Once there was a car. He was owned by a family with two little boys and a little girl. They liked to call him "The One Eyed Beast" because he was missing one headlight.

"But my name is Alfred!" The car would always complain. But nobody heard him, because as we all know, cars can't talk.

Every day, the oldest boy would stand outside his middle school, and when his mom pulled up, he would laugh and say to his friends, "Look! It's the One-Eyed Beast!"

"But my name is Alfred!" The car said. But nobody heard him, because as we all know, cars can't talk.

Then they would drive to the Elementary School, and the second boy would giggle and say to his little sister, "Lookie there, it's the One-Eyed Beast!"

"But my name is Alfred!" The car cried. But nobody heard him, because as we all know, cars can't talk.

One day, though, the little girl got into the car and said "Be nice to him! He's not a beast! He drives all of us to school, and to church, and to the grocery store, every day!"

The car's spirits lifted. It felt good to be appreciated.

The brothers didn't know what to say. Finally the older one said "You're right. We should give him a name!"

The little car felt so good, he wished his headlight worked so he could beam with both of them. "My name is Alfred!" he pronounced.

"Let's call him Georgie!" The little boy said. They all thought it was a wonderful name, and agreed to call him that forever.

"But my name is Alfred!!" The car wailed. But nobody heard him, because as we all know, cars can't talk.

Since I seem to be constantly wishing that I had more things to advance myself and wishing that we could afford such things, I thought I'd take a moment to reflect on some of the things I have...

I have good Picture and Video editing software in Photoshop and Premiere Elements 7.

I have a nice little camera, and it's BLUE.

I have a good Hard Drive that I can use for lots of things.

I have an acoustic guitar that I love.

So yeah. That's my short little post.

Hey everyone. Sorry I've been an absolute FAILURE at blogging. That's really something that I shouldn't fail at, in my opinion. But I'm back, and I hope to keep this more updated. We'll see how that works out.

What's been happening with me? Well, I won't go over everything. The big things that took up the entire month of November was that I got to be a part of Hillcrest's production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella. I had an absolute blast, met tons of new people at Hillcrest, and got to be a part of an amazing show. Hillcrest is known for their performing arts, especially for the musical they do every year. And I get to do this for two more years!

I have a new group of friends, as mentioned in my last post, and they are ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. Andrea, Alisa, Addie, Annika, Darci, Emily, and Torrey are such special people, and I don't know how to tell them enough. And McKayla, Taylor, Sarah, Elizabeth, Erin, and any of my new friends who I'm forgeting, I love you all. Jacob and Dane are awesome! And all of my old friends... I still love you all. :) Especially my fivesome, the Wonderful Rebekah, the Beautiful Rachel, the Amazing Daniel, and the Wise Evan. (Yeah... I decided I had to choose an adjective for each of them. :) ) I could go on and on and on, but it would take a while... so if you're feeling neglected, come talk to me. I'm sure I have a list of positive things to say about you.

Life at Hillcrest is awesome. I love it. I'll try to keep up to date from now on. Good day everyone!

I am 16 years old. I can't believe it. I feel so old. It's like 16 was a thing that I always looked forward to, but now that I'm actually here, I can't believe it. It's odd.

I had a wonderful birthday. It started the Friday before, when Grandma Hall came down and took me to see Pirates of Penzance at Hale Center Theater. It was kind of a wacky play, I must say. They were all very silly. Mr. DeHaan was in it as the pirate navigator, and he did a very good job. I enjoyed spending the night with my grandma and learning more about her.

Saturday I had a bunch of people come over to my house before the Region Dance. We ate dinner, hung out, met new people. I tried to take some pictures with my mom's camera, but no one would let me. Then we went to the dance, and had fun.

Thursday was my actual birthday. I have some amazing new friends at Hillcrest. I walked in that morning and went to my locker to find a big sign on my locker that read

Happy 16th B-Day Jerom

You are awesomely epic!

<3 Alisa

My name will forever be a plague. :P By the time I got there they had made attempts to cross out the e and put an a. But it made me laugh.

But the surprises weren't over. I opened my locker to find that king sized cookies and cream Hershey's bars had been taped all over my locker. :D Those things are AMAZING. There was also a note hanging there and two cards from Alisa and Andrea. Who are also AMAZING. (As well as Darci, Addie, Attica, Emily, and everyone else in my new group! :D )

Aaaand... I GOT A NEW CAMERA! Yes my pictures are back in business... Assuming I actually remember to take it places and take pictures. :P

Sunday I was ordained a Priest! My grandparents as well as Megan and Bobby got to come and visit. We had this big dinner. My mom makes this delicious pork that she cooks in liquid smoke. Mmm...

Grandma Norris gave me a $25 ITunes card... Which, combined with the $15 each from Evan, Daniel, and Kat, plus the ten that mom owes me, gives me $80 in ITunes money. :D :D :D Jarom is one happy music lover right now.

(P.S. I spent $50 of that last night. :D )

So all in all it was a good birthday. I'll try to keep you guys more posted! Loves and Hugs!

Two Months?? TWO MONTHS?!? Wow, I fail.

Hey, all, (If there's anyone left...) Sorry I suck at posting... And reading... And just blogging in general... Yeah, I don't know why I just plain haven't gotten on here in so long.

What's been going on lately? Well, I've been working on my new story (Slowly, when I have time on the computer.) I've been working on music and tweeting poetry (Yes, yes, I know some of it is depressing.) I've been spending time with Amazing friends and coming to terms with my mind. (Finally.)

So I'm going to try and post more often now. Thanks to you who still read this... Though after such a spectacular fail, I don't know if there are any.

JeremiahPena.com

Hey everyone! Check out the awesome music by my good friend, Jeremiah Pena! He's a very talented boy who composes his own music using software on his computer. I quite enjoy listening to his music, and I think you will too.

Review the last week... I should post more often then once a week, but oh well...

All right, let's see... Driver's Ed is over. I still have to do some more road drives, though. I went on one, and he told me to come back after I had practiced more...

Tuesday we had a burning at Evan's house. We were going to use our ceramic firepit, so Dad asked me to clean it out. While I was cleaning it out, I set it down on the grass and it shattered... Not good. So we went and bought a new metal one and used that. So I need to get the money to pay for that. :( But I had fun at the party. We burned our old homework... Well, some of it... And sat around the fire listening to music and what not.

Wednesday was Dad's birthday. I got him a pin with an Angel Moroni and an Argentine flag, cause that's where he went on his mission.

Thursday was my parent's anniversery. We went as a family and saw The Last Airbender. //SPOILER ALERT\\ We've been watching all the shows lately and getting ourselves psyched for this movie. I was really excited. And thusly I was disapointed. The movie moved too fast in my opinion, and the fighting moved too slow. They all looked really awkward when they were doing their bending because they would move as if in slow motion, and the elements moved just as slowly. Yes, it was a cool movie. But definately not my favorite. They pronounced all the character's names wrong. I mean, I can sorta understand that if you're doing it from a book or something, but this was based off of a TV show. All the names were clearly defined. But instead of General "eye-row" It was General "ear-oh". Instead of "Sock-uh" It was "Soke-uh". And instead of "Ang" it was "ahng". If my prononciation guides make any sense. Also, in the movie, firebenders couldn't create their own fire. Except Iroh. And when he did it, everyone was totally shocked. It was embarrasing.

Friday we had a party at Ty's house. It was a blast. We played Brawl, Imaginiff, Honey Do You Love Me?, and Guitar Hero. It was a blast.

Saturday we wend and saw the parade. Some things were kind of funny... Like they had this women running for congress in it, waving a purple lightsaber. Following her car were Luke Skywalker and Jabba the Hut. They also had the Wendy's Jazz Band. And, of course, The Copper Hills Marching Band and Color Guard! Woot! I saw Nick playing his drum, Garrett dancing with his Saxaphone, and Rachel dancing with the Color Guard.

That night we went to West Jordan Park for their big thing... I met up with Aerin and Steph there and we watched Flushed Away on a big screen they set up in the park. Then there were fireworks and stuff. So it wasn't very long, but it was fun.

Sunday morning we got up and drove off to Aunt Megan's church for the blessing of her new baby boy, Evan Robert Porter. Then we had brunch at her place and took pictures and stuff. I kept getting all sorts of compliments from people I didn't know.

So those have been my adventures lately.