Phones

So, for my 18th birthday, I purchased the Samsung Galaxy S3 on Straight Talk for $400. I had been deciding between that and the black iPhone 4S. Now, 3 months later, it has finally hit me that I really wish I had gotten the iPhone, for several reasons:

- I like simplicity. 

- I like organization. 

- I like an attractive phone (the S3 doesn't seem that appealing to me anymore, visually).

- I like iOS waaaay more than Android. 

- I like the feel of an iPhone. 

- I like the iPhone's display. 

- I love everything about the iPhone. 

When I was about to purchase the S3, I was turning into one of those Android users hating on iOS users. I regret ever doing that. I've come to discover that I really do prefer iOS over Android and I'm beginning to regret more and more, now, getting the S3. I would sell my S3 on eBay, but my mom doesn't think it's worth it for the reasons I told her about, most of which I mentioned above. My plan was to sell the phone for $300 on eBay, put the service back onto my old phone for a bit, order the iPhone 4S from Wal Mart and be a happy guy. Most of my family was against me doing this simply because of why I wanted to switch: I like iOS way more than Android, and I couldn't come up with a good reason to get another new and expensive ($450) phone. I understand what they mean when they don't want me getting a new phone, since that's roughly $800 that I'd be spending on phones. But really, it's not. If I was able to sell the S3 for $300 on eBay, I'd only have to take out $150 for the iPhone, which really isn't that much money. 

Most of the reason why I got the S3 was because my sister didn't want me getting the iPhone. She said she didn't want to see me paying full-price for a phone that is glass on the front and back and could crack at the slightest drop. She also doesn't want me getting something that's better than hers, whatever it may be. All I can say from this whole issue is this: I know to never let my sister's opinion change or alter my final decision at all. I could have easily gotten the iPhone 4S, but I let myself go her way too much. Gr...

High School Relationships

This topic dawned on me just a few minutes ago, while I was brushing my teeth, actually. It's a topic that lots of people have strong opinions on, and others just think of as "over-rated". Suddenly, I'm kind of agreeing with the people that say high school relationships are over-rated, because in a way, they are. Many of my friends that I made freshman year started dating not even 2 or 3 months into school. A few of those relationships are still going fairly strong to this day, but some have weakened to the point of friendships being ruined and people getting hatred towards each other, and I have been off in the distance seeing it all happen. 

A big reason I decided to blog about this was because two friends of mine that had started dating as freshman (and I think they literally started halfway through the first month of the school year) recently broke up. By recent I mean about 2 weeks before school started. I'm not exactly sure what the cause was for the break-up, but all I know is that the guy (I'm not mentioning any names for the sake of their own privacy) apparently was hanging with another girl (not his girlfriend... at the time) until 2 AM, and was calling his then-current girlfriend his ex-girlfriend even before they were officially broken up, so I don't know what the whole deal was there, but it obviously wasn't good. Now, those two are obviously done with each other, and I'm pretty sure both are starting up new relationships very soon (by very soon I mean they are hanging with other people of the opposite sex quite often). 

That is one reason why I not only think high school relationships are over-rated, but am glad that I won't be in one ever (a high school one, that is). The other reason is a general and very annoying one: any time something is not going well in the relationship, the girl thinks that everyone on Facebook needs to know about it. FYI, I don't give a shit about the fact that your man hasn't hung out with you for a week or that he's been "fooling around" with other girls. That's your own issue that doesn't need to enter the Internet, but it does anyway. 

I'm also glad that I'm not in a relationship right now simply because they are over-rated in high school. There's a very very very good chance that you don't meet that right person in high school (though I'm pretty sure I'm part of that small small percentage that did meet that right person). If you do, then you clearly weren't keeping your options opened and were afraid you'd meet someone better than your current significant other (again, not for me). Plus if you start a relationship in high school, you always create that risk of something going wrong and then you lose their friendship, and possibly other friendships because of whatever shit happened around you. Then there's the problem of being friends with people that aren't friends with other people that you're also friends with. There are several people I'm friends with that other friends of mine would never ever look in the face ever again. It's sad, but that's what high school does to some people. :(

Anywho, that's my take on high school relationships now, and how I view them. I don't expect my status to change at all this year, but hope that it does in 2 or 3 years with this one girl that I met real well junior year and still like her a lot to this day (she was a senior and is now off at basic training). I feel like she's the one. I just love everything about her. But yeah, that's my opinion on this topic and that's that. Byeeee!

Enlightening Yourself is a Great Feeling

Alright, it's nearly the end of summer, I'm starting my senior year of high school next week, and I haven't been doing jack squat lately. Last Friday I went to an optional Pep band event at my high school and got to hang out with some good old school friends of mine. It was a lot of fun, and I enjoyed it. On Sunday, I marched with my high school's band in the Richfield Day's parade, and it was hot as hell (just about). Then, on Monday I was back at the high school at 7 AM to play some Pep band tunes for the freshman at their orientation and pretty much show them what Pep band is like, and so they could learn the words to one of the songs we play called "We're Loyal to You Illinois", but the band refers to it as "School Song". Those were some busy 3 days, and they were a busy 3 days that I actually rather enjoyed. I mostly enjoyed them because I had finished up my summer AP Lit. homework, which consisted of reading two books, The Picture of Dorian Gray and To Kill a Mockingbird, and then typing up some enormously long book notes on them, and doing a mock timed writing on Dorian Gray. Those three assignments took up a heck of my time, but that's why they call it summer homework for an AP class, huh?

Anyways, those three days came and went, and now today was a really sluggish day for me. All I did was get up, shower, eat breakfast (at 11:00, so I ate lunch an hour later), brush my teeth, sit on the computer and watch Doctor Who, then bail a load of hay with my dad, sit back on my lazy ass and watch more Doctor Who and TV, and that was about it. I did not do a whole lot around the house until about an hour ago, which was cleaning out the dishes in the sink and filling the dishwasher up. My older sister was giving me a stern talk and said that I needed to get up and do something, and in my head I was strongly agreeing with her, but I couldn't bring myself to really say "Yeah, you're right, I need to do something now." All I could muster out was a little "...yeah..." while looking at the TV screen. After that little situation, I decided to go up to my room and put some clothes away that my mom had finished getting out of the dryer and folding up. I also made my bed and made everything look nice and tidy. I will also admit that my bedroom looks way too clean for an 18-year-old teenage guy. I should have clothes laying all over the floor, bed sheets messed up, papers and miscellaneous items everywhere... but I don't. My bed is usually nice and neat, and my room is generally a little too clean. But that's besides the point. I'll make my point now. Once I finished cleaning around my room, my mind finally clicked and reattached itself to my brain and I gave myself a little pep talk and "enlightened" myself (Ah, finally! I'm getting to the topic of this blog!). I walked back and forth and told myself several things that I hope to follow through with throughout the entire school year. It wasn't a talk where, yeah, I'll work on that for the first two weeks of school and then give up. No. I'm gonna get this going when school starts and keep it going through school and now, hopefully through summer.

You might be wondering (but most likely not) what I told myself I would do when school starts. I thought it through a while, and here is what I've decided:
- I will not be going on Facebook at all Monday - Friday, with a possibility of going on Friday nights, but probably not. Last school year I was on Facebook 75% of the time after I got home from school, and it caused me to not get done with homework some nights, which isn't ever a good thing for me.
- I am going to work out for a half hour every day after I get home from work at 5:30, so I'll get done with my work out at 6, and then do my homework. I will do things like use my shakeweight, do push-ups, ab crunches, possibly bike a bit, and just keep my fitness up since I'm not taking a gym class anymore. I was in FIT for Life last year in school, and that really helped me with my muscle and my health in general.
- In the event that I don't have any homework on any given day, I will force myself to go outside and play basketball or baseball, or just walk around the woods and find something to do. I will not sit in the house all evening long and watch TV and play games on my iPad. I may give an exception to watching an episode or two of Doctor Who if I deem it okay for myself, but otherwise nature and the outside world is my only other option, for real.
- I am going to cut back on the amount of those amazingly tasty fudge bars that I just looooove. Yeah, I can let a little humor into this blog, I'm not gonna be totally serious (I mean, I'm serious about what I'm talking about, but, you know what I mean :) ). If I get hungry, I'm going to look for something healthier to eat, like a hard-boiled egg, or some yogurt. An egg actually sounds tasty right now... I wonder if there's any in the fridge...
- I'm going to be in bed no later than 10:30 every night, with the obvious but usually unfortunate exception of being up late due to homework. I'm hoping that isn't the case this year, as I'm not taking any classes that have any chance of containing work or projects that I don't get done right away. I mean, come on, I'm taking Consumer Math, I'll pass that with flying colors!

So yeah, that's my plan for school this coming fall. I'm changing my ways and I want to keep it that way forever. Yes, that's a lot to ask of myself, but I'll do my best to enact during school. I start my new job tomorrow, so I'll need to get these changes going sooner rather than later, but no later than Tuesday, September 3rd (the first day of school)! I know I can do this, I have faith that I can change and make a difference in my life. It's gonna happen, no matter how hard I find it to be. Don't believe me? You just wait and see.

My "Dream/Fantasized" Life

I'm sure you've day-dreamed about your ideal/dream/fantasy life before, and when you finally snap back to reality, you get really sad that your dream life isn't anywhere close to your real life. Then you get all depressed and feel like crap. That's exactly what happened to me during an FFA meeting. I didn't need to talk a whole lot, I was just in listening to what was being said, until I started day-dreaming about my dream life. It had to be the most in-depth and detailed day dream that I've ever had, I was so zoned out. I don't remember a single thing that was talked about at the meeting, I was so into my dream. Anyway, my dream life consisted of me being much taller, around 6'4, way more attractive, having these cool glasses that lit up on the sides, and the part that sat on my nose would push out a small amount of glue onto my nose that would keep the glasses on my nose and would never fall down from sweat or anything. I also dreamed up that I would have a container sorta thing built into my bedroom wall that I would put my glasses into every night which would thoroughly clean them out over night and have them ready in the morning.

I would wear them the most, and wear my contacts very sparingly. I would also not have a cowlick like I do now, and I would have my hair sticking up in the front all the time. Also, I would be dating the girl of my dreams that I asked out earlier in the year but she said no to me - *sad face* - and I'd be really freaking smart. I'd also have a sweet room with a large flat-screen TV in it and an Xbox 360, and my house would be extremely clean and pretty much show off all of my OCD. I also would have very neat handwriting, a really nice computer, and just everything would be so kick-ass. I'd also be slightly more popular.

Just, let's say that every aspect of my life would be 10 times better than it is now. I would be dating an amazing girl, I'd be taller, more attractive, smarter, everything better. I'm sure everyone has had this kind of day-dream at one time or another in their life, I know I have.

Anyway, that's all for tonight. I'll have another much longer blog post coming soon... and it's about a friend of mine that I wish had a stronger relationship with me like she used to... I almost can't wait for this post. Is that bad?

:(

So my flash drive was stolen last Thursday. At least, that's the final conclusion I've come to. I was moving some files onto it for a class, but I never unplugged it from the computer after I was done. I'm really sad now and am realizing just how pissed off I am, because (1) I have to email myself everything I need for homework that needs to be transferred from school computers to my home computer and (2) I had an FFA PowerPoint on there that I was working on for the banquet this April. It leaves me with practically nothing. I really liked that flash drive. It was even 8 gigs, which is quite a lot of space. I'm angry at whoever took it. The only thing that confuses me, though, is the thought of it being stolen. No one is ever in the band room after school is over (except for those with after-school lessons). Ever. Ugh I'm so pissed.

And now I'm hearing a bunch of shit from my mom that I have to do on Saturday. Greeeat. Just great. I have to help with the chickens and clean the pens out. Blah blah blah blah. I'm done.

Oh yeah! I want this weekend to be over.

I miss first semester.

Second semester started last Tuesday, and I'll admit, I'm sad first semester is over. I really enjoyed a couple of my classes in first semester, which were Minorities and Prejudice and Focus on Careers. FoC (Focus on Careers) was only second quarter, Junior Health was first quarter (did not like that class). Minorities was a really easy class but the teacher was awesome. At the beginning of the year, he was really awkward and didn't seem to know how to handle the class and teach, but throughout the semester, he got much better. The class even said they were sad to be done with the class, myself included. He always did "Bad Joke Monday", and they were some pretty bad jokes. The last one of the second last day of the semester, however, wasn't really that bad of a joke. It actually made some sense and was kinda funny. I ended up with a straight A in the class, so that was nice. I got 5 A's, a B- and a C- for first semester, but the class with the B- was an AP class, so technically I got 5 A's, an A- and a C-. According to me and my technicalities, my GPA came out to be 3.7, which is AWESOME.

For second semester, I now have Modern American History first hour and PE III: Fit for Life sixth hour. I'm excited about PE III because I want to get more fit and get more muscle, and this class will definitely guarantee that, as long as I try my hardest.That's about all I have to say. Bai.