Disappearing before my Eyes!

The snow came and stayed at least a day. This may have been the only snow day that we will have for a while. In fact the snow has for the most part disappeared and turned into slush. The snow day wasn't that great anyways because we had to help out around the house and take care of swapping the parents and Zoe's rooms by the end of the day and we didn't even get the bed set up either. Besides I got my time outside and I got to see my friends so I am happy about the day just there some work in between our fun time and I kinda got confused on if it was the weekend or not.

Today I went to dad's job with him and got to have lunch at my favourite sushi restaurant, Juns.  At Juns we got to eat my favourite sushi roll which is called the oshinko roll which as far as I know is only served at Juns. The oshinko roll is a pickled radish roll. I know this sounds strange but it is extremely tasty and should not be turned down if offered as I have heard that it is one of the most labor intensive rolls out there.

This is my last post before winter break and it is not even required. For the most part I didn't have to type any of this up but I felt like I needed to type something because I didn't type anything up yesterday. I know family and some friends read this so to them I am sorry that I didn't post earlier. The good news is that this is my make up blog for apologies and something to wrap up my blog before second semester. I was originally going to post about how the sun makes you sneeze but I think this paragraph is much better.

Back Again!

Today Kristi has escaped her prison cell and made it back home. It has been good to see her again. I know that she disappears quite a lot so my guess is that she isn't sick it is just her getting her break from the family as she is always in a good mood when we see her. This is probably my theory that makes the most sense as I know plenty of people that would want to take a break from me and I want to take a break from my siblings plenty of times when I have to deal with them. Then there is the fact that she has a lot to do while she is here so I guess she can't do this that often.

Another thing that happened today is that all of us got to go to Kristi's house and help her move out some more. This wasn't that bad as we all got to eat at Minsky's for some pizza. For dinner I got to eat a Spicy Thai calzone which was not spicy but tasted really good. I can honestly say that today was relaxing and easy so I guess there is nothing much to type about today. Although there is one more thing about today that I will tell you about next.

There was supposed to be a nice snow storm tonight but the chances of that are actually quite slim. For example it shouldn't get below 30 degrees until 6:00 in the morning and then it is going to be sunny in the morning. Then tell me how a storm is going to come and last 2 hours and still be a storm that will actually affect anything. In fact it doesn't even stay below freezing into the next day, instead it goes back up to 40 degrees and then what? The day will go on as if it had never snowed.

Last foot of the year

There is only 12 more days until the end of the year. Within these last 12 days there will be one of the most sought after holidays out there, Christmas. I know that this going to be one of my normal Christmases but there is so much more then most. First of all this is going to be one of the last Christmases that Nate will be living with us to celebrate. And then Kristi will be with us to celebrate as our step mom more then our dads girlfriend. I know that this is going to be the same holiday that we celebrate every year but things are changing already and this might be one of the last Christmases that we can look at the same way.

There is the fact that this week is extremely easy as it really is just finish up any work that wasn't done and finish it now. In other words this entire week is just finishing up any books that are not complete yet. Other then the books there isn't very much else that I could do that would be possible without Kristi here with me at the house. In fact I enjoy having someone else here with me at the house instead of being home alone. Even my little sister Zoe makes me feel happy just because someone else is here.

I am looking forward to the end of the year as it is going to lead to another set of curriculum. Including learning the programming language known as Python which is really fun on Linux. Another fun little toy I got for my birthday which will also be going into my curriculum is a tiny computer known as the Raspberry Pi. This little toy will give me access to a load of fun little ideas and other computers that can be made that will be handy in the long run.

Tough time

Kristi has landed herself in the hospital again. I know it isn't her fault that she ended up in there again. In fact I am not judging her over anything as she has been working really hard lately. In fact that is probably why she has ended up in the hospital. She has been stressed out from helping with my birthday as well as dads and then right after my birthday she ended up working the entire weekend without much incentive and tons of stress so to the doctors who might end up reading this she didn't do anything wrong.

As I mentioned me, dad, and a couple of friends did end up having to help Kristi move. Of course what really did help is that we had incentive to finish which was a nice $50 bill for helping move. Now of course Kristi was only helping coordinate the move as the rest of us were there to do all of the heavy lifting that she cannot do. After all was said and done and we got all of the nuisance work out of the way we got home just to do more work when we got home which was unload all of the heavy, awkward stuff.

Funny fact I actually had a really good blog entry typed up today and I lost it all to the internet. What happened is that my entry was starting to glitch so I decided to save my entry and reopen it. Well, instead of reopening an actually good entry which was almost completely done I lost all of the data and had to retype the entire thing. I hope that my entry is still good because I am typing this and I am still really peeved while typing all of this so I don't want to sound to hostile, mean, or anything else that is frowned upon while typing this up.

School problems

Today there was a terrible shooting in one of the school districts which if I remember correctly was Connecticut. What makes it so sad is that people died and even worse is the fact that more people died then the Columbine shooting of 1999. I feel terrible but also relieved that no one that I knew myself was caught in the shooting and if someone was then I don't want to know because I probably havn't seen them in a long time and they wouldn't remember me. The problem that I have is that I am afraid that people are going to go to extremes and do something with the public schools to make them safer like they did with the Columbine shooting. Either way I am relieved that it is nowhere near me here in Missouri and that everyone that I know is alright and to the people who may be reading this right now that has lost someone dear to them this day we mourn your loss.

The Columbine shooting as I mentioned was in 1999. During the shooting 13 were killed and 20 more were injured. In this recent shooting around 27 were shot and killed and only 3 have made it to the hospital for treatment. Others have already died in the hospital. I don't know exact information about all of the situation as I heard the news when I had settled down to eat lunch and I had to turn it off to complete the rest of my work. I know that some of you are uninterested but I plan to dedicate this blog to this event and I can recommend that if you don't want to read this, don't.

I never got to see who died today. Neither did the people that may have lost someone as the information has not yet been released to any of the parents or the public yet. Either way today these people are the ones who read support and I know if they even are reading this they probably will not read this for another week or maybe tomorrow or even the most extreme a year, I don't know. To anyone that knows any of these people I would like for you to give some support to them as they are going to need it through these hard times.

Tons to Read

This entire week so far has all been about getting through my reading for the week and it is hard. For example today and the last few days I had to work through lunch fast to get in all of my reading. Even then I didn't get done with all of my reading until about 2:40 in the evening. Even with trying to get through lunch as fast as possible I ended up falling behind for the day and working up to about 3:00 but even then I am not done as now apart of my "Homework" I have to go back and review french even when the school day is done.

There is going to be very little amounts of school work to be done tomorrow as we are going to go run some errands. I know this sounds like it is a day to slack off but I believe that there is going to be quite a bit of work that is going to be required of me during these outings so I don't believe that there is going to be a break yet. Either way work or not it is better then sitting down in the chair upstairs all day and reading the entire day. By the way I have nothing against reading I just don't like sitting down that long.

I am feeling scared about continuing my French work when it is time to move on to lesson 3. The reason why is because since I fell behind I started to slip even farther the farther I got in and to this point I barely understand anything on lesson 2. I don't blame dad for making me review French but I really don't like review at all as I have never really felt that review ever truly helped me out before except for before a test but I know all of that is wrong.

The Circle of Time

Over time I get a new book upon finishing one book. This time after finishing the Trouble with Boys I got a new book called battle hymn of the Tiger Mother. This one is about what makes the Chinese kids so successful when it comes down to how smart they are. Well what I found out is that it is because of how strict the moms are and just to show that my mom is nothing in comparison to the Chinese moms who would of instead of demanding 1 hour of work on studying for a Chinese mom they would usually want at least 3 hours of studying. I believe that this book only heightens my knowledge of how lucky I am to have my family and how the world works around me.

Today is my dads birthday as I mentioned yesterday and I have nothing for him except the ability to help around the house and my hard work in school. There is of course the fact that I have accumulated $90 with all of the work that I have done recently but I think it would be lazy to hand someone money and tell him to go ahead and buy himself something. Besides he didn't request anything for his birthday from us neither did he drop any hints that I have heard from him so for the most part I think I'm safe.

The book Nurture Shock has given me a good look back at some of the predicaments that I have been in before. For example it talks about the flawed gifted programs in school and how they are testing kids in Kindergarten to see if they are gifted and then about 3/4ths of the kids end up being normal or even basic. Then this reminds me because I was tested several times and rejected to join the gifted program because it was full and I was put on the waiting list which is a great way of saying you are smart enough but we aren't letting you in.