2009

I have a special love, hate relationship with iTunes. Yeah, I am sure a lot of people do. My reason? It actually is really simple, but it drives me up a wall even to think about it. I hate it on iTunes when you really, really want a song but for some reason they only sell that song with the whole album. I go crazy when this happens.It just happened to me again. Regina Spektor is my favorite music artist by miles, and I really wanted to buy her song, The Call. Which is amazing I have to say. But you can’t buy it anywhere unless you buy a whole freaking album. ...

Here are some funny road signs along our way to Michigan. Strange things that people put on these signs. I wonder what possessed these people to do this.

I found this photo of me, my best friends and my cousin at Raging Waters. Fun stuff, fun stuff. Shout out to my best friends!! With that said, I have to say something. WHAT IS UP WITH THE BOTTOMS OF THEIR POOLS? I know you know what I am talking about. They must use some sort of special cement in their pools that no matter how careful you are, will cut you some time during your adventures. Whether it is in the lazy river, or the wave pool, you will at some point hit your toe, or scrape your knees along the bottom and you will be cut to pieces. ...

A tall tree Like a sentry guard A world full Of controversy And falling stars Yelling and screaming You tear out my hair Betrayal afoot A friend afraid To cry Shattered pieces Wings are torn Pictures of friends Ripped to pieces Wake up And smell the ashes There is blood To be had Once friends forever Are no more A promise never upheld Sadness builds another wall Forming a shell Hiding away from all

Some where out there, is the world’s largest sand crane. I have seen it with my own eyes, got to say slightly disappointing. I was expecting truly gigantic, this was big, but not that big. The sign under the statue cracked me up though. Steele, North Dakota I believe, the middle of nowhere. Still now I can say I have seen the world’s largest sand crane. Beat that.

So here is another incident after the Ghosts and Stupidity, there will probably be many more like this. Today during golf practice I was wheeling around my golf bag on one of the old man bag cart pushers. On hole five I was pushing it in front of me when the bottom caught the ground, stopped dead and hit me right in the neck. Funny? Yes. Painful? Yes. A really stupid moment? Definetely. ...

Sometimes I just like to have time to stop and smell the flowers… but I don’t so here is a quick photo of some gigantic field of sunflowers. I wish I was there not here doing loads of homework. I think this was in North Dakota somewhere near Bismarck I believe. It felt like it stretched on forever.

In my TOK class today we broached the subject as to why kids would give apples to their teachers. No one knew. The teacher so kindly told us that the teachers were given apples so they would be healthy because the teachers were revered in the community and needed to be kept healthy. I on the other hand, have a different idea about why apples where the gift of choice. ...

The little girl knelt Her hands together And head bowed She prayed She asked for Forgiveness She pleaded for Guidance She begged for Repentance She wept for Redemption She prayed hoping for an answer That never came She picked up her head Her soft hair falling And looked at the stars She asked silently God why don’t you answer me Yet no answer came She prayed every night For the rest of her life Waiting for that answer That never came Faithfully she returned Every night and knelt She refused to loose hope Hands together And head bowed She prayed She always listened But no word came But still she believed That he was waiting And watching over her He never did help her He never reached down To a child on her knees And said to her It is all right, you can go now You can go free He left her all alone Her parents didn’t understand Then her children didn’t understand And then her grandchild didn’t understand But she didn’t ask For their understanding Just to be heard ...

This is a funny photo from Glacier National Park. When my mom and I entered the park we were totally bummed out because we were afraid we weren’t going to be able to see anything due to the fog. I saw this mountain and all I could think of was, Hey, looky there, it is Mount Olympus. It was in Montana the whole time! Everything was coated in fog except for the top of this gigantic mountain just poking out of the fog like Mount Olympus. ...