Adventure 3 (kinda): Nerdyness

Digimon, Pokemon, Avatar, Sherlock, Dr. Who, ancient cultures, mythology, books, cross country, Microsoft, E3, video games, cartoons, comic  books, superheroes, and batman. These are only a few of the words that will launch me into huge nerd rants where anyone without basic knowledge of the subject will certainly get lost. I can get very excited very quickly about these subjects and a lot of these things have been coming up today so you all get to hear (read) me rant for a bit. In other news, I'm going to use pictures in a blog for the first time ever. I think.

So lets start with Digimon and Pokemon. These two shows served as my childhood until I wasn't allowed to watch them anymore (long story). I was looking on Hulu this afternoon and decided to check if they had either of these shows on it. I was very excited to see that they had the entire third series (like a reboot) for free. I started the first episode and learned a sad fact... the episode was in its original form. Normally that would be a great thing but for digimon, that means it's completely in Japanese -_-. Luckily some of the Pokemon episodes are on Comcast Ondemand. But to continue my nerdiness, I'm going to assemble my all time favorite Pokemon and Digimon team. (in Pokemon, you have 3-6 Pokemon and only one Digimon/partner in Digimon). 

This is Puppetmon! He is my Digimon partner. If you've watched the show, then my puppetmon would be nice, not a psychotic murderer. 

The following 6 are my pokemon team: Alakasam, Arcanine, Gengar, Scyther, Gyarados, and Golem. 

I honestly won't make you sit through the rest of my nerd rants so if you ever want to talk about them, just text me or extra. I'd truly LOVE to talk about them, even about these 7 guys and why I'd choose them. 

Adventure 2-the story

Stories are basically my favorite thing in the entire world. I love to hear them, I love to create them, and I long oh so desperately to be part of one. I guess that's one of the reasons I'm an actor and a wannabe writer and director. I'm not the only one like this though. All throughout history, people have emphasized the importance of stories. The stories of a thousand Arabian nights is tells of a king whose wife betrayed him so he killed her then he decided that he'd marry a new wife each day then kill her in the morning. Well this one lady stayed alive as his wife by telling him stories (with cliffhangers) for one thousand nights until he fell in love with her. Stories are crazy influential, important, and life changing.

I have a few dreams I my life: To go on an archaeological dig, write a bestselling novel (or series), act on Broadway, and to visit Greece. I also am studying to be an Social Studies teacher. I'm in love with stories and I thrive for them. History is one giant story so I pursue it as well (that's why I want to go to Greece and become an archaeologist). I just can't get enough of them and my life shows it.

As I mentioned above, I want to be apart of a grand story. I read stories about people going on these huge adventures risking life and limb to save the ones they love. They have a core group of friends that travel and support them, a group I've always longed for. The adventure is so great and amazing, I wish I could be apart of it. I want to be one of those friends or even the leader (I hate being a leader) just to do something worthwhile and to have a story to tell. This longing has grown as the years go by.

 As I get older and study History, I hear of all these real life stories and adventures. I know these things can happen in real life, but I'm not apart of them. I hear people's testimonies and I'm saddened that mine was so easy and boring. I've had my fair share of adventures, but never anything crazy. Yeah I've been to Haiti and went through the earthquake, but I was there a short time and didn't do hardly anything.

Ok, don't get me wrong. I love my life and I wouldn't trade it for the world, but sometimes I wish there was more excitement or that I could do something right. Which brings me to this summers adventure. I'm so bored here at home. Life has hit a standstill and I keep asking God what He wants me to do for the next 4 weeks. Many of my friends and aquatintses have moved on since I left college (which is normal) so I don't have many people to talk to here now. I know God wants me to continue to grow while I'm here but I have nobody to pour into me and nobody for me to pour into. I'm part of a bible study once a week but I still feel like I need more with the Body of Christ. So I started a story with my friend Lauren.

Lauren and I had come up with this idea earlier this year but we decided to work on it over the summer. I love stories and actually getting to write and plan one now is pretty fantastic! But this story means more to me than just a story or the possible fulfillment of a dream. It is a chance for me and Lauren to connect more (in a friendly way, definitely not a romantic way). Talking with her (especially since I'm not able to talk to a lot of other people this summer because they moved on or communication would be bad) has been really helpful for me and provides part of that purpose and need I feel this summer. So thank you very much Lauren for your help =) oh and Alisha, we have to work on our screenplay soon (may that be a story for later).

The Chronicles of a Superhero: part 1

Mother Nature is like a second mother to me. You see, when I was 3, my real parents died saving the world from an evil genius. Surely you remember my parents, known as the super heroes Mightymom and Dinodad. They defended the world for years from the evils of... well evil! Well when they died, the League of Nature met to decide my fate. I was a toddler who was sure to develop powers maybe even greater than my parents! Well Santa Claus, Father Time, Mother Nature, Jack Frost, Easter Bunny, Jack Skellington, and others of this league unanimously decided I should be given to mother nature to raise for she herself had no children.

Well Mother Nature did a great job for I was no easy kid. By the age of 4 I developed my first power: electricity. Oh but what better a teacher could I have than the controller of nature herself. Later I developed some basic psychic powers, from my mothers side, then invisibility. Mother Nature was patient with me as I learned how to control my powers and my struggles with living in my parents shadow. It's like being Robin under Batman! it's tough! There was this one time when I was 10, when I first learned how to turn invisible, when Mother Nature took me to the League headquarters. They had this special exhibit showcasing trophies of recent missions the League had accomplished. I started to go crazy with excitement. I wanted so badly to earn my own trophies and show them to the world. I snuck away and ran down the street looking for anyone to fight, anyone to challenge me, the kid of Mightymom and Dinodad. Well I ended up trying to stop a bank robbery... and nearly got killed. Jack Frost saw me sneak off (he can see heat signature so invisibility is useless on him) and followed me. He ended up stopping the robbery and saving me from a bullet. Well I made it through my childhood, with very few near death encounters, and made it to teenhood where I joined the Teen Titans (A real world version of the DC team). However, that is a story for another day. I just wanted to give a brief introduction of how I grew up and the think the great superhero who raised me, Mother Nature.

two side notes from Shane, not the hero.
1) Mother Nature and Father time are superheroes. Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Jack Skellington are actually those people (Just watch the Nightmare before Christmas and the Santa Clause) Mather Nature has the power to control the elements much in the same way as storm and Father Time has the ability to manipulate time like Hiro Nakamora from Heroes. 


2)This is the beggining of my fake adventures. It came up talking to Alisha today about how dry it was where she lives so I told her I'd talk to Mother Nature about it and she wanted to know how I knew her.

Adventure 1: The island

I'm stuck on an island. My plane crashed and we have no hope of rescue. A ferocious monster of some sort is killing people and tearing down trees, a pregnant lady has been abducted, a mysterious hatch has been found in the middle of the jungle, and I lost my favorite book. What is one to do in this situation!?!??!?!  Sound familiar?  If not, then you have missed out of a prominent culture icon: Lost. A tv show about, well the things above and so much more. Now for a random tangent.

I've been reading a Christian "self help" book recently. In this book is a chapter about family and their importance in your life: how one is usually much harsher and real with their family than with strangers. I read this chapter the day after I returned home from college. I love my family to death but I can easily get annoyed with my younger brothers. Back in high school, my parents called my room "the cave" because I never left it. I got annoyed and separated myself from my family a lot. The same thing happened over Christmas break and Spring break. I feel God wants me to change this and so I've been working on it as the week has gone on.

Joey, my youngest brother, and I probably have the hardest time getting along. I don't have much patience for his middle school intelligence and he doesn't have patience for his non popular older brothers ramblings of advice and such. We live in two separate worlds and have a hard time communication between them. On top of this, Joey has been learning the hard way how to make good friends and be a leader. With all the business of life, my parents really haven't had the time or patience for him either. God has been pushing me to be a better older brother, communicate on his level, and to be a mentor for him.

All this to say, Joey and I have been watching Lost together. We both love tv but usually disagree on what to watch. We talk during the show and get to spend quality time together. Lost has always had a special place with me and my brothers. Trent and I bonded over the third and fourth seasons of the show (the finale of season three was an emotional night that really brought the two of us together) and I'm really excited to be able to share this show with Joey. It's wonderful to hear him guess over the identity of the monster ("it's an earthworm!!") and to see him start to care about the same characters I did. I love it even more when he sees those immoral moments (which the show points out as immoral) and starts complaining to me about how stupid the characters are for doing something so dumb.

I've really enjoyed this time with my brother and I look forward to more adventures with both my brothers as the summer continues.

Home!

Hello all and welcome to the first in a series of blog posts of my adventures of the summer, whether fact or fiction. This first one isn't really an adventure but a prelude. This series is specifically aimed towards my friends in college who will also be posting adventures and the like. Every now and again I'll post profound thoughts and funny saying but not today. So for those who didn't know, I'm going to the country of Jordan this summer =). I leave June 16 and return late July. While there, I will participate in an archaeological dig (!!!!!!!!!) and take some college classes as well. That is going to be the true adventure of the summer =). So keep checking back every now and then and read about my fantastic life!