This year, my Christmas blog entry is a little bit different. I'm posting from my new iPod Touch. That was the main thing that I got for Christmas.
This Christmas was very fun. I'm going to brag a little bit first, of corse, but I'll try to leave a good message in the end.
So oher than the iPod Touch, these are the things I'm interested in that we got for the family. Beatles Rock Band, LEGO Rock Band, Wii Sports Resort, and Wii Music.
It has been fun playing with those games, but the actual real thing (truley, not just to sound nice) was that I was constantly looking for oppertunities to do service. This is the thing that brought me the most happiness. This is the time to try to help others. I will look forward to this for a lot of years to come.
My fifteenth birthday was on the 26th of May. It was pretty fun! I had a great birthday, and I got my learner permit during lunch on that day. Everyone was joking just like I did to them about "stay off the sidewalks, because they have their learner permit!" I got a t-shirt along with $5 on the sunday before my birthday from my grandparents, I got kettle corn and a Wii Zapper on my birthday, and on the 28th, I got Rock Band 2 drum cymbals. It is much funner to play Rock Band 2 now that I have three cymbals. The cymbals make different noises than the toms in not only freestyle practice mode, but also the riffs in songs and the Big Rock Endings. I really have enjoyed all of my birthday presents, and I thank my grandparents especially for the shirt. I had a great birthday!
Where is the Spring? I don't get it! It comes for a while, and just when you think it's here to stay, BAM! You wake up in the morning and there is six feet of snow. At least for me. Utah is just weird.... I sometimes want to move away, like when I have a family of my own, then I want to move to the Caribbean. Then I think about it and realize that I would miss the snow. Winter would come, and there would be no snow. I would just imagine that it would be worse than having snow in the middle of Spring, and then when I do see the snow and cold in the middle of Spring, then I change my mind again. If I put everything together, I think that living where the ocean is so close overpowers my decision. I start thinking about the ocean, and realize that I would rather have it than snow. Well, I just hope that things start to warm up. What about global warming now!?!?
Before, there were geese in our backyard. I thought that it was cool whenever they came, but now, they are usual. It's just like seeing a car drive down the street in front of your house: it's not rare to see. They are almost always here whenever I come home from school. I take pictures of them sometimes, and it's pretty fun to see them so regularly!
From my last post, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!, you could see that I am doing Project 365. Now you can view my pictures that I am going to take throughout the year if you click the link "Project 365" on the right side of my blog, just under the blogroll, under links. I only have a few pictures now, but just wait! In about a month or two, I'll have many pictures! Also it's my brother's birthday today, so...HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! One more thing: I got $10 from my grandpa for Christmas, and I decided to buy a protective filter for my camera that I also got for Christmas. I'm having a fun time with my camera, and all of the pictures you see me take for Project 365, will be from my new camera. This will be a fun year!
This is pretty much my Christmas/New Year post. Christmas was very fun. My family didn't go anywhere, we just stayed home and enjoyed it to ourselves. The main thing that I got for Christmas was a new digital camera. It's one of the Panasonic Lumix's. It is so fun! The main functions that I love on it is the image stabilization, the 10 mega pixels, the 18X zoom, and the fact that I also got 2 4GB SD cards! The cool thing is that I have a lot of SD cards. I have a 516MB card, a 2GB card, and now two 4GB cards! I don't think that I could take enough pictures to fill up all of them on a two-week vacation! There is so much memory, so much time....
New Year's Eve was also pretty fun. My dad forgot the confetti guns and shooters, so I improvised. I made a paper cone, took shredded paper from our shredder, and dropped the paper into the cone. Then, I decorated the outside with Sharpie marker. All you do to launch the "confetti" is swing it around. The shredded paper will fly out the big end of the cone! I actually think that, apart from how they didn't make loud noises, they were much better than confetti guns and shooters. Also, we had our favorite New Year's Eve drink, apple cider! My New Year's resolution? Well, actually I don't have one. But I do want to try to work on Project 365 this year. Project 365 is a photography project. You have to take at least one picture every day of the year, hence the name Project 365. Well, I hope that this upcoming year will be a good one for all of us!
It HAS been a long time since I've posted! I really had nothing to blog about! Except that school got out a few days ago for Cristmas -- sorry -- "Winter" vacation. *Eh-hem* Some people take offence in some other people calling it Christmas vacation, because it implies religion! % ) Yeah, anyway, I've got some cool pics from some of the Mindstorms projects I've been doing. I would post them too, but I'm having problems again.
Merry Christmas
Happy Decemberween
Happy New Year
(And for those Scrooges out there) Merry/Happy Winter!
A while ago, I got a GPS. It is the Garmin etrex Venture Hc. It is pretty fun. Mostly what I've been doing with it is taking it almost everywhere I go, and geocaching. I already enjoy geochaching even though I have only found two. I have been having so much fun....
Wow! My vacation was awesome! We went to the Oregon Coast just to have a lot of fun on the beach! I bought a stunt kite and had an amazing time flying it! So many !'s !
Yesterday, (after I finished both of those movies) I made a time-lapse of the clouds. It turned out to be pretty cool, and I had a lot of fun! The first time I tried it, and yes it did take TWO times to get it right, I set it around two-thirty in the afternoon, and had it take 900 pictures at one-minute thirty-second intervals. I was guessing that it would take all up until nine at night to finish it! But it didn't. It ran out of battery on the eighteenth frame. So at four-thirty I replaced the battery and started another one. This time only 200 pictures at one-minute intervals. It went all the way, and like I said, when it was all put together, it looked pretty cool. Again I wish I could show you, but it is bigger than the other two movies from yesterday combined.
