An Uneventful Saturday

An uneventful Saturday. Yeah Right

This Saturday we went to Ohio county for a band competition and this was going to be a very long day. Well from the start the day was bad. We have a semi-truck that pulls all of our equipment and uniforms and we had to get a cab rented to pull it because the one that usually pulls was having issues. Well it turns out some kids had broken into the cab and turned on all of the electrical stuff and run down the battery. So we had to get jumper cables to get it to move so we could get the other cab on. So after that was done with we were on our way to the school. When we got there it was raining a little bit about not being able to perform but it didn't luckily. When we went to perform and everyone was a little nervous and we didn't do as well as we hoped to. We had finals to perform and we draw to see what order we go in and it was just our luck that we had to perform first; and this was really soon after we had preformed earlier. So we got ready and went to warm-up and then that is when the storm hit. It started to rain and hail to no end and it was extremely windy. Some of the parents were outside holding a tarp over our pit stuff while all of this was going on trying to protect it. And after all of this we still didn't get to perform because there were some funnel clouds spotted and we had to wait for that to pass and then we had to rush onto the buses because there was just a small window of time for us to get home. So yeah it was a pretty uneventful Saturday.

Being a Bibliomaniac

If you are someone that doesn't know me or not very well than you might not know that I am a bibliomaniac. When you're a bibliomaniac you can tend to be a little psychotic about books. For instance, when someone asks me about a good book that they might like to read I tend to give them a whole series of books. You know not just one or two but usually four, and sometimes they aren't always thin. Another thing about being a bibliomaniac, you don't ever not have a book at your side. If you don't than that usually means you're sick or something. Another thing is that your room is over run by books and so is your house. You can't look anywhere in my room and house without at least seeing one book. When you're a bibliomaniac you can't go into any store that has some kind of books on sale and not go by them and see if they just happen to have a book your looking for. The only time I don't go look at the books is if I'm forced away from not seeing them by my family. But being a bibliomaniac isn't bad. You get to have plenty of fun looking for books, and if you get to many it even gives your upper body a work out.

Is it better to do something or nothing at all?

I was watching a show called Criminal minds. It was about a young adult who was killing people because he was having psychotic religious episodes and he killed because he thought God told him to. The mother of the child knew what he was doing but did nothing to stop him or told anybody about him. So at the end of the show we found what she was doing and she asks what should she have done besides protect her child by doing nothing, and one of the team members responds It would have been better if you had done something than nothing at all. Since you did nothing three people have died. Now you have to deal with asking yourself what could have happened if you did something.

After watching this it got me started to think about what I had and hadn't done in my life. I was questioning about when I didn't do something would things have turned out differently. I think if we all consider this question before we do or don't act things may turn out differently. If we all just think back to other decisions we have made we could make better ones later and make things better for ourselves.

So I think if we all just consider this question some things will turn out better than they might of.

A family that laughs together stays together

I think that laughter unifys us by letting us have a good time. My fondest memories that I have of my family is when we get together and start to tell stories from the youngest to the oldest and laughing at the stories. One story that I remember being told is that my mom's to youngest siblings were arguing with each other and started to throw leaves at eaqch other (this was during fall). When my aunt Becky (the second youngest) threw leaves at my uncle Jimmy (youngest) a sake hit him. Apparently the snake had decided to take up residence in those leaves. Both of them ran screaming into the house. Another story that I remember is my mom and Sandy (second oldest) shared a room in the house. Sandy didn't like thunderstorms and one night there was a really bad one. Sandy tried to wake my mom up by talking to her and when that didn't work she threw a bar of soap at her. Then she finally woke up. There was also a time that my mom and Sandy were having an argument was with my mom's bed. My mom has to have the bed sheets in such an order that Sandy was tired of having to wait for her to get it ready every night. So one night Sandy decided to put a pine cone into my mom's bed after she had gotten it ready and was going to the bathroom. When my mom stuck her feet in bed she almost immediatly jumped out and was screaming and messed up her entire bed. My aunt was laughing so hard that she couldn't breathe. These are all stories that make me laugh whenever i hear them.

Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce

Wild Magic is the first book of four in the Immortal series by Tamora Pierce. In this book you meet Daine a young girl who was orphaned by bandits and is looking for a job at a fair. Daine has a Gift of talking to animals but it is like no regular Gift anyone else has, and she keeps quiet about it because it is so odd. At the fair she meets Onua who buys ponies for the Queen's Riders. Onua had just lost her helper and was looking for another one. When she meets Daine she has doubts that she is really an orphan and uses her Gift to she if she lies when she asks her questions about who she is. When Onua finds out that all she lies about is her age she asks Daine to come and look at the horses to see how well she handles them. When she sees Daine interact with the ponies she was interested to see how Daine made dominence over him like a real horse. Afer this she takes Daine on and they head off to the capital. On the road to the capital they encounter mythical creatures that aren't suppose to be alive, encounters heros, and discovers that there might be more to her Gift than she ever thought. This book will become your favorite after you read it. Trust me.

Chris Lossie on this Day of The Lord 8/26/09

Today I got my class ring and am really happy with what it looks like. It's really cool to look at everyone's and no matter what they are each at least a little different. I'm also going to get my yearbook after school and I can't wait to see what it looks like. I'm glad I don't have a lot of homework so I can relax when I get home and not worry about studying for three test like I had to last night. I can get online to Gaia and play zOMG and just mess around. My dad's foot and leg haven't really improved and that still worries me a little. He stays off his feet but it still just swells up like he has been on it all day which he hasn't. He's going to go see the doctor tomorrow and hopefully they will be able to do something to help him.

Chris Lossie on this Day of The Lord 8/24/09

Last Saturday the marching band had their preview performance.

That morning we were at school at 8 to begin practice. The weather was perfect for it, there were clouds in the sky and it was chilly and the wind was blowing. Practice went really well. We got everyone on marching and playing for the first song. At 11:00 the practice ended and we went home for a 7 hour break. At 6:30 we performed and everything went allright for our first performance. After that a bunch of us went to Payton's house to watch movies and to play games and it was loads of fun. Then on Sunday I did nothing all day but sleep and get on the computer. I had a great weekend.