I am so good at meeting my deadlines

I feel kinda bad about posting this before I post my book review (in my blog about books) but it can't wait or I'll forget. First of all, I had a dream quite a while ago that I was on a field trip with my class. After a reasonable amount of explosives, death robots, and buses careening into rivers, we made it to the camp. I took a few classes, then I started reading a book called Period (I think it refers to periods of time).
In the book my family and I were hiding out underground because something bad and radiational had happened on the surface. I don't remember what happened next. I think it had something to do with being outlaws and escaping on roller-coasters and finally being banished to a never-ending trash dump but then stowing away on one of the worker's hovercrafts and nearly escaping through an exotic jungle but then having to jump off of a cliff but luckily there was a floating island with a house on it but unluckily we missed the island and fell down on some sand and then we crawled into the shade with large vultures (that were called terratorns in the book) circling above us and then I woke up and then quite a while later I decided to finally put the dream into a blog and I made a gigantic run-on sentence that would probably get me in big trouble with Mr. Waldman (my LA teacher).
I also had another interesting dream where I knew it was a dream but I thought it was the night before the last day of school. In fact, the only thing that told me it was a dream were the zombies out roaming for human flesh. I didn't actually realize it was already break until about one minute after I woke up. ("OK, I need my towel, a clean shirt, a change of clothes- wait, that was a long time ago") it was funny.
My latest dream was where I was a ninja kitty and a bunch of aliens came and fought me, but I woke up before I found out who won.
And those were my most interesting dreams. I hope to do my book post soon. Bye!

Log of the Starship: 1800 Hours, The Structure, Critical Stage.

I had a dream. A dream about Disneyworld, adventure, Minecraft, bugs, and japanese rice cakes. And, also, a girl named Skateboard. Now, as it is my sworn duty to blog any cool dreams I've had, I will tell you about it.
Yes, I can see you.
Let's begin....
It was a day that was not particularly dark or stormy, and my family and I Were walking through one of disney's parks. We went on rides, watched plays, and basically did what people do at Disneyworld. We then went to Epcot, where I first got a hint that something was weird. Because, on the ground, there was a Minecraft silverfish. But not a silverfish as in blocky, silver, and pixelated. An actual real silverfish, still a bit blocky, brown and mottled to camouflage with the bark.

I'm sure you know about alive-ness. In a picture of an entire buffalo herd, you can always find the one buffalo made by CGI, no matter how real it looks. The silverfish had that real-ness, so I quickly asked dad to let me take a video of it with his I-phone. As I started recording... I woke up. The end.
Yes. you heard me.
I woke up. That's it.
Except for that next dream....
Two days later (today) I had another dream.
It was one of those long dreams that you can't remember the beggining of. I remember little snippets - falling to the ground off of a high tower, an evil guy (judging by his baldness and maniacal laugh), a monkey, a jeep, falling buildings, other escaped animals, a flood, a helicopter. Somehow needing to escape. Going to the mountains. Coldness. Snow.
Then I woke up at the crack of dawn and walked to The Structure. It isn't actually called the structure, I forgot the word after "the" (I think it begins with a C). The Structure was a T-shaped building with all sorts of stuff in it. A girl walked up to me.
I immediately knew three things: The girl's name was Skateboard, her father was a policeman, and she designed rollercoasters and complex technology. She was almost as short as me and kind of sort of (maybe) possibly hot. (I just remembered! I think The Structure was called The Compound!)(deliberately attracting attention away from what he just said with exclamation marks)
Anyways, (changing subject) [SHUT UP, PARENTHESES!!!] (no.) [Fine. hmph] (did you just hmph me?!?!?!?!) [Yes.] (!!!!) (well then, hmph right back to you!) [Can we just get on with the story?] (fine.)
Cough... Anyways, two other kids walked up to me. I knew that they were my older and younger brothers. We talked about something, and said goodbye. Then Skateboard's dad pulled me to the side and told me the password to get inside the compound for some reason. He also gave me two little animals that looked like Japanese rice cakes in the form of Hershey's kisses, except they were alive (again with the alive-ness). I thanked him and went to play on the computer. I played this game that I think was Spore, except with more parts and buildings.
A while into my gaming, Skateboard pulled me aside. "I need to show you something" She dragged me towards the right part of the T, entered a code, and opened a door. Inside were about a thousand or more of the rice cake creatures. She explained to me that each had feelings and a brain. They had chosen mine because it volunteered. I came close to the rice ball creature and growled "I'm gonna eat you!" The creature jumped out of my hand and ran around the room. I caught it and reassured it that I wasn't gonna eat it, then gave my attention back to Skateboard and started asking questions. "What are they? When did you find them? Where did they come from? Who are you exactly? What are they?"
"You said that already" pointed out Skateboard "And I'll answer all your questions later. First-"
"Come over here, Andres!" yelled one of my brothers. After tending to a rice cake that had split open (spilling it's beany contents), I went to my brothers. My little brother had turned into/possessed/was driving a beetle, while my older brother drove another beetle around with a remote control. After an intense chase scene, to be blunt, my younger brother had his insides sucked out by a bigger beetle. With heavy hearts and eyes full of tears, we went to bed.
That night I couldn't sleep. I got up and walked to The Structure/Compound/Fortress. When I got to the keypad, I forgot the combination. I was about to go back to bed, when Skateboard came and unlocked the door. I followed her inside and saw a bunch of grown-ups looking serious, with Skateboard in the middle of them, looking at the computer. "What's happening?" I asked. Everybody turned to look at me as I rattled on the questions I had asked Skateboard and a few more. "Andres..." said Skateboard as I look at the computer. She had just posted a blog on my account. I started toward the computer. I could see the title: Log of the Starship: 1800 Hours, The Structure, Critical Stage. I knew that if I read it, I would understand everything, so I started to read.
"I had a dream. A dream about Disneyworld, adventure, Minecraft, bugs, and japanese rice cakes. And, also, a girl named Skateboard. Now, as it is my sworn duty to-"
I woke up. "no!" I exclaimed. I immediately came down and started blogging. Then I woke up for real.

I truly didn't realize I was writing the same thing as my dream at the beginning. I did, however, change the title to what it is now. I don't know what this means or why I got this dream, but I do know it's cool and one of the most blogworthy things I've ever encountered. I hope I get a follow-up dream for an explanation someday. I've also had the strange feeling that Skateboard, Lollipop, and Sam have been watching me as I write. I also want Skateboard to know that she is now a part of our team. Congratulations! Well, I guess that's the end. Bye!

Way too much stuff

Way too much stuff has happened since I last blogged so I need to get it all down before Lucia's birthday. My mom thinks I should not write a lot of stuff in one post because it "scares off" and "overwhelms" readers so I'll separate subjects with pictures to make it easier to read. Consider each picture as the start of a new blog post.

First of all, on Thursday we went on a field trip to build igloos. My team (Nicky, Josh, and I) was one of the three only teams who got the hang of igloo building. We were done with the first level of our igloo when Mr. Waldman said that since not many people were successful at igloo building, we would do something else.

Then we went to Baseline Lake, which had frozen over, and ice skated. I made it all the way to the rock in the middle, even though the wind was very strong, and I said "I made it to the island of safetyness!". About five seconds later I stated "This is boring" and ran back onto the windy ice. I also kept trying to catch the wind so that it slid me across the ice, but it wasn't working. I got so fed up that I turned at the mountains where the wind was coming from and yelled "Really, wind? Rea-" but I got cut off by a sudden extremely large gust of wind that bushed my back about a hundred feet. "That's what I'm talking about!!!" I said as I got swept all the way back to the other shore.
Then we went back to school. We tried to convince the driver, Jacob's mom, to let us have something good to eat, but she didn't let us. :( THE END

I suppose I should talk about this, but there's not much to tell. We started DI again and began working with power tools, sharp objects, and hot metal. It was fun. :)

Nicky threw a big 11/11/11 party on friday. When I first got there, we started playing video games. Then we went downstairs and ate pizza and watched weird movies like Baaaaa. Then... we went outside for an epic Nerf war. On the first round, Nicky, Joey, and I were against Travis and Zach. Nicky was an assassin, Joey and I had pistols, Zack was the heavy (he had a large semi-automatic gun with too many bullets), and Travis had a rifle. We won that round due too perfect assassination by Nicky. (he killed both of them with only a little help from me)

The second round was Zach, Joey, and I against Nicky and travis. In this round, I was the sniper (with an extended rifle) and Travis changed to be an assassin like Nicky, although they turned out to be more like snarling predators. This time, I did the most damage (before being unfortunately killed by Travis's Laser Frisbee Throwing Ninja Star of Doom). My team one again. 

The third round Nicky dropped out and it was Zack and I vs. Travis and Joey. That was a quick game where Zack and I were killed because Nicky distracted s from our base. That was when we went inside to build rockets.

We had lots of trouble building rockets, mostly because Nicky's dad forgot to tell us that he had a glue gun so we were trying every other type of glue in the house. When we finally built the rockets, Zach was the first to launch. When we pressed the button, a 20 foot column of flame shot up and the rocket dissapeared into the sky. We found it later, far away from where we launched it, missing one of the stabilizing wing-ish things. None of the other rockets came back. I didn't even launch mine.
We ended the party wit a large 11 cake that tasted delicious and I headed home, thinking how much I needed to blog before another interesting thing happened. I didn't blog, however, so we'll keep going with the story.

At the Denver museum of Nature and Science, I heard a talk about creating an artificial pancreas. Nothing that blogworthy. On the way back from the museum we ate at Carl's Jr.®

BlehBlehBleh

FAIL. At this point I accidentally published instead of looking at the preview. Before anyone can see I must continue...


After the museum we went too boondocks®. I played some Terminater and won some tickets and a dinosaur. Nothing new.

When we got home we had fun messing up the settings of MarioKart and owning/being owned. It was fun :)

That's about it. Bye. I hope nobody read it before I upedated this...

I need to learn how to spell. Must update before anybody sees my mistake...

Halloween

I couldn't do this on Halloween so I'll do this today. This Halloween was on of the coolest Halloweens ever. First of all, at 11:48 the power went out at my school. At first my group thought it was just us, but the entire school lost power. The power came back on at 12:57 during math. If you're wondering how I got the time, I looked at the clock an hour after the power outage ind it was (obviously) still at 11:48, and when the power came back on, I looked at my watch.
Another thing was that Alex convinced me to go to his house. He had a catalouge of the newest LEGO™s (TM is alt+2 just so you know) and I found a LEGO™ mushroom.

At this point in my writing, my internet got screwed and so the rest of the blog got deleted. I also changed the ™ to ® (alt+r), but that also got wiped out. I got angry and quit for awhile, but here I am again! Back to the main production!

I just figured out how to write my name. I'm so proud of myself! (That makes me sound like an idiot, doesn't it?) I found the alt+e thing so now I reintroduce myself as: Andrés!!! Back to the subject at hand (really this time)...

I had to give my mom a super big almond chocolate bar as my punishment.
The most weird thing that happened that day, however, was when we were trick-or-treating. There were practically no people other than us!  My first theory was that zombies ate everybody, but then I thought of a better solution. Every Halloween, all of the different universes come together and swap around for no apparent reason. This Halloween, we had been at Alex's house during the dimension-swap, and so we stayed in the regular dimension. Or maybe we stayed this time and we usually move. I don't know.
And that was my first Halloween that I actually found overly scary.

Now I need to publish this because it's sayingagain. Bye!

New + improved!

I just found the \ key so:
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Done! Now to do my homework.

Phlarg

Hello. My mom just told me that I had a choice between blogging and going to bed and I chose blogging so here I am. I really don't know what to write.
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Oh, yes, I need to record this emoji giant killer death robot before I forget:
(V) (;,,;)   (V)
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Or maybe it's chathulu (cthulhu; weirdest spelling ever)? I don't know. I did the lower bit (everything other than the first line) by myself. Like it? I didn't know what to do with the right arm so I just made it puny. Comment if there is anything better for the arm or the feet (maybe # signs for the feet?). Did you know that You can make Phineas and Ferb's heads? You can. I need to go now. Bye.

lotsa stuff

A lot of stuff has happened since I last posted, including CHOICE's spring trip. Erm... What do I remember? Well, it was basically like other years except this year Sky had a laser and I chased it and almost caught it. Also, Aton, Vanyel and I played the best game of yahtzee ever in witch every tome we rolled the dice we did a little skit. There was all kinds of stuff such as dice launchers, dice beer, dice battle axes, and dice bug spray. it was fun. :)
Just so you know, I am now an orange belt at Taekwondo.
The other day I was stuck outside my house and I went to Home Tree, wondering if I could climb it. Some guy walked up to me and said "What's up there?".
"Huh?" I asked.
"Up in the tree"
"Oh. Nothing, just wondering if I can climb it."
"Come over here"
"What?
"Let me show you something." The man started walking up to me and pulled out his wallet and I was thinking about something that has to do with bribing, cars, and kidnapping. Then he pulled out... a picture. It was a boy with two broken arms, whom I immediately thought was his son. "Two broken arms," he said, "Fell out of that branch" and he pointed to a branch on the tree. "Was about... I don't know... a long time ago" at this point I realized that it wasn't his son, but him. "So," he concluded, "If you climb up there, don't fall down" I said something like "I'll try" and he said something like "okay" and he walked off towards the bus stop. And I haven't seen him since, which isn't surprising since it happened four or five days ago. And that's my story.
I also found a new game called Mooncraft. It seems pretty cool so far, you should check it out.

Dream

I just had the best dream ever. It was one of those once-in-a-lifetime dreams that follows the same storyline. Also, I woke up at the end of the storyline. How cool is that? Very.
The story started with a monster hunter girl that I don't know the name of (let's call her Sally). Sally spent her life hunting monsters such as bollogs (from the Bluebear book) and dark associations such as New Moon (a combination of mages from Fairy Tail). Then she heard of an ice demon whom (I love that word) I also don't know the name of (call her... George. And I know she is a girl, this is just to make her less scary). So Sally (wait! I remember her name now! it was Sophie!) Sophie went to fight George. George was currently in the gigantic moving city of Atlantis. Ironically, She was on the second-to-top floor of the building where people were plotting her demise. The top floor was reserved for bollogs and, occasionally, a megabollog would come down to sit and rest on the building, which shows how big (and stable) the building (and the entire city) really is.
By now the dream is fogging up like dreams do, so quick summary: after a short battle, Sophie-not-Sally realized that she can't face George alone so she starts thinking about who to ask for help when suddenly, a mighty CRASH!!!!! resounded through the building. A bollog had lowered himself onto the top floor of the building, which allows him to travel without walking. Sophie-not-Sally asks him to please put away the fact that she hunts his cousins for a living and to help her. The bollog agrees (by the way, he doesn't have a name, like all bollogs)(by the way, he still has his head) to help her because his endless travels were getting a bit too boring.
Now for the really blurry part: Sophie gets herself somehow kicked out of the castle and fake Spohies (yes, plural) are put in her place.
Meanwhile, the association New Moon has decided to fight George too so they go up to the top floor with the bollog and one of the mages tries to fast-foreword Georges time so that she will get old and die. It seems to have worked, so New Moon starts to celebrate, but then they hear a horrible scream. When they turn around, they see the time mage covered in some black stuff like the killer fungus from Primeval. He says something smart like, "Sooooo... c-c-c-cooooooold.... I'm... sooooo... c-c-cooooooold," and he jumps off the edge of the castle.
Meanwhile, the bollog starts taking a deep breath.
Meanwhile, Sophie-not Sally created a plan by enlisting the help of a wind elf, who was actually taller then most humans. The wind elf grabbed Sophie and flew her to the castle. She faces George and says, "This is for when you killed my family," or something to that affect. Then she shoots a high powered gust of wind at George. George laughs and says, "If that time mage can't defeat me, I doubt you can," or something like that. Then she turns around and sees the bollog and says something like "a fake-out!" and she gets ready to slash out at him with her ice sword when Sophie comes out of nowhere and grabs George's arm. She stalls George for just enough time that the bollog could scream.
I'm sure that there are no words to describe a bollog's scream. It must be extraordinarily loud. However, my dream suddenly went on Mute when the bollog screamed. Almost needless to say, the scream was so loud that all light around it was bent, so that he looked like he was shooting pure darkness out of his mouth. George appeared to say "oh, sh*t!" as she was engulfed by the darkness. Sophie, however, was only partly caught by the darkness. At this point in my dream, the world literally faded to darkness.
Sophie waked up lying down, covered with leaves, and with tree branches for legs. It turns out that she and George were not the only ones affected by the scream, and New Moon was tending to everybody's wounds. The new legs were given to her by a tree mage, they worked perfectly, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and she lived a happy life hunting monsters, except bollogs, and dark associations, except New Moon.

The End.


And then I wake up. Wahoo, applause, encore, etc. That is the end of the best dream ever.

Terminator: Salvation

Halloo. I just went to Chuck E. Cheese's because my sister wanted to (Boondocks is way more fun). I ate a pizza and wandered around, looking at all the boring kid games, and then I saw a Terminator: Salvation machine (that was probably put there for kids that were dragged there by there siblings like I was) and I was like "alright, this'll be fun!". Dad's call ing me up now so I have to write the rest tomorrow. bye!
Tadaa! it's the next day, and I came to blog some more. Anyways I played and did a commentary just because I wanted to. I was always saying things like "digga digga" when I got the minigun and "blam!" when I had the shotgun. I also gave out helpful hints to all the people who came to the second gun to play with me like "those things blow you up!" "Those things kill you!" "Those things hurt you!" "I don't know what those things do, but I think they harm you in some way. Hey, I was right!" and stuff like that. I haven't even watched the movie, but I think I get the basic storyline: the robots made by something called LifeCorp. (or something like that) are bad; I am part of the resistance; making robots and robot factories go boom is good. By the way, aren't their faces scary? I have also made names for the robots: the water ones are Worms, the human-like ones (like the one in the picture) are Terminators, the ones that explode are Spiders (or sometimes Exploding Bastards), the ones that shoot purple missiles are Plasma Shooters, the ones that fly and shoot missiles are Annoying, the ones that fly at you are Hoverbots, the big things that kill people are Big Things That Kill People (sometimes Big Things for short), and the turrets are Turrets. My internet is starting to fail so I better post this now. Bye!

meaaaaou

If you're wondering about the title, I didn't know what to call this post so I asked one of my cats, Maggy Meau, what I should call this post. She said "meaaaaou" so that's the title.

Minecraft 1.8 came out so I took advantage of the fact that I hadn't explored much and found a large swamp and a surface pool of lava. I am hoping to find a town or stronghold soon. I also built an epic giant mushroom forest and got 2 64 stacks of each type of mushroom. The only reason I stopped is because I ran out of bonemeal.

That's one of the reasons I love minecraft: if someone else doesn't know about minecraft you can utterly bamboozle them with words like bonemeal (made out of bones, can be used to grow stuff like trees, wheat, and mushrooms), stronghold (extremely awesome and epic, basically large seemingly manmade underground fortresses), surface pools of lava (actually that's kinda obvious- a pool of lava on the surface of the world), and 64 stacks (64 is the most you can stack items in your inventory).

Another thing, I discovered a seed (another bamboozling word, basically a pre-generated world) today. I was fooling around and I typed in "hihihi" for the seed and it came up with a world of epic lavafalls and ravines. I fount the lavafall by chasing a pig into it, and I found the ravine when looking for the lavafall in a different world.

I also have been getting a lot of wierd splashel like umop-apistdn! (I just got it! it's "I'm up a piston"), lewd with two dudes with food, google anlyteced, and superfragilisticexpealidocious (note that there is no "cali").

In other news I got a Youtube channel! check out my first video here. I meant to be TheBasicShow but that was taken (probably by the original Basic Show, even though all their videos are gone from YouTube) so I am TheBazikShow.

That's all, folks!

hi, mom

My mom was bugging me about posting my Minecraft videos so here is a sneak preview of when I get an account on YouTube and post my EscapeCraft series:

In other news, yesterday I thought it was a good idea to finish my book before going to the bus home. After I finished I ran to the bus and it started pulling away. I ran to the door of the bus and waved my arms at the new driver (I don't know her name yet). The bus stopped and I got on. It was fun. :)

In still other news, remember how I made it my goal to blog three times a week? I changed it so that I would aim for three a week but only need one. I'm a genious. Except I can't spell genius correctly. :)

I like emoji :)

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I'm just doing that to pass the time while my video uploads. Speed Emoji!!!

Yaaaaawn. I'm bored.

Minecraft 1.8 has been released and I spent 10 minuted in the settings trying to set my controls back to normal. It worked. Guess what? Button 1 is left click and Button 2 is right click. I would upload a video of me figuring out the settings but it's already taking ages to upload 1 video so I think I'll pass.

Still uploading.

Stiiiiil uploading.

Not done yet.

Still not done.

Stiiiiil not done.

Time to drag it out a lot: ssssssssssttttttttttiiiiiiiiiilllllllllll nnnnnnnnooooooooottttttt dddddddddoooooooonnnnnnnnnneeeeeeee........

Sigh.

Should I quit?

Naaaaaaah.

I'll retry now.

It didn't go in the right place :(

:'(

I'll go get my dad.

40 moinutes later, dad has declared that we should go to sleep and we can't do it now.

Making up

This is making up for all the posts I've missed. See, I made it my Official School Platt CHOICE Goal to blog at least three times a week because I like blogging. Usually I watch YouTube and anime or play video games after doing my homework, then go to bed and read. This year I will try to blog a lot, more than last year at least. That won't be hard because last year I didn't blog at all during the school year. Anyways, about my day:

Today we had something called a "pep assembly" where we tried to scream the loudest to win the "spirit stick". There was a big, scary wolf there. The school symbol here is the wolf, and there was a man in a wolf costume there. I think he was scarier than the wolves we met at Mission: Wolf (donate to them! Yaaay!). We lost the contest. I'm not sure who won, but we lost.

I also got a program called Jing that is used to record videos. It's really easy to use but has bad graphics and a 5 minute video limit, so I can't really use it for let's plays. Can you please comment a good preferably free recording system? Thank you and good night.

The conclusion of aaaaahhhhhh!!!

The conclusion! Huzzah! Yesterday, about two minutes after I posted the last post, there was a long blackout. That's what I call good timing! Let's get on with it.

After the mime (whom I named Life) had done his performance, we went up and I saw a person. Immediately the word "ice" came to my mind so I decided to name him that. Then Guide instructed us to line up along a ledge. At the top of a crevice, I saw a man. He lifted his head and birds suddenly flew away from the rock. That may or may not have been scripted, but it was cool either way. He started coming down the crevice and I realized that he was Sadness with raggedy clothes. He came down the crevice and stared at us. Then he walked past us and went up to another rock.

Sadness met another man, and I decided to name him Sharp. Sadness and Sharp started fighting. During the fight I realized that Sharp was actually The Troll! Eventually, Sharp The Troll backed down and let Sadness pass.

After walking some more, we saw a man at the base of a cliff, attached to a rope. The rope went up, and attached to somebody with a vail over his face. When everyone was gathered, he took off the vail and revealed that he was a she! She went down and he went up. Meanwhile, I noticed Sharp The Troll messing with some rope. When the girl got down, she took off her shirt and I noticed that she had golden dragon bracelets and was actually Maiden! Then some more people did more acrobatics and we had oranges, thereby fulfilling the "fruitful"-ness of the prophecy. The end.

Continuing in aaaaahhhhhh!!!

The not-so-long awaited continuation has arrived! Just to remind you, we had escaped from the clutches of a nasty troll and were in the process of continuing onward towards the top of the mountain in the land of aaaaahhhhhh!!! (5 A's, 6 H's, and three !'s).

When we had walked a little bit higher we met an odd lady with a mask and very long fingernails hiding behind a tree. She asked us if she should be afraid of us and we assured her that she should not be. She crept out from behind the tree and explained that there were so many of us and we looked different from her and so she was unsure if she should be scared of us or not. She introduced us to Tree, the tree she had been crouched behind. Then she told us a trick that Tree hat taught her: when you are afraid and your stomach is in knots, remember what you are grateful for. I decided to call her Gratefulness. Gratefulness then asked us to tell her what we were grateful for. When the rest of the group came, she talked more about fear and how Tree helped her to cope with it so I decided to change her name to Fear. Then the Well Dressed Man With a Briefcase came out of nowhere and walked slowly up the path, avoiding eye contact. Fear asked us what we should do and we started following him.

He came to a stop near a river, dropped his umbrella, and opened his briefcase. My first thought was "OMG WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!" because he was a well dressed man with a briefcase after all, but then he took out not a gun, but a little doll. He cried over the doll, showed it to us, and then... threw it into the river and died. I was very surprised. I decided to name him Sadness. As I decided that, a lady (whom I named Maiden) (Don't you like the word whom? anyways...) came out of the river with the doll and a vase (or is it an urn? I hope not because urns are where people keep the ashes of dead people) in her hands. She wore a white dress and golden dragon-shaped bracelets that went almost to her shoulders. She started walking and Guide followed. We stood still, then all together started following Guide. Maiden split away from the group at an intersection, then a little ways after that guide told us to stop at a crossroads.

At the crossroads there was a mime who did a performance where he found a rose and smelled it, then tried to reach it and was pricked. Then he found a woman and had a baby. He showed his baby things like dogs and birds. Suddenly the baby was a teenager/adult an the mime looked surprised, then sad. he walked up to his kid, patted him awkwardly, and watched him go. Then he sadly walked away... and found the rose again. He sniffed it and then, cautiously, picked it up. Then he smiled and everybody clapped.

I'm yawning already! we only have two performances left so I'll do the rest tomorrow.

adventures in the land of aaaaahhhhhh!!!

We shall take a break from my vacation today to talk about an awesome performance that I saw today called aaaaahhhhhh!!! (5 A's, 6 H's, and three !'s) when we started, I noticed four things: 1:Lucia was way too exited. 2:my lip hurt because Lucia had kicked it. 3:one of the boys had no enthusiasm whatsoever. 4: the aaaaahhhhhh!!! lady's hair was pink.

We all did an exercise where we all said "aaaaahhhhhh!!!," then put on our blindfolds and started walking after some Unseen Person said "follow me". While we were walking we heard lots of things: flutes, didgeridoos, wolves, rushing water, cars overhead, the clicking of bikes, and lots more.

Then Guide (the name I gave to the Unseen Person) told us to take off our blindfolds. When we did, he said there was a Messenger coming. He and the Messenger spoke in a strange language, then he said that we needed to go quickly so we continued onward after Guide explained that we would meet weird people and that some would wish to interact with us, but we should not worry because the end of the journey would be fruitful. I wondered aloud if it would be baconful too and Dad laughed.

After a short climb we found an odd woman, dressed entirely in black, who was stretching and singing. She sang a song about flying and crossing lines and forgiving while Guide hid in a tree. Near the end of the song, she took some rainbow colored ribbons from the ground and gave them to Guide. Guide said that she had given us gifts for The Troll and to follow him. As I was leaving, I decided to call her Forgiveness.

During the climb to The Troll I saw a Well Dressed Man With a Briefcase and an umbrella walking along the edge of the rocks. I decided not to trust him because you generally shouldn't trust well-dressed men with briefcases. Then I wondered if I should trust him because if they have umbrellas, they might be friendly, but I eventually decided against trusting him.

When we had gotten a little further up the hill, Guide stopped us and said to be quiet because we were near the layer of The Troll. He told us to line up along the creek, but to not cross it. There near a tree was The Troll. He was grunting and digging up grass and sticks and branches and dirt. Guide told us that he was going to leave the ribbons so that the trolls don't get too close. After lifting a large, heavy looking branch, The Troll found the rainbow ribbons and went into his tree. Then Guide told us we could continue, so we did.

I'm sleepy now. Check out part two later. Bye!

My Vacation part 3

The next day was ducky derby day. When we got there, I created a sand fortress on the bank and put an aphid in to be the king, but he just swam across the moat, climbed through a crack in the perimeter wall, and ran away. Then the rubber ducks came and I threw them while saying encouraging or discouraging words. Then I played in a bouncy house obstacle course. In the obstacle course there was one obstacle where you had to duck under some poles so I went under while throwing my hat over and when I came out the other side my hat landed just to the left of my head. If it had landed on my head it would have been cooler so next time I'll aim a little bit more to the right. Then we had lunch and went to a waterfall. That was our day. I'll post this now so I don't get postponed any more.

My Vacation part 2

Now for the second say of vacation that is actually the third day but the first day was to boring to wright about. Today we went to the park again and ate lunch at a store called Poppycock. Poppycock had really good french toast

Shocking news! Dad made me go back to bed because it was 10:30. So "today" has now been officially converted to "yesterday". I thought about changing the date but decided that this was more fun. Anyways, let's continue...

but I didn't like the pancakes. After Poppycock we went to an art gallery. My favorite art were the half sunken sculptures, Choices, and Destiny. Then we went to the park and played a little before getting a sweater and a kit-kat for me and silly bands for Lucia. Then we went home to find our bathing suits for the rec. center. Mine got lost so we had to find it, and of course then watch TV and finish Tentacles before finally going to the rec. center.

At the rec. center we put on sunscreen, went into the pool, and immediately got called out for a ten minute "safety break" during the break I told dad about some cartoons I had watched like Two Dumb Dogs. Then we went back in the pool and played on the slide and a game where Lucia grabbed onto my back and I tried to get her off without using my hands. Then we played a game where dad was a zombie that tried to eat our brains. About halfway through our game Lucia and I were escaping from his lair when I heard a noise and looked up. Then a wave of water fell on my face. I went out but Lucia was stuck in with dad. She got out and we went away. While Lucia drowned in the buckets I went to the fountains and we tried to cover them. Then they turned the water off so we played some more zombie game.

on the second safety break we went to get ice cream. I got an ice cream sandwich and Lucia and dad got ice cream on a cone. then I got to witness a fight over dominance over The Blueberry and

O.K. Long story short, I got postponed a few days. On with it.

Then we went home. Yes, I was so postponed that I couldn't even write that sentence. I'll post now so that I don't get postponed again.

My Vacation

My vacation started three days ago and so far it's been really fun. Before you start wondering what kind of monster school I go to (just so you know, I go to Platt CHOICE) let me tell you the difference between summer vacation and summer break. A break is when you don't go to school for a period of time longer than 64 hours (that's two days plus eight hours before and after school). A vacation is when you go to a place far enough away that they have a separate airport during a break. I am currently writing from my dad's computer in snowmass. The last two days were really fun (the first day of our vacations are always spent lollygagging around the house)

Yesterday we went to the pool and played with a beach ball in a weird version of soccer, then dad became a zombie and tried to capture the beach ball, which was always being yanked away at the last second.

Then we went to the park and decided to get ice cream, so we searched for an ice cream shop. On the way we found a fountain and whenever it stopped spraying, we ran through it. Somebody had put a balloon in the fountain and sometimes it got shot up into the air. Then we went to a nearby park and played a little on the rocks and the spinning things that spin. I made up a game on the spinning things that spin where you start sitting and try to stand while spinning. then I saw lucia on the hammok-swing and decided to join. Two other kids came too and we swung really high. Then the kid next to me started to hug me and I yelled "Why does everybody hug me! It doesn't make any sense!" and then of course Lucia and the other guy started hugging me so I left the hammock-swing. Then grandma interviewed me and I answered every question with "El arbol" which means "the tree". Then we went for some ice cream and I found a magpie and named him crow for absolutely no reason. Then we went to a store called Electric except when you look closely it actually says Eclectic which means (I just looked this up):

ec·lec·tic

noun /iˈklektik/  eclectics, plural A person who derives ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources adjective /iˈklektik/  Deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources - her musical tastes are eclectic Of, denoting, or belonging to a class of ancient philosophers who did not belong to or found any recognized school of thought but selected such doctrines as they wished from various schools

Dada! The dictionary.com definition. The store sells a lot of different stuff so it is eclectic #1. Anyways, the store had a sock monkey. Yes, I made you read all that for a sock monkey.

Later at dinner I said "El arbol" again and everybody started laughing even mom who didn't know the joke and so we reviewed the video and everybody laughed even harder. Then I read Tentacles and went to sleep.

You know what? I think that's enough for one post. Coming soon: day three of my vacation.

Updates on Stuff part 2

This is the part of the last post that I couldn't finish because of my dad calling me up. I wanted to tell you my new creatures in Zoo Tycoon. tadaa!:

• 10 bluefin tuna
• 5 bottlenose dolphin
• 2 bowhead whale
• 4 common sawfish
• 4 elephant seals
• 3 giant squids
• 12 green moray eels
• 3 lion's mane jellies
• 4 mermaids
• 4 southern sea otters
• 6 whale sharks

That concludes the marine portion of my zoo. I also added dinosaurs because I have completed all the research and conservation and why waste all the T-rex and dinosaur stuff? so I added two T-rexes. Then I decided to give the scientist more work (all animal caretakers at my zoo are in charge of two exhibits) and made a Spinosaurus exhibit with 2 spinosaurus because Lucia said I should get a spinosaurus. Spinosaurus two is a troublemaker and whenever there is a broken fence, she is the first to go through it. I don't know if they programmed different personalities or if it is sheer chance, but it is interesting either way. I also built a macrauchenia exhibit with 5 machrauchenia and a kentrosaurus exhibit with 4 kentrosaurus, but spinosaurus 2 ate all the kentrosaurus so I just extended the spinosaurus exhibit into the kentrosaurus exhibit. Unfortunately, spinosaurus 2 died of old age yesterday at about 7:47. I miss her. :( I also have an awesome zoo with only show animals. That's all I can think of to write so goodbye!

P.S. I didn't do this post this yesterday because I was busy making my show zoo and my dad got mad at me for staying up late and sent me to bed and quit Zoo tycoon to delete my data. luckily, he didn't know about the "do you want to save your zoo before quitting" so the second I came to the computer I clicked yes and it saved. I need to go berry picking at a farm now; my mom's calling me. Gotta go!

Updates on stuff

I haven't been blogging lately because I was too busy watching YouTube for a post, playing Zoo Tycoon, and playing with Grandma (who came from Mexico).

First of all, two days ago I was playing outside at dusk and right near Home Tree (we call it that because it is what we use as our house or base in games. This time Lucia was my pet Charlotte-fairy and we were trying to survive in the wilderness) there were lots and lots of swarming dragonflies nearly half a foot long! I told Lucia to get a camera, and while she was gone I just stood watching the dragonflies when one of them flew straight into my chest and I screamed very loudly. Now, I'm not afraid of dragonflies, or any insects for that matter (except maybe earwigs, because they are all flat and skittery and pincery-*shudder*) but when any thing loud and buzzing runs into me, I lose it. This normally happens with dragonflies, wasps, bumblebees (though, strangely enough, not honeybees), and large moths.

The other thing I wanted to write about is a dream I had who-knows-how-many days ago. I have a vague recollection of being a homeless runaway with Lucia (runaway from what? No idea) and then making my way to a zoo. We (Lucia and I) were at the hippo exhibit when I noticed that the water was blood red so Lucia and I went to check it out. All we found were the hippos, some rocks, two aspen trees, and a small redwood tree. Then when heard a voice say "We've got you now" and when we turned around Jackson and Jillson (from The Mysterious Benedict Society. maybe we were running away from the institute) Then Jillson got struck by lightning (yes, I had been reading that chapter of the second book). Jackson said "I don't need her" and jumped at us. Then a strange red powder came out of the redwood and surrounded Jackson and Jackson died. I knew at once that the red powder was poisonous pollen and we ran. We made everybody in the zoo evacuate, then got into the last car with two other children and told the driver (a zookeeper named Maria) to step on it. We drove away with the pollen right behind us, and kept having to swerve when the wind changed. Eventually we went out of the pollen's reach and got off the car. Then Maria started driving back and we switched to a flashback of Maria with a gorilla saying (to the gorilla) that all she really wanted to do in life was save people. the we switched back to the present and mafia was driving at the zoo, through the pollen, with a torch. Then she burned the tree while dying, fulfilling her last wish. I like this dream because it's end is happy (well, at least bittersweet) and it stays on the same storyline. Those dreams don't come often.

I also wanted to tell you about a dream where my dad and I survive an agnurognathus attack (gold star to anyone who remembers them from my Primeval post. They are small pterosaurs that travel in flocks and are attracted to the smell of blood), but I almost don't remember the dream except that we camped out in my room, then made a mad dash to mom's room and stayed there until they left. I also sort of remember being on a boat in a river with large crocodiles. My dad's calling me up so I'd better go. Bye!

Yaaaaaaaaawn

I haven't been blogging because I've been staying up late reading and watching youtube. CSI camp has finished without much new stuff except a kid came named Bryce Harriet who likes killing squirrels. Seriously. Killing squirrels. I'm not kidding. Me and a few other people who don't like seeing dead squirrels grabbed him by his arms whenever a squirrel came by. Dead serious. We had to grab him. 100% true. I was planning to post something called Bryce Harriet: Squirrel Hunter when Nicky and I had a sleep-over, and how are you supposed to blog at a sleep-over? During the sleep-over he got me hooked on The Last Stand:Union City, which can be found at this link, and is a really addictive zombie survival game in witch you (I named myself Billy Bob Joe) try to survive in this zombie-infested world and find your wife Ellen (in my case, Ellen Bob Joe). On the same day, my sister got me addicted to v-sauce's videos. That's why I haven't been blogging. I was going to write this post about good youtube creators like Tobuscus and v-sauce, But I guess that can wait. I've been sleeping about 4 hours a day, so I need to sleep more. Good night!

P.S. Don't you like the image? My cats Maggy Meou and Pity Pur do that all the time.

On the subject of summer camps

Yes, that is an origami Yoda; we'll get to it later. I think it's time to take a break of boring old lists for a while and talk about life. At the moment, my life includes mostly summer camps. I am currently in CSI summer camp. Earlier I did Rocky Mountain Theatre for Kids. Next I will do ICamp. It's starting to sound like a list again, isn't it? What I'm really here to tell you about is this kid at CSI. I don't know his name so I will call him not-Anthony because he is kinda like Anthony but he isn't Anthony. On the first day he kept hitting this kid softly and the kid did nothing, and today that kid tapped him with a paper and he got really angry and told the teacher. Another thing, yesterday not-Anthony was talking to his friend and he almost walked into a tree. Not-Anthony got so mad that he hit the tree, then three bees came down and he screamed and ran away. He's also the kind of person who makes bad jokes and thinks they're funny. Today he was talking about how bananas are radioactive and I said, "Radioactive bananas? Sounds like the title for a cool video game," and not-Anthony said, "You're a radioactive poop!" and laughed himself silly while the rest of the class just looked at him as if he were crazy. Today we made origami DNA and not-Anthony bragged that he could make an origami Yoda, then complained that it was impossible to make origami DNA (the picture is of an origami Yoda that I found at this link. Congratulatations to Fumiaki Kawahata for designing it and Phillip West for folding it.). He makes the class a lot more interesting. Well, it's 9: 03 and I'm yawning so I think I should post this now or I won't get to read the rest of The Mysterious Benedict Society. To recap: Summer camp, not-Anthony, three bees in trees, radioactive bananas, origami yoda. Good night!

What do I post about Primeval now?

Good question. I've run out of series at the moment (BTW, join the series 6 campaign HERE. I don't have a facebook account so I can't do it so please do it for me) so I have an idea: I'll write all the animals of the older novels too! Yaaay! Each novel is set between two episodes, shown here as series.episode. There are currently 4: Shadow of the Jaguar set between episodes 2.3 and 2.4, The Lost Island set between 2.3 and 2.4 (directly after Shadow of the Jaguar), Extinction Event set between 2.7 and 3.1, and Fire and Water set between 3.5 and 3.6. Let's go in order:

Shadow of the Jaguar: Thylacosmilus, future bird.

The Lost Island: Badger-like mammal, dromaeosaur, eotyrannus, iguanodon, liopleurodon, neovenator, polacanthus, pterosaur, anatotitan.

Extinction Event: Ankylosaurus, didelphodon, dimetrodon, entelodon, euparkeria, pachycephalosaurus, prehistoric bird, prehistoric mammal, shrew-like creature, torosaurus, troodon, tyrannosaurus, sparrow-sized pterosaur.

Fire and Water: Sauroposeidon, triceratops, eustreptospondylus, postosuchus, velociraptors, deinosuchus, two unidentified theropods.

The Future Bird could have evolved from modern day woodpeckers. This would explain the tooth-covered tongue, as some woodpeckers already have this. A type of woodpecker may have evolved to tackle beehives, pecking into the hive and catching any bees within. Then it evolved a pheromone scent that allowed it to lure bees to it. After a while some started to use the bees to hunt and protect itself. Then it got bigger and flightless, and was able to control other animals. The picture is unfortunately too big to be included here. Um, I can't think of anything else to post so I guess I'll end now.

Primeval series 5

What I said last time, exept with a 5 instead of a 4

1. Large burrowing insects
2. Swimming theropod/raptor, Liopleurodon
3. Dromaeosaurus
4. Future beetles
5. T. Rex, fog worm, anurognathus
6. Mutated future predator

Large burrowing insects might be a descendent of the mole cricket and future beetles might be a descendent of cockroaches. Mutated future predators are future predators that are faster, more agile, and can stand on two legs.

Primeval series 4

Primeval is back so it is my duty as an Andres to write down the creatures in series 4. Here goes:

1. Cretaceous fish, spinosaurus
2. Kaprosu-

STOP! Lots of the creatures from series 4 and 5 are repeats. Because of that, and the fact that I haven't written in a long time, I will repeat creatures used before. Let's try again:

1. Dracorex, cretaceous fish, spinosaurus, raptors
2. Kaprosuchus, Area 51 creature, mammoth, coelurosauravus
3. Tree creeper
4. Therocephalien
5. Labyrinthodont
6. Hyaenodon
7. Terror bird

The area 51 creature is confirmed to be a future fungus that got mistaken for an alien. Can you guess where the picture came from?

P.S. I was playing Minecraft on a new texture pack I had just gotten (Pokecraft) when I saw... in the middle of the air... On a floating grass block... a miltank! There it was, just standing there over 30 feet of air! I took a picture of it using control+shift+4, then saved and quit to write this post. I might post a picture later.

P.P.S. What is the difference from a salamander and a newt? Nobody has answered me.

everything in the past year (that I can currently think of)

Sorry. NANOWRIMO has been done for 4 months, but I haven't found the time to do anything here. A summary of the year would be: I went to Platt CHOICE, which was fun; I learned to ski, which was not as fun; I competed in Destination Imagination, which was fun; I created a mini series with Kyle called "Andres and Kyle's Summer Backyard Adventures," which was really fun; I went to Rocky Mountain Theatre for Kids with Kyle and planned a movie there, which was fun; I got hooked on Minecraft, which was fun; We got Netflix, which was fun; I watched the 4th and 5th seasons of Primeval, which was fun; and overall I had a pretty fun year. Um, so, yeah. That's it. There's no more. Bye.