No Exscuses

Alright sorry guys but there was seriously no reason for me to be posting this late at night without consent for anyone out there. I apologize for this and now that the elephant in the room is addressed lets jump right on in. Today was for the most part a break for the simple fact that after a couple things to do in the morning I was free for the day. This did throw me off and make me forget that I had a blog to do since I didn't work on actual school but instead worked ahead in my work for the week.

For the things that were accomplished today there was first off the finishing of the Book Thief which I will say is an extremely depressing book at the end. Other then that though the book was an extremely good read after you get past the really hard to read parts. Next up I was reading ahead in my Important decisions book but I didn't get nearly as far in that one. Next up is the most exciting that that happened to me today and I'm quite happy about this one at that.

Next up is I went and met the counselor at my new High school. She seemed fairly distracted even though she was definitely working with us. It doesn't matter though because she also sat down and went over what classes I might be able to attend when I start. After this though dad had me renewed on my shots which will allow me to participate in school now and yes the shot did hurt but nearly as bad as I remember my first one being and trust me that first shot I remember in my past was extremely painful and I will always remember that moment when I got my first shot because of that.
The main reason why I was only doing work ahead work is because Kristi my teacher and my usual ride to and from volunteering is in the hospital again and this time she isn't doing to hot. When you read this Kristi I hope your doing alright.

Success is Sweet

I have finally done it everyone! I have finished my collection of Charles Dickens. Due to me finishing this though and despite how ecstatic I am I sense an oppurtunity here to expand on this. Also since the parents are requesting that I do this tomorrow I'll be going over my favorite book out of the whole thing. I don't know if anyone is going to be willing to guess which one but if you do I think that will make things a little bit more interesting. While I mention this I do know that the comment section seems to be screwed up but I will catch what ever you guess if you use Google plus or something similar.

While on books I got another book that I have been reading that has gone with one of the other books I just recently finished. This book is The 6 most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make. The book is designed to make you consider what you are doing with your life currently and see where you want to take it. It pairs very well with the first book Life Strategies for Teens and by this I mean that the first book readies you for Important decisions and while the first one helps you get yourself on the right path the second one helps you make the decisions. One of the decisions that it starts off with is who do you want to be in the future and how do you want to be looked at as a person. This helps as it is designed to be step by step on who you are and where you want to be. Of course this all just happens to go with the chapter about what job you want in the future which makes things that much more interesting.

As you can tell it is nearing the end of my time in Home School and I would love to start doing the woe is me how I will miss the wonderful times that I have had but first off I cannot due this until my final post for this semester and secondly I just don't think that the whole thing is appropriate at this point. The woe is me act wouldn't fly with the parents first off and even for me I don't think that it would work very well unless the final day of home school was going to be my final post. I plan to not have to do this but I will say that posts might just be a little bit more infrequent when the next school year comes along. Other then that though things will be somewhat the same. Much like a good sequel to a book. Things will change but just enough so that you recognize the book and what came before the sequel.

I've Done it!

I have finally found the last parts that I needed and it is relieving to the point of peace. I feel kinda sad about the last couple of days though since I spent almost 2 whole days looking for parts when I could have had them in one day. It feels almost like I wasted two days looking for something just to find that I had been sitting on those exact items and it leaves me feeling pretty stupid alongside the relief. It kinda balances out in the end and due to the work today my weekend is now free!

This morning I got to go around with dad laughing and chatting the entire car ride. I have been loving my time with dad as at this point in time we are the closest that we have ever been and it has been this way ever since Nate went off to Job Corps. I have enjoyed our quality time together and all the fun times we are having together no matter how small. We are simply closer and because of this we are able to enjoy each others company and understand what the other person is talking about more.

This has been a fairly small post so far but I think it is time for yet another restaurant review. This restaurant is called 75th street and I once again got to eat at a wonderful restaurant with a unique spin on things. The main thing is though that this place isn't exactly a restaurant and instead it is a brewery with a restaurant attached which is fairly unique but to top it all off there is still the menu which definitely has its own personality. Along with the beverages I cannot have yet there was a large assortment from steaks to burgers to salmon to salad.  Now these things aren't exactly cheap but for a menu with such variety they were able to carry out the items that we got extremely well. The atmosphere is perfect for the area resembling a old fashioned factory and it fits so well I barely realized how much I loved it until I sat down and looked around. Of course once again this place isn't exactly cheap to eat at but certainly worth looking at when you have the extra buck or so. It may not exactly be cheap but it isn't fancy either which means that you could go there for a casual eat but I don't recommend going there in torn jeans or equivalent.

New day same tune

I have to get this blog in today at some point and I just remembered an hour before bed so I once again apoligize about any of you who were expecting this earlier today. Once again I have been working all day to the point where I haven't finished some of my other pieces of work. Icing on the cake just happens to be that the thing that has kept me from posting earlier today is the same thing as last night. I'm making some progress on looking for the parts for my project but this has got me working from the minute I wake up to the second I take my shower before bed.

I don't know if I'll be going to Hammerspace tomorrow because I still don't have everything I need to actually get anywhere else in my project but I will be going with dad to his work still because he says that he might have a place to find what I'm looking for. If so then there is a chance that I will not be having to do some work tomorrow and if so I'm going to grasp that chance as hard as I can and try to grind in my two lessons in Math that I'm missing before I get home tomorrow.

I have been so busy lately I haven't been able to see my friends the last few days which isn't that bad most of the time. Its the fact that I don't even have the option and even then usually I would make a habit of stopping by my friend Alex's house when running a chore or something like that but I can't even do that with the work on my table. I haven't read any of this but I'm feeling s little depressed at the moment if you couldn't tell so I'm very sorry if this is another blog entry that is almost painful to read because of me sitting here moping.

Break at last.

I'm very sorry to everyone expecting an entry today sooner but I have been way to busy most of the day. You see with my project I have been looking for the small remaining parts for my gun that without them the gun cannot be finished. This may sound easy but apparently I'm asking for the equivalent of a dump truck of diamonds to unload all of its cargo in my garage. In other words this entire day of searching for these parts has seemed useless because what I am looking for seems to be rare to nonexistent. Because of this I finally was given permission to stop searching for these pieces today considering that I have been working on this since 12:00 today right after lunch. I only managed to find 3 out of 5 of the parts that I was looking for which isn't bad at all but some of the original idea is confusing to work with.

Due to my work today on my project I have fallen behind on everything else. I have makeup work to do in math sometime this week before Friday, I have laundry to finish up, and I barely got in my reading today. Now, I want to make this very clear that today did end very well for me and that today was successful towards the goal I was hoping to achieve. The problem with today though is that in order to get to that goal I had to give up time on the work that I still need to do in order to finish the main job at the moment. I will not have everything that I need by the end of the week in order to try and get everything back on schedule. This is kind of a problem but I also have time galore coming during the Holidays which is not an ideal time but you do what you have to and by that point in time I hope to be finished with getting the parts by then but with that much time available if I didn't get the parts up until the day right before the vacation I would be upset but I would have plenty of time to work with to still get things done.

Since not much has gone on today outside of project work I can still talk about what I will be doing tomorrow which should be easier. I will be going to a Dentists appointment after not having had a checkup in a couple years now. In fact I can't remember that last time I went for an appointment at all which makes this that more scary for me since for all I know I have something wrong with my teeth that could potentially make this checkup a little bit more interesting then intended. I wouldn't know myself but for people that are trained to look for imperfections for teeth they just might spot something.

Hurtful Trees

Today I went to work over at Hillcrest to see the store in Christmas frenzy. Certainly not the easiest time of year but the icing on the cake was working on the darned Christmas trees for most of the day. I volunteered to work on them without anyone asking me mind you but I still have scratches and punctures from moving and hooking up those trees. The worst part is that large chunks of the pre lit trees just wouldn't light up due to at least one little light needing to be replaced or just other things going wrong like one of the stands collapsed under the weight of the tree that it was designed for. Lucky for us though we had an extra stand available. Either way things were certainly interesting over there trying to keep up with the steady flow of random Christmas everything. If it was slightly Christmas like people would donate it and then come in and try to get something else.

Outside of Christmas things were rather slow today but that doesn't mean anything really because there is still things to do today including working on finding exact locations and purposes of items on my homemade Nerf gun. It should only take a couple hours because I don't need to do all of the parts just the ones that I still need which shouldn't be that bad but because of me not working on it last night I will probably not be able to start working on my gun until sometime next week. Either way I plan on at least starting today in my free time because while the work is going to be tedious it certainly is going to have a good reward at the end.

Finishing up my books for the last of homeschooling which is pretty cool. At this rate I will be done with Charles Dickens in about a week or two at this rate which is really nice considering how long I have been working on it. I also am half way through the book thief but expect me to try and finish that one in my free time in order to finish on time for me and Kristi to go and see the movie before I go back to public school. The main book that I have been enjoying though happens to be the book titled Life Strategies for Teens which is a fairly generic title but it certainly has helped a lot more then I expected it too at all. By going over some of these things I find myself a lot more prepared for some of the things in the future that I will be going through. I find myself striving to break more of my bad habits. The main thing I have noticed though is that I seem to be a little bit more floaty then usual. A good example is almost delivering the rent check over to the house of one of Zoes friends instead of the office. While this is going on though I'm working on getting myself back together because I'm no good if I keep this up.

Ode to Leftovers

It is that time again where leftovers from a Thanksgiving sit in your fridge while you try desperately to finish all of them due to their wonderful taste. Yep its the days after Thanksgiving and while I know that not everyone celebrates this holiday I know that I certainly enjoy the time with family and eating all of the delicious food that people bring to the table only this time I was helping make the dinner for the family to enjoy as well. Mind you it wasn't exactly easy staying up until midnight working stuffing and the Turducken and other miscellaneous items. I honestly enjoyed working on all of it and seeing what the cook has to go through on one of these days does help me understand how hard it is for many of the average person to cook for Thanksgiving. Even with 3 people working in the kitchen took most of the night and some of the morning all the way up until the meal to get everything ready if that gives you an idea.

After the holiday though everything calmed down again which is kinda to be expected after a holiday since all of the drama and other stuff is over most people just want to relax in my family at least. Yes Black Friday was right after Thanksgiving but I don't know if anyone in my family participates at all because I know that my dad's side of the family does not. Either way other then Thanksgiving not much happened this weekend which is definitely not a bad thing at all because it is the calm before the storm that is the Christmas season after all.

Speaking of which this December is not going to be any exception to the history and patterns of this difficult time of year. It makes sense but that doesn't make it any easier because a lot of stuff starts cropping up for people to do around this time of year. A couple of examples are the church potluck this weekend, my dad's birthday on the 12th, my birthday on the 15th, and not to mention the ever loved Christmas. This will all be done around the unstable Winter weather. In other words something to keep everybody occupied and also I plan on having my project finished before Winter vacation but that doesn't make anything easier considering the fact that I don't have all of the parts that I need yet and because of this I can't test out the gun or start building a final presentation. We'll see how my final month of home school works in the end.