101 things comments

Coral- It's really interesting that you are intense and have been called Intimidating, I've been told I can be intimidating as well.
You and I both struggle to connect with people our own age
You and I both love dark and grim writing
You and I both try to be confident, although I slip into arrogance more often than not
You made me think when you said that you don't like nationalism
I'd love to hear more about how complicated things interest you
You're an interesting person because you have a different sense of humor.

Lily- It's really interesting that you have never been camping, going camping with my family while miserable is some of the most fun and memorable experiences I've had.
You and I both love dogs
You and I both are terrible at clay sculpting, everything ends up looking like mush
You and I both don't have much patience
You made me think with what you said about strongly believing in aliens, I certainly hope your right, life would be so much more interesting if their were.
I'd love to hear more about how you can read tarot cards, I've never met anyone who could and I'm curious now
You're such an interesting person because, you dread moving out

Carson- It's really interesting that you love to learn but hate school
You and I both think the Beatles are overrated
You and I both never remember our dreams
You and I both think The Incredibles is a great movie
You made me think with what you said about hoping there isn't an afterlife
I'd love to hear more about how you love to learn but hate school, I wonder if your reasoning are similar to mine
You're such an interesting person because you think that high school should be harder than it is

101 Things About Me

1. I love History, especially learning about great generals and leaders
2. I'm about 6'2 but I really don't consider myself that tall 
3. I'm pretty dogmatic and tenacious when it comes to getting my way
4. I'm a peacemaker I can't stand it if I feel like there is conflict in my life, not to say I don't like to fight I just like to fight and win then put it behind me.
5. I love the city of San Antonio, from the architecture to the basketball team the Spurs
6. I read at about 150 pages an hour, and I have very good comprehension 
7. My favorite type of music is metal, but I also listen to a lot of rap and rock
8. I'm convinced that I was born in the wrong time period, I would have loved to a Roman soldier or a Samurai, basically I wish I could have been a warrior with a sword
9. I love guns and explosives, if it goes boom then I probably like it 
10. I think the Empire in star wars were actually the good guys, they definitely improved the galaxy more than the Jedi 
11. I don't like Star Trek because I find it super unrealistic. 
12. I have a passion for the game Overwatch, it's one of the best games I've ever played, My favorite character is a bitter retired super soldier turned vigilante called Soldier 76, my next favorite is probably the Cowboy named McCree.
13. I accidentally almost removed my left index finger from my hand while I was trimming trees, not to self try not to yank on something sharp when your hand is in the way of said sharp object 
14. I love to weight lift
15. I think I have a very good work ethic 
16. I love dogs, but anything under thirty pounds is not a dog
17. I have two cats Rocky and Adrian, Rocky is a fat tom cat who weighs like 20 pounds, Adrian is a slight almost perma kitten who weighs about 7 pounds
18. I have too dogs named Piper and Athena, they are cattle dog corgi mixes
19. My dogs are little nightmares who seemingly don't get tired, and are always doing things they shouldn't be
20. I have a really bad temper, but I rarely lose control of it. 
21. I think Gal Gadot is the prettiest person I have ever seen. 
22. I tend to be a loner, just because I haven't found the right friends yet. 
23. I have a really high pain tolerance, which causes me to do stupid things like play pick up basketball on a sprained ankle, and not realize it was sprained until my mom asked me why I have a golf ball in my sock.
24. I have very little patience for stupid people, or slow people my time is precious 
25. I wish I had super powers
26. Sometimes I want to go into politics, and other times I think dealing with the current system would be a nightmare for an ethical person 
27. I want to be able to travel space within my life time 
28. I wish there was some where knew to explore, I want that feeling like the pioneers going westward, that self reliance and excitement, but maybe less cholera and typhoid fever would be great. 
29. I sometime wonder whether or not I could survive in the wilderness like the kid in the book Hatchet
30. My dream house is a cabin in the middle of no where in one of the Dakota's it's got high speed internet, and a nice fire place. 
31. The left side of my body is more prominent, my left shoulder is higher and my ribs and sternum stick out farther on that side of my body. 
32. I'm a night owl if I had my way I'd spend my time awake from 5 p.m. to 5 a.m. I just love the quit peacefulness and emptiness of night and the early morning
33. I refuse to say things that I don't mean, the one exception to this is when I'm angry 
34. I have two little sisters who absolutely drive me insane 
35. My favorite book series right now is Malazan book of the Fallen
36. I've always wanted to visit Vienna 
37. My favorite gun is the PARA .308 it just looks and sounds cool
38. I would probably be considered pretty far right
39. I think socialism is a stupid idea 
40. I wish that I could see all the stars in the night sky 
41. One day I will learn to play the guitar 
42. I wish I could write novels, but all my best writing seems to be short stories 
43. I spend way too much time on reddit 
44. I'm super competitive, losing sucks 
45. Dying young doesn't seem that bad to me, I don't want to get old enough to the point that I can't do what I want 
46. Most of the short stories I write have a cyclical theme to them and I don't know why
47. My dream job would be a streamer on twitch, or an author
48. I think I might want to go into politics one day 
49. I tend to be too honest 
50. I'm pretty emotionally distant, I hold pretty much every one at arms length emotionally 
51. I constantly hit my head on everything, it;s pretty inconvenient
52. One of my favorite bands is August Burns Red
53. I'm really hard on myself, I'm not a perfectionist, but I find it hard to be satisfied if I'm not one of the best   
54. Economics fascinates me especially by how fear driven it is 
55. I curse like a sailor, especially when I'm driving 
56. I eat almost constantly, there is no such thing as enough food when I'm around 
57. I think I would make a pretty good Viking 
58. I wish I could meet Alexander the Great 
59. Lacrosse seems like it's fun to play 
60. I'm a pretty cynical person 
61. Oreo blast from sonic are the best dessert ever, I will fight someone over this 
62. I hate spiders with a fiery passion, I would burn every last one of them alive and laugh maniacally as I did it'
63. I'm pretty curious about everything, I once spent an hour reading about Chernobyl because I was bored in English class
64. falling asleep next to a creek while reading a good book is amazing 
65. When I get my own house I want two American Alsatians, big dogs are great
66. I want to go dog sledding in Alaska
67. I love thunderstorms, I find them relaxing 
68. I have a bad habit of playing with fire 
69.  I love to drive 
70. I tend to be a very logical person 
71. Lots of my writing tends to be cyclical 
72. I'm a very opinionated person 
73. I'm incredibly stubborn 
74. I'm very tenacious, especially when it comes to any type of physical activity 
75. I'm very easily distracted 
76. I get lost in my own thoughts a lot 
77. I'd rather go to the mountains than a beach 
78. I've been stung by a jellyfish before 
79. I've been stung by a yellow jacket twice, the second time made my leg swell up for 5 days 
80. I have a scar on my chin from where I fell while roller skating 
81. I'm right handed 
82. I've had tendinitis before, it sucks 
83. I used to run hurdles, but I grew and it ruined my coordination 
84. I could talk about fantasy books for hours 
85. my favorite movie is a Few Good Men 
86. I think it would be awesome to live a life like Alexander the Great's 
87. I can't stay still ever 
88. I like to learn about machines and how they work
89. One day I want to learn how to track 
90. If the U.S. ever goes to war I will immediately volunteer 
91. I hope I'm as good as I think I am 
92. Top Gun is my second favorite movie 
93. I'm not afraid of public speaking 
94. Breakfast is the best meal of the day 
95. I act on instinct and reflex too often 
96. Compromise comes naturally to me
97. I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees 
98. I tend to bottle my emotions up 
99. Pickup basketball is one of my favorite things to do 
100. I would hate to be a journalist for my job 
101. I am loyal to a fault 

Dan in Real Life Questions

1.Yes I think writing about what you know is important, but writing about things you don't know about can be helpful in processing them. I don't think you have to be an expert to give advice, bit it certainly gives more weight to your advice.

2. Understand them and try to remember what you went through as a teen. Let them fail, and let them understand that nothing they can ever do will be bad enough that it will make you not love them. Remember you are there to coach and guide them, not to be their friend.

3. I would love to write a column for a Newspaper. I would write my opinions of the injustices that I see in the world. I'd like to think that it'd be funny in a sarcastic and satirical way.

8. A girl who can look me in the eye and tell me when I'm being stupid. I have a pretty strong personality, and I tend to be overbearing, so I need another person to help point out when I need to consider my actions. Most people are content to just follow me lead as I forge ahead, but I don't think that's healthy for me. I need someone to question me.

19. Yes I do, but I think the quality of your questions really give you a good idea of someones conversational skill. Anyone can ask a question, it's the people who ask a question that sparks an hour long conversation that are the really skilled conversationalist.

14. This is a hard question because I'm basically an open book I don't really keep secrets from anyone. I'm not ashamed of my past. I just move on. I guess it would have to be the amount of time that I was bullied, I was bullied from about kindergarten to around seventh grade. It took me a lot of time to kind of grow up and stop caring what people thought about me, and that's when I started to kind of grow into my own and becoming the person I am today.

21. Life is full of disappointment, the best way to deal with this is to focus on the things you do have not the things you don't. If you only focus on what you don't have you'll become really bitter, and it'll cause things to just get worse because you have a bad attitude, and it will just snowball from there.

"Reel" Life Questions

One of my favorite movies is A Few Good Men. It's just the perfect blend of funny and serious. I've seen it a hundred times but every time I watch it I still laugh at the jokes and I'm always invested in it's story. It gives a good luck to what can be experienced in the military. Another of my favorite is Aladdin, I love Robin Williams as the Genie he just puts so much life into the character, and its kind of nostalgic for me because it's one of the movies that I grew up with. In fact I love pretty much anything with Robin Williams in it, he's just such a great actor everything he did seemed really genuine.

I can't stand romances I find them cliche and dumb. They all see like the same thing to me and I don't understand how some one could watch them and not be bored. I just don't get the appeal. Maybe it;s just because I find them really fake, and how the girl no matter what always falls for the guy. It never ever shows what happens when she chooses someone different.

I watch movies all the time usually on the weekends with my family downstairs in the basement. My puppies lay down in front of the T.V. with a bone (because that's the only way to keep them quite) and our big tomcat Rocky is all curled up in someones lap. We then watch a movie as a family sometimes a comedy or sometimes an action movie, but it's our favorite thing to do together.

I need something to eat and drink, I just can't focus unless I'm chewing on something or drinking something. I've been known to eat entire large popcorn buckets by myself, just because I'm not paying attention while I'm watching the movie I'm just absent mindlessly putting popcorn into my mouth.

The survey told me that I am really emotionally stable and that I am open to new experiences. It also told me that I would enjoy aggressive movies the most with a score of 100 percent. I'd say this is pretty true I love most of Quentin Tarantino's movies and his tend to be brutally violent.

If my life was made into a movie I would be played by Mathew Mcconaughey. The main plot points would be me moving too Texas, My life adjusting to Texas, Then me Moving to Springfield, and me then adjusting to Springfield and moving on to college. 

Movie quotes

"My name is Indigo Montoya, you killed my father prepare to die." - The Princess Bride

"It takes a big man to admit when he's wrong I am not a big man." - Fletch lives

"Did you wake me up? Did you Rub my lamp? Now all of a sudden you're walking out on me? I don't think so." - Aladdin

First Draft Children's story: Mighty Mac Fights the Dragon.

Mighty Mac was a viking, known through out the land for his heroic deeds.

He fought monsters, and evil wizards, helping people everywhere.

One day he came upon a kingdom in big trouble.

A dragon had made his home in their mountains

His roaring from his cave made the villagers terribly frightened.

Mighty Mac went to the king and declared he would slay the dragon

Mighty Mac packed his bags he filled it with food and water and everything he would need

When he was finally ready to go he attached his ax of awesome to his belt.

He set off from the kingdom, ready to fight.

Mighty Mac climber the towering mountain, hearing the roaring of the dragon.

He climbed for days and days through the sunny, the rain, and the snow.

Finally he had reached the dragons cave.

He entered the cave, and he heard a mighty roar

As he approached the dragon he discovered, that was no roar it was merely a mighty snore.

He walked to the dragon as it woke up

"Excuse me?" he asked the dragon " Would you mind to try and be a little quieter your scaring the villagers?"

"Sure." the dragon replied, and he went back to bed.


I plan on illustrating the book by myself.