Paul’s Blogging

I’m posting this from my itouch!!!

This has been a good week.

I got an “A” on both my tests. Yes, math, too (yay) and I didn’t have English class today.

This is what happened:

I got out of my College Success class early so, fortunately, I had just enough time to eat my apple. As I was eating my apple, I was feeling very disappointed that I didn’t finish my English assignment (due to a lack of time) and would therefore get and “F”. After finishing my apple, I walked into my class room with my head sorta ducked much like our moron dog does… DID… after doing a naughty deed such as peeing on a computer… Moms- computer. So I slink into class in a guilty manner and sit at my desk. The teacher looks at us all and instead of asking us if we all did our [INSANITY LARGE amount of] homework, she says, “alright class, let’s all go over to the brand new auditorium to hear so-and-so speak.”

Whoa, are we going to spend our class time listening to someone speak?! Ok, I’m cool with that. So instead of going over the homework that was DUE TODAY, we sat and listen to some guy talk about politics. He’s a lawyer of some kind and he wanted to inform us about the current political system. It was a great topic but, oh my gosh, I’ve never heard a dryer speech. He read straight from his note the whole time, he didn’t make eye contact but once, and he kept pausing as if he was losing his place in his paper.  Then when it came to Q&A, he didn’t answer any of the questions. His answer was the same almost every time. “I’m not at liberty to say” or “I’m not sure I understand your question.” It was just really boring but I decided to take notes anyhow. He was so disorganized that I found it very tough to note anything in a structured way. So, he finally finishes and we get out just as it’s time for Public Speaking. So, I was able to totally skip over English and now I have time to complete my assignments (yay).

I get into Public Speaking and my teacher asks if anyone attended the speech in the auditorium. I and a few others, raised our hands. He ask us how we liked it (he wasn’t there for it). We all told him the same thing. So, I know it wasn’t just me. Mr. Barton (Speaking teacher) was surprised. He said, “that really is too bad but if you write up a complaint just for me on what you felt about the speech, I’ll give you extra credit for this class.” (Woohoo!)

So, not only did I not have to get an F in English but I also got extra credit for taking notes!

Unfortunately, he told me he wants me to give another speech Tuesday, ha. But it can be on whatever topic. I think I’ll talk about the Internet…

So, today went pretty well.

Two days ago (16th) was also a very good day. That’s the day we bought a PS3! Wooohooo! I’ve been so busy, I haven’t had a chance to mess with it much, ha.

And yesterday was the day my tablet came in. I’ve used it all day for school and it sure is handy!!!

I’ll post pictures later.

{click “My Laptop” on the right sidebar there to see it}—>>

I have LAB to do now and I should prepare for my speech…

As you may have noticed, I haven’t blogged in a good long time.

Why? Well, as I usually say, I’ve been busy….. very busy.

So, I’m going to give you a quick update on what I have and will be doing.

I lost my wallet…..

This is a big problem.

Contents of wallet:

License/photo ID

Credit-card

Social-security-card

Important business-cards

Library-card

Money/Cash

Without my photo ID, I can’t go to college, ha, sorta makes sense.

Without my credit card I can’t really buy anything (thank goodness I at least have my checkbook).

Not having my social security card is ……not cool……

I need the phone numbers off of some of those business-cards (I know, I should have programmed their numbers in my blackberry).

Library-card…. I haven’t been there in fr’ever so who cares.

Cash…. I need that monies.

I’ve looked high and low for that thing…. but still, nothing comes up.

So, it looks like I’ll have to call the bank for another bank-card, call the local social security office for another social security card, take my passport into the DMV, and…. there’s not much more I can do for the rest of the stuff.

Moving on….

My grandpa came from AK and stayed with us a few days; it was great to see him. He is a very talented musician. While he was here, he taught us how to play different songs on our keyboard and broken guitars. It was a lot of fun because we were all making sense… that is, the music actually sounded….. good. Guitar is great but nothing beats the bass. I’ve always wanted a bass; it’s one of the two instruments I’ve *always* wanted to play (the other being the drums), ha. By the way I played the guitar, we could sorta tell that the bass was in fact the instrument for me. Sooooo…. we went out and I bought a bass……

Yep, that’s right, I bought a 5 string Ibanez GSR205, an excellent bass!

It’s a candy-apple-red with black accent wood grains. It plays so smooth… man, it’s awesome. I bought my bass on 06/26/08 – so…. Tuesday.

:D

After buying it, we all went back home. Levi jumped on the piano, Luke – the guitar, Grandpa – my guitar and I sat down with my new bass …oh, and Julie had the other little guitar. Wow, that was fun. We were all playing together and it sounded really good. Grandpa showed each of us our rolls for certain songs and we all sorta “found the beat”.

We played:

Pink Panther

Songs About Rainbows/Rainbow connection

Golden Eye theme song

And a few more

In the last 3 days, I’ve learned how to play the Mario theme song (fun), LOTR theme song, My City Was Gone, And I’m working on a few more. I’ve been practicing a lot. It is by far the coolest instrument. Any of you play bass? What songs have good bass solos? Any suggestions?

Here are some pictures:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That is a nice bass!

Look at its color!

 

See the black wood grain?

I love the perspective and lighting on this one.

 

 

 

 

 

Hello…..

 

For all you camera geeks out there criticizing my camera…… you’re right, your cell camera is probably better. :D

 

 

Good brand.

 

Look here:

http://www.ibanez.com/BASS/guitar.aspx?m=GSR205

 

 

Thanks Grandpa for helping me pick out the perfect bass.

 

It’s Grandpa!

 

 

And now for some random pictures:

 

 

Luke props her up like that…. so funny……..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And that’s it!

 

Later!

 

 

About 10 minutes ago 12:37 am on Tuesday the 27th of November, Susanna Hope Suarez entered the world.

I know she was having a little bit of trouble breathing at first. I don’t have a lot of information on her yet. I will update you all as I get the info.

I’ll be posting pictures at some point too.

Stay tuned and please, keep praying!

EDIT: Eric writing for Paulie here. He didn’t make it on to him computer so I’m just posting for him. Here is what he said on the phone.

Susanna weighed: 5 pounds

She is: 20 inches long

She has a good amount of hair and very cute lips.

 

 

 

 

EDIT: EDIT: Thanks Eric for updating this entry!

I’ve got a few more pictures for you all. I’ll post some videos later on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ok, that’s what I have as far as pictures go. I’ll upload the videos tomorrow. Too tired right now. Haha…

Eric here for Paulie again. He has no computer access because he is watching the kids. He sent me these videos for everyone to watch.