Sugar=yum yum

Have you ever eaten a jellybean? Or what about some yummy cotton-candy? I'm pretty sure you have, especially if you live in America. Do you realize what all that stuff is? Sugar! It's pure, delicious, bad-for-your-teeth sugar! It's remarkable how tasty people can make that sort of stuff though. It even comes in flavors. Flavored sugar, what a good deal! If you just let the cotton-candy sit in your mouth, it won't be there for long. The enzymes in your mouth will break it down so quickly, you won't even have time to recite the Gettysburg Address. It's really quite a fascinating, the whole process of digestion and such. We're learning about it in biology right now. Good stuff...

I have a bottle...do you?

I have, in my hand, a plastic bottle. But this is no ordinary plastic bottle (yes, I did start a sentence with "but"). No, this is a Sam's Choice Clear American bottle of Golden Peach Naturally Flavored Sparkling Water. Now despite the fact that there are "other natural flavors," I'll tell you why this is an amazing drink. This 33.8 fluid ounce bottle (that's pretty much one liter) is caffeine free, has zero calories, and is also sodium free. Now how many places can you find a deal like that? This isn't the usual flavored mineral water. It's almost a clash between that and actual soda. Or pop. Wherever you're from and whatever you're most comfortable saying, I guess. Although pop is correct. Back the the bottle though...Oh my! You can get a cash refund for 5 cents in California, Hawaii, Iowa, Massachusetts, Maine, New York, Oregon, Conneticut, Vermont, and Delaware. Of course Michigan offers a 10 cent refund for returning the bottle, but that's just because people there are just a bunch of over achievers. Well, maybe not. That's a bit of a stretch in terms of stereotyping, but whatever. Over the course of me writing this blog, the bottle has gone to being completely full to nearly empty. Does that prove that writing makes you thirsty? Absolutely not, but if wanna say it does, I'm not really gonna argue with you.

Prom

I guess prom is this coming weekend. Fancy dresses, fancy hair, fancy shoes, fancy suits, fancy this, fancy that. Despite all the hustle and bustle of getting everything done in time for it, I think it should be a fun time. I'm sure I'll look back at it in 25 years and think, "Wow that was a neat experience." I'm a bit nervous to be quite honest though. I mean, I'm not the classiest guy out there, but I want my prom date to have a good time. I'm a bit more on the shy side in terms of personality (in case you hadn't noticed) so accompanying a girl to a formal sort of thing like this, even just as friends, is kind of pushing it for me. I'm not the biggest into big parties/dances/big people gatherings either, so that's another stretch. I was kind of hoping that I wouldn't be asked this year, so I wouldn't have to deal with prom at all. Quite a few of my friends aren't going and I wouldn't mind just hanging out with them for a fun evening. Don't get me, wrong, I'm excited about going (as much as it sounds like I'm not). I'm sure it'll be fun. I just didn't really have a blog topic, so I picked this.

Proxy Sites

As much as proxy sites may seem like bad things, in terms of getting to blocked sites at school, they can be useful. For example, to write this blog from school, I had to use a proxy site. Without the skills of a very teck-savvy person somewhere in the world, this blog would be non-existent. I really wish I knew how to create that sort of website. My "website making" skills are zero. I know nothing about that topic, but it would be sweet if I did. The good thing about proxy sites is that they are always being created. Everyday there are tons of new ones that anyone can get ahold of. So even if teachers block the sites, the students simply keep finding new ones to go to and use.
In a sense, the teachers are fighting a very lost cause. On the other side though, if they weren't blocking any, there would be no cause at all. I don't know about you, but that would be a bit boring for me. If you could just go to any decent site without any "SonicWall" or some other firewall, I wouldn't feel really cool, sneaky, and rebelious when I go to blocked sites. Obviously there are sites that need to be blocked, but others are pretty innocent. I guess it really doesn't make that much of a difference to me either way, but I just thought I'd blog about this topic anyways.

Modern Technology

I really like modern technology. It makes life so much easier and more enjoyable sometimes. It makes impossible things possible. Earlier today I was on Facebook and I was looking for old friends and I know. I've already been able to find tons of people that I haven't seen for 6 or 7 years. It's amazing to see where they're all at now. Some of my best friends from elementary school now live in England, Italy, Japan, Australia, Kenya, Malaysia, and lots of other awesome places. Lots of them live all over the U.S. too. It's so cool to be able to find them and talk to them again. Without things like the internet, I'm pretty sure that that would be virtually impossible. Today I found my best friend from 1st and 2nd grade in Berlin. Guess where he's at now....Orlanda, Florida! I haven't talked to him since the last day of 2nd grade, when we said goodbye and now all I have to do is go to his wall and write "How's it going?" (or something like that). Personally I think that's awesome. Woohoo for modern technology!

Spring

Spring break is coming up in a week! I need a break from school, oofda! It seems like it's been going on forever. But after spring break we only have like 2 months left of school. I mean, yes it's still 2 whole months, but it's great when you put it in perspective of the entire school year. Plus I'll be in track for that time, so hopefully that'll be a way to pass the time faster. And then comes summer. I don't really wanna talk about summer right now actually. For one thing, it's a bit depressing and another thing, I like spring. Spring is my favorite time of the year. Everything is new and smells nice and there's no more snow. Once all the sand clears off the roads, the town looks beautiful again. Such a nice change compared to the yuckiness of winter. Of course, we'll probably still get some big snow storm halfway through April or something, but that's to be expected I guess. I'm looking forward to April all the same. I get to get my license in April! Yes, my driver's license. Yes, so I can drive a car. Yes, by myself. No, not so I can run people over and speed and fun stuff like that. Alrighty well this has been a pretty easy blog to write, now I better get on with my second one of the week.

Wrestling

I went to my first ever wrestling meet on Friday. It was the team semifinals in the state tournament. It was a neat experience and the Xcel Energy Center is really cool, but I wouldn't be upset at all is I was told I could never go again. I'm not that into wrestling...it's kind of a neat sport, but once you see one match, they all look farely similar. Not every single one is the same, some are pretty exciting actually. Overall though, it's not that big of a deal to me. Even though I don't necessarily find the sport super entertaining, I think it's awesome that our team is so good. This town definitely has somethinig to be proud of. It would be sweet to be the talk of the town, the town's favortie people. Although the huge amounts of favoratism are a bit "uebertrieben" or exaggerated. It kind of makes all the other sports feel inferior to the wrestling team. Of course there is a decent reason for that. The wrestling team works really hard and that work pays off. Whether you like the sport or not, our wrestling team deserves a lot respect (at least as far as athletics go).