Waldon here. I just got some food. It was pretty good food too. Peanut butter cookies and some odd rice krispies-raisins-marshmallow-chocolate concoction. So... Aside from my small feast, I've got some other things to talk about, I suppose. Although not much of it is more interesting.

Today was both Bre and I's first day back to school (Regrettably). Bre and I have such opposing views on school. It's ludicrous. Bre loves school. She's the smart one of us. She loves math, she's doing chemistry and a bunch of other subjects... in french. She's English. Do you understand the implications of that? Not only is her average about 10 points higher than my own average in the things she thinks she's having trouble with, those troublesome courses are also in French. It's like a huge statistical hammer coming down on my grades with the might of some calculator god.

I think it's obvious that I don't like school. I much prefer to be outside and in nature somewhere. I love animals, trees, plants, ecosystems... all of it. Not in a textbook either. I want to see what I'm learning about. Don't get me wrong, I'm not some musclebound idiot. I understand musculature and bone structure from viewing an animal. I have an intimate understanding of the human body- how the muscles connect, the tension in joints, the physics inherent in everything down to movement. . . I just don't like being restrained by some brick walls with a bunch of identically dressed, hormone crazy adolescents who haven't learned that laughing obnoxiously loud and making noises like cars while people are trying to teach you isn't funny. I like being with maybe one or two people at a time to learn, especially if I'm in the woods. I can't learn from textbooks, I have to learn through experience. It's one of my dreams to take some of my friends out into the woods with me sometime so that I can show them how beautiful it is just walking through some old forgotten footpaths from the annals of history, or hiking over a deer trail with your dog by your heels.

Well, rant over, we went back to school today. We started our new term with a math class, first thing. Wonderful. But, after that the day went by pretty fast. I had Nutrition, Art, Skilled Trades and History, in that order, afterwords. I spent lunch in the Math Help Center with Bre, Sandra, Robyn and Vanessa. I was reading for a good portion of that.

After school I had my first theatre practice of the term. I'm playing Horatio in Hamlette. Yeah, I spelled that right. Figure it out. We read through the script once, and made a few notes. Took us an hour and a half. It'll be a good play, although we're going to have to tighten it up a bit. It should be about half an hour or so when we get it all done.

So, now that I'm done putting up the details of my personal life for people to gawk over, I think I'm going to go back to talking to Bre on msn. Much more rewarding than typing into a box that doesn't talk back. Eh tu, Blog?

So, Good night!
-Waldon

If I left the blog tonight with only this title, it would be complete because of the simple fact that Harry Potter is indeed awesome. Last summer, I began re-reading the Harry Potter series but, due to a series of unfortunate events *coughSCHOOLcough*, I was unable to finish reading all seven books. I was able to read the first three and start reading the fourth in the first three weeks of August. When I came back from my holiday, I didn’t have much time to read because I had to work the last week and a half before school. When school started, we got piled high with work, so I was unable to continue reading. Poor excuses, I know, but they’re valid! Honest!

I am VERY glad to say that I once again picked up the Goblet of Fire this past Friday and started reading from where I left off. I’m on page 264! I didn’t read any today, sadly. Right now, in the book, (close your eyes if you haven’t read it yet) Harry has been chosen as the second Hogwarts champion in the Triwizard Tournament, and is on his way to a photo shoot for the Daily Prophet. He had to leave Potions (thank goodness) and Snape wasn’t too pleased. If memory serves me correctly, Harry is going to meet Rita Skeeter soon…? But I can’t rightly remember.

Speaking of Harry Potter… How many of us were disappointed after reading the Philosopher’s Stone and expected our letter to Hogwarts, telling us that we were a witch/wizard? I know I sure was. Sadly, it was around my eleventh birthday that I read the book. When I didn’t get my letter, I was so incredibly depressed! I knew that it would never come because Harry Potter is a work of fiction (NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!) and, therefore, not real, but I still had that bit of hope. Russell and Vanessa were also very disappointed that their letter didn’t come. I think we’ve all convinced ourselves that they just got lost in the mail on their way over from Hogwarts. Sigh… Oh well. Our high school is okay…

So! Today. Umm… What have I done? I slept over to Nan and Pop’s last night! Yay! When I woke up this morning, I went downstairs and sat around with them from 9:30 (or so) until about 11:30 (or so). After my shower, I got some dinner. Nan and I sat down and ate cheese and crackers. I ate about a half a block of cheese, so I’m expecting to be stomach sick tomorrow. Nan was eating cream cheese with Worcestershire sauce. Isn’t that a terrific word? Worcestershire. Woooooorcestershire. Really, just say it. Oh… Right. Pop had already eaten, so I’m going to say that I ate his share of cheese too.

I was going to try to go to the store with Junior, but he was already out with Scottie so my plan was foiled. But Scottie and Junior came by to get me shortly after two! Junior and I left Nan and Pop’s and walked to his house, while Scottie went to get Jessica to give her a ride. Unfortunately, it was very cold today. Less than -25 degrees Celsius, I believe, but I’m not entirely sure. The wind chill was awfully cold, I know that much because we were walking against the wind most of the time.

OHNO, I lied! I DID read some Harry Potter today. Oh, please forgive me! I read some of it today at Junior’s. It was awesome! Scottie played some CoD, Junior was on his Mac, and I read Harry Potter. Oh, what fun. Mom and the kids came home today, so we all had supper at Nan and Pop’s house. We had turkey. I LOVE turkey.

Tonight, I cleaned my room. I have bi-annual Clean-My-Room-Days. I’m glad of it. It’s… Rough, to say the least. I was at it for about an hour and a half and I only got my floor swept and my dresser cleaned. Mmhmm. Junior’s going to help clean my shelves sometime soon. I hope.

ARGH! School tomorrow. I have to go to bed… Good night !

-Bre :)

Waldon here. Guess what? I forgot to plug my truck back in after driving Bre home. So, between the end of the title and my name, I walked outdoors (It's -15 C outside right now) and plugged in my truck. I'm cold now. Darn.

I have a problem. I have an addiction. They say that the first step to getting rid of your addiction is to accept that you have it. I KNOW I have it. I've had it for years, it's something that I don't think I'll ever be able to reclaim my time from. I've spent so long now under it's influence, that with my first batch that I bought, I lasted nearly 300 hours or more just staring blankly, listlessly at a television on the "Video" screen.

I had been clean for nearly a year. I had only picked it up once or twice during the entire 2010 year. . . I had always put that cursed box down and walked away. It's like some mind fogging beast that waits in the dark for me to stray off the beaten path. I spent all of my time working and exercising to get my mind off of it. Anything, everything. I just had to stay away from home, where the temptation might get me again.

But, Christmas was my downfall. At Christmastime, I got a present several days late. They found it underneath the tree, behind the stand. I hadn't noticed it the days before. I tore open the wrapping and there it was, staring me in the face. Another box. Another temptation. I couldn't stop myself. I tore the box open and stared at that plastic container. I kept my eyes away from it. Scottie held my attention while he was there. I focused on him being there. If he wasn't there, I would have been lost in the haze one more time.

But that night, Scottie had to leave. I sat down after he had left, eyes fixed on that cursed vassal. I made a decision. The wrong decision. I opened the box and pushed the plastic in, I could almost feel the familiar sensation rushing through my veins. It was a rush! I could see another world!

Before the next day was over, I would have been under for 11 and a half hours.

I saw it happening all over again. The dark of my basement, the glow. The sun hurting my sensitive eyes after hours of post-apocalyptic utopia. But this time, I stopped myself. I stood strong and stopped myself. I focused on Bre. I focused on Scottie, on Russell, on Jessica, on Glad.

But it came to an end. There was a fresh box. A world I hadn't seen yet. A fresh world. A new glow. After 3 weeks of standing tall, of feeling the rush of beating it not once, but TWICE, I fell. Hard. Within the last 4 days, I've put 22 hours of plastic glow into myself. Do you know what this beast is? What, exactly, I've fallen prey to?

Fallout New Vegas. You thought I was on drugs, didn't you? :P

I'm not that stupid. I'm just stupid enough to spend a good portion of my life playing video games. Thank god Bre and they are all there to drag me out of that stuff. xD

Anyway, after that monologue, I think I'm going to sleep. Good night all. :P
-Waldon

As you can tell from the title tonight, I'm pretty pumped. I've had a pretty darn good day! I'll tell you why.

SO! Thursday was my last exam. I went to Junior's for the afternoon and almost fell asleep. But, Junior told about the afternoon. He dropped me off at Nan and Pop's, and there I ate supper with them and Britt. After supper, Britt and I watched Coronation Street. That show is incredible! Poor ol' Gail. She's put in jail for something she didn't do! And one lady got drunk because she thought her boyfriend was cheating on her, when in reality he was out buying her an engagement ring. OUCH. After that, we went down to Mom's. Nan and I watched tv while Britt went to bed. While Nan read her book, I played Sims 3 for four and a half hours. I started upstairs and at about 11:30, I went downstairs to play/go to bed.

Now, I text Junior ALL THE TIME. Can't get rid of him. :P     Last night, I was texting him while playing Sims and lying down. As usual, I fell asleep while waiting for a text back. I woke up at about 5 this morning all in a tizzy because I thought I was late for school! Turns out it was 5 IN THE MORNING. Ack. I checked my phone and had a text from Junior, so texted him back right quick and went back to sleep. Then I woke up at 8. And went back to sleep. Then I woke up at 10. And stayed in bed until 11. While lying down, I texted Junior and Cody. I ate at 12, and talked to Mom, Brooke, and Bryton on the phone. After my shower, I texted Russell and we moved our plans to tomorrow.

I also picked up the Goblet of Fire again. I started it last summer, and because of school, I stopped reading it. Now I'm about 200 pages in. So, Dad picked me up at 4 ish, Junior texted me asking if I wanted to go to supper with him, Scottie, and Jessica, and Dad and I got Britt. I got Britt to come along! :D

Supper was good. Britt, Scottie, Jessica, Junior, Russell (who showed up later), and I sat around for an hour and a half and goofed around, haha. Afterward, Britt and I dropped off Russell and I think we were being followed by Junior, Jessica, and Scottie. It was funny. I dropped Britt off at Dad's then went to Cody's.

I arrived at Cody's around 6:45 ish? Noelle was there for a bit, then she went to her sister's. SO! Cody and I sat around for a while and he told me about his Magic: The Gathering deck. I just sat and listened... And didn't understand a word. I LOVE NERDINESS. Watching the guys play a game, or having them explain their games is just heaven to me, haha. I'm a cool kid. After a while, we went to sit in the kitchen and eat some ice cream. We have a terrible habit... Of eating an entire 1L container of ice cream in one sitting. I get so sick because of it, but I don't care. We have a blast eating it. Then, I went home to Dad's.

Now I'm talking to Junior on MSN and writing this. I'm EXHAUSTED. I think I'll end it here. Yeah. That's a good idea. Good night!

-  Bre :)

Waldon here, and I forgot to bl0g last night. Whomever was expecting me to have something up was disappointed. I'm probably overthinking it, I don't believe enough people actually READ this thing for one missed night to be a big deal. :P But I still feel bad. xD

Today was Bre's last exam, thank god. If you saw that girl studying you'd think she was going to have a breakdown. She finished up around lunchtime, and then we met up and hung out all afternoon. You know that you're good friends with somebody when you can just sit down and listen to music for hours. No need to speak even, if you don't want to. Sometimes, you can just have a silence between people that isn't an awkward silence, I love it. :P

For some of the afternoon, I was reading the book "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" By Stieg Larsson. The book is absolutely amazing. It's a thriller of sorts, revolving around (What thriller good thriller doesn't really?) a mystery. A girl named Lisbeth Salander and Mikheal Blomkvist are investigating seperate things, but both of those things revolve around the Wennerstrom Company and a family called the Vanger's. I'm too lazy to go check the spelling, but if I got it wrong feel free to hate spam me all you want. I'll happily ignore your emails and comments. :) Anyway, the story starts off with Blomkvist being accused to libel, and with his prison term starting soon. The magazine he co founded is under pressure and about to collapse, when he is offered a research and writing job. . .

And that's all I'm going to say before I ruin any of the book. If you want to know the rest, go buy the book. Or borrow it from a friend. It's well worth your time. :P

I finished my last exam yesterday. It was a History exam. I love history, but I have a horrible memory with names, dates and figures. You can guess how that works for specific history questions, yeah? :P Our exam had 50 multiple choice questions and 8 long answer/essay questions. Yes, you read that right. EIGHT ESSAYS. It was ridiculous. It took me about 20 minutes to finish all of the selected response... and two and a half hours to finish the essays. You can be sure I was glad to leave that room. So, after I finished the exam I waited around for Bre to finish her History exam, or excuse my french, Histoire Mondial. I believe that's how it's spelled. French was never my best subject. I can speak it, but not write it. Yeah, she did our exam, but in FRENCH. That's nuts. I don't know how long it was though. They weren't as far in the unit as us. It probably just had more questions on similar things. Still insane. You wouldn't be able to pay me to do it in French. After Bre finished, she got a ride home with Lisa.

It ended up being a lucky break that I waited for Bre, regardless of if I was needed. My Director saw me just as Bre was leaving, and he brought me up to his classroom and showed me the new shipment of fake swords used in stage fights. They were excellent quality. There were two Chinese Tao replicas, two katanas and two long swords. He also had another sword that he ordered for himself that he uses to practice with for real swordplay. Yeah, that's right. Not only does my director rock at acting, but he can also use a sword. You can't be any more awesome than a man like that. I want to be like that man. :P

Anyway, I think I'm done for now, I kind of feel gross. :S So, Good night all!
-Waldon

Okay. This is going to be a really short post because I need to study for my History exam. I only have two exams left, including that one! Junior’s last one is his History one tomorrow. Poor bugger.  We studied for it together this afternoon. Tonight, he’s over at Sam’s to study, and I’m here studying. I’ve been so caught up with studying that I haven’t really done much else…

Gosh, I’m sorry but this is it for me. When our exams are over, the blogs will be back in full swing. At lease, mine will be. Junior picks up my slack for me.

-          Bre :)

Waldon here. I had my math exam this morning.

It was unfortunate.

Also, Bre isn't posting tonight because she has ANOTHER exam tomorrow morning. After having 2 today. That's rough. Thank god I'm lazy and only did 3 exam courses. Math was my worst exam, easily. And I didn't even DO History yet. That tells you how hard my Math exam was. We started at about 9 am this morning. By 12 pm, I still had 4 long answer questions left. I ended up leaving out one question, and I'm praying that I get a 60% in total. It was harsh. I decided to answer B on every multiple choice that I didn't know.

I got a LOT of B's.

Anyway. I spent the afternoon at home, trying to get over my taxing ordeal from this morning. Bre was in school still, she had another exam. I think it was Francais? I don't know how to do the little accent thingy under the c. But she'll know what it is. :P It means French, anyway. For those people that don't understand French. I don't blame you. That stuff's hard to wrap your tongue around. Bre makes fun of my accent. I am the cave man of French people. xD

At around 4 45, I left the house to go pick Bre up from the school. It was a really rough evening out. The wind was blowing hard and it was snowing. I almost couldn't see when I was driving in a couple places. I could see my door almost opening a few times when the wind caught it. I really need to reattach that stupid rubber thing that fell off of it. I'm thinking it's important for the whole "Keeping my truck warm" idea.

Anyway. I spent the rest of the night sitting around at home, eating Cheetos and sketching. I got a few sketches out tonight, I think it's great. I haven't been able to sketch ANYTHING for the past week or so. Or at least, what I did sketch was crap.

You know what idea terrifies me? Or at least, keeps me entertained? Zombie poultry. How would you fight them? You wouldn't be able to! You kill a zombie by removing or crushing it's head. Chickens can live without their heads. We're screwed if they get bit. The only possibly way to eliminate them would be to crush them or burn them. . .

Wait. Zombie chickens give me an excuse to set potentially entire mobs of chickens on fire. I'm beginning to warm up to the idea. BAM! That was actually an unintentional pun, but I'll keep it anyway.

Well, I guess I'm done for the night. Good night everybody!
-Waldon

Waldon here. It's the night before my Math midterm. So as many of you can infer, I've been inside studying all day. I've been up since about 9 this morning, so at 10 I started studying. It sucks. I haven't even walked my dog tonight. I doubt I will either. I'll have to make it up to him tomorrow. Who knows? I might be able to get him out before I go to bed.

Bre and I were going to hang out this afternoon, but Ryan needed help studying so she went to help him instead. I wont deny that I was disappointed, but if Ryan needed the help, power to him. I hope he does well, he has some problems with Math. Not as much as I do, per se. But I'm just lazy. :P And a procrastinator. I always wait for the week before exams to start studying. Sometimes I wait for just the night before. I ALWAYS do it. And I ALWAYS tell myself that I wont do it next year. Anybody have an tips for me? xD

Anyway. It's time for me to get back to my math book. If you don't hear from me within a week, don't bother to send somebody in after me. I've most likely been destroyed by the math. :P Good night everybody!
-Waldon

All righty then! I haven't written anything for a while because I'm an awfully lazy person who can find an excuse for anything. Lucky for me, Junior picks up the slack. I've been freaking out about my exams (as I've mentioned, I have six while Junior has but three) the past few days and, until this coming Thursday, I will continue to freak out about them. FIVE LEFT. I'm pumped.

So, what has happened over the past few days? Well, I've been at Junior's a bunch for several reasons... More like two: studying, and just hanging out. All kinds of fun stuff! Oh, a major thing that happened was the English exam we had yesterday. I must warn you, if I make no sense with what I'm saying tonight, it's because of that exam. SEE?! I can't even make sense of that last sentence. I need some serious help... Anywho, the exam was okay. It wasn't brutal, but it wasn't easy. It started at about 9 am and I didn't leave until 12:35 or so. Poor ol' Junior was waiting for me in the lobby for about an hour before I left. We were going to hang out, so he just sat down and I think he had a nap. Very productive hour!

When we left the school, he brought me to the college for me to apply. I spent a half an hour talking to the lady in there - who I didn't even know - and I didn't realize how long I'd been until I got out. Then, we went to the store for Mom and went to the house. Once there, I did some laundry and, soon after, Mom got home. We helped her pack and she left. We decided to go to A&W for a late lunch (at 3!). Britt called to ask me something, then asked to tag along. OF COURSE SHE COULD.  I LOVE HER. So, we got Britt and went to A&W. While there, we saw Scottie and Mitchell. It was awesome. And finally, last night I went to Junior's for a while. Aaaaaaaaas usual.

It was this morning that I learned Britt has me completely whipped. (Well, yesterday she was looking at her drink. I asked her what was wrong. She said she needed a straw. I got up and got her a straw. No. Questions. Asked.) I woke up at about 10 this morning and this was mine and Britt's conversation:

Me: Brittany!
Britt: What?
Me: What are you making me for breakfast?!
Britt: Get it yourself.

And so, I stayed in bed for a bit longer because I knew I wouldn't be getting any breakfast. When I went out to the kitchen, I made HER some breakfast. After that, I got ready for the day. While I was in the shower, Britt did some cleaning. When I got out of the shower, Britt and I shovelled the driveway. It is FINALLY beginning to look a lot like winter. The temperature has dropped below -30 and we've gotten snow. The happiest part of my day was shovelling that driveway. Junior came over to get us because we didn't have a ride to get Dad's truck and we had errands to run. (Where Mom is gone, we're EVERYWHERE. We were at Dad's last night and again tonight! :D) So, Junior came over and helped with the rest of the driveway and brought us to the truck. Britt and I went to Mom's, Nan's, and back to Dad's. Then we picked up Junior and went to the grocery store.

Tonight, Britt and I decided to make supper. IT WAS GREAT. I studied Math for a while, then Junior came over and WE studied Math for a while, then Scottie came over and... Watched us study Math, haha. Britt, Dad, and Mandy watched Red Dragon while we three sat at the kitchen table. The guys left a while ago, so I'll just go to bed when I'm done this.

Aaaaaaaand, I think I'm done. Good night !

- Bre :)

Waldon here again tonight. As many of you know, both Bre and I had our English exams today. It was a very LONG exam. I've never had my right arm feel weak from having to write before. It was like I had worked out for an hour. That's actually amazing, because I work out with big weights. I must have been writing REALLY hard. xD

Anyway, after doing that horrid thing, Bre and I drove to our local college so that she could drop off her application. Then to our grocery store so that she could pick up some stuff for her mom, after that we went to her house and helped her mother pack for a road trip. Fun stuff. At around 3 0 or so, Bre and I started off to get some food. We picked her sister up along the way. Her sister is GREAT. She's a ninja, I swear to god. We all went to A&W. I got a Sirloin Uncle Burger Double Cheddar with all the toppings with french fries, chicken strips and a diet root beer. I was still hungry later.

After we all finished eating, we drove down to Bre's house again so that she could get some stuff. While she and her sister were indoors, I shoveled her driveway and cleared out the pan of my truck. We all then went up to her Dad's house for a while. Bre and I walked Gunner at around 8, then hung out at my house for a few hours.

Now, I'm too tired after my exam and day to write any more. So... Good night, I suppose. :P
-Waldon