Christmas time

Although Christmas is one of my favorite times of the year it is also a very stressful time too. When the Christmas season rolls around you have to really plan ahead for the holiday. With my family it is so big that you have to go shopping a couple of times to be able to get everyone a present. Some people are easier to shop for like my cousins, but the most difficult ones are my aunts. They are all old and I don’t usually know what to give them. They are old and they are women that are one bad combination. Also you have to deal with the lines. There is only one other time that is worst then Christmas time lines and that is black Friday. Anyways, when shopping you always worry that they won’t like the gift and that they will just pretend that they like it. That is very irritating, because you can usually tell when someone is lying. I just wish I had easier family members to shop for.

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Holiday food:

1. Turkey- the way my dad makes turkey there is never enough to go around the table even with the biggest turkey you can find.

2. Pumpkin Pie- Of all types of pie pumpkin pie is the best in my opinion because I prefer not to eat a fruit pie.

3. Fudge- The thick creamy melt in your mouth fudge that my aunt makes is the best and I wish I could have more.

4. Stuffing- I enjoy eating the stuffing that goes along with the turkey because it makes my taste buds explode with joy.

5. Cookies- Everyone loves cookies and in my opinion sugar cookies are the best that you can get.

6. Cider- I love the sweet and sour taste that you get when you start gulping down cider. I prefer apple cider over any other type of cider you can get.

7. Mashed Potato- Out of all types of potato used products I would have to say I enjoy mashed potatoes the most. The nice smooth taste of the potato is great.

8. Green beans- The amount of butter and garlic my cousin puts on it to make the green beans make the vegetable from being good to being great.

9. Cranberries- it seems like a rather random food to love but the truth are told I have loved cranberries my entire life and I will love them the rest of my life.

10. Yams- though in the past I have never been a big Yams person but lately in the past few years I have really loved it. It just shows how peoples taste change as they get older.

Holiday Music

1	White Christmas	Bing Crosby
2	The Chipmunk Song	The Chipmunks
3	Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer	Gene Autry
4	I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus	Jimmy Boyd
5	Jingle Bell Rock	Bobby Helms
6	The Christmas Song	Nat King Cole
7	Snoopy's Christmas	The Royal Guardsmen
8	Here Comes Santa Claus	Gene Autry
9	Little Drummer Boy	Harry Someone Chorale
10	Donde Esta Santa Claus	Augie Rios

These are the best Christmas song of all time and I think they will live on forever as the best songs for the holidays.

Holiday Movies

1. Elf-This funny movie is about a baby boy who crawls into Santa’s gift bag while he is delivering presents to an orphanage. Once at the North Pole the head elf agrees to raise him as his own. Later Buddy figures out that he isn’t an elf and sets out to find his father.

2. Polar Express- This movie is about kids that believe in Santa get taken by train in the middle of the night to the North Pole to meet Santa. The main character in the movie meets new people and eventually meets Santa. Although the other kids in the end as they grow older they think he isn’t real but he knows for a fact that he is in fact a real person.

3. The Grinch who stole Christmas- Mike Myers plays the best Grinch ever and whenever you see him that is who I instantly think of. Mike plays the Grinch who had a bad life experience as a child and now loathes Christmas. A little girl Cindy Lou who isn’t afraid of the Grinch goes and confronts him and she tries to change his mind about Christmas.

4. Charlie brown Christmas-A classic Charlie brown movie about him and his friends having Christmas together as a type of family.

5. Santa clause- Tim Allen plays Santa and when the original Santa falls off his roof he disappears. Tim Allen takes the suit and puts it on to become the next Santa clause. It shows the story of Tim Allen character and how believing in something that you have been told isn't true isn’t always true.

6. Shrek the Halls- A Christmas version of Shrek and how he and his family fight. Until it is gone and he realizes what he truly had to begin with.

7. Rudolf the red nose reindeer- A classic cartoon that shows the life story of Rudolf the reindeer. I tell you about how he got to be Santa’s head reindeer. If you haven’t seen this movie, what do you live under a rock. It is definitely worth the time to watch.

8. A Christmas Carol- The Ghosts from Christmas past, present and also future visit scrooge so that he can find the true meaning of what Christmas is about. A story written by Charles Dickens

9. Home Alone 2- A boy who is going on vacation with his parents and siblings accidently gets separated from his parents and takes a flight to New York. While there he gets into trouble and prevents crooks from steeling all the money from the toy shop. He ends up playing pranks on them and they eventually get caught.

10. A Christmas story-A young boy who all he wanted for Christmas was a red rider gun. Although everyone warned him that if you have a gun you will shoot your eye out. Guess what he does? He shoots himself.


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power

Military delegates arrived for the 18th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Thursday. The weeklong meeting helps with the naming of China’s top leader, who will replace Hu Jintao. The meeting also introduces a new generation of party leaders. Based on what we know, the chinese are getting ready to change all of there current leaders and replace them with the next generation that will rule over china. Hopefully they will be good people that wants to be close friens with the United States.

war

After war time there has been an increase in the amount of help that has been given to the vetrens that have been coming home from war. These oragnization are trying to help these vets come home and gradually get them back to work. They don't want them to all on their face the only way the can get back to work is with a helping hand. There is currently approximatly 25000 orgaanizations that ae working to help vets. As long as they get the help that is needed to get a job there may be a chance to get these brave men and women who have fought for their country a job. It is the least we can do because they put their life one the line it is time to repay the favor.

Polls

The Associated press have held number 1 team Alabama at number 1 in there own polls for the 10th consecutive week and had the Oregon ducks at number 2 for the 7th strait week. While K-state remains at number 3 and Notre Dame holds number 4 in the polls. Also Georgia and Ohio State are tied for number 5 in the polls and they don't seem to be changing. Number 23 Toledo hasn't been ranked in the top 25 since 2001. Based on the polls the ducks look to be going to the BCS bowl.

Kenjon Barner

After Saturdays game against USC the Kenjon Barner rushed 321 yard and scored five touchdown with the end score 62-51. Kenjon rushed the most yards and scored the most to earn the school record. Also he tied the most rushed touchdowns in Pac-12 history. Kenjon Barner and his great preformance gave him late recognition for the heisman trophy. In my opinion he is a finominal player who deserves to go far in college and potentially go to pro football. As long as he doesn't blow his chance at the pros by doing something stupid there is a very good change he will infact go Pro.

Notre Dame

 While most team for college football focus on the main goal of going to the BCS bowl Notre Dame has altered their focus on the Rose Bowl. Unless K-State, or Oregon Lose most likely Notre Dame will not make the Bcs Game. Due to the Ducks going to most likely the BCS bowl the team that will get the seed to go play the Pac- 12 conference is number four Notre Dame. Unless something unforuate happens to the Notre Dame team like they lose their quarterback. Based on the article it is looking like Notre Dame is going to California.

Snickers vs Three Musketeers

     The candy that I like more is three musketeers because it is an overall better candy. The taste of the candy when it enters your mouth explodes with many different tastes and sensations, while when you eat snickers the taste does not have the same exploding tastes and sensations it is a little bland. Though both of the candy is good I think three musketeers is a lot better, But if I am in a situation of where I am about to starve to death and all I have to eat is snickers I would not have a problem eating it all up. My favorite candy of all time would have to be skittles for sure and then a close second would have to be peanut butter m&m's. The fact is I am a more fruity candy kind of guy I prefer sweet candy, but I also enjoy eating sour candy like sour patch kids. I have never really been a big chocolate kind of person. Though if I had to I would eat it.


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Walking dead

One show that I have been really enjoying lately is the walking dead, and yes the title does kind of give away what the show is about. Well let me think what is the only thing that can be both dead and alive, yeah that right the show is about zombies. This show fallows the story of this group of survivors that haven't been changed into zombies, and how their ability to watch out for each other and not just live but also thrives as a group. The person that you must know is the sheriff (or Rick) and he is not only the sheriff but he is also the leader of the survivors and he is the guy who calls the shot in the show. Along with his 13 year old son Carl and his pregnant wife Lori they travel across different states trying to find both other survivors and also a place to call home. There is currently three seasons out at the moment but it is definitely worth watching, and I am pretty sure that the show is on Netflix and On Demand. One thing that you don’t have to worry about with this show is that there is definitely enough violence.


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what is in common

   What the story shame and the story daughter of invention both have in common is there is a protagonist character that is trying to put down the main character. The bad character in Shame is the teacher that tries to alienate the main character because he is black and because he doesn't have a father. While the bad character in Daughter of Invention is the father because he doesn't allow his daughter to express herself due to the fright that the dictator will come and get him. Although they no longer live in a dictator’s country, they now live in America. The stories overall I enjoyed and they were entertaining but if you ask me I think that the story shame was a little better than Daughter of invention for two reasons. The first one is the story of shame more people could relate to Richard than the girl. Number two is the story of shame is easier to follow along than daughter of invention. The overall idea of shame is clearer than the overall idea of Daughter of invention the fact that the author made the theme of Shame more clear than the other story, also it helps that the class spent more time understanding and ingestion the story of shame.


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Where i see myself in the future

In the future I plan on being poor and homeless, and where the only place that I can shop is at the salvation army and when I do go there I will only be able to get very tattered clothing. Also when I am hungry I will go to the soup kitchen to eat food and I plan on getting mad at one of the server people that are there and I get banned from the kitchen. After that I will have to resort to dumpster diving and stealing food from others. I am totally kidding, that life sounds pretty terrible and I would not want to have to go through that all for a used clothes and some not so good food. I prefer to be on the beach or snowboarding the mountains. I must say it baffles the mind that there are people out there in the united states that have to do that. To be honest there are people like that all over Oregon. I had read it somewhere that if the wealthy shared their money with others then the entire world would all become the middle class. There would be no rich and no poor; there is more than plenty for everyone. The truth is for the most part the rich don't care about others they only care about them self which is very shallow. How I hope to see myself in the future is to have a college degree to a college like the University of Colorado, Utah or Oregon. I hope to go to one of those schools but I guess Portland state is good too. I am planning on going into the business field and hopefully find a job that I love. It would definitely be a plus if the job that I do decide to work for also pays very well. To be honest money isn't everything but it does help. I also wouldn't mind if I got married to a spectacular women and we eventually have kids. Before I have kids I think it would be awesome to compete in the x-games and possibly even win it. Nobody can be overly successful with snowboarding but it has been a lifelong dream of mine to compete at that level. After the X-games and the family and I have finally retired I want to move to Austria and snowboard with my wife until I can’t snowboard anymore or until I die, whichever comes first. If I in fact don't die I will move from Austria back to the United States and complete the rest of my life in Hawaii. I hope that I live long enough to where I can be that crotchety old man that yells at kids to get off my grass. If I live that long then my life will be complete.

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