Sup GameSpot. Haven't blogged since late April, so I figured it's a good idea to do one now. I've been feeling mixed emotions lately, and that has something to do with the theme of the blog. I'll be explaining both the "ups" and "downs" of what's been going on lately.

UP: School's finally over. This year wasn't so bad. I enjoyed it a lot more than last year. I had better teachers, hung out with better friends, and improved my grades a lot. Since 8th grade, I had a habit of not turning in assignments on time, but this year I vowed to stop that and it turned out to be pretty successful. There were still quite a few instances where this didn't work out, but in my defense, they were stupid assignments. :P The classes I took this year were US History, Programming I, Health, Algebra, Biology, Spanish I, and English 10. US History was probably my favorite because I got to learn about stuff I've always wanted to know about, like World War I and Vietnam. Programming was easily my least favorite class and I didn't care much for English 10. I had exams last week and I think I did pretty good. I checked online and it said I was ranked 160 out of 452 people in my grade. I think that's pretty good. I only have two more years of school left, so that's something to be happy about too.

DOWN: Not last Saturday, but the Saturday before, we had to put of our cats down. :( On Friday night, I heard her breathing rather loud. I actually thought she was snoring and since my allergies were bothering me, I thought nothing of it and went to sleep. The next morning my mom woke me and my brother up at 8:30 in the morning to tell us about her. She said she was really worried about her and got ready in case we had to put her down. We brought her out to the living room and put food and water next to her. After awhile, she eat and drank so we thought she'd be fine. Unfortunately, she seemed to get worse later on. She sat in the same spot for the whole day and we were worried she wouldn't be able to make it down the stairs to her litterbox. Later that night, my brother said she was making weird noises and her mouth started to foam. My dad said we had to take her to the vet or she probably would've died while she was there. All of this happened while I was talking to DrAwesome on Xbox. ._. I didn't cry, but of course, I was extremely sad. We've had this cat for almost 10 years, and she was almost 14 years old. We only have one cat now, Skitty. The one that passed away was Kimmie. There's pics of her in my images section if you'd like to see what she looked like.

UP: This involves something I hid from almost all of my friends in the Catz Clan, save for a few. There was this girl that sat by me in both my Spanish and English classes throughout second semester. I had helped her with a few assignments here and there, and that's when I found out I had a crush on her. I was too shy to ask her out, so Ithought I'd take another approach. In the form of poetry. I thought about writing a poem for her expressing my feelings about her and giving it to her on the last day ofschool.I was a bit skeptical at first, but DrAwesome thought it'd bea good idea, so I went with it. After a couple weeks and help from Ammo and Koopa, I had completed the poem. When the last day of school came, I was extremely nervous. So nervous to the point where I almost wasn't going to do it. I almost just walked away with the poem still in my pocket until I realized something. All of my friends were very supportive of me doing this, and if I came back empty handed, I thought they'd be extremely disappointed in me. After building up some courage, I gave it to her. She said it was sweet and that it made her day. :oops: She even asked if she could keep the poem, and of course, I let her. I still have the original copy somewhere in my room, but sharing that can wait until another time.

DOWN: This also involves the whole poem thing. As I stated before, I was extremely nervous before I actually gave her the poem. When I gave her the poem, time suddenly seemed to be moving faster and before I knew it, the moment was over. I was way too nervous to ask her out or even ask for her number or something similar.Even though I still feel like I did the right thing, I still feel like I didn't do enough. (I didn't strike out though. *cough*Aidan*cough). I've been depressed about this for the past couple days or so, and was even depressed while I was playing Halo on Saturday with Aidan, DrAwesome, Mr_Jenkins, and stalpno. I tried looking her up on Facebook, but I got no results. I also tried Myspace, but that wasn't successful either. I plan on trying to look some her friends up in an attempt to get her number or something, but I'd have to make a Facebook account. Oh well. Wish me luck. D:

UP: After a few long weeks of playing only Halo Reach on my Xbox, my dad finally bought mea new harddrive for my new Xbox 360. I haven't played any games yet, but I plan on doing a lot of achievement hunting over the summer. In order to avoid having to replay every single game over again, I have to transfer the data from my old harddrive to the new one. I'm guessing I'd have to use a flash drive, but that'll take awhile transferring over only certain amounts of data at one time. I'm pretty patient, so it's not that big of a deal. I also got new iPod earbuds since the old ones were broken. They're black, and they actually match the iPod this time. :P

UP: I recently beat some Yugioh game for the PS2. It was alright. There were way too many duels though. That makes it my ninth beaten game this year, along with Spyro 1, all three Professor Layton games, Sly Minigames, Sly 1, GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony, and Undead Nightmare. I plan to beat a lot more seeing as how I got a new Xbox harddrive, set my PS2 back up, and got a couple new games on PSN. It's gonna be a pretty good summer for gaming. ^_^

I also start Driver's Ed in a few weeks. I guess I should practice driving, but I've been too lazy. :P I might be forced into getting a job this summer too. D: My dad suggested that I work with him this summer. I like his work, but I'd like to put off getting a job as long as I can. On the plus side, I would have some money of my own that I could spend on new games during the summer. It wouldn't be too bad I guess.

Well, I think I'm done praising/complaining about my life now. Leave a comment. Now. :x (Please? :):P)