I’m Back Baby!

Well it’s 2010, and I’m now off vacation. And man what a 2 weeks off! To be fair though, it was 2 holidays. If you count New Years. I do(as you can plainly see).

This year is looking hopeful, as I should have tons to talk about. I’m not gonna put it all in this one post though. So, I’m gonna give you a little preview as to what expect in the coming week(I don’t think that far ahead). Anyway here’s a brief summary of what I did on my Christmas break:

I didn’t get to accomplish all that I had hoped to. For starters I still have a ton of video games to beat. I saw the funniest (I think) independent film ever! Watched Scarface for the first time ever. Had lots of fun at the mall returning stuff! FINALLY got my ipod(yes I gave in). Got my bro a chess set for Christmas. Which I can now slaughter him in. And my New Year’s resolution to relax.

Regularly scheduled posting will resume Jan. 4 2010!

PS: Is it twenty-ten, or two thousand and ten?

I Guess You Could Call it Hiatus!

I’m taking the next 2 weeks off.

Simply because I’m on vacation, so why not take a break from this?

Well really, I’ll be doing nothing. And most of my posts come from school. So expect no posts now until Jan. 4th. I may do one New Years though. So check then.

You know what, check every day ’cause I need the hits.

See you in 2010!

Vacation Time!

Monday is my first official day of vacation. So naturally today(Friday), was national skip-day. Which I gladly took part in.

And it’s only just hitting me what vacation means. Well not really that, but how awesome it is to have some time off. Having my alarm go off at 7:00, and not worrying about it.

You see, this is when I adjust to vacation time. With a whole spanking 2 weeks at my disposal, I need to make the most out of it. I first noticed the ‘vacation time change’ this summer. When I was used to staying up until midnight or past, and sleeping until 11pm.

I never really saw the point in that. Because there isn’t really anything to do at midnight. If I’m not with friends, the only thing to do is play video games. And I’d much rather play when I’m wide awake, than half dosing off. I’m really a morning person. I’m not overly cranky, unless of course I didn’t sleep at all. And even then I’m too tired to yell at anyone.

But really, it doesn’t feel like much of a break. It’s probably ’cause today was my first day, but even then. I still feel as if I have some unfinished business elsewhere.

I thought Christmas on a Friday would rule. But In reality, it stinks. Christmas is in 6 or so days. And it really doesn’t feel like it. It’s probably the lack of good snow, or the warm feeling in the air.

Or It’s just the counting down of the days until we go back. This might be one of the longer Christmas breaks I’ll ever get, but once Christmas passes… New Years is just around the corner.

And we go back January 4th.

What’s the Point?

Why do people go away Christmas break?

I mean sure it’s cold, and yes you do have 2 weeks off. But what kind of a world would we live in if every time it was cold, or people had some time off, they went away?

You know what that really says, that people don’t like living here. That Canada isn’t good enough for them.

Wow I sound like an old man.

My friend is also going away for Christmas. To B.C, so he can ski. Well I guess the mountains here aren’t good enough. Actually, I don’t think there are any ski hills where we live.

Oh well, but what the real kick in the crotch was, was that he didn’t put up a Christmas tree! And it sucks because we spend most of our time at lunch there.

Really though, going away for Christmas just seems selfish to me. Christmas is so much fun because you are with you family. And if you go away you can’t give me a present.

Oh well we got our Christmas tree up along with our lights. My street looks really pretty at night because almost every house has lights up. And the ones that don’t are gonna get egged.

Though despite this and the latest snowfalls, it just feels less like Christmas. There’s 8 days left until Christmas, and it feels like it already passed.

A Grand Spanking Good Time!

Video games are by far the greatest entertainment tool ever created. Nothing can compete with it.

Just got back from my buddy’s house(hence why this is so late). And you can just guess what we were doing.

No not that!

We were playing video games.

And it wasn’t until the end of the night we started to play a game demo, Zombie Apocalypse. That I realized Co Op games were awesome.

Really yelling at my friends to not pick up the flamethrower was just too much fun. And believe it or not, it is EVERY guy’s dream to be fighting off the undead with their buddies. Nothing spells out FUN like:

Fighting

Undead

uNited

But it doesn’t stop with zombies. We played LittleBigPlanet together. And let me tell you, it was just as much fun yelling at my friends not to let me fall, as it was to tell them to kill the zombies.

And as I said before. No other medium can compete with video games. Movies are fun to watch, but that’s where it ends. Watch. I’d rather prefer to actually live in the movies. And control the actions of the protagonist. You see, video games answer the age long question, what would you do?

Call me a book worm but, the only other thing as immersive as video games, are books. And people who say otherwise have clearly never read a book in their life. As I said in a previous post, with a book, you spend months with the characters. And in the end, you tend to add yourself to the story. And it no longer matters what the words on the page say.

But then again, books lack 2 things: Friends, and Zombies!

I Have Commitment Issues…

It’s just in some part of my subconscious. Rather, in my conscious considering I know about it.

But really, I cannot make commitments. It just that I like to follow through with them. In fact, it really bugs me if I don’t. And sometimes I have multiple things to do and multiple commitments. Their not really commitments to anyone or anything, just ones I have made to myself.

For example this blog. I’m writing every day. And some days I really don’t feel like it. Like today for example. But I still do. And the only reason, I don’t like how the little calender on the side will look with missing dates.

But if I have other things to do, I get completely distracted and sometimes forget. Like the weekends. The reason I stopped writing on the weekends was that I had other things to do. And it was too much to worry about all this.

It’s just like this with homework. If I get a project due in a week, to hell I’m doing it. I’ll probably wait until the 2 days before it’s due. But if I get another project, due in let’s say, 3 weeks. I will have to get one of the 2 done.

This fear of being committed was what made me not want to play hockey this year. Though that went to hell.

PS: I love how when I say that people automatically think relationship-wise.

Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree!

I don’t know the rest of the poem.

But what I do know is that we put up our Christmas tree yesterday. And so it began, the of decorating the tree. Though I’d hardly call it a tradition, it’s something I look forward to

But this year had to be different, oh yes! Long gone is the old star that we used to top our tree. Oh no, we have to have an angel.

It must just be me, but stars>angels any day.

Really, whenever there is a drawing of a Christmas tree, it’s a star. And it just seems that angels just seem too pretentious to me. It makes the whole tree feel just that more, ‘perfect’. And it reminds me of those people that just need the tree and everything to be perfect.

And that’s just not how a Christmas tree should be. Not planned and beautiful; rather personal and heartwarming.

So to counteract this, ‘Grinch’, that seems to be having an influence on my mother. I decided to put the one ornament she utterly hates right next to the angel. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles one. I don’t know why it’s so ugly to her. Yea it may be white, and yea it may have like, hair coming out of it. But it is a physical representation of how a Christmas tree should be.

Awesome.

PS: You know that house I mentioned with the life-size Santa. Here’s something even funnier. Walking by the same house on the weekend. I notices that Santa’s hat had blown off. As well, his beard pulled down to his chin. And I noticed something that made me feel equally disturbed, and surprised. This “Santa”, was a skeleton. And freaking bloody skeleton, dressed to make it look like Santa Clause.

I didn’t believe it at first too.

E-Mail!

I need to honestly know, does anyone use e-mail anymore. And I mean honest to god uses it.

Other than for business, there is no real practical use for it. If you need to get in touch with somebody THAT fast, might as well just call or text them. Or whatever kids these days are in to.

The only thing I ever use my email for is signing up for websites. Or MSN.

In fact, in the 5 or so years I’ve had an email account, I’ve sent no emails actually. I cannot believe it, and I’m pretty sure you can’t either. But I have yet to send anyone but myself an email. And by myself I mean a project so I could print it.

I don’t think I ever check my email. Which is bad I know.

But really, it’s just full of spam. Mostly facebook, and wordpress. Because they find it so necessary to email me about every little thing that happens. Let’s check it now.

547 emails in my inbox.

Exactly as I thought. Facebook and wordpress. There are 17 pages of emails. I can’t really believe this.

This is when I am starting my campaign against inboxes. Even though this is a terrible idea, I am deleting all the messages I have. And am going to start actually reading my emails.

Done.

And why is everyone dissing actual mail. I love it. It was always so exiting to get ’snailmail’. Even though it was always reminders about my eyedoctor’s appointment.

Remember 2000?

I think it’s 2000 anyway.

Well, whatever year it is I’m remembering, it’s irrelevant.

What is relevant though, is what I’m remembering about it. The music.

My brother went on a punk download spree on my computer. Which now has thousands of songs by terrible bands that should have died already.

Among those are a few bands I pleasantly remember from childhood. The ones off the top of my head: Blink 182, Sum 41, and Linken Park. And of course the endless chain of boybands that don’t deserve recognition.

Of these I’ve been listening to Blink 182 the most. As they appear to be the best of the three. Linken Park was my favorite, but after realizing how stupid they are, no more.

Back on topic, the one song I find myself listening to the most is Stay Together For the Kids. It’s just the most memorable song by them. And the one I immediately think of when I hear, Blink 182. And then of course, there’s the one song I refused to listen to. The bane of my existence. Adam’s Song.

I always found this song incredibly saddening. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten past the first verse of it. But after (finally) toughening up, I decided to listen to it.

And WOW! It is not as I remember it. I only cried for like 10 minutes afterwards.

And then of course my favorite song ever, One Step Closer by Linken Park. I have no idea why, but it just inspired such imagination in me. It was not one of those songs I listened to constantly. But it was one that I found myself ecstatic to hear.

These were all big parts of my childhood.

PS: I realize there were other bands around that time.

Let it Snow, Let it Snow!!!

Today it finally snowed! And it just made it feel much more like Christmas.

Last night I went to sleep, and this morning I was baffled by the beautiful white sheet that blanketed my street. I felt like a kid again. It’s an odd feeling, all excited and giddy.

But then it rained. And we all know what that does to snow.

That’s right, people are out there shoveling slush off their drive ways. Walking to my friend’s house for lunch was more like swimming. And the Christmas spirit melted, just like the snow.

Oh well the rain wasn’t half bad, it really didn’t rain all that much. What killed it was the temperature. Global warming is a bitch, as they say. Right now it’s 6 degrees outside, and there’s still snow on the ground. While I guess not for long.

I kinda sensed this winter would blow(with my awesome psychic powers). Last year was an awesome winter. 6 or 8 snow days. And the snow mounds were taller than me. It’s kinda depressing. Knowing how much fun winter can be, and how much fun it actually is.

PS: My first swear!

PPS: I love snow.