A VERY VERY VERY Late Post

Hi everyone. I'm back to writing another post today. Honestly I have been repeating a pattern of telling myself that I will write a post later. Then when later comes I feel too tired and worn out to write one. In other words I have been lazy lately. Nothing much is going on other than school getting back in a week from tomorrow. Yay.

Tomorrow I am going to volunteer like I always do, and since it will be my last Tuesday volunteering there all of us are bringing soup and food. I'm not done volunteering there I will try and volunteer on Saturday's and such during the school year.

Also later this week is my first cross country meet on Saturday. I am pretty excited because I am way past running three miles without stopping. For example I ran five and a half miles today and not counting the one mile warm up I ran four and a half without stopping. Well, the thing is not stopping is not an issue. What is an issue is speed. I don't run really slow I run an average speed. But, racing long distances with an above average speed is spelling trouble. Oh well I shouldn't worry too much it's only the first meet.

Other than all that fun stuff, I created a second channel. I decided that would be my real channel. Because it seems that my first channel was more of a practice run for making those videos. For example my computer in it's current state cannot screen record without making it unbearably laggy. Also, I need a good program for recording and a decent headset. So basically, I won't be able to put any videos out until I get decent recording equipment. Oh well, I am not in a hurry at the moment.

By the way I am still working on my book. It's going good. I am currently on the sixth chapter.

Anyways that is it for today, I am sorry I have not posted in a while. I will write again sometime in the future(preferably tomorrow) to all you awesome people of the Internet. :) Bye! -PurplePainter321

Lucky Numbers and Running With The Bulls

Hello once again to my blog all you awesome people of the Internet! :) So I just got on the computer barely three seconds ago and saw that I had 333 pageveiws! Now, you may be wondering what is so special about that. It's that it's triple of the same number and I feel lucky to have stumbled upon it. Anyways back to my day today and other topics.

So I was in the car on my was to practice when I heard on the radio that a certain festival was coming to America... I give you Running With The Bulls USA! Okay, let me just say that I am so confused. What in the heck where these people thinking??? 90% of the people who get injured in this festival are amateurs a.k.a Americans who's egos, pride, dares, and drunkenness make them think they are just as good as the professionals. I think that once this officially arrives in America it's going to end badly.

Other than that my day has been pretty relaxing. I found on Demand that they released the third season of Doctor Who with David Tennant. I was excited for this because I personally have David Tennant as my favorite Doctor and this was one of the good seasons. But, my TV was glitching out and not letting me watch any of the episodes, so that made me really sad. Beforehand I realized something about Doctor Who... When David Tennant was the Doctor and they introduced the weeping angels he and Martha got stuck in 1969. What confuses me is that wen Matt Smith was the Doctor and they discovered the Silence they were also in 1969. So the Doctor crossed his own timeline, and the Universe didn't end and no paradoxes.

Afterwords I just watched a bunch of episodes of America's Got Talent on Demand.  My day wasn't too interesting though today. I will write on the days I have something to talk about or something exciting happened. So no promises on if I will write tomorrow all you awesome people of the Internet. Bye! :) -PurplePainter321

The Ice-Cream Trucks(hopefully NOT coming to theaters near you)

Hi! :) Okay, so I haven't posted in a few days and that is because that nothing really happened during those days. I basically sat in my room and listened to comedy radio while knitting. Or watching TV and knitting(it seems I have been doing a lot of knitting lately). Also, watching a lot of re-runs of Doctor Who or Seinfeld. But, I wanted to post today because I basically wanted to. Nothing much going on at the moment in my life though.

A few choice things happened this week. I worked extra hard at cross country, and did a serious lifting workout(123 weighted lunges, 3 reps of 10 bench-presses, 81 more weighted lunges, 100 singles, 53 more weighted lunges, 23 pushups, 20 weighted lunges, 5 burpees with a pushup, and finish with 56 lunges). We also did a couple speed workouts.

I watched a couple movies too. I think I already mentioned the Princess Bride. Yesterday though I watched the movie "Contact". It's about a group of scientists in the early 90's that make alien contact. At first I was skeptical thinking, well this is going to be a cliche with aliens again. It seems Hollywood has this mindset of how any movie with aliens can't possibly go wrong. Well, they messed up the "Man of Steel" with the stupid ending. I mean he saves the world how can someone NOT recognize him just because he's wearing glasses! Anyways back on topic the movie "Contact" was super awesome!!! It had a strong story line, all about struggles and loss, but don't worry not from aliens trying to destroy the world, because again if it was all about aliens coming and starting this big "epic" war with humans it would be a tired cliche. All in all it was a great movie that I would recommend to all of you.

Today, I didn't do all that much. I went to J-Dawgs for lunch. But, the most funny thing happened. A dude backed his truck into the bumper of the van apparently. Well, all we saw was someone in a t-shirt putting something in the car. At first I was like, "He must be advertising something." Luckily we got to talk to the guy and he took full responsibility. In turn we got a serious fender bender. Actually it was the bumper(bumper bender?). Then I headed to the running store to get some new cross country shoes because the ones I had were nearly two years old. After that I went home and listened to the radio and knitted, then watched TV and knitted(doing a lot of knitting apparently). Finally at the end of the day I wanted to break in the new shoes. So, I decided to take a quick run around my neighborhood. There was an ice-cream truck right down the road. I didn't want to have the ice-cream man thinking I was running towards the truck so I just ran on without making eye contact. About mid-run my legs started hurting for some random reason. But, I kept running. Near the end of my run I heard the first ice-cream truck that I encountered earlier, then I heard a second ice-cream truck a couple blocks over. I almost shouted(well, I did in my mind), "We're surrounded!"

After that fun spy movie(spy movie? "The Ice-Cream Trucks". Now that would be a stupid movie) experience I headed home and now writing a blog post. So, that is the end of this post today. I will write to all you awesome people tomorrow(no promises)! :) See ya! -PurplePainter321

Frozen Yogurt and Comedy Radio.

Hey all you super awesome people of the Internet! Luckily I am not as tired as I was yesterday, which is strange because I stayed up until 10:45 from watching the movie "The Princess Bride". That is the best movie ever. I was quoting it so much. The guy that plays Vazzini in the movie is also in the movie Admission, which I also saw on Sunday.

So, I have a few things to talk about today. For one I found out the actual date of the Comic Con that is close to where I live. It's in September and I definitely want to go. Brandon Mull is going to be there, as well as John Patterson! My two favorite authors! I want to figure out all the panels that are happening that day from art to books to gaming. I am so excited about this. :) Other than that no huge plans for the end of this year except for school. Surprisingly I am super excited to go back to school. I guess after the first month of Summer I need something to stimulate my mind, and Sudoku, Tetris, and Unblock Me(puzzle game), don't quite cut it.

Okay, so today I got my art cylinder supply holder thing. It turned out pretty cool, none of the colors were faded too much or any of that stuff. Again it could have turned out better, especially if I could have done it in pencil, oh well it still turned out pretty cool. Touching on a gaming topic(SKIP IF YOU DON'T PLAY MINECRAFT), I wanted to test something in Minecraft and I went to options and did a superflat world, redstone ready, all that stuff. And guess what happened I spawned in the superflat world and there was a land mass smack dab in the middle. A huge rectangle of jungle, taiga, and swamp biome that was there, you could see the ores and the water was chopped off at the edge of the width of the rectangle. Actually this is the second this has happened to me. But, I wrote down the seed and tried it out, the land mass wasn't there that time. So now I have this super awesome world that I don't want to delete like I did the first time this happened.

Anyways, today wasn't crazy busy or anything. It was good to get frozen yogurt too. I went to this place called U-Swirl. Guess what they didn't have Peanut Butter as a flavor! So I settled with vanilla. The reason I like peanut butter is because I get the yogurt then pile on every single topping that even has the slightest hint of peanut butter. I call it "The Peanut Butter Dream".  I found this awesome comedy radio station called 24/7 Comedy Haha. It is so cool! It gives you bits and pieces of different comedians and acts. On occasion I can recognize familiar comedians like Jim Gaffigan or Jerry Seinfeld. So I spent some time listening and laughing and also knitting(yes, I know how to knit). I also got to do some sketching while listening to the Twilight Princess game soundtrack.

So, that is pretty much it for today guys if I remember anything important I will add it in. I will write to all you awesome people of the Internet tomorrow! See Ya! :) -PurplePainter321

Late Post(Sorry)

Hey guys! I guess this post is a bit late today. Sorry, I have just been super exhausted lately. So I will do a quick recap of what happened the last couple days.

On Sunday it was pretty relaxing and I got a lot of typing in for my book. I also watched the movie Admission on Sunday too. It was good, I thought it was funny and all in all a good movie. That was actually the reason I was tired on Monday was because the movie ended at 10:30 p.m.. I had to wake up at 6:00 a.m. to go to cross country. At cross country on Monday I ran five miles and then did an optional lifting workout. Then I spent the day wandering and not knowing what to do. I spent a lot of time on the computer basically. I would be on the computer and then I would get bored, but I would still find a reason to be on the computer. Believe I get sick of the computer after a long period of time and also I can get tired of the computer if I am clueless to why I am on there.

I got extremely bored basically, but I did some typing for my book for about an hour. So the thing that made me tired today was cross country and volunteering. Now though I am still super tired after a two hour nap. I am tired right now because I ran four and a half miles at practice without stopping and then volunteered for about four hours cooking and preparing food. That made me exhausted so I took a nap that left me tired still.

Anyways I am sorry for the late entry and the length of this entry, I just am super tired and I forgot some of the stuff that happened yesterday and on Sunday. So I will definitely write to all you awesome people of the Internet tomorrow! :) See Ya! -PurplePainter321 

"Busy" Day

Hello again to all you awesome people of the Internet! I hope your day has been good. Mine today was a little busy. I am still sore from the ab workout that I did in cross country too so that didn't help much.

Anyways my day started with me sleeping in at an unthinkable time! 8:57! I even hardly sleep in past seven normally. After that I got ready and headed to a car show with some friends. There were a lot of cool old fashioned cars that had been restored. My favorite was the blue and white '57 Chevy.

After the car show I hung out with my friend and her cousins that were from everywhere imaginable. I am a competitive person and I got into a lot of competitions with one of her cousins. From racing to throwing contests, you name it. When I smell a competition I get a little too cocky and overconfident.

Today I also sketched a really cool picture, I wish I knew how to upload pictures on this dang thing. :(

I wanted to have gotten in some writing, typing, or editing my book. Other than that my day has been pretty relaxing closer to the afternoon, I even got to watch the movie "42" on my Apple TV. It was a good movie, and there is no doubt that it was nominated for the Best Picture of the year thing already(probably). I would give it five stars personally.

Okay, so not much happened today other than a car show and my over competitiveness. So I will end today's post here and does anybody know how to load pictures on this thing? Anyways, I will write to all you awesome people of the Internet tomorrow! See Ya! :) -PurplePainter321

Farlands or Bust!

Hello to all you awesome people of the Internet! I am just going to tell you people my opinion on the movie R.I.P.D.

It was good. The concept was solid and it was hilarious. Did you know that Buzz from Home Alone played 'Fat Elvis' in the movie? That was super funny to me for some reason. So all in all the movie was good, but the only thing is that it could have been longer.

Also I wanted to mention a charity that is on going at the moment. It's located on a YouTube channel called Kurtjmac. He(Kurtjmac) has been walking to the farlands in Minecraft for awhile now(274 episodes) and is raising money for Childs' Play Charity. So I thought this was an amazing cause that all of you could check out. I wish the best of luck to Kurtjmac and this charity. By the way this series is called Farlands or Bust!(Subscribers are called Farlanders) :)

Other than that my day has been okay. Except for my morning. I did the most grueling ab workout ever! It is called the filthy 50. Fifty of every hard exercise straight in a row. Oh well what are you going to do. Then my day was relaxation, Seinfeld, and sketching. So I will write to all you awesome people of the Internet tomorrow! See Ya! :) PurplePainter321

Lessons and Speeches

Hey all you awesome people of the Internet! It is that time of day again. The daily blog of the day. I have a few things to talk about today.

First off is that I just barely found out that Monopoly is making another version of the game. It's not like Disney version or Spongebob version or whatever. This new version has no jail! That's not all folks because they also made a change to the point of the game. Instead of buying property and having to dread landing on someone's property that has a ton of hotels, it's focusing on buying and selling top brands of games and other stuff! This might be even stupider than the credit card Monopoly, or Monopoly Millionaire. The original game is good enough for me, on Yahoo it said that they were making this new version to attract the younger crowd. I hear they are even going to make speedier versions of Boggle and even Scrabble!

Okay other than that little rant on how I like the original version of that game better, let's talk about today. I am faced again with the challenge of pressure from my parent to finish the lessons and keep at the sport. I have to have a face-to-face talk with my parent soon. It's harder than it seems believe me. I can write out a good speech on what I feel, but talking isn't my strong suit. Maybe I will write a speech on my blog as a practice sort of thing. So if you don't care about my problems... SKIP AHEAD!
"Parent I need you to listen please. Just hear me out. I noticed you want me to finish the lessons that you have paid for already for this sport. I understand that you want me to keep trying. You keep telling me how you saw me have fun playing the sport. Yes, I did have fun playing the sport, but then I grew out of the fun and the excitement of a new sport. Like with the other sports I have played, they were fun, but it wasn't something that I wanted to continue. Though, those sports are different than this. If someone asked me to come and shoot hoops or play soccer I would love to... This sport on the other hand is not like that. If someone asked me to play it I would plainly say 'no'.  If they asked why I wouldn't be able to answer on the spot because I really stink explaining things right there right then. I have to think of my explanation and figure out what I was feeling. The point is I want you to understand how I am feeling. I don't feel comfortable playing this sport. I don't like this sport anymore. I am sorry. I respect that you like this sport, I will do extra chores around the house and try to pay you back for the lessons. If that frustrates you too much I will finish the lessons(even though I can't use much of what they teach me). If it freaks you out too much for me to close the door on this sport completely then I will be open to the option to play on rare occasion for "fun". I am sorry that this might be hard for you to hear. I just am speaking my mind and informing you about how I feel."


Anyways, I got to go to Color Me Mine and paint! Well, I am not much of a painting person. I am more of a sketch artist kind of person. I got a cylinder type thing. It's hard to explain, it will be like a pencil, colored pencil, paint brush holder thing. I painted a creeper face with WAY to much detail and at the bottom wrote "SSsssss...BOOM!!!" And at the back I did the Mindcrack symbol because I like that podcast. I also had to leave in like five minutes so I painted the symbol a little sloppily. It came out okay, but it could have been better if I had more time.

After that I went to In-N-Out Burger and ate a cheeseburger. The day was slow going from there on.

ADVICE FOR ALL!!!!! I learned a very important lesson early. NEVER CLICK LINKS THAT ARE LABELED TRAFFIC SOURCES. Ugh... things that cannot be unseen. If you have a blog never ever ever ever ever ever ever EVER click links that are labeled traffic sources. Now I'm worried, since I clicked those links out of accidental curiosity, that I'm on a watch list or whatever(I hope not). So that is the most important advice for any new bloggers like me.

Well, that is it for today guys! I will write to all you awesome people of the Internet lata! :) See ya! PurplePainter321

Dang Fireworks!!!!

What is up all you awesome people of the Internet? I hope you are having a good "holiday". The reason "holiday" is in quotations is that there is apparently a holiday today. And you all know what that means... I have to endure the constant 'boom' of fireworks. It's going to probably keep me up all night. I mean this is the very first I have heard of this holiday. I don't even know why I haven't heard about it before. It seems like a big deal to everyone else. Oh well.

I didn't do too much today other than get a cool glow-in-the-dark case for my iPhone. Yeah, I got a new case because my other one was literally falling apart. While I was at the outlet mall I absolutely had to get my classic hot choco-coffee with a bit of vanilla at the delicious Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. That outlet mall has everything. And I mean everything. From tons of stores, a cool lobby area, a Johnny Rockets, to a delicious chocolate factory, all in the same vicinity!

Also I watched "I Robot" for the first time ever! That movie was awesome. If I had to rate it, 4 1/2 stars. Because the concept of that movie was brilliant. (SPOILER ALEEEEERRRRT!!!!!!!) Especially when Vicki gave that speech about humanity. I mean we do disobey those three laws in the movie and in real life. We get into wars, we pollute our air, what that crazy robot lady was trying to say was we are basically ruining our own lives ourselves(willingly). I don't know, I think that's what she was trying to say.

Anyways, not much really happened today besides a good movie, getting a cool new case for my phone, and staying unwillingly up all night due to fireworks. I will leave it off here until tomorrow. See all you awesome people of the Internet later! :) -PurplePainter321

Daily Blogin'

Hello once again to all you super awesome people of the Internet. Yes, I know last post I wrote yesterday said I would write next week, but a bit of change of plans. I want to try some daily blogin' on my blog here, posting at about this time or so. When I re-read yesterday's post I said I wasn't doing much that day, well I didn't know that. I actually turned out to have a pretty interesting one at Seven Peaks.

 So, I got there and I had not been to Seven Peaks since I was like...seven and I had no idea where the heck to go. I basically went to three attractions 1. The Cliffhanger slide, 2. The wave pool, and 3. the place to get food. The Cliffhanger was actually pretty fun, I went on it two times. Then I wandered around aimlessly and decided to go to the wave pool. And no I did not rent a tube. That is the most dumb thing to spend money on there. Half of the slides there require a tube though :(. The wave pool was nice. Then I experienced a Jim Gaffigan joke. There was a couple making out in the middle of the wave pool. Blegh...(me throwing up hypothetically). Me and my friend were like,"Get a room!" well, not to their faces but you get the idea.

After the wave pool I got some pepperoni pizza, some root beer and sat at a table. Then out of nowhere some security guy runs past me with a couple of other life guards to a slide. The first thing I said was, "This place has security?" They were running up the long steps to get to the top. I was laughing so hard at one point because the life guards got up there WAY before the security guy. I couldn't see much since I was on the ground and a little further off in the distance. The life guards and the security dude came back down the stairs with a guy holding a cooler(I have no idea where he came from) and a girl drinking some Gatorade. Me and my friend concluded that she must have gotten dehydrated and passed out or something.

So that was yesterday, let's talk about today a little bit. I am fighting with myself right now about gaming commentary and if I should try again with recording my voice, or I could record myself playing the game and have music in the background. I think I am sort of leaning in the direction of having music in the background because my voice does sound pretty messed up on video. Okay, so not much happened today other than Cross Country practice and sketching. Today I basically ran at cross country, then watched some Doctor Who, sketched a tree, read a book, worked on my book, and had some delicious Five Guys.(P.S. apparently there is some state-wide holiday going on because of fireworks keeping me up every night)

Anyways, I will do these daily blogs unless I have a SUPER boring day sort of like today. I will also try and figure out how to post pictures on this thing because the face I made on that roller coaster at Sea World was priceless! I will write to all you awesome people of the Internet tomorrow! See ya! -PurplePainter321

Nothing Much Going on Today

So not much has happened since I got back from San Diego. I did go to camp for a few days. We went to the lake a couple times that was the most exciting thing that happened at camp.

In other news, from twitter and Facebook I realized that comic con is not just comic stuff. It's all the stuff I love and stuff I grew up with. From Star Wars, Star Trek, movies, books, etc.. To me that would be the best place to be in my opinion. Maybe if its close again next year it's a possibility that I could go, maybe.

Anyways, I might try gaming commentary again on my channel. The thing that threw me off was that my voice sounded so messed up on recording. So maybe I will record myself playing and instead of my voice, in the background there could be music. That could be cool maybe.

I nearly died at cross country today. Not running for a week was not good. I had the worst side ache ever.

So this post isn't very long because not much has happened and I am writing this on my phone.(and on my way to Seven Peaks Pass of all Passes baby! Which means its for Freeeeeeeeee-Bed Time Stories reference-) I will write to all you awesome people of the Internet next week! :) See Ya! -PurplePainter321

Really short post and back home :)

Hey this is just a short post today because I have camp tomorrow and I need all the sleep I can get. So  I am back home and had a good flight home. I will try and find out how to put pictures on my blog. I will write to all you awesome people of the Internet next week! :) See Ya! -PurplePainter321

Sand Diego Day 4! -Speaking Mandarin

What is up all you awesome people of the Internet! I hope you have had a super wonderful weekend. Today was pretty relaxed and easy going. I again joined my dad in a walk to Starbucks and drank a nice refreshing hot choco-coffee. I was on my own for a few hours and I got bored quickly, so my activities to keep from getting more bored included 1.Tetris(I got to the 18th level) 2.TV 3.Read 4.MonsterMusic(a fairly new app) 5.YouTube 6. Listen to a podcast(at the end I laughed so hard I cried). Then my dad came and took me with him to lunch at the think tank that he was going to. Ugh(the food was gross)!Okay so the first time I went to this cafe the food was so delicious... I ordered the tomato soup and pizza... And today I ordered the chicken tenders. Those chicken tenders were the most disgusting thing ever. Think of mashed up chicken with preserves and additives mashed up some more and breaded. Blegh.........(me throwing up hypothetically)

Next up I met 3 people at the think tank who spoke Mandarin! That made me so happy!!!! I have been taking Mandarin for about a year and I love it so much! So, this literally made my day and I could talk and make conversation with them. They were so nice and awesome, and I was smiling so much today my cheeks are so sore. So, not much happened today guys, and I think I will wrap it up here, and tomorrow I am heading back home! I will write to all you awesome people of the Internet tomorrow! :) Zai Jian!(good-bye!) -PurplePainter321

San Diego Trip Day 3! -Vacation Relaxation

Hello once again to all you awesome people of the Internet! It is now the 3rd day of my trip to San Diego, and today was pretty average I guess until the end(I will write about that near the end of this post)of the day. So, let me tell you how I slept last night. Well lets just say that for the first time in my life I wanted to shoot some birds. They were waking me up at unheard of hours and made the most annoying noises. I guess I could have at least closed the window in the first place.

Me and my dad  in the morning walked to the Starbucks that was down the road and was by a Barnes and Noble Bookstore(that made me extremely happy). I wanted to get the style of hot chocolate that I usually got at the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory near where I live. This is how it's made. Hot chocolate with a splash of coffee and a squirt of vanilla. They made it perfectly, so in turn it was soooo delicious.

A little later in the afternoon my cousins and aunt came over again and we went swimming at the pool. I didn't swim for very long but my little 6-year old cousin who you all know, from yesterday's update blog, wanted to swim until dark. Luckily that didn't happen. Instead after we were done swimming we all showered and got ready and we went to Mission Beach. I only went on one ride, it was the one that was built way back in 1925. I screamed very loud on that one. My throat was very raw afterwords and to cure that I got some classic vanilla ice cream. :) So for the next hour or so I talked with my aunt while my cousins were going on a ton of rides. I was sort of disappointed that I couldn't watch the sunset over the ocean's horizon because of the clouds. On our way out we started to see some police cars going to the opposite way than us. In total we counted 2 police vehicles, 1 ambulance, 2 battalion chief vehicles, and 6 fire trucks. There might even be more that. That was just what we saw in the car. So, I am going to record the local news so I can find out what was happening.

That was pretty much it for today guys. Just a simple vacation relaxation day. And I will write to all you awesome people of the Internet tomorrow! :) See ya! -PurplePainter321

San Diego Trip Day 2! -Sea World

Hello all you super awesome people of the Internet! Another day here in San Diego. Today I went to the classic Sea World! Okay, so same format as last entry, I am going to tell what happen on my adventure today.

So, I arrived with my aunt and cousins at about 10:30, and that place was PACKED. It took us awhile to find a parking spot even. Once we made our way to the ticket area we had to endure the famous super looooooooonnnnnnggggg line. By the time we got to the actual ticket box I wanted to shut the guy retelling the same news 300 times up. My aunt had a discount pass so I could pay half off on my ticket.(Before continuing, the original amount of money I had was 100$) Again before we can actually go in to the theme park unfortunately another long line was awaiting us.

Now, we were officially inside of Sea World, and I haven't been here since I was close to 8 or 9. The first thing we did was go to one of the shows, I can't remember the name though. It was the most confusing thing I ever witnessed. The theatrics were okay, but the story line(if there even was one) was the most confusing thing ever. The basics of what I understand is that a girl wanted to swim, bad guys danced around for a bit, bad guys go away for no reason, good people control dolphins, grand finale with a bird and a dolphin king. If anyone gets this please let me know because I sure as heck don't. There was a dolphin themed gift shop near the show area and I went inside and got the most gorgeous necklace with a stone dolphin pendant. When I bought it I ask the cashier if she knew what the show was about and she said,"I work here every day and I still don't know." I laughed at that and was so glad that I wasn't the only person with that opinion.

Next, we made our way to a spinny ride. Me and my brother would always go on the spinny rides so I just had to go on this one. My little 6-year old cousin wanted to come too. For some reason when we were standing in line I made a bet, and let me tell you that you don't make bets with competitive 6-year olds. The bet was that I keep a straight face during all the rollercoasters that we ride. If I lose he can brag all he wants. If I win, I actually didn't think of that when I made the bet. So, we got on the ride and my little cousin tried everything in his power to try to make me change my expression. He came pretty close with his,"Change your face! Smile! Chaaaange, chaaaaange!" I was almost going to because I thought it was the funniest thing. Next up in our little Sea World adventure was another show. It was called "Pet's Rule" a it was a lot better than the first show, but it wasn't that entertaining.

It was a little hot outside so we decided we should get snowies. Okay, so the snowies that I am used to where I live is almost like snow and it soaks up all the syrup and you could easily eat it with a spoon. This was a totally different story. So, they gave it to me in a cone for one thing, I don't think I even had a snowie in a cone before, usually in cups and stuff like that. Next, was that it was rock hard and you couldn't even make a dent in it. The thing that was the worst was that a)bees were swarming the syrups, b)they only had four flavors to choose from, c) after getting the syrup my snowie was leaking and spilling making a sticky mess. Eventually I gave up on the snowie and threw it away.

By now me and my aunt were talking about how an interesting experiment to try would be to put a pedometer on and see how far you walk at a place like Sea World. I saw some art stuff going on and had to see what it was. It was a name art thing. You tell them your name and they paint it using plants and animals. The guy I had do mine asked me what animal to do for the big letter(you had a choice to have a small version which would contain a big letter and the rest of the letters in calligraphy or a large long one that was entirely interpreted in animals and plants) and I did not know what to say. I am the kind of person who likes to think things through and I choke when it comes to split second decisions. After long thought and apologizing to the dude for taking awhile to decide, I finally picked a sea horse for the big letter.(It turned out so beautiful, it had so many details even in the background)

We made our way to the Cirque De La Mar show next. It turned out just like the first show we saw(see above for reminder). I also found out that the guy that was supposedly "randomly" chosen in the audience was just part of the show. My aunt has been here so many times because of the pass she has and she told me a funny story. When they were here for the show she saw the guy who was to be the quote unquote "volunteer" in the show. And she said he looked like bored sort of. He wasn't smiling or laughing. Like he was thinking "Ugh another day at work". I guess I can't blame him because the role he plays never changes and he can't do the crazy stuff that the acrobats were doing.

Long walks and waiting in line later we were near the end of our day at Sea World. So, me and my two little cousins wanted to go on the Atlantis ride. The line wasn't very long, maybe average length. Let me say this now, because of waiting in that line I know now the nightmares of parenthood. My cousins were fighting, kicking, trying to tickle me, being rude. I even tried to hold them apart so they wouldn't cause an epidemic. To keep them sort of behaving I told them that I would leave the line if they kept acting like this and they would come with me. Once we were actually on the ride I put my poker face on. That did not last long at all. We started to go down the water slide part of the ride, I didn't scream at that part as more of a terrified grin-frown.(I really wish I could figure out how to put pictures here) What freaked me out was that in a dark tunnel there was an elevator thing that took the ride up, this is what I was saying as it rose,"Oh God. Crap, no. Holy crap, I am not ready for this." Then we hit a straight-away and started to go down. It surprised me how high my voice could go when I was screaming. By the way I started with a Benjamin at the beginning of Sea World and ended with George Washington.(whoops)

We left Sea World and went to In-N-Out for dinner. I didn't snack at all at Sea World(I didn't eat for 8 hours) and I was really hungry. I got a Double-Double cheeseburger and some fries.(I timed myself here) I inhaled that burger in about 1 minute and some seconds. It shocked my aunt how quickly I ate it. The fries took me longer because I didn't want to rush that. It took me 8 minutes for the fries, all together I ate a full on meal in about 9 minutes.(World Record anyone?) I am so tired now writing this blog. We were at Sea World for over 8 hours. My feet are killing me the most. So I am going to end this post of my San Diego vaycay here, and I will write to all you awesome people of the Internet tomorrow! :) See ya! -PurplePainter321

San Diego Trip Day 1!

Hey all you awesome people of the Internet! I am finally in San Diego! And guess what? I had my very first plane flight today! It was so amazing and cool. The view was so beautiful and breathtaking. I will talk more about that later though. Let me tell what happened once we arrived at the airport. First, the search for a parking spot in that maze, I think I will forget where the car is parked anyways. Then I made my way to the station where the bus comes and picks you up to take you to the terminals. But, I was at station 1 and there were 12 stations in total. So practically every ten feet the bus was stopping to pick other people up. On the other hand the driver was so awesome. He was yelling at times,"Run Forrest run!", to people who were trying to make it to the bus before it left. Long story short at the end of the bus ride I had the Bee Gees "Night Fever" stuck in my head for an hour.

After that I had to go to security check. You know that place where you have to take all metal items and shoes off and put them in the bins. I picked a pretty good day to wear colorful socks :). Funny thing was that I had chapstick in my pocket so the security people had me open it to see if it was REAL chapstick. I thought that was really funny and so did the security people. So, after my run in with the authorities I made my way to the place where you have to wait to board the plane. I had a feeling we would be there for awhile so I pulled out my handy dandy Sudoku book until I could get on the plane.

Once I was on the plane, which I was super pumped about, I was happy to find that I got a window seat(score!) :). So in turn I got a terrific view. It is so hard to tell in words what I felt when we started to rise into the air. I felt like I could go on any ride at Lagoon that was in the sky,  like I could go high into the sky and put the world I lived in into perspective. And I did just that. I put my world into perspective. Seeing the lakes all polluted and gross and the ground bare and brown, I realized the lie we have been telling ourselves. Yes, our world has problems. A LOT of problems. But, I feel if everybody in the world tried to solve the issues in the world together and without argument or war, we can change the way we think. We can stop wars, pollution, anything! Unfortunately though, they way people think is not going to change for a long time, we let our egos get in the way I suppose(and profit and cost and money). Oh well, that last little part of this paragraph was just wishful thinking I suppose.

Next was the arrival at San Diego! Finally! The air is so much clearer and fresher here than were I live. I ate at this amazing Mexican place for dinner and it was so delicious! The food was amazing. I even had one of those moments where the food is so good and you want to eat more, but you are so full and can't eat another bite. Now, I am here in San Diego writing this blog. I will include some pictures with captions in the blog too(Actually the thing wasn't working so I will put pictures in later when I figure it out). I will write to all you awesome people of the internet tomorrow! -PurplePainter321

Longish Blog

What's up all you awesome people of the Internet? I hope you are having a wonderful start of the week. So this might be a longer blog than usual. Mainly because last week's post was a bit short and rushed and I have a lot of things on my mind. Let's get started.

First on the agenda. You know that when a parent lectures you, you feel like you are right no matter what? Well, not me. My parent had a good reason to turn the data off of my iPhone. Reason numero one: I spend way too much time watching live streams and YouTube. Reason two: I use most of the data on our family's plan. Reason three: Do I really need to over use the apps like Fruit Ninja or Twitter.  Those are the main reasons from my point of view I think, though there may be more. Luckily, I am an easy transitioner to these kind of changes. For example if you walk up to me in the street and say something like,"No TV for a year". I would simply say,"Sure if you say so." Because in reality I might not even care if something like this happens. I would most likely find a positive side to the change and transition easily.

Second, it seems that I have labeled myself a 'gamer' on my blog. That is not entirely true. I do absolutely love to play video games, but I like to also do other things such as art, cross country, hang out with friends, go to Trifalga, read a ton, and a lot more. I mean I even played most of the sports in the world, including, Softball, Basketball, Golf, Soccer, Track, Cross Country, and others that I can't remember at the moment. I might start a second channel for gaming, I don't know yet I am still debating that. I guess I will figure that out later.

 Subject number three, I wasn't actually stuck in that room in the game Twilight Princess. I was being stupid and not fighting the skeleton dudes with the right weapons. To be honest I guess I cheated a little because I watched a YouTube video on how to open the barred gate.(feeling a bit cheaty)

I am going to stop numbering off these subjects because it's getting a little annoying. Back a ways in the blog post I mentioned live streams, and the biggest live stream site is Twitch. And I stumbled upon a live stream of my favorite games(Legend of Zelda). They were doing a five day marathon of nonstop Legend of Zelda games to raise money for an organ donation charity(I unfortunately forgot the name of the charity). I thought this was an amazing cause to do a live stream for. They, when I last saw, where getting close to their current goal of 30,000 dollars and I think they want to go higher than that. So I thought maybe for anyone who reads this could go and check out that awesome live stream they are doing for charity(their username is funforfreedom and they are calling the livestream Zeldathon Lives).

Next on my list of things to write about is that Comic Con is actually coming to close to where I live. I am not going to Comic Con I don't think(not a big fan of comic books because I am more of a novel type person), but I just wanted to say that for no reason apparently.

Speaking of Cons(segway!) looks like Mine Con is going to be in Orlando,Florida. This is exciting that it is in America this year and I am a Minecraft fan. But, alas I can't go because Florida is on the other side of the country(dang it). Me and my friend feel the same way. We just want Mine Con and Zelda Con to be in our state so we are capable to go.(Interesting fact, the reason it is called a Con is because Con is the suffix*or prefix i can't remember which* meaning 'together', so Mine together or even Zelda together!)

Also, before I forget! I am taking a vacation to San Diego starting on Thursday, so expect some daily blogs from Thursday-Monday! :)

Okay, so I hope that this blog wasn't too long today, and also sorry I posted it late. Well, I think I might make this the new post time considering that my brother is on here right after cross country practice for like four hours. Anyways, thanks for taking a little time to read my blog. I will write to all you awesome people of the Internet when I am on my vacation! :) -PurplePainter321

The Fourth of Jooooly!

Hey all you awesome people of the Internet! Well this week in the US of A we are having a celebration that I like to pronounce the Fourth of Joooly! But, I am not going to be lighting fireworks because of fire hazards and the "drought" that's going on. I put air quotes on "drought" because my family drinks bottle water. But, there still are restrictions such as only being able to turn on the sprinklers every other day. Oh well. Our neighbors on the other hand ARE going to be lighting fireworks. Lets just hope they don't burn the neighborhood down.

Okay so I did something new last week on my YouTube channel. I started a couple gaming series. This is going to sound cheesy but, when I saw my first gaming commentary I instantly loved the idea of doing it. I have always wanted to do one because I love video games and I wanted to connect with other gamers, too. I still have a long way to go before anyone really wants to see my videos, but I love commentating on games anyways.

So, beside that cheesy note I was looking at the protect my tweets thing on Twitter, and turns out no one can see my tweets unless they follow me. That's like subscribing to someone to be able see their videos. That's is just insane. I like the idea of approving of who can follow you, but I don't like the fact that someone has to follow me to be able to see my tweets. I wouldn't do that and I know other people won't do that because its stupid! Well that's my rant for today.

In other news I mentioned before in the beginning of this blog that the Fourth of Joooly(I usually say it like that) is coming up and I am not doing fireworks so I am thinking of doing a third series along side the Challenger series and the Minecraft survival series. I was thinking of playing my all time favorite game. The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time(well I pretty much love all Legend of Zelda games) :D.And since I don't have a DV-whatever camera to record it I am going to record using a camera. It is probably going to look super derpy. Maybe I will save up for one of those cameras. I hope that whole thing with Nintendo being jerks about rights toward the games is not still going on. Or else I am going to be super disappointed. Turning a negative into a positive here I could get more time to save up for a real good recording on the Wii camera.(I am so looking up the name of that camera thing)

Question of the week!!!(I will probably start doing these) What is your favorite video game of all time???????????! :)

Losing My Childhood

Okay, so before I begin on today's topic I just want to let you awesome people of the Internet know that I am committed to write this on time. Meaning my brother is hogging the computer and I am typing this on my phone at the moment. Anyways, today's topic is mainly about losing my childhood. Let me explain.

So, everyone has a childhood game or tv show or toy that they feel  nostalgic about. And we are losing those things to today's world of "The next big thing". For example I don't see kids playing Nintendo 64 or a game boy anymore. To the kids today it's all about stuff such as the oculus rift or the DS. Companies are trying to hard to compete with one another by putting out the most product or the newest product. What happened to making things that would stick around for a long time and  were actually good and made people satisfied and happy? It's okay that big name companies want to move further along the technological road, but I miss the things that were old or video games with a decent story line and story progression. This is even happening in the world of tv (in a similar way).

I only watch 4 tv shows. I will list them from favorites. Psych, Doctor Who, Teen Wolf, Cold Case. And on occasion re-runs of Full House. I like those shows a lot, but there were some good tv shows that were cancelled. For example, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Hannah Montana, the old version of Spongebob(you know before it became demented), Looney Tunes, That's So Raven, Suite Life of Zack and Cody, iCarly. I could go on forever. And the networks that used to have good shows I think are running out of ideas. Like Disney Channel makes pretty good movies, but the tv shows are so bad. I try not to go to that channel as much as possible because their shows are terrible. They don't make sense, their humor is tired, and Disney cancelled all the good shows that it used to have. Same as Nickelodeon, and Cartoon Network the same thing happens. The show quality goes down, they cancel the good shows, and they run out of good ideas.

So basically I am feeling very nostalgic and I miss "the good old days". Don't get me wrong I do get excited if something new comes out, but I feel that not enough people go back and play the old good games or try to watch the shows that used to be on. I am so thankful for the Wii online game shopping because you can get the old games such as Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time or Majora's Mask. The awesome old games like that you know so well. So today maybe you super awesome people of the Internet could write in the comments on what you miss from the last that was wiped out in today's world. Let it be a tv show a video game or even a toy. Anyways I will write to all you awesome people of the Internet next week on Monday! -PurplePainter321 (p.s. I just made a Twitter account. I know finally! But it is one digit off my username because it was too long. It came out as PurplePainter32. Oh well close enough I guess.)

Disorganized Blog

Hey all you awesome people of the Internet! PurplePainter321 here with another Monday blog. It is a few hours later than when I usually write these, but my brother was on the computer for at least four hours. At least I passed the time by watching the movie "To Kill A Mockingbird".  I haven't seen it since I was nine. When I saw that it was on yesterday I was so pumped I just had to record it. Partly because I haven't seen it in forever, it is an awesome movie, and I read the book a few months ago. Anyways, if you ask me that movie is a definite five stars to me.

So last week I was talking about the game Runner 2. I bought it on Steam that day and believe me I loved it from the very start. I played a full hour non-stop that day playing the game. It is so fun I played it every day that week each time loving it and getting super awesome at it.(Don't mean to brag but so far every time I get a chance to get a bonus point I get a bulls-eye) :).  So if you are thinking about getting this game and you want to get a second opinion, I have an opinion to share. This game shows uniqueness, good graphics, fun to play(a little addictive even), and just outstanding in the all around game.

So, lately I have been looking at the little map that you see in the blog overview and I click the 'more' button. It turns out that their were people from the Netherlands and Germany who actually looked at my blog! That to me is just amazing. Personally I thought this was going to be more like keeping a journal and no one would actually care or take the time to even look at my posts. But, this is just amazing to me. Even though I don't have many followers(one), that kind of stuff doesn't matter to me. I mean even my YouTube channel has only one subscriber, but I don't care. I only care about making videos about the stuff I love. At the moment that stuff is just art and a school project. To me you do something because you love it. You shouldn't care about people giving you criticism or how many pageviews or channels views or any of that stuff. If people like you content that is great, but you shouldn't care about how many people like or don't like it. But,  means the world to me if someone cares.

Quick story, relating to that. I actually checked my channel one day a couple weeks ago, and someone left a comment on one of my recent videos. It said, "Great job!" That kind of thing just warms my heart and has me thinking that someone out there actually does watch my videos and likes them or reads my blog. Even though I don't care about how many people watch or read anything I do, though I care that someone genuinely likes something I have done. Okay, let us move on.

Okay, so I have been playing a large amount of Legend of Zelda recently. Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword and Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess. One (Skyward Sword) I am trying to beat for a second time in hero mode. The other (Twilight Princess) I am trying to beat. So I am at the second to last dungeon in Twilight Princess and I totally messed up. I unlocked a door, went inside, figured out how to get another door open, door opens, I go into the room, it is not a boss(thankfully), it's an open room, door closed. And guess what.... You can't get the stupid door open again! So I basically locked myself in a room that I can't do anything with because I went through wrong locked door. I skipped everything that was important and crucial that I had to do and got myself trapped. I decided, screw that place, I teleported out to do some side quests. Side quests are basically you running around doing small menial tasks while you try to figure something out. So I guess in Twilight Princess I am stuck doing side quests.

Sorry for the disorganized blog today, and plus a bit of ranting about me messing up a game. And I will write to you people of the Internet next week on Monday!(Hopefully on time) See Ya!-PurplePainter321

Right Turn or Left Turn?

Hey everybody, PurplaPainter321 here. I am at a cross roads. I have to choose either the right turn or the left turn. Being who I am I get very confused in these kind of situations. If I choose one or the other I am afraid that I chose the wrong path and feel guilty about what I could have done differently. In a sense I am at a crossroads in real life at the moment. I choose to play a sport that on occasion I enjoy and dread every time I play it because I am terrified of messing up or not doing well. Or I choose my own path and find a sport I really enjoy and join the team or whatever.

I get a sick feeling in my stomach every time I try to talk with my parent and tell my situation. Mainly because I am terrified of what the parent will think (And if you are reading this stick with me for a moment). My parent tries to tell me stories from the past to try to relate my situation to their past ones. But, I have a totally different situation. I have a parent that absolutely loves a sport that I can enjoy on occasions and have it as a hobby, and I feel guilty every time my parent tries to talk to me about staying with it and not being a quitter. Well, I think I have something to say.

 "I am not a quitter. I am just open to other sports.  Even though you love the sport, it doesn't mean I have to. I know you spent some money on supplies, and I thank you for supporting me. If you could just give me a chance to explore outside of this sport. Don't try and lecture me, because each time you do I get a sick, guilty, sad feeling in my stomach and I just want to leave. So don't take this the wrong way. I still love you and appreciate what you do. Think of it as an opportunity for me to expand my talents to new sports. "

Ugh. I am so glad to get that off my chest. It is easier to say something like that online than in person. What do you guys  think? So let us get down to business.

Okay, so it is 9:30 a.m. and I am already spent thanks to cross country practice. I haven't run for a couple weeks and that was probably the worst decision a future runner could make. Because, I barely made it through the warm up without stopping. At the end of the 10 minute warm up I was breathing like I had asthma, ran a marathon, and did an hour long cardiac work out. I guess I need to get back into the swing of things.

In other news, I really want to get Runner 2 on Steam because at the moment I have babysitting money and Runner 2 is only $14.99 (translation: 15 dollars). I have seen let's plays of Runner 2 and it seems like a)fun game, b)looks cool, and c)I would most definitely have fun playing it. If any of you gamers out there have played this game and are reading this blog, comment and tell me your opinion on it.

Anyways, this has been a sort of rushed blog I just wanted to get that first part out of my system. Believe me I have had fun playing the sport it is just not something I want to pursue. So, if you read the blog all the way through, good on you. If not, I wouldn't blame you for not wanting to hear me whine for the first little bit. Have a super awesome week, and I will write to all you people of the Internet on Monday! :) See Ya! -PurplePainter321

Hello People of the Internet

Hey everyone PurplePainter321 here and this is my first blog. I am sort of new at this and I don't really know much about blogging. I started this because I feel that blogging is a cool thing to do and it will help me practice my people skills I guess.  Anyways, Summer is here and I need something to do. I had to make a list of things to do during this three month break from the prison known as school. Believe me it is short. I only have like five things on there. Summer is going to be even more boring than school if I don't figure out more things to do during the day.

The topics for future blogs are going to be a bit diverse because I try to do everything from hanging out with my friends to hard core gaming(or even art :D). So maybe next blog will have nothing to do with the past one. I have no idea. But,  I do know what to say in this blog. I will tell you people a bit about me.

Okay, so the first things first, my name or title of these blogs. I got it from my YouTube channel. The way I came up with my YouTube username was actually different beforehand. I wanted to have PurplePainter as my username because that is my school color and I am an artist. And I got a huge surprise. Turns out someone actually came up with that before me. You know the feeling that you came up with something really unique but... nope! Some person came up with it already. I was really surprised and I even laughed. So I just did the usual 321.

Next, my interests. Believe it or not your interests on your blog can have a huge impact on who follows and reads you. For example, if I talk about stuff like cooking, there will be a person that doesn't like to hear about that stuff and won't read my content. So, in this I will tell you some of my interests. For one thing I absolutely love to read, if I really am into a book that I got pretty much that morning I can easily finish it before too long.

Another thing I like to due is obviously, art. When I feel like drawing something I go to town and draw for close to an hour or more. I have my own unique style of doing things. Because one time I was drawing an eye, a human eye, my dad thought it was an animal eye mainly because it wasn't an exact replica of an average human eye. Anyways you guys don't want to hear a teen complain about difference of opinion.

For all you gamers out there, I love to play video games. My favorite kind of games usually are the old fashioned kind. I even still have a Gameboy. But, my absolute favorite game, or game series of sorts, is the Legend of Zelda games. It has a great story line and it is just fun. I also play other games such as Minecraft, Super Mario Bros. Melee, etc. You get the idea.

But, I don't spend all my time gaming. I am also in the process of writing a book. So I guess... you can call me an author. Maybe an author-in-progress at the moment. If you want I can tell you the basic story line in some future blog. If anyone actually reads this. I guess if no one reads this it could be like journalism. But, I don't like the idea of writing to myself. I think I might eventually question my sanity.

Okay, this blog is sort of dragging on due to the lack of topics. So, I guess I will see you guys next Monday or earlier if something exciting happens. See ya! -PurplePainter321