Well...today appears to be Christmas already...that's special....It seems to have come really quickly and suddenly....probably because I was more concerned about the Ward Choir Christmas program, and then immediately after had to draw the Newport Beach Temple for a friend for Christmas, which gave me like a 24 hour deadline. I'm proud of myself for drawing it though, cuz it looks pretty dang amazing.
I also have recently created an art blog of....well...my artwork....
theworldwithoutartisjustmeh.blogspot.com
That's the link up there ^ ....as if you couldn't have already figured that out yourself...
So....you're probably curious about what I got for Christmas, so here's the list:
- 2 Star Wars shirts
- A super nice guitar
- Lego Lord of the Rings Videogame
- Lots of music and iTunes cards to buy more music with
Yeah...that's it....my need for more stuff has decreased dramatically this year...I'm kinda happy with what I've got right now.
~M.B.~
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Thursday, December 6, 2012
About time I acknowledged this blog's existence again...
Well, I really ought to pay more attention to this blog. And keep my goal to write in it often. And change the font so it's easier to read. =P
So.... stuff going on...
Tech
Peter Pan has come and gone. I was like 2 weeks ago. I learned a lot. I was the sound person backstage and helped out with mic changes and replacing batteries and stuff like that. I got to know some seniors in drama much better, which was cool, cause they're cool people.
Space Center
The Odyssey got ripped apart by construction people today. It's so sad to face the fact that a part of my soul has been torn from me, and I'll never be able to get it back, ever. When the Space Center first closed, I thought I would never be able to go back to it again, but with all of this Save the Space Center stuff, I've started realizing, even expecting, that I will work those simulators again. But now, something's gone and will never return. R.I.P. Odyssey.
Life
I've been having some difficulties lately trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I want to do. I'm a pretty good faker. There's one thing I learned from orchestra. Faking. I fake happiness so often, that I don't tend to feel real happiness very often.
On another topic, friends. I've been trying to figure out who I want to spend my lunchtimes at school with, who I want to hang out with out of school, whose house I want to jog to on weekends, etc. My current friends are soooo different from me. I never realized that until my friend Logan told me one day, "How did you ever end up being friends with Shelby Woodhouse?" And that got me wondering....how did I end up friends with her? Well, we met because we were both in PGJR's play in 9th grade; specifically, my friend Makenna from orchestra introduced me to them. But I was a techie, and she was one of the starring roles. Not to say that techies can't be friends with actors, but to say that we were already so different when we met. I've always been a bit different. A geeky, nerdy, Star Trek and Star Wars and Harry Potter everything person. My circle of friends right now share pretty much nothing in common with me. So why am I still with them even though I realized this months ago? They're such nice people that I don't want to just tell them that I don't want to spend a whole lot of time with them anymore. They're really accepting of me, no matter who I am, but I just feel like I can't be me around them. I can't discuss Star Trek or Star Wars with them, and I can't have super-crazy in-depth conversations about them with Harry Potter stuff like other people I know. So, I've been gradually slipping away from them like a sly fox these past few days. I've found that one of my true passions in life is drawing, and so, I sit on the steps in the Student Center, in an emptier area, with my sketchbook and draw. Even though they are also sitting on the same steps in the Student Center that I am, just farther away and surrounded by people, only one of them has noticed me. And that was only because I happened to hear a loud bang from someone popping a chip bag and looked around me and we made eye contact. That's something I don't like about my current friends. I have sit there next to them for an hour at lunch, right next to them, and they never say more than a few sentences to me. In an hour! And all they talk about are school dances. I thought it would end with the Sadie Hawkins dance, but then, bang!, two days after the dance and they're already concerned about who they should ask to Preference. I've tried countless times to change the conversation, but within a few minutes, it comes back around to school dances, or who's going with who, or who's dating who, or weird girl stories about disaster dates, and other things I don't find appealing or funny. I try to tell them that they talk about these things too much, but they just deny it. They should really hear themselves talk sometimes. But they would just deny that too. Just yesterday though, when I was sitting on the more isolated steps of the Student Center, a nice drama person I met during Peter Pan sat down and talked to me for a bit. She has no idea how much that meant to me. I wish I could remember her name. I think maybe I should drift towards this group of seniors that are super involved in drama. This may be an omen. I really feel lots of pain in leaving my current friends, but they just don't understand me, and we honestly have absolutely nothing in common.
Sorry that was a really long post, but my feelings are complex right now.
~M.B.~
So.... stuff going on...
Tech
Peter Pan has come and gone. I was like 2 weeks ago. I learned a lot. I was the sound person backstage and helped out with mic changes and replacing batteries and stuff like that. I got to know some seniors in drama much better, which was cool, cause they're cool people.
Space Center
The Odyssey got ripped apart by construction people today. It's so sad to face the fact that a part of my soul has been torn from me, and I'll never be able to get it back, ever. When the Space Center first closed, I thought I would never be able to go back to it again, but with all of this Save the Space Center stuff, I've started realizing, even expecting, that I will work those simulators again. But now, something's gone and will never return. R.I.P. Odyssey.
Life
I've been having some difficulties lately trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I want to do. I'm a pretty good faker. There's one thing I learned from orchestra. Faking. I fake happiness so often, that I don't tend to feel real happiness very often.
On another topic, friends. I've been trying to figure out who I want to spend my lunchtimes at school with, who I want to hang out with out of school, whose house I want to jog to on weekends, etc. My current friends are soooo different from me. I never realized that until my friend Logan told me one day, "How did you ever end up being friends with Shelby Woodhouse?" And that got me wondering....how did I end up friends with her? Well, we met because we were both in PGJR's play in 9th grade; specifically, my friend Makenna from orchestra introduced me to them. But I was a techie, and she was one of the starring roles. Not to say that techies can't be friends with actors, but to say that we were already so different when we met. I've always been a bit different. A geeky, nerdy, Star Trek and Star Wars and Harry Potter everything person. My circle of friends right now share pretty much nothing in common with me. So why am I still with them even though I realized this months ago? They're such nice people that I don't want to just tell them that I don't want to spend a whole lot of time with them anymore. They're really accepting of me, no matter who I am, but I just feel like I can't be me around them. I can't discuss Star Trek or Star Wars with them, and I can't have super-crazy in-depth conversations about them with Harry Potter stuff like other people I know. So, I've been gradually slipping away from them like a sly fox these past few days. I've found that one of my true passions in life is drawing, and so, I sit on the steps in the Student Center, in an emptier area, with my sketchbook and draw. Even though they are also sitting on the same steps in the Student Center that I am, just farther away and surrounded by people, only one of them has noticed me. And that was only because I happened to hear a loud bang from someone popping a chip bag and looked around me and we made eye contact. That's something I don't like about my current friends. I have sit there next to them for an hour at lunch, right next to them, and they never say more than a few sentences to me. In an hour! And all they talk about are school dances. I thought it would end with the Sadie Hawkins dance, but then, bang!, two days after the dance and they're already concerned about who they should ask to Preference. I've tried countless times to change the conversation, but within a few minutes, it comes back around to school dances, or who's going with who, or who's dating who, or weird girl stories about disaster dates, and other things I don't find appealing or funny. I try to tell them that they talk about these things too much, but they just deny it. They should really hear themselves talk sometimes. But they would just deny that too. Just yesterday though, when I was sitting on the more isolated steps of the Student Center, a nice drama person I met during Peter Pan sat down and talked to me for a bit. She has no idea how much that meant to me. I wish I could remember her name. I think maybe I should drift towards this group of seniors that are super involved in drama. This may be an omen. I really feel lots of pain in leaving my current friends, but they just don't understand me, and we honestly have absolutely nothing in common.
Sorry that was a really long post, but my feelings are complex right now.
~M.B.~
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Today
Today me and my friends hit a car....
Don't worry though....it was with a soccer ball....yeah, you totally freaked out there for a moment, right?
I decided that today I would take a walk around our high school...outside. It was a nice walk. I paused near the seminary building to eavesdrop on some of the seminary teachers that were doing something outside with a ball. I didn't really get what they were talking about. But...I eventually found some of my friends playing with a soccer ball outside the front of the school. You had to hit the ball 4 times without it touching the ground and without using your hands. After the ball had been hit four times, someone could catch the ball, and if they did, they got to throw it at someone. Well...we were playing the game in a circle, and someone that was facing the drop-off area in front of the school drop-kicked the ball really hard, and a van just happened to be driving by at the time. The ball went up from the kicker, towards the car, and neatly bounced off its roof onto the grass on the other side of it. There was a very audible thunk when the ball hit the car, and sent all of us into hysterics. Ahhh...it was great.
But really...there wasn't anything else of note that happened today, or in the past few days.
~M.B.~
Don't worry though....it was with a soccer ball....yeah, you totally freaked out there for a moment, right?
I decided that today I would take a walk around our high school...outside. It was a nice walk. I paused near the seminary building to eavesdrop on some of the seminary teachers that were doing something outside with a ball. I didn't really get what they were talking about. But...I eventually found some of my friends playing with a soccer ball outside the front of the school. You had to hit the ball 4 times without it touching the ground and without using your hands. After the ball had been hit four times, someone could catch the ball, and if they did, they got to throw it at someone. Well...we were playing the game in a circle, and someone that was facing the drop-off area in front of the school drop-kicked the ball really hard, and a van just happened to be driving by at the time. The ball went up from the kicker, towards the car, and neatly bounced off its roof onto the grass on the other side of it. There was a very audible thunk when the ball hit the car, and sent all of us into hysterics. Ahhh...it was great.
But really...there wasn't anything else of note that happened today, or in the past few days.
~M.B.~
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Life Lately...
So...it's been quite a while since I last posted something. I should really keep this more updated since it's pretty much my journal.
So.....life.....The Space Center is closed for like a few months cause they're taking too much of Alpine School District's power. There were also some fire hazards. And there's also the giant rat underneath the Magellan. So... yeah..... I've also had to deal with some problems with the Actor's Guild that I'm organizing. It used to exist like 4ish years ago, but it kinda fell apart cause everybody involved with it left to go on missions or just moved on from the Space Center to get a real job. Pretty much, the huge problem I just had to deal with involved a certain person (I won't mention names) hacked into another person's email account. (We'll call this 'certain person' Person 1. We'll call 'another person' Person 2.) This happened because 'Person 1' totally overreacted to what I was telling 'Person 2' and decided to hack their email account by guessing their password, and reading through all of the emails I had been sending 'Person 2'. I informed 'Person 2' of this after some suspicious emails I was getting from 'Person 1', and 'Person 2' changed their password so that 'Person 1' could no longer access it. I then accused 'Person 1' of hacking 'Person 2''s email. 'Person 1' lied to me though, making it hard for me to discern the truth. 'Person 2' was smart though, and informed 'Person 3' who got angry, and Facebook chatted me and had me forward the suspicious emails to them. 'Person 3' determined that 'Person 1' had been lying to me and decided to tell 'Person 5'. Finally, 'Person 1' admitted to me and 'Person 2' that they had hacked 'Person 2''s email account. 'Person 1' could possibly be expelled from the Space Center for this, but that is down to what 'Person 5' says when they hear about all of this.
So that's what I've been having to deal with the past few weeks or so. I've been enjoying my normal life, though. I'm a tech at school now, which is cool. We haven't done a whole lot of stuff yet, but we have: hung christmas lights from the cyc electric, learned how to work the sound and light boards, toured the catwalk, toured the cave (where we keep all the technical equipment like gels, tools, paint, etc.), toured the dungeon (where we keep all the furniture and props), and toured the costume closet. The ladder up to the catwalk is by far the scariest ladder I have ever had the pleasure to climb up and down. It goes probably about 50 feet or so up, and has no cage on it. Our teacher constantly reminded us that if we fall from the catwalk or the top of the ladder, you will die, or be so mangled that you wish you were dead. He also reminded us that since we are in the ceiling, we should only step on the boards or carpeted areas. Otherwise you will fall through the ceiling and onto the chairs below and die, or be so mangled that you wish you were dead. You will also have to pay for the hole you just created in the auditorium ceiling, or, if you are dead, your parents will have to pay for it, and that won't leave very much money left for your funeral. Pleasant thoughts of course.
~M.B.~
So.....life.....The Space Center is closed for like a few months cause they're taking too much of Alpine School District's power. There were also some fire hazards. And there's also the giant rat underneath the Magellan. So... yeah..... I've also had to deal with some problems with the Actor's Guild that I'm organizing. It used to exist like 4ish years ago, but it kinda fell apart cause everybody involved with it left to go on missions or just moved on from the Space Center to get a real job. Pretty much, the huge problem I just had to deal with involved a certain person (I won't mention names) hacked into another person's email account. (We'll call this 'certain person' Person 1. We'll call 'another person' Person 2.) This happened because 'Person 1' totally overreacted to what I was telling 'Person 2' and decided to hack their email account by guessing their password, and reading through all of the emails I had been sending 'Person 2'. I informed 'Person 2' of this after some suspicious emails I was getting from 'Person 1', and 'Person 2' changed their password so that 'Person 1' could no longer access it. I then accused 'Person 1' of hacking 'Person 2''s email. 'Person 1' lied to me though, making it hard for me to discern the truth. 'Person 2' was smart though, and informed 'Person 3' who got angry, and Facebook chatted me and had me forward the suspicious emails to them. 'Person 3' determined that 'Person 1' had been lying to me and decided to tell 'Person 5'. Finally, 'Person 1' admitted to me and 'Person 2' that they had hacked 'Person 2''s email account. 'Person 1' could possibly be expelled from the Space Center for this, but that is down to what 'Person 5' says when they hear about all of this.
So that's what I've been having to deal with the past few weeks or so. I've been enjoying my normal life, though. I'm a tech at school now, which is cool. We haven't done a whole lot of stuff yet, but we have: hung christmas lights from the cyc electric, learned how to work the sound and light boards, toured the catwalk, toured the cave (where we keep all the technical equipment like gels, tools, paint, etc.), toured the dungeon (where we keep all the furniture and props), and toured the costume closet. The ladder up to the catwalk is by far the scariest ladder I have ever had the pleasure to climb up and down. It goes probably about 50 feet or so up, and has no cage on it. Our teacher constantly reminded us that if we fall from the catwalk or the top of the ladder, you will die, or be so mangled that you wish you were dead. He also reminded us that since we are in the ceiling, we should only step on the boards or carpeted areas. Otherwise you will fall through the ceiling and onto the chairs below and die, or be so mangled that you wish you were dead. You will also have to pay for the hole you just created in the auditorium ceiling, or, if you are dead, your parents will have to pay for it, and that won't leave very much money left for your funeral. Pleasant thoughts of course.
~M.B.~
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Bad Day...
I know that I still need to post on the Edventure Camp last week, but this will come first.
I also know that this is ridiculous, but so many things have not gone my way today that I'm going to channel out my anger by making a list.
1. Let's see...I didn't get on this year's Leadership Camp at the CMSEC. This is the 4th year that I have not been on the LC...it was Flight Director's choice this year and I'm surprised that other volunteers that have only been here a few months got chosen over me, who has been there 3 and a half years...
2. I didn't get my 2nd chair pass on the Magellan today...I did just fine yesterday...it probably had something to do with Scott pestering me about stuff....which stressed me out....and yeah....
3. Scott got his Magellan pin today....I'm sure he'll enjoy rubbing that in my face...That also means that he can be a Supervisor now, and I heard he passed his test....Then once he has that collar on his shirt he'll be pulling rank on everyone and making them feel like they don't matter.....disaster....
4. I didn't get into Runescape's Combat Beta....That's not such a big deal, but after such other frustrating things happening today, it's a bit of a letdown...
5. The pictures I took yesterday for my Actor's Guild Test won't copy into WordPerfect...don't know how to fix that one....stupid....
6. My mom got mad at me for not working on my online German class more often...it's my class, and I'm working on it, so she doesn't understand that she doesn't need to worry about it....ughhhhhh...
I'm just so frustrated right now, mostly over the CMSEC related stuff since I'm there pretty much all the time and get reminded of the Scott issue. Too bad Connor wasn't on the past Overnighter, I could have talked to him about it. That always makes me feel better. But that didn't happen, so too bad for me. I'm still unsure of what I'm going to do with my next few days since I'm not on the LC. I also have a mission on Saturday right after the LC, and everybody will be talking about it, which will tick me off soooooo much. Maybe I'll do what Logan P. said, "Whenever anybody starts talking about the Leadership Camp, just yell SHUT UP! and leave." Because honestly, I don't want to hear about the LC unless it's coming from someone that will be nice about it, like Nicole. She will feel bad for me because I didn't make it on the LC and kindly talk to me about the funny quirks that happened. Nicole is such a nice person. She is the perfect example for me.
~M. B.~
I also know that this is ridiculous, but so many things have not gone my way today that I'm going to channel out my anger by making a list.
1. Let's see...I didn't get on this year's Leadership Camp at the CMSEC. This is the 4th year that I have not been on the LC...it was Flight Director's choice this year and I'm surprised that other volunteers that have only been here a few months got chosen over me, who has been there 3 and a half years...
2. I didn't get my 2nd chair pass on the Magellan today...I did just fine yesterday...it probably had something to do with Scott pestering me about stuff....which stressed me out....and yeah....
3. Scott got his Magellan pin today....I'm sure he'll enjoy rubbing that in my face...That also means that he can be a Supervisor now, and I heard he passed his test....Then once he has that collar on his shirt he'll be pulling rank on everyone and making them feel like they don't matter.....disaster....
4. I didn't get into Runescape's Combat Beta....That's not such a big deal, but after such other frustrating things happening today, it's a bit of a letdown...
5. The pictures I took yesterday for my Actor's Guild Test won't copy into WordPerfect...don't know how to fix that one....stupid....
6. My mom got mad at me for not working on my online German class more often...it's my class, and I'm working on it, so she doesn't understand that she doesn't need to worry about it....ughhhhhh...
I'm just so frustrated right now, mostly over the CMSEC related stuff since I'm there pretty much all the time and get reminded of the Scott issue. Too bad Connor wasn't on the past Overnighter, I could have talked to him about it. That always makes me feel better. But that didn't happen, so too bad for me. I'm still unsure of what I'm going to do with my next few days since I'm not on the LC. I also have a mission on Saturday right after the LC, and everybody will be talking about it, which will tick me off soooooo much. Maybe I'll do what Logan P. said, "Whenever anybody starts talking about the Leadership Camp, just yell SHUT UP! and leave." Because honestly, I don't want to hear about the LC unless it's coming from someone that will be nice about it, like Nicole. She will feel bad for me because I didn't make it on the LC and kindly talk to me about the funny quirks that happened. Nicole is such a nice person. She is the perfect example for me.
~M. B.~
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Wow ....... Where has the past week gone?
Well, it's been a little while since I last posted. Lots of things have happened lately. Let's see, about a week and a half ago I got quite a fright when I came home from school to a smell of something burning and smoke in the house. I kinda freaked out and unplugged a lot of stuff in our kitchen only to find out that my little brother had just burnt popcorn really badly. Of course he didn't tell me that when I asked him, but after being probed by mother, he gave in. Quite a silly thing not to tell me anyways.
School got out too, of course. Lagoon day was lots of fun. My friends made me go on wicked, which I still say is a strange way of torturing people. From the screams of terror it sure sounded like a torture chamber to me. Me and Logan Hunt got lost trying to find our friends after we had gone on a few rides with another group of friends. We were wandering around for about an hour until we ran into Claire Robinson who called our friends on her cell phone and helped us finally find them. Other than Wicked and that it was loads of fun.
I had a space center weekend of course. Not much of note that I remember besides some conversations in the Magellan on the death sentence and the Magellan's bass getting fixed on Saturday. I also got an iPod touch for my birthday last Sunday which I have used to type this post with.
~M.B.~
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Long time, No see
I just realized that it has been quite a while since I posted. I'll try to post more often since this blog is basically my journal.
Today I learned XHTML off of w3schools.com If you haven't been there, I highly suggest you check it out as it offers free tutorials in basic web programming languages.
My birthday is coming up this Sunday! I don't like having my birthday on a Sunday though. I hate having to put up with the random old ladies I don't know coming up to me during church wishing me a happy birthday. I'm pretty sure I convinced my dad to get me an iPod touch (which took multiple conversations), but on Sundays my parents don't let me do anything on the computer or my MP3 player unless it is church related. That means that if I do get an iPod, I won't even be able to use it!
Anyways, I went birthday shopping with my grandparents yesterday. I got a $15 iTunes giftcard and a Lego set. My grandma didn't quite understand what iTunes was, so I just told her I could use the giftcard to buy music off of there. I still don't think she quite got it. Oh well. Not my problem.
I've got another Space Center weekend in sight.
~M.B.
Today I learned XHTML off of w3schools.com If you haven't been there, I highly suggest you check it out as it offers free tutorials in basic web programming languages.
My birthday is coming up this Sunday! I don't like having my birthday on a Sunday though. I hate having to put up with the random old ladies I don't know coming up to me during church wishing me a happy birthday. I'm pretty sure I convinced my dad to get me an iPod touch (which took multiple conversations), but on Sundays my parents don't let me do anything on the computer or my MP3 player unless it is church related. That means that if I do get an iPod, I won't even be able to use it!
Anyways, I went birthday shopping with my grandparents yesterday. I got a $15 iTunes giftcard and a Lego set. My grandma didn't quite understand what iTunes was, so I just told her I could use the giftcard to buy music off of there. I still don't think she quite got it. Oh well. Not my problem.
I've got another Space Center weekend in sight.
~M.B.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
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