January 4, 2012

  • Walls Crashing Down

    When I woke up it was pretty noisy. The old brick wall that we have had down in our basement was finally torn out today. I never mentioned this but there used to be a wood stove there, we took it out a long time ago though. Someone that had lived in the house before us had tried to use it once and they ended up damaging the chimney it uses. I think it has a separate chimney.

     I didn't even try to open my door because I knew that I would be assaulted by a lot of dust. The day before when we were taking the bricks off the floor (there weren't very many), there was also a lot of dust so I knew what to expect. My phone wasn't charged very much so I didn't do anything on it yesterday morning. Usually I check the mail, and do some stuff on facebook when I wake up and sometimes play games, but I decided to read some of the book I am working on instead. I have been reading David Eddings series “The Elenium”.  It is a very good read, I have all 3 books combined into a 3 in 1 book. My mom and dad bought it for me the Christmas before this last one we had a few days ago. It has a sequel series called “The Tamuli” that  continues the series. I also own those books as well. Both series are amazing reads and I would actually recommend every one of David's books if you need something to read. My favorite book of his is called “The Redemption of Althalus”, which just happens to be my favorite book on general as well.

     I am on the 3rd book of the Elenium series called “The Sapphire Rose”.  I just read that for a while and then played some computer games for a while, nothing too exciting. I don't think you would be interested in hearing about my escapades in “Mario Party 1, 2 and 3. I plan on trying all the Mario Party games that I have missed eventually. I am a big fan of the games, but haven't gotten to try them all yet. I am not expert or anything like that but I still love playing the games anyway.  I am and always have been a big fan of all the Mario games in general.

     Anyway, as soon as things quieted down and they had knocked all the bricks of the wall, I peeked outside of my room for a few seconds. It was dusty so I held my breath. I was greeted by a large pile of bricks. They (being my brothers, my dad, and our contractor)  had to remove the screen on the downstairs window in order to be able to move the bricks out. They just threw them out the window, and onto the front lawn. I did not help with this, but I knew what was going on because of what they were talking about. I had gone back into my room at this point in time and was playing games again.  They eventually got them all out of the basement and swept the stuff off the floor, it was a real mess for a while though before that.

     Later today we tore out the wall that was separating the family room from this little office we had in the basement also. I also got a video of us doing that so it won't be so confusing to you when you read this. Our contractor framed the room that my brother is going to be using once it is done some time after we did this. He also got the place where the brick was ready for sheet rock, and ready to build shelves there. It was pretty noisy downstairs with everything going on, nail guns, wood cutters, hammers, etc. It was really nice to have the family here helping do stuff and clean up though.  Anyway, after our contractor had finished for the day we had everything that needed to be framed framed, and we began sweeping and vacuuming the floor.  I just retreated back in my room at this point and played more games again and read some more.

     I am not a very sociable person yet and I like to spend a lot of time alone. I plan on changing this because I want to, but I don't spend a lot of time around my family if you have noticed. I have stuff I like to do and they have stuff they like to do. Usually the stuff I like to do is different. I am pretty sure this will not be the case always, I think I will be more open in the future and I won't be as stubborn about playing games and doing other stuff with them and other people. Everyone except for me played games and just hung out for the rest of the day, into the night.  I was trying to beat a map in Mario Party 3, and doing some other stuff by myself. I did go upstairs a few times to play with my nieces and my nephew, and to see what everyone was doing. I also went upstairs when we ate dinner. We had beef with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, and sour cream on tortillas it was really great. My phone was charged by this time so I also was playing games on there, and I also played some on my DS as well. I really like playing games if you haven't noticed, it keeps my mind going.  Puzzle games are my favorite kind of games. I don't remember if I ever mentioned this at all, I probably did.  I don't have an internet connection right now because the cord doesn't reach where my computer is, so I can't really play Tetris on Tetris Friends sadly. I am still waiting for my laptop to come, then I will have wireless. This is the reason why I have not just bought a wireless internet connection for my computer.  I have internet on my phone, that is good enough for now, even though I cant play on Tetris Friends on my phone.  I can however watch anime on my phone and I do have a Tetris APP on my iPhone.

     

    Anyway, my cold is almost gone, I am glad about this. My stuffy and runny nose is completely gone, and my voice is almost back to normal. 

     

    I guess this is all for today. I can't think of anything else at this point in time to write about. I'm pretty sure I got everything of interest.