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Saturday, June 21, 2014

New Blog

Today we volunteer at Historic Flight. Yes, again. Things just keep happening don't they! :) Anyways, we're going to help out because Fifi, a B-29 bomber is visiting Historic Flight and they're selling rides. Well really they've sold out of rides already. SO we're going to try and sell people rides on our planes instead. All the rides are on sale for while Fifi is here, so hopefully Historical Flight will sell a few.

Yesterday we had a belated Fathers Day celebration since we were busy on Fathers Day. We all chipped in and went to MeMenamins. The food was really good; their gluten free bread was incredible. I've never seen anything quite like it. Yesterday I also hurt myself a lot. See, first I got a paper cut (luckily it's not too bad) and then I scraped a layer of skin off my hand. Then as I was running up the stairs like I always do I hit my left elbow on the hand rail. Unfortunately I must have hit it pretty hard, because it still hurts today. Mostly only when I flew my muscles (typing right now even makes it hurt a little, sometimes).

Sereina, Tiana, and I were planning on playing Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 this morning, but we leave to volunteer soon. So we're going to play tomorrow. Have you ever played Roller Coaster Tycoon 2? It's one of my many, many childhood games. See, you build an amusement park. You have to keep the guests happy with good, garbage cans, places to sit and cool rides. People can get sick from turbulent rides so something Tiana and I always did was took this tiny island in the middle of a lake and made "Sick Person Island". Yeah, that games awesome... except when you're always bankrupt... like I always was. Hehe, I never was too good at those games; but I still loved 'em!

Oh hey, so I've got this new blog I'm apart of called Once Upon a Time (it has nothing to do with the show Once Upon a Time). Me, and two, possibly three, other friends have started a movie, game, book review blog. You can check it our here: http://onceuponatimemediareviews.wordpress.com/ Now that Michaela, one of the moderators, has started reviewing Nancy Drew games I'm going to have to make a post. I've played almost every game, and I own all but five of them. They some of the best computer games ever! You can check out the one post I've made, it's about the Misadventures of Maude March books. Yeah, of course I started with those ones! Now I'm going to make a post on a Nancy Drew game! Which one? Oh... Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake! I love that one!

Friday, June 20, 2014

My Little Obsession with Superheros

Yes, I actually mean what I say in the title. I really like superheros, but when it comes down to it my younger brother Daniel likes 'em ten times more. So although he knows many more heros and villains than I do it's still something that connects us fairly well. Especially since we started watching Arrow, a new take on the hero Green Arrow (also known as the Emerald Archer). If you haven't seen this show, go watch it now. It's amazing!

So if you haven't seen Arrow and you intend on watching it then don't read this next paragraph. Okay, so from reading ahead on the descriptions Daniel discovered that Black Canary (one of my favorites) is going to be in Arrow. First off, in the comic Black Canary is from what Daniel and I call Earth Two (it's kind of like if there was another planet that could sustain life that was exactly like our Earth, even down to the people on it). Another this is she possessed a magical power of The Canary Cry. So far in Arrow there has been nothing to do with magic or any real super powers. In any case, here's something that really stunned us last night. This character, Laurel Lance, had a sister that died five years before. A different character was looking at a pictures of Laurel's sister Sarah with a pet canary (coincidence? I think not). Then Daniel looked up the real name of the second (maybe third) Black Canary. Her name was Dinah Laurel Lance. Let that sink in... Ahhh! Crazy! And now Sarah is rumored to be alive! Eeekk, this show is awesome!

Okay, so away from the spoilers now. Um... I don't like Huntress in Arrow. They didn't get her very comic accurate. Daniel and I both this she's a lot more like a villain called Talia al Ghul, both looks and characteristics wise. The Huntress was raised by criminals in the comics (at least one of them was) and Huntress is very... loud. Aggressive with the battle crys to go with it. If she's angry, you'd you it. But Huntress in arrow is a lot more low key. She shows, to me at least, practically no emotion even though (slight spoilers here) her fiance was killed by her father. Talia al Ghul is more of a silent anger person, and so if they could just swap the two (even though Talia isn't in Arrow) that'd be great.

Honestly though, now DC has got Arrow, in the fall they're getting The Flash (Daniel's favorite hero) and eventually Gotham. Gotham will be about young Commissioner Gordon, before he even has his mustache or glasses! Personally I'm not sure how good it'll be because I don't really care about Commissioner Gordon (sorry dude, but you're no Batman). But what I think is, they should make a Birds of Prey show. Seriously, that'd be so awesome. Especially if they gave all the characters awesome back story. I'd love for them to further Oracle's story (she used to be the first Batgirl, before she was paralyzed).

Oh, looks like I gotta scatter. I do, after all, have a life to live. For instance, I need to go do some school, and finish cleaning my room. I'm halfway through a deep clean, so in a way my room is a bigger mess than it was before. Sigh.

Monday, June 16, 2014

Back From the Woods

I'm back from Oregon; just got in maybe... hm, an hour ago I think? I'm really bad at guessing time, but the fact is I'm home. We left for Oregon on Tuesday and got in late that night. And so our working vacation began! On Saturday we worked at the air show. All I can say is, wow. Historic Flight really has large events because this event was tiny. We were the only booth there that day! The car show that was to accompany the event was the next day (although in the end only three cars showed up!). Even so, it was fun. Very cold, but fun.

The best part of the trip was  that I got to ride Grumpy, the B-25 bomber! It was sooo amazing! First off I got to ride in the back (I had wanted to ride up front, so I could go to the nose which is made almost entirely of glass or whatever they use). I got the seat in the very, very back of the plane. The take off was incredible, John Sessions was flying the plane (yipee!) so we did a Doolittle take off. That's where you sit at the end of the runway and rev the engines while staying in place. So the nose was off the ground really soon; daddy says that's the kind of take off they do on air ship carriers.

Anyways, once we were in the air we flew around the air port once, it was an incredible feeling! We did a great pass (I love the feeling of a tilted plane!). After that we headed to the mountains; Three Sisters to be exact. It was the most beautiful, breathtaking thing I've ever seen! The mountains were covered in thick, untouched snow and the clouds shrouded our view of the bottom half of the mountain, so it was as though the ice covered tips were flying. We did a fairly low pass; by that time we could remove our seat belts and wander around. I, of course, went immediately to the glass dome at the top of the plane. The view of the mountains from there was just... amazing. That really doesn't begin to describe it for me. Anyways, we passed over Sisters then headed back towards the air port. It's so amazing looking down from such a height. Honestly, it felt like we were flying above a model. It was so weird, but so awesome!

Then we came back and in for a landing. It was very smooth, although to be honest I wouldn't have minded it if were bumpy. I quite enjoy the feeling of a little bit of turbulence in a place (but not to the point where I think somethings wrong!).

So yeah; the flight really was the highlight of the trip. After the air show we had dinner in one of the hangers. It was so much smaller than the Historic Flight hanger, but it still worked. :) I didn't eat since I'm not a huge BBQ fan. Besides, I'd eaten a bit at the house just in case I wouldn't be able to eat because of my Gluten allergy and my thing of not eating sugar.

After the dinner John wanted to go to Pilots Butte, so our family along with Greg (I think he's the mechanic for Grumpy), and Rob went up. The view was great, but it was getting dark and it was sooo cold. I only brought a light jacket on the trip; yeah, my bad. Then after everyone had seen the view Rob said he wanted ice cream; so we headed to town. We went to Goodies, a place Daddy and a few other guys had found the night before (they had to stay up till midnight because a guy was flying out for a part for Grumpy). Rob treated everyone to an ice cream. I didn't get any, you know; no sugar. He was quite stunned, but he understood after I told him I stopped eating sugar because I got really sick from drinking a soda once.

After that we went home (to our aunts, not home, home).

The trip was just really fun and I would go again. Although I really need to build up my stamina. I get tired so easily sometimes, and this trip was one of those times. Really I should start exercising again...

Oh, heh heh, I played an entire Nancy Drew game on the way home. I did The Creatue of Kapu Cave, better know has Creature, or Kapu around here. We own almost every Nancy Drew game; there are thirty total and we own twenty five of them. So when we talk about them we just say call them things like, Last Train, or Design, or Alibi. I'd have to say Nancy Drew games are some of the best; I really want to watch Michael Grey's blind play-thorugh of the newest game, The Shattered Medallion (Medallion), it looks awesome and as I've said, his commentary is priceless. I mean, while I was playing Kapu I got to a certain part and I remember his walk through. He was talking about how he was the president of the English Club, and he proceeded to play his "theme song". It goes like this:

          Everybody in the country, in the tub
          Everybody in the country, wash and scrub
          Everybody in the country to the pub
          Michael is the president of the English Club!

Yeah; it's funnier if you watch the video and know him a bit. One time he full out screamed in his walk through. Yeah, he received "The Message in the Haunted Mansion" (that's the name of the game). It said, in a scratchy handwriting: Leave the mansion now! Then he screamed very loudly. It was sooo funny... then he proceeded to accidentally burn down the mansion. Haha, it's great... it's even better when you know the game pretty well. It's just awesome.

Now I really want to watch a walk through...

Thursday, June 12, 2014

FYI

Just so you know, yesterday I mentioned not feeling sure if I liked my blog. That was before I changed it to the way it currently is. So as of the moment, though it may need some tweaking, I like my blog (I wonder how many times I'll change my blog in a year?).

So we watched the last Harry Potter movie. All I shall currently say is: Wh- wha- what? No! They didn't...

Um. Yeah. So besides Harry Potter what have I been doing? Well we're preparing for a trip to Oregon! There's going to be an air show up there, and my dad wanted to help out; since the airport it's taking place at is just a few minuets from my aunts place we all decided to go. So it's gonna be like a working vacation. Well see how that turns out.

Ever since I got Spotify and a bluetooth speaker I've almost been listening to music non-stop. When I'm in my room that is. :) Usually I listen to the Harry Potter soundtrack, which I love. Oh, and the entire Pirates soundtrack (excluding the fourth movie). That's got to be one of my favorite movie soundtracks. I also listen to The Piano Guys, some of the Doctor Who soundtrack along with Brunuh Ville and Adrian von Zieglers music. My current album that I'm obsessed with is Aura, by Brunuh Ville. So beautiful...

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

So as you all know I've been watching and reading Harry Potter. Yesterday night we finally found some time and watched The Deathly Hallows Part 1.

It was, to say the least, coolsadepicterrifyingamazingincredibleintenseandmore. Ug, I need to see the next movie. That, we will be doing tonight. 

Also speaking of The Deathly Hallows; I got it today! Yeah, I bought the Deathly Hallows even though I haven't ever finished reading The Goblet of Fire (though I'm really, really close!). I would disclose a few of my thoughts; but I have at least one friend who reads this blog who hasn't gotten quite that far. I don't want to give any spoilers; if there's anything I despise, it's spoilers.

On a totally unrelated note, I'm still not quite sure I like my blog. *sigh* I just can't seem to find that sweet spot. Or maybe it's just how I am; for instance: when I build a house for my Lego George it's the best thing in the world. Then on day two, or really just some time after that, I have to change it. Even if I love it I have to change if simply because I have the urge. So maybe that's why I keep wanting to change my blog.

I don't know if I will. After all, if I keep changing the name and look completely no one will know where the heck they are! Not that I have too many follows to start with; but even so.

In any case, I shall do some thinking upon my blog.

Oh yes, I never mentioned before (...oh wait, I did) my music making program, Magix, was having some problems. All the sound loops disapeared (not quite sure what was up with that) and to top it off my Midi cord was being a little ball of fun (I mean that in a sarcastic way). Thankfully I got it all figured out though; I just had to re-route the loops via my desktop and I think I'd plugged in the Midi cable backwards (amongst other things).

And to finish this post off, my inspirational song of the week: I am the Doctor. I makes me feel all bubbly inside, kind of like I've got a huge task at hand but I can tackle it anyways (and that was a strange way to describe that...).

Wait! One more thing; I took a quiz on Pottermore.com to see what Hogwarts house I would be in, and I am in, drum roll please, Slytherin! Yeah, I'm a Slytherin; of all houses. Funny thing though; I'm not heartless and power hungry, but it does fit in a way.

Thursday, June 5, 2014

The Irish are Coming!

You've heard of Duolingo, right? It's a website, and it's totally free, and you can learn languages on it. Currently they have Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese. But sometime around late September early October they're going to be able to teach you Irish! How awesome is that?! Really awesome, and good news for me. I'm having a heck of a time trying to learn Scottish Gaelic so I may just learn Irish. I'm not sure if plain Irish and Irish Gaelic are the same or not... but I'll at least take what I can find. Besides, Ogham is originally Irish (at least from what I read it is) and if I want to read and write Ogham I think I'm going to need to know Irish. So it's kind of a win, win, right?

Today I brought the keyboard down to my room to work on Magix. But it's having problems; all the sound loops are gone and it wont record. So I'm completely uninstalling it so I can re-install it. Gosh, it's going to take forever and I think my computer is running out of space. Darn it.

We're going to watch Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince in a little bit! I'm so excited! I'm in the middle of reading The Goblet of Fire. Arg, these books are amazing! In fact, I think I'll go read a bit while I wait for Magix to install (I'll also be listening to the Harry Potter soundtrack, which I already mentioned that I'm complete addicts to. I love it so much!).

Monday, June 2, 2014

One Year Anniversary!

Hey guys, guess what today is? Actually, because of the title you already know; I'm going to say anyways. It's been exactly one year since I started this blog and made my first post! So for the occasion I'm going to review a few events that happened since I started this blog.

In June, the month I started this blog, I posted four times. Yeah, not very much compared to other months. My first post went something like this:
Well here I start a blog! I haven't done blogging for a few years so it has and will take a while to master the tricks of the trade. :) Seeing as I just started I'm not sure what to post so I'll just give a general update as to what I've been doing.
Then I went on to start talking about how I've been writing a lot and that I was overcoming a cold. Star Wars episode VI was playing as I made the post apparently. And so, that was the glorious start of my blog.

It wasn't until December that I started to blog regular. Oh gosh, my first post in December is quite... interesting. It's just a bunch of one or two sentence paragraphs!

Let's see, what are some things that have happened since I made this blog? I became a Sherlockian, Whovian, and recently a Potter Head. Those are all really good things. Another thing, my cat Kokopelli got lost a short while shortly after I started posting regularly. That was pretty scary, and I'm glad he is perfectly fine.

Okay, now to pick a random post and see if there's anything amusing about it. Here, let's see what I had to say in my post titled This and That. *After scanning through the post* Eh heh heh *face palm*. So many spelling errors. It's embarrassing. I seriously need to read through my posts before I post them.

Oh hey, check this out from my post Coincidence? I Think Not.:
You'll never guess what happened to our friends, specifically Emmalyn. I've mentioned her blog (Tumblotwit) before. Well, remember me telling about our oven heating element blowing out? It just so happened, on the same day ours went out, so did theirs. I cannot believe that, I mean on the same day the same thing happened to our ovens. After telling about her experience here's what she said -- (The funny thing is that someone we know had the exact same thing happen today (and they also read this blog, so HI). Coincidence? I think not. The universe is rarely that lazy. The ovens must have heard about Ragnarok, and they’re fleeing before the end.)
Remember when my oven, along with a friends, blew up on the same day? Haha, that was awesome (I mean like... well, you know what I mean). But you know what (this is slightly off topic), Emmalyns Tumblotwit is gone. Boom. Vanished. I'm so sad; it was an awesome blog.

Okay, one more big of an old post them I'm outta here, I've been cleaning my room while listening to every different version of the song I am the Doctor! :D This is from my post Pouring Grey (for some reason I love that title...).
Nothing says rainy day like a game of intense canasta. Of course that's not why we played, but we did and that last round. It. Was. Crazy, like hold your breath every time you discarded crazy. The discard pile was larger than the deck, and when Daddy got it, Daniel and I were in for it. We knew we would loose. But they need seventy five more points to win. Seventy five more points. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how close Daniel and I have come to being pulverized. We're taking a break, who knows when we'll finish. Chances are Daddy and Tiana will win, but there's always a chance. Canasta is a tricky game, full of surprises.
One last thing before I leave, I'm now addicted to the Harry Potter soundtrack, particularly the songs The Quidditch World Cup, A Window to the Past, and Mischief Managed!