Genealogical Fun!

Today's schedule:
Wake up
Get ready for school
Get to school at 8:11 (one minute late)
Wander around on Hoagie-bread's orders (IE, getting a butt-load of books)
Go to tiny, New-Hampshire-esque room to sit for 5 hours.

Anyone who is anyone in junior high will be saying to themselves right now: WAIT! Who's Hoagie-bread?
Answer: My principal. Who my mom, the author of There's Gotta be More than This, un-affectionately calls Douchenozzle.
And why a butt-load of books and the New-Hampshire-esque room?
Answer: I had an in-school suspension today! Fun, fun, and more fun. NOT!!
That's what you get when you don't do your science project! (said in sickly-sweet, Professor-Umbridge-esque voice)

Yesterday:
After band, but before lunch, Hoagie-bread beckoned me to the office and told me about my suspension. That's how I found out.

Oh, and the New-Hampshire-esque part is because the room is shaped kinda like New Hampshire. Yeah, go find a map and take a look at it! That's a bit what the room looks like.

Fast forward to like 9:45 this morning. I'm sittin' in the room, havin' tons of un-fun, hopin' it'll get funner. Yes, funner. Tom says it's a word, so why can't it be?

Anyway. Hoagie-bread, who will forever on in this post be called HB, like the pencil, had said earlier that I could go home to get- I mean look for- my CPD packet. CPD's are chapter summaries used for book reports. So, I needed info for my reading project, which is a family tree due about a month ago, and I thought I could ask Mom. So, I had HB call up Mom, got my huge coat and walked home. Sadly, I couldn't find the CPD packet. But I did get info for my family tree!

Back to Room Hampshire. I need more info for my tree, so I text Mom. A big no-no, but I'm all aloney-on-my-owney in a teeny-weeny room. Why the hell not text Mom?

By the end of the suspension, I had ninety-five peoples' names down for the tree.

After a doctor's appointment, I continued work on my magnificent(ly screwed-up and huge) family tree. I taped two pieces of cardboard together and scratched out some guide-lines, then filled in the ninety-five names I had SO FAR. Afterward, Mom gave me more to put down. I added about thirty-six, giving me a grand-total of ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE freaking people on my family tree! There are quite a few more left un-added, too, including three of my classmates. My family is screwed up.

Oh, and, this project gave me an interest in genealogy, which I have learned to spell correctly! Yay! But I doubt that Ancestry.com will accept one person having three parents. That's like some weird sci-fi novel waiting to happen. Oh, and the fact that I have no legal father! The law recognizes me as a sperm-donor baby!

Cool Facts!!

I have as many half-siblings as my biological father. Three
I am, in a very screwed up way that includes marriage, cousins' father's sisters, and so much more screwiness, related to a classmate whose father worked with my uncle. They're both tattoo-artists!
I am related, through the same side of the family as before, related to another classmate who I used to be best friends with. In preschool.
I am also related to a third classmate. But not through the same side of the family! This time it's through a great-great aunt's marriage and grand-kids.
My uncle is dating his daughter-in-law, whose husband left her for her sister.
I just learned how to spell screwiness!
I have over 50 cousins.
If I had REALLY wanted to confuse my reading teacher, who I shall call 7up as a play on her last name, I could have included those three classmates AND my grandma's biological parents! 'Cause she was adopted.

7up is gonna be really surprised when she sees my family tree. I titled it: "My Large (and fairly messed-up) Family Tree (with 131 people) By RJ, 5th hour Reading

I included my last name, but for my own protection, I didn't include it. Tee hee!

As my BFF Ash would say, UNDERWEAR!
-RJ

Hello People!

I know I haven't posted in a while, sorry about that. I've just been busy!

My recent life.

I went back to school.

I'm back to being the tuba player.

I'm too wimpy to carry the sousaphone, and the actual tuba in any kind of marching.

The band teacher has no idea what to do.

Wow, I'm just that awesome.

Not really.

My birds are being excessively loud and I fed them less than fifteen minutes ago.

My life is kinda boring. I wish the birds would be quieter 'cause my fingers hurt from smacking the desk every time they start squawking.

Okay. About the whole tuba deal. I have no idea how I'm gonna march in the football game Friday after next if I can't carry any of the three tubas at school. I guess I'll have to bring the small tuba, which is currently in my parents' bedroom, to school to try and see if I can carry that one while marching. If I can't, well, I'm screwed. If it comes down to that, I get temporarily demoted to the suckish status of baritone player. Just for one night, though! Then I'm back up to tuba until I start high school next year! After that, I don't know.

Ooh, another interesting band thing in the near future. IMEA, the Illinois Music Educators' Association, has a festival every November, and in October there are auditions, and I have made the choice to audition! But only because of the small number of other tuba players who audition. Ten is the usual number of auditioners, but six to eight get picked. It's not that much of a challenge, people! I mean, it is, but still, I only have to really beat out two to four other people! The auditions are next week, the fifteenth. (I know I haven't told you yet, mom, but now you know!)

I have three parakeets now! The new one is green and I named him Archimedes. Fibonacci, Wycliffe, and Archimedes like to squawk a lot.

My brothers and mom are arguing. Not a rare thing here, with a one year old and a three year old and Mom trying to translate between them. Tommy is fake-crying and ignoring Mom. Danny is playing with a train or something.

Nothing much happened yesterday.

I'm bored. You probably are too. I guess I'll go now, especially since I need something to eat.

Bye,
RJ

Well, the general consensus is... I've been reading too many LEGO webcomics!!!

Okay, as you can tell from the title of this post, I've gotten into the whole LEGO webcomic thing. And, you can also see, I've been reading them too much!! So much, in fact, that I'm starting to see my life as a webcomic. Who would make MY life into a webcomic?!
The reason for this is that I've been reading the "Brick House" webcomic, also called "Reasonably Clever". In that comic, there is no plot and the characters say hilariously weird things that just make you laugh even though they're just plain moronic. I say things like that all the time. Well, all the time within the past, like, month. Sooo, well, the general consensus is... I've been reading too many LEGO webcomics!!! So now I think I'm in a webcomic! Urgh, just thinking about what Mom'll say in response to this makes me want to, well, I don't know, finish my bottle of Mountain Dew? I think I will...

*the rest of my Mountain Dew later*

Ugh... too much fizzy nausea... This is why I prefer flattened pop...

Okay, now that I've finished my Mountain Dew, I'll be able to stay up ultra-late tonight and maybe get to sneak out to the living room and use the computer!! *evil laugh*

Some advice: DON'T USE BAD PUNS!!!!!

That was your ITTBM advice for this post!!! There might just be more in this post too if I think of any...

An interesting fact: Mountain Dew doesn't affect how tired my mind feels (lately, the caffeine has only been affecting my body, so when I'm mentally tired, I'm physically wide-awake. Ugh...)

And, finally, my latest food craving!!! No, I'm not pregnant!!!!!!!!!!! Okay, I currently want: A BAGEL!!! Maybe Mom'll make a bagel for me.

She said no for right now, but possibly later. :)

Ugh, need something to type about.

My mom got a new steam mop!!!
MEHP(game show wrong answer buzzer. Don't know how it's actually spelled, so I made up my own spelling!!)

How about... I still haven't gotten my bagel!!!!! That reminds me, I only just got the idea to give you...

LIIINK TIIIIIIME!!!!!!!!!(notice how I used the extra I's? Crafty, right?)

Hypoglycemia.

..........

Well, can't think of anything else to type at you about...

Bye,
RJ

Vacationing!!!!!!!!!!!

I am officially on vacation!! What do you think about a live blog on the way to the hotel? Well, since you can't reply right now, I guess I'll do it.


9:31- sitting at the construction zone. BORING!! It's 9:32!! I won't type every minute, but I will give an update every five/ten minutes. Sound good? It does for me! Going to Facebook. I've got some ideas........(scary much?)


9:37- Just posted on Facebook. 84 degrees out already! Not fun for us! Well, it's 9:39, and we just passed a cop and another car on the side of the road! Wonder what that was for...


9:46- Crossing the bridge into Iowa. Looks gloomy! Mississippi River's up. My foot feels weird and tingly. It's probably falling asleep...


9:50- Thinking of getting a bottle of water from the cooler. 9:51!! US-30 W is just past 10TH AVE S!! Mapquest gives interesting facts...



9:58- Bumpy Iowa road... Passing through a little bit of rain. Bored.


10:03- Water time. Still bored.


10:20- Listening to WLLR. Feeling hungry. HUNGRY HUNGRY HUNGRY NEED FOOD NOW HUNGRY WANT FOOD HUNGER!!!!!!!!!!! Hungry rambles...


10:31- every bump in this stupid road jostles my stomach making me hungryer. I broke a law of grammar! oh, wait, and a law of spelling. yep, I'm a rebel. ;)


10:33- growll... That's my stomach talking! It says: GIVE ME FOOD. NOW. My stomach is angry with you! And me. It's still growling at us. I can haz cheezburger?


10:37- fooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooodz r needed... required........ DEMANDED!!!!!!!!! arghh.. my stomach hates us.


11:40- Had food, now travelling. Verrrry full....... Navigator duties have resumed.


11:45- I am safer with my grandmother than I am with my mom! at least in the car... 10 miles till our exit!!


11:48- My stomach loves us bcuz we fed it. Well, it loves me, but I extend it to you for fun. and entertainment. I'm talking to nobody. wow.....................


11:53- EXIT


11:56- Found a new radio station. My kind of music...


12:02- Afternoon! Finally! After two and a half hours of travel, it's after noon!


2:29- Wind farm #2!!!!!!! I was fake-sleeping when we passed the first one. Aslo, deliberate torture of the guy behind us!!!! Lolz all 'round! He's from Nah-braska! ;) Another wind farm!


2:36- A casino! The Diamond Jo Casino.


2:41- WE'RE IN MINNESOTA!!!!!!!!!!!! Min-neh-so-duh. And ELK!!


8:29- Sitting around the hotel room, bein' boooored.


8:43- *Yawn* Tired, think I'll post this and get to bed soon...............

12:32 pm, 7/22- Forgot to post for like 3 days in a row!! Errgh... Posting now, more vacation details later.

Bye,
RJ ;)

A VERY Important Birthday

Okay, so... I thought of an idea to get people to notice the blog. A logo!!! I'm making it right now. Actually, I'm making 2. One for the Fourth of July, and another for regular use. As more holidays come around, I might make more logos. Like the Google logo, changing every holiday.

That reminds me! Today is a VERY important birthday for someone we all know and love (well, at least, Americans do): AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*******************HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY*****************************************

Yes, I had to say that. Well, I don't have much time, as I have to get dressed soon, since I'm going over to a relative's house this afternoon. Just so you know, now it is 10:47 AM. So I have an hour and thirteen minutes until noon. Not very long when you're busy writing blog posts and making blog logos. Well, anyway, now that I'm done making the logos, I should show them to you. The images at the top of the page are the logos. I will post them on ITTBM(Interesting Things That Bore Me)'s Facebook page, so you can comment there if you have any suggestions for changes I should make to them. And now, a word from our psycho:BECOME FANS OF ITTBM'S FACEBOOK PAGE! AND INVITE YOUR FRIENDS TOO! Thank you for considering those words from our psycho. Yes, we have a psycho. No, the psycho doesn't have a name. The psycho is a nameless hobo that wandered by a computer one day and saw that ITTBM needed a resident psycho. The hobo applied, and got the job. He/she now works for me, and his/her name is now going to be Fred. Fred the hobo is ITTBM's resident psycho. He runs the facebook page sometimes. Fred is a very nice psychotic hobo. Fred likes fireworks. He is looking forward to seeing the fireworks that people set off near my backyard. He is not coming to the party with me because he is a psychotic hobo, and that is enough to get him banned from my family parties. Okay, I should start getting ready for the party now.

Bye,

RJ :D

Pet Shop Days

Well, I'm sorry I haven't posted lately, but I've been really busy.
I have:

1. gotten a new bird (her name is Wycliffe)


2. helped out at the local pet shop (I got fish out of tanks for people!!)


3. gone to summer school (DISLIKE!!!!)


4. eaten free lunches (I <3 the Thursday lunch!! Go PUDDING!!)


5. and, finally, been bored.

That's a lot of stuff! Now, more stuff about that stuff.

1. I got a new parakeet for my birthday!! Her name is Wycliffe, and she gets along with Fibonacci really well. They tweet back and forth a lot, but sometimes they get into very loud arguments. Wycliffe was sitting on my finger the day I got her. :)

2. I helped out at the local pet shop. I cleaned cages, got fish out of tanks for people, and played with the owner's dog. As a reward, I got a free shirt!! :)

3. I went to summer school. Does NOT make sense, as I'm one of the smart kids. (Mom, you are NOT allowed to comment on tthis section) Total DISLIKE!! :(

4. I ate free lunches. Tuesday's lunch is pbj, granola bar, an apple, cookies, and apple juice; Wednesday's lunch is a butter and ham sandwich, canned pear halves, a granola bar, m&m's, and apple juice; and Thursday's lunch is pbj, butterscotch pudding, granola bar, carrots, and apple juice. :)

5. I have been BORED. As usual. :(

Well, that's my life so far this summer!

As for the future, I'm going on vacation!!! July 18-22, 5 days, 4 nights, MALL OF AMERICA!!!!! 22 days left!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

I'm ALSO planning to make cake and get ice cream for my mom's birthday. :)

Gotta go now, so see ya later homies! (?)

Bye,

RJ ;p

Raw Spaghetti is Delicious!!

Quite a random title, isn't it. But it speaks the TRUTH!!! Raw spaghetti IS delicious!!

Anyway, an update on my life.
**IMPORTANT**
My birthday is in 10 DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will turn 13 in TEN DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
More stuff now.
I <3 raw spaghetti!!
Sousaphones are painful to carry when you're small and weak!!
Baritones are TINY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You must always KNOW what's for lunch at school. Relying on your nose doesn't really do much except generalize.
I can read one book in a day! Not new. Darn...
Swear words are common in play scripts.

TGIF!!!!!
Thank Google It's Friday!
Google is God now. Yay!!! All the people of the world must worship GOOGLE!!!!!!!!!

I've run out of words.......

Smile Smile,
RJ