Freakonomics!

I hope that I can show you all my essay at a point where it is presentable. I mentioned my essay that I am working on is about Freakonomics. Well I finished my first draft and it is ready for the editing. I wish I could show it to everyone but I feel that I'm going to wait until its final draft and it is much easier to enjoy then the constant imperfections that you might run across. So I look forward to posting the essay after is done with the editing stage and finally suitable for everyone to read.

Other then that bit of work I finished Nothing to Envy. It ends with everyone that the book follows ending up in South Korea and living a new life. Though not everyone had the best of life as some of the people that made had trouble with debts and bad starts. Including one girl who put herself in debt and then decided that she still needed to bring her mom over to South Korea. While this all worked out alright the problem was that she still was deep in debt by the end of the book. Now of course they are still alive and living their lives. The hard part is that we know none of their names

Today is Halloween and I almost feel like it is still the same day that was yesterday or the day before. I wish it was simple enough to say that this wasn't ever actually a holiday but there is still so many people that celebrate the holiday that makes that impossible. But in honor of a holiday I was asked to give a history lesson on the origins of Halloween. So how about we begin.

The holiday Halloween is supposedly started from Samhain a Celtic Holiday where the people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off roaming spirits. Then during the 8th century Pope Gregory III set November 1st as all Saints day to honor all saints and Martyrs. This holiday held tradition carried from Samhain. The day before All Saints Day was known as All Hallows Eve and later known as Halloween which eventually developed into a community based child friendly day. Activities included things like Trick-or-Treating. But was still supposed to celebrate the coming Winter season with gatherings,candy,and costumes

Doing my Homework

So I was extremely depressed when my computer got wiped to help with my curriculum but I have been working on getting the things I wanted back. Of course I can't get everything back but I can get my old games, some programs to make things work, and the programs to help with curriculum. I am approaching fast on where I was originally at but it will be a while before getting everything I want back. Either way no matter how long it takes I will get everything I lost back and continue with my work on making every game I get a hold of better and much more fun.

So I have been allowed to sleep in one extra hour then usual. I thought this was awesome considering the whole zombie feeling that I was having every morning. But unlike last time I mentioned this I am being allowed to sleep in until 9:00 or 10:00 for a normal time until my schedule straitens out. You see I am already 1/3 of the way through the school year already and am ahead of most people my age so as a way to help with this I got to choose between sleeping in an extra hour or getting every other Friday off. I honestly think that an extra hour of sleep every morning is much more then one extra day every other week in the ways of usefulness. Considering the fact that I will wake up on my own at about 9:30 AM every morning if allowed to sleep in. I don't think that one extra day off will help half as much as that one hour every day.

So my work lately has been a bit slow and I managed to get all of the work I needed to do over again done. Sadly though now I am continuing on the part that I don't understand and my dad wasn't much help with this when I told him that I would need more help in this area of work. This is the actual graphing of the inequalities. I really am not good at this if the equation isn't already written out for me to follow and graph. I don't think that dad was really listening to me as it was late last night and he seemed tired. I hope that he will be more help later tonight.

Extreme Makeover Weekend Edition.

So this weekend was seriously crazy for me. I got limited on all of my electronics for the weekend. This got me to the point that was just awful. I went on several walks to stay calm and not rush downstairs and snap to get mad at Kristi and dad. I know that they were just trying to help but this seriously messed up my weekend for me as I usually hop on the computer and relax for the weekend. Don't forget sleeping in until about 12:00 to keep myself somewhat awake. For most of the weekend we have leftovers. I can stand this most of the time as we usually eat pretty well but I just didn't care this weekend. I wasn't caring that it was the weekend as it also felt like a school day much like my last Thursday but either way I couldn't sit in my house and relax but I know that my brother Nate was feeling much worse then me as his weekends are set around Facebook.

Although at the home I was really enjoying myself I did get to go trunk or treating with Dad, Kristi, and Zoe. Of course this was after all of the amazing family photos. I don't think I mentioned this on my blog yet but Dad and Kristi are getting married. So as a way of getting things ready we got our family pictures taken. It was me, dad, Kristi, Nate, Zoe, Cindy, and Chewy the dog of our family. We got some really good pictures taken by one of my dads good friends Craig. After all of the pictures were taken all over  the place we headed out for the Trunk or Treat event being held at Kristi's church.

I can't stress how much I was out of place with no costume other then my normal winter hat and trunk or treating. I even took a hay ride mainly because I got to sit down. The day was still fun as I was supposed to take a little girl around to all of the cars but she didn't want to leave her moms side so I went getting some candy for myself expecting to go back and watch the moms car but she found someone else and I just got a whole load of candy of my own. Now I can't argue about the candy as I love snickers as much as the next person its just that the day didn't go as I expected.

Stepping up

Yesterday I finally got my white belt! So I waited the entire day for the time to finally arive where I could go and get my belt. Now in class I am not the best student. Nor did I ever believe that I would be the best, but when I got that belt I felt amazing and better then everyone in that room. I felt like I could take on the world and then some. That night I was so proud and now I can show you some of my greatest shots in this fine hour. I know that I have much more to go in the world of martial arts but I am proud of the work that I have accomplished. Even better is that I have 3 stripes and am ready to take my test to get my next belt.

So on another note I got to go on the next field work Friday! This one as I said in another post was to the Kansas City federal money reserve. The place was able to show me many things that I never thought about. I never knew that there was even a place that regulated all of the money in the first place as I never really gave it any thought. So I decide to go in and I had to walk through the metal detector. It went off and I had to walk back through and empty my pockets. Man I REALLY need to empty my pockets. I pulled out several useless objects and some usefull objects before I could walk through. After I got inside I got to look around and see all the different places in the country that have a federal reserve. See the different kind of mint that was used during certain points in time, See how to identify counterfeit money, and got to watch how the job was done by a movie that was constantly being played.

After my field trip to the Federal reserve Zoe and I had to wait in the dentists office as Kristi had a checkup. I was very proud of how we did at the office. We were complimented by the dentists for how mature we were without being watched by anyone. Kristi was able to tell how well we were doing by how quiet we were being in the waiting room with no one there. I couldn't help but feel proud as I read on in Nothing to Envy. Which despite how depressing the book was couldn't dampen my pride in what we had accomplished.

Not a day off.

So I thought that today was going to be a day off because I had to watch Zoe and I was told that when another kid was home I wouldn't have school. Well I don't really agree with that today. I worked most of today on doing my math and coping with the fact that my math work today is the same work I did yesterday and I didn't really understand it then. I really had to use a lot of hints just to get through any problems. So instead of relaxing or worrying about Zoe I was sitting in front of the computer doing my work or trying to cope with the work load.

So I finished what I could of my work but didn't get it all done before I had to call dad and say that I didn't understand any of the work. I didn't have to like the fact that this was pretty much giving up all of the work I had done but I was just getting even more mad by the second. I got so mad that I took a walk outside in the cold just to be distracted from how mad I was. It did help but another 30 minutes I was just as mad as I was before my walk. So I was getting nowhere being so mad. I couldn't even concentrate.

Anyway other then all of that math nonsense I didn't get much accomplished. I didn't get to do anything with Zoe, I didn't get to see any of my friends that were also home today, and I managed to drive myself to give up on my math. I'd say that this was probably one of days that could've ended better. Even if they could've been better I can't help how bad I did just do better at the problem next time.

Sleeping in and Freaking out

Today I was told that I needed to sleep in as I was like a zombie the entire day the last couple of days. So I slept in until about 9:45. I stayed there and couldn't stay because I finally had some energy. Actually I had too much energy in the last couple of days. So I got up and was ready to aproach the rest of the day and get going. I then realized that I could have been in a lot of trouble when it came down to work. I usually start at no later then 8:00 because if I do people start coming in the door at about 3:00 or 2:30 on Wednesdays. So waking up at almost 10:00 was at the time that my little sister starts coming home. I thought to myself that this can't possibly be that bad. Well it didn't end that bad as I found out that Kristi was willing to let me work until about 3:00. I am writing this blog after my day but I am so relieved with the extra rest.

My essay is coming along nicely with the first 2 paragraphs done. I got to work on the math work finally but I didn't understand all of it so I did everything else first. So all of things are coming into place before my 4 day break. I am loving how my days are only getting easier from the start of each day. Of course there is always some kind of impediment on some random day. Of course there is always going to be some sort of problem. Problems are what make the days interesting. Other then hobby's like tinkering and science.

So tomorrow is going to be a bit more interesting then I thought it would be. Instead of doing something like relaxing or helping with Made to Serve I am going to watching Zoe. Now this isn't going to be to bad but it might make my day a bit more interesting. Zoe can really get on my nerves at times. Even worse is how am I going to answer even half of the thousands of questions that she asks.I hope that tomorrow goes easier then what I am thinking that it can be.

50th blog post!

Tae Kwon Do (White belt ahoy)

So there is an update on my Tae Kwon Do work. I have the necessary work to have finally achieved my white belt! All this took was turning in 4 papers over a period of one a week which is approximately 1 month. Sadly I didn't turn these in all of the time and I am just now getting my actual white belt this Thursday. That is if I turn in my sheets as I was supposed to be. Either way if this is not this week it will definetly be next week. I would start getting mad if I forgot to bring in the sheets two weeks in a row.

Today I was supposed to finish the math that was assigned yesterday. So today right after lunch I decided to go downstairs and start on them. After I managed to type in the addresses I realized that something was wrong. It all looked like the text that might come out of dads terminal. Even worse is that since it was obviously programmed with all of the info for the problems I could see the answers too and the picture or graph I was supposed to use wasn't there. This was so bizzare that I decided to stop trying to figure out what happened and hop onto one of the other exercises. Sadly it was the same gibberish as the last one. Even worse is that this assignment was supposed to be done yesterday. I just got one extra day thanks to Kristi. I don't even know how to explain this to dad.

So since my little sister Zoe is home from school on Thursday and Friday this counts for me as a day off. Technically I actually only have Thursday off and thats just because someone has to keep an eye on Zoe while Kristi is helping with Made to Serve. Friday on the other hand is actually another field trip. This field trip will take us to the money museum at the Kansas City Federal Reserve. The reason why is because this field trip will be appropriate enough for Zoe even if some of the concepts are over her head and I can still learn something from going and best of all Zoe is left home alone. I think that this is going to be a win win situation as Zoe gets to go on a field trip with me and Kristi while we can have piece at mind that Zoe is safe.