Teen-Age

When I was a little kid, I saw shows that had teens in them. It always showed them doing stupid stuff, being bad, being emotionally unstable, and lots of other things. I would watch, then tell my parents, "Don't worry. I'll never be like that!". But ever since I've become "one of them", I've caught myself doing some of that kind of stuff. Like talking back to my parents, or thinking for myself, or wanting to be with other people my own age. It's frightening! My parents keep on complaining that I'm officially a teen-ager, and that I'm impossibly bad, uncontrollable. That's because I've been able to see things that could be improved, and I want to help them out. But no!! Whenever I try to do something right, it seems to them like I'm messing up, making it all worse, or it just makes them angry. I guess that seems like I'm being narrow-minded, or I'm just making this up, that I just don't understand what's going on, or I'm just being a teen-ager; but seriously-that's not it. I'm VERY intelligent, (now guys, don't start laughing), and I understand what's going on--they're ignoring me, and my genius; thinking that it's just some "stage". They think that their ideas are automatically better than mine, and it scares them that I could be coming up with ideas like mine.



Just kidding!! Wow, if you all think that I'm really like that, then you DON'T know me at all!!!



I LOVE being older! I get to do so much more stuff now!! I get to hang out with friends, go places, see things, and experience new things!!! I can influence the lives of others, and have fun doing it. I get to look forward to my life and all of the promises that it brings. I can go to school sport games, and meet new people. I can go to dances, meet girls, and have fun with everyone there!!! I get to grow and get taller-I'm looking forward to that!!



Then again, I'm also afraid of growing up. I don't want to have to worry about all of those adult problems. An adult has to: pay the bills, pay taxes, go to work, pay taxes, get married, pay taxes, raise a family, pay taxes, vote, pay taxes, drive in traffic every day, pay taxes, get a college degree, pay taxes, support family, pay taxes, do well at work, pay taxes, make ends meet, pay taxes, and die(shock from the raise in tax-rate). I like having not as many responsibilities. All I have to do right now, is get in the right direction to have a successful life. Meaning that I have to do well in school, learn new skills, understand how to act around others, ect. I'm not looking forward to having to pay taxes!!!!



I don't know. Maybe it'll be fun....who am I kidding? I'll just try to do the best I can against all of the worldly forces that will be trying to push me down. I hope it gets over quick, then I can be comfortably retired, and have fun with my grandkids. Then, I can die. Good idea, huh?!



I guess that I'm looking at this in a bad way. Maybe I'm being a little pessimistic. That, or totally realistic. Either way, I've no choice in the matter, so I might as well deal with it. Look at me. Here I am. Bring. It. On.

Funny E-mails

The following does not specifically express nor pertain to the opinion of the publisher(me/smiley)

"AGREE OR DELETE"

Andy Rooney
DID YOU KNOW?
As you walk up the steps to the
building which houses the U.S Supreme Court
you can see near the top of the building a row
of the world's law givers and each one is
facing one in the middle who is facing forward
with a full frontal view ... it is Moses and he

is holding the Ten Commandments!

DID YOU KNOW?
As you enter the Supreme Court courtroom, the
Two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments
Engraved on each lower portion of each door.

DID YOU KNOW?
As you sit inside the courtroom, you can see
The wall, right above where the Supreme Court
judges sit, a display of the Ten Commandments!



DID YOU KNOW?


There are Bible verses etched in stone all
over the Federal Buildings and Monuments in
Washington , D.C.


DID YOU KNOW?

James Madison, the fourth president, known as
'The Father of Our Constitution' made the
following statement:

' We have staked the whole of all our political
institutions upon the capacity of mankind for
self-government, upon the capacity of each and
all of us to govern ourselves, to control
ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to
the Ten Commandments of God.'


DID YOU KNOW?

Patrick Henry, that patriot and Founding
Father of our country said:

'It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too
often that this great nation was founded not
by religionists but by Christians, not on
religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ'.


DID YOU KNOW?
Every session of Congress begins with a prayer
by a paid preacher, whose salary has been paid
by the taxpayer since 1777.


DID YOU KNOW?


Fifty-two of the 55 founders of the
Constitution were members of the established
orthodox churches in the colonies.

DID YOU KNOW?

Thomas Jefferson worried that the Courts would
overstep their authority and instead of
interpreting the law would begin making law
an oligarchy
the rule of few over many.

DID YOU KNOW?
The very first Supreme Court Justice,

John Jay, said:


'Americans should select and prefer

Christians as their rulers.'

How then, have we gotten to the point that
everything we have done for 220 years in this
country is now suddenly wrong and
unconstitutional?

Lets put it around the world and let the world
see and remember what this great country was
built on.




I was asked to send this on if I agreed or
delete if I didn't. Now it is your turn...

It is said that 86% of Americans believe in God.
Therefore, it is very hard to understand
why there is such a mess about having the

Ten Commandments on display or

'In God We Trust'
on our money and having

God in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Why don't we just tell the other
14% to Sit Down and SHUT UP!!!

Friends

Are you tired of those sissy 'friendship' poems that always sound good but never actually come close to reality?
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UEA

What exactly does UEA stand for? I'm not really sure. I know that it is a four day weekend in which we're supposed to be able to relax, have fun, do nothing. Or, it should be. In my house, it's where we're subject to chores, chores, and some extra chores; after we get done with that, then we get to have a break-while doing more chores!!! My sisters and I have just finished cleaning the house. My dad's on a trip, and my mom is visiting somebody at the hospital. We're about to have lunch-pancakes, and the house it semi-quiet. It's great, I love it when it's like this. I'm not sure I want my mom to come back; she'll just find some creative way to make the house cleaner, with us as involuntary volunteers. Everything appears to be immaculate, I wonder what she'll come up with. Anyway, I'm extremely bored. I've got no books to read, nobody to hang-out with, nobody to talk to.....that's my main reason for being on here. I don't like the idea of writing something without a real reason; but here I am, basically 'spamming' my own blog. That's right, all you name-calling-forum-followers. Anyway, I wish that my mom-when she comes back-would let me go over to Ninja's/Genius's/Jungle-Book-Man's house(s). That'd be fun. I'll bet they're going to hang out this weekend....without me.....*sniffle*. Oh well, let's look at this with a positive perspective. Yeah, let's do it!!! I don't have to go to school!!! I have relatives in the Spanish Mafia!!! I'm done with my chores!!!! I can hear 'Word Girl' on the TV upstairs!! I'm done with my homework!!! Mary had a little lamb!!! I'm done with my piano homework!!!! I'm a smiley, monkey, ninja, hit-man, genius, non-president, pirate, hippie, philosopher, obnoxious, actor, singer, dancer, professional sports-player, American/Mexican/Spaniard, procrastinator, vampire-werewolf, wizard, video-game-pro, average joe, kind of person!!! I'm going to go to the Regional Dance this Saturday!!! I like the way jello jiggles on a spoon!! It's sunny outside!!! Clinton will never be president!! I have a wonderful family!!! I know all of the provinces of Canada by name!!! I love my life!!!! I have lot's of Vegetale songs memorized by heart!!! I love my friends!!! I have recovered from my gun-wound to the head!!! I love my family!!! Yay for life and living!! I live for joy!!! Wow, I am good!! I LOVE looking at life positively!! I'm in such a good mood now!! You guys should try it. I like to do it everyday, but didn't do it today-'till just barely. You guys should try it. It really works!!!! Guess what? In doing something productive and helpful to my soul, I also got my 5oo words for the week done!!! Wow!! What a GREAT day!!!

And then, there was luck

Okay guys, this is a story that I wrote for english. I hope you guys like it. It's TOTALLY open for editing, even though I already turned it in. Oh well! I'd also like a better title for it; something intriguing, you know? This story is written in the ancient language of "Beble", if you wanted to know what it was written in. It is also to be read imagining the nararator having a very mellow and calm voice. Well, here goes nothing/me!!

Hello. I am Namasde. I keep the balance of luck. I don't view luck as "good" or "bad". It's luck. However, I will refer to it as luck for thee, simple minded human that thou art.
Before time; before space; before McDonalds, Microsoft, and Walmart; there was Guam. On the giant, powerfull world-power of Guam; there were two special personages. And behold, they were bestowed with powers.
For behold, they were annointed before they were created with the blissful punishment of bestowing luck. They were blessed with two types of luck. "Good" and "bad", or however thou wilt.
The one was bestowed with "bad" luck. And behold, he was called Bernard. And it came to pass that he was an bipolar-albino-pigmi. And lo, he had sweet black dreads. Yea, and they were gnarley. In the days shortly after he was "brought in", he was joined with a voodoo-doll called Kaletchi. The doll had a mind of its own, and from the that day Berny(for it pleaseth mine soul to call him Berny) was born, Kaletchi was a bad influence on him.
The other was bestowed with "good" luck. And behold, he was called Lo Mein. And it came to pass that we was a giant, Thai, boy. And lo, he had awesome, spicky, red hair. Yea, and they were also gnarley. In the days shortly after he was was "brought in", he was joined with an abnormally large cricket called Wicket. For behold, in his past life-time he wast a "DJ"(wicket-wicket). Wicket was blessed with the ability of speach, and wast a very good influence on Lo Mein.
Now and behold, they both went forth unto the same kindergarten class. In the beginning, they both quietly spread and passed on their own type of luck. Pretty soon, for the children of Guam elementary were intelegent-being part asian, the children of the island found out about their "gifts". The two young five-year-olds were appreciated at different levels, according to their personalities/skills. Lo Mein became "Big boy on the playground", and joined the most popular sports team. He was the Captain of the Ping-Pong team. He became conceited, arrogant, stuck-up; although the students spent so much time worshipping him that they failed to notice.
Berny became an outcast. He sat by the green dumpsters during recess, specifically the ones next to the rosebush from hell. He would slit his wrists, daily, finding out that the wounds dissapeared immediatly after being cut. This intrigued the five-year-old-freak. He found out that since he was doomed by luck forever, he could not be killed. He assumed that it was the same with Lo Mein. Kaletchi-who slit Berny's wrists for him-also found this tidbit of information interesting. VERY interesting...
And so it came to pass that the two were naturally split apart. They were at opposite sides of the luck consept; opposite sides of the "Kinder-Society"; heck, they were even at opposite sides of the classroom! But the latter was about to be changed...
Their teacher, in the blissfully ignorant way all teachers are, made a new seating-arangement. Berny and Lo Mein found themselves as DESK BUDDIES!!! Yea, it was bad. For there came a day when Kaletchi persuaded some of the students to push Berny to his limits. They went too far. Berny decided to handle it badly, and took it out on Lo Mein.

It was the showdown of Kindergarden history.

For verily, verily, I say unto ye, that never before had Lego Blocks and Playdough been abused and manipulated in such a way.

For behold, it was a blood-bath.

And it came to pass that Berny and Kaletchi used their powers to control the Legos to make a fierce, samuri-dino-warrior. Wilst, Lo Mein and Wicket molded many butterflies out of Playdough. And behold, the powers of the two five-year-olds were impressive. The positive and negative energies that had been used to creat those mutant-toys canceled eachother out, destroying all of them. That's when the two children and their side-kicks realized that the battle would be decided by strength, not skill.
That's when they resorted to hand-to-hand-to-doll hand-to-bug leg fighting. It was a gruesome battle. I will not go into details, for such destruction cannot be re-told. But, in the end, Kaletchi had taken out Wicket, and Berny had Lo Mein pinned. Wilst Wicket lay, in pieces on the floor, Lo Mein weeped. Something in the deep sadness and depression expressed by said weeping stirred something in Berny's heart. He had an emotional change. His only desire was to do good. He then re-analyzed the situation. He realized, that for the greater good, he would have to end it. So, after a second thought, he karate-chopped off Kaletchi's doll head. He, like Lo Mein, began to weep over the loss of his life-long friend. Knowing that he only had seconds before the death of Kaletchi returned him to his previous anger, he returned to his assault on Lo Mein. He quickly punched certain pressure points on his captive, putting Lo Mein into cronic sleep. He only had seconds left, and pushed the same points on himself.

Then there was only their unmoving bodies, and un-pierced silence.

Then there was but perfectly pure silence in the classroom. All of the children, and the inhabitants thereafter, of Guam had fled the Island, and hidden on New Zealand. There was nothing moving, nothing breathing, nothing living. Then the chi of all four of the bodies arose. It shot out of the open-mouthed-corpses and gathered together in a sparkly, golden, cloud. In that cloud, a being began to be formed. And lo, it became an little, orange, man. Yea, and he was adorned with purple genie pants, purple hair, a purple turban with an orange gem on said turban. And I say unto all of ye, that that being was the very first oompa-loompa. And behold, that first oompa-loompa is, and was, me.

Seriously though...-Very exaggerated

My dad is going to rip out my soul with a paper and or plastic straw!!! Really!! So my dad told me last year that he would let me try out for SBO. Although, there was one condition. I have to get 4.0's ALL YEAR!!! If I don't, they will kick me out of office!!! Then, I will never be able to leave my house!! Oh, wait, I don't get to anyway. I guess that's a plus? Anyway, we got our midterms today, right? Guess what happened? I DIDN'T EXACTLY GET PERFECTLY STRAIT A'S!!! Who does, though? I mean, in the past years of my scholarly life, getting perfect grades wasn't hard to do. My parents have grown a standard for my grades, and if they see my grades now, I wouldn't be writing this. I would never be seen, thought about, heard about, or cared about, ever again!!! My parents are SERIOUS!! OUCH!! Oh my gosh!! Lightning has just struck my brain. In other words, I have just had an apostraphy....I mean, and epiphony!!! I'll just run away and jump the Canadian border!! No, that's too far away...I know!! I'll jump the Mexican border!! Yeah!! They'll never see it comin'!! And that would work too!! Because, not to brag or anything, I SPEAK SPANISH!! Almost fluently, even! Oh, yes!!! Thank you!!! Boy, I'm just EXPLODING with good ideas!!! I guess you could say that I'm just full of it. It's all how you look at it, I guess!!! But I love my dad. He is the best. I couldn't ask for somebody better. Anywhere. He is the voice of reason in my house. It just also happens to be that he is the voice of dicipline in my house, too. I suppose that it gives him a sort of "bad rep", and that I need to overlook that. I would like to close by saying I LOVE MY DAD AND I THINK THAT HE'S THE BEST PERSON THAT I'VE EVER MET OR EVER WILL MEET AND I HOPE THAT SOMEDAY I CAN BE HALF AS GOOD AS HIM BECAUSE IF I CAN I WILL SURPASS EVERYBODY'S EXPECTATIONS FOR ME!!!!!! And yes, that unpunctuated, obnoxiously long run-on sentence was necessary.

Pictures!!!!!!

Don't you just love the pictures!!!?

Smile!!! :D

I see myself more as the person in the back.