8 Movies in 2 days

Hey everyone. You know that rush you get when you find a coupon that expires today so you run out to the store to use it? Well I don't blame you. It's hard on the frugal and can leave you with a situation that's less than pleasant. Well yesterday was the last day to use the "free rentals for A's" at Family Video. Well being the good student I am, I got 5 free rentals, and my brother had 2 free rentals from his report card. For those of you who are bad at math, that's 7 rentals. And for those of you who are paying attention, that's one less than the title. The missing movie comes from watching one at the Movie Theater. Tuesdays are free popcorn days and I wrote this on a Tuesday.
DVDs

Jeff Dunham Arguing with Myself
Green Hornet
True Grit

Inception
Wonder Woman
Ponyo
Social Network

theaters
Cars 2

Based on the linked titles for DVD you might be able to guess which ones were good and which were bad. For those lame-o's who don't follow me since I signed up for Amazon associates, I don't link to bad things, only good.

Jeff Dunham was funny as usual. It was edgier than spark of insanity. I prefer spark but both are incredibly funny.

Green Hornet was incredibly funny. I was not expecting it to be so funny. It's a super hero movie but the writing was so awful, it was hilarious.

True Grit sucked. It was to slow and hard to follow. It could have been so better, but no.

Inception was good but incredibly weird. If you don't pay attention, you will be lost.

Wonder Woman was amazing. It was not only a great action DC super hero movie, but also a commentary on sexism and such.

Ponyo was Miazaki. He's awesome and Disney did a great job with the dub. The only thing you can ever complain about with the Disney dub is that they use voice actors from their cartoons and you will sit there for half the movie wondering "where have I heard that voice before?"

The social network was the worst movie ever. I have no idea how it got an Oscar. I couldn't finish it because it was so boring and went absolutely no where.

Cars 2 was great. I loved the first one and this was way more. It involved so many more characters, and this time it focused on Mater instead of Lightning McQueen. But the 3d wasn't necessary. Some scenes looked good and pixar tried there best, but go see it in 2d and you won't miss anything.

Full reviews coming soon.
I wanted to return the DVDs at midnight, but wasn't and returned at about 10:30.

My Texas vacation

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Texas vacation day one
Hey everyone. Today marks day 1 of my Texas vacation with my Texas relatives. We flew on a plane and stuff. I had to empty my backpack of fun. I took all my hand helds out and narrowed it down to my dsixl, psp, and ds classic, and respective charges and games. But I neglected to fully charge them, so with the terminal outlet ports, I had my phone, dsixl, psp, and ds classic all charging on the same terminal. Dad jokingly said the lights dimmed as I plugged in. Here's a picture.

Well then my aunt came and picked us up at the air port once we arrived. We're staying at there house. They have a pool. And again I'm writing this on my dsixl and sending to my email. I might be able to get to a computer, but they're mac, and I refuse to use apple. Today was kind of boring, but it'll get better.
 
Texas day 2, water park
Hey there. Day 2 on my Texas vacation. Today we went to a water park called the Schlitterbahn, pronounced shlit-ter-bon. It gets the name from German. But first I need to talk about the ride here.
I think I mentioned in the last blog that my aunt is a PC to mac convert. If I didn't, she is. I'm a hardened anti-apple, and she is a pushy apple cult member. It was quite an interesting ride with our bickering. We're comparable to a hardened democrat and republican arguing over political issues. It's actually kind of funny. Here are some texts I sent to my best friend on the car ride up.

"My aunt was trying to convert my mom by saying crap about how 'steve jobs is an innovator.' I jump in yelling 'DON'T LISTEN MOM! OUR FRIEND IS BILL! OUR FRIEND IS BILL!'"

"My aunt and I are arguing over her iPhone. Just told her windows phone/android can do any of that. And told her windows can get xbox live and iPhone can't. i won. score one for Microsoft/google"

We're something. Now onto the stops.

We went to this gas station called Buc-ees. For those of you who never went to one, you have missed out. It has incredibly nice bathrooms on any level. Millionaire estates are probably the only cleaner bathrooms on the market. I would show pictures, but not sure if bathroom pics are legal. They have this impressive food counter. That I can take a picture of. Here it is.

Then there was the wide selection of jerky. Here you go.

Here is me with Bucky.

More impressive pics up on my myspace.
Now for water park. It's a nice place. I rode this river ride called "the Congo." It went all the way through the park. I got stuck in certain parts because of the poor current. More to come tomorrow.
 
Texas day 3
Hey world, day 3 in the lone star state and day 2 at the schlitterbahn. Before I get into my awesome day, let me say I'm quite close to quite literally telling my aunt to f*** off with the apple crap. If she doesn't, I will blow up and drop an f bomb every other word. Oh well, on to fun stuff.

There's this racing slide that if done properly, you will go flying. It's fun getting air. There's this tower with 3 different slides. One that is a coaster like ride, one is a big family raft slide, and one that is a lone tube. The coaster was really fun, and so were the others. Then there was this lazy river that isn't lazy at all, and by that I mean it moves really fast, and has this wave that travels the whole river. It's called the torrent river, and I made a joke about "so where's my free copyrighted material." Torrent joke, lol. Then there was this artificial surfing wave. I'm not great by any means, but I'm novice level probably. I don't just go in and fall out. I will go in and do some belly gliding. I tried to do some tricks, but wiped out. Once almost losing my trunks. Then there's this lazy river that has it's entrance powered by the water from the wave. It's hard to describe, so I'll jut say it's awesome.

Now there's the other part of the park that is focused on river rides. It's basically tubing down rivers but they're artificial rivers and artificial falls. There was this one called the Congo and it basically it basically crosses the entire park. I got stuck many times and had to get out to move. Fun time.
Unfortunately they didn't have the souvenir dip n dots cups this time. My family still uses that souvenir cup bowl thing. But at least I got 5 admission bands from this. I love admission bands. When I get back I'll take a picture.

Well that's it for now. Later.
 
Day 4, I think
I'm starting to lose track of the days as you can tell. Today wasn't very interesting. We came back from the water park. We packed up and I'm a lobster. I am burned like crazy. Wow I hurt. I applied aloe and it helps. On the car ride home I watched hellboy and ghost rider on my psp. I have them on umd and they're both good movies.

We unpacked and applied more aloe. I then watched TV until time to pick up the dog from the animal resort. And I'm not glorifying the kennel by any means. Even the most outspoken PETA advocate would approve of it. She has her own large room, with a door to an outside patio area, super well fed (she put on weight last time), and has this wide open space to run around once a day with all the other dogs. They also have these special rooms for old, fragile, or aggressive animals that has a TV and comfy bed. There is also this bird in the lobby that'll whistle and is fun to whistle back at. I think it likes me because of the "ohhh hotie" whistle it kept giving me after we whistled some. Darkenedoptimist look out.

And now for the play by play of the format war between my aunt and I. She is weak in her apple attack after my iron clad defence. But I owe some of my power to the spirit lifting articles about why apple sucks. I need my Microsoft fix after being in this house of apple, and searching why apple sucks on Bing using my Nintendo dsi browser really helped. Thanks mac-sucks.com for the spirit lifter. My aunt I think doesn't realize that all she does on her icrap she can do just as easily, and I believe better, on a PC or android. She makes these photo slide shows on her mac and says she can make a DVD or put on YouTube. But what she does she could easily do with Microsoft photo story, and photo story is a free download. She also gloats about the GPS locator and netflix on her iPhone and you can easily do that with an android smart phone. I've made it a point to point that out. Maybe I should be nicer, but her time has come. I'm winning. Later.

 

from my counts day 5 I'm pretty sure
As you can tell by my title, I have almost forgotten what day of the trip it is. This time it isn't because of tiredness, it's because of fun. And man was today fun.

I wake up today afraid that my micro SD card for my phone is missing because of a dream I had where we were copying data off others in the family phone onto my card because I'm the only one that bought an SD card. We have done this before but unlike last time, we lost the card somehow in the dream. I wake up slightly panicked because I have data on that card and I saved up many swagbucks for it. I get my phone and it's in the slot on the phone where it should be. Dreams are weird like that.

Well today we went to the Main Event Fun Place and The Salt Lick Barbecue, the place was on man vs food. The main event is comparable to Dave and Busters or CJ Barrymore's. It has arcade games that use game cards that store money and ticket credit things. But not only that, but also billiards (didn't say pool to prevent confusion), bowling, mini golf, rock climbing, and laser tag. They had this promotion going on where for $15, I could have unlimited rock climbing, mini golf, laser tag, billiards, and bowling (but I'd have needed to pay to rent shoes, so didn't do that.) I had fun rock climbing, even though I'm kind of weak in the upper body strength. I got up to the top about 4 times, and maybe halfway up the other times. I played mini golf twice, the first time being serious with scoring 8 over par, and the second time just being a goof off round (mainly because I was pressed for time second round). Billiards was good, even though I just played myself. Laser tag was really fun. This one was different then other types I've played. For starters we had limited rounds and lives. Once we ran out of either, we had to go back to home base and and get more. It got annoying, but added strategy to the game. And speaking of home base, we were on teams and had to shoot at the opponents base.I got highest score in base tagging on my team and 3rd in that overall. I got 2nd on my team and 4rt all together. There were 28 people all together and 14 people on a team. That's pretty good, even if I kind of camped. It was a multi-level play area, and no one was on the second level, and easy to shoot at the base target. Then shoot those that did the same from the first floor. Hurray for camping.

After the main event we went to the salt lick. It was amazingly good. I had amazing brisket and ribs. So much meat. And since we did family style, it was all you can eat. I ate a lot. And for desert, I had a burnt end. It's the end of the brisket that is almost nothing but pure flavor. Here's a picture of me eating it and one in all it's glory.

The salt lick is one of the few places in America with an open pit, according to man vs food. I actually knew about the burnt end due to him. Here's a picture of the open pit.

It's amazing. If you're ever in Austin Texas and love barbecue, I highly recommend the salt lick. And if you're bold enough, ask for a burnt end neer the end of you're meal. Best taste sensation ever.

Well that's it for today. According to my parents there isn't much of a plan for the next few days. Expect some apple arguments. Later.
 
probably day 6
OK this is the 3rd time I've tried to write this blog. Basically I went to church, played jenga, and played monopoly. They're Methodist and I'm catholic. I felt out of place. Then I played monopoly, and lost. I would go on but I don't want to lose the signal again and have to start over. Bye.

AFTER THOUGH EDIT: I think because it was an apple wireless router or the airwaves were congested with icrap that's why I wasn't able to fully connect.
day 7 from my bad count
Day 7 I think. Today was a trip to walmart, Costco, and a really great barbecue place. It was also the day where I played the classic xbox in the futon room. My relatives have this room with a futon, a TV, a classic xbox, and the only VCR in there house. I typically will be only time that TV gets used. Poor TV, and poor dell sitting in there garage. Can't remember if I mentioned the sad dell, so here it is now.

OK, so now onto the trip things. I went to walmart with my mom, dad, and aunt. I looked at the electronics like normal. Then because I'm in Texas and on a vacation, I decided to get my girlfriend a souvenir. It's a snow globe with Texas stuff. I can tell you this even though she follows my blog. Why you might ask? Because I'll post this after I give it to her. I'll take a pic when I get home.

(Because it got confiscated by airport security, the picture will not happen)

So now onto Costco. I looked at the TVs and played with a samsung tablet. By my anti-apple opinion, it's a billion times better than the ipad. Stupid apple, just give up already. Oh, and another great thing was finding and buying Wallace and gromit the complete collection. It has a grand day out, a close shave, the wrong trousers, and a matter of loaf and death. Haven't seen loaf and death, but have seen the others, and love them. Then there's the bonus features, which sound great.

After a while at home, we went to whataburger for lunch. It was a while at there house. I took a picture of me in front of it. Here's the picture.

We don't have them at home, so it was really cool. They are really good tasting. I then played oddworld, Munch's Odyssey on the classic xbox in the futon room. I love that game and wish it was compatible with 360 so I could get a copy. Damn it's such a great game.

Well after hours of oddworld, we went to dinner at this amazing barbecue place. I had the ribs, and with that comes unlimited rolls, pickles, and other sides. So good. Oh man, to think the vacation is almost over. Well I better charge so I can be ready for the plane ride home. Late

 
I'm sure because I'm putting the blog together on my PC as we speak, day 8.
So today was the last day. We got packed up and went to the air port. Now for some security stories.
 

You know how I have a giant key chain? Well I know I've mentioned it and it has been in some videos. Well I needed to take it off for security, for obvious metal reasons. Then I had to take off my belt because of the buckle. I'm doing this while in line waiting to go to the checkpoint. In this, I have my id in my mouth all ready to hand to the security guy that was checking ids and boarding passes. I get ready to hand him my id and he says "just put that down here," pointing to a spot on his podium that is under his black light. I never knew that if you hold your drivers licence under a black light that circles will show up. Seeing that he wasn't wearing gloves, I don't blame him.

 
Last day I mentioned an amazing snow globe I got for my girlfriend. Well to save money my family packed in all Carey-ons because it's now $25 to check a bag. Well we didn't think about the snow globe being over liquid weight. Unfortunately they had to confiscate it. I got her a new one in the terminal, but it's not as awesome, so I won't do a picture.
 
We board, and take off. We're in the air, and something strange happens. The pilot comes out of the cockpit and goes to the bathroom at the back of the plain. Then after he returns, the copilot does the same. I know they're people with needs too, but I thought that after 9/11, they lock them in behind this door that won't open unless on the ground. I know I heard that somewhere, or something to that nature. It was just interesting.

 

Well now I'm home, with my PCs, and standard definition TV, and 10 gaming consoles, and 70-90 degree climate. Ahh it's good to be home.

Miscellaneous Texts that I saved

I sent these texts to my friend. Some are up in the blog, but others aren't.

"I am super giddy. After the constant nonstop apple throwing at my steel wall PC faith, she was starting to oxidize the wall, but then I found this site using my ds browser, and Microsoft Bing, and found this amazing site called mac-sucks.com and now I'm titanium re enforced."

"My aunt and I are arguing over her iPhone. Just told her an android or windows phone can do that. And that windows can get xbox live and her iPhone can't. I won. Score one for google/windows."
"My aunt is a downgraded Microsoft to apple convert. She won't shut up about how good it is and is trying to convert us. Apple cult members are one reason I hate apple, and she doesn't realize that all the gloating just puts more nails in the coffin. Just a few minutes ago in the car aunt was talking to mom about the 'awesomeness' and how 'steve jobs is an innovator.' I jump in and yell 'don't listen. Our friend is bill! Our friend is bill!'"

This was a funny thing another PC friend told me. If apple Friends ever say how awesome apple is and ask what can PC do that mac can't, just say "Right click."

Mr Party animal 2, with extra blackbelt and fireworks

Wow, last weekend was fun. I went to 6 graduation parties, 5 of which were the same day, a black belt class to get presented the application for my black belt, and to an amazing city fireworks display.

I'll start with Saturday. I first went to my black belt class. I am currently a first degree brown belt in sanchin-ryu karate. I've been doing it for 12 or so years, and actually wrote the wikipedia page for it. Well started it but it was my creation. Being so into it, I got invited to a black belt class to get presented the application for black belt. It's quite something, because black belt isn't just knowing, it's also being a part of you. This time it was cool because I had another brown belt to work out with this time and we were working on forms. Last time I was the only brown belt and we worked on katas, of which I have never seen let alone practiced.

Afterwords I went to the graduation party of my old next door neighbor. We were only able to stay for about a half hour. She said sorry for kind of ignoring you, but it was OK since I apparently did the same to her at my grad party. You get so busy at those things it's as if all you're able to do is greet and say bye. I then went to my girlfriends good friend who I went to kindergarten with. There was some confusion as to if I was invited or not. Mom thought she was only invited because it came from the grad's mom to her, but apparently the whole fam was invited. I went and had a good time. I then went to my friend who we played trombone together in the jazz band and were in sadd together. Both he and his twin brother had their grad parties at the same time. I technical only went to 4 parties that day, but to tie with my one friend who went to 5 in one day, I asked if I could count this as 2 parties. I was given a yes so I tied with the kilt (inside joke). After that party, I went to my close friends party. He had the whole ilose group there. It was fun and weird and crazy and all that we are.

This was also the same day as the boyscout court of honor, but since I wasn't getting anything, I didn't need to go. I showed up right at the end. Normally this is the time when we have our overnighter where we guard the art for our local art fair, but due to the economy and not having it, we just kind of guard the air. It was always really fun. We'd watch movies all night and play capture the flag. But after the art fair stopped, it became a nostalgia thing for the older scouts that the noobs didn't fully understand. But then us older guys aged out and it was left to the younger guys who didn't get the draw. Well there was very little participation this year. In fact only 2 adult leaders, me and adult because I'm 18 now, and about 6 boys. We didn't have the TV like normally, nor the movies, and it wasn't going to be much of anything. It was my event. I loved guard the art. I came up with out name of guard the art in the park because prior to it was just the event name art in the woods. But then when I left, so did guard the art.

Well now for Sunday. I only had one graduation party to go to. It was my friend who is also in our ilose circle, but not fully I guess you could say. He's kind of to calm but we all like him. Anyways, his was way out of our way, because he wasn't planing on one, but his family was and they apparently live far off. My best friend and I carpooled up there. The city's name has lake in it, so my best friends dad made him bring a pair of swim trunks and a towel in case he wanted to swim. There was no lake. It was a calm little event, maybe 30 people at most. I lost at both checkers and chess, but I don't care. It was just a friendly game.

That night, my grandparents took my mom, my girlfriend, and I to their city fireworks display. We go every year and it's always cool. A couple of years ago we found this place that few people go to and it's really close to the fireworks. We can see them light them off and last year embers from some of the fireworks landed in the field right next to us. This year since I now have a girlfriend, she came with us to the show. We kissed under the fireworks. Right when they had the display with the big finally, we had a long kiss. It was perfect.

Well that was my weekend. See ya soon.
Pokematic

My family vacation blogs

My family vacation, day 1 
Well today was eventful, kind of. I'm going on a family trip to my relatives down south. I'll tell you about the entire time, but due to possible inaccess to a computer, it may not be posted the day that I write it. I'm writing this on my Nintendo dsixl using the Nintendo ds web browser using my hotmail. I write it on hotmail, because of my 3 emails, it's the only one that will load. I then send it to my gmail or drafts in blogger. I don't post immediately because I want to spell check.
 
Well onto the day. We packed our minivan to the gills, half of which was snacks provided by my grandparents. We have a DVD player in our van so my cousin and I watched tomb raider cradle of life and Coraline. It was kind of hard on the way down because my grandma kept trying to force some snacks onto us kids. Oh well. Once we got to the hotel we're staying for the night, we went exploring the city looking for a place to eat. We went to this place called The Lucky Moose. It was sure lucky we found it. Mom convinced my grandparents that they served moose and we were all getting moose burgers. They went to eat at Bob Evens, because they would never eat at a place called the lucky moose. Eventually mom let them in because they were getting concerned. But she did say we'd bring them back a moose burger. If the McDonald's that's here had a Pokemon toy I didn't have, I would have bought a happy meal and give the burger to them saying it was a moose burger. More to come.
 
family vacation day 2
OK, today is day 2. But let me tell you about the night before. My grandparents love stories, and when we were all trying to go to bed, they were telling us stories.
Well now for the actual day. We all pack up and set out. It was raining incredibly hard. It was flooding in some places. We went to an awesome video game store that we stop at every time. They have both new, AND OLD, games. And when I say old, I'm talking nes and later. I bought A Bugs Life for Play Station, Banjo Kazooie, and a rumble pack for my n64. The place is called Play N Trade, and I recommend any fan go there. It pones gamestop.

Well we arrive, and things are weird. I have 3 girl cousins, 1 boy cousin, and they all wanted to talk to my girlfriend. Boy cousin starts asking awkward question, girl cousins are crazy, and utter hilarity happened. It was quite funny. At one point, I was the conversation messenger between everyone. GF says something, transfer to cousins. Cousins say something, relay to GF. Tomorrow we're going to holiday world. You'll hear about that tomorrow. I'm tired and going to shower and sleep. Bye.

family vacation day 3
Day 3 and boy am I tired. Before I talk about my day at the amusement park, let me tell you this crazy thing about my cousins shower. OK, I get that she's a girl, but do you really need 20 different soaps and stuff? My shower consists of a bar of soap and shampoo. That's really all you need.

Well now to talk about the amusement park. We went to a place called Holiday World in Santa Clause Indiana. The place is amazing. It has free pop, or soda for you southerners. No shit, FREE POP!!! Sure beats $5 for a bottle of water. There are great rides, and plenty of good shows. Another great thing is access to both parks. If you live in Indiana, or are going there, I highly recommend Holiday World.

But today rained. That sucked. We started out in the water park this year, and that was OK. Rain in swim trunks works fine. But I'm a fan of the rides and not water rides. I was there for about 2 hours or so. But after riding some rides, it started to down pour. I would have left with my uncle, brother, and cousin, but I had a key to my locker for the swim stuff. Let me tell you about the key. My brother and I were sharing an amusement park lockers for our clothes and stuff. Well after we were done swimming, we decided to return the key and get the deposit. But then mom made me go over and beg for the key back. Thankfully enough, they gave it back. The staff is also incredibly friendly.

So it rains, and I wait it out. I go on many rides, and then watch the diving show. It was a good day. Everyone should go to Holiday world. If not for the good prices and fun rides, for the free pop. Well I need to end it here. I've been taking many pictures of there cats in search for the perfect lolcat. Later.
 
day 4
Day 4, I haven't been on a computer except to fix my aunts today. More on that later. I can't access my personal email because it wont load on my ds. I am forgetting what it's like to type with my fingers instead of pecking. Depressing mission log over. Time for fun blog.
Well I woke up earlier than everyone today. Wouldn't be a problem, but it was a good 3 hours before everyone woke up and everyone was asleep in a room with the only T.V.s. I can only make my backpack o fun and a book work for so long. I went stir crazy.
Well now for fun stuff. Today I went to one of the last restaurants to have brain sandwiches. You heard me right, brain sandwich. Deep fried pig brain on a bun with pickles. I love them but they aren't for everyone. Here are the pictures.

I also went duzing with my Uncle Duz. Since it isn't his real name, I'll use what we all call him. We weren't able to go dumpster diving because it wasn't Sunday, but we had fun looking at all that he picked. It's amazing what people throw out. I took a bunch of pictures of the stuff, and plan to send them to American Pickers. They're doing this contest where if you send in a video of your stuff, they may come and pick you. Here are pictures of what I found.
(Awesomeness to much for this blog. Just wait for when the American pickers come and we're on TV.)

Then we had a firework show tonight. It was really fun, especially since we can't do them back home. I lit off many, and so did my brother. We had like $100 of buy one get 2 free fireworks. It was a really good show.

Now earlier I mentioned that my aunt's lap top had a virus. It took my cousin, my uncle, and me to fix it. I diagnosed the problem and found no solution in sight. My cousin found a way to fix it, and my uncle found the way to get the Internet to work on all wireless signals. It takes a family to fix a computer. I should shower and go to bed now. Later.

day...I forget
As the title implies, I have forgotten what day of this journey is. Since I can't go back to blogs, just go with it.
Well today was our last day with the relatives. Yesterday night we watched boomerang until 12 midnight, which for me equates to 1 am. We watched Jonny Quest and Penelope Pitstop. I was surprised as to the amount of violence and political incorrectness in Jonny Quest, but then again it was a different time. Penelope Pitstop was so ridiculous it was funny.

Well today I woke up at the same time as my brother and cousin and we watched T.V. We packed up once everyone else got up and moving. We left after our good byes. Oh, but before the leaving, we went to this amazing Chinese buffet. It had the best steak and teriaky beef I ever had buffet wise. Actually best teriaky beef ever. They also had this chocolate fountain. It was an amazing buffet, and clean and large too. The crazy buffet was the name.

Please pardon my jumpiness, but it was a long week and I miss my bed. Well tonight we're staying in this really nice best western. The room key is this like radio wave thing like at the flash your card at the check out. No magnetic swipe strip. This one isn't just going in the collection with the rest. It also has this really nice breakfast as it would seem. It also has an expensive coffee maker in the room. Here's a picture.

There was also a really nice pool. I looked at it, but didn't swim. Why didn't I swim? Because I'm not a big fan of swimming. I'm also quite tired so I wouldn't have had much fun anyways. I'm content to just blog and watch the season premier of Futurama on Comedy Central. I'm glad Viacom bought it since Turner doesn't know a good show when they have one. I'll get this posted when I get home. Later.
 
Day 6
Well I'm home. My copy of banjo kazooi and A bugs life for PlayStation work. Probably should clean my banjo game and rumble pack. Oh, and I'm on my lap top. Glad I'm home.

Mr. Party Animal

Woohoo, 4 graduation parties today. I am a party animal. I had my girlfriends, next door neighbors, friend of 15 years, and another friend. I'll tell them as they happened.

First was my friend of a few years. We met sophmore year, and have done many school projects together. I arived at the begining so it was just me, her family, and some of her friends I don't know. Since she gets overwhelmed easily, she was quite happy with the small size. Having had my party already, I made sure to tell her that the worst has yet to come and you will have many people. I spent about an hour there, 30 minutes of which was spent talking with her dad. We just talked about plans for next year and video game set ups.

Well after hers, I went to my girlfriends. I spent the most time at hers, 3 hours, as I probably should have. It was fun. She had mainly family, but eventually my best friend and one of her friends showed up and things got really interesting. As many of you probably know, I keep my language and jokes quite clean. For those of you who don't, well now you know. I make many situation based jokes, and I'm quite good at it getting laughs most of the time. Well aparently I'm a riot even when I'm not trying to. Aparently to people who have their minds in the gutter, some things I say are hilarious. Well I would give you an example, but I was clueless to the things. Ask my girlfriend, darkenedoptimist for examples. Tell her Pokematic sent you. Well after the crazyness, it became a giant game of "take my hat." I am very protective of my hat, and go crazy when I get it taken from me. I don't care who you are, if you have my hat, I will fight you for it. Aparently the reaction is funny, but it's bulying by definition. Cause a reation out of someones pain for your enjoyment. Well I was there for about 3 hours.

Now was time for my next party, my friend of 15 years. Just a reminder, I am 18, so that means we have been friends since we were 3. Ironically enough, I spent more time with friends he invited then him. That's probably partially due to the fact that he was running every which to be with everyone. I spent most of the time with friends that he invited. It was cool since many of them graduated last year and that was fun. I also talked with some scout dads and impressed one with my set up of 10 videogame consols.

Well I had one last one, and it was my next door neighbor. We used his canopy fly for mine, then took it back over to his for his. We exchanged some witty banter about how "I lived so far away" and other funny crap like that. I also had a very short conversation with some guys on writing thank-you notes. Mainly I just hung out with the teens and had fun for about 2 hours.

Well that was my party fun. I origionally wrote half of this on my dsi browser and sent to the secrit email. But through a glich, it wouldn't send, to any of my 3 emails or save in drafts. Oh well.

No more thank-yous and pokemon toys

Oh man, today was a great day. I finished thank-you notes!!!! Here's a video of me celebrating.



Well then I went to buy the pokemon toys at McDonalds. I bought 2. My gosh happy meal toys by themselves have gotten expencive. I remember when they were $1, but now they are $2. It's more cost effective to buy the damn happy meal. I plan to get them all anyways, and keep then in package. The lady at McDonalds looked at me kind of funny when I said I wanted the toy. Oh well, that's me. Wish me luck in my quest to colect them all. Later.

Remembering hypnotism and was that 42nd street

Hi everyone, might I say that last night was really weird. Whenever I wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom or get a drink of water, I am typically able to fall back asleep really quickly. Well last night I had some trouble falling back asleep. I think I had heart burn, or just some acid reflex, or something that made the bottom back of my throat feel like it was burning with stomach acid. In my drowsy state, my logical way of solving it was to drink a lot of water, but that just made me need to pee 15 minutes later. About another 15 minutes later, I realize what it is, so I go down stairs and have half a tum. That helps, but my mind still won't shut up for another 25 minutes or so. Here's what was going through my mind all this time.
Remember how I talked about the hypnotist at the all night party with my school? Well I was imagining if I didn't keep my mouth shut when I was in the group hypnotism. I imagined if I asked why my arms were inverses, then he asked me to sit up on stage, and then do the glue thing. I imagined if I did yell "I am hulk" when I did pull my hands apart. He then hypnotized me, and I did the things where he "connected our minds," which I still thinks is bull. Apparently when hypnotized, he connected the 11 saps on stages minds and when he tapped one, the rest knew where he tapped without him talking. Well I believe I have an incredibly strong and uncontrollable subconscious and unconscious. I think he told us the wrong conscious that he uses in hypnotism. If it were subconscious the people would have some knowledge of what happened but they had no knowledge, so I think it was unconscious. Anyways, if I didn't have my crazy strong uncontrollable unconscious, I wouldn't have been able to pull my hands apart. Where was I? Oh yeah, the linked minds. Well I imagined if I was connected with everyone else, and I ended up taking over. I was blabbering things about him being a quack, and everyone was saying it in sync with me. He then disconnected all our minds, and made me 4 years old like in the show. This deserves its own paragraph.
Well let me start out by saying that age regression is a myth, so I ended up telling him that, and explained how it was just making me think I believed I was 4, and I made little sense. But I went on and on, he interrupted me, and this is what I said "you interrupted me, now I need to start all over again." As a 4 year old, and up until maybe 7, I NEVER shut up. My grandparents tell me stories about how on the way to a family reunion when I was 4, I didn't stop talking from the time we started, all the way to the hotel, for 2 hours. And whenever I was talking to my cousins, and they interrupted me, I always told them "you interrupted me, now I need to start all over again." I always did. I don't think much has changed; I just have greater control of it now. OK so back story out of the way, he asked me why I was doing this, and I in depth explained how I had ADHD, but my parents don't know that yet. He told me there was an audience of teenagers out there, and as a little kid, I was afraid of teenagers. I start crying and hide behind the chairs. I don't remember how he got me back in front of everyone, but he did, and more hilarity happened. All I remember was that we "went on a trip to the zoo" and I wouldn't sit still "on the bus" and when I went by the snakes, we were supposed to lift up our legs because the snakes came crawling near our feet. Well even at that age, I loved snakes. Instead of lifting my legs, I "bent over, picked one up, and started showing it off to everyone."
Now I probably would have continued to imagine all the show, but I wanted to go to sleep. It was almost 5 in the morning, and I started at about 4. I wanted my sleep! So I tried shutting up my running mind, but to no real avail. I realized that my subconscious and unconscious have some part of my conscious, of which I have some control but little control over. Well here's how I shut it up. I personified my conscious as catholiccontriversy, my unconscious as happy gamer, and subconscious as Pokematic. First catholiccontriversy beat them both up. Happy gamer gave up after that, but Pokematic didn't want to give up without a fight. So I thought of a really boring repeatable activity. I counted dishes coming out of the dish washer. But I wasn't counting. It was more like; "plait goes in the plait pile, cup goes on the shelf." It was mundane, repetitive, and just what I needed to shut Pokematic up. I did that for a while, and I felt myself fall asleep. Oh yeah, another cool thing about me. If I try hard enough and do it just right, I can actually remember falling asleep. It's really cool.
So now for my weird dream. I was in the pit orchestra of a show I was in the pit orchestra for back in the beginning of the school year. That show, was 42nd street. But something was...off. For starters, the pit wasn't very deep. In fact it probably only went down 2 1/2 feet, and I was facing the stage able to see the whole show. Now the weirdness doesn't stop there. None of the songs we played were actually from the play, except for dames which was only that in name. It sounded nothing like the actual song dames, but I had a solo which was cool. Another thing was no main characters from the play. There was no Peggy, no Dorthy, no Juline Marx, no billy lawyer, no anyone. Then there were only a few instruments in the pit. I remember there being me, the trombone, a French horn, and a trumpet, and maybe a flute. There wasn't the super important piano. The piano is so important to the music of 42nd street, that we had 2 players when we actually did it. One really strange thing is that I got lost while playing. I'm not saying I never get lost, that would be inhuman, but always during rehearsal and practice, never during the performance. It was as if I was hearing the music for the first time. Well the crazy play ended before it was supposed to end. I still had "the money of a student" to play. I wonder if that was somehow supposed to be "we're in the money." It either stopped because my internal sleep timer said I had my 8 hours or because things were getting to weird, even for my dreams. Chances are it was because I was aware of how weird things were. That's a new one even for me. It was as if I was in a parallel universe, as myself and not my parallel self like I normally am.

Well I better get to writing than-you notes. Later and I hope you enjoyed.