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April Fools Day

I'm am very sad to admit that this prank was not played by me, but on me. Since the  beginning of the school year I would make fun of my friend Curtesia for liking this guy, and she would always say she'll get me back. She never did, until April 1st. Again she told me she's going to get me back, and I took no thought of it. The whole day passed and still no prank! I then went to Jazz band. Now for those who don't attend my school, I don't have a lock on my locker, AND my locker had duct tape in it. Two major mistakes, I don't know how I could be so stupid. So my four friends, Christian, Curtesia, Macie, and Shelby finally got me back. I came back from Jazz band and my WHOLE LOCKER was taped with duct tape, making it impossible to open. I tore off all the tape, which took about 10 minutes. Then opened my locker  to find nothing. My stuff was gone. I was shocked, this isn't supposed to happen to me! I'M the one who pulls these pranks! I searched all my classes and eventually found my belongings. My gym bag was in a garbage can, backpack in Curtesia's locker, and my binders sitting under a desk. Once I found everything I left to track practice. I then realized that I never found the Duct Tape. I came to school the next day and three peoples lockers were covered just as mine were, and surely enough, their stuff was missing too. 

Band Class

So this last month my band teacher gave us a 15 measure song. He told us to transpose it and then memorize it. He gave us a whole month to do it, so i figured, it can't be that hard, so I put it off. (Mistake #1). Then the week of the test comes around and I don't even have it transposed yet, let alone memorized. I was hoping he would give us some type of extension, YEAH, keep wishing Baxter (Mistake #2). I transposed it Monday night. The test was Thursday. I then proceeded to forget about it (Mistake #3). Then Thursday comes around and he announces that he will be testing us in 20 minutes. I started freaking out. I quickly jumped in the hallway and played through it over and over and over again. I managed to memorize half of the song. He then proceeded to bring out the camera and told us to play in front of it. Everybody then began thinking, he won't be watching us, why not cheat! But of course the teacher was smarter than that. He then asked, as he said, a responsible student to make sure no cheating will be going on. And guess who he picked, ME! I immediately felt guilty. So everybody played in front of the camera and I quickly found out, I was a lot better off then some of these people. I played and then half way through nobody was coming. Thats when me and Christian started talking how bad of a mood our teacher was going to be in when he watched these, why not make his day. I have always sung an arrangement of When the Saints Come Marching in. It required two people and was very creative. I taught it to Christian and the show was planned. We then performed the song in front of the camera and it turned out hilarious. We had the whole class laughing, but our teacher still didn't know. Class ended and life went on. The next band class came around and our teacher talked to us about how horrible our tests were, he then said he will give us one more day to memorize and hopefully, get a better grade. Then he went on and said, but all I have to say about the playing tests... "Oh when the saints! Go marching in!" The whole class erupted into laughter, "That definitely made my day, that was awesome." The plan went across really well! And we got an extra day and I took the test again and Aced it. The week finally turned out... thanks to one song.

"How YOU Doin'?"

So when my brother got his cell phone he has been getting calls from someone looking for Matt. Time after time he tells them that this is the wrong number but yet they still manage to keep calling. Yesterday they called again and my brother told them Matt wasn't there and hung up. They called right back. He answered the phone and gave it to me. So from my view I figured that someone was prank calling my brother and he wanted me to prank them back. So I immediately said, "How you doin'?" My brother started laughing with me along with him. Then the person responded. "Good!, thank you sir, how about yourself?" It wasn't until then that I realized, crap, this is a real person meaning to have an actual conversation. I felt like a complete idiot. I just sat there trying to hold in a laugh. We sat there in silence as I tried to come up with something to say. I eventually gave up and just hung up the phone. Well one thing is for sure, i doubt the Matt he is looking for talks like that. I don't think we will be getting any calls again.

Valentines Day

So friday is dedicated to valentines day that day because the actual day is on saturday, how lame is that!?! So I decided to go all out. We went and bought a pink t shirt and then came home and put my own design on it. So I had three candy hearts saying hug me, be mine, and kiss me. I got a lot of compliments and everybody loved it. This was only the start of my valentine day adventure. The real fun was actually on valentines day. Our family made cookies and delivered them to people, ringing the doorbell and then running away. We left a card so they knew who we were but it was still fun. One of the best comments of the night is, as we were driving away my mom said, were lucky we got a new van so they don't know who we are. Wouldn't the card give that away? So we eventually came to our last house and as we drove up to their house dogs started barking and we were scared it endangered the mission (star wars quote). We quickly jumped out of the car and started to pet the dogs to calm them down. They stopped barking so we walked up to the door with the dogs following us. The whole time I was worrying when we ran back, the dogs would chase us and take us down. So the time came and we ran back to the car, I glanced behind me and the dogs weren't following me. The mission had been accomplished succesfully. We drove a couple of minutes then turned around and went to drive past the house to make sure they got the cookies. It was then that it hit us. The dogs were outside, cookies in the open, and they didn't follow me back. We quickly drove back to the house and jumped out of the car. About half way to the door the dogs bolted revealing the plate empty and the card in their yard. It was then when I lost it. I have not laughed that hard in a long time. I went back to the car and told my parents the cookies weren't there. Their response was good! They heard the door bell! I was laughing so I couldn't tell them what really happened. It wasn't until my brother brought back the plate full of dog slobber. Our whole family then proceeded to laugh. It was then that the owners answered the door. I sent my brother to go tell them what happened, I couldn't because i was still laughing! We then drove home laughing all the way. I would have to say, this is the best Valentines Day I have ever had!

Church Dance

This might  be a short post but oh well. As you probably have noticed i've added music to my blog. Well the song that is playing (most likely while you reading this) is by the Jonas Brothers. They play it at every church dance and it is like, impossible to dance to. Well about half way through the song the acoustic guitar stops followed by electric guitar and screaming... yeah about that... So when this song came on me and my friend Nathan decided to put our own twist on it. We waited until the electric guitar came and we both ran slid on our knees and played air guitar. It was hilarious to watch but rather painful for me and Nathan. It wasn't until then when we realized the gym floor wasn't so slippery. Both our knees were bright red and burning. Of course as we both got up with big smiles on our faces we didn't take notice to the major floor burns we just gave ourselves. We danced the night away until it was time to go home. We were sitting in the car when Nathan let out a yelp and shoved himself back into his seat. He looked over at me with pain in his face and pointed to his knees. I laughed so hard that I leaned forward, just as Nathan did, and let my knees hit the seats in front of me. I let out a yelp of pain and quickly jolted back, almost mimicking Nathan. The whole ride home we had amazing posture as we sat straight up in our seats, like the gentlemen we are.

Seminary

So getting up every single morning at 4:45 is hard. And to go to a class and stay a wake for that long is even harder. So getting there takes a lot of will power, and your parents threatening to ground you. Our seminary class is located in the basement of my friend Chris's house. His room is right around the corner so he has the easiest job, walking two feet from his bed to one of the chairs. And recently every morning he has gotten up, showered, and layed in his bed, asleep during seminary. So today we decided to get proof, to show his parents exactly what he was doing during seminary. The idea came to me when I found his video camera laying next to his bed, I picked it up and was so happy when it had a full tape ready to serve justice. We took the camcorder and started by filming him asleep in bed and then every twenty minutes we filmed the clock and then his empty seat. Our teacher was all for the idea, he was as excited as we were to finally tell on him. So 6:45 came and we filmed him getting out of bed and walking upstairs, now it was time to show his parents. We took the camcorder to his  mom and she laughed pretty hard. THEN chris served the consequences, and JUSTICE WAS SERVED.

The Dryer, I Mean THE Dryer

So a couple of weeks ago me and my brother went into the bathroom at Target. The hand dryer there was intense. It was called  the Xelerator. This thing blows so much air out, so fast, that your skin on your hand moves around. It is painful when you have your hands too close. So every time we go there we play around with it, sticking paper towels in the dispenser and seeing them shoot out and intelligent things like that. We got so much joy it was hilarious. Then the about a week ago me and my brother were sitting at home talking when we came up with the idea, how would it feel to stick your face under that dryer... What exactly would that feel like... the wind rushing past your face... the feeling of freedom. Today is when I experienced the dryer and i took the chance and stuck my face under the dryer. The feeling of wind rushing past your face, hair blowing around, the stinging brute force of the wind. It was amazing... I have never experienced that much force from a small hand dryer, i'll remember the date, write it down in my journal, January 27, the first day i stuck my face under THE hand dryer.

Rocket Launch

So today we had a get together with a group of friends and we had leaders from our church join us for our "adult" supervision to launch model rockets. The first ridiculous part of the morning was it was negative, let me repeat NEGATIVE six degrees without windchill. AND the launch site had a good two to three feet of snow covering the ground. So we all came with light spring jackets and tennis shoes and made our rockets. There was a wide range of sizes of rockets and each requiring different engines. The biggest rockets usually take about a engine 5. And the smallest one takes a 1. So we all launched our rockets successfully and got a lot of joy! Then we realized, crap, we cant feel our hands or feet. We all ran through the field back to the house and dethawed. Then of course we went out again, but this time we were prepared, we wore plastic bags over our feet! And thats just the start of it. So for the finale we put an engine 5 into a rocket that takes an engine 1. We figure well it'll either blow up, land on a roof, or hit one of us leaving us severely burned. Well why not try it! We launched the rocket and it automatically spazzed out and we all hit the ground. It flew over our heads in circles until ending up smashing into the ground burying itself two feet into the ground. We all laughed of course, not thinking at all what really could have happened to us. So overall it was a typical teenage guy get together! I wonder what's going to happen next...

So my mom just got photoshop for the mac and i just couldn't resist messing around with it, heres some of the pictures i made...

Finally I Post Something

So for the longest time i've been trying to come up with something to put on here but have never really come up with anything! But today I had a wonderful idea! Why not write about how wonderful a teenagers life is! Or to be more specific the wonderful/mindless life of a teenage GUY. So today me and a group of friends were stuck in a room for three hours and we about lost it. So we had to find SOMETHING to do. That's when my friend Shelby spotted a small cupboard in the corner of the room. That's when we had the idea... Lets see if each of us can fit in there! So we proceeded to make a barrier, hiding the person getting in the cupboard and see if we could fit! We quickly figured out that if you went in feet first, twisted your body so it was parrallel with the wall then you could easily slide in and shut the door. Just in case you were wondering, we all fit successfully! This was just one thing we did to keep ourselves occupied. The whole cupboard act got old real fast. So our next game... Hoodie Basketball. The point of this activity is locate someone with a hoodie on in the room and shoot small paper balls, and adding points if the ball lands succesfully in the hood. This game takes a lot of skill and practice. AND to add on to the fun, you get to see the persons reaction once they find all the small pieces of paper in their hood. As you can see we got a lot out of the lesson and came out of the class very confident in our knowledge of the history of the past presidential inaugerations. Overall it was a very good day