senior final

                My advice for those next year would be that you better find out if you like writing or not, because it will take you either higher up on writing or you will plummet down in grade scales. Another piece of advice is that you have to be able to figure out who you are before the creative writing section rolls about.

My favorite blog post would have to be synetics because we had to prove our answer was logical and the truth in what we believed. In this we had to say which was better or which was wiser or which was more practical. This helped me to affirm my beliefs in the small things.

                The one most important thing that I have learned from this class is never underestimate the power of the blog enough said.

epilogue

In the End.

                As the last few days are all but done I stop and look back at this year my last year as a pierce city high school and reflect on the sharp pains I’m having as I think of all the great times and the sad times I have had while roaming these halls whether it be while skipping class or in between classes. This class has opened my eyes to myself in a way that I myself didn’t think existed until now. As each of us are asked to look back at ourselves we find a person with walls that touch the sky all around us so no single person save ourselves could get in. That is not the case now since we had to rip away the mortar that holds this wall together so we could share the things deep inside us. Now as we all stare at the wreckage of the once great mighty wall holding back the torrential waves of emotions long suppressed we can but hope to stay adrift in this sea of emotions with one life raft floating just out of reach each time we make a go at it to try and grasp the thing that keeps us a little better than the rest. We float adrift among the people who are building their walls higher and higher so no water can get in but they don’t realize is if the wall is too high the water will crush it and they will drown in their own emotions. If they truly live without a wall standing between them and their selves then they will have their heart out on their sleeve for all to know they are at peace with what they are. The three words that I feel would describe me the most would have to be the following:

                Musical: I am musical because I follow certain rhythms but when needed I can become the most unique piece anyone has ever seen I blend themes from all aspects of life into one piece my length is unknown but I start slow like a baby crawling along the floor the my life hits the low notes then the high but now I am the most complicated looking music with the simplest of rhythms that never repeat themselves because each day is different than the last.

                Imaginative: I can see things others cannot because I use my imagination to fix the minor details in life as well as the major things. I can believe what I want but never am I without a belief. If you don’t believe in something you will fall for anything.

                Honest: this was a hard one to figure out because I never admit to being honest but proof tells itself in plain black and white. As this was the hardest one to find inside me I have little to say about it except this, one who lies cannot keep a friends love but one who can keep the air clean keeps the most people in their lives without any of them getting to close to them because of the fact the honest ones are usually the most blunt.

fine line

The best things about me.

1.       Musical

2.       Caring

3.       Funny

4.       Laid back

5.       Easy to get along with

6.       Honest

7.       I like to do a lot of different sports

8.       I don’t like to skip over minor details

9.       Great memory

10.   Really don’t care about which religion is the “correct one to follow”

The worst things about me.

1.       Easily annoyed

2.       Procrastinator level 1,000,000,000,000

3.       I’m lazy

4.       I will remember what happened between us

5.       Daydreams way to much

6.       Enjoys life the way I want it

7.       Goof off way to much

8.       Hates it when people try to act religious when they themselves don’t follow what they say

9.       Thinks of the future before it happens

10.   Not easily persuaded

valuable lessons

1.       Don’t drop the soap. Bad things happen that’s enough said.

2.       Look before you leap. There may not be another place to land.

3.       Do not grab a snake it may bite back. I was bitten by a copperhead when I was little because I grabbed its tail.

4.       Think before you speak. You may say something insensitive or careless without meaning to.

5.       Enjoy the little things in life. The big things usually all we care about but everyday moments can change your life.

6.       For every action there is an equal or opposite reaction. I lied to my parents and got in even worse trouble than I would have if I had admitted to it in the first place.

7.       Nobody is perfect in every way possible. You may be good at some things but there will always be someone better.

8.       Games are fun for the dull moments. Don’t let them crowd out the big moments in your life. I let my passion for video games crowd out an important friends birthday.

9.       Work smarter not harder. This has been my motivation in life but sometimes I fail at it like one time I was lifting heavy things when I could have put them on a cart and pulled that.

10.   What is past has passed focus on today not tomorrow and yesterday. Thinking of now as in this exact minute what will you do? Continue reading? Or just stop at that last sentence?

creating a list and checking it twice

v  People who have influenced me.

Ø  My father

Ø  Ed Velten

Ø  My mom

Ø  Scott Claybrook

Ø  The entire staff at MWI

Ø  The founder of the FFA contest team AG Mech.

v  Places that make me happy.

Ø  My room

Ø  The swimming pool

Ø  Skateland

Ø  My cousins pond

Ø  The woods where I hunt

Ø  Being out in Nature makes me happy

v  Places I would like to go.

Ø  Brazil

Ø  Canada

Ø  Hawaii

Ø  Amsterdam

Ø  Italy

Ø  The diamond mine in Australia

v  Things inside people that I like.

Ø  A heart filled with love

Ø  A stomach for all the things that I do

Ø  An insatiable appetite for books

Ø  A mind filled with all kinds of knowledge waiting to be shared over a night of video games

Ø  A love for swimming and/or other outdoor sports

Ø  Caring and compassionate towards animals and myself

v  Things inside people that I dislike.

Ø  A burning hatred for animals

Ø  Stupidity

Ø  Lack of common sense

Ø  The ability to open mouth and insert foot

Ø  A dislike of video games

Ø  Hatred of all kinds of outdoor things

v  Things that worry me.

Ø  Being late for something important

Ø  Having to present an unfinished work

Ø  What lies at the bottom of the water

Ø  Losing people I love over stupid things

Ø  Not getting to move on with my life

Ø  Getting injured to where I can’t do the things I love anymore

v  Things I would like to know how to do.

Ø  Fly a plane

Ø  Live in the wilderness for years

Ø  Build a computer

Ø  Hack things

Ø  Be the best person in the world

Ø  Friend any person just by a smile

v  Things that have moved me.

Ø  My dad’s death

Ø  Future College opportunity

Ø  Opportunity to beat my sisters in life

Ø  People who can pick me up move me anywhere they want

Ø  The thousands of books I have read in my life

Ø  Ag. Mechanics contests to make me batter at what I love

v  Ideas that intrigue me.

Ø  How we came to be on this earth

Ø  Simple viruses that can kill us but are 1 billionth our size

Ø  Why things can kill us so easily

Ø  Things that have been invented are easily improved upon

Ø  How easily one person can “fall” in and out of “love”

Ø  Since we are matter and matter is neither destroyed or created but transferred can we transfer ourselves into another thing like an animal through cell mutations?

v  My personal favorites.

Ø  Out fishing on a warm summer night with a couple of close friends

Ø  A fresh cookie from the oven

Ø  A freshly baked pizza with all the toppings I like

Ø  Swimming in my pool on a warm night with a clear sky

Ø  Hunting with my friends/family on a private property out in the middle of nowhere

Ø  Playing cards at school with friends

never say goodbye

The hardest goodbye to say

                The hardest and obviously the most painful goodbye I’ve had to say was the one I never got to say. My dad was struck by cancer early last year he had a form of cancer that spreads easily from one part of your body to another. His radiation treatments were over and the tumors in his head were shrinking and the tumors in his armpits had completely gone away. We went to the hospital to help him get over this stage of not being able to eat and drink stuff without keeping it down long enough to do any good. He was put on this medicine to completely remove waste from his body so he could eat food and keep it down. 2 days after he was put on this medicine he had a bad reaction which put him in a coma. After a few hours we heard the nurses talking about his condition and they described it as the sleeping death were a patient is comatose and their body slowly dies from lack of oxygen to the brain causing it to cease all functions. The first day I knew he was in the hospital I couldn’t stand being in the room because I couldn’t stand to look at this skeleton of a man who was once the most important figure in my life. A virus had withered this man to nothing but a paper thin layer of skin covering his bones.

                The time came when I had to leave to go home and I said goodbye for now to an unconscious man who couldn’t hear my goodbye. Later that night he died in a hospital bed with only my mother at his side his children all gone home hours before, I never got to say goodbye to him before the funeral.

Gone but never forgotten…

Gone but never forgotten…

                The Things that I want to be remembered by after the next 20 years have passed and I will no longer be a senior in high school. They are as follows: Be the only person who is known by everyone but knows nothing about me. I want to be remembered for the welding I have done for the new Ag shop putting together the welding booths for future generations to use. Be the only person to have a smell that has a scent of burning hair and still make it seem natural. Become one of the best welders in the United States of America. Be able to weld the impossible things in life. Finally invent something called a bio weld and it is a fusion of flesh to flesh with little to no visible marks. Be remembered for the simple things that made people’s lives great. At our ten year reunion be the richest alongside Sura and his mansions. Be able to do the most complicated of tasks and make them seem easy while all simple tasks are made out to be impossible. Have one of the longest running practical jokes. Create a TV show similar to jackass and call it redneck dumbass. Be my own boss and be able to live happily with my jokes and welding career. Live out my life to retire early and still make more money than that guy. The most important thing I want to be remembered by is that I out of my entire family will go to college and get a well earning and rewarding career, which is more than my goody two shoe sisters can say for themselves.

the ultimate all purpose excuse.

                My ultimate all-purpose excuse would have to be the one I use the most here at school almost all the time. This excuse has gotten me out of so much trouble it’s scary but when the going gets rough I use this an buy me some time. This ultimate excuse is “I forgot it at home/school/a random place” this excuse has worked way too much for its own credit and also makes me look like I’m very forgetful which I am not, I can remember almost anything you come up with. This also makes me look like a slacker which is very true about me I love to slack off and not do anything at all. I forgot is a classical excuse which is often overused to a glorifying effect.

                I have many different excuses in my arsenal of legendary excuses. But this one is use the most along with the I’m a senior and I don’t care anymore. These are the best two excuses that I use for great effect.

unfinished sentences.

I usually worry about the next day if I am going to get in trouble. If I worry too much things usually go very badly the next day. If I don’t worry too much I will be just fine.

I feel angry when some kid does something that he/she shouldn’t because of their age alone. Kids these days have no respect and don’t realize their future may involve their elders. This is the one thing that makes me angry.

I’m moody when people try to look into my life without permission and it bothers me to know some people have more access than myself to my own life. Just thinking about this makes me a little nervous.

I’m happiest when I am away from people in general. The best time for me is when I’m swimming underwater or when I am alone fishing all day.

I feel confident when I am well learned in a subject that someone is debating with me on and usually if I know the subject I can win the argument. This confidence comes with knowledge of the future and some things may turn sour before its time.

I feel frustrated when I just can’t seem to get something right. The worst case of frustration ive had is when I’m working alone on a project that in my mind works out easily and smoothly but then it does the exact opposite.

I feel depressed when someone talks about my dad. The thought of someone saying an offensive word about him makes me angry as well as depressed because it brings to light that he is no longer here.

I am comfortable when I am in the water, a nice clear body of water and just float.

I feel nervous when I am the next person in line to go do something or for an interview.

I feel sentimental when I do something important for someone I love.

synetics

To me a pen would be wiser because you have to know exactly what you want to write before it is written. If mistakes were so easily made why wouldn’t you think it out before you wrote?

The easier to forgive in my own opinion would have to be a sidewalk for the simple fact death can be avoided by not playing in the street. The street will kill you the sidewalk will just take skin and go.

A clock is the smarter in my mind because it has to count the seconds and minutes and hours for everyday of the year. The calendar only has to remember the day, month, and year.

The easier to teach has to be the question, because life is just full of questions but hardly an answer is found for them. Teach the question then the answer will be found in time.

A cloud has a contest every second of a day trying to stay or move but it’s more of a lazy contest. The sunset loses his competition all the time so it’s more of a loss before it has begun.

To me the new would have to scare me the most for the fact that it is unknown what the future holds. The past is concrete it is just there behind me.

Science is a major promise because it is more of a dream than anything. Math is more concrete than science because it is just numbers.

The more difficult would have to be a dream because it feels so real. You never want a good dream to end.

The braver of the two would have to be an hour because it takes more bravery in an hour to do something big than in a year. A year may consist of more times but that hour will beat it any day.

An exit has more pride than an entrance because it takes pride to walk away from something. An entrance gives you pride but it takes more to walk back out.

A map is easier to close, the thing is you exert a lot less energy than you would blocking a road. Tourists easily figure this out.

Well if you want to figure out what is more of a legend look in the mirror you may find the answer. Glass is able to be seen through a mirror you see yourself.

Snow is more suspenseful because it floats down. Rain comes down in sheets.

A signature has less charm because it has no emotion put in it. An autograph is to a fan with emotion.

To me I think a friend is more useful because they have more to offer. An enemy tears you down.

The more trustworthy would have to be the past because it has already happened. Literature is always changing.

The sadder thing of two would have to be the find, because it may not always be what you were looking for. Seeking is the adventure part.

The more costly is a house because a home is what you want it to be. Homes can be a box anywhere in the world.

The happier you are to me involves music because it involves the soul. Music is the souls communication to life.

A valentine to me is a lie. It is made up to be a day for love when most end up breaking up that day.

 

in other words...(quotes)

 1. "I know who I am! I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude!" -that Australian dude,
Tropic Thunder (2008)   
2. "everyday should be passed as if it were to be our last."-Publilius Syrus
3. "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present."-Master Uuguay, kung Fu panda
4. "A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration." -William Lyon Phelps
5. "Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once."-Lillian Dickson
6. "Here's to a long life and a merry one
A quick death and an easy one
A pretty girl and an honest one
A cold beer and another one!" -Irish Saying
7. "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." -Theodore Roosevelt
8. "Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine... Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery."-Buddha
9. "In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back." -Charlie Brown
10. "The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive." -Robert Heinlein

extended metaphors

2. If I were a car, I would be a 65’ Gran Torino ss because I like to be fast but I can hold a few people if I need to and I am old. A gran Torino ss is one of my favorite cars of all time. The speed and rumble of the engine, just makes me who I am.

10. If I were a plant, I would be a bald Cyprus tree because I can grow to heights people don’t think is possible. This is one of my favorite trees/plants in the whole world because I own one. This is a very loving tree and is easily grown in Missouri’s climate.

20. if I were a word, I would be rhetorical because I am always the most obvious answer. All the explanation needed.

abstract metaphor

1.       Love is a fresh baked chocolate chip cookie straight from the oven.

2.       Your ego is a hot air balloon easily deflated.

3.       Sadness is a cool rain on a summer’s eve.

4.       Anger is a stinging hornet.

5.       Lust is an overly attractive female.

6.       Afraid is a flickering light bulb in a dark hallway.

7.       Knowledge is a book.

8.       Potential is a clear blue sky stretching forever.

9.       Ideas are snowflakes falling each unique in content.

10.   Childhood is a floating piece of wood at sea.

11.   Jealousy is and ex-girlfriend spying on you.

12.   Hope is the last strand on a lifeline holding you above a canyon.

13.   Hate is a raging forest fire consuming everything it touches.

14.   Greed is a power hungry politician willing to betray his own party.

15.   Stress is a nervous kid standing on a stage in front of the world.

sense this.

Hearing:

The wind blowing through the leaves. Then a soft snap and deafening crunch. Loud ringing, scrapping shoes against dry concrete, then a blood curdling scream and running.

Taste:

Foul tasting iron and copper, mixed with mud. The taste of bitter sweet walnuts still ripe on my tongue. Hints of black cherry Kool-Aid behind the taste of my own blood.

Smell:

Sweet baking cookies fresh from the oven. Salty sweat from hours of playing. A sharp tang of blood with hints of fresh cut grass. Some say concrete has no smell but I swear I smelt it as I laid there breathing in the smell of warm rocks and sand mixed together.

Touch:

Leaves in grasping hands and a small branch’s bark biting into my skin. A sharp pain in my head, soreness throughout my entire body like I had been laying there for ages. Balance shifting to stand up pounding pressure in my head, soft hair as I inspected my head then a warm sticky substance gushing between my fingers as I had found the wound I prodded deeper not feeling anything in my head then the smooth surface of bone.

Sight:

a little parachute man stuck in a tree. A small branch sister jumping up to grab parachute man failing to grab it gaze shifted up to the sky sharply. Blackness follows after I met the concrete. My sisters running inside, my dad running towards me, blackness.

Metaphor for me

1. If I were an animal, I would be a very misunderstood bear because, I am often overlooked and people are scared of me because of my size.

2. If I were a car, I would be a 65’ Gran Torino ss because I like to be fast but I can hold a few people if I need to and that I am old.

3. If I were an article of clothing, I would be a very thick coat because I like to be there when it’s cold and I can keep almost anyone warm.

4. If I were a day of the week, I would be a Thursday because I’m the one just before the weekend and I’m always the hey it’s almost over kind of guy.

5. If I were a food, I would be a giant slab of bacon because who doesn’t love bacon?

6. If I were a color, I would be the color green because I’m always happy and helpful.

7. If I were a movie, I would be the scary movie 4 because I’m always the end of the joke.

8. If I were a fragrance, I would be the smell of burnt hair because I am always burning my hair while I’m welding.

9. If I were a type of building, I would be a workshop because I am always building something.

10. If I were a plant, I would be a bald Cyprus tree because I can grow to heights people don’t think is possible.

11. If I were a musical, I would be a trumpet because I am always well-known but people don’t know how to deal with me.

12. If I were a geometric shape, I would be a heptagon because 7 is always my luckiest number.

13. If I were a piece of furniture, I would be a lazy-boy because I’m always the most comfortable person here.

14. If I were a song, I would be the song I would be bricklayer by stu marchand or meant to live by switchfoot because I am a meaningful person with lots of hidden meanings.

15. If I were an appliance or piece of machinery, I would be a MIG welder because I love to weld.

16. If I were a TV character, I would be jack black because I like to be funny and I’m good at what I do.

17. If I were a season of the year, I would be the summer because I like to be warm and see all the new um clothes.

18. If I were a natural phenomenon, I would be the fire tornado because I’m so rare I’m hardly ever seen.

19. If I were a cartoon or comic character, I would be taz because I can be very wild but I’m helpful.

20. if I were a word, I would be rhetorical because I am always the most obvious answer.

That one recipe no one can get right…

Michael Ray Sooter Recipe

This makes a one unique serving.

1 cup of laziness

½ tbs. of boredom

¼ tsp. of anger

3 cups of love

2 cups of thoughtful caring

4 cups of imagination

5 cups of patience

1 stick of pyromaniacs

2 quarts of gaming experience

2 gallons of pure skill

 

Step 1. Take the top three ingredients and mix in a bag these dry ingredients will need to be shaken not stirred. Set aside for later use. Later referred to as the explosive ingredients.

Step 2. Mix love and thoughtful caring into a human shaped pan does not need to be mixed thoroughly. Makes better boyfriend/husband if not mixed completely.

Step 3.  Take explosive ingredients and add to a bowl, carefully pour in gaming experience may take hours to slowly beat into a thick soupy mixture. MUST BE SLOW AND CAREFUL OR INGREDIENTS WILL CAUSE A VERY FOUL HUMAN PRODUCT (commonly referred to as the dill effect).

Step 4. Slowly melt pyromaniacs in sauce pan over very low heat approx. 120 degrees F. after it has melted take and pour over the thick soupy mixture in a spiral pattern so as to not let the mixture be uneven in content. Mix in to make a tannish looking soupy mixture.

Step 5. Take patience and pure skill and add them to the human shaped pan with the love and thoughtful caring. Mix well into a reddish looking dough.

Step 6. Add tannish soupy mixture to the human shaped pan. DO NOT MIX TOGETHER. Evenly sprinkle imagination over the top of the tannish mixture causing pleasant smell.

Step 7. Bake at 450 degrees F. for approximately 30 mins. DO NOT FORGET OR WILL HAVE SMALL FLAWS.

likes and dislikes

Likes

1.      I like the color green

2.      Swimming my favorite activity

3.      I admit to it I’m a big gamer kid

4.      My one true love thing that I have been doing since I could walk is to roller skate

5.      I like to eat chocolate

6.      I absolutely love to go fishing (I could do that for hours)

7.      Food in general (food is just the type of thing that goes great with me)

8.      Cool breezes on a summer night

9.      Money who doesn’t love having a bit of cash to throw around?

10.  I love my guns( the feel of the smooth metal)

11.  Welding is a dream job of mine

12.  Water I love being around it

13.  Women (well I’m not the kind of guy to like other men it wrong and weird)

14.  Hunting the most patience demanding activity besides fishing

15.  Books they are the knowledge being put forth onto pages

16.  Music it’s the souls symphony put forth into the world

Dislikes

1.      People who pass gas and blame others

2.      People who they think are great

3.      Lists (I can never complete them)

4.      Endings (this is the end)