Halloween

Since I'm in grade eight and going into high school next year, this was most likely my last year trick-or-treating. Okay first of all, I didn't intend on trick-or-treating, mainly because I had youth. For youth, we went to Dollarama and filled Operation Christmas Child boxes. As we were going through the checkout, my freind and I saw Halloween masks and both bought one. Then when youth was over, the three of us (another friend had brought a costume) went to 3 houses around the church. Then when we dropped someone else of at their house, I got a huge load of candy from her and a tiny bag of chips from one of the houses next door. Then I did a couple of houses on my street and ended up with a decent sized amount of candy (especially considering how little time I was out?

Red Star = Point of Impact

Okay, today something really funny happened. In the afternoon recess, we were playing football. My team had just got a touchdown, so we kicked. The ball went right to Jared, a considerably a fast kid. If you look a Diagram A (above) you can see that Jared is the football icon. Then, I chased after him. Then, out of no where Justin (icon J) comes and creams me (icon D), knocking me to the ground. It was funny because Justin is definately not the knock-you-to-the-ground-in-touch-football kind of kid. I still don't know why (neither does Justin) he was running that direction because Justin was not on my team, so I have no idea why he was running that way. He says he may have been going back just in case Jared was going to lateral it to him. Either way, it was really funny how Justin came out of no where and just leveled me.

T-12 days

Does anybody actually know why NASA people say "T minus 10 seconds"? Anyways, I just added a cool video on the side. My dad showed it to me, it's some German guy with too much time on his hands. Oh, and here's part three (probably the last) of the 'Things I write in bed' series. Strangely, the stories got shorter and shorter. This one is a really quick finish.

Peace Complete
Finally alone, simply alone. No fear, no pressure, no pain. Finally alone with myself. Alone with company, alone with peace, alone with comfort.

T-minus 13 days

Okay, I have a couple things to say. First of all, only 13 more days until I'm in Mississippi! I haven't blogily (new word) announced this yet, but I'm doing a mission trip in Pass Christian. We are pretty much just fixing and rebuilding houses. And for some strange reason, I entirely forgot the other two things I was going to say. That's pathetic of me. I'm very sorry. I'm really disappointed in myself and actually kind of angry that I forgot. I'm starting to get used to it, though, because my memory is brutal, especially when it comes to blogging. If I think of the lost ideas later, I'll post them. I kind of remembered one right now. Either that or I made it up. I might be moving downstairs, maybe. I know I will be eventually and that was my parents plan, but I think I might be moving down soon. The main problem is that it's very boring and ugly. Shouldn't be to hard to change, because the only floral things are flowers (easily moved), a weird doll-thing, and the floral bed sheet (which I'll definately change). Then instead of painting the white walls I might just cover them with posters. Once again, It's really too bad I forgot about the interesting thing I was going to blog. About the pic....It was the only pic I could find because I used up all the recent ones. It's a gingerbread house I made a couple years ago. I have no idea when, really, but I remember making that surf board with the 'Surf's Up' sign.

EUREKA!!! I remember one of the thing-things! My dad found a really awesome deal at http://www.columbiahousecanada.com/sa/ch/ca_homepage.jsp?club=10 You can get 12 CDs free and then you have too buy 2 other CDs. Strangely, the total cost for us was $44 or something which is weird because we only bought 2 CDs, but it was because the shipping and handling was $27. We divided it, and $44 divided by 14= something like 3 dollars a CD which is still a great deal (if you can find 14 CDs you like). I think that's all for now. Wow. That's a long post.

Part 2 of the things I write in bed

I've actually already written the third one but I wrote this one a couple weeks ago and I'm only posting it now because I never got around to it. Numnber three is actually a cool ending to the trilogy, and all of these are true (but the first one is a bit stretched)

Mind Race
Once again consumed in black, alone. My mind wanders, running through where I need to be, and when. My brain struggles with the eternal calendar, week after week, never ending. The constant thought strains my mind. Days repeat themselves, similar enough to be monotonous, different enough to mess with my thoughts. The schedule clashes. Which is more important? I struggle with priorities. Confused, alone, in pain, and blinded.

Pi is goood.

Okay, I couldn't get the ad to go in place of the crab fight, but I got it on the movie list. Check it out.

Pi = 3.1415926535 (this is a very abbreviated number. very very abbreviated.)

I had to make a non-smoking ad for school, so I added it on the right in place of the crab video. Another post about the volleyball tournament will come tomorrow, or the next day, or...

To be, or not to be...

I need to update, but I don't really have anything important up. I have a volleyball game tomorrow and a tournament the day after. I'll post after that. As for the picture, it's the strangely deformed cupcakes my mom made a couple days ago. We have no idea how they got like that.

Riders (and Ava)

Here's a picture Jason (my youth leader) sent me. It's Ava in her new t-shirt! AndI was talking to Jason the other day and he was saying how he was making Ava into a Rider fan by telling her to cheer when the Riders score (she claps) and he gets hi-five from her too. As soon as she starts talking, he should teach her 'go Riders' or 'touchdown!' Usually when I hang out with little kids I teach them to *pound it* or something. Um...............................

More Zoo pics.

Somehow these weren't downloaded earlier. And the animals were behind glass, which makes an annoying glare

Minot

I was in Minot the last weekend, as was most of Saskatchewan. We counted 15 Sask license plates in a parking lot, and there were probably five times as many we didn't see. I also saw license plates from (let's see if I can remember) Tennessee, North Carolina, Washington, Minnesota, Virginia, Texas, Florida, and probably a couple others. My cousin's hotel was attached to the mall (and had 3 sweet water slides) so we did tons of shopping, swimming, and watching TV (we watched 4 episodes of 'Drake and Josh' in a row). Yesterday we went to the Roosevelt Zoo (it was nice out) and it's really awesome. It had lions and tigers and bears - Oh My! The pics above are of the 2 hours we spent at the zoo, then we had lunch at Space Aliens (which is amazing) and drove home. For shopping, all I bought was a sweet CD by ApologetiX, a Christian Parody band (I'll try to somehow get the music to you guys via the blog) and the first BATHROOM READER!!! Now I have #1, 12, 13, 14, 17, and 19! Bathroom readers are amazing, if you haven't read them. Once again, I had something else to say, but forgot it.

A healthy way to start the day

Here's a pretty cool picture of my breakfast. An egg with hot sauce from Barbados on a piece of cheddar cheese on a slice of whole wheat toast. Along with a glass of fruit juice, it has all four food groups and tastes really good. The egg was steaming when I took the picture, but you can't see the steam, but it looked really cool in real life.

Two posts in one day, wow.

Here's some pics of the gifts for my youth leader's daughter, Ava. The card has three Far Side comics. First one has two guys making cereal and reading 'cereal for Dummies' he says "Wait, wait, Cory. Firct the cereal and then the milk. Second one has a couple dangerous animals and a guy wearing weird clothes holding a bazooka. the caption is: How nature says 'Do Not Touch.' The last one is a guy that has aposter that says 'Pants first, Shoes Second.' On the inside, I wrote: Valuable lessons all one-year olds should know (she's turning one) Then I have the signed picture of me and the "Rider" jersey with her last name and an one. Sorry the pictures are dark, but I really hate the flash. If you didn't see it, check out the post below. I added that one 10 or so minutes ago, so you probably didn't see it yet. Um, yeah. Ava's birthday is today, but I'll have to give her presents to her tomorrow at youth. hopefully her internal calender isn't messed up for the rest of her life.

Poem I wrote last night in bed.

Dark Fear
I lie in bed, alone in black, and listen to the slow CD. I hear the constant ticking of the wall clock. I reach for a kleenex and slowly sit up, not wanting to startle whatever is waiting for to close my eyes. I can see the random blotches of clothes lying on the floor combined with books and other homework. The digital clock glows eerily as the numbers change every sixty seconds. I look out the window and see a light. I quickly lie down, scared of the strange flash. As I take a second look towards the unknown, I see a simple street light. I lie back down. Suddenly, I wake up. How much was dream? Was it a dream? I vaguely remember someone breaking in silently in the black. Was it a dream? Was it a danger signal from God? I realise I have to go to the bathroom. Was the break-in meant to test my levels of fear?I wake up at 7:41, and start my daily, monthly, annual routine, and hope that the next night will have no fear.

Volleyball Practice

I think I doubled the number of push-ups I've done in my life today. At volleyball practice, my group lost the first warm-up and to do 51 sit-ups or push-ups. Then we had a scrimmage - innocent enough, right? But every time a team would let the ball drop, put it over before 3 hits, or serve a bad serve, that team would have to do ten push ups. After about a total of 50 push-ups the coach switched it to 5 push-ups every time. Then we did that for half an hour to forty-five minutes. It was one of the most brutal practices I've ever had.
I also made it to Pool 1 in RCBA (1 is best, 2 is worse - nothing in between) I have a kid from my school on my team his mom's the coach (she's also the school team coach) and I know a couple other kids on my team from previous basketball teams.

Umm... I think thats all. Check out the new movies and the poll on the right. Not left, right. I'm running out of new pictures to post, I guess I'll have to take more. I didn't actually take this one, I think my mom did this summer. There were a lot of dragonflies at the cabin this summer, but its okay, because I like dragonflies alot more than mosquitoes.