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This is Austin again!

I haven’t blogged in a while but this is what’s been going on with me.

I started middle school which is freakin’ awsome by the way, but most importantly, I had surgery. You might be feeling sorry for me right now, but it wasn’t that bad . I got to lay in a tricked out bed for a long time. It was adjustable and oh so comfortable ! I fell asleep several times on it while the doctor was telling my mom about all the surgical stuff, and not just because it was boring enough to put your hands and feet to sleep.

I wasn’t too crazy about the televison set though. The sound came from the remote which had me dumbfounded at first. After a while I got pretty sick of it. The remote kept slipping under my butt which made everything all silent and stuff. After I was just about ready to go crazy on the thing, the docter walked in. They told me that they were moving me to another room, my room and out of the emergency room.

Afterwards, as they rolled me to my new room, I felt the wind flowing through my magnificent hair. When I finally saw my new room I wanted to kick back and relax but something about that room made my bowels move around…a lot. So I rushed out like the Giants’ running back. In an hour or two I had gotten out of the bathroom and in my room sleeping like a baby.

I woke up the next day looked around and noticed that I was moving. The doctor told me that I was going into surgery . So I said cool and went back to sleep. The doctor woke me up and said,”We’re going to put a needle into you okay”. Once I was in the operating room, they stuck the needle into me. It didn’t hurt much. Then he told me that he was putting anesthesia into me. Once they had started the doctor told me that my hand was going to get warm and it did. So I thought that he was a physic or something. Then he said that my hand would start hurting a little..and it did! Then I fell asleep and woke up in my bed…hurting a little from my hip surgery.

My mom and I waited for about five hours after my surgery then this lady came in to make sure I remembered how to use my crutches and get me out of bed to walk down the hall. She said that I was good with them and after that we were ready to go home. Oh and another good thing that happened is that me and my mom were in my hospital room the night we found out that Obama was  President (elect) of the United States of America. We were really happy, especially my mom. The nurse came in my room to watch TV with us and she was happy too!

Now one of the worst things about having this surgery is that I can’t play basketball until about June and I have to stay on my crutches for about 6 wks. It was hard at first but since this is my second time having surgery I’m used to using my crutches and getting around pretty fast. I have just 2 weeks left on them and I can’t wait. I went to the doctor and he told me the screws in my hip is healing good. This was good news because I’m ready to throw those crutches away and I’m ready to shoot hoops! I’ll have to watch my friends play ball until the traveling season starts for my team and I’m going to be ready.

This is about it for me until the next time!

 

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Monday 8/11/08

Today was the first day of school and for me going to middle school.

I was a little scared but excited. I couldn’t sleep at all the night before so when it was time to get up I was ready. I felt good but again; I was scared.

I’m going to a new school and I don’t know anybody there. It’s near my mom’s job and I’m riding with her everyday. I wanted to ride the bus but this year they are not doing that. I didn’t know where I was going or where any of my classes were. The school is big but after going in it wasn’t too bad. When I got to my homeroom 2 other boys were already there and they seemed pretty cool.

My homeroom teacher seemed really cool but talking to other kids that was in his class last year they said that he is evil. We’ll see about that because he seems ok so far to me. I have language arts first period, then health, social studies, science then extending studies.

Middle school is really long, much longer than being in school last year. I know where I’m going so I don’t think I’ll get too lost anymore. We are supposed to get lockers tomorrow and I can’t wait for that. I have to learn to open it but I don’t think that will be too hard to learn.

We didn’t have any homework on the first day and I’m happy about that. My plan is to be the top student or one of the top students in my class this year.

I’m going to make it a great year!.

 

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Written on: 8/02/08

Today my dad and I finally got back to Georgia! I was so excited I could hardly hold my excitement. The first thing I did was get a haircut. Well, before that I ran to my room and just fell on my bed. My own room with my tv in there & my playstation 3. It was great! I was able to download music to my cell phone and go over to my cousins’ house. I went to the park to see my friends practice football. Now, I’m a little upset about that because I had surgery and I can’t play football this year so I just have to whatch all my friends & my cousins’ play the game. I’ll just have to keep getting stronger for basketball. I can’t wait until basketball this year because I’m going to be THE MAN!

Usually when I go to California I let my hair grow out until it becomes a mini afro. But when I get back to Georgia my mom takes me to get a haircut almost every week on a regular basic. I like getting my hair cut but my dad doesn’t think it’s that important so my hair just grows.

I’m so glad to be in Georgia because I have everything a kid could want here. Unlike in California where we don’t have cable, air conditioning, or anything else a kid might want. California is fun because I get to visit my brother, sister and my dad but I always like coming back home.

On the way back to Georgia we stopped at my dad’s friend’s house in Mississippi. She lives in a house that her dad built with his own hands. I don’t think I would want to live there but the house was pretty cool. It had about nine rooms, four bathrooms, and an elevator! The house was very unique considering one person built it with his own two hands. Outside was a giant field that looked like it went on forever. It was a good place to build a house because there was nothing but free space.

After that I was ready to drive all night because I was extremely high on hot chocolate mixed with french vinilla. I thought that I wouldn’t be able to sleep for at least three days, but my dad said that he was tired so he pulled into a truck stop and when to sleep in the truck. I, on the other hand, was wide awake. I kept trying to move in that jam-packed truck because I was having my sugar rush. I was so hyped that I started shaking the truck just to get rid of all that rampaging energy. After a few minutes we began riding to Georgia again. It only took a few hours to get back home.

As soon as I get home I’m going to greet the rest of my family. Afterward, I’m going to sit on the couch and watch T.V. all day like a lazy bum. I tuned everything out too. My mom kept calling me to come down to eat but I just stayed right in front of the T.V.

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Written on: 7/31/08

Today my dad & I were on our way to Amarillo, Texas when we saw the Cadillac Ranch. It was a huge farm with five Cadillacs buried into the ground.

They looked like classic 1987s so we went to check them out. They had been there for a long time.. You could tell by the way they had rotted and fell apart.

Other people who were also looking at the awkward attraction had brought spray cans to paint the cars with. When they were done with them they’d just toss them on to the ground and leave.

A family that was leaving had given us a can of spray paint because they thought that they were going to use it but they didn’t. I was as happy as a homeless guy who won the lottery. I immediately got to spraying. I had spray painted my name onto the car so that everyone who walked by would see it.

I got so good at it that I drew Biggie Smalls and 2Pac with a cigarette in his mouth. I guess that it just came to me instantly.

I was going to draw Michael Jackson but I just couldn’t seem to draw all of his face lifts so I just settled for Gary Coleman.

He was so easy to draw that I even did his whole body. Although, it wasn’t any larger than 2Pac’s cigarette but the drawing was smaller than Biggie’s upper lip. That was everything that I did worth writing about today.

  

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Written on:7/28/08

Today my dad and I spent the day on the road yet again. Only today was a little less grueling than yesterday.

We got to see the Grand Canyon! It had giant rock formations that were more than ten stories tall! If you look around you’d see that it was pretty much a huge bowl full of rocks and sand.

We even got a chance to ride on horse back all the way into the Grand Canyon . The weirdest things lived down there. I could have sworn that I saw a man sized mosquito sucking every last ounce of blood out of a full grown mule! When it was finished it looked at me hungrily. I told the tour director what I had seen. She said that they were once regular flies that lived near a toxic waste dump. They were dying out because almost no animals dared come near the sea of toxic debris for it was known to transform anything that came near it into an unspeakable monster. As a last resort, the flies suck the toxic waste. They had soon became giant mosquitos with a powerful thirst for blood. So they set off to the toxic waste factory. As soon as they arrived the workers knew that they had created the monsters they saw before them. When monster mosquitos were done,only the skins of the workers remained. That didn’t satisfy them but they needed a large, dry, and rock surrounding. Therefore, they wondered into the Grand Canyon. We hurried back up the way we came so that nothing would attack us.

We arrived at the leaving point safely. After that, I wanted go but my dad wanted to listen to some crappy air quality presentation which took about half an hour.

The rest of the day was just straight rode. At least until we got to the motel. It was infested with every kind of bug. When I went to sleep it felt like I was inside of a beetle’s mouth.

That about does it for today.

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Written on:7/27/08

Today my dad and I are going back home to Georgia!

Although unlike any other trip back home, we are driving cross-country. The trip takes about three days and while you drive you see many land marks and stuff that you wouldn’t see if you never drive out of the state.

I was so excited to go back home, I could hardly stand still let alone go to sleep. But somehow I closed my eyes and dosed off as soon as my head hit the pillow.

Before we left that morning we had to get a few snacks to keep awake while on the road. So we got some gatorade, honey roasted peanuts, and just about every other type of candy known to man kind and several known to dolphins. After we were locked and loaded we left for Georgia.

My dad said that I needed to learn how to read a map and that this road trip would be the perfect moment for that. He told me the some of basic ways to read a map. He also had a GPS in the truck so I didn’t know why he needed me to tell him the directions that the gas stations and nearby hotels were. But I told him any way because I thought that he was just trying to get me to learn or something.

We passed about eight cities and three states. Just about all of them had at least 1 thing special about them and my dad and I took a photo of every last one of them.

My dad always has some type of Jack In The Box logo on his antenna. And when ever one got so old and jacked up that it was practically falling apart , he’d stop by Jack In The Box to get a new one. As a matter of fact, when ever we took a picture of some type of flag or something we would make sure to make it look as though the Jack In The Box head was right next to it.

We rode three-hundred and eighty-three miles! Although, we still have such a long way to, it’s just unreal!

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Written on: 7/20/08

This week my dad and I had to texture and paint someone’s condo. The texturing was the hard part though. The first day we went to work over there, I didn’t know what to expect. I actually thought that it would be easy. As soon as we started to prepare to spray , I knew that I was in for a rude awakening.

We had to pack the truck with all types of tools. That alone took about three hours to do. Then, we had to go to Home Depot to get even more supplies to take with us on our trip to the condo. So we got more things and somehow managed to stuff them into the truck.

We grabbed something to eat on the way and arrived at the condo in a matter of minutes. My dad and I got to work as quickly as possible.

By the time we were done it was about 10:00 P.M.. So we went home to rest. The next day we started the whole process over. We did that all week and we’re still not done! The only thing I like about working at the condo is we got to swim in the pool.

 Written on:7/8/08

My dad and I are still in the Mojave Desert. 

It’s so hot over here that the cable went out because the heat out here fried the cable box! 

Today I went to ride my bike. I really thought that I knew what I was doing but I really didn’t. My dad had faith in me though and that  made me feel like I could accomplish anything so I rode off feeling extremely confident. 

I also had to bring my stick just in case a dog tried to attack me or something. As soon as made my third turn every house I saw had a dog with a bad attitude. One little puppy dog somehow got through the cage and started to chase me. I tried to slow down so that I could hit it with my stick, but it stopped running before I got the chance. I stopped when I noticed that the dogs had stopped barking. I took one look around and I immediately said to myself,”I’m lost”! So I stopped to try and remember where I came from but I was having so much fun trying to hit that dog that I had forgotten all about those things. So,like any helpless kid, I called my dad and told him what street I was on. 

A few minutes later I saw a bright light coming towards me. I thought  that  since the wind was blowing so hard it  threw me into the air and I landed on my head causing me to break my neck. 

Although instead of heaven it was my dad, he had  found me after all!  He told me to follow him so I did and before I knew it, I was home. I was still a little stunned but my dad helped to console me back to my normal self again, and that was my view of today.

Written on : 7/6/08 Today my dad and I planned to go to the Mojave Desert, but we had to wait until we got everything done in Inglewood.

First we went to church with the rest of  the family. I felt like my spirit had been touched by Jesus by the time we left. After that we packed up all of our clothes in preparation  for our road trip. 

When that was done we said our goodbyes and drove off.

On the way I saw a “Wind Turbine”. It’s a giant spinning devise that gathers electricity by spinning. It’s almost like a solar  panel . Only it moves to get its energy. It’s said to be able to power a whole house. I also saw  a war plane on the way.

My dad said that they were able to go so fast  that they break the sound barrier when they take off which  is able to make houses shake like an Earthquake.  By then we had  already entered  Mojave Desert and we were just getting accustom to the weather.

In Mojave, it was as hot as the flaming pits off hell!  When we got into the house it felt great compared to the intense heat outside. There was air conditioning, great food, and something I haven’t seen in a long time…cable!   It was all so wonderful that I almost fainted.  So my dad and I ate outside. Then we took a walked in the dark. I got to bring my stick just in case a dog tried to bite us. I didn’t get to use it because the dogs stopped when they saw the stick.  After a while I got kind of scared but  I acted brave because my dad was shivering in his boots. When we finally got back, we kicked back and relaxed. All in all it was pretty cool.