...Yeah...

Apparently I've been tagged, so I guess that means I have to do this now...

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?
Wrapping Paper is harder to use, which gives me a greater sense of accomplishment when it's under the tree, so I'm going with that.
2. Real tree or artificial?
After all the years Mom and I have struggled to put up the stupid Artificial tree, year after year, I think we're both ready to get a real one again.
3. When do you put up the tree?
Sometime in December, early December usually, but that doesn't guarantee that there are decorations on it early December.
4. When do you take the tree down?
Sometime in early January.
5. Do you like eggnog?
Never really tried, never really wanted to.
6. Favorite gift received as a child?
Harry Potter Legos, or my first ever CD...I can't decide between the two.
7. Do you have a nativity scene?
Well we have the two small wooden ones, the willow tree one, the fabric one, the little ceramic one, the big ceramic one, the wire one, the little nativity decoration for the tree, the German one...and I think that's it.
8. Hardest person to buy for?
Umm...Mom used to be, until we started giving her installments of the willow tree nativity, now it's Dad.
9. Easiest person to buy for?
Mrs. Davis, just take her some Dark Chocolate, and she's HAPPY!!
10. Mail or email Christmas cards?
I'm rather fond of real mail.
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?
...Usually I'm happy with everything I get, and I can find a use for it, so not really anything I can remember. I probably was upset about something as a child, but I don't remember it.
12. Favorite Christmas Movies?
The animated Grinch and Miracle on 34th
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas?
Anywhere in December, but that's never a really good thing.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?
...I don't understand...
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas?
Potatoes, orange, and Peppermint stick icecream
16. Clear lights or colored on the tree?
Clear,I don't know why, but I like them much better
17.Favorite Christmas song?
Christmas in Kilarni (sp?),Carol of the Bells, Feliz Navidad, and lots of others
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home?
Mostly stay home Christmas.
19. Can you name all of Santa’s reindeer?
Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen, and of course, Rudolph. Although I bet he has others at the north pole, because otherwise reindeer would be on the endangered species list, since not many people have actually seen them.
20. Angel on the tree top or a star?
...For the past two years we've actually had a little Mexican Sombrero on the top...yeah that's classy right there.
21. Most annoying thing about this time of year?
Finals and going to the mall.
22. Favorite ornament theme or color?
Well, Mom collects ornaments from all the places we've been, so that's kind of our theme.
23. Favorite for Christmas dinner?
Spiral cut ham, Funeral Potatoes, and rolls, if all that's there, I'm good.
24. What do you want for Christmas this year?
Several books, some movies, a nice imitation leather jacket (that I know I am getting, because Santa and I, yeah we tight. And the reason we so tight, is because I remembered to write to him and say thank you for the presents I got last year (you wouldn't get that, unless you saw my Christmas show.))
25. A favorite Christmas Tradition?
Being together with the best family IN THE WORLD!!! That's a tradition I like an awful lot!

The Darkside of State

Well although overall state competition was one of the best things that has happened this school year, there were some moments that weren't totally amazing.
Moment number one was, sadly enough, my performance. We got a high excellent on it, but I would've loved another superior (although I don't really mind since my friend Emily got second place in our division, and my friend John won first place in Reader's Theatre, and 2nd or 3rd in his Monologue). We did all right though, and I'm glad that I don't ever have to perform that piece again.
Moment number two, was the drug bust. That's right we had a drug bust on our Drama trip, and unfortunately I did know some of the people involved (I did not know it was going on). The kids involved have faced suspension and expulsion hearings, and I don't know the outcomes.
Moment number three was when Emily lost her digital camera, and we had to run around campus searching for it, only to realize that it was gone for good.
Moment number four was the moment I realized I forgot to take a jacket. It got pretty cold during sometimes on campus, but I made the best of it, and most of the girls took pity on me and would hug me to warm me up. So actually that didn't turn out to be a very sad moment.
Even with all that going on, state was one of the best things in the world.

IT'S OVER!!!

Finally Culinary ends this Thursday, and it ends forever. I managed to transfer out of Culinary 2 and into Advanced Drama, so I finally got out of that class. I will miss certain features about it, although I won't miss the endless cleaning and the druggies, I will miss the people who made the class bearable. I began the class without a friend in the class, and then I found people who I could talk to and hang out with, within a short month. Without them, I don't know what I would've done in that class.
There was irony in that class though. To begin with, my parents spent 60ish dollars to get me into Culinary, for us to clean the kitchen day in and day out, fold laundry, and cater, thus bringing more money flowing into the Culinary department. I think that the we did a grand total of about 10 labs for ourselves and about 20-25 labs for someone else. Seriously, I think that the only thing our 60 dollars went toward was paying for cleaning supplies, because we seemed to use a lot of those. For example, every kitchen had a deep-fat-fryer, which we never used, but we sure learned how to clean, along with a griddle, and a salamander. It was ridiculous. The things I learned from that class were how to clean an industrial kitchen, and how to sweep, mop, fold laundry, and do dishes...
If it hadn't been for the friends I met, that class would have been a total waste of my time.

Moments from State

Well I went to my State Drama Competition at one of the universities down at the bottom of the state, and I guess I'd just like to share a few moments, not everything, because it was way too fun, and too much happened on the trip, but I'll share some of my favorite moments.
I think my favorite moment took place in the cafeteria at our last dinner there (by the way college food is SO much better than high school food). I was hanging out with my group (consisting of my five best friends from my Drama class and myself), when two of the girls from my last year's Drama class approached me and we started talking. Out of the blue my partner for last year's dialogue told me, and I quote: "Mormon, I just want you to know that we of the female persuasion all love you, and you can have any, or all of us, since you are Mormon." (By the way she does know that Mormon's don't believe in Polygamy any more)It totally made my day, and inflated my ego, by just a smidge.
Moment number two was while we were at the hotel. My group and I decided to go to the taco bell right next door, and my friend Emily and I decided to waltz out the front door. We pretty much nailed it, and were very proud of ourselves.
Moment number three was in one of the class buildings. I was on the first floor, separated from my group, when someone told me they had seen them upstairs. So I had to sprint up three flights of stairs, to end up staring across the hallway where the elevator was closing with my group inside of it. Luckily they held the door for me, and we all went down together.
The fourth moment and last one I'll write about was on the bus. Emily and I were trying to get our friend Brian to come to the back of the bus and sit with us. We kept waving and then I told Emily the way to get him was to do the one finger beckon, because we of the male persuasion (did you catch it?) can't resist it. So she did it, and Brian came back. We laughed pretty hard afterwards.
Anyways there were lots of good sotries from it, but those are four of my favorites.

Sucked In

Drama is definitely starting to take over my life now. I've officially fallen entirely, head-over-heels, in love with it. This year I've had a few issues with my teacher, but they're starting to blow over. At the beginning of this year, she wasn't really encouraging, and she always had her favorite student, which wasn't ever me. But finally my moment to rise came, and I seized it with everything I've got. We had to go to a district competition earlier this month, so my partner and I put everything we had into our performance there (we did a dramatic dialogue), and pulled out with a Superior Rating, allowing us to progress onto State. The competition was amazing, our entire drama class of 18 all got Superiors, and became a big family. We all ran around the school to go see each other's performances. When Laura and I performed our scene, it was just students from our class there to watch us, so we pulled it off wonderfully.
After our Superior rating, my second chance to rise in the Drama department came. We began work on our Christmas show, which she gave me one of the parts I definitely did not want. And even though she knew and I knew that I didn't want it, I've been putting everything I've got into rehearsals, and she's started to notice. I'm definitely working to get into Advanced Production next year, so I'll just have to pull together, and work with all my might to get into the best drama class in the school.
Oh yeah, and just so you know our State Competition takes place next weekend, (I get out of school for a day and a half) down at the opposite side of the state. I'm super excited, since it's only my second over-night school trip, and this time I have roommates that I actually get along with, and know. It'll be a blast, I can't wait! And we got new blocking, that can almost ensure we get at least an excellent at state...at least I hope so. It'll be exciting though, and I can't wait!!

GO MCCAIN!!!

Well it's that time, election time to be exactly. Although the poles have probably closed by this time, I'm here, just hoping that McCain wins this election. I know I should support either one, not matter who gets elected, but I definately want a conservative in office, let's cross our fingers and hope that the media is wrong about Obama.
And remember if you live in this great country, you should vote, I know I'll hit the poles the minute I reach the age of 18.

HOMECOMING!!

So last Saturday was my Junior Homecoming, and I had a complete blast!!! I was asked by my friend Rachel (who is not a Mormon), to attend the school Homecoming, but we negotiated a little and decided that we would hit both the Mormon Homecoming and the school one, since they were both the same night. I went picked her up at 4:45, so we could go get our pictures taken. We actually got to have our pictures taken at the biggest house I have ever seen in my life. It was a GIGANTIC white house, with this huge white staircase leading up to the front door, which was ideal to have all of our pictures posed on. We spent an hour there, and by the end of that hour, our group probably consisted of TWENTY couples (at least), plus some people who were going to Homecoming on their own!! It was amazing!!! After that we ran over to an Italian Restaurant for dinner, and had a great time there. We split up into groups of ten, and my group was definately the best. Everyone from the other two groups kept dropping by to talk to us, because we were just so cool (actually, mainly because they were all friends with Rachel, I barely knew any of them, since they were all seniors). Then after the dance we drove over to the school, only to realize that we had forgotten the tickets!! We ran back to her house to pick them up, but by the time we had gotten to her house, and back to the road school is on, we realized we could have more dance time if we went to the Mormon Homecoming and then the school one, because the Mormon one ended earlier. When we got to the Mormon one, we had a total blast!! We stayed for the entire dance, and Rachel said that she had had the best possible Homecoming that she could have had. We skipped out entirely on the school Homecoming (because all her friends had left by the time we left the church), and I dropped her off back at her house. It was a total blast! The funniest moments were when people at the Mormon Homecoming would ask me what ward she was in, because she had 'Mormon safed' her dressed (pinned up the front, and thrown on a jacket for the Mormon Homecoming). She also told me to keep her updated on dates of Mormon dances, which means I have two honorary Mormon friends who LOVE youth dances!!

Is It December Yet?

So in my books, December cannot get here soon enough!! I am SO ready for December, it brings everything that I really want. First off ALL of my siblings (with the exception of our missionary) will be together, and we'll be having a BLAST!! I can't wait to be together with most of my family again! Plus December means that I survived the first semester of my Junior Year, which by the end will have included many things (Homecoming, Physics, Drama Competition, Drama Show, Culinary Projects (in which some glass pans have been shattered), and AP Research Papers), which I need to be ended!! December also brings a nice long two and a half week long break from school, where I can collect my thoughts, curl up in my nice warm chair, and read the day away, or even right might story (which needs time). I also can't wait for my second Footloose rehersal, which takes place December 1st! I really need to get to bond with the cast, so that I can do my part to make it a great show! I really can't wait for December. So yeah, November needs to go by quickly!

Random Spoilers...

So I wanted to tell someone about my story, but the fact is that my family is currently too interested (for want of a better word) in the almost missionary in our family (by the way my brother is going to Boise Idaho Spanish Speaking Mission, I don't think I told y'all about that). So I decided to blog about it instead. Hope y'all don't mind that this is entirely random, and most of you don't even know what I'm talking about.
Anyways here are some of my plans for the story:
First off I really want Cassandra to foresee an attempt Kratos is going to make to take her life. Once she discovers that Kratos is going to kill her she gets Zack on her side, and has Zack kill Kratos and take over the Order, which brings a whole new set of issues for Jessica and Zelos.
Also I am SO sick of Jessica being so worthless, so hopefully I'll think of something she can actually do that'll be useful (perhaps a doctor/healer/nurse whatever)
I'm also planning on Zelos and Jessica falling in love, and then having all their friends trying to convince them that love will make them do things they would never have done before. Sometime, I want to have Zelos do something stupid, yet strangely heroic (That one isn't likely to make it, but I kind of liked the idea, we'll see about it.)
At the end I want to put a fight in between Zack and Zelos, in which they fight to a draw where they're both on the verge of dying when Jessica comes in and has to choose between the two of who she's going to heal and who she has to let die...which may or may not happen, I like it, but I don't.
Yeah, and I guess that's it, but I just wanted to ramble on for a while about my story. Now I should probably start working on it, so I can actually see how all these situations would work out.

Graduation Exams Strike Back

...So it's that special time of the year again...that time when the schedules at the best dadgum school in the nation are flipped around and confusing. Today seemed to drag on, and on, and on, and on. I was ready to break a window and just run away from school today by fourth block (the only problem was that my fourth block classroom has no windows). Thank goodness today is over, although tomorrow it starts again. Thank goodness Friday will be the last day of graduation exams. I don't think I've ever looked forward so much to a Friday in my entire life.

Mormons...

So yeah I had my first experience with a Mormon group date last week. Nicole decided to plan the thing and my parents graciously offered up our home to host the date. The first bump I had to get over for the whole thing was finding my date. The original idea was for me to ask Audrey, but then I realized that I'll probably be taking her to High School Musical 3, so two dates in a row doesn't work. Then I planned to ask the new girl in our area, Eliza, but Nicole told me not to because Aly was supposedly going to ask me to go. So that night I called up Aly and got her voice mail, but before she could check her voice mail Jim asked her out, and thus I could not take Aly. I was pretty okay with that though, because I had actually originally wanted to ask Eliza anyways, so I hit her up in the halls the next day at school, only to be told that Tyler had asked her out at the date (two date stealers on the same date that was AT MY HOUSE). Eliz appologized and then told me to ask Cassie, so I ran down the halls to catch up with Cassie and asked her out, and thankfully she was single that night. It was a really super-fantastic group date, and we all had a blast, I just learned that next time there's a Mormon group date I need to call up my choice of dates and ask them out the night before Mutual.

Not for me

So for a while I was thinking about being a chef...sadly (or happily for me) that thought was brutally murdered today. I can't stand my Culinary class anymore, we don't do anything in there but take notes. The teacher is totally unprepared to teach, and she spends the entire class showing PowerPoint's while she sits in the back either glued to the phone or her e-mail. But the class isn't what did it in today. When I sat down and thought for all of three seconds I told myself I was transferring out of Culinary into Advanced Drama. Half of my mind was completely shocked by this, because I supposedly wanted to become a chef. The other half won the debate though, because I know that I could never handle sitting in a kitchen day after day having to make the same thing over and over again THE EXACT SAME WAY!! I hope that made sense to you, because it did in my head. I just wanted to inform you that I have narrowed down my choices of occupations by one! Life is good again (except for the minor fact that I have to finish the semester of Culinary 1)!

You'd think I'd have learned my lesson from the second...

So even though I'm in high school, and was a little bit disappointed in the second of the series, I'm still fairly excited about High School Musical 3. I'm totally into the whole high energy musical thing, so of course I'm interested. I found two songs for High School Musical 3 on youtube, and they're not terrible. The Sharpay and Ryan song is a little (make that a lot) on the self-centered side, but surprisingly it makes sense, since it's all about rising to the top as an actor (which I think would be amazing), so I still like it.

The past I had nearly forgotten

Oh my goodness, if you've seen me lately you know that I have re-discovered the wonders of one of the best TV shows ever!!! Out of no where I suddenly just remembered one of the shows that my siblings and I would all watch together when Nicole and Jeff still lived with us back in Utah. DARIA!!! I've been pretty addicted to it for a few weeks, but I finished the five seasons off of youtube now, so yeah, now it's all over. It was by far one of the best shows ever, and it makes so much more sense to me now that I'm finally in high school.
Now I'm trying to find or create people who watch Daria so we can form a fashion club like the one in Daria (only with a guy in it), so I can say 'As president of the Fashion Club.' I know I'm just a tad on the weird side (make that a heck of a lot on the weird side) but you would probably understand if you watched Daria, so go do it now.

YES!!!

So I want to announce to all my avid readers who don't know already know:
I GOT IN TO "FOOTLOOSE"!!!!!!!
Yeah, I know I sound a bit conceited about it, and I'm sorry. I'm just really excited to actually be a part of the school musical this year. The auditions were CRAZY though. We had three days of auditions. The first day we did the cold reads (acting) portion. Second day we did singing, and third day we did the dancing. My weakest points were the acting and the singing, because I wasn't confident enough in what I was doing, but next year, hopefully I'll do better. There were about 140 students auditioning for 44 parts (can you say intense). I'm not saying I'm all amazing to get into it, because to be honest only about 30-40 guys auditioned for 22 parts, and I'm only in chorus. I was just super excited about it, and wanted to update y'all on this, since it will be eating up my life next semester.

SIX FLAGS!!!

Me and some of my friends went to Six Flags on Saturday, and we had an awesome time. I don't think I've ever had a fun of a Saturday in my life to be honest. Scott, Nicole, Chris, Sarah, Bro. Vanderdos, and I all went down to Six Flags together and pretty much spent the whole day standing in line (which amazingly was fun with that group). We got through a total of six rides, but had fun doing them all. We started with a roller coaster with a couple of loops in it, and I was fairly nervous since it was only the fourth roller coaster I've ever ridden, but I had an amazing time, and I had Scott for moral support with me the whole time, so it was good. Then we rode a swing ride, which was okay, but not near as fun as the roller coasters. After that we waited in line for a whole hour to ride the Batman ride, but it was totally worth it, BEST ROLLER COASTER IN THE WORLD!!!! After that we had lunch where we stood in line for another hour, and that wasn't very fun, but we did have fun at lunch. Then we rode the Ninja, which I got Nicole for moral support on, and that was fun. After that we rode a wooden roller coaster which we stood in line for about an hour and a half for, just to wait while they had 'technical difficulties' with it the minute we were in front of the line. It was fun though, and Scott was again my moral support. Then we rode some rapids, which were totally lame compared to the ones at Lagoon, but hey whatever.

Pulling back together.

Well at the end of last year I had a pretty good system. I was keeping up with grades, I was accomplishing a list of weekly goals, and I still had free time, but as the summer progressed that system crumbled into this:
"Well if Reba is on from 2-3 on Lifetime and then from 3-4 on the CW, and then on 6-7 on Lifetime again...then I just need to eat dinner from 5-6..."
So finally this week I pulled myself away from the TV screen, and am trying to re-establish that system that fell, and it's working, I've even started my Seminary reading. So life is beginning to pull back together for school.

Well it's over

It's been a great summer, the best actually, but it ends tomorrow. I had an amazing time though, and I'm glad that I got it. I have no regrets, well technically I do, but I'm physically (if not mentally) prepared for school. The summer reading is finished (and hated), the room is clean, and the backpack is packed... I'm still sad that I go back tomorrow, but heck it's gonna be one heck of a year. I'm going to make this year EPIC!!!

Please tell me you were adopted...

So I recently got back from a trip down to the most boring place on earth, Delta Utah, home of my mom's parents. When the trip was finally over I was overcome with a realization that I have an amazing mother, who even though she was raised in boring old Delta with a VERY interesting family, she still maintained a very high amount of coolness and normalness (in a good way). First there was my lovely Grandmother who is currently losing her memory. She and my grandpa live in a VERY cluttered house, you would have to see it to believe how cluttered it is, but if she sees something of ours setting out, she gets the urge to put it away for us and then forget that she ever saw it. We lost one piano book and two pairs of glasses that way (the piano book was recovered after half an hour, but the sunglasses (including my aunt's prescription ones, were never recovered). We also had a lovely chat about her high school years where she must have mentioned how amazing her Seminary teacher was and how far from the school her church was about a dozen times. The other thing about Grandma is that she is very protective of her stuff. We were not allowed to run in the house, give piggy-back rides in the house, or throw a soft foam ball in the house, because we might knock something off her walls.
One of my other favorite people there was my Uncle Todd. He comes with the attachments of three small children and a wife who does nothing but sleep and sit in front of the computer. When he got to Grandma and Grandpa's he dumped his three children on me, and sat around and talked to his siblings for at least eight hours. I wouldn't have minded it so much, except that once I watched them for even a second they were my responsibilities for the rest of the day, and if I didn't watch them, no one would. I was super frustrated by the time the whole thing was done.
But I have to say that my favorite person of all had to be my dear cousin Jared, who is now up in Logan with me as we speak. The kid is eight years old and he's VERY annoying, and a bit of a brat (I know that sounds mean, so I'll explain). First thing, he NEVER stops asking questions. Jeff, Abby, and I would sit down to play a game and all of a sudden Jared would pop up out of nowhere to start his questions. "What are you doing?" "How do you play?" "What game is that?" "Is it fun?" And when ever he got bored with those questions he'd chime in with "Whose winning?" EVERY TEN SECONDS!!! Not at all annoying right? And he doesn't just ask them he yells, the whole time, he just yells questions and doesn't stop yelling the same question until it's answered and he can move onto a new one. And to top it all off last summer his favorite question was "What are those red things all over your face?" Which we did in fact explain to him last year. So as we sit down to a nice game of Uno, guess what pops out of his mouth: "Shaun, what are those red things all over your face?" Just as I though my face was beginning to clear up a little... I had to call up some of my friends in Utah to ask if I could hang out with them today, and then go on my date tonight just to get away from him. You can't understand him unless you've met him.
So I guess the whole point of this entry was to say that my mother is amazing, and I'm glad that she's all (well not quite) mine.

First Date!!!!!!!

I just got home (well no not really I'm at Nicole and Gary's house, but my temporary home) from my first date. It was pretty fun, and actually not that bad. I went on a blind double date with Nicole, Gary, and my sister's favorite co-worker, Janessa. It was a lot of fun. She was really nice, and she was pretty cute. It was a pretty short date, but it was still a lot of fun. We went and got some ice cream and then just sat around and talked for about half an hour. It was a very low-key date, and I think we all had a great time.

Happy Sweet Sixteen

First off a few days ago was my friend Echo's sweet sixteen Birthday. SO I wanted to wish her a happy belated sweet sixteen to my friend Echo.

Officially 16!!!

Well I've been 16 for two days!! It's been pretty amazing. I got all sorts of new music, so I'm pretty music ADD right now, especially under the influence of Caffine Free Dr. Pepper, M&Ms, Jolly Ranchers, and Gummy Bears. I also got my liscence today!!!! We got in and out in less than an hour, which was pretty amazing. It's been really good though. I LOVE MY LIFE AS A 16-YEAR-OLD!

1 Week, 1 hour, and 23 Minutes

That's how long until my 16th Birthday as of right now!
This is Zelos warning the world that he's nearly 16
Oh yeah, you know you're jealous.

Over It?

You may or may not know that for the past ten years of my life I have suffered a massive likeage of a girl I shall call Jessica (who lives in Utah). Anyways this last week at Scout Camp I may have actually gotten over it. She still haunts the back of my mind, but she no longer runs the main part anymore. I guess it just took some deep thought, and a realization that there are about four girls here that I wouldn't mind dating. No I will not go into details all I will say is that at least one of them is a Bishop's daughter. Anyways I thought about it all week and when it really sunk in that I might possibly be over it was when I got home and found an e-mail from her, and I was excited...but not like the other times.
This is Zelos, who might have just gotten over it,
Weird eh?

Zion's...I Mean Scout Camp...

We all remember that Seminary lesson in D&C (if you had Sister Mitchell like me). All the men (or most of them at least) left from Kirtland (I think (what I meant by remembering it is that you remember what the outcome was more then the details)) to go to Missouri and fight the Missourians to get their land back. They get there, and then they just turn around and go home without even finishing what they left for. So they pretty much experienced cholera, weather, thirst, hunger, and all their other issues for something that in the end they probably thought was completely pointless. But something actually came out of it that no one expected, the leadership of the church was established and the Lord had found those in His church who would follow him.
Now what does that have to do with Scout Camp? Allow me to enlighten you. My Scout Patrol pretty much experience a load of crap the whole week, and lots of us thought it was pretty pointless, but looking back (sounds like me and trek) it was a good thing for me, I was inducted into to the Order of the Arrow, and I gained an increased sense of love for my new quorum (the sad thing is that I leave the quorum in about two to three weeks) and SOME of the Deacons.
Okay so pretty much this whole week started out with a grumpy Zelos (this was my fault since I didn't want to be there, and I had spent the whole night before staying up until midnight reading (Inkspell if you must know), knowing I'd have to get up at four the next morning). We got to Campsite three, and the first thing I know is that the other two teachers have decided they're sharing a tent, and the only Priest decided to share a tent with someone in a different ward, so I got stuck with one of the Deacons (one of the older ones). We get back from breakfast, and our Scoutmaster figures out that there aren't enough tents for everyone, so he decides that hey there's an empty campsite (campsite 8), why not send Madison 1st Ward. Way to brighten Zelos's day (I had unpacked, and I had already wasted some of my bug spray spraying down one of the tents). We get all the way out there, and you have an ANGRY Zelos, but around lunch time the bright side of it all began to sink in. We had only one adult leader at our campsite, and he could sleep through anything (we tested this theory), and I was the oldest, which meant I could boss the hobbits around the whole week (that was my thought at least). Anyways after my merit badge classes that day I went and spent $22 on a hammock (which was my bed for the whole week, and has the scars from holding my heavy self up for the whole week) and $5 on a surfer necklace (which is my second favorite necklace I've owned). Then there was dinner (which by the way every meal was some sort of terrible form of chicken). Then after assorted activities that made me and my quorum angrier and angrier because our scoutmaster relied so much on us I was able to go to bed, and sleep off the bad mood. That night my quorum and two of about eight Deacons followed me and slept under the stars.
It pretty much all meshes together after that, my quorum got more and more violently aggressive (which disappointed me, but which I understood)and the twelve year olds became more reliant on me (which annoyed me so bad, and which actually made ME snap at one of them on the last nights). The last night I gained that last nugget of needed growth from scout camp, that increased love for my quorum. Even after all the stupid stuff they had done I laid in my hammock and was overcome by the need to pray for them (maybe the stupid stuff was the reason). And I spent about half an hour praying for the two young men in my quorum. This was the closest thing to an Enos-like prayer I have ever experienced.
So this is Zelos, who might have actually gotten something out of Scout Camp,
Oh goodness.

But I Don't Wanna...

Scout Camp starts TOMORROW!!!! And I am pretty much border line terrified. I did survive a handcart trek, and I've been to about four other years of camp...but they get worse every year. The other scouts get smaller and more immature, and less and less people I get along with come. This year there are only three people that I really hang out with going. I don't want to go!!!
Oh yeah and to brighten my outlook, my dad has to go to Florida this week, and since Mom is in Utah with Ethan, we can't leave my dear, sweet, kind (earlier ranted about) older brother home alone, so HE gets to go to Florida with my dad, and hang out in a nice hotel ON the beach WITH an outdoor swimming pool, AND within walking distance of several of the BEST fast food joints in the world. The worst part is that he'd rather spend the week at home in front of a computer screen the WHOLE time. Meanwhile I get to go spend a week with thousands of immature 12 year olds, who probably won't shower the whole week, eating cafeteria food (EVERY MEAL OF EVERY DAY), and who knows what other miserable experiences.
Is it obvious yet that I really, REALLY don't want to go to Scout Camp? If we had trek again, I'd do it, and if I could switch out with my brother, I would, but hey, I can't. So I guess I just have to grit my teeth, and go to Scout Camp...however much I dread it...and maybe, just maybe it'll be better than I expect. We'll just have to wait and see.

The New Blog

I know technically I still have another blog, and I'm still not really a Junior, since I haven't done anything to make myself a Junior but survive Sophmore year, but hey, I figured that I needed a new blog for my Junior year. If you didn't find it then you'll be stuck back of Sophmore year never being updated, and that stinks for you...but hey oh well this is now my official new blog, that will hopefully survive through the fun and the trials that will come with the next year of my life. So until next time, this is Zelos.
See ya later.