Tuesday, April 21, 2009
4/21/2009: Band
So due to the WASL schedule the order and times of all the class are messed up, so unfortunately the band teacher couldn't make it. I had talked to him and that morning and it was decided that I would run things. Doing basic directing things such as the hand motions and reading a full score is easy for me. I can also identify various mistakes and make necessary corrections. In the back people got into fights and pushed each other over. The percussion was playing snares with their hands and really loud at that. Some sections had people who didnt take their instruments out. Bottom line, as fun as directing is it was really irritating.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Monday, April 13, 2009
4/13/2009: Blow gun
Yet another picture, you can see the laser pointer/indoor sight:

Here you can see the scope and the hole where you stick the dart and blow:

Just a pic of the entire gun:

So during break Aidan and I got bored so we took nerf darts and PVC pipe and lauched darts at each other. They hurt. A little later today I got bored so I decided to trick out my blow gun. I added a scope, a stand, and a laser sight.
Here you can see the scope and the hole where you stick the dart and blow:
Just a pic of the entire gun:
So during break Aidan and I got bored so we took nerf darts and PVC pipe and lauched darts at each other. They hurt. A little later today I got bored so I decided to trick out my blow gun. I added a scope, a stand, and a laser sight.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
4/12/2009: Trumpet
Today I got to play my trumpet in church. Since it was Easter Sunday the brass played. It was really fun because the music was easy. The only difficult part was that the beginning entrance was spaced out. The tuba would come in then the trombone, etc. each a beat or two after the other one. Since it was a small brass ensemble, each instrument had it's own part. It was really cool since each of us got to play our own part, and together it sounded really nice. I also got to play on the trap set for a little, that's always fun. I taught my little sister a bit too.
Friday, April 10, 2009
4/10/2009: Trumpet
So today I woke up and after updating my facebook i checked my school email. I had emailed my band teacher because I was playing my trumpet on Easter Sunday at church. I was just asking for a little last minute advice"
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CONGRATULATIONS!
First, pray to God that you will be calm enough to play for Him at the best of your ability.
Second, play your part for your family. If you can play for them as a solo, you can play for your church in a group!
Third, do you know your part really well?
Other than that, don't sweat the small stuff. We are all human and we all make mistakes. God knows your intent to play for him. He is happy that you're willing to step out on faith and play for Him. We do our best and he'll do the rest.
Let me know how it goes!
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Other than that I had lunch w/ my grandparents and...yea.
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CONGRATULATIONS!
First, pray to God that you will be calm enough to play for Him at the best of your ability.
Second, play your part for your family. If you can play for them as a solo, you can play for your church in a group!
Third, do you know your part really well?
Other than that, don't sweat the small stuff. We are all human and we all make mistakes. God knows your intent to play for him. He is happy that you're willing to step out on faith and play for Him. We do our best and he'll do the rest.
Let me know how it goes!
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Other than that I had lunch w/ my grandparents and...yea.
4/10/2009: Blow gun
So on Tuesday my mom was doing a karate class and my sister and I had to wait outside while she finished. Long story short, we got to go to the sensei's house with his kids. We jumped on their trampoline for a bit b4 my sister gave me a bloody nose. Aidan became addicted to the "tiki-men game" (pocket god on the ipod-touch). The next they my mom took us all to the flight museum. We got to play around for a bit but we also got to go in the sims. These flight sims go upside-down and roll over and everything.
Anyways after that my sister went to Cami's house while Aidan stayed here. While we were in the garage looking for something cool to blow-up or build I thought of an idea. I found a few PVC pipes. These were light-weight, plastic and about 2ft long and 1/2in in diameter. I also had a bunch of old nerf gun darts. With a nerf-gun, these darts can't go more than 15ft. Well, these blow pipes were a different story. If you stick a dart into the pipe, and then blow correctly, the dart could shoot further up than the eye could see. Getting hit from a distance of 15ft in the leg even hurts. So you could imagine the hours we spent outside hiding and launching these things at each other. after that we went back to my room and watched a bunch of NCIS bc Aidan isn't allowed to watch house. As to what chelsea and cami were doing, I don't have a clue.
Anyways after that my sister went to Cami's house while Aidan stayed here. While we were in the garage looking for something cool to blow-up or build I thought of an idea. I found a few PVC pipes. These were light-weight, plastic and about 2ft long and 1/2in in diameter. I also had a bunch of old nerf gun darts. With a nerf-gun, these darts can't go more than 15ft. Well, these blow pipes were a different story. If you stick a dart into the pipe, and then blow correctly, the dart could shoot further up than the eye could see. Getting hit from a distance of 15ft in the leg even hurts. So you could imagine the hours we spent outside hiding and launching these things at each other. after that we went back to my room and watched a bunch of NCIS bc Aidan isn't allowed to watch house. As to what chelsea and cami were doing, I don't have a clue.
Monday, April 6, 2009
4/5/2009: Bowling
There was way too much bowling today. Since it was the first Sunday of the month I had to get up early and go to PSTL. I couldn't get a decent line so I picked up the 6 the 10 or the 6, 10 on almost all my shots. My little sis bowled a 194. Anyways after that I went home for a while and made a little cash mowing the lawn. After that I went bowling with my dad and invited a few friends. Jaymi and I bowled 3 games, then Brittany and I bowled one before Stewart and his sister showed up, then we bowled one last game, and my dad managed to go through the entire time without singing poker face.
Friday, April 3, 2009
4/3/2009: Same Old, Same old
For the past week I have been ACCIDENTALY upseting my math teacher. She was getting an observation by the principal so she birbed us all with ice cream to behave. At first as I was walking into the room I said i forgot my packet (which is like rly important) then said april fools. Unfortuanatly I forgot my packet the next day but she didn't really care for some reason. Lasher usually has her own unique way of teaching new concepts but when she was being observed she taught totally different. I mentioned to Tim that i knew what he did wrong, and then she made me go up in front of the class and explain it. On my way back down I was like "u owe my double ice cream".
Anyways if you havent heard my earlier complaints our locker room used to be a pile of ply-wood. Now we have brand new locker rooms, (so I now have 4 lockers around the school). They are really nice but kinda creepy at the same time. There is a PE office with a window at one side. The lockers in the middle are only 3 feet tall so teachers can observe whats going on. I just find that a little creepy. Anyways they also added another gym and weight room, which is really nice too. I was talking about my old gymnastics experience, and someone didn't believe it so I had to do a round-off and a cartwheel. I also was gonna walk on my hands but slammed into a wall.
Anyways if you havent heard my earlier complaints our locker room used to be a pile of ply-wood. Now we have brand new locker rooms, (so I now have 4 lockers around the school). They are really nice but kinda creepy at the same time. There is a PE office with a window at one side. The lockers in the middle are only 3 feet tall so teachers can observe whats going on. I just find that a little creepy. Anyways they also added another gym and weight room, which is really nice too. I was talking about my old gymnastics experience, and someone didn't believe it so I had to do a round-off and a cartwheel. I also was gonna walk on my hands but slammed into a wall.
Friday, March 27, 2009
3/27/2009: Karate Demo #2
Today I did another karate demo at KLHS. There was a very small number of us, the gold team and 3 others including me. We put on a really neat show. We started with kata then it was just me, Kelsey, Melanie, and Megan doing another kata. The three adults that were there also did 3 different katas and all ended at the same time. I also got a chance to do a few kicks by myself. There still wasn't much of a crowd but, oh well.
I saw some friends there too, Ben, Mathew and Kenny from bowling. Luckily Jaymi or jeremy didn't show up so they couldn't make fun of me :).
Thursday, March 19, 2009
3/17/2009: Sick
I woke up with a major headache and a cough. To look anywhere I have to move my whole head. If I just move my eyes it hurts really bad. I guess I have a slight fever. I went into the bathroom to go brush my teeth and since I was a little disorianted I walked right into the door. Then my mom made me stay home. Least I can push off my math work for a little XP.
Friday, March 13, 2009
3/13/2009: Karate Demo
So today was the big demo day. I ran into one of my friends from my old elementary school there. I arrived like 3 hours b4 i had to perform so I got to run around and talk to a few people first. My little sister was in the first demo so she went an hour b4 I did.
When it came time for my performance (about 5min b4) i spotted frame (my social studies teacher) in the audience. I'm sitting here thinking "yeah that's just great". He's gonna make fun of my karate in front of the whole class now. My dad also accidentally mentioned a few things I was able to find out to my social studies teacher. I also got compliments on my Japanese while leading from his wife. Anyways in terms of the demo, I think we did pretty good. There was one or two people who got confused on what came next but w/e. When it was my turn to lead a kata this one other kid tried to take control but i took care of it. I was out in the front counting, and I think I got most all of the counting correct. Pics below courtesy of my dad.

You can kinda see my sister in the left side in the back...

Leading a kata...
When it came time for my performance (about 5min b4) i spotted frame (my social studies teacher) in the audience. I'm sitting here thinking "yeah that's just great". He's gonna make fun of my karate in front of the whole class now. My dad also accidentally mentioned a few things I was able to find out to my social studies teacher. I also got compliments on my Japanese while leading from his wife. Anyways in terms of the demo, I think we did pretty good. There was one or two people who got confused on what came next but w/e. When it was my turn to lead a kata this one other kid tried to take control but i took care of it. I was out in the front counting, and I think I got most all of the counting correct. Pics below courtesy of my dad.
You can kinda see my sister in the left side in the back...
Leading a kata...
Thursday, March 12, 2009
3/12/2009: More sneaky moves...
Today we were supposed to be presenting in Koult's class but i managed to talk him into waiting until monday or tuesday. We have all of our in school filming done. So now I'm all done with my filming.
For the past few days we have been training for a demo in karate. Today we had our final training class. I hope we can finally pull it together. Since just listing to music and planning a little demo I didnt get any exercise all week. It was really fun to do the mixed junior class afterwards. I was the third highest ranking students, which doesn't happen to often.
For the past few days we have been training for a demo in karate. Today we had our final training class. I hope we can finally pull it together. Since just listing to music and planning a little demo I didnt get any exercise all week. It was really fun to do the mixed junior class afterwards. I was the third highest ranking students, which doesn't happen to often.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
3/8/2009: Kangeiko
So just a heads up, this isn't going to make much sense unless you do karate but I will try to explain this the best i can.
Kangeiko is an outdoor annual training event that our karate center does every year. The sensei has managed to set-up a really interesting scenario. I won't go in depth explaining it but, a bunch of ppl go out on space ships to planet toyota (aka a state park). The groups then split into teams (pu pu platters, barbies, superdeluxe, spam-a-lot, global warming, and the killer penguins). I'm a member of the spam-a-lot team. My sis is on the platters, my dad is on the penguins, and my mom is on the barbies. These teams are starting to inhabit planet Toyota. Every year we compete for the bragging rights of being in control of planet Toyota.
Anyways we spend two days competing for these titles. We did an obstacle course where you have to run over a wall, crawl on your belly through the mud, etc. The barbies also planned an event that involves the entire team changing into barbie clothes. As you could imagine, if you have to stay outside while it is pouring down snow and hail, you get awfully cold and miserable. But, when you throw in a few things it gets really fun.
On the first night we started a fire and got bored and started to burn barbies in the campfire. This was done to be an intimidation factor saying that the BARBIES ARE GOING DOWN!! Anyways this got kinda nasty, the barbie melted and got stuck to the shovel. So the next night we took a barbie head and stuck it on a barbie leg. We melted it in the fire. Now megan and I are going to give it to our band teacher 2moro.
Another story. This kid who I'm not going to name thought it would be funny to "smoke" a barbie leg. He stuck the foot in his mouth and lit the other side with a cigarette lighter. He had smoked at least three legs by the second night. The next morning after I finally dragged myself out of bed and to the mess hall, the kid who had been smoking the barbies was missing. I asked someone where he was and I found out he was sick. Some people seemed to think it had something to do with inhaling 3 burning plastic barbie legs worth of smoke.
So it was rainy and we were TRYING to start a fire. Nothing seemed to work. The killer penguins happened to have an aerosol can in their cabin for some reason. On the back it is clearly stated: "FLAMMABLE, KEEP AWAY FROM HEAT OR FIRE". Certain ppl couldn't think of a better fire starter. So after about 5 minutes of holding a match in front of the can and spraying fire at each other we decided to light the fire. fortunately, a judge/high councilman happened to stop by and take the can away. Eventually we did get the fire started. We tossed around jokes about throwing the can into the fire and what it would do. Another member said they were going back to grab another can. It was really dark so no1 could rly see anything. Upon arriving, a cylindrical object was thrown into the fire. Everybody hit the deck and ran. After hearing laughter we all came back up to notice that a coffee cup was burning in the fire. What a prank. It's kinda sad rly, every1 knew and did what you are supposed to do when a bomb is about to go off.
The next night some1 brought a karaoke machine and some1 else brought some beer. My team's juniors stayed up till about 3 in the morning either sitting in the sweat lodge (a home-made sauna) or playing with the karaoke machine. The adults decided to have a few. They came back to the cabin a little goofy. One of them slid into their bunk while grabbing the upper bunk, hit their head and fell. Only thing was it was really hard for my team to participate in this morning's events with a partial hangover.
ALL PHOTOS BELOW ARE CREDITED TO PATTY SIMANEK OF BAREFOOT PHOTOGRAPHY
SUPERDELUXE:

MY DAD THE PENGUIN LEADER:

HAIL HIGH COUNCIL OF PLANET TOYOTA:

NO BEATING DOWN ON SPAM-A-LOT:

WE GET STYLE POINTS FOR THIS....RIGHT??:

BYE-BYE PENGUINS:

BARBIES UNITE!:

KANGEIKO 2009 FASHION SHOW:

PLANET TOYOTA POPULATION:

PEBBLES ASSISTING WITH THE PENGUIN GUTTING:
Kangeiko is an outdoor annual training event that our karate center does every year. The sensei has managed to set-up a really interesting scenario. I won't go in depth explaining it but, a bunch of ppl go out on space ships to planet toyota (aka a state park). The groups then split into teams (pu pu platters, barbies, superdeluxe, spam-a-lot, global warming, and the killer penguins). I'm a member of the spam-a-lot team. My sis is on the platters, my dad is on the penguins, and my mom is on the barbies. These teams are starting to inhabit planet Toyota. Every year we compete for the bragging rights of being in control of planet Toyota.
Anyways we spend two days competing for these titles. We did an obstacle course where you have to run over a wall, crawl on your belly through the mud, etc. The barbies also planned an event that involves the entire team changing into barbie clothes. As you could imagine, if you have to stay outside while it is pouring down snow and hail, you get awfully cold and miserable. But, when you throw in a few things it gets really fun.
On the first night we started a fire and got bored and started to burn barbies in the campfire. This was done to be an intimidation factor saying that the BARBIES ARE GOING DOWN!! Anyways this got kinda nasty, the barbie melted and got stuck to the shovel. So the next night we took a barbie head and stuck it on a barbie leg. We melted it in the fire. Now megan and I are going to give it to our band teacher 2moro.
Another story. This kid who I'm not going to name thought it would be funny to "smoke" a barbie leg. He stuck the foot in his mouth and lit the other side with a cigarette lighter. He had smoked at least three legs by the second night. The next morning after I finally dragged myself out of bed and to the mess hall, the kid who had been smoking the barbies was missing. I asked someone where he was and I found out he was sick. Some people seemed to think it had something to do with inhaling 3 burning plastic barbie legs worth of smoke.
So it was rainy and we were TRYING to start a fire. Nothing seemed to work. The killer penguins happened to have an aerosol can in their cabin for some reason. On the back it is clearly stated: "FLAMMABLE, KEEP AWAY FROM HEAT OR FIRE". Certain ppl couldn't think of a better fire starter. So after about 5 minutes of holding a match in front of the can and spraying fire at each other we decided to light the fire. fortunately, a judge/high councilman happened to stop by and take the can away. Eventually we did get the fire started. We tossed around jokes about throwing the can into the fire and what it would do. Another member said they were going back to grab another can. It was really dark so no1 could rly see anything. Upon arriving, a cylindrical object was thrown into the fire. Everybody hit the deck and ran. After hearing laughter we all came back up to notice that a coffee cup was burning in the fire. What a prank. It's kinda sad rly, every1 knew and did what you are supposed to do when a bomb is about to go off.
The next night some1 brought a karaoke machine and some1 else brought some beer. My team's juniors stayed up till about 3 in the morning either sitting in the sweat lodge (a home-made sauna) or playing with the karaoke machine. The adults decided to have a few. They came back to the cabin a little goofy. One of them slid into their bunk while grabbing the upper bunk, hit their head and fell. Only thing was it was really hard for my team to participate in this morning's events with a partial hangover.
ALL PHOTOS BELOW ARE CREDITED TO PATTY SIMANEK OF BAREFOOT PHOTOGRAPHY
SUPERDELUXE:

MY DAD THE PENGUIN LEADER:

HAIL HIGH COUNCIL OF PLANET TOYOTA:

NO BEATING DOWN ON SPAM-A-LOT:

WE GET STYLE POINTS FOR THIS....RIGHT??:

BYE-BYE PENGUINS:

BARBIES UNITE!:

KANGEIKO 2009 FASHION SHOW:

PLANET TOYOTA POPULATION:

PEBBLES ASSISTING WITH THE PENGUIN GUTTING:
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
3/3/2009: Close one
So yesterday frame gave us an assignment that was a vocabulary thing for a chapter. About 2 weeks back we did one chapter, but our groups got re-arranged. Lucky for me I did chapter 1, both times. So this morning when I'm double checking on my computer to see if i still have the assignment, I realized that it was labeled chapter 2. I could have swore that i did chapter one. But I was too stupid to open the actual word document. The excuse "oh i did the wrong one" doesn't flow too well in frame's class. So I was going through the book to see if I could salvage something out of my previous work. As I was flipping through pages, I noticed that a large amount of the chapter 1 words were in my assignment. When I investigated further I noticed that I had done the first chapter instead by mistake. I spent the whole day worrying over a stupid typo!! I know it's funny!
Saturday, February 28, 2009
2/28/09: Bowling!
As per the usual saturday schedule we get up early and go bowling at 9:30. I shot 181, 176, 204 (clean). If you do the math the average comes somewhere around 187. That aside, I'm stuck at the bowling alley still because my dad is doing a 9-pin. since the alley had no wifi I'm in the corner of the restruant stealing wifi from the hotel accross the street. My friends have just learned my reuptation for computer hacking. Cuz yesterday my sister forgot her ubuntu computer password and I reset it. I restarted her computer and booted it in the shell command thingy. Blah blah geek talk blah blah....her pw is reset. A few things happened during the tournement, but i'll let stalkermom figure those out.
Friday, February 27, 2009
2/27/09: School #3
Ok so here's the big deal. today i was talking about how i talk about my teachers in this blog. Well....i was talking about how I vent about my teachers on this blog. long story short, lasher found my blog. So any weird comments that show up are not my fault (consider this my warning lasher). So today we kinda had 9 classes. The norm 7 and then an extra 2. Weboggle and infectious disease.
Our band teacher was still gone so things are so chaotic, he is gonna kill us when he gets back. Yea so kolding if u r reading this... plz forgive us!!
Our band teacher was still gone so things are so chaotic, he is gonna kill us when he gets back. Yea so kolding if u r reading this... plz forgive us!!
Thursday, February 26, 2009
2/26/09: School #2
I AM TIRED OF STALKERMOM!!! Beatriz came up with the genius idea to accidentally email stalkermom. Then told Lasher so i now have to deal w/ comments all day long. Oh and lasher if u are reading this plz don't turn into stalkerteacher.
At karate I did the usual two classes, one junior one adult. The adult class was so much fun!! We did easy stuff like punching mini-mitts. Lol you have to say this combo its like "jab, cross, upper, upper, hook, cross, jab, cross, kick, cross" It is rly hard to say 10 times in a row. I feel kinda bad for Nikki cuz i screwed up the talking like every time. After that we played hockey with the water noodles and those short mini-cones. We were playing based on kangiko teams. YEA GO SPAMALOT!!. Just image like 10 adults with noodles and hockey pucks being hit everywhere. Oh ad me in its FUN!!
Ok this is so funny. our band teacher is gone for a family emergency. We had a sub from the school, but he didn't know squat about band. So this kid named anson he had a habit of coming up from the percussion section and kneeling right between juli and I. He is rly funny. Like running around screaming with a mouse pad on his head while beat boxing funny. So today he accidentally got caught. cuz he push a kid into a stand. anyways, the sub said "hey get back to your spot" he walked back to the percussion section. The sub didn't realize that he was a percussion player so he made him sit in the wind section. Every1 was staring at them while the teacher was asking where his instrument was. He replied "i don't have one." "well....then why are you in this class" "cuz im special." "OK YOU ARE ABOUT 2 SECONDS AWAY FROM AN AFTER SCHOOL DETENTION!!" "i said it was cuz im special" (ok by now everyone in the band is staring and trying to wipe the smiles off their faces and stop giggling b4 the sub sees). "OK fine!! what's your name??" "i don't know?" "YOU DON'T KNOW YOUR OWN NAME?!?!" "oh my bad, its anson". more arguing followed and remarkably he escaped an ASD. Today in our 7th period class (which was shortened due to the weather) we decided to have some fun. It was a video competition meaning cameras were involved. The audio is a little bad but the video is posted below (ya there kinda trying to beat box. Nice job on their part...
At karate I did the usual two classes, one junior one adult. The adult class was so much fun!! We did easy stuff like punching mini-mitts. Lol you have to say this combo its like "jab, cross, upper, upper, hook, cross, jab, cross, kick, cross" It is rly hard to say 10 times in a row. I feel kinda bad for Nikki cuz i screwed up the talking like every time. After that we played hockey with the water noodles and those short mini-cones. We were playing based on kangiko teams. YEA GO SPAMALOT!!. Just image like 10 adults with noodles and hockey pucks being hit everywhere. Oh ad me in its FUN!!
Ok this is so funny. our band teacher is gone for a family emergency. We had a sub from the school, but he didn't know squat about band. So this kid named anson he had a habit of coming up from the percussion section and kneeling right between juli and I. He is rly funny. Like running around screaming with a mouse pad on his head while beat boxing funny. So today he accidentally got caught. cuz he push a kid into a stand. anyways, the sub said "hey get back to your spot" he walked back to the percussion section. The sub didn't realize that he was a percussion player so he made him sit in the wind section. Every1 was staring at them while the teacher was asking where his instrument was. He replied "i don't have one." "well....then why are you in this class" "cuz im special." "OK YOU ARE ABOUT 2 SECONDS AWAY FROM AN AFTER SCHOOL DETENTION!!" "i said it was cuz im special" (ok by now everyone in the band is staring and trying to wipe the smiles off their faces and stop giggling b4 the sub sees). "OK fine!! what's your name??" "i don't know?" "YOU DON'T KNOW YOUR OWN NAME?!?!" "oh my bad, its anson". more arguing followed and remarkably he escaped an ASD. Today in our 7th period class (which was shortened due to the weather) we decided to have some fun. It was a video competition meaning cameras were involved. The audio is a little bad but the video is posted below (ya there kinda trying to beat box. Nice job on their part...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
2/25/09: School
I haven't made too many posts recently. School is back from break and nothing funny or interesting had happened. No offence to my teachers if you for some reason googled my name and found my blog.
Anyways today was like any other school day. I AM SICK OF THINK ALONGS!! (no offence mr. frame). So in 7th period, its my job to take care and keep track of the cameras for filming. I went to the room where they are supposed to be and there was a sub and no one had a clue where they were. I was told to go to the library, then to this room then that room. I eventually went to go find the Visfest supervisor. I went to her room opened the door and asked the students if she was there. Megan like jumped out of her chair and pointed at me and yelled "HEY I KNOW THAT KID!... His name is Alex!" I was so tempted to say no...it's mark or something like that but I didn't. So anyways I have the whole class kinda staring at me and then yea...cuz markayla was too scared to talk. It's not like the teacher is gonna tear her head off (well...u never know...). Did I talk about how sara scammed lasher into an extra $20 for scout cookies?? Then she stole the camera sleves, which were later returned at a budget meeting later that night AFTER i got in trouble for losing them.
Anyways today was like any other school day. I AM SICK OF THINK ALONGS!! (no offence mr. frame). So in 7th period, its my job to take care and keep track of the cameras for filming. I went to the room where they are supposed to be and there was a sub and no one had a clue where they were. I was told to go to the library, then to this room then that room. I eventually went to go find the Visfest supervisor. I went to her room opened the door and asked the students if she was there. Megan like jumped out of her chair and pointed at me and yelled "HEY I KNOW THAT KID!... His name is Alex!" I was so tempted to say no...it's mark or something like that but I didn't. So anyways I have the whole class kinda staring at me and then yea...cuz markayla was too scared to talk. It's not like the teacher is gonna tear her head off (well...u never know...). Did I talk about how sara scammed lasher into an extra $20 for scout cookies?? Then she stole the camera sleves, which were later returned at a budget meeting later that night AFTER i got in trouble for losing them.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
2/21/09: Bowling (yes, again)
On friday I went bowling with my family but ended up running into a bunch of people from my saturday morning league. I asked why they were all there and they said they were bowling in advance because there was a high-school state tournement 2moro. So this morning when I was bowling there was almost nobody there. Mike and I had the pair of lanes to ourselves so we bowled 4 games and played lowball. I shot 147, 182, 216. If you add that all up i think it comes out to a little over 180avg. My sister has her superdeluxe kangiko meeting so I get to stay home and not deal w/ her.
My dad decided to bring home some help with his giant penguin thing. It's kinda cool, pics are below.


My dad decided to bring home some help with his giant penguin thing. It's kinda cool, pics are below.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
2/19/09: Veggie-tales
OK so nothing special today. We had dinner with my grandparents since it was my other grandma's bday. We went to Duke's. Stalker mom insisted on me eating a lot of chowder and bread b4 the main meal even came, and by the time it did, i could barely finish a french fry. so then we went to jamba juice and i was saying how i could sure use a peachy thing. she forgot that she stuffed me full of food at duke's so I wasn't rly hungry and i told her. She ignored me then about 30seconds l8r she made her order and then said, hey alex, what do you want?. I said i didn't want anything cuz i ate a lot at duke's. So we were arguing for a few seconds until she decided to back off. I went with my mom back to the car to go get my grandma's bday present she asked me if it was cuz i thought server was cute. Apparently, stalkermom doesn't know me at all. If i thought that, i would've ordered something, even if I wasn't gonna eat it. SO HA! IN YO FACE STALKERMOM
and now that we are home, stalkermom and non-stalker dad are watching veggie-tales and it is driving me crazy!! And dad, i know u get updates on your ipod touch --cough--2-G---cough-- whenever i make a post so plz, plz turn the TV off!!
and now that we are home, stalkermom and non-stalker dad are watching veggie-tales and it is driving me crazy!! And dad, i know u get updates on your ipod touch --cough--2-G---cough-- whenever i make a post so plz, plz turn the TV off!!
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
2/18/09: Band
So today was almost my grandma's bday so my mom, sister and I down to visit her. While we were at her house my mom and grandma were cooking, so the two of us were left alone to entertain each other. I locked myself in a room so I wouldn't have to deal with her constant nagging. She decided to spy on me from under the door. I ended up placing pillows in front of it to stop her spying.
Now for the funny part. My little sister (just like stalker mom) has this thing where I'm not allowed to seperate my personal life and my family life. For some crazy reason she decided to email my band teacher. The contents of the message are as follows. (yes i took a few names out)
Now for the funny part. My little sister (just like stalker mom) has this thing where I'm not allowed to seperate my personal life and my family life. For some crazy reason she decided to email my band teacher. The contents of the message are as follows. (yes i took a few names out)
I totally understand! I just told her the truth! :-)
I hope you are having a great vacation.
Mr. K
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From: D, Alex (STUDENT)
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 9:58 PM
To: Kolding
Subject: Chelsea
Hey I heard that my little sister emailed you about me. Thanks for not saying anything too embarrassing. Last thing I need is her running around and saying "oh guess what Alex's band teacher said!!"
¸.•*¨ ¨`*•.¸.•*´¨Alex¨`*•.¸.•*´¨ ¨*•.¸
---Forwarded Message---
Hi Chelsea,
Alex is doing a fine job of playing his trumpet. As you probably he is in jazz band and 7th grade band. His attitude is great and the strength of his playing has greatly improved. It's a pleasure to have him in band. What grade are you?
Mr. Kolding
________________________________________
From: Chelsea D [karategirlchelsea@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 8:52 PM
To: Kolding
Subject: Alex D
Hello. My name is Chelsea. I believe Alex is in your band class. I just wanted to check how he is doing in band. I'm his sister. So if you could email back I just wanted to see how he is playing his trumpet lately. Please email back Mr. Kolding.
-Chelsea D.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
2/17/09: Karate
OK so at karate we have this spring outdoor training thing with the adults, and my dad is the leader of the penguin team. Each different team had to design an event. See we compete for points and we are all on different teams. There is like a rivalry between all of us. Anyways my dad has 8 of these giant penguins. There is little token things inside them. The object is to keep punching and kicking them until you get the small prize on the inside out. As you can see by the pictures below these things are kinda disturbing. Depending on where you strike it, it would do various things ranging from playing a song to a whoope cusion in the back. Be glad...i gotta live with 8 of em.
Monday, February 16, 2009
2/16/09: KPD Youth Board
My youth board application finally arrived. I went to this youth wellness conference called game of life a little while back. After this group of kids and the chief of police made me sing barbie girl in front of like a 100 people, i just had to join it. It's a group of middle and high school students who help design and plan the conference. Its right next to my school so i can just walk over afterwards and go to the meetings. I just have to get a few personal recommendations first, and no one would have anything bad to say about me.... As there is no school I am bored to tears, and not doing anything exciting. The sleeping in aint too bad though XP. I had to spend the whole day with stalkermom and my little sis. at least she was on sedatives. This is my sister if u want to see her high on sugar alone w/ a camera.
u think that's crazy?!?! check out her blog. CLICK HERE FOR KARATEGIRLCHELSEA'S BLOG
u think that's crazy?!?! check out her blog. CLICK HERE FOR KARATEGIRLCHELSEA'S BLOG
Sunday, February 15, 2009
2/15/09: Bowling Day!
Today my sister and i bowled a KOH. I shot 174, 195, 171 for a series of 538 (697hdcp). After that my dad went to his tourney, which was a whole lot more fun than mine. Earlier in the day we had breakfast. My little sister had a bunch of pancakes which had enough sugar to be roughly equal to 3 tons of cotton candy. While we were bowling, the sugar was making its way through her system. Unfortunately by the time we were in the car to go to my dad's bowling tourney, her hyperness hit it's climax. So after barely surviving the hypoglycemic torture and the flying sandwiches in the car we arrived at the new alley. My dad was busy bowling, so Jaymi and I had 3 hrs, $20 and an empty arcade, oh and the job of watching my little sis. Did I mention the part where she was sugar high? We started off by going into the arcade and spent about 5 minutes trying to figure out why none of the machines worked, until Jaymi spotted a token machine in the far corner. After stuffing my our pockets with enough tokens to make my sister's pants fall down, we were ready to play. We spent hour after hour racing each other on those games and even more time watching each other scream and hit the pinball machine. My little sister was starting to rapidly lose control so we asked my dad for the car keys so we could lock her in. She was smart enough to realize that if the car is locked from the outside, and you try to unlock it, the alarm goes off. Each time I would lock the door and start walking the car would somehow start to honk. To solve the problem, jaymi and I had to stay in the car with her. My dad made it very clear that the car was not to be turned on, but I don't think Jaymi understood (i sat in the driver's seat for a reason). Since the new prius has a proximity key, there is a giant button on the dash that says POWER. Jaymi would press it, and the car would start running. I had to be sure to turn it off again b4 my dad came outside (he reads my blog...whoops). So, now I'm exhasted, and chelsea is quiet cuz she got yelled at by jaymi for throwing a sandwich wrapper in her face. Right on time, my dad finished. Fortunately for the ride home, my sister started her sugar crash.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
2/14/09: Drummer Boy!!
OMG!! u ppl will never guess what stalker mom did. She wanted 2 figure out who gave me a crush, but i shreded 3 of the forms, she tried to take them out and put them all together again. Thing is, the ones i didn't want her to find, are safe in my school locker.
Anyways...Tonight was so fun! The youth were hosting a valentine's dinner for all the church members in an effort to earn the money for a mission trip. After we made and served dinner to all the guests we had to keep them entertained. Some of us played the piano and 2 of the girls did a ballet peformance. Logan, Alan, Michelle and I all put on a comedy skit. It was about a cruise news brodcaster and every few seconds there would be a really corny joke (like so corny it was actually funny). I was on the drums, doing the rim knock (BOOM CRASH!!) every time some1 said something funny (lol i think i did that 39 times...i lost track). I will get it soon but I will post the video of our peformance when i get a copy. IT'S HILARIOUS!!
Anyways...Tonight was so fun! The youth were hosting a valentine's dinner for all the church members in an effort to earn the money for a mission trip. After we made and served dinner to all the guests we had to keep them entertained. Some of us played the piano and 2 of the girls did a ballet peformance. Logan, Alan, Michelle and I all put on a comedy skit. It was about a cruise news brodcaster and every few seconds there would be a really corny joke (like so corny it was actually funny). I was on the drums, doing the rim knock (BOOM CRASH!!) every time some1 said something funny (lol i think i did that 39 times...i lost track). I will get it soon but I will post the video of our peformance when i get a copy. IT'S HILARIOUS!!
2/14/09: Tech Violation
Ok, so at school on our laptops there are a bunch of rules that we have to follow, and if you don't you get a 3 day tech suspension and an ASD. Basic things like no emailing during class and especially no downloading software without teacher instruction. Some students found out that if one person downloads something and saves it to a shared location, all the other students can play it without getting caught downloading it. Well, as smart as they were, quite a few major mistakes were made.
Teachers check their shared folder regularly for assignments and stuff like that so it's awfully hard to hide the software files for a wargame. Since students are disabled from creating hidden folder they need to find other alternatives. In this case the named the folder "Launch Internet Explorer" and changed the default icon to the blue IE "e" icon. When the teachers look through their folders they see this and think its just a short cut. The IT staff are a little smarter. They noticed a shortcut and found out it was a folder. So, by now all of the mario kart and super smash bros and the wargame have been found and deleted. Unfortunately the logs that show which students opened what cannot be used. Here's why: Someone told me to open a teachers shared folder. I thought "why not" it might be something funny. They guided me into the folder with all the games in it, at which point I'm like, hey get away from my computer, my parents will kill me if i get a tech violation. On the logs it would show that I opened the folder, but has no way to prove if I played the game or not. I realized that if they decided to use those logs I would be in trouble. So, I needed to find something that would prove my innocence. I went snooping around, and found out that the file size was only 216MB, which is way to small for the games I saw everyone playing. I realized that the game must have used an internet connection, and I was right. I told someone who played the game to check their history and a million different games came up. Since I never launched the game my history will be clear and prove that I never launched the game. The other option is that I played all the games and just deleted them out of the history but I would never do that XP
Teachers check their shared folder regularly for assignments and stuff like that so it's awfully hard to hide the software files for a wargame. Since students are disabled from creating hidden folder they need to find other alternatives. In this case the named the folder "Launch Internet Explorer" and changed the default icon to the blue IE "e" icon. When the teachers look through their folders they see this and think its just a short cut. The IT staff are a little smarter. They noticed a shortcut and found out it was a folder. So, by now all of the mario kart and super smash bros and the wargame have been found and deleted. Unfortunately the logs that show which students opened what cannot be used. Here's why: Someone told me to open a teachers shared folder. I thought "why not" it might be something funny. They guided me into the folder with all the games in it, at which point I'm like, hey get away from my computer, my parents will kill me if i get a tech violation. On the logs it would show that I opened the folder, but has no way to prove if I played the game or not. I realized that if they decided to use those logs I would be in trouble. So, I needed to find something that would prove my innocence. I went snooping around, and found out that the file size was only 216MB, which is way to small for the games I saw everyone playing. I realized that the game must have used an internet connection, and I was right. I told someone who played the game to check their history and a million different games came up. Since I never launched the game my history will be clear and prove that I never launched the game. The other option is that I played all the games and just deleted them out of the history but I would never do that XP
2/14/09: Bowling
As part of my normal saturday schedule, I go bowling in the morning with my friends. We started by playing a game called lo-ball. The point is to get as few pins as possible, a gutter in the 1st shot is equal to a strike (so u don't win with a score of 0 cuz u always threw it in the gutter). I shot 99 and beat Franny (I beat the coach 2 but that doesn't matter XP). Anyways my little sister who avg is maybe 110 shot a 188. OH yeah!! For some odd reason i won only 1 out of 5 points. AND YET the person who beat me got mad. After some screaming and yelling...."ALEX YOU SUCK WHAT THE **** IS WRONG WITH YOU"... went to ...."OH SRY I GOT MAD!! HAPPY V-DAY!". Anyways l8r today at around 4 I gotta go help the church youth w/ the EVER SO FAMOUS V-DAY DINNER!!!
2/13/09: Crush Soda
Today at school every1 bought crushes (da soda stupid) for each other. It was my super smart idea 2 drink 3 cans during 7th period so I wasnt feeling 2 good l8r on in the day. I didnt consider it at the time but, i had 2 hrs of karate that night. Hard physical training and a stomach full of soda don't mix very well. Oh, did i mention i had to shred and burn the papers to stop Stalker Mom! from tracking down my friends...
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