Chickenknee

This is Chickenknee. The tin can creates an unusual affect on this poor boy.

"I'm Chickenknee! Do you wanna' know why they call me Chickenknee? and it's not because I talk like a chicken!"

There's nothing to interesting I can talk about in my life.

Bleak Without a Cause

I just finished Bleak House! Sorry Eden. Dale wants to watch it with you when you get back. I just loved the last scene with Guppy sliding out of the room. On another note, I am participating in the school play tomorrow, Rebel Without a Cause. Wish me luck.

Again, Tradition!

My posts seem to keep coming back to Fiddler on the Roof.

This weekend, grace said we were going to some sort of banquet. I kept asking her questions like, "Where is it?", "Why are we going?". We parked in downtown Wichita and entered the Crown Uptown that was showing fiddler on the roof.
"Oh, Is this were the banquet is?"
Now I feel very stupid, but at least I got a good surprise.


Grace gave me a very good Birthday and Christmas present.
I also got Cake! The waitress asked how old I was and I checked with grace to make sure I was 17. Here are some pictures for your viewing pleasure.

[Edit] I liked the musical. Their were two songs that weren't in the movie although Teveya did not dance as wildly.

[Edit again]They served a cotail in a neon green cup called Tevya's Tradition. There! Is everyone happy now? Apparently I can't write my own blog well enough!

Lunch

Lunch has been very frustrating this year. It's a bit to hard to explain so I drew a diagram and formula.Dylan wants to sit with Jake.
Jake wants to sit with Austin.
Austin wants to sit with Hayley.
Hayley doesn't like Dylan.

The Musicals Club

After school last Wednesday, Dylan and I had to show Alex Phantom of The Opera, so we went to Alex's house. Dylan had to leave at the very beginning because his cat was dying. Alex and I made puppy chow to soothe down the grief while he was gone. When he came back we finished the movie. We are planning on doing it again this tomorrow with Fiddler on The Roof. Which brings me back to my first post. By the way, I'm planning on upgrading Kings Quest VII by editing the resolution.



The old boxy Alex.







The new foxy Alex!



I showed that to Eden last night and made up that catchy phrase on the spot. (I'm so proud of myself)

Oh Ye Hater of Crosswords

Lots of the teachers this year have been giving me frequent word searches that don't help me learn. I wrote Mrs. Smith a letter last year on the back explaining why I didn't do it and she gave me a zero. Thinking Mrs. Propst would be more forgiving, I wrote her a letter and a poem about the Salem witch trials on the back. She responded with a note saying "Joel, sometimes you have to do things you dislike in life." and a zero. Mr. Warsnack will give me the grade, but calls me the hater of word searches now. Earlier this year he saw I had a word search out and he told me not to do it because it was evil. I still prefer this to the word search.Can you find the word hate in this puzzle? (It really is there.)

Mission Accomplished!

I've got goal 1 and 2 accomplished. The bible study got started and people seem to think I'm being talkative and kind of strange. I had much more people this week since Lauren brought lots of friends. I was the only one talking for a bit but pretty soon Lauren said something good and so did Chris which got other people started. I let Mr. Mullen talk and he didn't get out of hand so we got a chance to pray. I've been enjoying cross country and doing well! I miss you Eden. I just had a lot of little things to say.

First Day of School

Well I had a pretty good first day. I feel like I was a lot more sociable. It probably helped that I had came strait from camp. Someone said that my personality seemed different. I hope that's a good different. I had a bunch of crazy schedule changes which resulted in me taking design class and algebra II twice. Lunch is still kind of weird. Tomorrow I'll try sitting somewere else. In my goals for the week I wrote to tell jake that he had lucius locks. I'm finished with that. Got some other goals I could try? Post a comment!

Someone Was Waiting in My Room!

When I got home from camp I was putting away some things in my room and who should be sitting there but Cazette. Or a giant poster of her at least.
Thank you Mama (you can find anything at Neighbors). Anyway, I liked the play. I had a hard time trying to see out of binoculars that I found could be focused after the show. Afterwards we went to Mary Pap's house with the Ladwigs who brought a bassoon player's daughter from the show with them. We started out kind of awkward but eventually started laughing like crazy when I thought Mary had said Bilbo instead of Hilda. It ended up being Hilda and her husband Bill (Bilbo) who stoped by to eat some food and show us their new car. We ended up playing the dictionary game late into the night. Last week at camp was OK. I didn't learn much because there weren't really any chapels. It seemed to be mostly about experience. I guess I was being much more social this year because I said goodbyes to about everyone. This year of camp was probably my best.

Goals for This Year

There are a few things I wanted to accomplish this year.

1. Start some kind of bible study before school
2. Spend less time on the computer
3. Doing whatever without thinking about what other people will think
4. Sing Suo Gan as a solo in Bel-Canto (I was inspired by Joel's Chinese song)

The Unusual Murder

"Hark!" Chris Sen proclaimed as I was walking to our dormitories. "Let us go on a long walk!"
I thoroughly agreed as I eagerly followed.
The comrades that followed were Joel (NOT I), I, Chris Sen, Chris (Not Sen), Tristan, Cody, Jaris, and Sam followed up the rear (Rear, Tee Hee).
We began our journey with Cody tearing ahead as if a coon hound chasing after it's game. Jaris closely followed up in the rear (Tee Hee).
We walked with Sam Randomly Chopping anything in It's path! I could see the fire and brimstone in his eyes. I could tell something was a foot, however, I had no proof.
We followed up in the rear (Tee Hee) and eventually caught up with the rest of our party at Ye Olde Cathedrale. We sat and jabbered away as if Magpies calling out to each other. Eventually, Chris (Not Sen), Joel (NOT I), and I, tiered of our chatting and continued on our journey. As we were walking, a sandal flew past and proceeded to hit Chris (Not Sen) on the side of the head! "Curses!" Chris Yelled out in horror "That Cocckufluey Sandal hit me in the front most part of the head!". I proceeded to fetch out the sandal out of the shrubbery.
We noticed Tristan laying prostrate in the grass with little buggies running up and down his body. We ignored the poor fellow and continued on our most tiresome journey. As we continued we heard a cry of vengeance and we took tarring off into the trees! My heart pounding like a big bass drum! We proceeded to pick up weapons from the Ye Olde Chaple. Joel (NOT I) tossed me a stick and I placed it in my knapsack. Chris (Not Sen), and Joel (NOT I) picked up remnants of the chapel and carried them along.
Cody in a rare fit of independence grabbed an antique bottle and smashed it against Ye Olde Chaple. He was left holding the bottle head in his hand and half of the shards holding him. Fully prepared, we began to sprint with sharp objects down the road. "We must make it to the safety of our warm hearth else we shall be smitten!" Called Joel (NOT I). We dashed through brush and heather, Ducking under low hanging branches and leaves. After we finally emerged into the comfort that is KBC, we collapsed into our warm blankets and survived to tell the tale.

As for me, I think that it was Sam that held the blame.
See Joel's side of Ye Olde Story.
http://joelwasso.blogspot.com/

Renaissance Festival! Huzzah!

For old settlers this year, were having a theme I've always dreamed of. The Renaissance! That's right. Now I can freely walk around the streets of Halstead wearing a page outfit and yelling "Huzzah!" to passers by. (at least I hope so) It looks more like a dark ages festival to me but oh well. This will have to do. By the way, here is a mean comment I saw "way to be creative ?!?!".

Reminds me of Strong Sad's Dragon

Don't Cry for Me, Peru!

So my sister has just left for Peru. Last night she came home and she wanted to stay up late so we watched one of those weird hallmark movies. It was about a seal that could turn into a woman.
To honor Eden and Dale I made my own movie cover. (Maybe I've been putting to many edited photos on my blog.)

Les Misrables

Recently I have been doing a lot of things that have to do with Les Misrables because we will be able to hopefully see the musical in a few weeks! I am PUMPED!!!!

1. Listening to the soundtrack(Daddy hates the street urchins singing)
2. Hopefully watching the movie again
3. Playing the almost completed video game(Here is his blog)
4. Maybe I should read the book?

Happy second Page blog post Le Mis!! Are you PUMPED!!!???

Colorado Trip

Somewhere, an Indian is Crying.

Now, to beat grace at blog posting. We started off the first day with our grandmother who said I looked like Josh Groban for the whole trip. We eventually dropped her off at Uncle Phil and Aunt Shirley's house. (I was free of the Josh Groban jokes for a while) We went to Uncle Bill's property to camp out with Bill, Marge, Cristie, and her kids. We went on two walks there. One to an abandoned cow shed, and one to the top of the rocky slope up yonder. We were driving back and went on a very fun hike called "Colorado Trail" or something like that. When we got to Denver, it was horribly touristy and crowed with motorcycles and bikes. We went to an outdoor museum that was rather small and included statues from Alice in Wonderland. Later we went on a walk to the bus station and I met a very charming robot woman that appeared to be a bit bury with her
speech. Although it was fun to listen to her. Daddy and I went to the Airport museum where there was some props from star wars and around the world in 80 days. There were also airplanes. We picked up grandma later and started our trip home. For entertainment that trip I had read A Canticle for Lebowits, Played a game on Daddy's Pocket pc, and listened to the audio book of A Canticle for Lebowits. These all ran out after a while as everything does so I mostly sat the whole trip and took pictures of things with dale.

gramar nastsi

my brother paul has been kihhngd enough to pount out tthat I have had several grammer problems in my bolg sinse I started it and calld me a "internet denizen . i had to look this up and it see med to meen a resedn't of the internet,> I don't really understnd this and i uhope its not an inslt. I dont understand lingo of the intrernet :-P i will tri to make less freqwint mistkes and not to be an intrntet dinsien lol.

Here is my grammr Nazi of a brother himself. Lol

And now for a REAL blog post

Sorry Grace I know I copied your title. Actually I think the last post was more real than this one.
Anyway, the first thing I did this morning was rearrange the furniture on the back porch and we put our recliner in the corner. I tried laying down in it and when I did, I realized I was right underneath Eden's floating city with a sharp edge on the bottom that was hanging right over my neck. I tried to get grace to lay down in the recliner too and she Immediately got suspicious, especially because I was holding a pair of scissors. I finally got her too, but she wasn't as surprised as I would have liked her to be. Oh well. The days get pretty boring when you sit at home all summer.

Tradition!

It's tradition to write your first blog post explaining why you decided to make a blog. For most people its to express there opinions. For my two oldest sisters however it seems to be for entertainment. Dale told me this boring afternoon to start a blog and when I asked why she simply said, "TRADITION!!!" not really, but that would have been much cooler. She actually said "Cause everybody else is doing it." I probably should have named this post peer pressure but I've had fiddler on the roof stuck in my head for a while. Here is a video of Tradition!

I thought this picture was appropriate.