Watching You

So this post is a day late, because I have been packing and moving all week and haven’t had time. Then when I had time to do it I found out that I don’t have any internet. So here it is.

The other day I was listening to my favorite radio station, 101.5 FM, and I heard my new favorite song. It’s called Watching You by Rodney Adkins. I asked my dad to listen to it, because I have a goal to find songs that he and I both like. So I played it for him and he interrupted the song and said that he has already heard the song and it’s one of his favorites. So I’m going to share it with you.

Drivin’ through town just my boy and me
With a Happy Meal in his booster seat
Knowin’ that he couldn’t have the toy ‘til his nuggets were gone.
A green traffic light turned straight to red
I hit my brakes and mumbled under my breath.
His fries went a flyin’, and his orange drink covered his lap
Well, then my four year old said a four letter word
It started with “S” and I was concerned
So I said, “Son, now where’d you learn to talk like that?”

Chorus:
He said, "I’ve been watching you, dad ain’t that cool?
I’m your buckaroo, I wanna be like you.
And eat all my food and grow as tall as you are.
We got cowboy boots and camo pants
Yeah, we’re just alike, hey, ain’t we dad?
I want to do everything you do.
So I’ve been watching you."

We got back home and I went to the barn
I bowed my head and I prayed real hard
Said, “Lord, please help me help my stupid self.”
Just this side of bedtime later that night
Turnin’ on my son’s Scooby-Doo nightlight.
He crawled out of bed and he got down on his knees.
He closed his little eyes, folded his little hands
Spoke to God like he was talkin’ to a friend.
And I said, “Son, now where’d you learn to pray like that?”

Chorus:
He said, "I’ve been watching you, dad ain’t that cool?
I’m your buckaroo, I want to be like you.
And eat all my food and grow as tall as you are.
We like fixin’ things and holding momma’s hand
Yeah, we’re just alike, hey, ain’t we dad?
I want to do everything you do; so I’ve been watching you"

With tears in my eyes I wrapped him in a hug.
Said, “My little bear is growin’ up.”
And he said, “But when I’m big I’ll still know what to do.”

"‘Cause I’ve been watching you, dad ain’t that cool?
I’m your buckaroo, I want to be like you.
And eat all my food and grow as tall as you are.
By then I’ll be strong as superman
We’ll be just alike, hey, won’t we dad
When I can do everything you do.
‘cause I’ve been watchin’ you."
hey yeah
uh huh

Dreams

Dreams can be fun, interesting, scary, exciting, sad, happy. They can be many things. I am going to give you some meanings of things in dreams to help decipher what your dream is about or is revealing to you.

"Red: Dreaming of red is about activation, physicality, passion and intensity."
Orange: Orange in dreams is a sign of equalization, balance and temperance."
"Yellow: Yellow color meanings in dreams radiates themes of centralization, focus, awareness and reminds us of our role as humans within the context of the whole."
 "Green: Color meanings of green in dreams often point us in the direction of growth, healing, love, giving, and inspiration."
"Blue: The color meanings of blue in dreams point to thoughts, ideas, dreams and the ability to convey them."
"Indigo: Indigo color meanings in dreams are about psychic tuning, contacting the ephemeral, and connecting with spiritual vision. Indigo goes deep, real deep."
"Violet: Color meanings of violet dreams indicate divinity, peace, tranquility and enlightenment."
"Dreaming in black and white indicates a heavy reliance on structure, uniformity and order. Black and white dreams point to a distinct separation between reality and fantasy."
“falling is an indication of insecurities, instabilities, and anxieties.”
“To dream that you are taking an exam, indicates that you are being put to the test or being scrutinized in some way.”
“Chase dreams are one of several common dream themes, stemming from feelings of anxiety in your waking life.”
“the Clock may indicate that you are afraid that life is moving by you, or things are moving too fast”

When you have a recurring dream then it’s said that that dream is important to you somehow. For instance I have had one dream that I have kept having for a while now. I am at a basketball game when a dinosaur comes in and starts attacking everyone. Me and another person, who I don’t know, start running together and try to get away from the dinosaur. We try everything. Then we find my parents who run away with us, trying to get away from the dinosaur. We finally hide under the seats and are saved sometimes. Other times we are eaten for lunch. Which trust me, it’s not very fun at all. I always wake up right before I get eaten, gratefully.

I have come to know that the dinosaur that I keep seeing in my dreams is a dinosaur painting on a building down in Thanksgiving Point. So that painting means something to me. I don’t know exactly what or why it means so much to me. But somehow it just does.

I hope that one day I can fully understand my dreams and not be in the dark about their meanings anymore.

To Kill a Mockingbird

 I don't know what to write about again... so here is another essay that I wrote. This time it's for English.


 “It was not until many years later that I realized that he wanted me to hear every word he said.” That quote represents how Atticus, the father, taught his children. The theme in this book is, “Education is not limited to the classroom.” Scout is only six year of age and she is very smart. She already knows how to read and write before she enters the first grade. She learns many life lessons over the course of this book. Education is not just math, reading, and writing. There are also many life lessons that she had to learn to be productive in life. Scout has learned many of these lessons early on. Atticus also taught her to not judge people without getting to know the circumstance that they are in. Scout was very smart for her age.
 Scout started school in the first grade already knowing how to read and write. Atticus read to her while he followed the words with his finger. While Calpurnia made her copy phases from the Bible causing her to learn to write. She was never learned these concepts at school, she learned them at her own home. This is one example of the theme, “Education is not limited to the classroom.”
 In to Kill a Mockingbird, Scout goes through many hard and educational life lessons. Her dad, Atticus, is lawyering for a colored man. So she learned how to fight with her head instead of her fists, when kids were being rude to her. She didn’t want to disappoint her father so she often let fights go. She is trying to remember that you can’t let what people say bother you. This enlightening lesson, again, was not taught in the classroom. Her dad gave Scout some advice to help her with one of her problems.
 “It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.” Atticus was trying to comfort Scout when she was called an impolite name. The name that she was called really made her miserable. When Atticus said these small, little words, it sparked something inside of her. She wanted to change. Scout didn’t want anything that people called her make her angry. Her friends called her names because of what her dad was doing with his job. Yet she remained firm and didn’t let the names bother her, and started seeing things from other people perspective.
 Atticus realized that Scout judged people a lot, so he had a talk with her. He said, "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view- until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." Scout never thought about life that way. Nevertheless, Scout respected her father so she took this lesson to heart. One instance that she portrayed this in her life was when she hopped into Mrs. Dubose skin and walked around in it for a while. As she did this, Scout realized and understood why Mrs. Dubose acted the way she did. Mrs. Dubose was always mean to her and her brother, Jem. Soon as she walked around in Mrs. Dubose’s skin Scout realized that she was sick and that’s why she acted the way she did. Mrs. Dubose wasn’t the only one that gave Scout a hard time, her Aunt Alexandra did too.
 Scouts Aunt, Aunt Alexandra, comes to stay with Scout and her family. She tries to get Scout to act more like a young lady than a boy. She tries numerous ways to achieve her goal. But when Tom Robinson dies, a black man that Atticus was defending in court, and Scout sees that Aunt Alexandra is still acting like a lady she realizes something. “After all, if Aunty could be a lady at a time like this, so could I.” Scout learns from example the best. She learned that you could be a lady even when times are hard. She couldn’t have learned this lesson from Aunt Alexandra talking to her about how important it is to act like a lady. Scout learns a lot by example although she learns a lot from her father, Atticus.
 “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird,” said Atticus. This little phrase taught Scout a lot. This line from the book means that people shouldn’t hurt anyone that didn’t do anything wrong. Mockingbirds just sing and don’t bother people. So if a person hurt a mockingbird, Atticus says it would be a sin.
 In conclusion, people could learn a lot from Scout. She is young, however, she acquires many educational lessons, by which not all were taught in a school house. All of the examples above were leaned in life not inside the classroom. Most people when they think of education they think of school. But this proves different. Education is not just in the classroom it’s everywhere in life. Scout learns things just by walking around her town to having talks with her father. As you have read above, “Education is not limited to the classroom.”

Sugar trade

 I don't know what to write about this week. So I'm putring up an essay that I had to do for Geography. So here it is.

I love sugar, don’t you? Sugar is a magnificent invention. The first indication of sugar was recorded in England in 1317. England loved sugar so much that they wanted to make a lot of money off of it and keep it all for themselves. The quantity of sugar increased due to the high slavery population. The sugar trade was driven by consumer demand, slavery, and profits. These three concepts are very significant involving the sugar trade.

Consumer demand was high because people treasured sugar so much. They wanted more and more of it and couldn't get a sufficient amount. In document 3, the author illustrates how much people loved sugar by showing little kids licking the barrel in order to get every last bit of sugar they could. Because they loved it so much, they started putting sugar in everything. In document 4, the author says that sugar was used as a sweetener. For example, they put sugar in coffee and tea. Over the years, sugar became really popular. The population of Britain began to increase causing more sugar to be brought into the country. In document 5, the table says that as the population increases and sugar is imported, the more sugar is consumed by each person.

Savery is thought to have started because the consumer demand for sugar was so high and merchants needed additional people to help make it. The slaves were expensive to buy. In document 9, the author says that an adult male slave could be bought for 14 British pounds in 1748. Generally, the merchants were the only ones who could afford to spend that much money on a slave. In document 10, the table says that when there is an increase in the slave population there is an increase of sugar being made. Since slaves made the sugar, it only makes sense that this happened. For example, in Jamaica in 1703, the slave population was 45,000 and 4,782 tons of sugar produced. Then in 1730 there was an increase in the slave population and how much sugar was made. In document 11, the author lists certain things that English merchants traded for slaves. They would trade bullets, iron bars, copper boars, woolen goods for example in exchange for the slaves that they wanted. Slaves were in such a high demand, that merchants were trading everything that they had to get slaves. When they had the slaves they were more capable to produce sugar to make money.

Since everyone sought to make money off of sugar, profits are another thing that drove the sugar trade. If you wanted to make money then you had to foremost get the plantation in order and all set up. In order for you to do that, you have to have the money, so all of the plantation owners had a lot of money. In document 7, the author says that they inherited their money and were absentee owners. In document 8, the author illustrates how it would have looked like to make the sugar. You had to boil them and the workers weren't treated like humans. If they were treated fairly then they wouldn't have been able to make as much money off of the sugar, because they would have to pay the workers causing them to lose money.

As you can see there are three main points that drove the sugar trade. One of the points is consumer demand. There were numerous people who sought sugar, so sugar was in high demand. Slavery was the second point. If there were no slaves then there wouldn't have been as much sugar being made. The third, and final point, is profits. Everyone wanted to make money. Making and harvesting sugar was the perfect way to do that. So to answer the question of what drove the sugar trade, the answer is profits, consumer demand, and slavery. The ecomony has to be balanced. If one economy is unbalanced than it throws everyone's economy off. The sugar trade helped with keeping everyone's economy balanced.

weekend

I think I always write about my weekends… my week days I guess aren’t exciting enough to write about. Oh well, life goes on then you die anyways.  So anyways my weekend… yup you guessed it, it was another eventful one. Well I’m moving, I can say that in the open now. So on Saturday, my parents took my brother, my other brother, and I to the new house to look around again. We looked around and talked about what will have to be done to get it to where we want it to be, because there was a Jamaican family that lived there before. So we have to do a lot of changes on the house. For instance we have to paint. The paint job in the house is not even good. There were different colors in every room with stripes everywhere. It wouldn’t have been that bad if they made the stripes straight and there weren’t any drip marks everywhere. And since they were practically kicked out of the house they didn’t clean it or anything and they left random junk everywhere, but enough about the house. It was a fun day there. 

Then later on Saturday, we watched Lord of the Rings. I have never seen Lord of the Rings before. When I was younger my parents let my watch it. However, I got really scared when I watched it. So I hid my head a lot when I watched it. So when I watched it fully a lot of parts looked familiar. But it was still good. I got to watch all three movies on Saturday. It was a real good day that day. On the final movie my parents ordered pizza. It was my dad’s birthday so he got to pick what he wanted for dinner, and he picked pizza. We got the pizza from Pizza Hut. It was really, really, really, really yummy. My dad wanted the meat lovers, Hawaiian, and chicken pizzas. They all were really yummy. My favorite pizza would have to be the meat lovers. However, I didn’t like the sausage that was on the pizza. I am defiantly not a fan of sausage. I don’t like how it has a rubber texture. But I do not know. I mean I used to like sausage, but just not anymore. I do not like the texture about it. You know some foods you just can’t stand because of the texture. Well that is how it is for me with sausage.

I love weekends. They are always full of joy and happiness. Well… at least it is for me. I normally don’t have to do any homework buy this week I do. I hate when that happens. Oh I am babbling about. I guess I am just excited for Christmas. Christmas is in exactly one week. That makes me very happy. I may sound like a little kid. But at this time of year, that is exactly what I am. A little kid.  

Breakfast with Santa & the Forgotten Carols

Over the weekend, I went to see the Forgotten Carols and I went to volunteer for breakfast for Santa. It was a fun weekend because my sister came home for this special event. She is usually away in Logan attending Utah State University, so this was a unique time.

                On Friday was when we went to the Forgotten Carols.  It was shown at Cottonwood High School. It was a long drive to get there but in the end, it was worth it. The play is about a nurse, Connie Lou, who works a lot and is a workaholic. Then her boss thinks she works too much and has her go to a patient’s house to help him out. The play goes on to tell some Christmas stories that the old man, Jon, has to share. As he tells these holiday stories, Connie Lou’s outlook on Christmas changes for the better, she realizes the true meaning of it.

                My favorite part of this play was all of the stories and songs. For each story, there was a carol to go with it. My favorite carol would have to be the Inn Keeper’s. His carol is about how he should have let Mary and Joseph into the Inn for the night instead of sending them away. This song was very well written. I liked it so much; I even have the song on my iPod so I can listen to it when I feel like it.

                After the late night Friday, we got up early and went to volunteer for Breakfast with Santa at Thanksgiving Point. We had an extra seat in our van so my dad said that I could invite a friend to come with us, I decided to invite Brenna Sorenson. She is one of my best friends and was an easy choice to choose her. My dad and I went to pick up Brenna while everyone else finished getting ready. When we got there, she was not coming out, so I called her. The operator on the phone said that it was not able to go through. So I went and knocked on her window. I was afraid that I would scare her when I did this. But she was not even up yet, her alarm didn’t go off. So she woke up when I knocked on her window. She realized that we were within for her and she hurried and got ready. Then we went and picked up our family and we were off to Breakfast with Santa. When we got there Brenna, my brother Garry, and I were stationed at a table where we would help kids make snowman out of candy. The little kids were so cute. They were so excited when we said that they could eat the extra candy corn. They would get the biggest smile on their face. It was cute. After everyone left, we were told that we could go ahead and eat.  After we ate, we loaded back into the van and went home.

                This weekend was so much fun, from the Forgotten Carols to Breakfast with Santa. All of this made my weekend so much fun. I just love my family and friends.

sugar trade

I love sugar don’t you? Sugar is a magnificent invention. It was first recorded back in 1317 in England. England loved sugar so much that they wanted to make a lot of money off of it and keep it all for themselves. The quantity of sugar increased due to the high slavery population. The sugar trade was driven by consumer demand, slavery, and profits. These three concepts are very significant involving the sugar trade.

Consumer demand was important because people treasured sugar so much they wanted more and more of it and couldn't get a sufficient amount of it. In document 3, the author illustrates how much people loved sugar by showing little kids licking the barrel in order to get every last bit of sugar they could. This is called addiction. They loved it so much they started putting sugar in everything. In document 4, the author says that sugar was used as a sweetener. They put sugar in coffee, tea and just about everything you could imagine to make it sweeter. They wanted the things they ate to taste better, so they put sugar in it. Over the years sugar became really popular. The population of Britain began to increase causing more sugar to be brought into the country. In document 5, the table says that the higher the population, the more sugar is imported, the more sugar consumed by each person.

Seeing as consumer demand was so high, they needed additional people to help make the sugar. So slavery was brought into the picture, although they were expensive to buy. There was a great price to pay. In document 9, the author says that you can buy adult male slaves in 1748 for 14 pounds. You had to be a merchant in order to afford that much money to be spent of a slave. In document 10, the table says that when there is an increase in the slave population there is an increase of sugar being made. Since slaves made the sugar it only makes sense that this happened. For example in Jamaica 1703, the there was the slave population of 45,000 and 4,782 tons of sugar produced. Then in 1730 there was an increase in the slave population and how much sugar was made. In document 11, the author lists certain things that English merchants traded for slaves. They would trade bullets, iron bars, copper boars, woolen goods, and so many more. Slaves were such in high demand that merchants were trading everything that they had to get slaves to make sugar to make money.

Since everyone sought to make money off of sugar, profits are another thing that drove the sugar trade. If you wanted to make money then you had to foremost get the plantation in order and all set up. In order for you to do that, you have to have the money, so all of the plantation owners had a lot of money. In document 7 the author says that they inherited their money and was an absentee owner. In document 8 the author illustrates how it would have looked like to make the sugar. You had to boil them and the workers weren't treated like humans. If they were treated fairly then they wouldn't have been able to make as much money off of the sugar, because they would have to pay the workers causing them to lose money.

As you can see there are three main points that drove the sugar trade. One of the points is consumer demand. There were numerous people who sought sugar, so sugar was in high demand. Slavery was the second point. If there were no slaves then there wouldn't have been as much sugar being made. The third, and final point, is profits. Everyone wanted to make money. Making and harvesting sugar was the perfect way to do that. So to answer the question of what drove the sugar trade, the answer is profits, consumer demand, and slavery.