A Piston Away

I am just so close that I can taste it at this point. Yep the Nerf gun is almost done and despite not knowing if it will even work I'm still ecstatic to see it mounted on my wall some time. It is absolutely awesome and I am only one part away from it being finished and sealed up completely. Once thats done I can move onto a new project which should be pretty fun. I think that I might try a cheaper project this time since it probably won't be funded by the parents after this little epidemic. Because of this I think I have an idea on what to work on but still not sure.

I do know that I did not make it into newspaper this year. I can confirm though that I will most likely be trying again for next year when they start asking for new people. This time I will take the classes. I also will be going over my submission and see what I did wrong when submitting the sign up sheet. This way I have better chances. Who knows though maybe they just don't like how I look at writing as being another challenge and a skill to keep sharpened. I know that is how I feel and without it things don't feel the same. The thought of cursive writing in schools alone was depressing for me and many of my friends in school today. Though seemingly unrelated this is huge as this shows more then just a form of writing going away but people are deciding to stop teaching what came with this new form of writing. For example did you know that the word "so" should not start a sentence? I would love to tell that to modern authors as they don't seem to notice this as a rule at all. I didn't for the longest time either but that is a rule to writing and many old rules along with the old writing style is being scrapped. Call me old fashioned but its always good to be able to live and learn from mistakes in the past. You have to start somewhere after all.

For all of you people following Kristi on Facebook at all you might know that she is once again going through some surgery. I would like to say that this is absolutely devastating and while sad to read her post this almost all seems normal at this point. I guess this comes with having a step mom with crones disease. In fact this goes for living with anyone that has a disease. I don't know if I will be sitting with her for dinner or not or maybe it will just be tomorrow until I see her again. Who knows because then I'll be out asking you. Either way this is another hope to see you soon Kristi. We all just got you back recently now I want you back in this household already. Call me selfish but she's the glue that keeps this family together. Without her Zoe becomes disorganized and rebellious, I would lose track of my head if it weren't directly apart of the rest of my body and even then no promises, finally though is the most important and that is Kristi seems to make dad happier then he has ever been in the longest time. Without Kristi around dad seems to still be himself but a little bit more retreated. I know that both Kristi and dad will be apart of those who read this and I say that I see for once a solid family. With this family sticking to the glue that is Kristi.

Applying the knowledge

Welcome back everyone to another entry for my blog and I just have to say I'm absolutely ecstatic.  You see I recently applied for the school newspaper and I hope that I'll be accepted at least once in the 4 years I'll be there. I don't know if I'll be accepted this time as I'm trying to apply through special consideration since I have not taken any of the prerequisites.  This is all about my determination though and I will no matter what at least get in for half a semester.  I have been working so hard on my typing and proper English that I think it would be a shame to drop it so easily for the sake of the public school system.

Another break but not for the holiday known as Valentines day.  To be completely honest I don't know why I have the day off tomorrow as there has been nothing stopping people from going to school on Valentines day before.  Still I don't mind too much as it gives me a day off and some time to recuperate myself.  Along with the break there is some really good news and that is my grades are still rolling pretty high. B pluses and A's straight across the board.  I'm really happy with this as this means that I have truly improved and at least one teacher had asked during parent teacher conferences if I had ever qualified for advanced placement or any other kind of advanced learning program. I don't know which teacher but this makes me happy either way and it shows that while I always have room to improve for straight A's I'm doing well with what I have achieved.

Other then all of this things are doing pretty good in the end.  With school doing well and meeting many friendly faces things haven't been going in anyway bad.  No doubt in my mind that I still miss home school but things are not bad at home either. Though there has been a revelation about my personality. This happens to be the fact that I have taken the test about my personality type and have found that I'm labeled an INTX. If you are wondering what this means then you can easily look up something like INTJ vs. INTP which will give you the differences and just think of those exactly in the middle. I like this link really well as it describes both in depth pretty well. This is confusing at times but explains quite a few things.

Snowing Home

The family is officially at home due to some nice amounts of snow along with some very low temperatures due to wind chill. Honestly these last 3 days have been pretty cool since I finally managed to go outside sledding as well as being able to hang out with my friends around the house, Eating awesome meals with the family, and all around having a nice relaxing break. I think everything is doing pretty well but what to blog about is always another good question.

Starting off with things is that I'm still rolling well in school with some straight A's which is honestly pretty amazing. if we look back at the last time I was in public school I was struggling just to get a C average looking at today I'm doing pretty darn well. Not a genius yet but the point being that if I continue working enough maybe I can make a name for myself in the school that isn't something like bitter, hateful, or stupid. These are only because of how I used to act in school did fall under stuff like those three descriptions but not anymore. I have people that I can talk to all over the school and I spend a good chunk of time trying to help out other students around the school when they seem to need it.

All in all life is good around here spending time with my family. I'm even re cementing old relationships with other parts of the family including my great grandma Doris who lives outside of the Missouri area. Since I started up public school it has been harder to find some free time but all in all things have been good. I'm learning how to drive with dad, I have some spiffy new clothes to wear around to occasions, and like I said earlier despite spending less time around family I seem to be doing better at spending time with family. In general I feel like an all around better person lately and I know that many people reading this might not have any clue about how I used to be but I can tell you that while most of the time I was a nice person the rest of the time I was bitter and all around cruel on the inside.