Dang! Darn! Curse! Lousy! Explicit! Poo! CUSS! Cuss! cuss...Dang! Crap! Drat! Confound it! Cripes! Darnation! Doggone! Murder! Err! Snap! asdlkfjasd;lkfjas;dklfhja;ksjdhf;aslkdjf! <-frustration pounding. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! SOMETHING ANGRY. Okay, that's all I have to say. Quail Out.

The Status Facebook Wouldn't Let Me Have

I was driving...uh early this morning...and there were very few cars on the road. So, I started thinking, "I bet all these early morning drivers are heading towards some really sucky job or home from some really sucky job," but then I realized, "They can't ALL have super sucky jobs. I wonder how many of them are driving home from killing zombies with super good friends just like me..." but then I thought, "wait a second, not very many could actually be that awesome." And then, I was like, "hmm...awesome is spelled with four different words in it 'a', 'we', 'so', and 'me' that's kind of cool. Ooh, if you say it like that a-we-so-me, it sounds asian" and then I got home. Fin.

Uh...Babble

That's me IN the waterfall...just so ya' knows.

So, I have two goals in writing this blog.
1.) Talk about McKann, because she said to
2.)Prove Stuart wrong/ demonstrate my plans to prove Stuart wrong about my hiking inability

So, here we go:
1.) McKann is awesome, cute, and super fun to be around. She also has a really cool ringpop-lookin' necklace.

Okay, check.

2.)So, recently I went on a little hike with my buds Stuart and Jackson...ahem...Pope and Tank...As mentioned in Stuart's blog, I wasn't exactly very, well, good. I think it was because of one, or both, of two possibilities. One, the mixture of cold and night air basically killed me. Or, two, over the past few winter months I became extremely chubbified aka unfit. (The second one is pretty likely...)However, I'm going to prove that I do, in fact, love outside adventures/hiking in two ways: past and future.

These are some of the super cool adventures/hikes I have previously been on.

Goblin Valley-hiking in this canyon is a lot more like canyoneering. The three feet of FREEZING water wedged in the three foot wide canyon was a definite blast.

Calf Creek Falls-this hike is so fun, and can be done barefoot in the sand. Plus, the destination is beyond gorgeous!
River Rafting/kayaking-yeah...not hiking, but adventurous all the same! I've gone rafting a few times, and the best place to go, hands down, is the Colorado River. Awesome!
Kayaking is a different story. I only went once, this past September, on the Provo River, and I got pretty injured...still got some scars. I don't have any pictures of my kayaking, but I got some pics of my grotesque injured legs...I decided I should post one to torture you all in the grotesqueness. Although, it looked way worse in real life, because you can't see the cool bruisage in the picture...anyway...


This is taking too long...I'm just gonna put some pictures of me doin' stuff now and call it good.

Now, my plan for adventurous things this summer:

• Sky Diving
• Hiking through California
• Hiking Timp
• Surfing
• Hiking through Zions
• Canyoneering
  
• Rock Climbing
• Mountain Biking (Perhaps Mount Unicycling, if I can get a mountain unicycle instead of just my street one that broke...)
• Back to Goblin Valley :D
• Other various activities of awesomeness.
  

See ya later extreme unfitness!!!
Check.

Oh the Insanity

There are many things that drive me crazy. I'm sure I don't know why, but they do. There's really nothing to be done about them, because they can't be stopped. In any case, I made a list of them. So here it is, the list of things that drive me crazy in no particular order.

Things that make me go berserk:

• One letter/emoticon texts (i.e. "k", ":)". ":o")-Not only are they a complete waste of time, they're really hard to reply to...and, yet, they're an awful end to a conversation

• Casseroles-Food is good. I love it. Somehow, when you squish every food into one big dish and hope they all cook to perfection, the joy of food is lost...and found murdered...and mutated...and thrown in a river.

• Disney "Stars"-this is an interesting one. Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, etc. (of course, those are the top two) are really quite horrible! I mean...they're really not good at all. Singing is meh, but goodness their acting makes me technicolor yawn! Maybe I just don't appreciate their style...I don't know

• Politics-if I can have a conversation about something political that miraculously solves the problem instantly and doesn't end in some kind of pointless argument, then maybe politics would be just fine.

• People Pretending to Care-if you don't care about a problem I'm having or something, just tell me. Acting like you care when you don't is awfully rude.

• Poofy Hair/Box Heads-ratting your hair to make it huge and ugly is weird. That's all.

• Kitch- I like a well decorated enviroment, but if there are so many kitchy knick-knacks that I can't breathe...I will leave.

• People that don't get it-you know what I mean. People who make no attempt to mesh in with society in an attempt to be individuals are obnoxious. I'm sure they're lovely people in all reality, but they need to show it somehow in a somewhat normal way.

• Timpview getting your hopes up for a day off from school and then ripping all your hopes and dreams away!!!!

• Volume of public events-maybe I have super sensitive hearing or something, but I really can't stand how loud everything seems to be! Movies, concerts, dances...my brain explodes.

• Embarrassing moments-I hate embarrassing myself. I really do.

• Writing with a weird mixture of upper and lower case-fRieNDs...stupid.
  

I'm pretty sure this isn't the entire list, but it's a snippet . And, ya' know, it doesn't really matter. There's nothing that can be done...but I guess things driving you crazy is life.

I remember when I used to have good days or bad days...I could wake up and say "This is going to be good day," and then it was, or "Cripes.This is gonna suck," and then it did. Now, I wake up and say, "GAH!!! Chemistry test!!! I hate everything nice!!! I'm gonna have a horrible day," and my day really is horrible...for an hour. But the world is all weird and different now. After an hour or two of my awful day, something changes. Someone says "hi" of gives me a compliment, and I feel good for another hour or two...then, another change, and I feel dejected all over again. It's not necessarily a bad thing, and it's perfectly normal...it's just interesting.

I guess it's all about the outlook, right? I suppose if someone is optomistic all the time, their hours of bad dayness would occur a lot less often. Of course, that's not the only thing that can shorten the number of sucky hours. Being nice to people always makes me happy...or doing something crafty...or hangin' out with cooler members of the human race (judging by that sentence, I'm not one of them).

I'm not trying to be preachy. I'm just saying, life is all freaky. Really I just wanted something to blog about, and this seemed like a good idea. I should really stop now...so...I'm going to...

The Foolishness of Homework

I've been weighing the pros and cons of homework, and I have come to a conclusion: homework is dumb. Many people probably think that I am simply another lazy teenager who hates schoolwork, but that is not the case. I even did some research on the truth about homework. In the analysis of the 1994 and 1999 Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) researchers were flabbergasted to discover that "Not only did we fail to find any positive relationships, the overall correlations between national average student achievement and national averages are all negative." Like I said, homework is dumb. So, why do we have it? Maybe it's so we can spend time learning outside of class. That seems reasonable enough. But, let's face it, who really tries to learn outside of class by doing homework? Learning is natural, and can't be forced upon you!

Homework causes stress, dissatisfaction, family antagonism, a decline in the desire to learn, and loss of time for other important jazz!!! Right? It doesn't help that EVERY teacher thinks their class is the most important class offered. One to two hours of homework a night isn't too bad, but one to two hours of homework a night for every single one of your eight classes is a bit much. Drives me CRAZY. (Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a padded room. I liked it there. I died there. They buried me where the flowers grow. One of the flowers grew down and tickled my nose. It drove me crazy! Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a padded room. I liked it there. I died there. They buried me where the flowers grow. One of the flowers grew down and tickled my nose. It drove me crazy! Crazy? I was crazy once...) Anyway, in all reality, I'm sort of writing this to procrastinate doing my homework...so, I guess I should go cause myself anguish.