So we've started our next semester, classes are going to be good. I'm liking things so far though I think our shop work isn't going to be too easy. It's all good though, I'm off mandatory study hall so it's a lot easier to do stuff. We had jazz band monday night which was really cool, our instructor brought in a keytar and was just KILLING it, the guy knows quite a lot and has been helping me extend my knowledge of theory..though I would really like to learn how to play by ear better.
Anyway, about recent events, winter with no snow...I'm liking it....we did have one snowfall, which was beautiful from inside.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Back to School
So I'm heading back to school tonight, and I must say I'm ready for it. I finished working on Friday so yesterday and today were more or less free days in which I finished packing.
Yesterday, (monday) Dad and I helped out some of our friends cut firewood, and I'm a little embarrassed to say that it's the first time I've ever operated a chainsaw. It felt great to work outside though, and thankfully it was just cloudy, not wet. Monday night I went to the mall to get some stuff for school one of which was sneakers, I found a really nice pair on sale for $40, the only kind, and it was my size. Thank God!
We also found the entire Pink Panther Cartoons on hulu which made my day! We've been watching...well..quite a few of those. Oh and by the way on my way home from the mall last night a guy in the neighborhood with a rifle slung over his shoulder was walking across the road...neither odd nor frightening around here.
Over the weekend David and I went and saw Sherlock Holmes which turned out to be a great movie and even sparked me into reading some of the books again. Some great lines:
Watson - "What are we doing?!"
Holmes - "We, are waiting. I, am smoking"
And another which you'd have to see the context to understand:
Holmes - "It's so overt, it's covert"
And finally:
Watson - "Get that gun out of my face!"
Holmes - "It's not in your face, it's in my hand."
And finally, a Christmas photo: (I'm opening my sisters' gift, but I'm meaning to steal it)
Yesterday, (monday) Dad and I helped out some of our friends cut firewood, and I'm a little embarrassed to say that it's the first time I've ever operated a chainsaw. It felt great to work outside though, and thankfully it was just cloudy, not wet. Monday night I went to the mall to get some stuff for school one of which was sneakers, I found a really nice pair on sale for $40, the only kind, and it was my size. Thank God!
We also found the entire Pink Panther Cartoons on hulu which made my day! We've been watching...well..quite a few of those. Oh and by the way on my way home from the mall last night a guy in the neighborhood with a rifle slung over his shoulder was walking across the road...neither odd nor frightening around here.
Over the weekend David and I went and saw Sherlock Holmes which turned out to be a great movie and even sparked me into reading some of the books again. Some great lines:
Watson - "What are we doing?!"
Holmes - "We, are waiting. I, am smoking"
And another which you'd have to see the context to understand:
Holmes - "It's so overt, it's covert"
And finally:
Watson - "Get that gun out of my face!"
Holmes - "It's not in your face, it's in my hand."
And finally, a Christmas photo: (I'm opening my sisters' gift, but I'm meaning to steal it)
Friday, January 13, 2012
Winter Break
Fast. I was able to work three weeks, which was gave me something to do...nothing worse than being bored in limited free time. It's kind of like getting a really bad stomach cramp at a gourmet meal...or not having any teeth the day your girlfriend says she loves you for the first time....maybe a little more down to earth would be dropping the camera to it's death as you near the moon just to realize now on one is going to believe you were there.
Back on track, a lot has happened this new year even so early. Ahh, where to begin? First(ly), I'm glad that there hasn't been much snow this winter so far...I've decided to give more attention to my musical pursuits at the cost of gaming, haha, yes, video games, aren't I a little old for that really? In the case we resort to a "TRON" like existence I will resume, however. I have felt much more useful in the time without though, I've been trying to pick up playing the harmonica.
I'm very satisfied with the first semester, especially because I got a 4.o...but to be honest the classes are fairly easy, honestly.
Christmas was a lot of fun, I got my usual pajama pants, as has become tradition from my little sisters, this year, the pac-man theme.
Work went well, I have one night left, but apart from making a good sum of money to provide for gas to get to and back from school on the weekends, I participated in some decent food...and botched quite a few of my own attempts. I try to make tortillas and it usually ends up in one of a few ways, dry, super-baking-soda-flavored, or pancakes. At any rate, no matter how bad they are it still earns my the right to the buffet table with the mexicans. Although the distance between their food and mine is still yet to be determined, no light at the end of the tunnel yet is what I'm saying. Thankfully they've taught me a few new words, and I was a little scared to see how quickly I rusted over in my spanish in only a few months.
At any rate I've got some stuff to do so I'll catch you all in my next post, until then
Back on track, a lot has happened this new year even so early. Ahh, where to begin? First(ly), I'm glad that there hasn't been much snow this winter so far...I've decided to give more attention to my musical pursuits at the cost of gaming, haha, yes, video games, aren't I a little old for that really? In the case we resort to a "TRON" like existence I will resume, however. I have felt much more useful in the time without though, I've been trying to pick up playing the harmonica.
I'm very satisfied with the first semester, especially because I got a 4.o...but to be honest the classes are fairly easy, honestly.
Christmas was a lot of fun, I got my usual pajama pants, as has become tradition from my little sisters, this year, the pac-man theme.
Work went well, I have one night left, but apart from making a good sum of money to provide for gas to get to and back from school on the weekends, I participated in some decent food...and botched quite a few of my own attempts. I try to make tortillas and it usually ends up in one of a few ways, dry, super-baking-soda-flavored, or pancakes. At any rate, no matter how bad they are it still earns my the right to the buffet table with the mexicans. Although the distance between their food and mine is still yet to be determined, no light at the end of the tunnel yet is what I'm saying. Thankfully they've taught me a few new words, and I was a little scared to see how quickly I rusted over in my spanish in only a few months.
At any rate I've got some stuff to do so I'll catch you all in my next post, until then
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