06/05/08 An Ode To My Departed Seminary

Yeah, I might not do that, but you never know...


This house is messy. Less messy than a few years ago, but it could still use some improvement. -glances at mountain- Not much more I can do on this front. I must pick a new target... I could just head west and see how it goes... On through the family room and into the dinning room... It'll be a challenge, but nothing drastic. A certain someone's storage garage might pose a problem, though. -pause- Nah, I'll just attack it too. It's not like it'll be going anywhere any time soon.

As you know, that-which-must-not-be-named is coming, which means that school is over. And so is seminary. It's sad, really. I just realized this morning that I can't keep a straight face in seminary. I've got this uncharacteristic smile that doesn't go away. It goes away once we start driving home, but up until we leave, it won't leave. There's something about seminary that's different from other classes, even Sunday classes. It might be that it's in the morning, it might be the teachers, but there's something I feel there that I /know/ is the spirit. When I look around, even thought some people are messing around, I see a world that's not so done for. People who will make the world a better place, despite the constant oppression that's bringing it down. And now that it's over, I'm going to miss it. I'm going to miss that feeling I get as soon as we say opening prayer. Tomorrow is the last day of our seminary class, but I hope seminary doesn't go away.


-looks up- Man, I am so deep. -nods-
So I'm thinking I should go. Bye, everybody!

06/04/08 Elections?

First, I'd like to reply to a comment left on the last post. If everybody decided that Matthew already wrote about everything, the book would probably be a lot shorter. The real question is whether or not that was a bad thing. XD


Okay, so last night was election night. Yay! Once again, the scouts went to raise money for scout camp. I got to try a new fashion trend, though: Trenchcoat and reflector vest. Oh yeah, you know you're jealous. XD So I think it went pretty well. I mean, we had a slight problem with people messing around, but that got a little better when they got to show off their dislocating appendages. That and when there was actually work to do instead of sitting around waiting for a car to show up. It was weird, though. Someone there could completely bend back his thumb... Fifteen seconds of fame never seemed so freaky...

Other than that, life's been reasonably quiet. School's over, so I'll be doing scouts, cleaning/sorting, and stuff like that for a while. I'm really beginning to wonder why we're keeping some stuff we have. Like this funny looking thing that I think goes to some computer thing we don't have anymore. Why do we have that??? Then there's the whole sentimental thing. (I'm not one to keep things... Except the temple celebration stuff. They're in a locked briefcase... XD)

Hooray! It's June and I'm not a roasted peanut! I may actually survive thi- (Inner self:) DON'T SAY THAT! You might give you-know-what ideas! Back, Summer! Back!

That was random. Anyway, time to go. Bye!

05/29/08 Sun-Wed

Okay! To continue our story, Sunday morning we woke up in the parking lot of Wal-Mart, which we had heard opens at six in the morning. It didn't, so instead, we got to stare at it for two hours and watch a bunch of people drive up, head to the door, and speed off. Kinda funny, but it got old. So we finally go in, go to the bathroom, do a few other things, and head to church. (Their program folded into thirds. @.@)

After church, we drove a bit and stopped at this little park-ish thing for lunch. It had a bridge! -ahem- So then we got back on the road to go to Yosemite. It was nice weather, for the most part, but it got worse as we got closer to the valley. To make this short. It was crowded, it was rainy, it was supposed to be the same Monday. Yeah, we went home. Yay! Happy vacation!

When we got back, we were just in time for a priesthood meeting talking about home teaching. Despite being a little tired, I thought it was pretty good. (they had ice cream at the end...)

Not much happened on Monday. We went to a memorial service at some place I can't remember how to spell, then we came home and -coughs- went to a friend's house.

Tuesday we painted! Our room looks like an ocean! Sort of. Anyway, there's just a little more touch up work and we'll finally get to start moving on with the rest of the house!

Last night was the line dancing activity, which I thought was pretty good. I can definitely see why people call it exercising... Very tiring. A few people weren't very excited about it, but they seemed to be the minority, so nobody cares about that.

Anywho, that's pretty much it. Once again, I wonder why I bother with this, seeing as mom already covers most of this on her blog, but I guess it's good for something. -shrugs- Ja mata.

05/28/08 'Weekend Adventure'

Yeah, I'd say it fits. I'm not terribly sure how much I'll have time to talk about, since YM/YW is in a little less than an hour, but I'll try.

The weekend started well. We left around... Nine-thirty-ish? We got there, it was a little crowded, we looked around, saw Yosemite Falls, then left to go to our night destination: Wal-Mart! Yep, we slept in the car, but first, we drank strait out of a milk carton in Taco Bell, had family prayer over the phone, and watched Prince Caspian at ten-o-clock at night. XD Good times.

I'm getting a little anxious about time, so I'll leave the rest for tomorrow. Needless to say, we had a pretty good time.

PS: We're teaching line dancing to the rest of the youth in the stake. -nods-

PSS: The room is blue...

05/22/08 ...Cheesepuff?

Yeah, I can't think of anything... -sighs- Maybe if I were to do something random... -does summersault-

Uh... I still got nothing.


I finished my Japanese book today. I learned about illness. It was pretty good, although some words were hard to organize. -shrugs- Now it's just vocabulary work, so that'll be interesting. Summer... Bah. Too hot here. At least now we have some decent winds to keep us below the hundreds...

Oddly enough, I don't feel like writing, but since I just remembered something, I'll talk about that and wrap this up. Last night, as always, was YM/YW, and we learned about line dancing. (NEVER learn the 'Tush push'. It was odd...) Next week we'll be helping teach it, so I suppose I'd better practice the darn thing, but it really is weird.

That's about it. Sorry, I'm lazy. -shrugs- Bye!

5/19/08 That stank...

I realized why I never play chess against computers. Apparently this one was one of those special ones that only have one setting. I beat it, though. It just took five games. It uses a combination of knights and the queen for offense, utilizing bishops and pawns for backup and using the rooks as defense. I figured out that the only way to win was to get a knight to the point where it had to sacrifice its queen to move the king out of the range of the knight. Still hard, but easier than trying to rush in and kill everything.

So anyway, I'm doing okay. We might be going on a improv roadtrip to Yosemite, so that's... nice. Right when /everyone/ is going to be there, but that's understandable. I'm just happy it's going to have a high of seventies. -relief- Triple digits should go to the /really/ hot place, be humbled, repent, and come back as pleasant forty degree weather. -nods- That would be dear and charming.

I'm going to try something new, today.

This is one of my roleplaying characters, Couramo, son of Matthias. He's erm... dead, but I figured it be nice to say hi, anyway. He /was/ a journeyman blacksmith, but then his village was attacked and he was one of the people sent to go get help. It worked, but he tried to go after a dark wizard alone and got himself killed. Then everyone got together and killed the wizard. So nobody's really happy, but it's good for the plot. Couramo had responsibility issues. He took on too much and thought that he needed to do everything. He mainly started feeling this way because he was performing an errand in another city and knew that there was an army coming, but couldn't get back in time to warn anyone. After that, he had a guilty conscience because one of his closest friends died in the raid. So, from then on, he always wanted to do things himself so other people wouldn't get hurt. Ironic, seeing as that only made things worse, but he was getting a little insane by the time he went after the evil guy.

So anyway, my roleplaying partner was a little surprised. You see, people don't usually kill off their primary character in a story, especially with such a disappointing ending. -shrugs- Even when they killed the dark wizard and ended the war, the place still had problems, but that's a bit more complicated. I suppose I should've picked a better character to talk about... Matthias was pretty good, maybe I'll talk about him next.

So, that's it. I hope you enjoyed it. Sort of. Bye!

05/16/08 B+! Of course I'm disappointed!

Literature is my /zone/! Well, not really. I'm more into analytical and strategy, but that's not covered in high school. I should've planned it out more. The paragraphs and such were decent, and in a sense, they flowed, but there was no /root/. -sighs- I need to find a chess board...

Not going well... -sighs-

I might be a pain and leave it at this. I /really/ want to find a chess game. I'll be right back. -switches on elevator music-

Yeah, I think I'm done. Iz short, but oh well. I must go eat something.

PS: The frog is something you don't want to know about. He's stupid.