12/26/11

I was going to make this a pokematic's blog but there's not enough for that. Today I went to some family friends and we exchanged gifts. It was really fun since I haven't seen them in a while. I haven't seen their dog in a really long time so that was really fun. Their dog is 10 years old and is still super hyper active. She opens her own preasents. We got her a thing of rawhide dog treats. She kept wanting to open preasents tough. I got a rubix flash, a rubix cube, and a book called Goodnight iPad. That is the funniest book I have read in a long time. Good fun seeing them.

We also had our christmas party with mom's college friends, the ones we weren't cleaning up for. The majority of the time we played Risk. Risk is a fun game. I was second to winning. Afterwards we played catchphrase, but it fell into chaos of "I'm desctibing guess." No organization, just fun. There were some great moments, like me trying to describe wall-to-wall and pointing to the walls, and describing cook out by not being a grill in, and the word was "rape" and the person with the word said "do this to a woman" and jokingly I said "rape." Kind of awkward but racing against the clock so no one really picked up on it. Loads of fun. Later.

12/25/11

For full story, read the christmas blog here. I do have some stories that I didn't include there though. Because we host Christmas at our house for family, we were told to clean up. But then tomarrow we're having mom's college friends over and we don't need to clean up for them. Ok, so we need to make the house look nice for our family who must accept us unconditionally but we're not caring for the friends that can get away with it. I asked mom if I had it right and she said in a sarcastic manner "yes." Since my cousin who came over is a girl I asked her if she understood and she said no.

I also was mislead by my yahoo portal. I rely on yahoo for interesting news and fox news for real stuff. But anyway, I clicked on an article that said "Is high-octane worth the premium?" For those that aren't familiar with yahoo, when you hover over a thumb nail, you get a brief description of the article, and this one read "A lot of people don't understand what "high octane" means and whether it's a smart buy." With a description like that I was expecting a yahoo science article on the science behind octane. Well imagine my anoyance when I clicked on it and read about how "combining trips saves gas, and everyone else thinks they're special when driving their SUV, and other crap" that isn't about the octane number. They had a small paragraph about octane but all it said was "octane is just how much you can compress it" of which I could have just found on wikipedia. Not even sure if that's right because there were a lot of comments saying that's wrong. This is almost as bad as this article about "the new boyscout ad" but spent the majority of the time bashing boyscouts.

Another interesting thing is what happened to my brother and his new game. We thought it was a new game so at the time I made this post on google plus, but not facebook because they're lame.
"OK, so my brother got fall out new vegas for christmas. It was brand new factory sealed, never been opened new. Inside the case on the disk tray was a disk for fable 3. He poped that in to see if it was actually fable 3. If it wasn't, gold mine. Flaws like mislabled disks are increadibly rare. But it was actually fable 3. Oh well, he's gonna go return it."
Upon further inspection, we came to the conclusion that it's a used game from best buy and they must seal their used games. We also don't have the resete but from what we've heard fable 3 is a good game. Later.

12/24/11

I echanged gifts with the grandparents, that's alwayse been a tradition. We exchange with them on the 24th and then amongst the "our house" family on the 25th. I'll tell you about what I got in the christmas blog. We gave my grandpa "all in the family" on DVD and I tried teaching him how to use the DVD player. Can't teach that old dog new tricks.

We went to mass and that was nice. Sorry not much else. Did do a little cleaning. Oh well. Later

12/23/11

Wow was today interesting. Let me open with my dream. I dreamp me doing many impossible things, mainly remembering the flying and breathing underwater. If I could pick just 1 superpower, it would be flying, just like superman. I remember reading that 99% of people or some other super majority of the population would pick invisibility or stoping time, for "obvious reasons" *wink wink*. I think I read it in a comic book. Well not me, I'd want to fly. Back to the dream. I remember I started flying and asking how am I doing this? I asked people but they didn't have an answer that made sence. Someone tryed wiht physics but that didn't make sense. Someone tried supernatural, like ghosts, but again no sense. It wasn't until my brother told me I was dreaming, while in my dream. The same thing happened the other times. I think I also dreamed that I ate pennies and now I crave pennies. Don't worry, won't eat them because it's illegal and dangerous. I want to be on TV but not my likelyness on 1000 ways to die.

Now for the day. Really fun thing we did today was aluminum casting with the forge. My entire family saves pop tabs, and other parts of the can that don't harm in the returning of them to the store. Well we did that for about a year and have a nice stock pile of scrap aluminum. We melted a fair amount down. So we have this crucible full of nice molten aluminum, with the impurities floating up to the top and scraping them out with a tong thing. So now what? Well there's this exacto knife that we use to cut up cans and not all cans have 10 cent deposits on them, like country time lemonade. I used the exacto to cut the can in half and we poured the aluminum into the bottom half. Melt down the top naturally. It was fun. Now I have 2 really cool aluminum blobs.

I worked on my penny collection. I'm now up to 5 whole years.

Went to family video to return some rentals. Family video is a great store. They had a sign that said that; "while hollywood video and others have liquidated their inventory and blockbuster has declared bankrupsy, we're still alive and well. Everyone loves us and we have the best service with cheap rentals and a great selection. There's also a lot of studios that require a 28 day period between initial release date and when it's available for in the mail and keosk services, meaning that we an have them before them." Good for you guys.

And just because I feel like mentioning it, the american dad christmas special for this year, when all the promo's for it were on adult swim, they said, "Steve and Haily's adopted child-" hold it, steve and haily brother and sister? Come on guys, it's jeff and haily. Later

12/22/11

Ok, so today was cleaning lady day. I had to move my delecate operation to the guest room. We went out for a big breakfast at a local restaurant. We went to Mijer to return bottles and cans. I found Kirby Mass Atack there. Woot. Worked on the penny collection. Saw some behind the scenes work with this production that my neighbor is working on. That was really cool. I brought a friend along and we caught up, and disagreed on subjects, like usual. If we were girls we'd hate each other, but we're not so yeah. Tomarrow we're goona work in the forge. Later.

12/21/11

Today slightly eventful. I rented my brother Dragon Age 2 and me a teenage mutant ninja turtle DVD. I thought it was a classic turtles but it ended up being the 4kids version. 4kids version is all right, but not as good as the classic. Oh well it was free. Family Video, home of the free kids rentals.

I got 20 rolls of pennies for my penny collection. I'm putting together rolls of pennies based on year. I completed 2011 today. Yay. Now just 40 more years.

I went to Taco Bell for lunch. I normally wouldn't mention but I haven't been to taco bell in forever. It was great. Later.

12/20/11

I didn't do much. Played a bunch of runescape. Love me some runescape. I'm jakemydog35 if you wnat to play with me sometime.

Here's a funny thing that happened. I have a tendancy to have crazy follow me. My brother wasn't feeling well so he was taking a nap. All our smoke detectors are hardwired together so if 1 goes off they all go off. I'm making toast, but then get asked to help with something. I didn't put it to super dark, just a little past medium the way I like it. Smoke starts billowing out of the toaster. We act quickly, closing the door to the bacement and dinning room and open the outside door and turn on the fume fan. Luckily the smoke alarm didn't go off. I then asked Mom "isn't it great that I'm home?" Later