[OneWithTheMud]

Today was a good day! It makes me happy and I'm going shopping this evening so it's even better!!!

[OneWithTheMud]

I have to write a paper titled "Who Am I?" about who I am. I don't know exactly what to write. Any ideas would be appreciated.

I love the way Third Day sings Do You Hear What I Hear.

I watched Fellowship Of The Ring again today. I've seen it at least seven different times that I can remember. Even now, having seen it so many times, I still love watching it and I still get drawn in like it is my first time seeing it. It's great...

Saturdays are wonderful.

[OneWithTheMud]

Guess what.... WooHoo!
I just finished segment 2!
Driver's training is finally through!
Now what will I do?...

The teacher had to be Hitler's cousin or something. If he trimmed his mustache he would've looked almost exactly like Hitler. His nickname was the driver's training nazi, but of course he didn't know that. I can't wait until I get my license.

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I am so tired. I went to my grandma's over thanksgiving weekend. My new cousin, Will, is so cute. I got The Fellowship Of The Ring limited edition DVD this weekend too. Saturday and today there was (and is) non-stop snow.

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I have another cold. It's my third cold so far this year. It's miserable.

I saw The Chamber of Secrets on Saturday with most of my cousins and some of my aunts and uncles. It was pretty good. I jumped during the hand part.

My cousin Will is the cutest thing ever. He's about 2 months old.

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I'm tired. My parents and I are at my sister's for the weekend. It smells like poop in this room because there's two cat litter boxes in here. It stinks.

I don't want to sound idiotic, but there's this guy at school that I like. Well, actually there's three. One's a little older, one is around my age, and one is a little younger. Eh, I just wanted to get that out of my system.

I like music with hard guitars, refined vocals, and a good beat. One of my dreams is to be in a band. I love playing music with others and I don't want that to end after I get out of high school (where I am in the concert band). Our band concert is in a week. We should do fine.

*Sigh* It's been a long day. One of my teachers made a somewhat strange comment yesterday. Sometimes people know more about me than I think they do.

Right now I'm really enjoying writing things on this. It just feels really good and I'm dreading the moment when I'll finally have to click on "Submit Reply."

I am lacking energy. I wonder if these speakers on this computer work... They do. It took me a while to figure out I had to turn them on though. Heh.

Ok. I've run out of thought. Good-night.

[OneWithTheMud]

Heh... I just noticed that I have 1000 posts. Cool. This should be post #1001.

I got The Two Towers soundtrack today. It's pretty cool. It came with five card things with pictures on the fronts and backs.

Treebeard

[OneWithTheMud]

Well, I'm doing government homework right now. Later I'll be doing pre-calc homework, which I actually basically almost get for once. I hate homework... most of the time. I did my persuasive speech on recycling today. I think I did alright. Our band concert is tomorrow. I hope we do good.

I drew that house. It's not my house... just a house. I relized that the porch would need more support after I finished it. Oh well.

[OneWithTheMud]

The Christmas concert is over! We did pretty good. I'm glad it's over with, but it was fun.

School is weird. Every year things are different than the year before. New people, new teachers sometimes, new classes, new schedule, new locker, new seminar. Every year I'm a differnet person. One year I'll hang out with certain friends a lot and then the next I'll be with other friends more. Every year I open up more and not really have more fun, but I just make more out of it or something. Last year, most of my classes were either with older kids or younger kids, so I got out of touch with my friends in my class but got to know and made some friends in the classes below and above me. This year, I'm mainly with my class, so my friendships in my class are coming back and getting stronger. I don't know. That's my thought for the moment.

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I like writing stuff in here even if I have nothing to say.

I'm looking at the CGR store thing right now. I wouldn't mind some of that stuff for Christmas. The mug, travel mug, stein (whatever that is), frisbee, stickers, and backpack look pretty cool. I've been thinking about doing the paid member thing (mainly because I want a bigger avatar thing... and cause CGR rocks) but I don't exactly have the funds, and I don't think my parents would be to happy about me using their money (and their credit card) for a message board.

I got some of my mom's Christmas present today... maybe all of it depending on how much I spend on my dad. I like getting people presents. I get excited when I have gifts for people. This one teacher I have for American Lit. said that gift giving is really as selfish as wanting presents for yourself, because if you like giving presents than you're really for yourself. He has a little bit of a point but he's kinda weird so I don't always take him seriously or always believe what he says... like when he said that the apostle Paul saw the burning bush and God talked to him through it. I know Moses did that stuff but I never knew about Paul...

I'm in the process of buying a POD shirt, but I need my dad's credit card number and he's not home right now.

My favorite Christmas songs are Do You Hear What I Hear, O Come O Come Emmanuel, One Small Child, and Christmas Chimes. I don't really like Silver Bells.

It's amazing how much I can find to say when I have nothing to say.

I have a pre-calc test on Wednesday. If anyone happens to read this, you can pray that I do well... if you want. I'm not sure how it will go. The teacher seems to think I'll do fine, but I'm not so sure. I should be studying for it or finishing my homework from it, but who wants to do that when they can be on CGR?! I also have to read through chapter 15 in The Grapes of Wrath by tomorrow but I accidentally left my book at school so that's not going to happen. Luckily, I found my sister's old cliff notes for the book, so hopefully that will be good enough.

I'm going to see the Detroit Symphony Orchestra on Thursday with people from the school band. It's going to be a Christmas thing. I went to a Detroit Symphony thing with Doc Severensen last year. It was good.

Merry Christmas one and all!

[SoccerAaron]

Originally posted by OneWithTheMud
Now if Michigan State would only beat Michigan...

It was close
Nice picture.

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I just read the best book ever: Operation Firebrand by Jefferson Scott. I picked it up this morning around 8:00 and barely put it down until I was finished. Wow, that book is good. There aren't words to describe how much I am in love with that book right now. I don't think there is even one little detail about it that I would want to change. Wow.

There was no school today. I'm not overly happy but I guess it doesn't really matter. I got to read an incredibly good book instead of doing pointless stuff in that cold stupid building.

That was a great book. It made not want to read other books because I'm afraid they would seem boring and bad in comparison to Operation Firebrand. Oh well.

I'm listening to The West Wing as I type. It's on in the other room. I think it's a repeat. I watched The Agency a couple of weeks ago and it was really good. The Stiles guy was doing an undercover thing in the Ukraine and his people lost contact with him. There's more to it but I can't do it justice so I won't try.

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Today was the last day of school until sometime in January. WooHoo. It was really boring and pointless. Jingle bells jingle bells jingle all the way.

We'll just tell you we don't do anything.... I've never been to Boston in the fall.

In fact, I've never been to Boston at all.

Hoy. I'm going to go play my trumpet now.

Auf Wiedersehen.

[OneWithTheMud]

I saw The Two Towers yesterday at 3pm with some friends. I loved it but I wish it would've stayed with the book more. I didn't like what they did with Faramir.

We had our Christmas program at church this morning. The little kids and some others did a skit about the Christmas story. It was cute. Alecia (my friend), Ross (another friend), and I did a "brass trio" thing and played Away In A Manger and Sing We Now Of Christmas. Alecia played the trombone and Ross and I played the trumpet. Ross also played a really cool medly that he put together.

Christmas is in a few days! It doesn't feel like it though. I wish it did. My sister and her *cough*stupid-idiotic*cough* husband are coming on Christmas Eve and staying through Christmas day. That has the potential to totally ruin Christmas.

Water is good. I like Disciple but I can never find anything that has anything to do with them.

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Christmas was cool. My sister gave me a TV and my parents gave me a DVD player and some books and shirts and stuff.

I just watched some of the LOTR extended version DVD today. I watched the whole movie and some of the actor commentary. Whoa... it took me about 5 hours for all that, and I only watched the second half of the actor commentary. It's too bad Viggo Mortensen didn't do the commentary thing. Some of the things they said were really funny. It's going to take a long time for me to actually see everything that is on those four DVDs.