The Broken Computer

This, as you read in the title, is a broken computer. But that's not all! This is the most IMPORTANT computer in the house... and it's broken. It has all the computer programs that I use for stop-motion and special effects for photos... But most of all... IT'S MY ONLY SOURCE OF OFFLINE GAMES!!!!! My dad says the Hard drive (whatever THAT is) is broken. So I asked my sister if I would have to start my whole Star Wars Battlefront account all over again since I'm almost finished with it. She said that I would and started laughing because she'd probably get ahead of me. So usually, I just hold the controller and look at the blank screen and pretend I'm playing. Right now, I'm just waiting for the computer to get fixed if it takes all year!!! Umm... what should I talk about now... Hmmmmmmmmm.... The end.

Snow!

Finally! After months and months and months and months and months and months and months of now snow this winter, it snowed at last! Unfortunately, we weren't prepared because none of us knew it would snow until a few days before. BUT THE BEST PART IS, IT SNOWED ON A THURSDAY!!!!! THAT MEANS WE DIDN'T HAVE SCHOOL!!!!! Oh, yeah, it snowed a few days ago... it's already gone. :'-(-{-< Oh well, at least it snowed. At six O'clock in the morning the snow was about four inches deep. By the middle of the day, it was half that. By the next day, it was gone. But the next day after that, it was supposed to snow again! All day long. But it took about half the day for the ground to cool enough so that the snow could land on the ground so by the end of the day we only had half an inch of snow. During most of that time, I actually took advantage of the day off and played on the computer. When I did go outside, since we only had firewood gloves that weren't very good for snow, I had to have a snowball fight with my bare hands. Eventually, I went inside after ten minutes, I went inside and actually did something useful with my time... computer. By the time the snow was only in some parts of the yard, it was frozen so you could hardly move it. But there were icicles everywhere possible. We had fun with those for a few minutes and went back inside. That's how I spent my valuable time. The end.

The "What's it's name game"

About a week ago, my brother got these pirate things. (everything except the guns.) It's supposed to be what Jack Sparrow from Pirates Of the Caribbean wears. Then my brother got the "Treasure Chest" at school. (Where the students get a dumb toy if they were good that week.) He got some bouncy ball. My big sister stole it just to be obnoxious, and my brother and little sisters tried to get it back. Eventually, it turned into a game. My big sister got me to go onto her team. We were trying to get the "Magic ball", the pirate hat, the pirate bandanna, the telescope, the three rings, and finally, the plastic knife. We had the two guns. (They are supposed to shoot these plastic discs but they don't work anymore, so we used them as stun guns.) We caught my sister and my sister tied some really lame knots hoping to tie her up. (She didn't memorize the knots in the knot book like we were supposed to.) We "tortured" her by tickling her and she lied about where something was. We "tortured" her more, and searched her pockets and found what we were looking for. We eventually won like we always do. The last two times, I won because I was my big sisters double agent and my little sisters thought I was their friend. Eventually, my sisters found out... after I won. This game doesn't have a specific, agreed, name, so I just call it the "Whats it's name game."

The Fireplace

This post is about the weird adventures of a fireplace. Okay... never mind. This is a post about the weird adventures of the people who light the fireplace. As everyone knows, it's winter. So everyone is all crazy about how the fire has to stay lit 24/7. Never mind. Not that often. Since our neighborhood cuts down about two trees every year, they give it to us. Then, my dad uses his wood splitter to split the wood. We line up the wood on these racks in our back yard with the wheelbarrow, then we bring ten or twenty or fifty pieces to another rack in our back patio. Then we take a few of THOSE pieces and put them in ANOTHER rack in the house next to the fireplace. Then we take some of THOSE and put them in the fireplace along with paper, cardboard, little twigs, sticks, small logs, and big logs. My dad wants us to understand which order to put them in and why. Because the fire gets hotter as it goes from paper to cardboard to twigs to sticks to small logs to big logs. At the beginning of winter, we only burned a few pieces a day. Later on, we started burning more pieces including in the night. Then it suddenly got warmer and we didn't make any fires... Then suddenly out of nowhere, it gets cold again and we burn twice as much wood as we used to. In fact, last night, I filled up the rack inside the house and by the time I woke up, it was all gone. IWANTITTOSNOWSOBADLY!!!! If it doesn't, I don't thing it should be cold. Well, anyway, that's life.

Car Maker Kit Thingy

A long time ago, my mom gave this to me for a present. I call it the car maker kit thingy. I didn't actually start making the car until a few days after I got it. (It was actually meant for two cars so that you look twice as dumb when you mess up.) The kit comes with some plaster of Paris, but I call it flour because there's no difference to me. It comes with a cheap plastic mould to pour the flour in and stickers and a blo-pen and varnish and paint and wheels and wheel holders and finally, a measuring cup.
The instructions told me to take the measuring cup and fill it three times with the so called "Plaster of Paris" and pour those in a plastic cup. Then I had to take one of the buckets of paint and pour that in there as well. Then I had to use the measuring cup and fill it with water and pour that in too. Then I had to mix it all up 'till it looked like melted ice-cream. Then I had to take the bottom part of the cheap plastic mould and fill it up wit the mix. Then I had to take the top part of the cheap plastic mould and put that on top of the bottom part of the cheap plastic mould. After that, I had to wait a whole entire hour for it to dry. Then it was an hour later. I took the blo-pen and spray-painted the car blue. I got tired of waiting for another hour so I skipped to the next step. I painted the varnish on and I got tired of waiting for THAT hour so I skipped to the next step. I was adding the stickers but since the varnish wasn't dry, the stickers peeled off and ruined the car.
I tried building another car and I actually waited and the car looked perfect. Then a minute later, it got lost. Let this be a lesson to all of you who have little brothers and sisters.

Lego Competitions

My older sister and I entered the Lego Club a few years ago. The Lego Club is a club for people who like Lego's. (Well duh.) We don't have dumb meetings but instead we get to stay on our comfortable LA-Z-BOY. Every two months, there's a Lego magazine that they send to us and occasionally they send us a Lego catalog. The Lego catalog shows all the new Lego sets to make people jealous and want to buy them. The Lego magazine is almost the same, but it doesn't show the prices for the Lego sets. (Probably so people will have to spend more money on the catalog.) Well, anyway, the Lego magazine has comics in it and descriptive details on all the Lego sets so that you get even more jealous that you don't have it. It has interviews with people who helped make the Lego sets, and a whole two pages showing Lego things that a whole bunch of people in the Lego club made. In every magazine, there are competitions too. They give you about a month to build a type of Lego model. The last magazine I got had three competitions. One was a Spongebob competition where you make any Spongebob character in the movies. The winner gets a big Lego version of Spongebob about a foot tall. I wasn't very interested. They had another one where you make a police vehicle and send a picture of it to the Lego club people. The rewards (the most common one) is any Lego set of your choice for up to $100. The last one, was a Lego Star Wars one. You're supposed to make a Lego version of your favorite scene from the movies. The Grand prize was an XBox 360 and the new Lego Star Wars video game. The nine runner ups get the new Lego Star Wars video game. I started with this Lego General Grievous head until I realized what I was making wasn't a scene from the movie, but more of a person standing in a pose. My favorite scene was from episode 3, but it turned out I didn't have any brown pieces which I needed an awful lot of. I tried thinking of other ones, but they had excuses too. I'm waiting till the next Lego magazine comes so that I can see if I want to do any of those competitions. But my sister says I should keep doing this one. I'm still thinking about it.

Cosmic Catch

This, as we all know, is a ball. The other thingamabobamathingamajigs, as we all know, are made of plastic. The ball, as only I know, can talk. And the plastic, as only I know, have super secret awesome weird secretive sensors inside them. This game, or should I say, Super secretive only meant for super secret spies spy gear is secretly named the name of Cosmic Catch. Just kidding about all that super secret spy stuff. It's really a catch game. When you put batteries in and press the button, it talks in that weird robot tone. "Cosmic (changes tone) Catch. (changes tone) Players, (changes tone) sign in. (changes tone) pass the ball (changes tone) to each player." Then each player puts one of the colored bands around their hand so that the plastic part is touching your palm. You then pass the ball to each player, and whenever the ball gets close to the plastic part on your palm, it senses the color. In the games, it'll tell you who to pass the ball to. (For example) "Red (changes tone) pass the ball to (changes tone) green." Supposing you passed it to green, the ball will tell him the next color to pass it to. If you pass it to the wrong color, or if the ball hits the ground, it makes a very lame exaggerated explosion sound. There are four games. The first is fast pass. In it, you pass the ball to whoever it tells you to pass it to. The second, code challenge, I don't really understand. The third is called add one. You're supposed to pass it to any color, for example, green. He passes it back to you, you pass it back to him. After that, He passes it to red or any other color. Then red passes it back to you. Every time you add a new color. Eventually it gets really hard to remember, and someone passes it to the wrong player. The last one is called You're out. You have a certain amount of time to pass the ball to whoever he says, and when it runs out of time, the last person holding the ball goes out. It keeps going until there's one player left and that one wins. The end to my long, tiring, boring, bad, worst story in the world. Boring stories: To be continued.