Routine Chaos

Work today was the same as usual but I wonder when things are going to start picking back up again like at the begining of this year. We all remember the free school program and some of the other things along these lines. Question is what will I be doing next year and so on and so forth. I wonder have been wondering quite a bit lately what can be improved upon with my curriculum and the hardest part is speaking up. For example lets say I think that I think that I am not reading enough books. ( Which I am obviously reading plenty.) I haven't done much of this in a while since I had grown so used to staying in the background of things in the family it is still my nature to keep quiet about certain things.

I look back on my home school year in comparison to my years in public school and I think on how much has improved. For example things around home school to this day is a lot less stressful in comparison to public school and that I don't have to blow a fuse everyday to make it through the school day sane. I don't have to deal with reading class and reading about 2 books every school year and then doing language arts the other part. Ironically the school I went to had both classes and Reading seemed to me as the waste of time as it offered mostly things that we all already knew.

Now is time to wrap things up in the blog like usual while I think about random assortments of things like tomorrows blog entry or is there something interesting on my computer that I could look into. In the end the school day dissipates the way it should, with the rest of the day to look forward to with routine and calmness that can run through the house. The day is never one theme or scheme that you can look forward to but those are what make life interesting. The ups, the downs, the laughs, the cries, the mistakes you make, and even the mistakes that others make. We all look forward to something special in our life but there is no way of knowing what to expect so I look at life as an open book that we write with the fact that anything can happen at any second depending on what us authors write down on the blank pages.

returning to normal

Welcome back everyone to my blog and for anyone that decided to check up on things over spring break then I am sorry for not posting anything. Anyone that stills remember my small blog and is still willing to read then more power to you. I am so glad to be back and typing on my blog again for your enjoyment. I know I enjoy this and that I am glad to have everyone back to enjoy this entry with me.

Lets start out with the fact that this is going to be the first normal week in a long time. Seriously I have not had a normal week since half way through February. In reality most people would really enjoy that kind of break but I like a good routine and now it is utter relief for me as I don't have to worry about things screwing up anymore and I can peacefully do my work and hang out with my friends with out another break for the rest of the school year.

Most of you might know that the end of Spring break signifies the beginning of 4th quarter and that means that tests are all over the school. This also means that my time on the blog could be coming to an end for a while. I know that some people may look forward to my blog but I don't know how to keep people entertained over Summer while I have 3 months off. I could try but that depends on how summer goes. In fact maybe I could write a blog entry once a week so that people don't forget about me. I don't know but maybe I can find a way to make it work.

The Real Hero

Today I have been given a subject for todays blog entry and that is todays pop culture, literature heroes to the more traditional Heroes like Howard Roark from "Fountainhead" or Equality from "Anthem". Lets start out with some of todays heros like Katniss Everdeen From the "Hunger Games". Katniss was a situational decisison maker who ended up causing as much trouble for other people as she was releiving from herself. For example she may have saved someone else from certain death but she then had everyone else killed in the arena to save the two of them. While they made her out to be a hero in the book and the books that followed she ended up causing just as much pain and suffering from her decisions then whatever else had been decided.

Now lets move on to some heroes like Howard Roark. Howard is determined under no circumstances to keep up his dream of being a very good architect and will let no one decide what he should make for the buildings. Unlike Katniss, Howard has much more integrity that is used in this book then all of the "Hunger Games" put together. No matter what the situation Howard will make the right decision to further his goals in life without letting someone else getting hurt in the process.

Time to wrap this all up with the question that most of you probably saw coming. Who is the better hero? Before I give you the answer lets sum up the paragraphs above real quick. Howard is a straight forward person who will make sure that he gets what he wants but doesn't have to hurt anyone to get his ideal world. Katniss is a situational thinker who will do what she deems right depending what is going on in the book at the time. In other words these two people are complete opposites of each other in most aspects. Well then I believe that the better hero is the traditional heros including Howard. You may wonder why I did only two people while comparing the two types of literature. The reason is beecause these two people represent there era of writing best in comparison to other people and this keeps things simple enough for most people to understand. This is going to be my last entry before Spring Break so I hope everyone has a good week break and that things don't screw up too badly for anyone out there

Blowing Off Some Steam

Today I volunteered for some work at Kristi's church and I really enjoyed it. I spent most of the time smashing down walls and I don't know anyone who doesn't like destroying stuff. The overall process helped me out with getting over the frustration that is Spring Break. Smashing the walls down was really fun and I even got some pictures taken of me doing so. As you can see I was dedicated to my job of taking down these walls.



I did manage to take a break from all of this but I was still much happier doing my work. For lunch The group went over to Minskys for some pizza and then returned for a little bit to do a little bit more work before leaving for home. I had a lot of work to do today including still walking the dog as a job and then still doing my chores and blog which neither of them I have finished. Either way the day has been hectic but fun in the long run

Funny story is that todayI managed to rip a hole through my work gloves and destroy Kristi's hammer before the day was through. In fact all of this was done due to how hard I was working today. I don't know how the hole appeared in my glove but at least they still helped. I think it was when I was tearing dry wall apart that ripped a hole in my glove. The hammer broke while I was pulling nails out of the wooden frames but that ended with one side snapping off. I don't know how bad of condition the hammer was in before I started but it ended up dead and in the trash by the end.

Late Post

From what I have heard from my friends apparently spring break is coming up for us and I am not happy. I just got back into the swing of things going on at the house and then I have to deal with another weeks worth of break. At the moment I am not to sure if it is next week but even then I am quite mad due to all of these breaks. If it keeps up at this rate there won't be summer vacation.

Work around the house is getting done well enough as our storage computer is up and running and work is back into my average day. I know I sound very strange as most people look forward to days off but I've been sitting here griping about all of the days off. Well to set this straight I do look forward to vacations and days off but when it isn't a scheduled vacations or the vacations lasts too long then I start having a problem.

Over the weekend I set up my brand new desk and it is a relief above all else. Now I can do work on my computer desk and I don't have to try and balance everything on a card table in order to use my computer. The desk caused us to move stuff around downstairs along with the new found space downstairs. In all the week so far has been just fantastic while everything gets back into a decent order.

2000 Views

If you couldn't get the hint from the title of this blog then we have officially gotten more then 2000 views. This paragraph is a thank you to all who have contributed to the views and that its not going to end here. of course I couldn't end now even if I wanted to. The only way that I could possibly stop is to join public school and watch my viewers diminish. Even then it would take a while to kill this blog.

Work today was simple as I finished one book for Fridays work and then today I just finished up another one so I'm doing good so far. Things are starting to calm down after all of the snow which has been melting quickly lately. In all things are turning out great as I am ready to get back to work and the other 2 are not around anymore the entire day. Now that things are becoming more laid back again I have returned back to some hobbies like modding minecraft and hanging out with my friends since I don't have to worry as much about Zoe.

Tae Kwon Do has become quite hectic for me at the moment as I have been going every other day recently. What has been happening is that I went last Thursday and since I missed Monday then I went on the make up day on Saturday. Next up I have to go again today to get myself back into a cycle and it is not going to be easy. I am still in pain from Saturday's workout and now I am going to be signing up for a tournament so things for me are only going to get worse. The good part is that the tournament is going to be a great blog entry.

Wrap up The week.

Today for my work I was told to write a summary of one of my books after finishing it. The book that I decided to finish today was called the Power of Half and I have already gone over this with you but I also got a recommendation for today's entry. What I will be doing is that I will be posting my summary that I have given of the book then I will go over what it would be like if my family decided to do something like this. I agree with this so after some slight modifications to my summary here you go.
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The Power Of Half

The family consists of 4 people and those four people are the dad whose name is rarely mentioned in the book. The mom whose name is Joan and the second biggest supporter in the family for the charity work. Next up is Joseph who was less then eager to give up his stuff to help out strangers that he didn't really know much about at all. Finally there is Hannah who was the person who came up with the idea to help out the homeless. The book is told from the perspective of the dad and as he watches his family come back together.

The family has dedicated their life to help other people less fortunate then themselves. They started out helping out in small ways as for example their daughter worked at a soup kitchen to help the homeless and when the family spotted someone on the street they might give him a gift card to Mcdonalds. They lived in a large house that the family had worked hard to provide the money to keep as well as their other luxuries including their car and their many hobbies. The daughter of the family or Hannah who worked at the soup kitchen decided that they weren't doing enough to help the less fortunate at the time and managed to convince the family that they could give up half of the many things that they had to help. This one small act started the chain reaction to the future.

The family did some research and decided to work with an organization called the Hunger Project. In order to help out the people they got a house that was half the size of their current house and then decided to sell the large one for funds for the family project. Sadly since they bought the new house before they sold the original they ended up in some troubles while trying to help their charity of choice as they then had to pay for both the houses at the same time. By the end of the book you still don't know if they sold the house.

The family despite the troubles with the house they ended up going over to Africa to help out the many residents of the villages scattered around Africa.. With the organization they all ended up going to the different villages to see which one could be helped the most. They did not find any one specific village to help in general but they did end up helping a village who working on setting up a 6 room school in a small village that was far away from any main city. This may not sound like much but when compared to the other places around this village you would realize that no other village with similar circumstances could boast such a large school for their children.

The book ends with them making plans for the future and what their next plans would be to help people. The family ends up using their savings to pay for the donations that they would need to put into the Hunger Project. The savings includes retirement funds and college funds. This was decided after a meeting with the family of what they were going to do to help donate to the Hunger Project. The parents did not exclude the kids from the meeting as they were just as much of a cause for the family's situation as the parents decided to support them. This shows their devotion the path that they set themselves on and that they approve of what they are doing no matter what other people think.

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Now that you know what the book was like now it is a great time to talk about how I would feel if my family pulled a stunt like this. First off is who would propose this in the first place as I can see Kristi or dad saying something like this but for dad I would have to check if he were joking. The reason for this is because dad has a habit of being able to tell a joke so seriously that you don't even know if it was a joke or if it was what was going on the world as you speak. If we did decide to give up half of what we could spare then I am guessing that most of our time would not be spent in places in the USA only because the United States is already pretty well off in comparison to the other places in the world. Being honest I don't know exactly where we would end up working at for the longest time as I do expect us to work all over the world if we were to do anything along these lines. In fact it would be my first time leaving North America in general and that would be somewhat fun to me except that maybe I would need to trade in my desktop for a laptop.