Pocket Lent

You really don't realize how smell affects your appetite until you have fasted. For Lent I decided to fast every Wednesday, so today I fasted. It went well. I've done 30 hour famine before, where you fast for 30 hours and raise money for a growing food in third world countries. But we stayed in the church basement and had no signs of food around. Just juice. So when i fasted today and went to school and what not, it wasn't too bad. I went with friends to Taco Bell, just to hang out with them, and I was like "I really want a cheesy ghordita crunch!" Just because of the smell in there. I held firmly though. Than I went with a friend across the street from the school to the gas station to get some drinks, because I can drink stuff, but not eat stuff, and he decided to get a Waffle cone since it's waffle cone Wednesday. I was looking at it and it made me hungry. Again i held strong. Than at home my dad was making Tacos. I almost lost it. I don't normally like tacos but it smelt sooooooooooooooo good. I held of firmly though. And here i sit typing to you folks. I also bought two CDs today. Amberlin Cities and Toby Mac's Portable Sounds. I had no idea Amberlin released a new CD, until i got to the Rainbow Shop and there it sat. So I picked it up. I spent 36 bucks exactly on them. I get home and surfed the internet and checked out Target's ad, and i find out we have both the CDs and they are on sale for 9.99. So if you plan on picking up either of these CDs, go to Target. I guess I did support the Rainbow Shop, so it wasn't all bad. More good news. My bro and Ashley are coming to town on friday! YAY! he gets to install my amp and get linux working on my computer. Exciting considering it's HIS birthday. hehe. Well I'm gonna head off to bed so later catzzzzz.

Perfect Circle

Hey everyone. I told I'd blog more. I don't work until 5 today so i have some downtime at least. I CD player in my car went out a couple weeks ago and my brother took a look at it and found nothing wrong... except for the obvious fact that it wouldn't turn on. He used a voltage meter to check the wires and it said everything was fine. Well, Steve looked at my CD Player and used a voltage meter and my main power wasn't getting any power. So then we check the Radio Ignition fuse. I even knew what that did. Apparently it was shot to death. So I bought a new one and put it in, and now my CD player works. Yay! How my brother didn't think about checking that is beyond me. Anyways, I also bought a new CD player, just because I want one that I can plug my IPod into. It's nice. I also bought an amp while I was at it. I needed one for my Subs that have been sitting in my car for about a year now and I had no amp for it. You think I waited long enough? I wanted to get new speakers to, but the speakers I wanted were 55 bucks a pop, and times that by four is 220 bucks. Yeah. Plus I thought about when I tried to take off the side panel to my doors, and that wasn't fun. So I opted to not get a set of nice speakers. I bought the new Swichfoot CD on Saturday, Oh, Gravity and I liked it. It's a different sound for them, but it sounds great. I don't have much to elaborate on. It's just awesome. Apparently I've been spelling awesome wrong for the past some-odd years. I never knew it has an e between the w and s. I guess it makes more sense that way. The new blogger has spelling correction in it. I like it. You don't have to put up with as much of my bad spelling. I'm off to play some Wiiage before work. Later cats.

I don't feel so bad

I don't feel bad anymore. I just checked my blog list, and no one has updated for a while. Slackers.

Satan Sick?

I think my wonderful fat cat got hurt by a seven year old. She looks mean in the picture, but if you have met her, then you know that Satan is a fitting term. But she's nice to my brother and me. Anyways, I think the seven year old broke her cause she makes a weezy meow sound every now and then. Which is not normal. She usually has a raspy meow sound, but this sounds more like a moan. So sad. Oh by the way, if you forgot, my name is Roy and this is my blog. I've been very busy with work and school, so I haven't gotten a chance to update. Maybe I'm lying through my teeth and I've been playing my new Wii. It's kind of a combination. I've been working about 35 hours a week, and then I go to school for 35 hours, and on my days off I just don't get the initiative to blog. Now it's getting back to normal, with the new Target store not being so new, and the holidays done. Ah relief. Hopefully my hours will be cut. I will be happy. I've updated my website every now and then, and that'll take care of my Wii explanation of how much I like it. I suggest you buy one too. Speaking of my brother, he told me twice that i should update, so here I am. Happy? Speaking of the holidays, my Christmas was wonderful. I got a week off of work, I went to my grandma's and had Christmas up at my Aunt and Uncle's house. Joyful. I got a new sweatshirt which several people have nagged me to get a new one. Happy? I also received some cash money and a cash money shredder. An automatic shower cleaner, that requires you push a button when you get out of the shower. I didn't clean my shower before so this actually makes me work harder. I'm drawing a blank of what else I got. I got rechargeable batteries from my bro. Those are great for my Wiimotes :). Anyways I enjoyed the time spent with family for the most part. I also went up to my brother's apartment for a few days. That was pretty fun. I think my cat is still in shock from the seven year old. I've never seen her like this. I told you that I was gonna tell you about Bolivia. Whoops. My bad. I'll tell you when I have more time. I have a lot of junk I need to do such as: Work on website, play Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, Play Zelda Windwaker, Play Zelda Twilight Princess, Play Castlevania: Curse of Darkness, beat various other games, read at least 12 books that I've been slowly working on, and the list goes on. I just remember that I need to finish a book that I barrowed from my youth pastor. I got half way through it. I should really finish it. It's good. I don't know why I didn't finish it sooner. It's been like 2 months or so. So i think i should set that to priority one. My cat looks really pitiful. I feel really bad for her. Anyways, that was my update. Happy? Happy Halloween, Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year. -Roy J

Roy G Biv

I was curious, has anyone ever seen a full rainbow? I mean, like the entire arc. Cause I've only seen one half of the arc. On TV, they have the full arcage going on. I've never seen the full arcage. I've seen two half of arcs by each other... but not a full arcage. You know what I'm saying?

Layover

Hey peeps. Just wanted to know that we got back from Bolivia safely. I shall update at a later time. Consider this a layover... or whatever... NINJA ROOSTER! Hehe... inside jokes.

Libros

I really need to read more. I like to read, it's just that I usually don't, for some reason or another. Let's see how many books I personally own: 25. How many have I read: 10. That's not so bad. Now let's see how many I have bought within the last year: 16. How many have of those have I read: 4 and a half. And that half, I have been working on for about 6 months, maybe a little less. I usually read quite a bit more during the school year, since I get bored during school when I'm done with school work. Summer, i generally don't read books, maybe on a long trip i would, but even then I usually do something else, like watch a DVD. I bought three books today: Pirates of the Caribbean Jack Sparrow: The Coming Storm, PotCJS: The Siren Song, and Starcraft: Queen of Blades. Sure, the Pirate books are for kids, but they intrigued me when i heard they were about a teenage Jack Sparrow. Then I bought Queen of Blades, because I love Starcraft and the other books, and I didn't want to look like a person that just bought kids' books. I just noticed that there isn't an underline in blogger. I could go to edit HTML, but I'm too lazy. I read the first 10 pages of the first pirates book in like 3 minutes. It's a 130 page book, but the pages are really short. Like i said, they're made for kids. Ooh, there's pictures!

So on Sunday I leave for Bolivia. That'll be fun. Last Sunday a couple of friends and I went up to one of my friend's cabin to shoot off fireworks, since there was a burn ban here. We went tubing and swimming on the lake, and then we had a blast shooting off fireworks. Hehe, puns. I burned a hole in my shirt, from holding bottlerockets in an empty roman candle stick. I must have shot off about a hundred of them, and only had sparks that shot down the sleeve of my shirt and burned a whole through my shirt. I also have some burn marks on my arms from the fuses burning off. Ah, fun times. Oh and I didn't get sunburned at all! That's amazing, considering I spent the afternoon with my shirt off on a lake. Me being pale, and red hair. I don't do well in the sun, generally. I have a hint of a tan coming in. That was a fun day, but my friend's aunt had a cold. I didn't get near her at all... but yet when i woke up on Monday, I had a stuffy nose and felt like crap. I've been sick ever since. Been trying to recooperate, before Sunday. Me and Summer colds don't mix, either. They usually last about 3 weeks, at least that's a what the last two years has taught me. One week almost down... two weeks to go... which just happen to be the weeks I'm in Bolivia. Acutally i might be getting better, so hopefully that means I'm getting better fast.

I just got some shots todayTetnus (spelt wrong I'm sure) and Hepititus A (which I suppose that's spelt wrong too). Probably shouldn't have procrastinated (wrong again I suppose) this long... considering that the A shot is suppose to be taken in two doses, with 6 months in between. The doctor said that i have a 90% chance to fend off the virus with just the first dose, and I wasn't too worried about it.

The fireworks stand was a bust this year, obviously with the burn ban is place, so we didn't quite make enough to fund our trip, but we'll be doing fundraisers afterwards to pay off the loan, so that shouldn't be to bad. I had heard somewhere that being active is good for getting rid of a cold. I forgot where I heard that, but if so then last Wed. was good for me. I helped pack up all the fireworks and take down the tent for 4 hours. I think that might have helped. I've been trying to get lots of rest, but sleeping late in the mornings hasn't been that successful. I have been sleeping pretty soundly, but I generally only get 7 horus of sleep, which isn't too bad, but I'm sick. I've kinda been brushing up on my spanish. I've been practicing the line: No digo espanol muy bien, which translates to: I don't speak spanish very well. I've taken three years of spanish. You would think I would be good. I know how to speak it... I just don't know a lot of words. I mean I know quite a few words, but considering how many words I know in english... I don't know a lot. You know what I'm saying? I got a B in spanish last year. Which you would think is good, but I got A's in the rest of my classes, and I was getting a C for a moment in spanish. I magically got a B. Surprising. I'm just kinda rambling in this paragraph. I think I should move on to a new one.

I've been playing warcraft, as you should know from my previous post. I'm really obsesive about things. If I get really interested in something, I'll do tons of research on it. Usually it doesnt last very long, but yeah. I'm really tempted to buy the Warcraft books, just so I have more history on Warcraft. It's very interesting to me. I mean I am reading the warcraft III manual! There's 48 pages of history on all the races, so I've been reading that during comercials when i'm watching TV. I still need to finish warcraft II. I have 4 or 3 stages left. So I should really finish that. Then I'll be playing Warcraft III. If you are wondering why I'm being so Obsesive about it, I'll remind you. I played through Warcraft III, once before without playing any of the other warcrafts or even knowing anything about it except orcs and humans fought against each other. I basically just cheated through the game, and I got nothing out of it. I like storylines in games. It's on thing that makes me play a game, as with most people. So when I don't know the storyline, I lose interest. That's why I'm so obsesive.

Probably will post after I get back from Bolivia, and tell you about my ventures. End Post.

Summer Thought

What have I been doing? Probably nothing. So school has been out for about a month now. That's pretty rad. I've been sleeping a lot... minus that 30 hours of no sleep period. I've been kinda being lazy. I also realized how much out of shape I have become. I think that came with getting a car. That's just a thought though. Seriously, I run like hundred feet and I'm tired and need to rest. That's how out of shape I am. I used to ride bike to school, that is before I got a car, which was about the same time I turned 16. Let's see I'm 17 now, so about a year and 3/4 of a year ago. I'm apparently a senior. No difference. Kinda troubling cause now I'm thinking, "crap... college... which means that I have to actually look up what classes i need to take in order to go into a carreer of my choosing, which means I need to choose a career for my life." Yeah that kinda sucks. It's not like I don't know what I want to do, it's just that I can't decide. I'm one of those people that wants to try everything, but I don't have that kind of money to go to school and take every class out there in order to be able to do everything.

Enough about that. I bore myself. This summer has been lazy, like i said before. Basically I have worked every day, or so it seems. Yeah that sucks. I ask for an average of 20 hours a week and 30 hours max... I average about 32-35 hours a week. Now the money is coming in, but I feel like I have no time to do anything. Let's walk through a day of summer: Wake up about 11 in the morning. Take shower and stuff. Cook some food and eat about 12:30, 1:00. Next probably turn on tv, and play various warcraft game on computer. 3:30, get ready for work, 3:45 leave for work, 4:00 work. 10:00, leave work, 10:15, watch Tv. 11:00 eat a snack, 11:15, either watch TV, or play various games of warcraft, or a combination. 1:00 go to bed. End day.

With the Warcraft thing, I decided to play Warcraft III, then I got to thinking, I don';t really know the storyline of warcraft at all. I had not played any of the previous Warcrafts before. So I downloaded the first warcraft. Played it, and I must say, that was a horrible experience. For those of you who have never experienced the first Warcraft, it's like this: can only select 4 units at once, no right click, no hot keying groups, can only select units by holding shift and clicking, can only buidling within a certain vacinity of you other buildingse, And i think that covers it. I just cheated through it for the storyline, which I visited a site to get the plot outline anyways. Then I downloaded Warcraft II Bnet edition. SO now i am playing through that, which is a lot better experience. I'm almost done with it. I just have 9 more levels of the orc's campeign on the expansion, so I'm almost done. I alos read a plot outline of war2. What can i say, when i play a game with a storyline, i really would like to know what's going on an make sure I'm getting it right. I also read a history of warcraft thing. That was interesting. I also have to say that I played through War3, and i didn't really follow and I not to mention I used cheats so I had no idea what units were actually good. Now that I play War2, I kinda have an idea what units are good, and I know more about the storyline. Fun times.

Well I think I'm going to wonder off to bed. Night.

A Riddle

What happens to Roy trying so stay up to 8:00, when he's been awake for 30 hours straight?

He probably fails at trying to stay up until 8:00.

News being bad? Nothing new.

I think I finally found out what it means to make some one else's burden, yours. On Monday, June 5, a soldier by the name of Travis Van Zoest was killed in Afghanistan. Not only was he a soldier, but he was my best friend's brother. I didn't know him that well, nor did I really like him, but I wept for him. I knew how much my friend loved his brother. Maybe that's what it means to make other people's burden yours. Or maybe on off, either way, I just want to ask that you'll keep his family in your prayers. I find it kinda odd that I just give a, "Oh that's too bad" when I hear about a soldier dying, but when it comes to a best friend's brother, I give it more attention. I don't understand it.