Changes

Just one question: Do you like my new Blog background
Yay
~OR~
Nay
......I couldn't decided whether to keep it the same or change it... What should I do???

Halloween

Whether you are for or against Halloween you gotta admit, it is one cool idea. I mean basically you get candy just for dressing up as anything in the world you ever want to dress up as. How cool is that? It's almost like Homecoming Week, (which is almost a Holiday itself) except you don't have the regulations, like on Hillbilly day, when your only allowed to dress up as a Hillbilly. Of course, the whole reason why anyone would ever want to dress up as anything (despite the fact that it's fun) is for candy. People will do anything for candy, especially little kids. As you get older people act the same way about money. Hey! They should have a Holiday where you dress up and go door-to-door and get money! Wait... I think they do it's called "Door-to-door sales" or something like that.

Haha!!!

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Boredom turns into a learning process

I don't really have anything spectacular to blog about, but I also don't have anything to do. I could read, but I don't feel like it and you can't read unless you feel like it. I haven't learned anything "WOW!" that everybody can apply to their lives. (I mean everybody else saw that stupid door) Unless you count that when you're looking up words in the Spanish Dictionary, you should double-check to make sure the word is not in the dictionary before you concluded that it isn't and therefore not complete the rest of your assignment. I learned that one this week. Guess how?.... which makes me realize that I do have something to talk about..... Learning.
What makes you learn somethings fast and other things we have to learn over and over and over and over and get smacked in head a couple times and then over and over and over again. I mean it didn't take me twice to learn that if I put my hand on the stove when it says "Hot" I might get burned.... okay so it did, but heat is a relative measure. It might be hot to you, but not to me. So I always have to see if it really is hot or if "they" just think it is. However, I don't stand there for an hour with my hand on the stove thinking "Hmm.... I'm still not sure if it's hot or not maybe a few more minutes.... Oh Snap! My hand's melted on the stove... again... MOM!" Give me some credit, I'm smarter than that! Usually if it's hot I pull my hand away. I can decide in if it's hot in less than two seconds, which I'm rather proud of.
Another thing about learning is what I call "persistent learning." Just to clear thing up I think persistence is a very admirable trait in most cases, like William Wilberforce trying to abolish the slave trade. But in other cases it's just stupid. No matter how many times you try you can not defy gravity on your bike going off your roof. (or try to get the words "can not" to bold and italicise on your blog... GRRR!) You can play Super-cool-get-the-ladies-even-though-they-don't- care-stunt-man all your life but it's not gonna work... dude. How many times to you have to almost die before you can get that through your head.
As soon as they get of the hospital they say, "Dude, I almost got it last time. Let's go again!" That is where you slap in the head and say, "DUDE! When are you gonna learn?"
If there's one thing I've learned in school it's that often times you have to repeat what you say at least three times before people will soak it in their heads. If there's one thing I've learned in school it's that often times you have to repeat what you say at least three times before people will soak it in their heads. If there's one thing I've learned in school it's that often times you have repeat what you say at least three times before people will soak it in their heads.
Also, what seems like the easiest, most basic thing, is usually the hardest, mainly because you think it's hard because it's so easy and you over analyze.
Most of the time we will have to learn things over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, because we're humans. We mess up.... a lot and when we mess up we learn either, not to do it again or we earn it after a couple times. And like everything there's a Short-cut, you can learn from other people's mistakes, that way you don't have to make them yourself. No matter what, you will always learn and you will always make the same mistake on something. That's why there's something called forgiveness. Ain't that nice?
.......So, what did you learn?

If I was a Pirate

If I was a Pirate,

I'd sail the seven seas.

I'd pillage and I'd plunder,

And do whatever I so please.

I'd get a vicious crew,

Of villains and cutthroats.

We'd plunder defenseless vessels,

And even burn their boats.

I'd be the Captain of my crew,

They'd never slack or sigh.

And if they disobeyed me,

Well, then they would die.

I'd acquire all kinds of treasures,

And hoard all of my wealth.

Of course I'd give the crew some,

But I'd kept most of it myself.

I wouldn't follow any rules.

I wouldn't show up on time.

And If I were to write a poem,

It would not even rhyme.

I'd never have to do chores,

I'd leave that to my mates.

I'd make them swab the deck,

And wash and dry the plates.

I'd be the best Pirate,

Ever to sail the sea!

Everyone in the world,

Would tremble in fear of me.

...But I'm not a Pirate,

I'm just sitting here at home.

I'll probably never be a Pirate,

So that's the end of this poem.

P.S. I thought of this on my spare time, walking from Geometry to Speech... Hey, it's a long walk what else am I supposed to do?....

The Storytelling Gene

My Grandpa passed away this week. My parents went to his memorial service in Wisconsin. My parents returned last night and as I was going to bed my Dad said, "Your Grandpa didn't leave any money or anything in his will, but he did leave you one thing, he left you with the storytelling gene." Which I think is a WHOLE lot cooler than being left money or anything else. There's so much you can do with storytelling than you can't do with material things. The Bible is a good example. In a way the Bible is like a giant story, and it's last thousands and thousands of year. No other thing on earth has those kind of bragging rights. If I was going to be a inanimate object I'd want to be the Bible. Anyway that's one thing I'll always remember about my Grandpa, his stories.

P.S. I also believe that EVERYONE can tell stories, you just start with the beginning and end with "The End." However, it does take a certain amount of.... whatever.... storytellingness ....I guess to tell a story...

Sunday Lunch once again

Okay so our Sunday guest this week is Benjamin Franklin. My oldest sister actually brought him. What you might not have known about Mr. Franklin is that he has amputated arm. Ben (as his friends call him) really likes bread, as you can see.

Random thought before Bed 'cause there's nothing else to do

okay... what to talk about???.... OH SNAP!!! I should've done laundry today... oh well.... SNAP!!! I guess it turns out that it's 9:10 instead of 9:00 like I thought and I'm tired an wanna go to bed, plus my hands are really cold and it's hard to type with cold hands 'cause then you alwasy mess yup on you wordsf and gett crazy thing like I'm tires instead of I'm tired. And when your tired your grammar gettings badder and badder. anyway so Good-night I'm (yawn) sleepy. If you reading this at 12 o'clock GET TO BED!!!!! So you can GO TO CHURCH!!! and not FALL ASLEEP!!!! I LIKE PUTTING CAPITALS IN MY BLOGS RANDOMLY IT THROWS PEOPLE OFF!!! 'CAUSE THEN THEY'RE LIKE "WHAT?" AND I'M LIKE "EXACTLY" anyway... 10-4 over and out

New Definition

Last night at SWAT, Students Working Among Teens (A.K.A. youth group leadership) we were asked to define the word Abomination... well we decided to break the work up into it's little roots and prefixes and suffixes and here's what we got:

A- against, not, lacking

Bom- something that is totally cool

Tion- since it's pronounced shun that's what it means
.....so the REAL definition is as follows

Abomination- to shun something that is not totally cool

Sentence: She is abominationing the new girl at school.
....so now you've learned a new definition and how to figure out definitions of words when you don't know them....

P.S. If you want to know the real definition there's a handy tool called a dictionary that YOU can use....

Lunch... again

As you can see we had another guest during lunch. This time it was Moses. In this picture Moses is helping himself to the salad. What you probably didn't know about Moses was that he was the biggest sinner in the bible...... he broke all of the ten commandments at once...... HAHAHAAA...... yeah..... never mind..... got that one in an e-mail....

Definitions

I found some interesting definitions to common words. It's kinda makes you think, and that's always good even if it hurts.

Majesty-Sovereign power, authority or dignity.
Isn't this a perfect adjective for God?

Love- unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for others. To feel a passion, devotion or tenderness for. A score of zero in Tennis.
....okay so the last one maybe not THAT amazing, but the other ones sure make you think.

Serve- to render obedience and worship

Worship- adoring reverence or regard
.....not just singing

Surrender- to yield to the possession of power of another
.....as in surrendering everything to God

Doncha love the Dictionary.... er really like the dictionary.... I do not have a passion, devotion, or tenderness for a book....

Radom thoughts while waiting for pizza

Random Thought #1
How much would it suck to be a dog?... seriously getting the same food everyday... not even having a choice of what you want to eat. Not even being able to chose where you want to go or what you want to do. What if you don't want to go for a walk but your owner does?... well too bad 'cause you're goin' anyway! I'm glad I'm a human

#2
I know some of you have heard this one... but... Did you ever stop to think about that if you didn't have cheeks (on your face) then you wouldn't be able to eat? It's true! You would not be able to eat all your food will fall out!....although it would be funny to watch.

#3
Pawaka Gonjuga Honka Wonka Poklu Fawahooha!

#3
Ees fi ouy nac erugif tuo siht edoc. Einworb stniop fi ouy od. Neht ew nac klat ot hcae rehto. NUF!!!

#4(or five depending on how observant you are)
Anotherthoughtishowimportantitistospacebetweenyourwords'causeIrememberinlike1stgradenoonedid...nowIknowwhy
teachersalwayswantedyoutospaceit'ssoconfusingtoread

#5
I've never really like fall, until this year. I guess it's 'cause... well actually I don't know the cause, but I like fall this year. It's so pretty! I love the colors, even if it is getting colder, and darker.

#6
LOOK BEHIND YOU!!!! IT'S A ELEPHANT!!!!!!! .....don't lie.... you looked...

#7
I wonder how you would swim in outer space?...speaking of swimming. Let's talk about Speedos Guys SPEEDOS are GROSS!!! I don't care if all the super-cool swimmer dudes wear them if you have one in your house... get up and BURN IT RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!... Do a deed for society...

#8
I like Hot Chocolate, that's one good thing about winter.

#9
Well, I think the Pizza's ready

#10
I just had to have ten random thoughts

Radom thoughts while waiting for

Persuasive Speech

I have to do a persuasive speech in my speech class, but I have the same problem as Calvin, "I'm right everybody else is always wrong. What's there to argue?"....so if you have any ideas tell me..... although I have to get a topic by tomorrow... so anyway... I was just bored... and I didn't want to go upstairs to do the dishes.

Time

I was at Silverwood this weekend. Of course I had fun, (I mean come on it's Silverwood, it's illegal to not have fun) but I wish I had more time. I went on Panic Plunge (AMAZING!!!!!!!) and I was going to go again, but since I was with my Youth Group we have to be back at the Bus at a certain time otherwise we're severely beaten. (not really) So part of the group I was in wanted to ride Panic Plunge again, but I thought we wouldn't have time, so I rode the Tilt-a-Whirl again. Then when I got back to the bus the Panic Plunge people were already there, so I was really mad, but whatever, the point is I ran out of time.
How many times do we run out of time when we do things? It's almost like we're constantly running out time. We didn't do this because we ran out time. We forgot this because we ran out of time. Sometimes it could've been avoided by managing our time better, but sometimes we just ran out of time.
Or maybe we didn't run out of time, we wasted it. I know I've done a lot of this, I get to the end of my day and say "HOLY COW! I've done nothing all day!" I must admit sometimes I feel proud of this and sometimes it's good, kinda therapeutic. However, I also must say that if everyday is being spent either running out of time or wasting it, what are you going to do at the end of your life? Say, "Oh Snap, maybe I should've been more productive with my time." 'Cause your only given so much and you don't even know how much you got. Which makes it kinda hard because with everything else in life your always given a time frame or limit so you know how much you have.
But it also makes it more motivating because you think, "I want to do as much as I can with all the time I got." I know this is kinda morbid, but if you don't think about it sooner or later, you'll run out of time or waste it and it's better sooner. Because someday your going to give an account for your time and it's doesn't impress God (or anyone else) if you spent all ninety-five years of your life watching Star-Trek reruns, instead of doing God's work. Anyway just some food for thought about making sure you don't waste or run out of your God-given but to use it for God.

The best quote about time (other than the Bible) is from... you guessed it... Lord of the Rings. In the movie The Fellowship of the Ring, Gandalf is talking to Frodo and he says, "All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you." And it's true, you can waste it, run out of it, or make good use of it. It's really up to you to decide.

Lunch

We had a legendary figure eat lunch with us today, John Smith. Yeah, what you probably didn't know about John was that he really likes cheese.... a lot! I think next week we'll have Moses vist us.