Erik's blog

One Too Many Legs

09erik — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:16:25 +0000

As I sat on the couch in the middle of watching King Kong, the girl had just ran inside a log, as she sat there three huge centipedes crawled inside the log. I almost had to leave the room, I hate centipedes; they have way too many legs and some are poisonous. Just the though of being stuck in a log with centipedes the size of a man made me freak out. The fact that they have forty or something legs scares me. Seeing a centipede is to me like looking face to face with a bull shark. As we continued to watch the movie three more popped out, if there is one thing I hate more than centipedes it is lots o centipedes. After King Kong, I went to bed. I had a dream about thirty centipedes crawling around me, but I was stuck under a log, so as I lay there, they crawled all over me with their 1,200 legs and antennas on me. Then I woke up. I do not like their forty leg and the way there antennas move around so quickly. They are too slimy and their long bodies creep me out. If I had one wish in the world it would be to get rid of all the centipedes in the world

My Fat Dog William

09erik — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:56:35 +0000

I was unsure of what to write this blog about until 20 minutes ago. So my mom has to go to a school comity meeting. She is a HW school comity member. So anyway, she is trying to rush out the door so she wouldn’t be late. She kept yelling at me “Erik feed the dogs!” I am up stairs listening to music and don’t hear her. So from what she told me after she just fed them. She said that William (my dog) was barking and was about to chew of her leg if he wasn’t fed. William is a chuwauwa and he is very fat. He really loves his kibble. So about 30 minutes after she left I venture down stairs to grab some jello. I grab some and call for the dogs to give them some (just a little). My other dogs, Toko and Clancy, came running, but no william. I call him a couple of times. After 2 minutes I come to the conclusion that my mom must have left the door open, and he must have escaped. So I go into my back yard and start calling him again, nothing. Now I’m a little worried thing that maybe he got across the street or into the wood, behind our house. So I run up the drive way and look down the street, he isn’t there. I run back down and walk into the woods a little and call his name, no response. I run back into the house to call my mom and ask her if she saw him before he left. As I walk toward to phone I hear “CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH” coming from the cabinet where we keep the dog food. I hit myself in the head and said “Oh my god william, really?” I open the doors and sure enough there he is looking up at me. He had ripped a hole it the bag and was knee deep in kibble. ”He probably eaten half the bag” I thought. When I picked him up sure enough was was at least 2 lbs heavier. I put him on the floor and he runs into the living room and he lays down on the couch. I pick up the kibble and taped the bag. ”He must have jumped in before my mom closed the door” I said to myself. I went into the living room and saw him passed out on the couch. ”Mom is never going to believe this one” I say out loud.

Sara Palin RAP

09erik — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:04:49 +0000

During the presidential election there was much abuse directed toward the Republican party. SNL I think was at the head of this strike. The constantly mocked McCain and Palin. The Sara Palin rap was SNL’s best idea ever. Amy Poler had been chosen to play Sara Palin in the rap. They remarked about her husband and his profession’s and mocked her geography knowledge. The quote “I can see Russia from my house” was used constantly. Since she was the governor of Alaska I think she had some of this abuse coming to her. I really did think she was qualified for the position, but that is my opinion. She has been taking on the big oils companies, but I don’t think that makes her qualified to be 1 step away from leading this country. There are hundreds of videos on YouTube under the Sara Palin Rap and not just the SNL version. I would recommend to check them out, they are hilarious. Some of them a little more appropriate than others, but still they are funny. There is one particular one call “The Sara Palin Rap, Club a Baby Seal”. This one had me in stitches. They are very cruel, but still funny. They didn’t only make fun of Sara Palin, but I think that she was the main attraction. They made fun of McCain and Hilary. They did one skit with both Hilary and Palin. They mocked everything about them, their looks, knowledge of the world, and their other political views. Some of these attacks were a little uncalled. Being an Obama supporter I didn’t mind the constant abuse of Sara Palin. Some of my class mates however are McCain supporters and I am sure they didn’t find them as funny as I did. I just wonder if SNL will stop tormenting Sara Palin, since the election is over. It was a good race between the two candidates, but as we all know Obama did win.

Call of Duty

09erik — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:38:41 +0000

Every night around nine or so my phone starts to buzz. I look down and as usual it’s Jake and the message “Cod?” I reply ”yeah” and walk up stairs. I turn on my Xbox and wait for the game to load. I get to the online window and sign in. Jake and I come to a map. All of the people on have mikes and are trashing one another for camping or doing something else they didn’t like. Then the game begins. Right from the start people are complaining about the opposing players. They use some interesting language and yell their heads off. Then they begin accusing one another of using a moded controller. This a special controller that makes certain guns shoot faster. This gets everyone really mad. They continue to swear and some times they start swearing in other languages. I can only imagine how mad a mother or father would be if they heard their ten year old son swearing at a person in another state or even country. I don’t think I would hear half the stuff I hear if kids knew their parents were listening. The kids playing probably think it is harmless and that know one really cares at all. After playing for a good 15-20 minutes it can get one peoples nerves. This would really only cause more problems. The it would just start a shouting match between the two kids. It doesn’t really bother Jake and I cause we just talk amongst our selves. There are two groups of people who play Call of Duty (Cod). The first groups are the people who don’t really care and just play for fun. Then their are the hard core gamers who get really into it. These people are the ones who do most of the swearing. This game really shows the inner anger that people have. How they choose to vent that anger is always unique when playing this game.

Breaking the Stowe Record

09erik — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:06:41 +0000

“Erik you should not be doing this, that isn’t meant for glades.”

“I’ll be fine, don’t worry about it”

“Both of you shouldn’t be doing it”

“Don’t worry, we will be fine”

I should have listened to Patrick. He is a smart guy, but nooooo, I had to go and do it any way. I never listen to good advice especially from my friends. I don’t know why, it is not like I don’t trust them, I just never do.

This was my third year going to Stowe and it was Jake, Will, and Patrick’s last year. So Jake and I decided to try something a little different. We had never done glades before and we thought “hey why not?”. Everyone else had been doing them and we were starting to wonder what the appeal was. I wish I had said no. I had a bad feeling about glades from the beginning, especially on snowboards.

We did it any way. It was awesome. I couldn’t have had a better time. We went all the way down the mountain. We went across trails and onto trails that I didn’t even know existed. There were a couple close calls, but nothing Jake, Will, and I couldn’t handle. As we were cutting across a trail, Will dropped one of his gloves. We were already past it, so we decided to get to the bottom and then go back up. We got to the bottom and hopped onto the chairlift. We landed and got off. Jake, Will, and I strapped into our snowboards and started heading toward the glades. We went down the first set of glades. We got to the end and hit a trail. We went off to the left and started going down. This is where it started to go wrong. I got stuck in some powder and couldn’t turn. Then came the tree. I put my hand up and CRACK! I stopped and sat down and yelled something a little inappropriate. I could tell my finger was broken, cause it was at a 50 degree angle. Will stopped and came back up. He helped me down to the trail, and we got a ski patroller to stop. He helped us down and at the bottom was Mr. Smith with Patrick and Jake waiting for me. I walked over to Patrick and said, “You were right, that definitely was not a smart idea.” I ended up breaking the record (no pun intended) for most broken bones on the Stowe trip. I don’t know if that is something to be proud of, though. All I know is that I wish I had listened to Patrick.

Eaglebrook

09erik — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:44:52 +0000

After a three hour bus ride to Eaglebrook, we had played seven games so far all leading up to this one game. The game that would decide if we would make Shore history or just go down as another team that had tried. We had fought our hardest and given it our all to make it to the Consolation Match. No Shore team had ever done better than 4th place at Eaglebrook. The last time they had made it this far was when Mr.Mellia, our assistant coach, was playing against Shore about ten years ago. We were playing against Rectory, whom we had lost to in the first game. They kicked the ball out of play down by their goal giving us a corner. Kieth, one of our midfielders, was taking the corner. He slammed his foot in to the ball sending it across the box. We all came rushing in. Sky standing up at the top of the box rushed in. He came out of nowhere and got his foot on the ball. It flew into the back of the net. We all yelled with joy all of us rushed in and jumped on sky only to remember we still had twenty minutes left in the game. We had taken the lead, now all we had to do was hold them off. It was the most tense and suspenseful minutes of our live. They had a couple shots but none where getting past Nate, our goalie. In the last couple of minutes their was lots of pushing and shoving for the ball, but we kept our cool. The referee blow his whistle, and it was all over. We all rushed to go and get Nate, shouting with joy all the way. The few shore parents who had came cheered. Mr. Smith called us in to shake hands with Rectory. We waited in the gym for them to give out the trophies, in our case ribbons. When they called our names Porter and Kieth walked up to get our ribbons. We were all ecstatic, it was our proudest day in our shore career. We had made Shore history as the first team to ever finish as high as third place. We shouted a cheered all the way home on the bus.