Geekin' Hard

Alright. I'm going to take up a post, to be a complete and total geek. I'm not posting this to be fun of, so if you intend to make fun of me, save it for your journal. I'm posting this for those who keep their bit of hidden geek tucked away inside them. Basically, I was on StumbleUpon (if you haven't heard of it, then check it out www.stumbleupon.com) and I stumbled to this website - www.minecraft.net. Basically, its a 3D game (You can play creative mode for free) where you place, and destroy loads of different kinds of blocks that are different types of minerals and ores and soils and rocks and wood and you build yourself mines underground, and skywalks above, and houses on ground. During the day its a lovely scenery, with wild farm animals (cows, pigs, sheep, chickens) roaming around, you can climb up into the trees, and swim in crystal clear water, and just enjoy the scenery. But nights -- Hopefully you spent your lovely day building a fort or shelter of somekind, because at night is when the monsters come out, and you better protect yourself. I was playing this game with my friend Kaitlin the other day. We dug ourselves into a cave, and couldnt get out quickly. Suddenly I saw something, a little glimpse of something greenish above us. It fell into the hole. Suddenly we were both screaming and panicking. Quickly I shut the entrance to the big cave, but the creature was just on the other side of two rocks. It was making the grossest gurgly noises, and we just screamed more and backed away from the computer. That was my first experience of a Zombie. There are also Skeletons that shoot arrows, and these weird things called Creepers that explode, and the spiders. You can see the spiders from a long ways off, because of their red glowy eyes. Now, it isn't the graphics of this game that freak me out. No, its good old 1990's graphics, everythings cubic and not scary whatsoever, its the noises, and the sheer surprise if you fall into the clutches of a mob of monsters. All in all, my brother Sam and I are completely addicted to this game, and we can't get enough of it. Completely obsessed. Of course. :) I really suggest you try it. Honestly.

Adventure!

So tonight, late, about 9:10 pm, my brother Sam and I heard music from our house. It was distant, but hearable. At first it sounded like music coming from a house down the street, and we thought someone was having a party. Then my dad said, 'No, thats coming from a concert down at Old Mill.' So then we drove down to Old Mill to check it out. When we got there, we heard absolutely nothing. It was silent. But we saw a lot of cars driving away, so naturally, we thought the concert had just ended and people were leaving. So we drove home, and we heard the music again. So I said, "Yeah, I think it is a party." and then my mom said "Maybe it is coming from Cascade (the middle school by our house)." and she told us to go walk down there and check it out if we wanted. So we started walking. Now, to get to cascade from our house is about 10 minutes. So we got there... and it was dark, and sorta creepy, and nothing was going on at all. But we definitely heard the music louder. So we kept walking. We hopped this tall fence, and started walking through all this land. Past Cascade, then Past 7 Peaks (Another middle school) and we did some trail creating of our own. We leaped over sagebrush, got poked by a lot of prickles, climbed a few more fences, crossed a unknown busy street, that in daylight I probably would know. Then we finally heard the music loud and saw lights. And a stage. But in the distant. We slid down this big dusty hill, and finally got there. Standing in the parking lot, I realized where we were - The Bend Athletic Center - about a 20 - 25 minute walk from our house if you count all the bush whacking and trail making. Everyone was leaving, right as we got there the concert ended. There must have been 300 people there. I think it may have been a paid concert, so when we saw a gate open, and no one gaurding, we snuck in. There was this one guard there that was looking at us like we were young ruffians and didn't belong there. Out of no where, my brother says just loudly enough for the guard to hear, "Mom? Dad? Where are you guys?!" and I was just dumbfounded. He thought of that by himself! I always thought him to be a goody two shoes, but his rebellious side just shined. I am so proud of him! He's learning well. :) So we get past the guard, and into the concert, and there is a LOT of litter on the ground, and a big stage with lights and such all over it, and it was so cool! Then we left to go home after about 5 minutes of exploring. We took a different route, but it was pretty adventuresome also! Keep in mind, all of this is being done in the black of night! So it was creepy just climbing through unknown forest! AHH!

A Year In Review.

Today was the last day of school. I don't know why it is over. But it is. What a great year. There is no good reason for it to be over. I want to cry, but I can't. So much fun. Here is the year in one full sentance. Enjoy.

Creation of the Odd Squad, "BOH!" signal recognized by people, 61 "E's" stolen, one teachers ceiling forked, same teachers desk paperized (go Miss Gradek!!), faked British accents for subsm controled classroom TV's with a tiny universal remote, got sent to the BLACK CHAIRS three time, detention twice, ate a lot of wierd food for cookies and snack mixes, chose a favorite teacher, got inspired to do tennis, got inspired altogether, successfully wrote 8 page long letters in handwriting as big as this font, sprained my ankle, maybe fractured on the last day of school, sat out during the Fling kind of, soaked Miss Gradek, went to oaks park, didn't throw up, barely matured, shrinked my handwriting, got better at art, avoided Mrs. Boggs but wrote her a nice letter in the end, got disqualified from the peace poster contest for being to old, got peace poster grand reviews by the best artist ever, got it framed, got glasses, got a boyfriend, circle of friends doubled in size, didn't move to Bend, graduated 8th Grade, got straight A's for the first time ever, watched Napoleon Dynamite, dressed like Deb for school, spilled chocolate milk all over my Deb costume and had to wear a friends way to big clothes for the day, got five bingos, got sour stuff in my eyes, got perfume on Zach, got yelled at, got scolded, made friends with Miss DeTurk, became an official Odd Squad Prezident, shaped up my behaivior in P.E. wrote this long, long sentence, got a myspace, got a facebook, facebook turned out much better, went on a first date, fell in love with the Original Star Trek series, and became a freshman.

I would call that an accomplishment.

I seem to have lost my MARBLES...

I recently remembered this prank I played on my friend Zach during the first quarter of school. Marbles went everywhere!

What we did was take a dixie cup and cut out the bottom. Lucky for us we knew his locker combo.. So, we put the dixie cup without a bottom in his locker and filled it with marbles. When he opened his locker, he saw the cup there. Out of instinct, he picked the cup up... and marbles went EVERYWHERE! We were lucky enough to not be there when it happened so we went around completely innocent! Ha! Mr. Evil Grump.. well, I'm sick of using that name.. Mr. Leaver didn't yet know the brilliant schemes of the Odd Squad so we were left untraceable! Now if we were to do that, we would be questioned and probably found guilty. Oh well! It was so much fun to walk by and see marbles scattered all around the 8th grade wing floor!

Stealing those "E's!"

Danii and I's favorite prank was one that was done for a quarter of the school year. you know those cut out paper letter "E's" that you usually find on bulletin boards? Well Danii and I spent a quarter of the school year stealing those off of all the bulletin boards. We set a goal for ourselves to get 50 E's. And we worked very hard to achieve this goal. Only one teacher knew about this. Miss. Favorite Teacher. She is SO cool. We are able to hang out in her room every morning and get away from the insanity of middle school. So anyways, she was the only teacher who knew about this and she was GREAT at keeping it secret! This being our 8th grade year and with me moving 3 hours away at the end of the year, we wanted to make this year the most memorable.

It all started when Danii saw a little E just hanging off the bulletin board and she just kinda tore it off. I don't know why this was so funny, but it was. So I took one too. This is what started it all. eventually, once I had 13 E's and Danii had 23, teachers started to get suspicious. Let me introduce two new characters.
Mrs. Detention Lady and
Mr. Handy Man

I was in Gym class when I realized that I forgot my gym clothes in my locker. So I asked my gym teacher and I went back to my locker. As I was heading back, I was called over by Mr. Handy Man. He pointed to my sweatshirt that said "Young Life" on it. Actually, he pointed right to the letter E in the word life and said, "do you know anything that has to do with that letter?"

I knew I had to tell the truth. I'm just that kind of person. So I slowly squeezed the truth out.
"What do you mean" I said
Then Mr. handy Man said, "Well, me and a lot of other staff have noticed E's going missing"
"Oh, thaaaaat.... ya see, it all started when..." and I told him the story.
"Well, Mrs. Detention Lady and I have decided to give you and Danii a detention."

Well, Danii and I had made a goal earlier in the school year that we WOULD both get a detention together, because surprisingly enough, we NEVER have.

So when I told Danii that she got herself a long awaited detention, she jumped about two feet in the air and screamed!

Someone was a little excited...

So when we attended our little lunch detention, we were in for a big surprise. Mrs. Detention lady had us cut out E's. But the unusual part was that we were allowed to KEEP the E's! So after our little detention, we decided to take NO MORE E's.

Danii, on the other hand, loved taking them so much and she couldn't resist. POP. There goes the pretty white laminated one!