Well my plan did not work as I would have liked it to. (See yesterday's blog) I had set my alarm for 6:15 because the neighbors usually leave at 6:30 and I did not want to miss them. So when I woke up this morning I looked out of my window and they had not left yet, I laid back down and was going to wait for them when I heard a beeping noise. I knew that meant the bus was backing up and they were leaving. Well I hurried and opened my blinds and got my camera, but by the time I was ready to take the picture they were driving by, and I did not get a good picture. Tomorrow morning I will try again, and will try to perfect my plan.

Well today is a nice day, and it is not windy. That is good because I had to mow our yard today and the wind would have blown all the dust everywhere. It was really dusty today mowing the front yard because I was having to mow it very short and the mower was stirring up all of the dust on the ground. I am glad I got it done now though and it looks pretty good.

My weekend is all planned out. I will go to my grandparents house on Saturday and stay until their anniversary. I do not really like being at their house on Sundays because when we go to church, the preacher always asks if there are any special requests or announcements to make. This does not seem too bad, but then my grandparents announce that I am there, to the whole church. This is kind of embarrasing, but I guess they like to tell people their grandson is visiting. Well that is it for today so love, peace, and soul.

Today was another beautiful day here in Texas. It was so warm and nice,and tomorrow it is supposed to be about the same but it might be windy. I really hate it when it is windy, and when it is windy here, it is REALLY windy.

Today I went and worked with a neighbor on her yard. I cleaned out flower beds for about an hour and a half and got paid $10. Big bucks huh? Well it is good enough for me because when I give most of my money to my mom for the computer I'm saving up for, I don't have much left for spending, so it was really nice.

Tomorrow morning I am going to be playing a little trick on my neighbors. Every morning around 6:30 a.m. the kids across the street get up and go to school. They do not go to school here, but go in another town. For some reason their mom drives the school bus to the town and picks up other kids to go. So in the morning when they drive past my window I am going to open the blinds and take a picture of them as they drive by. This will be kind of funny to me because as they drive by all of the sudden they are going to see this bright light and it will be a little confusing. My mom thinks I am a little weird for doing this, but I will put the picture on here if it turns out good. Well that is it for me so love, peace, and soul.

Today was a nice day, the sun was shining, there was a nice breeze, and it was fairly warm.

We went to the homeschool groups today, and had a pretty good time. We stayed longer today for some reason, an extra hour and a half longer. There are lots of things you can do up there at the church. We have it at the Peoples Church and we can play pool, video games, or basketball. I did all of that stuff today, and played basketball with Jediah (the kid who had the operation). It was the first time I had seen him since his operation, and he was pretty beat up. One of his eyes (like I already told ya'll about) does not open, and it looks just a little weird. I did not say anything to him about it, but his mom was razing him in jest. He took it good-naturedly, but I wonder how he must really feel about it. He also has a big scar line from about the middle of his forehead to the bottom of one ear. He said he now has a titanium plate in his head, which is kind of funny to think about. I wonder if his eye will ever open again?

I just got through doing my paper route, and I got paid today. I gave the money to my mom because she is saving my money for me for a computer. I think I have somewhere around $500. My birthday is coming up so I will get some more money to put on it. Well that is it for me.

Today looks like it is going to be nice, with the sun out and nearly no wind. Summer sure is coming fast. There are a group of guys who mow yards all summer for a lot of different people, and today they started mowing a lady's yard across the street. You can always know that summer is coming when you hear people mowing yards. I will probably have to start mowing here shortly. I do not mind mowing that much except in the back yard where it is very dusty and when you start to mow, dust flies everywhere. I love the summer because when you wake up it is sunny and warm, and you can wake up easier.

There are a lot of new houses being built behind our house. There are going to be a lot of nice houses back there when it is all finished. Maybe I will take some pictures later and put them on my blog tomorrow. It is going to be different when I look outside and not be able to see open spaces. Instead when I look out it won't be too much longer that we will be seeing into someone's back yard. Well that is it for me.

I appreciate all of the comments yesterday, but I would like to talk about something different today.

Last night I got a call from my grandma, and she was telling me about their anniversary. They have been married sixty-years. Can you believe it? Sixty-years they have been married, and I do not see how. My grandparents that live in Stanton get along okay, but my grandma really likes to talk. My grandpa is not like that at all. He kind of likes to talk some, but not very much to her for some reason. I think sometimes when I am down there that he is actually kind of mean to her, and tries to ignore her. So when I hear that they are fixing to have been married for sixty-years I can not believe it. Although they are like this, my grandpa really does love my grandma. He goes to the store for her, and will even go back again if she forgets something, which she usually does. He will even drive to Midland, which is close to Stanton, and shop for her during the rush when all the ladies are getting off of work and are going straight the grocery store. I think my grandma really adores my grandpa. She is always cooking him special meals and baking things when she thinks of something he might like. Well that is it for me.

Well I know that most of you will at one time read my mom's blog, and find out for yourselves what happened and I think I better take sometime and tell about it. So after her blog you will know that I have cheated in school on things, and I deeply regret it. It was a terrible thing to do, and if I could take it back I would a million times over. I guess I thought that it would be a lot easier just to cheat and be lazy and never study, but that is not the way to go. I know my parents probably think that I cheated from the beginning, but I did not. They can not believe what I say because now they think that I am just a liar and a cheat, and can not tell the truth. When I first started homeschooling I had thought that it might be kind of fun to do, but after a few months I knew then that it was really hard. Going from public school to homeschooling was very challenging. Homeschooling is very hard, or rather it is a lot harder than public school. I was really not making very good grades, and I knew that all the time I would have to study. I tried that way and I actually started doing alright. After a while of this I really got tired of it, and started hating having to study this much. So then I cheated and I found out that it was a lot easier this way. After I had cheated I felt really bad and I was always nervous about being found out. I don't know why but I did cheat some more. After this I tried to stop and I did, until I had taken all of my semester exams and had only a chemistry test left. I did not think that I could pass so I cheated. Then my mom caught me, and from then on I have not cheated since. It has been really hard, but I have made it and I am doing alright. I do not want people to read this and think that I am still making excuses, or to fell sorry for me. I write this with a sincere heart to let you know what I really am.

Man, it is getting colder here. It is only about twenty-eight degrees at eleven o'clock. Pretty good day at school today, I had a lot of stuff to study for, but I think I did alright. This next week though is not going to be easy. I have my final exams, and then I will be through with the tenth grade.

I know the Dick Cheney incident happened about a week ago, but I just heard about it yesterday and I am flabbergasted about the big fuss there is about it. He was hunting and accidentally shot his friend. As a hunter this can very easily happen to anyone while hunting. Let's try to paint a picture of what happened. Dick Cheney is riding along, all of a sudden he hears some brush move, then he hears a bird fly up and he turns and shoots. It was not a bird he shot though, it was one of his friends he was hunting with. Now I can see if this happened to be the President who had been shot there should be an big investigation into it because it would make Dick Cheney become President for a while if the President had happened to die. But when just a normal guy is accidentally shot it should be looked at as just an accident. I thought it was kind of funny when we were listening to the radio in the car, and the reporter was saying that even the man who was shot was surprised that they were making this much fuss about it. Well that is it for me so love, peace, and soul.

Well, I have lived through another night and I am able to see this wonderful day here in Texas. Isn't it kind of weird to think that any minute you might die? It is kind of laughable actually to think about it, because we look at all the vaccines that man has made and the new surgeries that one can go through, but it is funny that germs and diseases are able to mutate (I don't really get how) and still kill people. I like to think that this is God's way of showing man that he is not as smart as he thinks. It was like this during the Hurricane Katrina when people were wanting to stay at their houses, but at the same time there was actually fire on top of water. This was probably because of some chemical on the water, but I think that that is just Gods way of saying GET OUT OF NEW ORLEANS. This is just another way of showing man he is not that powerful.

Well up at the top is yes, a picture of me dunking the basketball. The picture did not turn out as I would have liked so I will not try to fool ya'll and tell ya'll that it is a ten foot goal. Which I was going to try and do if it had worked out. Well that is about all for me so love, peace, and ssssssssoooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuullllllllllll.

Another beautiful day here in Texas with the sun shining and almost no wind. Pretty good day at school, not really that much to do. Just a quiz and a book report, but since my mom is at work I have not taken my quiz yet.

I really do not have that much to talk about today. Besides that I have to go do my paper route today, which is not that hard.

Oh, well I forgot to tell ya'll yesterday in my blog, but over the weekend we painted my room. It is kind of a baige color, which was not my choice but it does look nice. Before we started painting, I had to take all of my stuff off of my walls and shelves, and move everything away from the walls so we could paint. This part was not that bad, it was when I had to put all of the stuff back that was the pain. Everything was really dusty and I had to wipe it all off, and then put all of the stuff back where it was. It took forever, but I think it was worth it because it looks a lot nicer. Well, that is about it for me so love, peace, and soul.

I had a very short day in school today. I do not know why it was so easy today, but I am glad that it was because it was a relief time from my tests that I had to study for yesterday.

It looks like it is going to be a nice day with the sun shining again. I really can not believe that it is winter. It seems like spring almost.

I know the Superbowl was played about two weeks ago, but I have to bring something up. I truly think that the Seahawks could have won if the referees would have done a better job. The refs have a hard job especially when they are reffing the Superbowl, but they are expected to make the right calls. I understand that they are probably getting a lot of flack from those bad calls and I feel bad for them, but what makes me not feel bad for them is this: When the head ref Bill Levy comes on television and tells everyone that the game was reffed fairly. That is a complete lie, he is just trying to justify himself when he knows that there were some definite mistakes during the game. I understand that it would be really hard to admit that you blew some calls during the Superbowl, but don't insult everyone's intelligence by saying the game was reffed fairly. Well that is my take on the Superbowl. So love, peace, and soul.

Man, I had a very busy day today. I had two tests today and two quizzes, and one of the tests was a final exam. The final exams are tests over what I learned the whole year. It was pretty hard, but I did well on it. I also did good on the history test. It was pretty hard too, but I got through it and made a 90!

I have been thinking lately of all the talk about nuclear weapons. How this country or that country is fixing to have nuclear weapons and will probably fire them at the United States? So what got me thinking about this is that in history class we were learning about the Cold War, and what really got the communists scared was a program called Strategic Defense Initiative or SDI. This program was started by Ronald Reagan and was a space satellite that if anyone ever fired a nuclear weapon at us this satellite would be able to change its direction and send it the opposite way. This got the communists so scared that they knew they had lost this war if we ever completed this program. They then started wanting to talk peace with us. The only bad part about the program was that it was costing loads of money and President Reagan was not getting much support about it; so the program was never finished. How come during all this talk about people firing nuclear weapons at us President Bush does not finish this program and be done with it? Maybe they are working on it, or maybe they already have it. I know that I am probably not the only one who has thought about this, but it is something to think about. Well, that is it for me so love, peace, and soul.

Man, it is a horrible day today outside. The wind is blowing ,it is cold, and the clouds are this dark gray color.

School went fine today, and I did okay on all my quizzes and things.

One thing I had to do today was say Antony's speech from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. We also read the play in school. I myself did not really enjoy the play. I think it was because Shakespeare did such a good job writing the play that I actually disliked the bad guys so much that I just did not like the play. For those of you who have not read the play or do not know much about Julius Caesar here is some background. Julius Caesar defeats Pompay (Romes former leader) and declares himself dictator. The citizens of Rome love him, but the senators hate him. One senator named Cassius is very jealous of Caesar and devises a plot to kill him. Caesar's friend Brutus is also one of the conspirators, but he says he is going to kill Caesar because he knows he is a dictator and wants Rome to be free. So they kill him, and people that were partial to Caesar raise an army and kill Brutus, Cassius and the other conspirators. The thing that bugged me most about this is that most of the conspirators said they were going to kill him for the good of Rome. Although, that was not the case. They were doing it for personal reasons only. I think the only conspirator really doing it for the sake of Rome was Brutus. This is the problem. Brutus thinks that killing his friend, and saving Rome from a dictator is not murder. He believes the lie that the end justifies the means. So this story really showed me human nature, and after all that happened, Caesar's nephew, Octavius becomes power hungry and names himself dictator for life, of Rome. Everyone in this story was looking out for himself, and not anyone else.

Well that is is for me so love, peace, and soul.

Today is looking like it is going to be a pretty good day. I had a pretty short school day today, and hardly any quizzes.

No paper route today and I am glad because it looks like it is pretty windy and I need to get my bike fixed because I don't know how much longer it is going to hold up. It did good yesterday when I had to do my paper route, and maybe it will last a good long while. I do not know.

I cannot wait until Friday! Can you guess why? Tomorrow we get to go to Pizza Hut with other homeschoolers because of Valentine's Day. Plus all the moms are buying candy and will give some to all the kids. Can you believe it! I am so excited.

Tomorrow I have another test. It seems like I have tests all the time. This week it has been a verses exam, a chemistry test, and now an English test. Then on Monday I will have a history test. So I am going to be pretty busy. I don't know what I made on my chemistry test, but I sure hope I did okay. Well that is it for me so love, peace, and soul.

P.S. No Jocelyne, it is not your bike.

Another beautiful day here with warm weather and almost no wind. I have had a good day so far. Not a really busy day today, but I do have to do my paper route. I had a lot of school work today, but I have not taken my chemistry test yet because my mom is at work. I hope I do good on it.

Well last week was not the day that we go eat pizza, it is this Friday. This Friday I will probably find out what is going on with my friend and find out how he is doing.

Well not much longer on my school work just about two and a half weeks longer. I can not wait to get through with tenth grade because it has been pretty hard. I think eleventh grade is supposed to be easier and I am looking forward to that.

Man I could not believe it when yesterday, I was riding my bike to get my haircut. Actually I was just getting back to my house when I looked at my back tire and saw that the rubber was about to fall off. The rubber was ripping badly from the metal part. So I don't know what I am going to do. Well that is it for me so love, peace, and soul.

Well as you all know I went to the Texas vs Texas Tech basketball game last night and it was a good game. The bad part about the whole thing was that we did not get back until about two o'clock a.m. and I had to get up at seven-fifteen this morning for school.

School went okay today, but I am dreading tomorrow. I have a chemistry test, and a verses exam plus two quizzes. During my school year I have to memorize verses for my bible class, and after every semester we have a test over all of the verses I have learned. Hopefully it won't be so hard, but I don't know about my chemistry test. I will just have to study hard tonight and get through them.

Well I will be through with this school year in a few weeks I think, but this also means final exams. These final exams are over what I have learned this whole year. Usually, my teachers have big reviews a class or two before the big exams, so those will help me alot. Well that is it for me, so as always love, peace, and soul.

Hello and welcome. I have had a pretty good day today with only two quizzes. I think I did good on one and not so good on the other.

Today looks like it is going to be a good day, but it is a little windy. I hope the wind stops blowing, or I am going to have a hard time on my paper route.

Today is the day that I get to see Texas play Texas Tech. I think it also might be kind of fun just to see Bobby Knight. He is the coach of Texas Tech, and I wonder if I will get to see him throw a chair or something. I think it is going to be pretty fun, but we won't get back until about one or two o'clock in the morning.

I went to my aunt's house over the weekend and had an okay time. They live on a ranch and have a bunch of dogs. The bad part about the dogs is that you get hair all over you because they shed.

Well as far as I know my friend is still doing pretty good. I think he is out of the hospital, and is able to stay at his house. Well that is about it for me so love, peace, and soul.

Hello and once again welcome. I am your host, and will write about some very interesting topics. First of all, I did not do too good on my test and quizzes today. I really do not know what happened. Either I did not study enough, or I was just not understanding what I was studying. So I had to correct a bunch and I think I finally started to get it.

It is a very nice day today, although it is pretty windy. I would know because I just got back from the homeschool group, and I had to ride my bike because my mom had a hair appointment in Stratford. So all the way back here to my house I was riding against the wind.

Well I finally got the news about my friend. They got all the tumor out, and I now know if the tumor is cancerous. Drum role please, and it turned out that the tumor is NOT cancerous. I can just imagine how Jediah and his parents felt when they found out what it was. It was probably a tremendous load being lifted off of their backs.

Tomorrow I have to go work with my dad. We have to dig a sewer line in the backyard of one of his rent houses. Sounds like fun, huh? Well I am fixing to go do my paper route, and I will get paid today. So that is it for me and as always love, peace, and soul.

Quiet day today at school,nothing is really going on. I had two quizzes today, but I have not taken them yet. The reason is because my mom is off selling her motorcycle. Yes, my mom has a motorcycle. She has had it for about five years or so and has decided to sell it. My dad also has a motorcycle, but his is not as cool as hers. I think it would have been a good idea to sell his motorcycle and keep hers. Maybe that would not have been a good idea, but hers is cooler, and I would have kept it.

Well no more news on my friend's operation. His parents and he probably know now, but I do not. I will probably know tomorrow since Fridays are the days everyone gets together. So someone in the group should know. I might be mistaken, but I think tomorrow we get to go eat pizza for Valentines day. I am probably wrong, but I hope it is tomorrow.

Busy day tomorrow. I have a math test, and I do not know how well I will do. I also have four quizzes tomorrow. So I am in for a lot of studying tonight. Well that is it for me so love, peace, and soul.

Wednesday has come and is nearly gone. Good day at school today, and like you know from my last blog, I had a couple quizzes. I do not know how well I did on them, but I think I did not do so well on my English quiz. Everything else, I did well on, I hope.

Well like I told ya'll, I would show ya'll a picture of my dirtbike. This is a picture of me in the mountains of Red River, NM. I am in front of an old miner's cabin. I also went riding my dirtbike yesterday, but did not have that much fun because my ankle was hurting. I think my ankle hurt from going and playing basketball at the highschool on Sunday. It is still sore today and I do not know what I did to it. Hopefully it will be better tomorrow because it is starting to get annoying.

Well I know you have all been waiting anxiously for more information on the my friend's operation. I heard that the doctors got most of the tumor out, which is good news, but do not know if it is cancer yet. His eye is also kind of messed up. He is not able to open one of his eyes. It might be just a trauma from the surgery and will get better, or it might not.

So, on a lighter note, I am going to see a Texas vs Texas Tech basketball game this Monday. I am going with my sister and one of my friends and she is taking a friend. I can not wait to see Texas win. It should be a good game and extremely fun to watch. Well that is it for me, so as always love, peace, and soul.