Making My Moolah!

Welcome back everyone to my ever fascinating blog. Lately I've been talking about my new position in the working community, and at least for the first paragraph I will continue to do so. I have made my first paycheck and have just gone out to cash it. I don't think I have ever made this much money on my own before. Surely with a lot of help from relatives around Christmas and birthday, but never $200.00 in the course of 2 weeks of working. It's a strange feeling that I've never had to deal with before. The idea that I could go out right now and start buying many of things that I've always wanted as a kid baffles me. The thought that I have the freedom to do such things is so foreign to me due to my reliance on the parents for so long.

With all of the new and odd things going on I began reminiscing of my past. More than anything I began to remember my former stepsister Bethany. I remembered my brother had her as a friend on Facebook so I decided to go and look for her. The first thing I find when I go looking for her account is this. I had heard that her mom wasn't all there, but this truly brought her situation to light. I was so out of touch with the rest of the events in the world that I didn't notice when this came up on the news. Remembering my old sister brought back memories of sneaking candy past the parents in our backpacks where we would hide it behind frame of her bed and the wall. The world doesn't turn around one person. My life has gotten much better since then but there is nothing that can replace the joy I experienced as a child back then.

Despite everything that happens to me I still manage to come back here to my blog. I have to say that I'm glad to have some kind of outlet from what I have to say. I think I might go insane if there weren't some way of getting my voice out. We all have opinions and I don't care who you are and what you say, you have something you wish to say. You want your mind out for the world to see how clever you are to find someone to relate to. A world alone inside your head is the darkest hell I could imagine for anyone. Trapped with myself forever would be terrifying. The incessant nagging and the knowledge of all of my own faults. It's people out there like you reading this now that make my life worth waking up for. Thanks for being there for the last 2 1/2 years.

 

The Epic Struggle

Hello everyone and welcome back. Despite the basis of this blog being based around home schooling, lately things have made a much steeper turn towards my new-found life in the working world. Lately things have become a juggling act of being able to keep up with my school work and the working world. I think that I have been doing very good of late since I haven't had another meltdown from the stress that I have become all to familiar with. A few small headaches and some really frustrating nights but nothing so horrible that I couldn't get over it with a good nights sleep.

On top of the average work load I need to keep up my debate within the school. I think debating is extremely fun and interesting as it requires you to go outside of your average comfort zone to go up against someone with conflicting ideals to yours. What other ways are you going to get that kind of adversity without traveling the world? The new resolution or idea for the Lincoln Douglas style of debate is whether or not minimum wage should be a living wage. Pretty convenient if you ask me. if you are considering my new job right before the subject. Either way, it will be really interesting to see people's opinion on whether or not it should be a living wage or not. I personally believe that it should be living for people over a certain age, but for someone my age who gets to save all of the money that he gets, no. It should be minimum wage for the average teenager looking for a job, but for the majority of people there should be some kind of security. Even if you work at Walmart.

Despite the new found responsibilities, it hasn't been that bad. I'm enjoying myself at least a little bit of late. The problem I find is the lack of time I have to do something in my free time due to other responsibilities. My weekends are not my own as well as my evenings and this was exactly what I was not looking forward to. I will get used to it, but it will not be done over night. I feel as if I've become ever distant from my friends as they continue to enjoy the time that they have and here I am trying to earn a paycheck. There is an obvious division in personality's between us in a good way, but lately it has been a little to noticeable for me. Things don't straighten themselves out, yet I don't even know if this a problem. Time will tell.

Not the Sick Day!!!

Welcome back everyone to another entry on my ever expanding blog. For the first time in the last eight years or so I have become sick during a school day. I would like to attribute at it is willpower or something equally manly but I can't quite pin down why. One of the best parts though is that it was possible for me to be in attendance for every test and never have to make up any work within the school day. Sadly I managed to get sick on the last day of the previous quarter which was for my finals. This means that I now have to fit in the makeup work in my now busy schedule. I can never truly stress just how much I hate sick days. They are awful and I would've gone to school either way if I was allowed to go. Too bad they kick you out of school if your throwing up.

Along with my random sick story, I have been slightly stressed out of late. This is due to the finals that I have missed on my sick day along with my new job. I have the job and it is not going to be too easy for me to keep. I know that everything is going to test me with new problems to throw my way. Things I was thinking that I wasn't prepared for. I will stay strong under the duress of new events and be thankful for what I have because despite the stress, I know that this will pan out in the end.

Despite all of this, I'm optimistic. The reason is that I now have money to be used for whatever purpose that I want! That's the stuff that I put to the side outside of the money for the car. It is really good to have some kind of freedom. Whether that is freedom to leave the house to a location over a mile away or the monetary freedom that comes with having a solid paycheck. I don't think that I say it often enough but I'm lucky to have a family such as this.

Growing Pains: Take 2

It's amazing how fast things can move within the course of a week. Since I last wrote in my blog I managed to accomplish something that I thought would take ages to do. I managed to get a job. This places me as the first kid in my family to get a job and leads me on the path to start getting the car off of the parents. I will be working at Chili's like I said that I would and I'm so stoked and yet, at the same time, I'm kind of sad as well. This is my contract into being somewhat responsible with my life. I now have more than just my family who rely on me now  on a day to day basis. All I can do is take it slowly and make sure the job is done right. I was going to say something about hoping for the best but if I'm busy hoping for things to be done than nothing is going to get done.

On top of this, I have obtained the ability to drive on a full motorcycle for the first time. Meaning that I could take my dad's Harley at the age of 16 and drive it downtown for fun. In theory of course. My dad might kill me if I took his Harley out for a joyride without his permission. Instead I'm thinking of getting a Kawasaki type motorcycle when I have the money. It will be cheaper to get around on, a lot more fun, and strangely for me, it seems to be less nerve racking than any car that I have driven in my short amount of time. Strange I know.

Now I can't forget the most pressing issue of the moment. The Holiday season. Personally, my family celebrates Christmas and no matter what it looks like. Despite this being one of the "Happiest seasons of all" it is also one of the most stressful. The organizing for both sides of the family, the gift shopping, the making sure that everyone can attend, and the over the top dinner. Some people find Christmas the best and jump all over it with the lights strewn around the house and some holly over the doorway, but my dad's side of the family isn't quite like this. We don't have the tree or anything like that and instead focus on the gifts, dinner and most importantly family. Still, One of the hardest times of the year.

The Beginning of the Future.

Welcome back everyone to yet another fascinating week of events. Of late, everything has been going down. For example the 15th was my birthday and that is where I got my very first smart-phone. I've always been against smart phones in general but I find that they are extremely useful. The ability to work your schedule everywhere you go or be able to just listen to some music. I use it way too much in order to hate as much as i used to, but the problem beyond everything else among cell-phones is that they are self fulfilling. If you didn't have one cell phone than you wouldn't need the others. There isn't much point in having them in the first place as there are other tools that can serve the same purpose.

On top of my new smart phone I also have recently applied for a job. For the job I have already gotten my second interview. I'm extremely happy about this as I will be able to work at my first establishment. To top it all off, it is not at a fast food chain like McDonald's. Instead I will be working at Chili's which is a location that I would willingly eat at, the people there are really nice, and I could be able to earn my first paycheck. I hear the paycheck is what really influences most people to start working. We'll have to see though.

Finally it is the end of the semester for the most part outside of one pesky day. You see, we just got a snow day right at the end of the semester and now we have to make up the last day of finals after we get back from break. It is extremely annoying since now I have to keep up my studying over the course of the 3 week break. The good news is that despite this, we do have some snow to make the week go by a little bit faster. Besides. It's a good excuse to keep working on my subjects even during break.

December Madness

We are all in the thick of the busiest time of the year here within many lives including my own. Everything is coming up all at once including the holidays, tests, and the most important is birthdays. Within the month of December we have 4 different birthdays on both sides of the family. My uncle Aaron, my cousin Max, dad, and myself. Because of this we all get together as a family too eat dinner and have a combined birthday between the two houses. Tonight we get together and we celebrate by eating at one of my favorite locations. The Rusty Horse Tavern. During one of my earlier blog entries I reviewed this place but no matter how hard I search I can't find the original post. I have searched everywhere and can't find a single reference to the place. I will say that they have some of the best burgers I have ever had making it perfect for everyone celebrating here tonight.

Along with the excitement going is all of the tests. Tests for Math, French, Debate, and English. All of them being fit in desperately at the end of the year. It is a lot to take in and not too easy for the students to cope with. All of the reviews and finals come down on your head quickly and without mercy as the schedule is thrown on its head. I can say without hesitancy that the schedule is a humongous mess. No two days have the same schedule within a week. No one even bothers to keep track as we're too busy working on studying for all of the tests.

I never realized how much I loved listening to music until I lost most of my time on the computer. Nowadays I can't really listen to any good music. You just can't find good music when everyone listens to Country, Rap, or some other misc music that I can't describe. Now the only time that I can listen to good music is on the computers at school or on the Chromebook while writing my blog. It's at times like these when I wonder whatever happened to my MP3 player.

Decisions

Welcome back everyone to another fantastic blog entry!  Lately I have decided to make a deal with my parents which isn't exactly what I would call nice.  The deal that we have made limits my recreational time on the computer and how this deal came about is actually kind of funny.  More than anything it comes with the simple fact that I'm addicted to gaming by all accounts.  Spending 8+ hours a day if I can help it.  By limiting my time for the day down too 2 hours a day is far more moderate and allows me to focus on other things. There is also the fact that I kinda miss the days where I was a kid and played with my friends without a care about if I got online for the day.  Back in the days where the computer was a magical machine that I had no idea how to use and where the PlayStation 1 was something I caught in slight glimpses.   by going back to limiting myself in such a way It can allow me to get back into things such as reading. I bet we all remember that strange time period where people actually wrote words for fun!  I could also use this as an opportunity to possibly hunt for a job but I don't know how well this is going to work as, like always, I don't actually have much time to spare during my week due to the amount of homework. Still it won't hurt to go looking now before the next semester hits.

Of late in school I'm dealing with a lot of remembering things.  For example, the remembering of all of the different French phrases and words which is going fairly well, but then I also have to work on trying to remember on my oratory speech for Debate.  The main problem with both of these things is that my memory has never been very good.  I've gotten better over the years and have even managed to not brush my teeth foot lotion or load the washing machine with some of the kitchen trash.  Besides that though, trying to remember speeches or new words and enunciating them properly is probably one of the hardest things that I have had to do in a long time.

Coming up in the next two weeks are the finals for all of my classes.  The worst 2 weeks of each semester hands down.  A 40 minute test most of the time turns into a rescheduling of the class schedules for everyone and a lack of new curriculum.  Rarely does anyone learn anything during this week unless the class doesn't have a final.  It's infuriating more than anything.  I can't stand having my schedule moved around to the point where I'm sitting in one of my classes for 2 hours while my other classes I get 1 hour.  Usually all of my classes are about 1 hour and 30 minutes but when you throw off the balance like this within classes, you end up in some really annoying classes for way too long next to some people that will ruin a somewhat good day.  I can guarantee you that the next couple weeks are going to be the most hectic weeks of the year.  Ranging from birthdays, to lack of my computer for time passing, too finals will leave this an interesting end to the year.