Journals

K so for my mutual tonight we were supposed to start writing in our journals for 3 months if we haven't been. Well this gave me an opportunity to look through my 7th grade journal and 8th/9th grade journal. I realized that I have really changed a lot over the last 4 years. My friends haven't really changed too much but I was really weird in Jr. High. Most of you know I have absolutely no artistic talent but for some reason I had a thing with drawing pictures in my journal and they're really good for me. Most of my entries have some connection to somebody I don't ever even talk to and never really did. I can't believe how big of an idiot I was in Jr. High but I have gotten past that. It's really interesting to see how much I've changed and how much I can actually remember about these events I recorded.

Party Time!

The end of the school year is a glorious thing and with that wonderful thing comes parties! Not only do I have end of the school year parties but I have bunches of friends that have birthdays right after the school year ends! Well I guess I've only been to 3 since summer started but still thats not TOO shabby.

RECAPS:

Fiesta numero uno: Go away party for Connor Hinckley :'( Funny guy and he will be remembered. He's stuck in Wyoming right now though but he will get to Texas soon enough. Plus, he's visiting Tuesday! Fun except for I left the party rather pissed for undisclosed reasons.

Fiesta numero dos: Well technically this was a BBQ but I really don't care. So there! Sloan planned this I think and I just went and took pictures of hot dogs, watched my girlfriend fall in the river(after I told her not to try to cross the log... I told her she would fall in), and wrote secret messages in the volleyball court sand. Basically this was pretty fun.

Fiesta numero tres: Party for Austin Shin. Austin Shin- hilarious Korean who has been going to Davis and headed back to Korea on Tuesday morning. This was another go away party :'( But on the bright side, I saw a bunch of my Davis friends and was able to recover long lost phone numbers. The only problem with this party is that I had to relive the horrors of a few people who drove me nuts in junior high. Of course, I have to put up with Creager a lot more than that so I shouldn't complain because he is worse than they are.

Well parties are fun. Invite me to yours if you have one. Oh and I got invited to the goodbye party of the German kid, Tobi. Don't think I'm going though because I haven't said a word to the kid all year. I guess I could be a party crasher or just go get some free food but I'm not a big enough loser to do that. I have my own friends to hang out with... Lets just hope that I'm not the only one that didn't know Tobi. (I knew who he was but nothing about him)

DA SUMMER

Summer time has finally arrived and you all know what that means? Well I am currently coming up with a list in my head that will be posted on here in like 2 minutes.

DA SUMMER ACTIVITIES

1. School (lack there of)- the thing that has controlled most of our lives for the last 9 months is gone for almost 3 months! We are free to party!

2. 16th Birthday- For me this means being allowed to officially date... Oops on the Christmas Dance. Driving... that has to wait til September for me :'(

3. Bear Lake- Oh the joys of my cabin paradise. I love going up there and just relaxing. Hanging with the fam and going wakeboarding (even though I pretty much suck) is a blast!

4. Friends- K so I hung out with them a lot during the school year but now it will be like that times 10!

5. Work- Until I get a job it will probably be unpaid and around my house, but hopefully I can get a job ASAP after trek

6. Trek- Should be a wonderful experience but the downside is that it is over my birthday.

7. Baby Info- For all of you that didn't know this, my sister Shay is having twins in (most likely) November. Also high on the list... finding out whether they will be my nieces, nephews, or one of each. Info will come on my birthday! But I won't find out til the 28th

8. Sleep- Wonderful thing! I've already got a good start on this, I've slept in past 11 everyday of the summer. So far the record is 12:35 and hopefully it goes later. Oh and staying up WAY late!

9. Calciatore- Though earlier reports showed otherwise, my old soccer team is going to stay together. I loved playing with Josh and his team but I've been playing on this other team since about 3rd grade so it will be nice going back.

Fine list right? Well it will be fun seeing how many of you can pronounce #9. I would like to get feedback though.

Weekends Have Not Been My Thing

So last weekend I didn't have a great weekend. It started with the AP Test (thank goodness thats over!), then Saturday wasn't bad until I found out that one kid on my soccer team bruised his spleen and another kid dislocated his shoulder, followed by masses of drama that went throughout the day on Sunday. This weekend was pretty fun except the fact that yesterday I busted my phone, was kinda depressed, and hurt my manhood wakeboarding. Now today all I've done is mowed my lawn and played in a soccer game that we lost in. I scored our only goal and had another goal that went in but the ref said it didn't and we lost 2-1! Now I'm at home and I think that my parents are rather frustrated with me and I don't think that I'm going to be allowed to hang out with people tonight because of that.

AP Euro is Over! (well basically)

Today I took the AP European History Exam. It was long, mentally draining, and sucked. Overall, it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience though. Who am I kidding? I didn't like being shut up in a church taking a test from 11:30-3:30. The best part about taking this test though is that the rest of the year in that class should be a breeze. I just better pass to make sure that I get a good grade this term. (Oh and college credit would be nice) Well anyway, the test is over and I think I did pretty good on it. Now I just have to wait til the 3rd freakin week of July to find out!

Frustrations

So I've been frustrated with several things lately. First on the list is the AP Euro Test, of course, but there are still a few more.

Frustrations

1. AP Euro- AP Test Friday! What more do I need to say?

2. People- Some people have been driving me nuts lately. Once again, I don't think it is anyone that reads my blog.

3. Soccer- Ok I'm not frustrated at all with this one. I just wanted to take the opportunity to tell everybody about my two awesome goals on Saturday. One was a header and the other was off a corner kick and I was able to get my leg in front of it.

4. Eagle- I thought I was a lot closer than I really was. I could have it ready by tomorrow if I tried EXTREMELY hard, but I am not so sure that is going to happen even though I plan to work on it a lot tomorrow.

5. School Overall- My grades look the worst they have in a long time. This could be because I missed 3 days last week, but I don't think that is all.

6. iPod Game (Peggle)- K this is extremely dumb to be frustrated over and I'm not too frustrated over it, but the stupid game won't let play as far as I have gotten on it. Fun game though. (I know that was way dumb and you are probably thinking I'm the dumbest person on the planet right now but I don't care!)

7. Transportation- Only 1 month 21 days until I turn 16. 2 months 2 days until I'm done with my driving with an instructor.

8. Utah Jazz- They got their butts handed to them on a platter a week ago tomorrow. The Lakers (who they are playing right now) are also the team that I think they play the worst against in the league. Plus, I consider myself a pretty decently dedicated fan. (Of course, I'm nothing close to you and BYU Josh. ;) )

9. iTunes- The dumb iTunes Store doesn't have Albi the Racist Dragon on it! What kind of rip off is this thing?!

Mistakes

K so most of you have heard the story about how I managed to bust my phone at lunch one day. But that is only the start of some of the dumb mistakes I have made recently.

1. The phone- K quick recap. I'm standing behind Sean while he is eating and I'm talking to somebody while tossing my phone up and down like I always do. I got a little too distracted and managed to miss my phone once. Went for the saving grab as it plummeted straight at the ground. I was able to knock it but not grab it. Unfortunately, I some how knocked it right into Sean's pudding. He was glad that it took off all of his whipped cream, but my poor little phone didn't even manage to make it to my next class before dying. :'(

2. The headphone- So this one happened today and is eerily similar to the other one. I was standing in my kitchen helping prepare dinner by making the gravy. I was rocking out to a few of the new songs that I obtained over the weekend when my mom said something to me. I couldn't hear her so I plucked out my headphone and asked what. Plop! My headphone landed right in the gravy and I just started laughing because it reminded me of Experience #1. I wiped it off and checked to see if it worked... Nope. Now I will just have to live with music in one ear for a while.

3. The lunch- I was sick for the first 4 days of last week (counting Sunday). I came back to school on Thursday and Sam said he was going to go pick up some grub. Of course, he told me what he was going to get but it didn't seem to click in my mind that I might not feel great after eating it. Thats why I ate cookies and milk while still feeling a little sick and it might have affected my performance in my game that night. :0

4. Dreams- So this wasn't technically a mistake but they were definitely weird. This one would take way too long to explain so if you want more info just ask and I'm sure I can come up with a story that will blow your socks off.

5. Taken offense- I know this may sound absurd, but I consider this a mistake on my part. I believe that he shouldn't have said anything, but I agree with Elder Bednar when he talked about how we choose whether or not to take offense at things people say. I tend to make the wrong decision a lot, but this one stuck out in my mind. I feel like I need to protect the (somewhat) innocent still though so I shall not reveal his name, but it isn't any of you that read my blog at least somewhat regularly.

Ok so the only ones that were really decent were 1-3 and 3 was only ok. But you have to admit that #2 was pretty funny.

Replacement

So I have another post all prepared, but it had a lot of angry thoughts in it so I'm not going to post it (for the moment at least) in order to protect the innocent. Today was a good day besides what I just talked about. I scored in my soccer game, but it was amazingly lucky. I was able to get some stuff done I needed to, but I have still allowed this one thing get to my head. It seriously ruined my day. It would've been a good day if this hadn't happened, and now people are suggesting the extremes (which if things don't get better I might actually resort to) that could make things turn out really bad. If some people would think about what they do or care enough about what other people are going to feel about it, then none of this would've happened. Today would've been a wonderful day if it wasn't for this, but I've allowed this thing to get to my head and it's affecting the way that I act around and treat other people. Something must be done about my problem soon or else bad things may take place.

Sorry I can't really tell any of you what my problem is because it is extremely personal and something that none of you would really be able to understand right now. I truly am sorry and you would understand why I felt the way I do if you saw the other post, but I have to do my best to protect the innocent.

Short Term Goals

So I have come up with a few of short term goals recently. Here they are:

1. Make Jr. Class Vice Pres.- Most of you know that I ran in jr. high and was pretty sure I was going to make SBO Vice Pres. and it hit me pretty hard when I didn't so I really need to win this time.

2. Get back on to Josh's normal blog check list- I am off this yet Morganne and Ali (who haven't posted for longer than me) are still on there. For some reason that doesn't make sense to me.

3. Get at least a 3 on the AP Euro Test- I don't care about anything higher. To tell you the truth, with as little I have worked for that class I probably don't deserve a 3 even.

4. Jump in to the back of a moving truck w/o them noticing- Matt we shall succeed in this and our garbage can plan. (The problem is, how do we get back from where ever they take us?)

5. Kick some major soccer butt- I plan to nail at least one goal this season and hopefully lots more than that.

6. A major expansion of my iTunes library- so this probably means taking songs from Matt, Tanner, Josh, Sam, and anyone else willing to help me in my quest.

7. Figure out what happens in the next part of my story- this one is pretty self-explanatory.

Well those are the only ones I've thought of so far and, as I told you all yesterday, I haven't been getting very much sleep lately so I better head to bed.

Another Post! (and a better story)

I know most of you probably haven't read my last few posts. But I think that I need to keep this going for now. School, drama, and what not has been taking up my time, but the other day in English I started a story that I think I would like to keep going.

Greg stumbled out of his tent as the morning sun peeked out from behind the trees. He quickly scoped the area around him to make sure that nothing had disturbed camp and took the final shift of keeping guard. He slowly scanned the trees trying to sense any sign of danger. After seeing nothing he leaned back and slowly drifted into oblivion...

He was on the ship, the Ondre, which was pulling slowly out of San Francisco Bay. He looked back and saw his wife standing on the dock, crying, and waving her white handkerchief. He knew he was going to be gone for a while, but promised he would be back as soon as he could. The ship departed and he turned his back on his home, his wife, and his soon-to-be son. He was on his way to the coast of India where he was sent by his company to set up a branch... Now he was looking out over the rail with stomach wrenching and his hands gripping the bar as the ship fought against a storm. Next thing he knew the siren went off and the crew was yelling abandon ship. The passengers surged to the life boats and Greg was one of the last people to get in before the ship went under the water. He rowed with the others until they finally found a small piece of land where they landed and made camp...

An eerie screeching noise woke him up from his dream. He looked around him. He was still on the same island that he his lifeboat had come across two years ago. He still had many of the passengers with him, but a few were gone. Most of it happened that first night on the island when they were attacked...