Update Explosion.

So much has happened in the last week. I really don't want to write it all out now so maybe I'll grant each subject 3 sentences. That's still a paragraph right?

So on Sunday of last week Grandpa and Grandma Lorain came up to WI to visit us. They stayed until Thursday morning, and we had a full week of fun stuff to do. I was kind of sad they had to leave.

While they were here we went to the EAA air museum. They had a special deal where students could go up in a two seater plane with a pilot. Me an Dwight both went up with this cool pilot who let us steer a little.

My neighbor's sister owns the house next to my neighbor. She has hired me to mow the lawn and keep it up. I have another possible lawn job too.

For fathers day my dad got a basketball hoop. It's taken him a week but he finally got it and set it up. Lots of fun.

Pops came to visit on Saturday and left yesterday. He helped fix the front porch. We thought it was a good idea to wake him up in the night with a pillow fight.

Well there it is my for FB statuses worth of a post. Maybe more later.

Got it Together

Oh ok I admit it. This summer I have indeed slacked off with my summer goals. I have been many things up til now: lazy, tired, and complacent. But I hope today marks a turning point. I got out today and ran for a while. I didnt get as far as I would have like to. I kind of lost my steam when I saw that my path was blocked by a tent full of people preparing for something. Not wanting to bother them I turned around. Unfortunately I had more surprises ahead. There seemed to be a mama bird that had decided to go Kamikaze on any unfortunate soul that should walk between her trees. She didn't scratch me or get leave any surprises in my hair, but scared the tar out of me. I tell you people if you need some motivation running their is none better than some mysterious wing-flapping animal going through your hair. I shot off like a street thug getting chased by the popo.

I came home and took a shower, and played my drums. Write now I'm sitting here writing and it feels good to know I got some stuff done today, may this be a habit forming for the rest of the summer.

This week I signed up for a tech class to help out with some plays that a family at our school runs for junior high and high school kids. Tuesday was our first day and it we mostly talked, and planned. Thursday was optional because the group was just moving stuff from a storage center. I opted out of this because it would be easier for Dwight and my mom's schedule. All the same I'm excited to go get to do that. It should be a fun experience.

Even though I actually didn't go to the tech class yesterday, I still had fun. Me my friend Alex his sister/personnal driver drove down to the Fonduloc mall for some smoothies that my friend claims are the best on earth. I had to say they were pretty good, but the ice wasn't crushed and kept coming into my mouth as little watery bacon bits. Me and Alex stopped into Game Stop for a few seconds while his sister went to go look at shoes. We drove on back and I arrived just in time to see my dad get home and let me in the front door. It was a good day.

15 Years of Lessons. Here's Two More

Well my blog bud today I stand here a whole 15 years old. Yesterday was the magic day when 15 years ago, I was born. I really don't get why my mom even tells me about my birth because it must have been traumatizing. I am ashamed to think I almost killed her. She blames it on my big head. But on my 15th I chose to think about more positive topics.

Yesterday I went to one buffalo wild wings with my friend Luke and completely had my pants embarrassed off me. Now when it's your first time at BWW they will let you try different sauce samples with corn chips. Let me tell you friends a chip dip is a whole world of different compared to the actual flame smothered wings. This world of difference in hotness is all due to how much you eat on the chip and the fact that I'm prertty sure my friends the chicken wings had a nice flaming bath before they took the long dark road to my gob. The people at BWW have an entire scale of sauces that they rate from smilin to sizzlin to screamin. Well one sauce away from screamin (The second hottest sauce) really should be labled cryin. That's exactly what I did. So of course mom had to get out her phone and take that little snapshot. Maybe I should have been smart like my friend luke. He just had some chicken and fries.

If the burn wasn't bad enough some family member who is to remain nameless broke the silent birthday code. Whenever you have a birthday at a restaurant you do not under any circumstances (Listen here children) tell your waitress that it is your or anybody else's birthday. It will result in one of the following case studies: The very enthusiastic vocal talents of the Italian restaurant singing choir, The Mexican Place Ambush Committee, (Complete with maracas and sombrero.) or in my case Mircophone-Man. I do not know his name so I am reffering to him as MicroMike. (Even though he was kind of a tall guy.) MicroMike asks everyone for their attention and alerts them that it is my birthday. Thanks Mike. I'm sure you made mine and everyone's happy-sunny-rainbow-unicorn-filled day. Everyone looks at mike for a split second and then most looked back at their food. At least this is what I seemed to think. If M-M hadn't given me a birthday flame crown and some ice cream I may have well gotten up and smacked him back to wherever he came from. Seriously he came out of nowhere though.

Luke is part of the reason I'm so stinking tired right now. When we got Luke from his house to go eat I had no idea we'd stay up talking and playing games until sometime after 4 o'clock. In retrospect staying up late is not my strong suit and something I should really have stopped doing around 3 or maybe even 2.

Two huge lessons from my first day of year 15.

WHHOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOO Summer

Well so far my summer is awesome. I saw Prince of Persia with two of my buddies today. Me and dwiterz have just been hanging out. That is kinda all there is to say.

Basically Summer

Well Ladies and Gentlemen (Dang that is like the worst way to start blogging. That's an intro I'm never going to try again.) Tomorrow is my last day at school and summer calls to me with open arms. I have but to do finals tomorrow and then I shall escape the chains that bind me into a (Insert intelligent end of metaphor here). I have decided to all-together boycott this waste of a perfect day. I from now on no longer acknowledge the infamous day until it is over. I was going to write a sentence here about something but I have a feeling I boycotted it. So on to a new paragraph. (Wow. That was kinda cheesy.)

Well so far I'm off to a good start on my summer goals. Today I ran/jogged/walked down to Aimes Point the beautiful stretch of land that curves out into the middle of the waters around the road. I guess technically this is an isthmus, peninsula, strait, or something fancy like that but due to the recent outbreak of summer I no longer feel the need to describe it to you, as that seems like a school sanctioned activity of which I have abandoned. To make a long story short you really want some jogging shorts t go jogging. The lack of this will result in the most uncomfortable form of jog-wear known to man. The second thing I learned is that I am in need of a lot more of these little running trips that I just did. Thus said making it even more necessary to do this everyday.

My second so far declared summer project is my web site. I have decided to revamp it and add functionality. So far I have this:

I know it's just a header. But it will get better. The site's main purpose is to host all the cool stuff I'm going to make this summer and hopefully go off from there. I plan on hosting games, videos, and maybe some music. This isn't going to be as much of a hobby site as I hope for it to be more of a legitimate studio site. I want my friends to be in on this. Especially with making videos. My eventual hope is to get a nice camera, and do some vids with my friends. After all I have tons of acting friends, this could have potential.

To finish a great school year (Referring to friends by saying great. Not school work.) we have our 8th grade graduation, and parties. It should be a great time. My friend Kyle is having a camping trip in his yard tomorrow night, and my pal Gabe is holding an after party for the graduation on Thursday. Sounds like good fun.

Well another day another blog post. (Actually that's really not how it works but for the sake of clee-shay-ness I said it anyway)

-Woody

Another Update

Right now I'm sitting in the basement of our dear friend/almost family member Eldon, who we lovingly refer to as It's kind of hard to explain how we have this pops so I'm just going to call him my uncle, or godfather or something. He's just awesome we'll leave it there. Anyway I am skipping my third day of finals to sit here in his basement in Indiana which I sort of think is a summer-home, or rather a home away from home.

This is my last school weekend and after Tuesday I'll be done for the summer. Just relaxing and taking it all in for now, but I hope I don't get killed by those last two final exams I have left.

Today blog buddies, I shall share with you my top 5 and bottom 5 things.

Top 5:

1. An Icee slushy
2. Applying something new to a project or daily life
3. Family get-togethers
4. Hanging out with friends
5. Starting and finishing projects

Bottom 5:

1. Old people (And I'm talking pre-historic) having teenage soap opera love moments in public. That's just gross.
2. Overly cheesy adults that treat you like a toddler. "Helllo, I'm sally, and your mommywanted me to watch you while she's in the hospital" GO AWAY SALLY! I'm so thankful that I haven't met anyone like that lately.
3. Mistaking milk chocolate for dark chocolate
4. Feeling guilty for something beyond control
5. Those annoying Facebook pages that everyone "Likes". Those things spread like a wildfire. Everyone just clicks like, and there is no way to get it out of your newsfeed.

Well that's it for this quick post.

That Time Of Year Again, The Best Time.

Well, friends it seems we have come to the end of our school years rope. I have two more days of school to take my finals and then it's time for us to cast of our lady the S.S. Freedom with a good classic bottle of wine for a journeys good luck. The only question of this oh so epic of journeys starts here before we cast off. Shall I proceed to climb this rope to the top or simply burn it off? I feel incredibly impatient now and feel as if studying is in sorts a bit of a waste of time. I feel confident in most things, but at the same time I feel like if I don't the very balance of Karma itself will come to roundhouse kick me in the face. So is it wise to cast off our lady freedom, the finest ship in the fleet with such clouds over-looming? (Pardon my poetic overuse.)

On the brighter side of this situation are my plans for this summer. I plan on a very productive summer. My daily plans include running every morning to train for cross-country next year, going to the library once a week, and teaching my self new technologies.

I have tons of ideas for fun projects too:

I have great ideas for a short movie.

I might write a song or two.

I'm going to learn how to make some cool games.

But I don't want to be a shut in this summer so I want to have lot's of time with friends, and lot's of activity going on. I don't want for one second to feel bored, so I've come up with an armada of ideas to combat it. This is a great summer for making stuff and hanging out so I'm going to take full advantage.

Here is my thoroughly unimpressive palm tree. I spent very little time drawing and too much time trying to make it look cooler than it really was.