies would've been freaking out about it, and NASA would've been tracking it's ass for months." Yeah, the world ain't ending any time soon folks. Trust me, I'm a person. That made no sense, but whatever. It's not the end of the world, haha.

I'd make another paragraph here, but I'm really tired, and I just wanna get to bed somewhat early tonight. I went to bed at almost 1 AM last night, and nearly 3 AM on Friday night, as I was at a friend's house, and I ended up being there till about 2:30 watching Magic Mike, and I regret doing that. It was the worst movie I've ever seen. I don't care to watch 5 men stripping and dancing in extremely sexual ways. It's disturbing and really really awkward. Look at that, I typed a paragraph. Good. 'Night!

I can't do well in Honors Geometry for the life of me.

I had a C+ going for me in Honors Geometry for all of first quarter and some of second quarter, but now, I can't seem to get passed an F. Yes, I have an F in a class. I wish I didn't, but I do. It's honestly because of the proofs we did. I wish proofs didn't exist - I can't do them for shit. I was getting straight B's on all of my tests until the damn proofs set in, then they started going down to D's, and then F's... GAH! Thankfully, you need at least two F's to be assigned at Mid Terms, and I only had one, so I wasn't assigned, but I'm really worried about the end of first semester. I need to get my grade up to at least a D+, even a C-. I couldn't get passed  a D in Honors Algebra II unfortunately, so I really am just losing my mathematical abilities every day... it sucks big balls.

I will really hit rock bottom if I end up failing the semester of geometry, because that means I'll be re-taking first semester of the class next year, senior year, and I for sure don't want that. I'll feel like a loser if that happens to me. I haven't even told my parents about it... if they find out about the fact that I've failed the last 4 tests and that I'm failing a class, they will flip shit and probably ban me from all technological use.

I can't think of much more to add here, so I'll stop now. I'm mad. >:(

I swear, if this plan doesn't work...

Alright, so I have made countless attempts at asking the girl of my dreams out, and each attempt so far has failed me. 80% of them consisted of a movie date, all of which she was either gonna go with me, and then something came up, or she was already doing something else with school or her family. My other plans were to ask her out after school and after I was done with my job, but the only time I tried doing that, which was yesterday, I saw her walking out of the school with some friends, so I knew that plan was shot down. My very next attempt, and hopefully my for-once successful attempt, at asking her will be this coming Monday at school. Yeah, it ain't my ideal way or place to ask her, but I'm beginning to lose my patience with finding the time and place to ask her. This plan I feel kind of forces me to actually do it, but there is unfortunately one small thing that may get in the way of the plan working. I'll explain in the next few paragraphs.

So, my plan consists of this: getting to school like any normal day, putting my things in my locker and heading to the band room. I'll sit with my friends and just chill, and this is where the next part has to come into play for the plan to work the way I want it to. The girl I wanna ask out obviously needs to come into the room also and get all situated with her things, and then I'm gonna head to the bathroom, then go to the lab room that is right next to the band room. If she for whatever doesn't show up before first hour starts, I'll be pretty pissed. I also am really hoping that the other kid that's gonna tell her to come over by me will be there, which he should be. Anyway, I need to do walk away in a way that doesn't make it look like I'm leaving just as she's getting there, like I don't wanna talk to her. I'll probably wait a bit, then do it. So, when I head to the lab, I'm gonna have my other friend who I want in my plan to come out of the lab and go tell her that I want to ask her something, and she has to come over by me. Hopefully, no one will be in the room at the time of this happening. If there is, I may ask them to leave for a short time.

Anyway, she'll walk in, and then. That is when my dreams will hopefully come true. I'm gonna say something like "So, you know that time when so-and-so was at your house and you said you didn't know of anyone that I liked to back-up that I wasn't gay, (which I'm not)?" *she responds* "And then, did you get the text where I said there is a girl I really really really like more than any other girl I've ever known?" *she responds* "Well, believe it or not, you are the girl I really really really like more than any other girl. You are the girl I wanna go out with." *whatever she responds, I hope and pray every day to God her response is yes*

So... yeah, that's how I wanna ask her out. I'll probably add in "So, do you wanna go out with me?" Phoooh, I really hope this plan works. I pray to God each night that he can help make this possible. I just need to actually do this. I want to show her I'm a man and that there is indeed someone out there who likes her, and is indeed her crush. I'd probably make her entire week or rest of her life if this worked. I'm pretty confident she likes me, so I'm nearly confident this will work.

Christmas is just around the corner!

Christmas is once again just around the corner. With just over 2 weeks before the day, I couldn't be more excited. I finally got around to ordering what I wanted to for Christmas, and it's actually some decent stuff, unlike last year where I got next to nothing, mostly because I didn't want anything. This year, I ordered a new case for my iPad, a new phone, an Under Armour sweatshirt and a pair of Under Armour sweatpants, as I have no good pairs of sweatpants at all, and I really like Under Armour. I'm especially excited about the new phone, as it's touchscreen and has a sliding QWERTY keyboard along with. It's not that my current phone is broken, it's just time for an upgrade, as I've had my current phone for well over 3 years now.

I am almost as excited about my new case as I am my new phone. My current iPad's case is falling apart, and it's really a nuisance more than anything. It doesn't serve as a great stand, and it leaves too much of the edges and corners of the iPad exposed, so two of the corners of the iPad are slightly damaged from it accidentally hitting the side of the table where I keep it, and it's just getting old and is ripping in certain areas. If I keep it any longer, it'll probably fall apart even more and probably damage my iPad more than I want it to get damaged. It sucks that the two corners that got damaged are damaged, as now the iPad looks beat-up when out of the case, and not as awesome, but oh well. :( that's how life is. It's nearly impossible to keep that shit 100% intact, unless you're extremely OCD, which I'm only slightly. Yes, I've admitted it - I'm slighlty OCD.

My two other items I'm getting, the Under Armour sweatshirt and sweatpants, are going to be very nice, as I don't have many good sweatshirts to wear, and I only have one pair of sweatpants that fit me, but I use them for chores, and not school wear. The sweatshirt is black with a white "UA" logo on it, and the sweatpants are grey with a little "UA" logo on the side. The two will make for a nice outfit to wear to school. It'll also make for a nice outfit to tease one of my friends with that loves to wear sweatpants and sweatshirts. :) It's gonna be a good Christmas. I know it will be.

Not really so much related to Christmas, but I had started up this whole "TechSalsa" a couple of weeks ago, and I thought I had a great idea going for me. I was planning on making a YouTub account with that name and making very basic technical computer videos showing people who aren't so tech-savvy how to do basic things on computers, but I soon realized what a hassle it was for me. I couldn't even think of basic things that any computer-illiterate person may need help knowing how to do, so that was the biggest issue. The only video I had come up with was "How to Copy Files and/or Folders". Yeah. It was so basic, I was laughing at myself. But, it was something, so I started with that, seeing how it would go.

It didn't last long. I kept the video up for maybe 2 days before deciding to delete the video, the account, my website and my Google account associated with all of it. I had started regretting getting all of it set up, and I was worried about that happening when I started the site up. I knew that I was eventually going to lack motivation to keep making videos, and that's kind of the reason why I stopped making videos after my freshmen year of high school was over. I couldn't think of any good ideas, and I just wasn't motivated to make videos. Plus I sucked at editing them, so that just added to all of it. Anyway, I think this is a decent-sized post for today. That about does it!

Thanksgiving!

I don't know why I didn't blog about this last night, probably because I was extremely tired and full from all of the food I ate during the amazingly tasty meal, but I just didn't. Anyway, in this post, I will discuss how my "Thoroughly Fat" Thanksgiving went. I got up around 10:30, ate breakfast, then I took a shower, shaved and brushed my teeth. After that, I waited till my grandparents arrived, and then we ate the meal, which was so veeeeeeeerrrrrry good. I stuffed myself till I could bear no more. After the meal, we ate our wide variety of desserts, which were cheesecake, my Grandma's delicious chocolate tort, some pumpkin pie and I think that was it. Once that was done, I felt like I was going to combust at any second, I had eaten so much. I was able to rest on the couch for a while, though, so my stomach had some time to work off the huge meal I just took in. A while later, once my stomach was happier, I played several games of Chicken Leg with my mom, two sisters and my grandparents. Once I was through two games, I decided to watch the rest of the Texans vs. Lions football game, and the Lions lost, fortunately. I hate the Lions. I don't favor the Texans at all, but I was only rooting for them so that the Lions are out of playoff potential. I've never liked the Lions and I never will.

Anyway, that's what I did for my Thanksgiving. It was filled with lots of eating, games, TV-watching and lots and lots of laziness, haha. While I was laying on the couch, I actually felt kind of hungry, but I was too lazy and feeling fat to get up and eat something, so that was a downer. I did eventually bring myself to get up and eat some more pumpkin pie. I would've eaten more of my sister's cheesecake, but I couldn't find it at the time. I guess my mom had put it into a different container in the fridge, so that's why I could not locate it to eat it's deliciousness. I have yet to eat some of the chocolate tort, only because there is just sooo much good foood. It was unbelievable. It was like when I was eating my dinner at the musical last week Saturday when we had the matinee at 2 and then the closing performance at 7:30. There was so much to choose from, I was actually kind of mad that I couldn't fit all of what I wanted on to my plate. Just like with Thanksgiving, there was a wide variety of food and dessert, and I could have eaten all night.

Anyway, I'm definitely thankful for all of the food that I was able to eat yesterday, but I'm also very very very thankful for my family, all of the wonderful friends I have in my life and my life in general. It's just awesome, fun, interesting, exciting and, at times, adventurous and scary.

I just realized that I keep starting paragraphs with "Anyway,"... wow. I'm gonna stop now.

What if...

Something that just dawned on me not even five minutes ago was this question: What if texting never existed? What if that whole concept had never been created and would never be created? Would friends still talk as much as they do now outside of school and other activities? If you aren't an avid texter, you don't really know the many advantages of it. For one, you're able to think about your response a little more to a question that a friend may ask you, or just on whatever you're talking about. With calls, however, you don't get as long of a time to think about your response; it has to be fairly quick to keep things not awkward. A very good friend of mine that I talk to all the time, literally every day of the week, asks me questions that I sometimes have a hard time finding a good answer to, and if calling was the only form of communication, I don't know how much I'd actually talk to her... I mean, I'd still talk to her at school, but I don't know about at home.

The only couple of downers with texting is that you can't always tell if someone is being sarcastic or serious sometimes through a text message, whereas you can via a call. Your friend has a much better chance of taking something the wrong way through a text than through a call, obviously, but that just shows you the difference between the two forms of communication. There's really only been one instance of where I didn't know if my friend was being sarcastic about something towards me, or if she was being serious, and she was serious, but it was all good.

Anyway, there isn't really too much else I can say about this topic, so I'm just gonna end it now, as it's late, I'll be getting to bed soon, and yeah. Bai.

The Call of Duty (CoD) Franchise/Series

I have never been a hug fan of the Call of Duty video games, and I never will be. The only CoD game I have is Call of Duty: Finest Hour. It's one of the first CoD games made, and... in all honestly, it kind of blows. The first 30 or 40 missions are alright, but after that, this one in whatever country it takes place, it's so stupid, and it's pretty much impossible to beat. The farthest I've ever gotten in the mission after 5000 painstaking attempts at blowing up the entrance that the Germans were using to get into the damn place, was when I have to hold off more enemies so that whatever retarded Sergeant dude can live, but that's where my issue comes in. It seems as if though you can't save him, because literally 5 seconds every time after I start that part, it says that "Sergeant DeHart was not saved." Wow, really? He's got that little of protection around him that he can't last longer than 5 seconds? Now, I've seen several YouTube videos of this mission being beaten, and the uploaders make it look extremely easy, so I don't know what the hell I'm doing wrong... and that's what made me mad at the game I had. I haven't touched it in over a year or so. I believe I got the game for Christmas 2 years ago. I think last summer (in 2011) was the last time I played it. For some reason, I played a lot of SpongeBob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom this past summer (in 2012).

Back to Call of Duty, though. Recently - I think just a week or so ago - Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 was released. Everyone who has played one or two of the games from the series says on the YouTube comments and just everywhere on the Internet that once you've played on of the CoD games, you've played them all. I completely agree. Every single CoD game out there has the exact same general idea to it: it's a first-hand shooter game where you go around, killing enemies and getting from point A to point B without dieing. The missions start out easy and then get harder as you progress, obviously (any gamer knows that, even the soft-core ones). I think there are like 15 or so titles in the Call of Duty series, all of them following the exact. same. theme. But oh wait, you say this one has better graphics and an improved and more updated map than the last game? Woop-dee freakin' doo. That's like saying you should get the iPad 4 if you have an iPad 3 already because it has a faster processor and an improved camera. It's almost ridiculous how crazy some of those gamers go when another CoD is made. Even so, that's just how business works. Companies do whatever it takes to get money out of peoples' pockets. If that means by making the same type of game over and making a huge hype about it how it's sooooo much better than the last game, they'll do just that.

Not too much else to really say on the topic of Call of Duty, kind of a specific topic that can't really be broadened out anymore. So... yeah, I'm gonna end this now so I don't blabber on too much.

A possible relationship...

I have been a single man my entire life, and up until roughly 1 and a half months ago, I've been wanting to date someone. Freshman year of high school I liked this one girl who sat next to me in band, and me being the idiot I sometimes am, I asked the girl out in the weirdest way possible through Facebook. Yeah, it was a stupid move. She didn't even like me, which I am extremely thankful for today. The reason I'm really happy she rejected me (sounds kinda odd, right?) is because I'm really into this other girl that I become closer friends with this school year. She's a senior, but I'm nearly the same age as her, so it's all good. :P Anyway, she is also in band, plays the flute and is one of the two drum majors. We've hung out a lot before, and we've actually kinda "cuddled" a few times. When I went to a homecoming party with her and a few friends, we sat next to each other, and about halfway through the movie (not that this matters, because it doesn't really) I could feel her foot on top of mine. I didn't move mine, and she didn't move hers, so I assumed she either liked it or didn't mine, as for me, so I just left it. It was also a really scary movie, and so after one of the scary parts, she sighed and let her hand/arm fall on my knee, and I put my hand on hers, and then eventually, I'm not exactly sure how, but we ended up holding hands. Like, at first I think it was to help calm me down during the movie, but we kept holding hands even after the movie was over, and so I think something is there... she also put her head on my knee and rested, so I was quite happy that night. We also hugged for a good 2 or 3 minutes after I took her home, so it shwas a good night. :)

Another night that this same kind of thing happened was when I went over to her house and we watched Fiddler on the Roof. At first we were on opposite ends of the couch, but then she scooted closer when her dad brought us some snacks, and then she sat pretty much right next to me after she brought some popcorn over and sat in between her brother and I. Then her brother left, and it was just her and I. She put her head on my shoulder, which I was fine with and liked, and I almost fell asleep because I was so comfy sitting on the couch with her. Then we hugged for a bit and I left. I was again very happy that night. I think the longest hug we've ever had was when we went it the Hartford Jaycees haunted house, and when we went back to her house, after everyone was gone but us, we hugged for a good 15 minutes. It was very enjoyable. :)

I have a plan, though, for asking her out... and I'm really hoping it works. I'm hoping to be able to go see a movie with her tomorrow night, and then sometime after that, whether we are at a restaurant hanging out or just chilling outside, I'm gonna start it off with something like "Could you see us dating or going out?" This part is probably going to be extremely nerve-racking, but before I ask the question I'll be really nervous, as it would be for any guy asking out the girl of their dreams. Anyway, if she says yes, then I'll say something like "Well, would you go out with me?", and if she says "Yes.", I will jump for joy. If not... if she says something like she wants to date someone else... and I can think of a few people she would say... I'm gonna be slightly heart-broken, but I won't let it ruin my night. Though I probably would go into a slight depression, knowing my fantasies of being with her would never come true.

That's what brings me to ask myself "Why would she say no?" My reasoning for thinking that is because she wrote this status on Facebook a month ago that said "He must dance in the rain with me, then I will say yes <3". It was just after I told her I'd dance in the rain with her since no one else would. So, I'm 95% sure she'd go out with me... but that 5% worries me... I'm definitely gonna be praying to God tomorrow before I pick her up that all goes well.

Touring UW-Stout tomorrow!

Today my mom, sister and I drove for roughy 4 hours up to UW-Stout, as we will be touring it tomorrow. We got here around 4 PM, checked into our hotel room, and then we ate dinner, walked around the campus a little bit, and then we saw "Here Comes the Boom". It was a great movie. My sister wanted to see "Paranormal Activity 4" after the other movie was done, but I was like "Heeeeeel no." - I wasn't gonna look forward to not sleeping tonight. I barely got through Insidious, so I don't think I'll survive Paranormal Activity. She kept on saying "Pleeeeeease. Can we pleeeeeease go see it?". It was really annoying, and I just wanted to leave.

Anyway, we are touring the campus tomorrow, and then we're leaving for home around noon. I'm getting to bed, so... night!

Organization and a new phone (possibly).

So, I just recently put all of my apps on my iPad into folders, and so I reduced my homescreens down from 5 to just 2 - my main homescreen with the built-in apps (Messages, Notes, Contacts, etc.) and then the apps that I've downloaded in the past. I'm thinking of making a separate folder for games that I beat, because that's just how I am.

That's about all I have for the organizational concept of this post, haha (I was gonna say lol, but that seems to immature for a blog post).

As for the new phone, I'm hoping this Saturday after Pit Orchestra rehearsal I can get the new phone I really want to get. It's touchscreen, has a sliding QWERTY keyboard, and is just way better than my current phone that I've had for over 3 years now. I'm not going to completely junk my old phone, since it has nice pictures on it from way back when, and I like to look at them from time to time when I'm bored, haha. I would like to get it tomorrow morning, but my mom and sister and I are heading to UW-Stout at noon to tour it on Friday. My mom went there for college, and so she wanted me to choose something that interested me there just so she could see what's changed there.

So... yeah... I can't really think of anything else to add to this post... I wish I could. Oh well, that's all!

Just another post...

So, I haven't blogged in a while, mostly because I've been busy lately. I had a great homecoming, and I went to a very fun yet very scary homecoming party. I went over to a friend's house, did a small bit of paintballing, though it wasn't much, and then we were gonna go bowling, but we got confused by a sign that said no one under 17 or without an adult permitted on a door that led to the arcade room, so we just kind of left. After that, we went to Burger King, ate some food, and then we headed to Domino's for those who didn't want anything at Burger King or just wanted a pizza to begin with. Once all of the food part was done, we settled back down at the friend's house, and we watched the scariest movie ever (well, for me anyway). We watched Insidious, and I screamed the entire time. The worst part was this once scene when the demon appears behind the dad, totally unexpected, and I screamed for like 10 straight seconds. My whole body was shaking after I saw it, and it was hard for me to recover from it. 

After the movie was over we watched a few episodes of SpongeBob Squarepants to ease the pain that was created from Insidious. Then I went home and tried to sleep. That following Monday at school, the picture was temporarily burned into my mind. I was working on some FFA stuff, when my friend behind me showed me the picture from the scene that scared the shit out of me, and he kept trying to show me it. Eventually the image ended up on my computer, and then it got so bad that I just left for a while and needed to be alone for a while. It got bad. Then one of my friends gave me a few hugs, and I settled down a little. At least now everyone has pretty much forgotten about that. 

This past Saturday, I went to the Hartford Jaycees haunted house, and I got the bajeebies scared out of me. In the beginning, when we walked through the trail/woods area, a guy with the sound of a chainsaw popped out at us and scared the fucking shit out of me. I literally jumped like 3 feet into the air, and all of my friends who saw me jump said I jumped "higher than a black man". Though, I feel like I jumped higher when we got back outside from the house after I jumped over the stairs than when I heard the chainsaw... but whatever. Anyway, it was fun, but again, I got really scared. I think the one thing that scares me the most about haunted houses is the anticipation of it all before it happens. I don't know what the hell to expect, and my nerves always really over-work me and kind of make me a little miserable. I get really shaky and can't sit very still. And then my friends laugh at me. :P Oh well. 

That's about all I have for now, can't really type much more before my hands get cramped up from so much typing. On to homework and other stuff. :\

What To Talk About?

Even though it's been a couple of weeks since I've last posted, I can't seem to think of something to talk about in this post. I think I'll just talk about what I've done this past week and what I've accomplished. This introduction doesn't seem to be getting any longer, so I guess I'll just head right into the meat of this post. Actually, I think what I'll do is start each paragraph with Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc., and then say what I did on that day.

Sunday: On Sunday, I helped out at my church's annual Fall Festival, and I worked with some other people at the produce stand outside by the CCD building. It was pretty boring, as I worked second shift, and there wasn't too much of a rush during that time. I got there around 1 PM, and I was done at about 4 PM. People mostly arrived in waves. It consisted of about 10-15 minutes of just standing there, and then 5 minutes of people standing all over it and looking to see what they wanted to purchase. The only thing that really sucked about the job was that half of the produce doesn't have a price label, so then about half the time people ask what the price of something is, I could do nothing but say "I'm sorry, I don't know.", even though I was working there. So, that was my Sunday, besides watching some football afterwards.

Monday: On Monday evening (being as Monday was school) I watched the Green Bay Packers take on the Seattle Seahawks on Monday Night Football. Without a doubt, that game was one of the worst-refereed games ever. Before that game started, however, was when I had found out the official referees were on strike and were negotiating a better contract with the NFL commissioner, so all current games were being reffed by replacement refs. Monday night was when it hit rock bottom. Almost all of the penalties called were called on the wrong team. Most of them were pass interference plays, and they were all against the Packers, when they were clearly against the Seahawks. The very last play of the game, the Seahawks QB threw a 20-some-yard Hail Mary TD, and there were 4 or 5 players that all went for it at once. M.D. Jennings and Golden Tate were the two closest players to the ball, and Jennings caught the ball, with Tate wrapping his right arm around it soon after. That is what I think confused the referees when they were determining if it was a touchdown or touchback, which would give GB the win. The one ref called a TD, while the other called a TB (touchback). I don't understand why the TD signal over-ruled the touchback. signal. They both raised their hands for their signals at roughly the same time, yet the TD won it somehow. Anyway, it was a bad play that caused the Packers to lose 12-14. I also went to the SLW before the game started.

Tuesday: On Tuesday, not a whole lot went on. I went to school, worked, did my band lesson, went home and did all the usual stuff. Nothing too exciting.

Wednesday: On Wednesday, we had a half day of school, so that was nice. At 6 PM I went to Pit Orchestra rehearsal until 9 PM, and I learned my part much better.

Thursday: Thursday wasn't too exciting either. I don't feel like writing much anymore, lol.

Friday: Well, today is Friday, and I've been doing a ton of coding for my site. I'm attempting to completely re-design it, and I'm in the process of that. So... yeah, that's all!

Mac vs. PC

One question that has always been unanswered for me is this: If a Macintosh can run the Windows OS legally, why can't a PC do the same thing? Of course, you can go right ahead and perform a hackintosh on your PC if you want to go through all of that trouble, but I just don't get why you can't legally run Mac OS X on a PC. Since it's not possible legally, I feel that Microsoft should be able to restrict Windows to only be run on PC's. Apple does the exact thing to Mac OS X, so why the hell can't Microsoft do the same for their OS? That whole deal makes no sense. 

What confuses me even more is Apple's Mac Mini. I don't understand if you can simply hook that up to a PC and simply install OS X on it, or what. If so, that's contradicting what Apple says in their EULA, with their system not being on PCs. If you read my post about my terrible hackintosh experience, I'll probably never go back to that ever again. I did find out about a YouTuber by the name of "cpukid00", and he knows pretty much everything there is to know about a hackintosh and how to make it work right. Even so, with all of his video tutorials showing you just how to install Snow Leopard with iBoot and all of those other programs, I don't know that I'd want to re-visit that world. Plus, I did some other research on if you can be caught by Apple for running a hackinstosh, and someone said that once in a while Macs will send information about the user's IP and whatnot, which would lead to Apple possibly finding out about it. 

Now, I may sound like an idiot, and that what I just said is not possible, as there are millions of people that run hackinstoshes day in and day out. The main reason why I wouldn't want to attempt another hackinstosh is because it takes too much knowing what you're doing while installing OS X and all of the post-installing shit that makes me not want to do it. For example, after you install all of it, when the computer restarts, you have to put the iBoot CD in quick enough to be able to actually boot into Snow Leopard, otherwise the computer won't boot into anything. The problem I had when I tried the process out, was that I had completely left out the fact that I needed to set up a bootloader that would tell the computer what to do before boot-up, therefore allowing me to boot into either Windows or Mac OS X. At the time, I had no idea what the hell a bootloader was, so I was freaking out when I got an error message when constantly rebooting after it didn't work. 

The guy who did all of those hackinstosh videos, Bob Roche, said that laptops are especially not good for hackinstoshing, as you can't very well handle a hard drive fail or get more hard drive space, like you could easily do with a desktop. Obviously, it's been done on laptops before, but you've really gotta be knowing your shit the entire time. I didn't, and that's what messed me up. I did maybe two or three web searches before I actually went through with it all. Roche also said that you need to be willing to tinker with your computer hardware and knowing what might go wrong and how to fix it. The most I know about computers is the actual OS and how it works, not so much with the hardware. Plus, I was too stupid to know that my Netbook would have never handled the Mac OS, as it's a Netbook - they barely handle Windows 7. Putting Mac on a Netbook like mine would be like trying to play GTA IV on it; it would freeze the second it's loaded up. 

Anyway, that's my side of Mac and why all of the legal stuff pisses me off.   

Getting To Bed Early/On-Time

I think the last time I got to bed between 9:30 and 10:00 PM was in eighth grade. Yeah, I know - that's sad. Once freshmen year hit, it started to hit 10:00 to 10:30 PM. Then sophomore year, I was lucky if I got to bed by 10:30 PM, and it was usually either because of math or because I had some big project to work on. I actually longed to get to bed early some of those nights when I didn't get how to do something, the clock ticking late at night, can't think beyond belief, but I know I don't have any time to work on it the next day during school. -_- God, I sure hope that isn't the case this year. I hope I can be in bed no later than 10:30 this year. Since I have a parking pass for school, I want to use it to my advantage and get the same parking spot every single day.

Blogging about this specific topic makes me think back to my earlier days of life. I remember one night when I was in either seventh or eighth grade, my dad and I were watching "Deal or No Deal" up in my parents' bedroom, and it just kept going on and on, taking forever for the contestant to pick a briefcase to open up. My dad eventually got so pissed off by it, he made me go to bed without letting brush my teeth or anything. Of course, as soon as he went downstairs I brushed my teeth and then went back to bed. It was probably 10 PM that night when I went to bed. I would even be happy with getting to bed at 10 this year for school. But yeah, it was my elementary through middle school years when I was able to get to bed the earliest and not have to worry about some big-ass project that was due the next day or in the next two days because of major procrastination. I'll make damn sure none of that bullshit happens this year.

I would say this year - sophomore year - I actually struggled with getting to bed before midnight. And only 6 hours of sleep before an AP Gov. test isn't very fun. Boy did I hate AP Gov. But that's besides the point. At least 1/4 of the school year, heck, maybe even 1/2 of the school year consisted of me not getting to bed until midnight, sometimes a half hour after midnight. I would be so pissed off when I finally got ready for bed, had all of my homework done and felt accomplished that night, and then I would look at the clock next to my night stand and it would say 12:15 AM. "Son of a bitch." I'd say to myself and groan. Although, nothing was worse than having to get up in the morning after so little sleep. Halfway through the day I'd be fighting to stay awake in English or Math. I remember when I was still on that online game I played, there was one night I will remember forever that was the reason I am permanently banned from it to this day. I was all ready for bed and (I even still had my nice glasses, now that I remember!) for some reason I decided to go on the computer for just a bit... but that turned into a half hour of madness.

I shouldn've just gone right to bed. I'd probably still be able to go on the game and I'd be so far in it, but because of what I did, I wrecked it for myself. I was on the game's "GangWars" server because the main one was down, and I remember very clearly that at around 12:30 AM I thought I could hear someone upstairs coming down, and I started freaking out. I quickly logged out, turned the computer off and bolted up to the stairs. Fortunately, they were just going to the bathroom, so I raced into my room. That moment was where I made my mistake. I was a little too loud getting to my room that my parents heard me, and my mom knew all too well what I'd been doing. The first thing she said was "James, tomorrow you are going to be deleting all of that gaming shit and I'm going to watch you do it." The first thing my dad said was "We, we don't even know who you are anymore, and it really scares us, it really does.". I knew right then and there that my chances of ever getting back on were burned up in that moment. I knew myself and that I was getting out of control, and my mom kept telling me "You're like an alcoholic, and every chance you get you keep drinking more and more beer.". I kept denying it, just like an alcoholic would do, and I didn't listen to her like I should have.

So, there you have my story of why I've had trouble getting to bed early and on-time in the past. I hope to fix that this coming school year and to never have an incident like the one I had last summer.

Random Websites

So, I'm sitting here in my sister's "new" apartment for college, along with her boyfriend Dan, and being bored, I decided to type in random website names, not knowing if they actually existed. I mean, come on - who doesn't like finding random websites when they're extremely bored, and maybe coming upon something really interesting or cool? You never know what you might "stumble upon", pun intended. So, as I tell you about some of these random websites that I found out about, hopefully you'll get a laugh or two out of some of them, and if you're one who hates computers like no other, then one of these websites is for you. Without further adu, let's get started!

www.iamawesome.com
The first site I decided to look up was "imawesome.com", thinking someone could easily have this domain name and say they are simply awesome. Sure enough, the site loaded in less than half a second, and all it said was "its true.". Whoever owns that site, you are very awesome. I'm sure it gets lots of traffic from boredom and other people searching about awesomeness. I can't seem to stretch out this paragraph much more, so I'll just stop it here before you get bored and go to that site.

www.yomamma.com
Alright, come on. You know this website is real. Anyone who has some humor and goes on the Internet often enough would know to type this in sometime. And yes, it does come loaded with many "Yo' Mamma" jokes, just like you'd expect. Not only that, but I just read some more on top of the site, and it even comes packed with insults! What more could you possible ask from a site like this?! Lol, anyway, I simply laughed when I came upon this site, not a bit surprised at its content. Yo' Mamma's so poor, she waves an ice cube around and calls it air conditioning! Onward!

www.computerssuck.com
Even though I am very very very computer-saavy, I laughed at everyone that posted on this site about how much they hate working with computers, and just the computer world in general. One person said that the computers at what ever library they went to were so slow that it took two hours to load one website. That isn't a reason to hate the computer; that's just really shitty Internet service. But, I mean, who the hell would sit there anyway for two whole hours waiting for one fucking site to load up. Seriously. Anyway, I found the site very funny, and I tried finding a way to post about how much I love computers and that they are the best creation in the world, but I was unable to. So yeah, that was fun.

Those are the three websites I found to be the best for just typing in random shit into the address bar, and I don't know if I'll find anymore like them. If I do, I'll be sure to add them to this post, whether that be in 1 minute, 1 day or several weeks. But for now, I will continue to surf the net until my parents come back and we go for lunch, unless my sister's recital still needs to take place, then we will wait 'till that is over.

If I Could Go Back In Time

If I were able to go back to a certain time in my life, it would be my eighth grade year of school, and more specifically, the summer before my freshmen year of high school. The reason being it was a very fun summer. I was on YouTube a lot, making videos for "The iPhone App Show", other random videos I had attempted to make, and so on. Unfortunately, due to time going on, being busy and all, I don't make YouTube videos right now. I haven't made one since I started high school, which is sad. I really wish I could get back on and continue the app show. :(

Currently, I am a junior in high school. Man has the time flown by. Just yesterday it feels like I was entering my first day of middle school as a fifth grader. Another big reason why I would go back to my eight grade year is because I remember very specifically, when school was winding down and summer was upon me, I was just walking around at school in the hall and in different classrooms, and I decided to go into the math room and sit there for a while. I looked around and thought "Wow, I'm almost done with my time here.". I was actually kind of sad, because I'm one of those people who really liked their childhood, unless you don't consider up to eighth grade your childhood, but I do. Anyway, I also remember that summer being the time when I got into the world of jailbreaking and tweaking my iPhone like no other. The very first time I had ever jailbroken my iPhone was when had first found out about the Spirit jailbreak, and how simple it was. I downloaded the software, connected my iPhone to my trusty Netbook and started the process. It didn't take long at all, but I remember being so nervous that it wouldn't work or something. 

That jailbreak was the first of many jailbreaks I had performed that summer. I used RedSn0w at least 5 times. I would jailbreak, then unjailbreak, jailbreak, etc. I don't know why, but that's what I did. Once I realized I could my iPhone's screen to show on my Netbook, I began working with my shitty webcam on my computer and figured out a way to start up "The iPhone App Show". I didn't think to do it all on my own, Lane Fournerat, better known as "LaneVids", had been doing it for a while, and I recall my older sister showing me a video and it was of him reviewing the "Talking Carl" app. He used a program called CamTwist, and it was a more-than-perfect setup. I unfortunately couldn't use the same program, as it was only for Mac computers. I eventually lived with using my webcam and the screen recording software I had found off the Internet that was free. I got through 17 episodes before I had to quit because of school. I was really bummed when I had to stop, because it was fun recording the video and then editing it. 

Then, in the winter of I believe 2011, I was hoping to get back on with making videos, and I attempted to notify what very small viewer base I had created over the summer (because I haven't been making videos in so long, it has stayed at the same number, which confuses me, because I'd think subscribers would unsubscribe from me because I don't produce anymore content) that I was going to try making more videos, but it never happened. I then decided to wait until school was over and start again in the summer, but it still never happened. The reason for that was because (1) I had failed my second semester math exam, putting me at a D+ for the year, and (2) my control/addiction with technology was worsening. I had wasted literally half of my summer on a game that was getting me nowhere in the real world. I would stay up until 2 AM playing on the computer, go to bed, and then get up at lunch time, eat and then play until sometimes 3 AM. It was sad, and I wish I had thought for myself during that time and listened to my parents when they told me to get off. To this day, I'm banned from the game and even the websites that go along with the game. 

So, as I sit here typing up this blog post on this very hot August summer day, I think back to what I could've done better with my past, and how now I can only look to the future and how I can choose to utilize it. But, I guess people could be saying "Life's too short to dawn on the past; live it up like there's no tomorrow." or something like that. 

Internet Speeds

If you haven't noticed, or are just starting to read my blog, you will have found out that I'm quite fond of computers and the technological world. One thing that really keens my interest is the Internet, and how fast I'm able to load webpages and YouTube videos. Back in like 2004 or 2005, my family got dial-up, which was the only available Internet service for us at the time, and it wasn't very convenient. Every time someone was connected to the web, you couldn't talk on the phone, and vice versa. Especially when "dialing up" to the Internet wasn't working well, then it was total shit. Speeds weren't great to begin with, but it was better than having nothing. It was very normal for any member of the family to start downloading a five-minute video and come back a half hour, even an hour later to see it barely halfway finished downloading. I'm not even quite sure of what speeds for download and upload we were supposed to be getting, but they obviously weren't the greatest. 

About 5 years ago (I'm not even entirely sure when all of this happened, just complete guesses.), we were fed up with dial-up and looked for any possible wireless high-speed services available in our area. Our neighbors across the road had been with Bertram Wireless for quite some time, so we decided to ask them about it, and see how they liked it. We ended up going with Bertram, and immediately after they set everything up, loading speeds for everything were ridiculously fast. Everyone would start freaking out when even just a two-minute video would instantly start loading, with zero buffering. But somehow, as time, weeks and months went on, the speeds seemed to gradually diminish, but none of us were really sure why. We had virus protection on, so it wasn't like thousands of viruses were slowing down our computer. Soon enough we  just upped the plan we had for Internet and it went back to the lighting-fast speeds (well, not "lightning-fast, but whatever). 

Now, having been with Bertram for some time, about two months ago we were even getting fed up with their speeds and how often the Internet would sometimes act up, not connecting to anything at all. We decided to try out Verizon Mobile Broadband, as another neighbor of ours had it and they had never had any trouble with it. When we picked out our plan, which was 6 GB/month (realizing later on it was a terrrrible choice), we tried it out. The speeds got worse. The reason being the plan used 3G, and our area doesn't pick up 3G well, even though the Verizon assistant guy told us we were under 100% coverage from their nearest tower to us. Not even 5 hours after we set up their service did we return the plan and go right back to Bertram, which we still have today. Trying out this Verizon service made us also realize that we use a shit-load of data each month. I think in June we used just over 90 gigs of data. O.O I was actually stunned, totally not expecting that high of a number. So, we realized we were MUCH better off with Bertram than we would've been with Verizon, since we probably would've used up our 6 gigs within 2 days. 

Unfortunately, because of our location, we wouldn't ever be able to get Cable or Charter, or any other high-speed service like those. At least Bertram meets most of our standards, despite them sometimes really pissing us off. :\

My Beliefs In Ghosts

I have always been in the very middle of this topic; I don't fully believe in them, but I do think they may exist somewhere. My main reason for not actually believing in ghosts is because I've never had a personal encounter with one, or just any object moving all on its own. I've never been sitting in a room when suddenly the door slams shut or slides wide open. If it ever had happened to me, I'd flip shit and probably piss my pants. Nor have I ever seen an odd white mist in the air of a certain shape in family pictures, since that seems the most common place to see proof of a ghost. Of course, I've gone on YouTube and seen videos that claim to have actual footage of a ghost in the hallway, doors shutting on their own and lights flickering on and off. Most, of not all, of those videos are just people trying to grab attention for their channels, since I'm sure it's very easy to make it look like a house is haunted. The door shutting one is so easy it's not even funny; just tie a string to the other side (the person pulling hiding, obviously), and then they slowly pull it to add some effect.

Along side the videos, there are numerous stories on the Internet that tell how a family encountered many sightings of ghosts, usually of people that may have died in that house or hang around there because of old memories. They'll usually say that they heard footsteps in the hallway all night or they may see imprints of feet in a room or something, claiming that no one had ever stepped foot in there. When I read that stuff, I am pretty convinced ghosts are real, but then again, you never know if the author is simply lying to get attention. The only thing I don't like about researching ghost proof and all those stories is when I do it 10 minutes before I head off to bed, because then that's on my mind all night, and I'm worried I'll see weird shapes in my room. I haven't seen anything mysterious for 17 years of my life, and I'm not too suspicious of any place in my house.

Of course, if I think about it hard enough, my mind will make me think I'm seeing a face looking at me through my bedroom window, and then I'll scare myself. I'm even getting a little scared right now as I type this post. It's kind of hard to get through this one, actually. I may not really believe in ghosts, but thinking about them scares the shit out of me. Alright, I can't take it anymore. Bye bye!

My (Terrible) Hackintosh Experience

Before I start the story, this did NOT happen recently; it was in the middle of my freshmen year of high school - I am now a junior. Alright, now that that's cleared up, let's begin. 

So, I've always been curious about hackintoshing my Netbook and wondered if I'd be able to someday do it. Off and on the motivation would hit me and I would start Googling "how to hackintosh HP mini 110 Netbook" as that was the make/model of my Netbook (and yes, I know a Netbook is not the ideal laptop or PC to hackintosh, but it was my only choice). Eventually, and actually rather quickly, I would lose the motivation after realizing that the easiest way to go about doing the hacking would be to have an actual Mac OS X install disc, which I knew more than well that I wasn't gonna do that. After countless Google searches of it, I finally decided that the easiest way to actually get anywhere close to making it happen would be to torrent Mac OS X Leopard, download a virtual disc image software and do the hacking that way. 

I didn't have a portable CD drive, but luckily a friend of mine had one, and he was kind enough to let me borrow it for however long the damn process would take on my very first attempt with this risky business. So, after I had finally downloaded the torrent and put it onto the disc, I was ready to boot up from the CD and start installing Mac OS X (of course, way before all this I had made sure I backed up whatever I wanted to save). Everything was going smoothly at first, selecting the partitioned drive to install the OS onto, choosing whatever other small features I needed, blah blah blah. The actual installation probably took the longest, as it was roughly a half hour. This very next part was the most nerve-racking. After I rebooted my Netbook, I wanted to have it be so that I could dual-boot Windows 7 AND Mac OS X... which I obviously didn't do enough researching on, because it's where I fucked up. Once I rebooted, a bunch of confusing text rolled through the screen, and I didn't know what the hell to do. After that was done, nothing happened. I was slowly starting to panic, knowing this was probably going to happen. 

My next move was to try restarting the system. That only made it worse. It immediately showed an error message on the screen, so I couldn't boot up into anything. About 5 minutes after this, I was literally sobbing, thinking I had somehow overwritten Windows and had destroyed my Netbook (I can get extremely nervous when things start to go wrong for me tech-wise). I started frantically texting my friend who had borrowed me his portable CD drive, and he tried helping me through it, since he's a tech guy. He told me that Windows was still there, I had just confused the boot loader and it didn't know what to do, since I hadn't set it correctly for Mac (which is why I knew I should never have attempted this thing). I ended up giving him my Netbook for a while so he could fix it and get Windows back up and running. It took about 3 or 4 days, and then it was back to its good-ole' self. 

To this day, I don't even dream of or consider hackintoshing my Netbook, as I always remember what happened when I tried it on my own (like an idiot) the first time. But hey, I was a stupid freshmen. And so, there you have it. My first and worst experience with the world of hackintosh and how it definitely is not for me. I wouldn't even have a professional do it for me. I love Windows 7, and I see no need to mash Mac OS X along side it. 

It's August!

I'm 17 now, so... yeah. Not too big of a deal. The USA is in first place with the most medals so far, and the rowing event is going on right now. The US is actually in first place! We kick ass. We're almost a whole boat length ahead of everyone. Yeah, biches. That's how we do it.

This new Internet sucks.

So we have been with Bertram Wireless for quite a while now, and our family was so fed up with it being terribly slow and not loading properly sometimes, and we decided to head into Verizon Wireless to check out their Mobile Broadband plans. After the salesman got us all set up and sent us on our way, the speeds weren't impressive at all. I was expecting 4G speeds of 12Mbps, but it barely matched up to what Bertram was giving us. I'm really wanting to get rid of this already and just stick with Bertram, since it really isn't that great. Of course, I'm gonna leave it until every else gets home and then see what they think, and if we all end up really hating it, Bertram is back in. 


I have been checking every website that I normally go on to see how well it loads with the new connection, and it's noticeably slower than Bertram's speeds, and those speeds aren't even very fast compared to other ISPs. I'm especially waiting for Lindsay to get home to see what she has to say about it, and if she thinks it's any better. If it was all up to me, I'd just say get rid of all of it and return the damn thing, being as it won't be better soon. I almost wish we had never done this, since now we have a 2-year contract. Although, the salesman said we have 3 days to return it if we don't get good signal. So... yeah, we'll see what happens.

The aftermath... or... whatever you want to call it.

Alright, so... my whole "ban" of computers and general technology was slightly trimmed, and by slightly, I mean only a bit. I guess I won't have free access to my iPad, Netbook or iPhone throughout the entire summer, nor will I be able to just go on the desktop whenever I so choose to. It sucks, but that's life, and it really bites you in the ass sometimes. I can go on from time to time, but it's still very limited. So far I've been able to go on for about an hour each day, depending on how much work I've done and how much I've already been on technology. I feel like going to a movie tonight... but I didn't set anything up with friends to go see the new Spider-Man movie, and I don't really feel motivated to get going on anything. I'll probably try to go for a day next week to ask some friends to go to the movie with me. One of my older sisters already saw it, and they said it was really good, so I'm hoping that means I'll like it. When I come to think about it, there's really only been one movie that I've seen that I really didn't like that much. If you remember when Clash of the Titans came out, it apparently really sucked and the acting wasn't good at all. Well, they came out with pretty much the same movie about two months ago, but they just replaced the word "Clash" with "Wrath", so it was Wrath of the Titans. I saw the movie with a friend of mine and his girlfriend. I was hoping it would be some fucking epic movie with big-as-shit monsters, but it really wasn't that awesome at all.

I'll start a new paragraph since the current one was getting big (that's what she said). Anyway, when I watched it, the whole thing moved really fast and the plot wasn't very original. And it was actually like you're basic brother vs. brother vs. big scary monster deal. Two brothers hated each other because one thought the other was more powerful and therefore they weren't equal. So, while one brother is trying to make the other understand that they in fact are equal, the underworld is beginning to erupt and Kronos is going to wake up and try to take over the place where they are, or whatever his purpose is. In a nutshell (because I'm not going over every detail), Perseus saves his father from being killed in the underworld, and then the dad's evil brother (ha, see a trend here?) ends up siding with each other and they battle Kronos together and defeat him. The final battle really goes quickly too, and that's what I didn't like. Like I mentioned before, the whole movie was like that. It didn't transition very well.

So... yeah. That's my post for today. And it's rather larger than normal, but that's pretty neat. Until next time!

This is what happens when I lose track of time.

Today I was surfing the web while waiting to pick up my sister from swimming lessons, but I unfortunately lost track of time. I had one call before she called to ask where I was (since I was about 15 minutes late), and so with the first call, I wasn't even remembering to pick her up. After she called, I got all flustered and just thought to myself, "See what happens? I tell myself I'll forget about her, and it happened.". So, because I was rushing to get the hell out of there and pick her up, I completely forgot about the dumpster that was sitting on the lawn near the house, and it was right in back of where we park our cars. I got in, started backing up, but I unfortunately wasn't thinking about the dumpster until I heard a BOOM! I just thought, "This is how I pay for being late to pick her up from on the computer.".

After I got her and went back home, I took a look at the back of the car. It didn't look too bad at first, but then I realized that the right headlight had been smashed in, and just below that, the bumper was also punched in. It wouldn't have been as bad if the bumper part hadn't been smashed in. It's one thing that I was late in picking my sister up. It's another thing to back into some equipment. If I hadn't been on the computer, I would've remembered to glance at the clock every now and then, and NOT be late, and not worry about all this bullshit now. -_-

It finally feels like summer.

Even though school has been out for about 2 weeks now, it didn't really feel like summer until State FFA Convention was over. The only reason that made it feel like summer hadn't started yet was because I had to prepare for the entire trip and the music practicing (which was a LOT). We practiced I think pretty much everything that was given to us, in addition to what was inside the folders that were also provided for each player. The two directors are very nice and have great senses of humor. They also really get into directing. We met from June 12th - 14th, so it's not like I was getting homesick. Plus, I was with my own FFA chapter, so it's not like I was completely alone. My blog ends here, tonight, since I'm being yelled at like no other. Bye. -_-

June!

I'm so happy that June is finally here! I only have 2.5 days of school left. The best part is, I am pretty sure my exams are going to be really easy. I have a math, Spanish and gym exam. They should be pretty freaking easy. This past Thursday was the seniors' last day. Apparently a food fight was supposed to happen during second lunch, but there were like 5 or 6 cops there, so it didn't happen, luckily. I was originally hoping to watch it, but then after thinking it over, I'm glad it didn't happen. If it had, I probably would've been helping clean it up. -_- I already have enough to do with the usual route and chair stuff. Not too much else to say... church tonight. Bye!

Minecraft

I have been doing a LOT of Minecraft lately, and I'm getting sick of what I've done in it. I thought maybe making an underground house would be better than an above-ground house, but now I'm starting to reconsider. It's taking too much time to do anything worthy in the "cave" (since it's not really a "house" yet), and in my mind I'm kind of thinking about deleting my current world and re-doing all of it. I would continue, but I think I've bitten off more than I could chew inside the cave and thought I could do a lot more in a short amount of time than I really could.

If I made a new world, I'd probably try to find a spot in woods and make a small house there, and then work off of that. I'll probably be making some YouTube videos about how to play Minecraft and how to work around in it this summer. That's all for this post. Bye!

I. Hate. Math.

The title says it all about this blog post. I hate math with a passion. I just got another F on my Chapter 8 test, and that brought my grade for the quarter down to a D, and a D+ for the semester. It's just like, I can't get passed a D+ or a C. That is why I hate math so much.

It seems like there were only 2 or 3 tests that I actually did good in. They kept my grade at a B earlier in the year, and then most recently a C. That dropped down to a D, however, after this test that I failed. :( I am afraid that this is going to be the final grade for the year, so I'll have a D for this class. Gah!

I'm watching "Tower Heist" right now, but I should really be reading Slaughterhouse-Five for an English assignment. That's all for now... unless I can bring my math grade up with some miracle.

Movie Weekend

I've had a pretty "fun-filled" weekend of watching movies. I watched Thor on Thursday night, Iron Man 1 on Friday night and now I watched Iron Man 2 tonight. Unfortunately, we didn't start watching the movie till around 11 PM, so it didn't end until about 1:55 AM. I'm really tired because of that, but I figured I might as well blog about it while I'm still up. I can't ever seem to get to bed any earlier than 11:30 PM these days, so whatever.

All 3 of these movies that I watched were great, and they really help to explain a lot more in The Avengers than when I watched it for the first time. Especially with Thor, it really cleared up some confusion as to why Loki wanted to so baldy rule the human race. His brother, Thor, had pretty much taken over Asgard as king, so Loki wanted his own throne on Earth, which clearly didn't happen. I'm not quite sure if there is a full movie about the bow-and-arrow guy or Black Widow, but I did see Captain America: The First Avenger, so I wasn't a bit confused on his part.

Alright, I'm off to bed now. Got some homework to do today! :D

Thor

So I just watched "Thor" tonight, and it was REALLY good. It was so good, it didn't even seem like that long of a movie. I do agree, now, with my sister that I should've seen this movie before seeing "The Avengers", since Thor was a follow-up to Avengers. The ending of Thor definitely gave way to revealing the beginning of Avengers, which was awesome. I'd give it a 10/10.


This movie pretty much dealt with two brothers - Thor and Loki - who both wanted to prove themselves worthy of being king of Azgard, but only one could be king. Thor was temporarily banished from Azgard after being foolish and stupid, but he eventually regained his father's respect after stopping Loki from destroying Jotenheim. That led to Thor being king, and Loki left them.


Overall, the movie was very enjoyable and exciting as well. I loved the fight scenes, and the humor added in made it that much better. That's all for now! It's FRIDAY tomorrow!!!

The Three Day Hump

Have you ever heard of "The Three Day Hump"? If not, it's pretty much consisting of three days that you try to break an addiction and stop a bad habit. A big one is smoking, and lots of people try using the three-day hump method.

I myself am using this method right now. I am trying to break myself of SA:MP and NGRP. I have tried to rip myself off of it in the past, but I never tried hard enough. This time, I'm going to try even harder, and I plan on being off forever.

I know that almost doesn't seem plausible, but I'm going to make it happen. It takes away too much from my actual life, and I'm finally (took me a while, too) realizing how sickening it is to be doing something like this for so long. I think this time it will work.

If I ever break this method and jump back into the boat of no-lifer's, I will be very disappointed with myself. With courage and hope, though, it can be conquered!

Almost done!

I can't believe that school is almost over! I'm almost done with my sophomore year. It's crazy shit man! There is about 20-some days left, and I can't wait for the last day. I don't really have much else to say, just wanted to make a new blog post. :)

A trend I found.

I have come to notice that when the weekend hits, I never wake up on time to have a good time for breakfast and then be hungry enough for breakfast. I always get up at around 11:30 AM -12:00 PM. I don't know why I can't make myself get up sooner, despite me setting an alarm. Oh well. :(

Something that I just realized today...

There is this really hot girl in my Chemistry class that I want to ask out but don't have the courage to, and it made me think about something. If I were to somehow manage to pop the question, I would rather have her say "Sorry, I'm taken.", rather than "Um... sorry, you're not my type.", or something like that.

Do you understand why I'd rather get the first response? Here's why:

If I got the second response, that would mean I'd never get a chance at having her. It means she isn't interested in me at all.

On the other hand, if she said the first one, that could mean that I'm still attractive to her (depending how attractive I am in general), and that if she ever broke-up with her current boyfriend, I would have a chance.

Do you see now? Being flat-out rejected is way worse than the "I'm taken.". I don't think she is dating anyone right now, which is surprising because of how attractive she is. You'd think she would have 5 guys asking her out every day.

All I can really do right now is ask God for the courage. :)

Holy shit this weather is nice!

I can't believe that it's only March and the weather is summer-like. I think it has already hit 75. This weather makes me want school to be over sooooo badly. I don't really have much else to say in this post, so... bye!

Meh...

I wish I could go back to the old days. By that, I mean the days of either 8th grade or Freshmen year. I really liked those two years. Mostly because I didn't have a job after school, and because I didn't have bad grades in math. I hate Honors Algebra II. I fricking hate it.

We need a better ISP.

Lately, the Internet has really sucked. It's always sucks, though. We're with Bertram Wireless, and they aren't the greatest ISP to have. Their highest speeds only reach 3 MB/s, which is really sad. I wish we were with Verizon Wireless, because they actually give you an Internet adapter that plugs right into your computer, and that way your Internet signal is much stronger.

Bertram sucks.

My "New" Website

I have a "new" website, even though it isn't really all that new. I've had it for about two months now, but I just never really did much with it. If you would like to check it out, click here.

Thanks!

S.O.P.A. = BAD

If you haven't heard about the bill Congress is going to try to pass on January 24th, I'll give you a brief summary of it. Pretty much what it is, is an act that will limit what is put on the Internet. The government will have nearly complete control of whatever is in the Internet. If you want to stop this from passing and from the Internet being censored, simply do a quick Google search for "SOPA petition". You'll get tons of links to different petitions to get rid of this horrible bill.

Rodgers Has A Girl After Him

Even though Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers lost to the Giants in their first playoff game 20-37, the recently crowned "Miss America", Laura Kaeppeler said on national TV, "Aaron Rodgers, if you're watching right now, call me."

Looks like Rodgers has a girl after him! :)

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/miss-america-asks-aaron-rodgers-call-her-182121617.html

It's 2012!

Holy shit, it's 2012. Well, we have 11 months to prepare for the end of the world. Get crackin'!