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This past week has been kinda bitter sweet for me, considering that I started school again on Thursday (new semester, new classes!) but my sister, brother-in-law, and niece left for the other side of the country yesterday! I’ll start with the bitter part first, so that by the time I’m done writing this blog, I’ll hopefully be in a better mood.
My brother-in-law is in the military, and he just re-enlisted but instead of being stationed here like he was before, he got stationed in some base in California. California. That is on the exact opposite coast of the United States! I’m going to miss my brother-in-law a lot, but mostly my sister and niece (sorry Carter!). My sister and I are more than a couple of years apart, but now that I’m getting older, Brandie and I have been getting closer over the past couple of years, and now that shes leaving I’m going to really sad that shes gone. Lauren, my niece, is the most important influence in my life. She’s the single reason that I want to be a Neonatologist and she’s the single-most precious human on this earth to me, and now she’s going to live on the other side of the country. So, for the next four years, she’ll being living nowhere near me, and I won’t be able to see her that much. To Brandie and Carter: I love you both and I’ll miss you terribly.
On a more happy note, I started school again on Thursday and thanks to my school’s block schedule, I have all new classes! This semester I have: Flex Chorus (Flex is an optional 45 minute long class before 1st period), Honor’s English, Theatre Arts I, College Class (taken at my school’s computer lab), and Honor’s Geometry. I actually really love my 3rd period, because I 1) can take any lunch I want and 2) the teacher doesn’t care what we do online as long as we’re done with our stuff for that week. I really like my Honor’s classes because two of my really good friends, Lauren and Abby, from Teenworks are in them.
Now that I’m back in school, I really have the urge to just go out and do something with my friends after school or on the weekends. I can now see that I don’t need a girlfriend to have a good time, and that being friends is better than complicating things with a more deep relationship. Also, I can see that this site is getting kinda bland, so I’ll try to write more articles and maybe some poems. I have written a few songs, so maybe I’ll post those. Oh yeah! I just remembered; my good friend, Erin, is considering hosting me, so I may be moving to a subdomain (so I can finally code my own layouts) and if I do, I’m thinking about making graphics/resources again. They take up precious homework time, but maybe if I can prioritize, then I might not fail.
As you can see at the top of this blog, I started a new blog-ly thing, the featured site! I’ll write a featured site every time I blog, okay?
I’ve had a lot of time this in this five-day weekend to think about things, one thing in particular. My life is kinda empty. Ever since the break-up with Ashley, (and all the dramatic aftermath) I’ve been really bored. I don’t ever do anything with my friends (probably because there isn’t really anything to do) and I sit around on my computer all day after I’ve done my school/homework. I really should get a girlfriend, but no girl really likes me. Sometimes I wish I was more like my older brothers, just without the ego. They always seemed to have one girl or another, and it was mostly because they weren’t geeks like me. Also, I’m thinking about going vegatarian again, but this time I won’t let Dylan know. I’ll probably do the whole no red meat thing, instead of no meat at all. Chicken and other white meats have protein, which was Dylan’s arguement that convinced me to start eating meat again last time. I need to continue working out (I’m out of gym for the rest of my high school year.) and since I really like jogging/running, that’ll probably be what I’ll mostly do. I want my mom to buy a scale so I can keep track of my weight weekly. I’m going to write down my goals on the sidebar and see if I can finish them by the end of the schoolyear.
Peace!
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I’m in a very christmasy mood, so I thought I’d write a christmas-themed blog. I’m going to tell you all about everything I’ve done this christmas season.
Well, with my school’s chorus, we started learning all of our dances and songs for our christmas season shows. We all decided on doing When I hear those Jingle Bells, and Santa Claus is coming to Town (a modern version). We all have a stand-still ‘concert position’ were we sang Innkeeper and Psallite (Psallite is a Latin and German song that we’re singing for a competition next month) and part of Handel’s Messiah. On the 5th, we preformed at our city’s lighting of the greens (outside showcase before our christmas parade) and we did all those songs plus some of our normal secular songs. I also did a charity event over one of our weekends, where me and some of the other chorus members went to a party and sang for some little kids. On Monday, the chorus and band did a joint holiday concert, also for charity, and we did all of our christmas songs.
Instead of making myself broke again this year, I decided to make everyone’s christmas presents this year. I’m making a lot of CDs for everyone, best-of albums and stuff like that. I’m really excited about this particular christmas, because a ton of my family is coming down. Three of my brothers (plus various girlfriends and maybe my cousin) are driving down from IL. and my sister, her husband, and my adorable niece are getting her tomorrow. My other sister and her boyfriend and my other adorable niece will probably be coming (They only live 15 minutes away) and we’ll all be going to my grandparent’s to have christmas dinner. I’ll also get to see my aunt and uncle and cousin at my grandparents. I only wish that we could have a WHITE christmas, which we haven’t had in almost three years! I miss the snow 
.
Well, I’m going to log off now. Merry Christmas everyone!
Cody
I just got my PSAT scores back today, and for my first time, I think I did very well, even if I didn’t make the 1200 club. So my scores are:
Reading
Overall: 53/80
Percent: 83% better than all sophomores in the U.S. (I’m a freshman!)
Predicted SAT Score: 530
Mathematics
Overall: 51/80
Percent: 71% better than all sophomores in the U.S.
Predicted SAT Score: 510
Writing
Overall: 44/80 (I don’t do english/writing)
Percent: 62% better than all sophomores in the U.S.
Predicted SAT Score: 440
Other
Overall: 148/240
Percent: This is based for the NMSC (National Merit Scholarship Contest): 58% better than all U.S. college-bound juniors (Yeah, I’m a freshman!)
Predicted SAT Overall Score: 1480/2400
1200 Club: The 1200 club is for those who make a combined score of 1200+ in only TWO of their best sections. I made a 1080 (18 questions away )
I was realllly bummed about the 1200 club thing, but hopefully I’ll make it next time…
Hey everyone! Long time, no blog! Well, I have a lot to blog about. I got a girlfriend the night I went to go see Twilight. Her name is Ashley, but things aren’t working out between us (mostly because she’s really unintentionally rude) because I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. Wait hold on. It’s Ashley calling me. (*Back*) We just broke up. She figured it all out and well, yeah. Well I don’t feel like blogging anymore.
Filed under: Family, General, School | Tags: 21, AC/DC, Eclipse, French, HGTV, Madagascar 2, Prince Caspian, Systran Language Converter, Twilight Movie Poster, Twilight Series, Wal-Mart
I went to Wal-Mart today! (It doesn’t happen often, we live out were there is NO civilization) and got some stuff.
My mom picked me up from school so that we could go to Wal-Mart to buy paint for my bedroom. So right when we walk into the store I see this t-shirt:
And I haven’t even heard the CD, nor do I want to, but I think it looks really cool and I really like band tees. So I grabbed this one and then grabbed a different one for my little sister who obsesses over AC/DC.
So I go off to my favorite section (electronics) and look over the new DVD realeases. I wanted to get 21 (which I’ve seen and it’s a very good movie) but I was really looking for Prince Caspian (second movie made for the book in the Chronicles of Narnia series). I ended up not being able to get 21 and not finding Prince Caspian. BUT Mom did find Eclipse, the third book in the Twilight series. I can’t wait to go see Twilight, which comes out in theaters on November 21st, and me and my friends will probably all go and see it together. I’ve gotten Mom into the series, and she’s actually reading Eclipse right now. I hear the movie will be great, and the
book was amazing. It’s an addicting series and I’m surprised Mom is letting me read the series, because its about vampires. Of course my little sister (Sam), on the other hand, will be allowed to read them “in a couple of years”.
More on the topic of movies; Dad, Sam, and I went and seen Madagascar 2 on Tuesday and it was pretty good. I’m left debating weather or not it was better than the first. It had more depth, leaving my sister to cry within the first five minutes of the movie, but the comedy is still there. The whole cast is back with everyone from Alex the Lion to the granny that beats him up.
My day today was full of drama, but It’s all settled now. I think. I’m still tired of everyone in chorus complaining about how they want to quit the class, even though are teacher is SOOOO understanding. She’s the easiest teacher I’ve ever had, but no one seems to like her.
We started painting my room today, since my sister and father are on vacation. Mom and I talked some about my life, while letting off all our steam by priming and painting my room. I told my mom to just get a tan (beige) color because it will help sell the house. According to HGTV (Home & Garden Television) soft, neutral colors help sell a house because they are easy to paint over and they are soothing. So were painting my room this color.
Merci pour la lecture!,
Cody
P.S.- If you have know clue what the phrase in French means, I used this English to language converter. It works both ways so copy what I said and paste it into the first box. The first boxes’ drop-down menu should have a place for French, so choose that and wait a few seconds. The phrase should come up in English. And there you have it.
Voilà!
Filed under: Family, General, School | Tags: childhood depression, Gothic, Harvard Medical School, looking back
I’ve always been interested in childhood depression. Partly because I’m a kid who has fun researching things on wikipedia, and partly because I enjoy learning about these weird topics, but mostly because I think I was actually depressed as a child. My family probably won’t think so, but they don’t know me. Seriously. My family doesn’t know the real me and truly, they don’t care. If they had cared, they wouldn’t have picked on me as a kid, but I always seemed to be their target. Ho hum. Such is the life of me.
You see, it was mostly the people I hung out with *cough* Davy *cough* in the sixth grade. They always seemed to bring me down, and yet I still hung around with them. I wasn’t the skinniest kid in elementary school (I am still overweight) and I became a social outcast. As in my words in a “vent note” to myself (I found it in an old notebook from sixth grade.)
I hate myself. I really do. If it wasn’t for me, I wouldn’t be so weird. I am an outcast and I hate it. School sucks. People pick on me all the time. But school is nothing compared to the hell I call home. I REALLY hate my older brothers and sisters. It hurts knowing that my own family can’t even accept me for who I am.
I look back in awe at how much hate was put into that “vent note”. I’m being revived of my former depression now that I’m back in high school. Although I have good friends and not a lot of people pick on me, no one seems to like me. I am annoying. I tried so hard to change from what I used to be (although my brothers and sisters don’t care whether or not I try not to talk, they still see my own person as annoying) but I guess I haven’t changed. It seems that my “friends” from theatre camp that go to my school don’t want me to hang out with them. So I guess I won’t. I’ll leave everyone alone and we’ll all get what we want (except me, of course). I’ll go back into my “no friends, social outcast” theme, where everyone asks if I’m Gothic. And then everyone will believe that I’m gay again, because no girl seems to want to go out with me. I guess that you can’t be a smart, non-good looking guy and have a girlfriend. It doesn’t help that I’m accepting the fact that I can’t sing anymore (although Brandie believes I can’t sing at all. So much for family) considering that I can’t even hit the right pitches anymore.
So thats it then, I’ll grow old being a premature birth specialist, (thanks to my awesome niece who inspired me) and I’ll be lonely since even if I do graduate from Harvard Medical School, my family won’t care enough to even come or congratulate me.
Again, no trivia. I’m not in the mood.
Cody
Filed under: School | Tags: faggot, friends and enemies, high school is hell, Lisa, rumors, Sam, Tiffany
My day was an alright, all things considered. I’ll tell you about it:
Wake up-On the Bus
I woke up on time (thankfully) and got ready to leave after I ate breakfast. It was EXTREMELY cold out, (probably around 45°) so I almost froze on the way to school. I still felt a little hyper after that ice cream the night before, so I was in an alright mood.
First Period
After finding out that I had an unexcused absence in that class, (I over-slept on Friday) my mood started dropping. I did get to skip the test because of the absence, so I’ll get to retake that on Wednesday (the day before midterms). We did a midterm review and that was basically it. I had some make-up work but I’m done with it now.
Homeroom & The Office
I basically skipped homeroom, after checking in with my teacher, to go to see my counselor. I informed her of my college class situation, and that was that. But on the way to second period, I happened to run into Cody, (not myself, another Cody) who made smart remarks about taking Lisa away from me. I’ve moved on, glad that shes getting what she deserves, and went to second period with an alright mood.
Second Period
It was too cold to run today, so I basically hung out with Tiffany. She’s really cool and I’m actually starting to like her. (What’s up with me and liking girls that have boyfriends?) But of course, were “just friends” and it’ll probably stay that way.
Third Period & Lunch
Chorus was boring because all we did was get and sing our Christmas music (mostly hymns *shudder*) but I also might be attempting to write some country songs for a girl in chorus who is in a country band. Lunch was uninteresting, although I had to borrow money from Shelby again, considering we forgot to ask Dad for ours.
Fourth Period
Basically fourth period. I told Sam about my liking of Tiffany, and she soon turned it into a blackmail. Something like: “Let me borrow your outline for today or I’ll tell Tiffany”. So I replied: “Go ahead, I’ll never get her anyways and you’ll still fail History.” Side Note: [Yes mom, I know with friends like her, who needs enemies.]
Cody and his friends were yelling the usual on the way to the bus lot. You know stuff like:
“Cody [Insert my last name here] is a Bitch!”
and the one that never goes out of style:
“He’s also a fag. Not really, he’s gay.”
Kinda reminds me of elementary school, except high school is hell.
No Trivia Today.
Cody
Filed under: School, Trivia | Tags: Albert Einstein, chorus, environmental science, Gym, School, world history
I got all my progress reports back today and I have to say, ninth grade is EASY. So without further ado, I’ll proceed in shoving my grades in all of your doubter’s faces’:
Honor’s Earth & Environmental Sciences: 76% (this was before I finished all my make-up work so it’ll be a TON higher.)
Health/PE: 92% (I missed two days of dressing out.)
Chorus: 96% (And I’m making up a test on Monday so she can re-print my report.)
World History: 100% (What now!)
So there all you people who doubted that I am a teenage genius.
Now on to the fun stuff:
Quick Trivia:
Albert Einstein actually dropped out of high school (because his high school was based on the memorization of subjects, and not learning) but still became one of the world’s most famous scientist.
