A good spot to put your xbox

Date:11/30/08

Time:2:12pm

Place:My basement

After having my xbox for over three years I know that there are better spots than others to keep it in your house while you are playing.  The system gets really hot when it lays down on carpets and things like cabanets that close up.  This cause the heat to circulate because it is in something that in inclosed.  You can also have nothing on top of your xbox because there are small vents on the top of it too.  If you clog up the holes, they will get too hot.  If the system gets to hot something really bad happens, and they call this the red ring of fire.  The xbox lights up green when you turn it on, its like a green circle or ring.  If this ring turns red you know there is a serious problem with your system.  You have to make sure its always turned off when you are done playing with it, that the number one problem why breaks or why it turns red.  Kids usually forget about it and just leave the system on, cooking, and waiting for it to heat up and break.  You really have to careful with toy, because its a real expensive toy.  You don't want to buy a next system that cost over 300 dollars.  To repair the xbox also cost a lot of money, therefore, you don't want to mess around.  The xbox360 is a great system to play with and have fun but you have to take care of it just like your car.  Other toys can be treated like crap, but this one cannot.  Many people who own this system is kind of old, so they know what they are doing but you never who might own one.  I actually have neighbor who lives across the street and he is only 12.  He own about 3 different expensive systems, but they point is that he's really young and doesn't really know how to work them correctly.  Now that he is familiar with a whole bunch of system he probably knows how to work them, but that came from experience.  I'm sure that some day when he was playing, the red ring of fire came on his xbox and he had no clue of what to do.  Just make sure to treat your xbox360 with a lot of care!

Need For Speed Carbon

Date:11/30/08

Time:2:01pm

Place:My basement

I have been playing xbox360 for about 3 years now and one of my favorite games that I have ever played on it was need or speed carbon.  The need for speed games very always one of my tops because I love car games.  This game has the best graphics, and this music is awesome.  If you don't even like the music you can put your own on the xbox and play it that way.  One of my favorite things to do in this game besides driving around and winning races is coustimizing your ride.  Any car that you won in the game, which is called "my cars", enables you to have the ability to coustimize your ride.  You can change things from the color of your car to the spoiler of your car.  Really, almost anything you can think of.  I love it, you can spend either 5 minutes fixing up your car, or 2 hours, its up to you.  I could enjoy sitting there for hours making it as nice as I possibly can.  After I am done with the car, I take it for a test ride against so other cars in the game. If its good, I would keep it, this way I can vs my friends when they come over.  I love making new cars and showing my friends how good they are, then I beat them in a race.  That just pisses them off though.  I always let my friends take turns playing the game, because sometimes it can get addicting and you play non stop for 3 hours without even knowing.  When everybody gets a try and none of your friends are sitting bored out of their minds, it just makes everything so much better.  The absolute best is when you have four controllers, and you play a a four way split screen race.  Racing against you friends can be fun, but intense.  Over all, need for speed carbon for xbox 360 is my most favorite game!  I cant wait to play it again.  I feel like I am getting addicted to it, but its not that bad yet.

Pillows

Date:11/28/08

Time:9:44pm

Place:My basement 

Pillows can be used to throw at people in the weirdest situations.    One can involve girls.  Its called a slumber party, or even a wild fight.  Fights can be determined through pillow fights.  I absolutly love pillow fights because they usually involve have a lot of fun.  Fun in my middle name.  When it comes to fun, I would do anything and everything to have that great night.  Throughout the day, I sometimes realize how pillows can be used for fun, for hurting, or for sexual reason.  The one main reason where I sill pillows throughout the day is when I'm with girls.  I cannot believe how people always seem to get hurt by the zippers on the edges of the pillows.  They always stick out, like they are trying to hurt somebody on purpose.  Right now I am sitting on two pillows.  One is shaped like a square and the other is round and puffy.  I perfer to sit on the puffy red pillow because it makes me feel at home and comufy.  The square shaped pillow is too hard for me to sit or lean on and that makes me feel uncomfortable.  They help your back for support reasons, this way your won't get a bad back when you are older.  I think I already do have a bad back, even though I am only eighteen years old.  This is why I put a lot of effort into having a good pillow for my back.  I cannot believe that pillows are always with me throughout the day.  I can't wait to sleep on my pillow in a couple of minutes! Good Night.

Sleep

Date:11/27/08

Time:11:36pm

Place:My basement 

Even though I am a very active person, I love to sleep.  In fact one of my favorite things to do during the day is to sleep.  If I had nothing to do all day, I would definitely sleep all day, and I would be so glad.  Sometimes I think about over sleeping and not getting up in the morning.  I do second think my self because I should really get up to start my day, but I usually just lay there and stretch.  I absolutly love it!  Sleeping the best,  I love to dream and have many flashbacks or memories.  Being all snug in my bed, felling comfortable, and having sweet dreams are some of the things that I would I could do every day for 10 hours a day.  To bad we only get about 6 to 8 hours a sleep a day.  I wish I got about 12 hours a day.  Sometimes I actually do get about 12 hours a day, but that on a day where I know I have nothing to do the next day.  That feeling is truly the best.  The feeling of dreaming until a day with no end.  It almost seems as if you already entered heaven.  Sometimes you can also feel bad, a feeling that you are going to die.  Many a feeling where you cannot breath correctly.  That can be an awful  dream, possible one that you feel like dying in.  The best feeling is truly when you sleep till no end, and in the morning there is nobody there to wake you up.  You do not want to be approached in the morning and be awakened by a stranger, or a family member that seems like a stranger because you just exited you dream.  When you exit your dream you do not know where you are therefore, you want to wake up comfortably.  I love to sleep, in fact I might just go to sleep right now.  Sleep is what gives you strength for the next day and what keeps you going, moving through your life.

Bobs Stores

Date:11/27/08

Time:12:26pm

Place:My basement 

One of my favorite places to shop is Bobs.  The closest one to my is located in Bayshore.  Bobs is one of many stores who always have discounts.  One store that is similar is Marshalls.  Bobs always has the best deals which is why I love to shop there.  Even when you don't know there is a deal going on, you are bound to find one.  Bobs have a lot of clothes that I like to wear including, ecko, south pole, nike, polo and ralph lauren.  Their clothes are not so called knock offs, they are real.  Some might be passed down by the actual stores, but not many.  They are all fresh, up to date, and ready to be worn on a beautiful man/women.  When shopping around in the store, I always run into people that I know.  Many people that I know also shop there which is a very good thing.  If other people seem that same way about the store just like me, I know that they have to be a good store.  Sometimes you second think or judge youself about going somewhere but I knew that this was a great store and it was right for me.  Bobs have excellent people that work there, who are very kind and willing to help the coustomer.  For example, when I was on the check out line one time, waiting to be rung up, the casher gave me a couple of great coupons.  I was so shocked and couldn't believe that I had just received the coupon.  Another time it happened to me, and it was by a regular shopper who was behind me.  The people that I run into seem to be so kind, and I love it!  Bobs is a great store to shop at.  If you can't get to the Bob's store in Bayshore, be sure to get to another one!

Remotes

Date:11/27/08

Time:12:12pm

Place:My basement

There are many different types of remotes.  I always had sony tv's therefore, i always had sony remotes.  They are great, very responsive, easy to click, usually light up in the dark and have long distance range.  I wish remotes were able to connect to the t.v. even if there were things in the way like clothes.  Sometimes when I try to change the channel, clothes or toys are in the way.  I wish some how, I didnt have to move, or stand up just to change the channel.  It would make you much more like a couch potato, but it would defenitely be worth it!  Also, sometimes when you change the channel by hitting the buttons like, channel 53, you have to press the enter button after word.  I personally cant stand that, it goes to the channel but not directly after.  I wish all you had to do was push the channel that you want, and it would go right away, light lightning.  Some remotes are too confusing.  The simpler the remote the better.  When you want to change the channel, you look at the remote, and if its too dark you start to look at all of these other weird button that you have no clue what they are.  If you read the manuel, im sure you would understand, but who has time to read the manuel these days?  I still go by the simpler the better.  Remotes are also a little big, unlike other things which have become much smaller over the past years due to our great technology.  They will probably drop half the size in a couple of years.  Remotes are an awesome invention though! 

Red Eared Sliders (Turtles)

Date:11/24/08

Time:3:39pm

Place:My Kitchen

I have had a red eared slider turtle for about 5 years now.  It is a great animal to have that does not disturb you much.  It likes to mind its own business, just like cats.  Red eared sliders are land/water animals. Ocassionally they like to go and hang out on the rocks to get away from the water.  They like to get sunlight and "tan".  When they are in the water, they seem to take it easy be swimming very gentle back and forth through the tank.  They do not look like they are in a hurry.  I tend to like relaxed animals that you do not have to take care of much.  I don't have much time, therefore, I cannot depend my whole day on taking care of animals.  I do have to occasionally clean out the tank about once every two months.  The turtle has to keep nice and clean and that's my responsibility.  My tank has gravel on the bottom and is sourrounded by many rocks to keep the turtle busy.  I used to have two turtles but the girl turtle died about two years ago.  I wish she stayed alive to keep the other turtle, "Timmy", company.  They always say to keep animals together, with a mate this way they do not get bored.  Its better to have a girl and a boy animal, rather that two boys or two girls.  Mating is a good thing, but if you want to neuter them thats perfectly fine too.  This isn't really done to turtles but when they want to have fun with each other they do on the side.  Most of the time you don't even know what going on with them.  When I did have the girl red eared slider, she used to go on the males back once in a while.  We had no clue what was going on, but who knows.  I feel bad because now Timmy is lonely.  Many for Christmas we will buy a need one to keep him company.  With turtles you have to be very careful not to catch salmonella.  Our red eared slider with kept free of they because they were raised on a farm, given organic food but you always have to watch out and keep clean.  Every time I touch them I wash my hands after words.  Red eared slider turtles are a great pet to have and you should get some of your own too!

Ring tones

Date:11/23/08
Time:1:10pm
Place:My room

I love to always have a new ring tone on my cell phone. Its what kids do, we like to be undated with the music of today. After a month goes by the ring tone starts to get old. I always find myself to constantly switch them to my liking. Some sound too loud on you phone, and others sound too low. You have to find the right ring tone that sounds the best with your phone because every phone has a different speaker. My phone is with At&t, and I think they have pretty good speakers in their phones. When I play a song I can crank it up to five bars, one being the least and 5 being the most. I usually leave it on volume 3, it sound nice and strong there, where everybody can hear it. Right now I have a ring tone called beautiful by Akon. He is one of my favorite artists right now, but they constantly switch. His music is like hip hop, but also kind of soft. Its also like rap because he rhymes, but he almost never curses. In about ten more days, I will probably changes my ring tone one more time. By the time Christmas comes around, I would have probably changes it about 3 more times. Its makes me feel fresh and up to date. When I feel updated I feel like I can show my new song to other people, because they usually don't know them. That makes me feel so good. I wish everybody could do the same with their ring tones, but people are too lazy. When people stick with the same ring tone for months, its gets so anoying. One of my friends has this gangster ring tone, and its been on his phone forever. I hate it so much, and wish I could change it for him. Anyway, keeping your phone updated is always a plus, especially your ring tones!

Christmas

Date:11/23/08
Time:1:00pm
Place:My room

Its that time of year, when the weather becomes extremely cold and the feeling of Christmas comes around. You know its getting close because you start to hear Christmas toons on the radio. When I toon into the radio stations, especially the AM part, the songs are played non-stop. I love Christmas music, its so relaxing. You normally hear the song being played after Thanksgiving. All of the stores decorate way in advance to get you to buy presents nice and early. Its like that with every holiday, stores love to decorate early. Christmas has got to be my favorite holiday, it brings my family so close together. I love that feeling. Its the birth of Jesus Christ, what can be a better holiday that that? My family is very religous, therefore, Christmas means a lot to us. It has always been a tradition and always will be. Sometimes we visit the Christmas tree in New York City; the tree is always tremendous. I love taking pictures of it and then going home to put them as my screen saver on my computer. Talking about pictures, we must take the most pictures during the Christmas holiday. Every where you turn, a picture gets snapped. During Christmas day is the most special, when all of the kids are opening their presents. I remember when I was young, a picture was taken with me every present that I opened. It was ok with me, but it did get kind of anoying after a while. We also send out many Christmas cards to all of our close relatives, and we put Christmas pictures inside of all of them. I truly love Christmas and I wish it came around more than once in a year! I can't wait till this years Christmas, it always seems to get better!

Snowboarding

Date:11/23/08
Time:12:48pm
Place:My room

During the winter time I usually go snowboarding. I like to go upstate to a mountain called Windom. The slopes are huge, but I have grown up to handle them. There are many different types of mountains you can go on. There are intermediate mountains, for the beginners, middle mountains, for the average, and the diamond mountain slopes for the experts. I was never able to make it up to he expert mountains because they looked so intense and I only go a couple times per year so I didn't think I was good enough. There is alway a challenge to try a Windom. One of my favorite parts of the mountain was when I went on the ski lift. Its so much fun! I never knew why they called it the ski lift and not the snowboard lift because ski's weren't the only things on the mountains. Maybe its because ski's came before snowboards. I actually never tried sking, I always kept with snowboarding. I have a great ballance which is why I think I am good on 1 board, oppose to 2 boards, like sking. Its a fact that skiers can go faster than snowboarders, but thats ok, we'll catch up. Windom has some awome slops you can go down for tricks. They are very dangerous but people still like to rish their lives everyday by tring new dare devil stunts. I went on the half pipe several time, it was so scary. When your about to make it to the top, you feel like your going to fall off. I also tried the grinding rail, that was much easier and a lot of fun! I hope I return to Windom this year to practice snowboarding again becasue I truly miss it. Snowboarding rocks!

Overload of Credits

Date:11/20/08

Time:11:42pm

Place:My basement

According to your weekly schedule a college student has to come up with free time that he or she can go to school.  This may be very hard for that person because work and many other things like sport activities interact with you hours.  This just makes it harder on you, especially when you are picking your classes.  If you do not register right away, the classes fill up very quickly, leaving you with less choices to pick from.  You want to register at the quickest time possible because it is easier for you to work around your busy schedule.  Many people overload themselves with too many credits/classes.  They say to be a full enrolled student you have to take 12 and a half credits.  Last semester I took 15 and a half and it truly wasn't that bad.  This semester I am going  to take 16.  I think this is a little bit of a challenge, and I am looking forward to it.  These semesters fly by, unlike High School.  I remember in High School, the quarter never ended.  It was horrible, I wanted to get out so bad.  College is nothing like that!  If you schedule yourself correctly and fit everything into your week without having to be stressed out, you will be in a great position.  My counsler said that I am on track with everything that I have to take for my major.  If I follow that rout, I will be out in two years and that would be awesome.  I meet people here at my college that have been going there for three or four years because of their lack of credits.  Some people just didn't know what to take and thats ashame.  They should have be guided in the right path in the first place, but now they are a little behind.  Its ok, as long as they graduate within a reasonable time.  I think I scheduled myself perfect with 16 credits and I am looking forward to it!

Photography

Date:11/19/08
Time:11:07pm
Place:My room

Over the past couple of years, I always had an interest in Photography. I knew this because I already had a passion in Art. Photography is like Art, but just on a different level. I used to Draw and Paint in High School and then I stopped for a while. I wanted to get back into the Art field, so I did. Photography is another way to express my feelings, just like painting them on a piece of paper. I shoot the images that I wish to be expressed. For example, shooting people and catching their emotions is fantastic. I love to watch to see them to react to the photo. I am also a loving person for animals. I took that out by taking pictures of them, especially cats. I have a cat of my own and I adore her. I take pictures of her all the time and I can never get bored at it. I also wish I traveled more, wish is why I want to travel the world and incouperate my photography skills while I' m traveling. I would be killing to birds at one stone, that would just make my day! I am currently taking Photography one right now in Suffolk County Community College and I love it. Next semester I will be taking Photography two and I can't wait. I have learned many ways of how to use my camera and they have helped tremendously. With the camera that I just bought now to long ago would have been impossible to use if I didn't have this class to direct me into doing the right things. There are so many different modes to set your camera and you have to make sure you are doing the right things on each mode. If you do, the pictures come out amazing! I cannot wait until Photography two!

Golds Gym

Date:11/18/08

Time:11:10pm

Place:My basement

When you think of keeping your body healthy, one of the things to do is to work out occasinally, like every other day.  If you are on a diet, you are have to work out or exercise to keep the diet working.  It not going to work with just working out or visa versa.  I recently went to Golds Gym and signed up for a membership.  Its about 3 minutes away from my house which is perfect!  My other 2 friends already have memberships there and love it.  They told me to join and I trust them, because if they didn't like it they would have told me.  I visited it today for the first time, and I really do like it.  Everything is new and clean, there is even an upstairs.  Traineers are there to help and to make sure you are working out correctly.  If you don't work out the right way you can hurt your body without even knowing.  One of my favorite things at the gym is the sauna and shower.  They both go hand and hand.  First, you go in the sauna for about 15 minutes until you sweat enough and feel pretty hot.  You don't want to stay in there for too long because that can be bad for you too.  Once the 15 minutes comes up, you hop out and jump in the shower.  I love the feeling of cold water hit my body after the sauna.  These are usually the last things I do before I leave because it makes me feel relaxed.  Working out usually comes before all of this, and when you take a shower and hit the sauna it relieves tention in your muscles.  Right before you leave, you want to feel relaxed and comfortable.  Last but not least, they have a food section with all healthy drinks.  There are even a couple of tables for you to sit down, relax, and enjoy a healthy drink.  They are expensive, but where aren't they!  I truly love Golds Gym, and they seem to suit my needs therefore, I am going to sign up.  I need to get back into working out because, its been about a good year.  After I get into the mode of working out every other day again I will feel great!

Monavie

Date:11/17/08
Time:2:14pm
Place:My room

My Mom and I are distributers for a product called Monavie. Its a health drink that consist of nineteen different types of berries. The flavor of all of them mixed together is truly amazing. There are three different kinds of Movavie, they include: Active, Pulse, and Origional. The Active is a berry drink that is geered more towards you joints. It helps you maintain a better sleep at night and when you are running around throughout the day, it will help keep you moving. The best feeling in the world is to be health, and to know that a product really works is great. We know that Monavie really works because people have replied, and said that after drinking it for about a month, it cured their cancer cells and helped remove problems like akes and pains all over their bodies. I used to have terrible pains in my back because I hurt it about a year back, but the pain always remained throughout parts of my day. Now that I drink Monavie, my akes and pains have slowly dissaperard. The berry drink called Puls is more geered towards the heart; it prevents clogged ariteries and helps maintain a over all health body. The Origional berry drink is more geered towards children. They remove ten of the berries that are too strong for children and replace them with ten other types of berries that are less potient. All of these products truly work and you should find out yourself by going to the nearest Organic store in your neighborhood. There are also slef distributers like myself who roam around, trying to get people to taste it because once you do you can't go back!

An early Christmas present

Date:11/16/08

Time:3:46pm

Place:My basement

There are so many different types of watches you can choose from.  I currently wear a watch that is water proof but for Christmas I would like a Fossil watch.  There is one that I have my eye one.  Its in the Bayshore mall, in one of the spots in the middle of the mall.  I need a fantasy watch to wear for special occasions.  My Nike watch I wear everywhere and gets very messed up.  Is not because I'm a messy person, but it comes to work with me and likes to get dirty.  I had it for about a year now, and Christmas would be the perfect time to buy a new one.  I would still keep my Nike watch for work and other places that I go because I always to have a watch on my wrist.  Its just that fact that I don't feel like I have a nice fantasy watch that I can wear to other special occasions, where I know that it won't get dirty.  If I go a watch messed up that cost over a hundred dollars I would be so unset.  Now that I am thinking about this Fossil watch so my, I told my Mom this way she would remember what I want for Christmas.  Hey, it makes a perfect present and I would be so happy, what better is there than that.  I already have a special place in my room that I would keep it nice and clean.  I am going to make sure that nobody can get to this spot, this way its out of the way of being stolen or even getting dusty.  My goal is for my Mom to get me this watch before Christmas!  That would truly make my day, any day, any time, any place!!

Fast Food Restaurants

Date:11/15/08
Time:8:20pm
Place:My room

After eating at fast food restaurants for a couple of years you start to think about how bad this can be for you. I realized that I probably eat at a McDonalds, Checkers, or Taco Bell about three or four times a week. This is so bad for your body, you should occasionally eat at a fast food place maybe once a month if that. If you go to a fast food place, try ordering a salad or something or the healthy side. I have high calorestoral in my family therefore, I have to watch out for my self. My own body is the number one thing that I have to be concerned with. If I could stay healthy, I could live a much healthier, longer life. And you just feel one hundred percent better with yourself. When working out you can think that you are doing good for your body and when you are hungry after words, don't eat at a fast food restaurant and throw your workout away. Go get yourself a salad to pile on that that great workout of yours. When eating healthy, you also want to workout and when working out you also want to eat healthy. They go hand and hand with eachother. Its like cookies and milk. If you give the mouse a cookie, he's going to want some milk. You have to think of it on a much bigger scale, but mostly think of the health of your body. Its so important for you, and we, teenagers, have to start thinking about this at a young age before its too late. You can always try and change your health around, but if you catch it at a prime time when your young, your possibilities of living longer and staying healthier are so much greater!

AIM

Date:11/14/08

Time:11:51am

Place:My basement

When you think about the ways of communicating with your friends, most of it is online.  Yes, you can definitely talk through the phone, text, or even send letters, but most ways are online including AIM.  AIM is an instant message, when the person can receive your message as quick as possible without having you to wait for a very long time.  This makes it very conveinent on both of you.  We live in a fast society therefore, we have to do things most effeciently and as fast as possible.  When you go on Myspace and send a message or comment, you have to wait for a long period sometimes to hear the response from them.  But, when you use AIM you can say much more in a smaller amount of time.  Its like getting in and out in a couple of minutes.  I believe better technology will come out that will be ever faster, but right now we probably can't even think about that.  Its like cars, in 2011 they will have these incrediable looking cars out on the road, but today we cannot even imagine them.  They have pictures of them in magazines but we have to visilize them at look at them first to believe what's happening.  Its the same thing with AIM, we cannot believe that that will make a better instant message system, but they definitely will!  I love AIM, its a great way to communicate with my friend.  I do it almost every day, at some point of the day.  Today, you can even go on AIM through your phone, so when you are not home you can do the same thing as if you were on your house computer.  AIM is slowly becoming larger all over and I love it!

Keyboards

Date:11/14/08

Time:11:41am

Place:My basement

There are so many keyboards that are different.  House computers and labbtops have their own creation of keyboards.  I personally got used to the labbtop keyboards on my MacBook because I have been using it much more than my house computer one.  I can still type really fast on my house computer keyboard though.  I especially love the keyboard on my MacBook because when you hit the keys you don't have to press down as hard.  You can lightly tap the keys, and this will be enough to hit they key, its that simple!  I feel as if I could type forever.  Everything on the keyboard seems so even, and when you spread you hands out across the whole keyboard you feel in sink.  As when you put your hand on a house computer's keyboard, your hand are flopping all over the place because the keys are higher up and this creates you to believe that the keys aren't even.  I also feel that I can rest my hands better on my labbtop because you hands are always down, touching something.  As when your on your house computer, you have to elevate your hands up a little because of the height of the keys.  It sounds really annoying, but most of the time we don't even think about it because we are so used to it.  I love my MacBook keyboard and I don't think I would ever go back!

Water Proof Watches

Date:11/14/08

Time:11:31am

Place:My basement

Many people buy water proof watching, thinking that they will stay water proof forever.  After a year goes by, they will probably loose their touch of being "water proof".  I have had a Nike watch now for a bout a year.  It still functions properly, the dials telling the correct time but, sometimes the screen gets a little foggy.  I have been taking showers with it for the last year, but hey if its water proof you should be allowed to.  I have gone in oceans in the summer time, many pools and some many others including my shower.  It has survived.  I wanted to know, even though it says "water proof", how long is it really going to last?  Sometimes it not 100% water proof, but this watch was.  I believe water proof products, especially watches, only last about a year until you have to buy a new one.  They can only remain water proof for so long.  It stinks, but thats how they get you to buy their new products next year.  The system of stores making money on these products are so rigged, that they have it down to a science.  They make money off of us so easily and we cannot do a single thing about it.  Anyway water proof watches work most of the time for me and last about a year but I wish they lasted much longer.  If you go out and but a water proof watch, get Nike, their awesome!

Gripping a Baseball

Date:11/11/08
Time:11:19am
Place:My room

There are many ways to grip a baseball, and being a pitcher a couple of years back I know the best pitches to throw at a batter. Some of my favorites include, a sinker, slider, change up, fork ball, curver ball, and I also make up a pitch called the slinker. As of these pitches give off a different rotation on the ball when it comes out of your hand. By doing this, you have to hold the ball a certain way and release it out of your hand a certain way also. For example, a curve ball is held by putting you index and middle finger on the outside seems of the baseball. Holding your two fingers tightly together, makes sure you index finger toutches the seem first and the middle finger furthest away. After you have you fingers located in the right possition, you have to practice your winde up and release. When you get the techniques down, the ball will just flow perfectly out of your hand and into the catchers hand. Practice makes perfect, and with every pitch that you throw you will experience a different throw. You have to use these throws on certain batters, to make them strike out. Every batter has a weakness and you will find it out during a game. Many batters weakness is a curve ball. When they see the ball comming a a 45 degree angle they think that its going to be a ball, but all of a sudden the ball comes in for a strike. There are many ways to grip a baseball and after you get them down you will be a master pitcher!

The Art Of Dressing To Impress

Date:11/11/08
Time:11:06am
Place:My room

In most places like Night Clubs, especially for Teens, their outfit is usually what makes or breaks them. Its usually gives off the first impression by not even talking to them. In clubs, its so ridicoulously loud that you can't hear anybody no matter what so the first thing you look at is their clothes. The guys can get away with wearing what ever, but when it comes to a girl, its like a competition. They dress so fancy or seductive because they want to stand out and impress the guys as best as possible. I think this is sometimes stupid, but there's a right place and time to dress like this and one of the places to do it at would definitely be a club. They cannot get introuble and there is nobody like parents around to tell them other wise. The bouncers do a good job of letting the right people in and making sure that no fights break out inside. They are almost like parents in the fact that they are watching out for you. Each club night has their own was of dressing for example, by colors, a style of clothing, or even by a holiday. There are so many different types of ways that you can dress that you cannot even think of but they are out there. The girls some how seem to catch a guys eye when they dress like it, which means they have done their job. Over the years, styles of clothing styles have changed drastically and the amount of clothing keeps getting less, especially for girls. I beleive, as the years move on, places like clubs will experience super little clothing on girls and they will probably get away with it!

New Printers

Date:11/9/08
Time:11:58am
Place:My room

As the years keep on passing, technology keeps on rolling. They make so many new products that blow others away. For example, printers a couple of years back worked like slow dionsaurs. Now they can print out a piece of paper in 2 seconds. Its truly amazing! I need to get myself a new printer imedatilly. They next time I go to Best Buy or Circuit City I will make an attempt of buying one. I would like to spend about 150 dollars and I'm thinking bout buying an Hp. I hear, they are one of the best. I am sure all of the brands do the same thing, but I like to go by the name. Any when you have a name brand product sitting in your house, like a "sony", it makes you feel special. You might not be rich, but having that quality procuct sure makes you feel good. There are many printers that come with a fax, but all I need is a printer that come with a scaner. They printers that come with a card holder for you camera is also pretty cool. I am very interested in looking into that, but I have to do a little bit more reasourch. I need to have a good up and running printer because I am going to school and writing up many assignment. Most of these assignments have to be printer, not writing in my notebook. They teacher probably wants the papers to be all neat, this way she can read them without having any problems. I can't wait until I buy my new printer and but it to good use!

Led Pencils

Date:11/9/08
Time:11:48am
Place:My room

Pencils are always great to use, especially during a test because when you make a mistake you can erase it. Trough out my High School career I found lead pencils to be my favorite. They are very small and skinny and fit perfectly in my hand. They are light weight, and when you write with them, your hand just flows. When you have to refill them, all you have to do is go to Staples and buy led. Led doesn't even cost that much money. A regular pencil you would have to go out to a store and buy new ones, but these you can reuse. I also find that the erasers on the led pencils are better. When you have to make a correction, they don't make a smudge and leave marks. That is very key because you always want to look neat, not messy. If the teacher sees messy smudges, he/she might think you were cheating. These pencils serve the best purpose and I believe that nobody should go out and buy regular pencils. After you use led pencils you cant go back. They even come in many different colors including: red, green, purple, blue, and black. You can almost have one for even day of the week, how great it that! They next time you go to a store that sells pencils, take it into consideration and try the led pencil. Trust me, it works!

Checkers

Date:11/9/08
Time:11:38am
Place:My room

When I am bored I usually place checkers. Its a game of pure thinking. They say old people should play games like these because it keeps their memory going. But for youngsters like me, its a game about winning. It takes a lot of skill and practice to get good at the game. I have been playing for several years and it all started when my Grandpa taught me. He was always into card game, checkers, chess, and many others. I wanted to know how to play, especially checkers, so he taught me. I have been using his knowledge to play against my friends, and trust me it works. I have became so good at checkers now that I wish I was in a tourtnment or something. Playing a game for money, how cool would that be? I would definitely enroll myself in something challenging like that. Every once in a while I challenge a friend into playing me. They always under estimate me, maybe its because I'm short, I don't know. It works for me because they are all hyped up, until they see my strageties. Its not a game about who's smarter, but who has more skill. It really does make you think, and befoe you make a move you have to study it. You have to think about what move he might make. Always backing yourself up is a pluse, you have to be ready for anything. Checkers will always be one of my favorite games to play! I will never get bored from playing checkers.

Montauk

Date:11/9/08
Time:11:27am
Place:My room

A great place to get away and relax is Montuak. I have went there many times with my friends. We have taken the train and also drove there. Any way you go doesn't matter, as long as you get there. My friend's parents have been staying at this hotel for the past 35 years, therefore, they get us a great discount when we sleep over. The rooms are amazing, and they even have a pool to cool yourself down when you are burning up. I love the pool, I can't stay in the water for a long peroid of time so a half an hour is good enough for me. I don't know how people stay in the water for over an hour, thats just ridicolus. When it's night time, you can walk around, venturing into the narrow streets. We normally have no clue where we are going, but always see to end up by a restaurant. Its at great ball of fun! The shops are endless, there are so many places to spend your money. I remember I went there with 200 dollars and I spend it all in a couple of days. Their prices are much more expensive over there because the people are filthy rich. All the cars you see pass by are brand names, they don't fool aruond! I also love fishing, fishing is one of the main attractions out there. There are known to have the best fish or "keepers". I always try to go at least once when I am there, it just makes my trip espcially if I get a keeper. For close traveling, Monkauk is the way to go!

The Almond Joy that looked like A Rock

Date:11/5/08

Time:10:47pm

Place:My Kitchen 

As family members and friends casually walk into my kitchen then find something that attracts them.  This Almond always seems to draw their attention.  I never knew why until I realized myself.  Its a bag that looks like Almonds are stacked to the top.  In fact, they are stacked to the top, but they are not Almond Joys.  They are rocks, almost like paper weights but not that heavy.  My friends, and myself included tried to eat one.  It was incrediably funny, but very dangerous.  If you threw it in your mouth you could have broke a tooth, or even chocked on it.  We had to take it off the table within 2 days because this was happening to too many people.  It was a great joke that wasn't intended to be a joke.  Oh well, we have learned our lesson.  I now look at this bag in discise and remember all of the hilarious moments that have occured.  You cannot take all things as they look, especially.  You shouldn't put anything in your mouth that you don't know where it came from.  Its the funny moments that catch our eye, and this one especially caught mine because it wasn't intended to be funny.  This fake bag of Almond Joys now sits on our dining room table, waiting for its next prey, for them to take a bit at it.  It keeps moving around the house because its a nice decoration and we don't want to get rid of it.  Its also like a merry go round, you'll never know where it ends up.  Don't forget, inspect what you eat, especially if they look like white rocks!

Men's game on Women

Date:11/4/08

Time:3:39pm

Place:My basement

Through movies and past experience, each man puts on his own type of game plan.  There are many ways to make a woman happy and laugh, have an extremely good time, but how do you keep a woman?  You have to be loving, affectionate, and caring. The little things are what count the most.  In a kiss, first touch, or even a conversation.  The first impression of you can be the most important, in fact it is.  Everything a man does with a women the first time will lead the lady into how she feels about him.  He has got to come off as strong and well-rounded, maybe even do something to impress her that a guy has never done before.  By standing out to her, her feelings for you soon become closer.  Love starts to take place, if your lucky.  The word "game" has a lot of meaning, and if you do it correctly and not mess up, you might have found yourself the right woman.  I was watching a movie called "Hitch" and it was about a man who helped others find love who were extremely bad at it.  You can be the ugliest man alive, but as long as you know what you are doing, and have the sense of "game" in you, you can come out on top.  This man Hitch said, " When you kiss a girl for the first time, do it like you mean it.  Come about 90% of the way to her, and make her come the last 10".  Its a stragety that works for him, and each man has a different stragety that might sever his purpose a little bit better.  Just remember, if you got game you can have any woman of your choice!

2012..The day the world comes to an end

Date:11/4/08

Time:3:25pm

Place:My basement

According to the Mayan civilization, they recorded information of their calendars.  Their calendars were one of the most accurate, especially for their time period.  Many people wonder in confusion, it their prediction will be correct.  They were right on many things that the predicted long before they happened, but who knows.  I guess we are have to let the year, day, and time arrive to us before we know anything else.  I believe the world is not going to end in 2012 because at the rate of this world, its not possible unless something falls out of the sky.  Many people predict that Global Warming is a huge cause and might end the world, but not now.  If you think about it, maybe the Mayans were the smartest of their kind, and we have no trace to see if they really were.  Maybe, a new generation of people came about and we are now further in technology than what the Mayans had discovered.  We read articles online, hear stories on t.v., and with those assumptions we have a hypothesis.  My hypothesis is simple, as the year 2012 passes us, a new discovery will be made, telling us when the world might end again.  Its like a continuous trend of people, stating their predictions from era to era, century to century, eon to eon.  Word gets around, but as long as there's people on Earth, we will survive.  One of many things that can wipe us out have been figured out due to science technology, but those occurances are long to happen.  Our great great grand kids might not even witness this happening, but someday it sure will.

Overly Tired

Date:11/2/08

Time:12:26am

Place:My basement

When your tired colors start to fade out.  Looking at orange and blue seems to get my mind all confused.  Its like I'm looking at both colors at the same time.  The kind of magically mix together, creating a cool wavy like color.  I guess most of the time, I am too tired that I don't remember what I see.  Colors go blur, but its ok as long as I am going to sleep.  If this happened in the day time I would be in deep trouble.  I would have to go and see a doctor because something would be definitely wrong with my eye sight.  When you get tired you cannot consentrate and sometimes you just get knocked out.  Not like a puntch, but as if the world just came down on you.  Its like gravity pulling you down and sweeping your feet right off the ground.  I wish I were sleeping half of the day because I truly love sleeping.  Its that moment before you go to sleep that you start to doze off.  This is when colors look bizzar, and your eyes start to twinkle.  You would never think of this until you experience it yourself.  People think other people are crazy but that just a way of life.  Most people don't believe anything, until they see it with their own two eyes, or if they experience it themselves. That's perfectly ok with me, because if you know it happens you don't have to argue with anyone.  People state arguments for a reason, but I like to keep it to myself.   But I know for sure, that when colors start to flicker it about time to go to sleep.  Thats about time when people say good night.

Cell Phone Chargers

Date:11/2/08

Time:12:13am

Place:My basement

I truly hate cell phone charges.  I once had a phone that was very decent.  I liked it a lot and it had many functions to keep me busy, but the one thing I hated about it was its charger.  I would plug it in, in the beginning of the night before I would go to sleep and then throw it under my bed.  Anyway, as the morning would arrive, I would expect my phone to be fully charged.  If it wasn't I knew there had to be a bad outlit, or maybe a light switch wasn't turned on, forcing the phone to not get charged.  But no, I checked and double checked everything in my house to make sure there was nothing wrong with this charger.  My phone was down to half way in less than an hour.  I could not take it anymore!  I had to persuade my mom to buy me a new phone.  It had to be either the phone itself or this crapy charger that always got me upset.  A year later, I received a new phone with a new charger.  It was the best day of my life, seriously.  The first time I plugged it in, I closed my eyes and prayed to God that it would work.  I had to wait till the morning, pondering in my bed about what I am going to do when it doesn't work.  When I go up, I jumped up, flipped it opened and at last I saw a full bar.  This wasn't a tool bar I'm talking about, it was a FULL battery on MY phone.  I could not believe it.  I guess phones over a year old have horrible charges, phones today are so updated with technology and I love it. 

Blogs

Date:11/1/08

Time:11:58pm

Place:My basement

As I think to myself, I wonder why am I writing these blogs.  Is it because I have to, or maybe because I want to succeed.  I think it just hits me, and I remember automatically that I have to blog for English class.  Its always in my mind and especially hit me at night.  I always want to get it done no matter where I am because in the back of my mine education always come first.  I i had to go out with my friends, I would tell them that I would be there in ten minutes, this way I could blog.  Friends can wait ten minutes for you but your education cannot.  I rather get my education at a young age, than rather go back to school when I am older, I guess its a way of life.  When I sit here and write my blogs thats what I mainly think of.  Sometimes I get carried away and feel as if I could write forever.  I actually love to write, which most people think is crazy but I don't care.  If you make writing part of your everyday life, you will just do it and not complain.  Almost like driving your car everyday, you just do it with no questions asked.  Blogs are very important, and by writing everyday you gain knowledge more than you know it.  If you go off about a topic and explain it in a certain manner, you are actually teaching yourself and making yourself better at what you know.  The best way to learn something is to teach it, and by doing that you have to fully understand what you are teaching.  By writing blogs, you can get the feel for understanding the concept of whatever it is easier.  As I type away, I come up with new ideas that I would have never thought about which is why I love to write.  As English class ends, I might have to keep writing for myself.