Winter Jam

There are few things in this world that I enjoi ;D, but one of those few are cheap amazing concerts such as Winter Jam! I had a blast there, and got to hear some really amazing music.

Veridia

About a Mile

Blanca

For King and Country

Newsong

Family Force 5

Building 429

Francesca Battistelli

Jeremy Camp

Skillet

I found two new bands this year, new to me lol, and I am a bit more interested with the. I will be honest, I don't get as excited about every band, but I am happy to find new ones, and hear a variation of styles if if I don't get as stoked. After all 'Variety is the spice of life.'

I also got a t-shirt because I like getting at least one t-shirt, and that is it.

my 2 favorite bands were Skillet and For King and Country, the major favorites!

thanks for reading!

My video links

Follow me around Winter Jam-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs0WIENDIs0

Get ready with me for WJ15-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzA0rH0xnEM

-Parker

Art Student

Today, I prepare for my Stat. and Probability midterm. First of all, if I was in Australia, or a European   country, I wouldn't need to take a Stat. and Prob. class. but here, in America, trying to get my Associates in Visual Art, I am required to take three Math classes, along with social sciences, and a regular science class.

Now, in all actuality, I love the social science, especially Abnormal Psychology, and Astronomy, but now changing the transfer program rules, requiring me to take one more Math, namely Stats and so on.

I don't need this, I'm not looking for an easy A, when it comes to class, but still, I have 0 interest in Stats. Why? just Why? this isn't ever going to aid my degree, in my field of study. I don't want to deal with it, I don't want to be in this class, I'll never us µ squared, the only thing I may ever use is Φ because that makes up nearly every organic like compositions, but on what earth will I need to use this stuff, because I am not planning on becoming a gambler, or a accountant.

Life man, just complaining about stats that I don't need.

-L.R. Parker

Old.... Friends?

Today as I scrolled through blogs as you would normally do (not really) I came across a blog that and old... well, I'll call her a friend, because she was one of my earliest friend I can remember. and now that I think about it it makes no since that we were friends then.

Once we hit puberty everything changed, she began to try to control me, and I sub-contiously knew it, but you also understand being a kid and unable know how to handle specific situation. The short version is I cracked and completely crushed her, because she was completely hurting me, because that is how I used to think friends were, trying to control each other.

She then couples together with another girl as a friend and they completely freeze me out, and thus begins my black sheep, and they become my hypothetical bully. If I had a bully, I would consider her one then, not as much as my supposed best friend at the time, because no one could top her, but it wasn't the best.

I also saw this same friend, not to mention was partners in drivers ed with this girl, because we knew each other from the Home School Group, so we were on semi friendlier terms with each other.

Now, I go on and today, I see her Blog, she is getting married and is two months younger then me,  she is 18.

Married by 19, I understand, and I could have called it because of how I know her. But now, I wonder, because of our friendship, should I feel happy to her? We came to at the least tolerance, but now to be honest, I have no bad feeling towards her, I am Switzerland, I am Horton at the end of Horton hears a who, because I actually am happy for her.

What Valentine's Day means to me...

During the time of Empire Claudias, Father Frank O'Gara, or St. Valentine, known for marrying young people illegally, due to the fact that Empire Claudias wanted unlimited amounts of solders
who wouldn't be distracted by wives or children. He was sent to prison and killed, but before he was killed, the daughter of one of his judges, was blind. and it is said that he prayed for her and healed her. Thus Valentine's Day.

But what Valentine's Day means to me.

I do not have a significant other, and therefore I do not anyone to celebrate this holiday with. So, over the years, my Mom showed me a different way to go through this holiday, I cleaned the kitchen, baked cookies, made a pie, and set everything up for breakfast, so its like a mini Christmas, or Easter. More for blessing them then anything else.

It's about blessing people on this day, because its about loving people. Not just one person, it's about those I love.

-Parker

Overacheiver...

Nerd, Geek, Know-it-all Overachiever...

Many of these names; I have been called.

Today I sat in my favorite local coffee shop, and studied, but I started at 10:00am and then finished at 10:25am. No joke.

First of all, background on me, I was Home Schooled, yes that wonderful world where people think a lot of children don't do anything because the are schooled at home. Home sweet home.

I'm not trying to become the advocate of homeschooling, after all, I was a black sheep of the homeschooling community, but I will say, you're parents expectations are a lot higher then the states.

In Homeschooling, I learned what independent study truly meant. My brother has Aspergers, but at the time we thought it was just ADHD, and due to that, I, the semi normaler of the two, studied often on my own, which taught me a lot about myself and studying. I have reading dyslexia, (which if your a smart-alec, yes that involves numbers too), but I will never let that be an excuse for anything, I have written/ am writing a large amount of novels, and therefore just because I have a different way of seeing words on a page doesn't mean I have a disability. but, anyhow by junior high I got this studying thing down pretty dang good.

Now 5 scary years later, I am in college, doing college level work, used to working hard, taking challenging classes, finishing studying sessions in 25 minutes, less then half an hour. I do not claim to be anything short of a genius, my favorite thing to do is to tell people I graduated high school a year early, and tell them it was because I did too much work. ;)  But I will say, doing independent study prepared me for college, which is mostly independent work. now it is a given that if there is something that truly is challenging per-say a math exam, I will spend hours studying for it, but a lot of time, the stuff I am learning is revision. At the moment I am taking a Abnormal Psychology class along side of three other classes, and they are all revision, all but Abnormal Psych. and I still am leaning new thing in psych, but It doesn't take me long to study the case studies and the text prescribed.

Homeschooled problems... Two semester ago I took a speech class and we were talking about different cultures, and I was bringing a lot to the table, and this random guy asked me flat out, "How do you know so much?" I claimed Youtube fore my sources, but in all actuality I am a Homeschooler who loves to read, so I do know a lot, just don't ask me to find the area of the Detroit metro area, I will be so lost :P

If you have Overachiever problems, or Homeschool problems, let me know in the comments below!

-Parker

Fall Drinks

I was just sitting with my Mom yesterday, and we were trying to figure out what to have with our pumpkin roll I pain stakingly made from scratch yesterday with cream cheese frosting, it was heavenly, but all we had was cherry chocolate hot cocoa mix. Now I'm not the most sophisticated person, so I could be wrong, but cherry chocolate and pumpkin didn't sound the best to me...

Also being part of a german family, they would have made gluvine, which is a spiced win drink where you cook the wine, lumbrusqo, with cinnamon sticks, cloves, maybe some sugar, zest lemon rind, and simmer it for a minute. but seeing as there is wine in it, its not really family appropriate.

So here are some good fall drink ideas, including my signature recipe.

Parker's Hot Cocoa
serves 1, but you may double or quadruple this recipe to your hearts content.

• 1 tsp. cocoa powder (I prefer dark, or organic dutch.)
• 2 tsp. sugar, (again I prefer xylitol or evaporated cain juice, only use one tsp for they xylitol.)
• 1 mug of milk, or milk substitute 
• 1/4 tsp vanilla, (any extract you think would be good with chocolate)

Pour your dry ingredients in a small sauce pan, then add your vanilla and a little of the milk, make a sauce, (kind of like when you make a rue), cook until sugar is dissolved, but do not let boil, or you will have crusty hot cocoa. Add the rest of your milk, and whisk that together then allow to cook for 3-5 minutes, mainly just until hot. Add marshmallows, whipped cream, chocolate shavings, what ever you want.

Spiced Cider
serves 1

• 1 mug cider
• a dash cinnamon
• a bit of nutmeg
• a small pinch of cloves

Heat in a sauce pan for the spices permeate the cider, low to cook for several minutes, then remove from flame, to allow to cool, or leave it on stove to have hot apple cider. 

Spiced Tea

serves 1

• Plain black tea, or Bangle spice tea from Celestial Seasonings.
• 1 cinnamon stick,
• a hint of ginger
• a peck of cloves
• 1/8 Cup. of milk, or cream.
• 1/4 tsp vanilla, or desired flavoring

Steep tea as usual in your desired mug with room for cream or milk, then add spices, flavoring and let steep longer without tea in it, then add you cream.

if you want to change things up, get a frying pan with

• 2 tsp tapioca pearls
• 1 cup water

allow to cook until the pearls are soft and squishy, and your spiced tea has become bubble tea. 

Enjoy! Happy Autumn!

-L.R.Parker

Narrating my life 1

So, I just realized that the last post I did was a semi political on, and I feel kind of bad about it, but I do support it, because it gives you something to think about.

Now I'm in school, College to be exact, I can't believe this is my sophomore year, its so weird, I feel like Ive been here forever, but I only have a year left here then I transfer to a technical University.

Unhappily unemployed, I just can't find anyone to hire me, and thats annoying, I am also being burnt out by kids, which is horrible, because I love kids. But I feel sad, because I shouldn't be burnt out yet. I don't even have my own kids yet.

I am also ruining the movie, The Fault in Our Stars, by reading the book, because I am a boo person, and then I am to read the book Jude by Kate Morgenroth, and I can't wait, I've also been into the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson.

That's my life right now, I might vlog this, but I'm not sure, I'm falling out of love with youtube, I'm unsure.

-L.R.Parker