IvanTortuga's Blog

Starting a 101 project!

2009-09-16T13:43:00.000-07:00

Okay everyone, lets face it sometimes we all need a little motivation to do things, even things we already want to do. One great example of mine would be to finish War & Peace, which I have started multiple times just to put down and forget about till the next time I see it sitting around. I found the "Day Zero" project and I feel like it's just what I need 101 things in 1001 days. Now just to think about what 101 things I want to accomplish. Off to the drawing board I go!

Update

2009-09-01T13:22:00.000-07:00

I'm up at Northern Michigan University this is week two of classes. I'm taking a math class, biology lecture and lab and an english class. The math class is 090 which is basically pre-college, I haven't really taken any math in awhile so that's why I'm there it's almost too simple and a lot of the concepts are just like "DUH" but I have to start somewhere right? My english teacher goes through the room and rips everyone's papers apart but never really says anything about mine, he just put's little "yes" marks on my papers about what he likes, it's sort of weird. The biology lecture is actually REALLY good and I can find myself enjoying the professor without a problem. I was invited to Vancouver, Izmir, and Paris in the last week all from friends. Evsen in Izmir was an exchange student that I met in school and Jenna is studying in Paris.

Financial Aid & College

2009-07-20T15:12:00.000-07:00

As stated on other post I am currently enrolled at Northern Michigan University. Yes, I'm a freshmen but not for long. Unlike most people changing "grades" on a yearly basis, I change in the winter. This is because I went to Kalamazoo Valley Community College for a semester and took summer courses at NMU. I'm currently taking Mythology so I can get another liberal studies requirement out of the way, I did the same thing with Music in Society. Just another refresher, or for those of you who haven't read anything else on my blog, I'm a Zoology major minoring in International Studies.

Anyways back to the point of this particular blog, financial aid. Every time I have gone to receive aid I always have issues. With KVCC I didn't receive any because I was not seeking to gain a degree from their school. For summer courses at NMU my aid came to late forcing me to pay out of my own pocket (I am getting refunded for what I paid), and for fall my aid was "cancelled" but and I am currently waiting to see what's happening there. I contacted the office to see what was going on and the lady told me that they just needed to verify my paper work. Basically I hear issues with financial aid offices all the time. My friend is currently taking a break because he had major issues as well. He went to Western Michigan University and will not be returning, when he starts again he will be going to a new school. I guess this is more a of a 'ack! rant than blog but either way it keeps me stress free haha.

KL on College

2009-07-18T21:38:00.000-07:00

Okay so KL strikes again! This is our discussion on schools. Beware this one is a tad bit lengthier. By the way when I talk to her my grammar takes a critical hit (wow that was nerdy).

Me - I just took an exam and I totally got a 80% and I haven't even read like half of it.

KL - Online?

Me - mhm online.

KL - I have to start online school soon to get my diploma. haha

Me - It's sometimes harder than in person school because you can't be like "HEY WAIT WHAT". I need a conclusion for my paper. tralala

KL - But you can email them if you need help.

Me - Yeah of course *nods* but you can't just stop them in the middle of class. ya know?

KL - I never did that anyways, I was too shy.

Me - Me too :/ haha. Well except in classes I knew the teachers very well.

KL - Me too hehe but I don't feel comfortable around most teachers, just the fun ones.

Me - Dittos fo sho sho

KL - [finishing previous thought process] that I know wont bite my head off for speaking up. I didn't really learn much from my High School. (No I don't know where she went)

Me - That says about 50/50 though, if you REALLY want to learn you will. At the same time some schools don't help their students enough.

KL - I don't really think people get anything out of copying definitions and footnotes :/ .

Me - Like I said it depends on how badly you want to learn. It's a lot harder to learn that way but if you REALLY want to learn you'll also read all the information and maybe even read outside sources, etc.

KL - I think they should find a better way to teach, relate the things to things we know so they stay with us.

Me - *shrugs* I think that's something the student should have to do especially in High School, because once you're in college it's "fuck you" xD.

KL - Well that's shitty especially if you pay for that shit. They should be better teachers.

Me - No it's only shitty if you waste your money.

KL - I don't think it should be that way. :/ That's why I'm scared to go to college.

Me - Just so you know if you go to Germany they are a lot stricter than some of our colleges when it comes to things you already should know, etc. (I realize not all German colleges are this way and yes I realize some US schools are VERY strict)

KL - I have such a temper, I'd be like "WTF!? YOU PRICK!"

Me - Probably not the best approach to College.

KL - grrrasdfghjkl That's SO fucked.

Me - Maybe in person college isn't your thing? Well it's not ALL ABOUT YOU it's about everyone and if they have to kneel down to you it's like wasting everyone else's time and money.

KL - Meeh

Me - I mean there are office hours you can go talk to you professor.

KL - Well they could kneel down to everyone!

Me - No see in college you kneel to yourself. You study, you make study groups. It's not the professors time to hold your hand and force feed you info, it's not their job.

KL - Study groups??? (this honestly shocked me that she had no idea what I meant)

Me - Yes. Like a group of people who study together.

KL - Sheeesssh I hate people.

Me - Okay, then you study alone xD.

This is when the conversation is turned to a "how people act" in person dealio. But I hope to raise more important topics from KL and see what she thinks. I don't mean to dis her but it shows what some people think about colleges and other ideas. Like yesterday's on blogging. Also JE might make more appearances at a later time but those would be much more serious convos are just plain silly ones. Also please don't ask for names, I will NOT give out any names beyond my own. I will tell you that KL is from Florida and JE is from Michigan. From time to time I might give an update on how the person is doing or how our friendship is going but beyond that really you wont be getting much.... unless you pay attention ;)

Blog Fight

2009-07-16T15:10:00.000-07:00

Here's a quick bit from a conversation I just had with my friends.

KL - Shesh livejournal is so confusing.

KL - Do you have one?

Me - A lonnnnnnng time ago

Me- Yes

Me - But I use blogspot now

KL - Blogspot is so plain

KL - and lame

Me - Livejournal is for kiddies who need to grow up

JE - Blogging is gay

KL - Your mom is gay

JE - Zing!

KL - What is "zing"?

Disclaimer he JE doesn't use "gay" as an insult it was a joke.

Side note go see HP6!

Northern Michigan University

2009-05-18T17:30:00.001-07:00

So now that I'm settled in and out of class and such I guess I'll inform everyone about what's going on. I arrived in Marquette on the 14th with my mom and grandma and they stayed up here till my birthday on the 16th so that we could do some around the town "where is everything at" stuff. It snowed on the 16th but the 15th was a beautiful day so I didn't mind too much. So far I've said "hi" to about 4 people, I don't bump into many people and things are fairly quiet. My class is MU 125, Music in Society, today was the first day so I had to wake up at 7am which was a complete change from my normal "don't wake me up before 10" deal. When I got there it wasn't that big of a class MAYBE 20 people, I think less or at least it feels that way. The professor commented on my signature by asking "are you premed?" which made me smile to which I said "no I'm a zoology major" then he goes ".... all you scientist have the same writing" which made me laugh to myself he was trying to be nice not mean like it might seem. On the 17th the day before class started I went for a hiking trip over to Hogsback Mountain. Once I finally made it to the summit I was completely taken back by the beautiful scenery, You could see for miles in every direction, I loved it.

Less than Moments

2009-05-07T14:04:00.001-07:00

Hey everyone! I've just been doing a bunch of yard work and cleaning lately, getting things sorted out before I move next Wednesday (May 13th). If you don't know I'll be moving to Marquette, Michigan to go to school at Northern Michigan University. My spring course is MU125 - Music in Society, no i'm not a music major or anything like that I'm just doing a liberal art requirement, my major is Zoology. Well I still have a lot of sorting to do so I'll update everyone with more later!

Isle Royale and the Southwestern Winter

2009-04-29T11:10:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone looks like it was a little while between blogs again, my car was broke and I'm just going to say that was the reason I couldn't reach my computer haha. Anyways now for the real important stuff. Like I said I'll be up in Isle Royale this August so if you're going to be up there you know you have island company. My BIG problem right now is the trying to figure out how to save money to travel to Fort Worth, Texas. There's a girl there that has captured my heart for more than a year now and I would LOVE to go visit but here's the problem.... Money. I'm pretty much up for anything besides selling my Mac and or not going to Isle Royale. Freelance photography.... not exactly the money mine that people think it is.

Broken Mac

2009-04-21T09:40:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the long delay between post my Mac had a problem and had to go away for a little while. At first I was freaked out about it but it turns out the particular problem I had was quite common and Apple was willing to fix it for free with absolutely no charge, no shipping, nothing. I'm off the market now when I went to Ionia I asked Jenna out so all is well in that department. She's incredibly smart it's pretty awesome. LaShay has my family cook book and I'm currently waiting for her to get over her to give it back. Not that I have anything to do today. I'll probably play some xbox live. My gamer tag is IvanTortuga if you ever want to add me or just to check out what I play/etc. Well I'm off!!

Adventure Land

2009-04-04T10:03:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I went to Taco Bobs and saw Adventure land. AL wasn't exactly the funniest movie ever but it was still really good, I recommend it. It was too windy to really do anything else though so this blog is going to be really short haha.

Slappin' da Bass

2009-04-02T16:25:00.001-07:00

Today Jake and I decided to go to Lexington Green Park and do a little "jam session" it's the first time we've ever played "music" together and sounded quite horrible. One reason is because I haven't played the didgeridoo that long and haven't gotten the whole circular breathing thing down the other reason is well we suck, haha. We decided we should continue to practice and get better so that's what we're doing. On a much cooler note Tim Tams are now sold in Targets in the US so we went out and bought some. We then went down to Panera and got some coffee and did our first Tim Tam Slams and OHHHHMYYYGOD it was heaven. I LOVE Tim Tams and may now have an addiction.

Viral

2009-03-31T14:21:00.000-07:00

So I wont be online tomorrow because of that damn April Fools Virus. I own a Mac but my grandma runs a PC and my internet is her internet so it's like damn. Today Jake and I played a little tennis for a quick work out, besides that nothing is really happening today. Oh I did get my Tent in the mail finally so that's a good thing. The guy promised me a $10 refund by monday but that was yesterday and I still have no money back. This guy is SOOO close to getting a really really bad user review.

Lights

2009-03-30T22:54:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone today Jake and I played Halo 3 most of the night, mostly failing quite hard seeing as we aren't junkies like some people that play. We played a little Hacky Sack and soccer early too. I haven't done anything active almost all summer and to say the least it took a toll on me. On the way home from Jake's house I got pulled over for having a head light out I never even knew that head light was out so he let me go with a "just get it fixed no worries". The odd thing is he is the same exact cop that pulled me over a few weeks ago because I was apparently using brights. Those were fixed and I never had to pay a fine or anything. Sigh, I don't think I'll be driving at night ever again.

Insectosaurs

2009-03-29T21:02:00.000-07:00

Today Jake and I went out and saw Monsters vs Aliens and I Love You Man (again). MvA had sort of a dumb plot line and kinda sorta dumb characters for the most part but the actors pulled through and def made it worth it. I Love You Man is hilarious I recommend it if you haven't seen it yet.

Earth Hour

2009-03-28T13:35:00.000-07:00

Tonight at 8:30 - 9:30pm is the world wide Earth Hour where you simply have to switch your lights off. How hard is that? I mean hell if you think you're going to be bored just use your laptop just unplug everything. I strongly encourage at least checking out the site that was linked above. It's a great time to read a book or just talk with friends and family I mean think about it great time to play a board game by candle light it could even be a romantic dinner. I know I'll be participating I hope you all do too.

Backpacking

2009-03-27T15:04:00.000-07:00

I thought I'd give anyone a quick update about my backpacking seeing as I mentioned Isle Royale but really didn't go into ANY detail. For the last few months I've been using ebay to sell of my larger possessions I don't really use any more. I bought a large Expedition backpack through National Geographic but seeing as it's from NG it's mostly a camera bag so seeing as I don't need to carry a bunch of camera stuff I sold that and I sold my Magic the Gathering cards (childhood collection & memories). Between those two things and much a of small things I made enough for the gear ill be needing, my family keeps giving me little things too so that's helpful. My backpack is a Firefly from Outdoor Products. My sleeping bag is a three season sleeping bag from Meijer, I went meijer because it's quite a bit cheaper hope that doesn't come back and bite me in the ass. I bought my tent through ebay, it's a Eureka Apex 2. It is yellow, not exactly my favorite color but lets think about it this way if I'm lost and need something to signal with a bright yellow tent will help more than a dark green one. The buyer I bought it through is northernoutdoorsupply and I've been having some problems with them. I bought the item on Saturday and they say they use USPS and Priority shipping (2-3 days), it's day 6 not including Sunday. Today I asked where my tent was and they replied by saying they don't ship on Saturdays and that there is a 1-2 warehouse waiting period, according to this it should be here today. So I asked once again what was up with that and they replied by saying they looked into and were going to give me $10 back and I said okay because hell if I'm not going to get at least $10 back. I am currently still waiting for the $10 let's see if they follow through. I only a few more things including; Small light weight pan, Food (ill wait to buy that), Sleeping pad, rope & a plastic groundsheet for my tent. I estimate that I will have a few dollars left over which would be nice seeing as the Isle Royale entrance fee is $4 a day not including the ferry which will cost between $114 and $128.

Long Over Due

2009-03-27T12:56:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone I haven't said anything in quite sometime. So this might be one LONG update. We'll start from where I left off.

My schooling at KVCC went pretty good I got two A-'s and a D. I got the D in Russian History mostly because I stopped caring, yeah yeah I know that's a bad thing to do. Everything I was "learning" in Ethics and Ecology was just a repeat of what I had previously known it was to say the least the most boring semester of my life. I took this semester of because I don't have the money to continue to pay for myself. I'll be at Northern Michigan University on May 16th, my birthday, to start my summer semester.

So I ended up moving in with LaShay for quite a few months and things were going good at first but she ended up just not caring anymore. She was happy where she was in life and well to me that's not the life of an adult. Not saying that it's not okay for now it's just I'm the kind of person that needs to constantly better himself and she's the kind of person that almost seems to go the opposite way. She's a very nice person, she's just not my person. We broke up about a month ago and I moved out.

Since then I've been pretty bored trying to save money up for my trip to see my family in Sweden next year and trying to save money for my backpacking trip to Isle Royale this summer after my summer semester. I've gotten my backpack, tent, and most of my gear but I'm still lacking a few small things but that'll be okay. The big part will be paying for ferry across the lake onto Isle Royale but I currently have the funds for that. I also have to save up or at least figure out how to pay for the possibility to study abroad. It's a shame traveling is so expensive it's even worse that it's almost entirely plane tickets. Once in a place it never seems too bad if you're a smart shopper. If things went as good as possibly I'd want to go around the world when I graduate but that looks a little out of my reach as of right now seeing as ill be selling my car for the air fair to Australia if I do end up studying abroad. BUT we will see.

Kalamazoo Valley Community College

2008-09-26T18:25:00.001-07:00

OH I totally just realized I never mention that I did end up going to KVCC. I'm paying out of my own pocket *yuck*!! I'm taking; Ethics, Ecology & Field Biology and Russian History.

Living the Life

2008-09-26T18:10:00.001-07:00

Hey everyone just thought i'd add a little update. So like I said I'm not single anymore and I'm dating LaShay :) . She got an apartment since I last updated. My stuff is slowly making it's way over and we have a set date for me to move in, it's pretty amazing. Talk to ya'll later.

Not Single

2008-08-09T23:44:00.001-07:00

So I just thought I'd update the world. I started dating the girl I've had a crush on since my sophomore year of high school (a little over 3 years ago) and everything is going REALLY well. I mean we've only been dating since August 6th, '08. I see good things in the future though. Wish us luck!!!

Copyright

2008-07-15T10:56:00.000-07:00

I just wanted to remind everyone that sees these pictures that all photos have copyrights to my name. So please if you'd like to use one contact me but if you don't then don't use them.

Toledo Zoo

2008-07-08T14:08:00.000-07:00

So today My Grandma, Mom, Brother (Wesley, 9) and I went to Toledo Zoo, Ohio. We saw quite the variety of animals; Elephants, Rhinos, Snow Leopards, Lions, Tigers and Bears oh my. There's a very humorous sign that read "Coins Kill Ducks" I mean the meaning behind it was horribly sad I mean the fact that people are trying to feed coins to the ducks AND the fact that people would just leave their crap all around the zoo grounds. Everyone at the zoo was incredibly rude, there were countless people shoving into me and several times people would walk right in front of me while I was trying to take a picture. It killed me! All the animals were so depressed looking :( in their small cages

and hot, people tapping on the glass even though there were hundreds of "Do not tap" Signs. As we were leaving a storm started rolling in. Over the loud speaker a man said "there is a severe storm coming into the area please seek shelter at either the Gift shop or one of the enclosed animal shelters such as the aquarium or reptile area". Seeing as we were leaving and were right next to the gift shop we went and looked around. People started coming in panicked and pretty scared looking. So we started wondering what was going on, then over someone's radio someone said "keep everyone away from the windows". After a few more moments a man rushed in and told everyone that we had to go to another building. He lead us outside and into the offices and out the back door where we ran to another building. Once inside this small house sized office area we were all shoved into a small basement. Luckily for me I was able to stay in the office itself as the picture depicts. There was a TV in the room and I was able to watch the storm pass. The kids in the picture were also in the basement when the TV was on the only people in the particular room were a few workers and my family. After the storm let up we were aloud to leave and head out to our hotel. Also on another note heres a quote I found and absolutely love.

Bug Hunting

2008-07-06T23:21:00.000-07:00

So heres a list of what bugs Jacob Enos and I caught today.

Fort Custer:

x5 Red Milkweed Borers (Tetraopes tetrophthalmus)

x3 Japanese Beetles (Popillia japonica)

x2 Large Milkweed Bugs (Oncopeltus fasciatus)

x1 Monarch (Danaus plexippus)

x1 Silver-spotted Skipper (Epargyreus clarus)

x1 American Copper (Lycaena phlaeas)

x1 Eastern Tailed-blue (Cupido comyntas)

x1 Solider Beetle (idk?)

Lexington Green Park:

x2 Cabbage Whites (Pieris rapae)

x1 Common Checkered-skipper (Pyrgus communis)

The Rave Parking Structure:

x1 Ground Beetle (Harpalus pensylvanicus)

x1 Ground Beetle (Colliurus pensylvanicus)

x3 June Beetles (Phyllophaga sp.)

x1 Ilia Underwing (Catocala ilia)

Quite the days catch in my opinion.

Single

2008-07-02T22:26:00.000-07:00

So nothing has been happening in my life lately, not at all. I went to the zoo last week. I guess that's something. I'm currently reading Tales From Nowhere by Don George (and other random writers). It's pretty good makes me want to do some traveling.......more than I already want to. I've been putting a lot of stuff up on ebay too. But besides that I've just been sitting back and being single. Can't really seem to find anyone -shrugs- and that, to me, is a shame. Does anyone know anyone?? lol. But seriously I'm tired of being single. Also I REALLY want to travel. I need a nice trustworthy foreign girl, then I could travel to see her. Well that's enough person ranting for tonight. Night.

Home

2008-06-13T13:10:00.000-07:00

I got home yesterday afternoon at around 6pm. I was originally going to do my blog then but I decided I was much to tired for that. So now It's story time!

I left Tuesday morning at 6am and drove to Jake's house. He loaded his stuff into the car and we were off. I wasn't quite sure if my car could even make it. Living around 500 miles away from Niagara Falls, New York driving there wasn't completely the best idea for my beat up old car. I mean when I left the "Check Engine" light was already on. We drove straight through the bottom portion of Michigan with no problems. We entered Indiana and left almost as fast as we got there. But then the fun started, we entered Ohio's Toll roads. We estimated getting to Cleveland would cost $6.50 (which is of course what it cost). They have some amazing "Service Plazas" in Ohio, which are just REALLY nice rest areas. We got stuck in a traffic jam in Cleveland due to what we think was an accident. While in the Traffic Jam we decided to play some Bob Marley and other such artist over our radio quite loud. This was the first time during the entire first day it WASN'T raining. After the traffic jam we still had quite a bit of Ohio to traverse. Then we entered Erie County Pennsylvania. We stopped at a rest area collected 5ish bugs, then we were off again. Soon as we left the PA rest area it started raining again. A few hours later we showed up in Buffalo, New York and then Niagara Falls, New York. Our original plan was to speed the night in Fourmile State Park but we changed our mind due to the weather and stayed in the local Hampton Inn.

After making sure we had a room we decided to just view the falls right there and then because the rain stopped and that would mean we could see more the next day. So we went to the falls (see above picture) and what can I say it was amazing. They are huge!! I can't even explain how nice they were in this blog.

Back to something I can explain the Inn. They had a swimming pool!! It was only 5ft at the deepest part. Jake and I were the only people using the pool besides a man and his 10ish year old daughters. The beds were pretty much amazing!! We then, at about 11pm, ordered a pizza it was good but not the best. Then went to sleep.

The next day we left at about 9:30am going south trying to figure out what we wanted to see. We ended up in Stony Brook State Park, New York. It was an amazing place with this one long creek that runs through it. The park is located in Dansville, I recommend checking it out if you ever get the chance.

Niagara Falls

2008-06-09T19:06:00.000-07:00

I leave at 6am for Niagara Falls tomorrow. Quite the drive but it will be one hell of a fun trip. I will update once I get back adios!

Graduation Party

2008-06-07T16:21:00.000-07:00

Today I had my graduation party it was nice. Not too many people showed up, but they were just the right people. Moon was there and he brought Zoppi, they are very cute. Anyways, I am so tired from setting up, having it, mingling and then cleaning up. That's all for now!!

Thanks

2008-06-04T15:08:00.000-07:00

ANOTHER boring day off. Graduating sure did make things boring as hell xD. At least I get to sleep. I usually wake up between 1pm and 3pm then I do nothing all day. I bought a CD set that should teach me Spanish, I hope it works. Kalamazoo Valley Community College screwed up my financial aid stuff so I may very likely be volunteering overseas next year NOT going to college. What ever ends up happening though I'll be in college the fall of '09 NOT in Michigan. Hm there really isn't anything else to say right now so I'll "write" more later.

Yuck

2008-06-02T20:46:00.000-07:00

Today I bought the Indiana Jones Trilogy that's it nothing of interest sorry!

Boredom

2008-06-01T18:27:00.000-07:00

Well nothing interesting happened today. I woke up pretty late about 12-1pm. I sat around and did literally nothing still about 5pm then I went out and picked up the In The Name of Love Africa Celebrates U2 and Living Language Spanish. After all that I went and saw the movie The Strangers. It was pretty good I had a few jumps. That's all I have to say today -shrugs-.

Just Causes (Week 1 Invisible Children)

2008-05-31T20:28:00.000-07:00

So I've been studying up on Invisible Children and I was going to buy this shirt. First off I love the store at Invisible Children, they have some great stuff. The bracelets are pretty kick ass. Not to mention they all go towards a good cause! I totally suggest going here to their store and picking up the DVD and some awesome gear! I personally can't wait for my gear/DVD. Like I said before the stuff is great and the cause is greater.

The Day After

2008-05-31T10:56:00.000-07:00

So last night I graduated! Cool 'eh? Like I said my mom was able to attend that was a nice surprise. Right after graduation Jacob and I went to D&W (grocery store) to get some Sobe/Monster Energy drinks and some donuts. On the way back from D&W in all of my excitement I had forgotten to turn my head lights on. I got pulled over. The cop asked the normal questions and flash lighted my eyes to make sure I was wearing contacts. Then we were let go, no ticket no this is your warning or anything. :D Well here's a picture of me with my diploma.

Also I'm starting a "Picture a Day" Starting RIGHT NOW. If you want to see the experiment on the year long journey go HERE.

Mother

2008-05-30T10:45:00.000-07:00

Well I have a little bit of time so I thought I would tell you all my mom is home. It's weird because we are acting like we saw each other just yesterday. The worst part is she'd rather be out with Randy (her boyfriend) but whatever. She looks pretty sick (in a unhealthy way) her hair is all stringy and thinning, her face is all old and wrinkly. Well that's all I have to say right now. Till next time adios.

Count Down

2008-05-30T09:15:00.000-07:00

So here I am at 12:12pm waiting for several things. My mom should be getting here soon, well she gets out of jail at noon and then my grandma is going to take her to get some nicer clothes for graduation. I have to be out the door to get to graduation at 5pm I have to go pick up Jacob so that we can get to Shaw and go through all that senior pre-graduation graduation stuff. Then after graduation we have to boot it back to Portage Northern High so that we can go to Grad Bash I really hope that's not as fucking lame as some people say it is. But once again we will see. I'm still pretty tired and I have to stay up all night so I'm probably going to get some energy drink(s) before graduation but then I'll be all jittery :/ dang. So hmmmmm I also wonder what I should eat for lunch lol. Well I don't really have much else to say so while you wait for me to get back go look at this:

Invisible Children

They NEED help so don't be shy!!!

Family

2008-05-29T16:08:00.000-07:00

So today I got the news my grandfather is NOT attending my graduation. I also go the information yesterday afternoon that my mom is getting out of jail for the day so she can see me graduate. She is currently in jail because of drinking and driving count 3. I have a very small family: My father died when I was 3 (lucky number huh?), the Hough side of the family doesn't talk to me, my mom's in jail, my grandmother and grandfather are divorced, I live with my grandmother, my grandmother's side of the family doesn't talk to us, my grandpa's side of the family doesn't talk to me, my uncle disappeared, etc. Crazy.

So tomorrow I graduate, I have to be at Shaw Auditorium at 6pm (eastern [usa]). That should be exciting, SHOULD be. After that we go to "Grad. Bash" I think i'm more interested in that than the actual graduation. My suit is blue shirt with blue brown tie, School colors are brown and white.

So no one told me what to blog about but one person did ask me where I am from I thought I would answer this more in depth because I can lol.

I was born in Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America, I lived there for 3-4 months then moved to Portage, Michigan, USA. My mother and I lived with my grandma till was 5 then we moved to Gull Lake, Michigan, USA. We lived there till I was 7 when we moved to Galesburg, Michigan, USA. We lived there till I was 15 (8th grade) when we moved to Carmel, Indiana, USA. We lived there for half a year and moved back to Portage, Michigan, USA. I am graduating High School from Portage Northern High. Hope that answered the question!!

First Day of Life??

2008-05-28T14:15:00.000-07:00

So today was my first day NOT at a High Schooler even though technically I don't graduate till May 30th. Anyways so I'm suppose to be on the phone with The Art Institute of Schaumburg but they have not yet called 13 minutes late so far. But they are really expensive and I doubt I could pay for it, around 21k a year just for classes that's not counting the housing. (15 mins late) Today I woke up at 7:38pm which sucks because I really wanted to sleep in.

Just got my call. I'm not going.

Also I just mowed the front lawn xD.

Anyways back to what I was saying I went to Fort Custer today, caught more bugs and what not good times. Welp I'm done for now maybe i'll add more tonight.

Farewell Sweet Memories

2008-05-27T18:41:00.000-07:00

So today was my last day of high school (Portage Northern High) what a bittersweet feeling that is. In one hand you have the joy and of knowing you can sleep in and the joy that life is starting but on the other hand the sadness of leaving my much beloved teachers (Mr. Moon & Mrs. Poulsen). They have become a major part of my life in the last 3 years but now I won't be seeing them on a daily basis. Things will be good though.

If anyone has any suggestions on what I should do my next blog about feel free to tell me!

First Blogger Blog

2008-05-26T15:37:00.000-07:00

So this is my first Blogger blog, back in my sophomore year I use to have a Live Journal but I never used it. I don't really know how to start this so I guess I'll just list the things that have happened today then I'll update with more important stuff every once and awhile. So here goes nothing.

* I found a place to sell/buy/trade insects even though the only reason I like that is because I have some extras.

* I watched Juno & The Mummy

* Was bored as hell!!

*Now I'm off to finish The Mummy and mess around on Facebook/Myspace