Sometimes I pride myself (inwardly) that I rarely get sick... but I guess that just means that when I do get sick, it hits pretty hard. :P So, I've been home all day, I missed school, which sucks a whole ton that I can't even express it, and, yeah. Life is miserable currently.

And yet I'm in a smiley mood right now... (Which is differant then a good mood, or a hyper mood. Strangely enough...)

So, here's my depressing story.

It all started yesterday. Yesterday was supposed to be one of the funnest experiances of my life. I was on the road singing with the Concert Choir, with awesome friends like Ty, Rachel, Paige, Jason, and Matthew, all day. It was going to be grand. And for a while, it was. I did the first performance fine. Somewhere between the first and second, however, I formed a small stomachache. I did the second performance with this small stomachache, and it became slightly more painful. During lunch, we went to the mall, where I had hoped to be having the time of my life, but instead I was sitting, drinking flavorless slush because the thought of eating something didn't appeal to me, hoping that if I rested then it would go away and I could perform again.

(Funny Story Break... So I got this thing from DQ called an Orange Julius... which was like a half-slushy thing that was more juicy then a regular slushie... And for some reason the juice and the ice in mine never mixed, so I ended up drinking all the juice (Again, no idea how that happened) and all that was left was this flavorless slush... so I'm just slowly drinking this stuff, and I'm walking around a bit, and I find Josh and Jason and Melissa, and I tell them my sad story, and Melissa's like "I love flavorless slush! Can I have it?" And so I think for a minute, and just think "Heck, why not?" And give it to her... so now I'm weak, miserable, and slushless...  But the look on her face was priceless. :D )

So, anyways, third performance comes, my mindset is "I'm going to do this. I'm not going to quit. I'll be fine. It's just a little pain, that's all." I so wish that was true... So we're performing, and we're halfway through "Chim Chim Cheree" When my vision goes black. Fight of Flight kicks in and I think "I have to get out of here or I'll pass out in the middle of the performance." So I turn to Jason and say "I'm gonna pass out" and walk off the stage. (Luckily, I was on the sides, out of sight from half of the audience anyways, so I just slipped off.) Jason sneaks over during one of the numbers quickly and says "Hey, did you have a partner in anything?" And I'm like "Umm... yeah, I'm supposed to Waltz with Hailey..." "Ah, crap..." So now Jason has to find Hailey a waltzing partner... (Because he's already waltzing with someone else).

As the performance gets to "Heigh-ho" The girls walk off the stage and notice me sitting on the stairs... and are all immediately concerned. (Especially Hailey, because she's like "Wait... what am I supposed to do?") So after a quick "Are you going to be okay? Are you sure?" They all go back to dance "Some Day my Prince will Come" And the waltzers step up (I'll tell it how Hailey did... "I thought I wasn't even going to do it, but then I counted and there were six guys...") So Jason got Gregory to fake a waltz (It wasn't that hard...)

After the performance, I walk out with everyone else, and Mr. Smith comes out of the back of the Auditorium going "Where's Jarom? Was Jarom on stage?" (As I walk past him... he he...) So I go "I'm right here... My vision went black, so I stepped out." And he instantly looks concerned. (Strange... I don't remember what happened next... Just that people were concerned on the bus...) Then the fourth performance came around, and I decided that for the good of my health (and the show) I just shouldn't perform... So I took my camera and recorded it instead.

Afterwards, I got some interesting comments... Lindsey walked up and said "You're feeling better?" and I said "Just a little bit" and she said "Yeah, you were really pale. You have some rosiesness back in your cheeks." Then Tesya asked me what happened, and I told her about how my vision went black, and this look of shock comes over her face (Especially because I have a small (I'd say kind of weary, but still) smile as I tell her.) So, yeah, I had people like Tesya and Melissa, who I rarely seem to talk to, it seems, giving me hugs and telling me to get better. (Or in Melissa's case, "I DON'T WANT YOU TO DIE!" I've been talking to her more lately. I hope to become her friend.)

Little did I know that the worst was yet to come...

So I get home, and I feel tired, so I go, and instantly fall asleep on my bed. At least, for twenty minutes... Then Steph and Garrett start texting me. But I stay in bed until Mom gets home, when I realize, I really don't want to (I was going to say can't, but that would be an exageration) get out of bed. So I decide to just lay there... until Mom comes down, takes my temperature, and tells me I don't have a fever, and asks if I'm going to the Globetrotters game... So I decide to try walking around. That's when I needed to go to the bathroom, and let's just say I got rid of a lot of waste out of both ends...

I stayed home from the game.

(Crap, I just lost the game...)

So... I mostly rested while they were all gone, but at one point I got up to go to the restroom, and as I'm washing my hands, my vision again goes black, but this time I fall over... Luckily, I hit my head against the bathtub, which gave me enough sense to stumble down to the couch before I fall again. (I hit that armrest pretty hard, though...) Then I fall asleep again, wake up half an hour later, and walk down to my bed, change into my PJs, and zonk out for the night. :D

So... I didn't go to school today. I really hope I didn't miss too much. (Which means I hope I didn't miss more then all of the stuff I know that I missed that I shouldnt' have. :( )

Yeah...

Heyo, all! Bytheway, my weekend wasn't all crap, because I finally got my Learner's Permit! After standing in line... for 3 housr... Thanks to all of you who kept me entertained via texting. :P

I'm feeling quite good today, because I had an awesome day yesterday! First was my first day of Guitar. I have it with Prachi, one of my friends, and Claire Kirkland, who I hope to make my friend. (Rachel laughed at me when I said that...) And Kia, who no longer hates me. Actually, when she saw me she was like "Hey! Are we going to be on better terms this year?" and I laughed and said "I'd like that."

In seminary (Which was actually before guitar, because it's 0 period) I got kicked out of my seat because by the time I showed up, Marrissa had taken it. I liked that seat... not only was it the prime seat (Right in the middle of the first row, right in front of Brother Staples) but I had gotten to like sitting next to Paige. She's such a strong spirit. But I got the seat next to her in Spanish. I don't really get to see her spirit as much... but at least I get to see her smile.

Next up was Biology, which I now have a ton of friends in. 4th is Geography, which is now kind of boring because we have half as many people and it's really quiet... Oh yeah, that reminds me! My new enrichment homeroom is Study Hall with Mr. Stucki. There's 70 people in that class. I sit on the floor next to Rachel. It's quite entertaining...

Lunch, Saunders, Language, all the same... Well, actually, on Friday I met this really nice girl named Alex, who apparently is in ALPS and in all the same classes at me, just at differant times... and we both felt kind of stupid because even though we're both 9th grade ALPS, neither of us had even heard of the other one... But now I have homeroom and Language with her. So I'm looking forward to becoming her friend.

7th period, best period of the day (For now, at least. Guitar hasn't even taken off yet.) Concert Choir! It is SO fun! Ha ha... although I didn't start it off really well. I was feeling all hyper, and I sat next to Matthew, but then I noticed that Paige was sitting in the corner by herself. She smiled at me, and I got up and tried to jump over Matthew's bag, and my foot snagged on my jeans, and I went down on my knees, and I could hear Paige go "Oh!" but I just jumped back up and smiled and walked over and said "Hey!" And she's like surprised, and like "Umm... are you okay?" "Yep. Why you sitting over here? Come sit with us!" It was kind of funny. But apparently we have 2 performances in the next two weeks, and I have to memorize all the music that half the class already has as well as some dances. Yay! And one of the performances is for a assembly that I had no idea about... That I'm supposed to be helping to PLAN...

Speaking of planning, the teacher's were in charge of Combined last night, which means I was in charge. We gave each group a scripture and made them find the meaning and then make a skit applying the meaning to real life. It was way fun. I invited Kimber and she came with Raechel, so we had a lot of fun. Afterwards we were walking home, and then I suggested we go to my house, but Kimber said her mom might not like that, so we stopped at a corner to talk about it. We ended up just spending half an hour hanging out at that corner... And it was one of the funnest things I've done this year. (All 21 days of it.)

So, Tribute time! Here's to Kimber!

Thanks for being such an awesome friend! You're so nice, and so sweet. I really enjoy talking with you and hanging out with you. Thanks for everything you do for me!

I would do one to Raechel too, but I already have. http://gamemasterjt.blogspot.com/2009/12/raechel.html I added a little to it, though, and she made me change the picture. She didn't think the last one was good.

Thanks to both of you!

Has anybody else noticed that the "Blogs I read" thing on the side bar doesn't work anymore? I mean, it tells me when Kat and Mom post, and that's it. Everybody else it says hasn't posted in a while, even though they have. This is happening on other blogs to. It kinda bugs me to see that people's blogs say I haven't posted in a week when I've been posting every day. Urk.

So I noticed today that I got a lot of compliments from my teachers. In English class, we were sharing ideas, which I usually do, but I felt like I didn't really have anything to add today, but Mrs. Thurnau said "I'm still wanting to hear from a few of you... Josh and Jarom, what are your thoughts?" I was kinda surprised. After I shared what I was thinking, she said "The reason I picked out a few of you is because you're more of the Creative Writers."

Even my English Teacher thinks I'm a creative writer. I should start listening to people when they give me compliments.

In Math, Mr. Saunders said I have "A lot of good points." About the random things I commented on throughout the class.

That's high praise from Mr. Saunders. He doesn't like my name. "Jarom? That's weird."

In Gym, we played football and I ran down the guy with the ball. Coach Mikel was like "I cannot believe he just caught you... Jarom, I had no idea you were so fast!"

I told him that that speed lasted for ten seconds before my side hurt and I was out of breath. (And lo and behold, that was exactly what happened to me by the end of the game.)

So, I decided to do one of my GRAND GRATEFULNESS's. I'm thankful for SCHOOL!

School is awesome. I get to go and hang out with my friends and learn things and laugh at teacher's for 8 HOURS A DAY!

The only down spot is homework.

(P.S. I updated the Mandi Post with some pictures she sent me.)

Auuggghhhh!!!! I'm a horrible poster! I hope you all don't hate me, but if you do, I see it your way. I did a ton of things the past few weeks... We went to the Annual Hall Family Reunion Campout (You did what without me??- Summer Derieg), then we went to Hope of Isreal camp, (Team Teancum! Over the Wall! Into the Tent! Mission Accomplished!) Then we went to Education Week (It's a Magical Night, Anything can Happen! - John Bytheway) And I got to be a mentor and help all the seventh graders on Orientation day! (I'm going to eat you, you little Sevvies! -Evan Perez) And then we went back to school. (I wish I could steal peoples' souls by looking them in the eyes... -Mr. Stucki). He he. I love quotes.

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Atra Esterni Ono Thelduin!

This Blog is BORING! I really need to post more often.
Lately the biggest thing has been the end of the year. Mom is really excited to be off work for the summer, and I'm excited for Yearbooks! (Isn't it so wierd that we are really excited and then all we write in each others are HAGS or KIT and it isn't really that interesting? I'm challenging you Middle Schoolers- try to personalize your signatures in some way!)
I'm kinda disapointed, though, because school is coming to a close. Call me a nerd, (I am one anyway) but I'm going to miss coming to school and having fun with my friends and all my classes. I really like school, except that little thing that comes with it- assignments. Lately, since it's near the end of the year, we've gotten a ton of final projects.
History- We listened to the song "We didn't Start the Fire" in class, and our project was to research certain years from that song and then make our own version. Making our own was pretty fun, you can see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdVl05RACCg
Math- No big projects, but CRTs and review for next year. We have to go over a bunch of boring Algebra to get ready for Algebra 2
Tech- For Tech our final projects was to go to a bunch of websites she gave us and try out the programs to decide if they shoud be used in her curriculum next year.
Science- Our final project was called Mythbusters, which was basically choose a myth and research it. Ours was "Can Bubbles be destructive?" The answer is yes, they're called cavitation bubbles.
Spanish- This was the other big one. We had to make a book of all the grammar topics we studied this year, complete with Vocabulary appendix, Title, TofC and Introduction about ourselves. I worked hard on this, even stayed up til midnight a couple of times, but I got 104% on it.
Guitar- We had 2 Concerts, one for Parents and one for the School. It was really fun. Tomorrow is our Final Test, which is really easy. It's just showing him that we can do 3 picking patterns.
English- We had our Roots Final, our Diagramming Final, and our Richard III Final. Roots was pretty easy, Diagramming was really easy, as I've been doing it since 6th grade, and for Richard III I made a game show program and we asked questions from the play.

So it's all done now, and soon we'll be out. Boy, am I glad all of our big Projects are done. I feel relieved.

Well, this year I decided I was going to run for Student Body Officer (SBO). I wanted to do this because the current SBOs are really boring. They come on each morning for the announcements and sound like they're still asleep, they never seem to be very enthusiastic, they're just there. So I wanted to make things more exciting. I ran a campaign based on Excitement, Fun, and Student Involvement (And Chuck Norris Jokes- Big Thank you to Matt!) and tried my hardest. Speeches day I wasn't nervous at all, but when I got up on the stand I started Shaking. I always seem to do that- I'm not nervous at all, but I shake like crazy anyway. Apparently I sounded nervous and kept bumping the microphone. In the end I lost, the old SBOs were voted back in along with two other girls (since 9th grade gets 4 while the others get 2). I'm actually surprised that only girls won, since alot of people said that they were glad 2 boys were finally running. (Only Girls have ran the past two years.) Mrs. Bradfield said that this is the closest race she's seen in 8 years. All in all, it was fun. Maybe I can still give suggestions to Paige, Lexi, Lisa and Marissa. (Like Wake up in the mornings!)

As you can see (I think...) I have a Pi background. Why? Because Sturday is Pi Day! 3-14. Why celebrate Pi? Well, not only do you celebrate Pi, you celebrate Pie, too! And who doesn't like pie? Alot of kids are trying to see if they can be the one who can memorize the most digits of Pi. others are bringing Pie to class. I personally am doing the latter, as memorized a hundred random numbers doesn't appeal to me. How many digits to you know? I know 10.

So I get back to school on Monday, and I learn that everything I had finished over Christmas Break isn't due 'til next week. What's more, we're getting 3 days in class to work on our English assignment that I've already finished and everyone else is just starting. So I have 3 days to work on Midvale Fantical Adventures, the story I'm writing about the ghost of Midvale turning every one into fantasy beings. Here's the story of the Ghost: along time ago, Midvale Middle had an archery range, and an archery class. Kid's loved to take it- they thought it was much more interesting then developing photos or learning more. It was a very popular class until one day. No body knows how it happened, or if it was on purpose or accidental, or if it had even been done by a student, but one kid ended up dead, shot by an arrow. Needless to say, the class and range were shut down after that. But the kid still roams Midvale today, going to classes with the other kids, sitting in empty desks, opening doors when no one else is there to open them, and listening in on unsuspecting kids' conversations. He goes about like the other kids, but unseen.

It's Christmas once again!! The time of year where friends and enemies come together in Joy and Happiness. School is out, but is that a good thing or a bad thing?
Good Thing because: That last day was AWESOME!!! Wouldn't it be great if every day was like that???? It also means I won't be receiving more Homework for 2 weeks. And more time with my family!
Bad Thing because: I don't get to see anyone for 2 WHOLE WEEKS!!! *Groan...* No Fights with my friends and rivals (although we were having a few too many of those...), No fun games of Volleyball at gym, no Mr Hansen, Mr Bliss, Or any other awesome teachers, no having fun with the 100 different kids I know at school, No more of any of that!!!
But back to that last day, It was awesome!!! I brought my camera, so that I could take pictures of it all. Boys vs. Girls Volleyball, puppet shows in history (okay, so that wasn't all that awesome...), Free day in Tech, Party in Science (Who has or had actually heard of Emmet Otter's Jug band Christmas before that party?), also, our science teacher is the sworn enemy of one of the math teachers, so We got him a picture of the math teacher for Christmas! Caroling in Spanish (Mrs. J. Porter wants me to join choir...) Picture taking throughout lunch, Movie in Math (I hadn't actually seen Nightmare Before Christmas before that.), and puzzles in English (Not to mention singing!! I love to sing christmas carols). Then, Yu-gi-oh Tournament! (I lost to Mr. Hansen's stupid fake deck...). Once again (and you're probably tired of this, and my parenthesis) IT WAS AWESOME!!!