the shnazzy blog

dragons and griffins and all that other crap

2010-04-06T22:10:00.000-07:00

i have always been a fan of mythical creatures. i like reading about animals and mythical animals tend to be a lot more interesting. i don't really care if they're real or not. so i found this diagram interesting. this shows the combination of different animals which make up each mythical creature. most mythical creatures are a combination of two to four animals and a lot of them with a human in the mix. if you can't read the diagram, click on the post title for a larger image.

robot unicorn attack

2010-04-06T10:30:00.000-07:00

best game ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

press z to jump
hold z down for longer jump
press z twice for double jump
press x to dash

dash through as many stars as possible

leave the music on

click title for link

Yosemite

2010-03-28T07:17:00.000-07:00

i'm going camping with my mom, my dad, and my friend nicholas in yosemite valley. There's a chance it might rain and snow every day! wish me luck.

have a happy happy root beer day!

2010-02-02T19:51:00.000-08:00

today, february 2, is root beer day. international root beer day. look it up. it's a real holiday, like seriously, it's a real holiday. i celebrated by drinking the world's most expensive root beer, virgil's root beer. $6 for a four pack. look it up.

how did you celebrate international root beer day?

and here, for your entertainment, while you glurp down that amazing brew, are 6 facts about root beer.

1) root beer originally was called small beer and had a small amount of alcohol.
2) root beer is made with 16 different kinds of roots and herbs.
3) root beer was invented by the early american colonists.
4) according to cha cha, feb 2 is international root beer day.
5) according to wikapedia, dec 4 is international root beer day.
6) according to some other thing, aug 5 is international root beer day.

i say we celebrate all of them!

lil drumer

2010-01-16T12:25:00.000-08:00

this kid is 5 years old, completely self-taught, and sponsored.
to learn more click title.

Max's Brain

2009-11-26T08:31:00.000-08:00

this is my brain (those are the real colors).

the monthly max phrase

2009-09-08T11:39:00.000-07:00

the monthly max phrase is something i will do regularly. whenever i start to say a new phrase i will put it in the monthly max phrase. which means it might not be monthly, it could be daily, weekly, monthly, even yearly.

this "month's" phrase is:
Oh, My Good Gosh!!

videogame strings

2009-08-13T21:09:00.000-07:00

this is just random.

maori spongebob

2009-08-02T17:17:00.000-07:00

Tash McGill was at our house. in fact, she still is. as you might know, Tash is from New Zealand. she is a kiwi (a new zealander). the native kiwis are called maori (when Tash says that word, it sounds like "more-ee"). she found this thing which is a spongebob website of a tv show which actually exists, which is just the exact same thing as spongbob, but in the maori language.

click the title of this post, then click on the clip.

bridge craft

2009-08-02T16:08:00.000-07:00

i was lookin' for a game to blog about. and i came across Bridge Craft.it's not that amazing. but, you now.

check it out (click title of post).

riddle!!!!

2009-07-09T15:53:00.000-07:00

riddle
who ever figures it out, wins a small, orange, play hammer (don't ask me were i got it).

heres the riddle: a cowboy rides in to town on friday, he stays in town for three days, then leaves town on friday. how did he do it?

middle school

2009-06-23T14:04:00.000-07:00

SCHOOLS OUT!!!!!!!!!!

i'm officially a middle schooler. which means i'm a 6th grader. not 5th, 6th. 5th, not 6th. i mean, 6th or is it 5th. no, 6th, ya, 5th. i mean, 6th, ya, that's it, 6th.

that doesn't make a difference with school. because my school goes from preschool to 8th grade. but it does make a difference with church, i'm excited about that.

kids

2009-06-16T09:49:00.000-07:00

i'm going to write a little bit about every kid in my class.
GO!

sean (nickname: stussi - his last name)
can be funny, mature (for an 11 year boy).

maxine (nickname: maca-seena)
smart, nice, and fast.

katelynn (nickname: none)
sassy, strong physically and verbally.

miles (nickname: mills)
short, funny, likes baseball a little too much.

quinn (nickname: quinny-binny)
funny, smart, and weird (in a good way).

forrest (nickname: dayy)
tall, cool kid, and first one to have a reason to consider a razor.

sean (nickname: lemonhead)
good at drawing, smart, and knows how to have a good time even if everybody else isn't.

montana (nickname: none)
only redhead in class, very strong verbally, and another sassy one.

nick (nickname: nini)
one of those people everybody likes, funny, and physically strong.

isabella (nickname: izzy)
small, excellent knitter, and enthusiastic.

nicholas (nickname: pickle)
big, funny, and not one to give up.

aiyana (nickname: none)
almost as tall as my dad, very thin, and enthusiastic.

madeleine (nickname: maddy)
short, laughs a lot, someone all the girls like.

hunter (nickname: hunner, or as i like to call him, the little energizer bunny)
short, smart, and fast, not one to mess with.

natalie (nickname: none)
does not appreciate most males, super girly, seriously colorful clothing.

sarah (nickname: none)
outgoing, very strange (not necessarily in a bad way), and funny.

cassady (nickname: sassady)
i literally didn't know what sassy meant until i came to my school and met her. VERY strong verbally.

nia (nickname: none)
can be funny, mini-'fro, strong physically.

scott (nickname: scotty-potty)
tall, VERY fast, he is really funny if he just lets his jokes come out.

john mathew (nickname: jones)
if you've got no one to hang out with, he's always there. he's really "normal".

gia (nickname: none)
really outgoing, really skinny, and really fast.

rachel (nickname: none)
very quiet, she's new to our class; and, like i said, she's quiet. so i don't really know much about her besides that.

max (nickname: extremely handsome and freaking awesome boy)
extremely handsome, freaking awesome, smarter than a 5th grader, and the guy everyone thinks is extremely handsome and freaking awesome. 'nuff said.

mrs. charmichael (our teacher)
otherwise known as "miss carmel-muncher", or as i like to call her, "commander caramel". very nice, motherly (kinda, like, she treats all of us like her children, in a non-creepy way), and a great teacher. and if i could choose any teacher from my school, i would choose commander caramel.

now you know what i have to deal with!

bye bye daddy blog

2009-05-30T20:15:00.000-07:00

this is sad, my daddy is giving up his blog.

so this is a post about my thoughts about my dad giving up his beloved blog. first of all, my dad has been blogging for, i don't know, let's say four years and i've always thought that it's kind of kind of cool that he blogs. just the idea of my dad having his own website as a kid sounded like someone really important. who doesn't like the idea of their dad being someone important? and so when i figured out that i could get my own website (blog), i freaked! it was like christmas or fruitcake. it just kept on being exciting. i named my blog crazy max's blog which later became the shnazzy blog. then my dad decided his job and being with his family were the two things that made him most happy in life, so he quit twitter, he quit facebook, and he quit his blog.

it felt pretty weird to be the only blogger in the family. and of course it still does. for one, i'm sad that he quit his blog because i liked it! and for two, i'm happy that he quit his blog because he quit it for me, so he could spend more time with me (and my family). the happy part seems to be a little bit stronger so that's good.

don't ever expect me to quit like my wussy dad did, for family. i have my priorities in order! :o)

what does this say?

2009-05-30T19:56:00.000-07:00

the stupid test 4!

2009-05-19T12:32:00.000-07:00

a fun game this is. master yoda says. easy it is (for me).

max: tell me if you win.

(click title of post for game)

46 year old dad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-05-19T11:06:00.000-07:00

well, my dad is turning 46 on the 24th. i have no idea what to get him, neither does my mom. any ideas?

terminator

2009-05-10T13:19:00.000-07:00

sorry i haven't been able to blog in a while. i haven't had enough time with homework and all. but i'm blogging now :o) the reason this post is entitled "terminator" is because i have watched all three terminator movies in the past two weeks. i'm preparing myself for T4 which is coming out may 21 at a theater near you.

i thought the first one was the best as most movies are. the second one was almost as good in my opinion so it was still very good but not quite as good. you got this? deep info, yes? and the third one wasn't nearly as good as the second one, but yes, it was still good.

i thought it was kind of stupid that arnold said he would be back, but he's not back and he's not going to be back because he has moved away from terminator and become governator. what a loss. i hope terminator salvation can manage being freaking awesome without the newly known governator. i'll report back after may 21 with more info on salvation.

how that top ten london list turned out

2009-04-17T15:12:00.000-07:00

this post is officially my first post i've ever made after i've been in europe and you may notice that i have changed. london has moved me. sigh.... and i think i've picked up an accent.

this post is a response to how i thought of the things i thought would be the best (say that 10 times fast). here we go chaps. jolly good!

max's top ten things he was looking forward to in london list and how they turned out:

#10 flying lessons with peter pan--omg we found peter pan in kensington gardens, we went to neverland and frolicked a bit until we saw hook who was actually a homeless man sleeping in the woods behind the statue of peter pan. kind of freaked me out actually. so i didn't actually get the flying lessons but it was memorable!

#9 the whole concept of going to london with my mum--freakin awesome!

#8 double decker buses--people said they were nearly phased out. there were a lot of them, even the old ones. we went on double decker buses a bunch, sat in the front of the top and it was extremely cool. much better view than from the underground.

#7 diary of a wimpy kid do it yourself book (bought this for the plane trip)--cool i guess.

#6 getting one of the queen's guards to laugh. i'll tell them a fart joke--we went to buckingham palace at night. did you know the guards don't work at night? the queen was there, apparently unguarded. the only people guarding her were guys in camo carrying music stands around the grounds. very intimidating. but we did see some of the queen's guards at the tower of london guarding the jewels. so that was cool and i was going to tell him a fart joke. i really was. but i didn't know any and it felt somewhat awkward.

#5 pop art at the tate modern--it was really great but i got my hopes up too much. but on the other hand, i did get to taste a vanilla honey smoothie from the cafe. it was disgusting and sour, not sweet, sour.... what were they thinking! and it said with honey so why was it sour? doesn't make any sense.

#4 minding the gap--it didn't work out to well.

#3 high tea with the queen. i'm helping obama by giving her a second ipod, except this one is loaded with high school musical. she's gonna love it!--she loved it. i knew she was going to love it. i knew it. you knew it. of course, you know, we all knew it.

#2 a week without my sister (just kidding, no i'm not, actually i am, i don't know, kind of)--it was great, kind of, not really, no, no, yes, i don't know, mostly.

the #1 thing max is looking forward to in london is... sunny weather--this didn't work out so well either.

excitement!

2009-04-09T07:15:00.000-07:00

i'm leaving at noon. wish me luck!

p.s. i won't be blogging for a week and then i'll try to get back on track.

max's top ten london list!!!

2009-04-08T14:23:00.000-07:00

london, london, i love ya, london, you're only a day away.one more day 'til LONDON!

max's top ten things he's looking forward to in london list:

#10 flying lessons with peter pan

#9 the whole concept of going to london with my mum

#8 double decker buses

#7 diary of a wimpy kid do it yourself book (bought this for the plane trip)

#6 getting one of the queen's guards to laugh. i'll tell them a fart joke.

#5 pop art at the tate modern

#4 minding the gap

#3 high tea with the queen. i'm helping obama by giving her a second ipod, except this one is loaded with high school musical. she's gonna love it!

#2 a week without my sister (just kidding, no i'm not, actually i am, i don't know, kind of)

the #1 thing max is looking forward to in london is... sunny weather

london calling

2009-04-06T11:06:00.000-07:00

on thursday, me and my awesome mum (jeannie), are going to...wait, can i get a drum roll please....badabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabadabada (that was the drum roll)... LONDON!!! here's our tentative list of things we want to do:

british museum
tate modern museum (really excited to see the pop art)
national gallery
tower of london
london eye
st pauls cathedral
westminster abbey
double decker bus
boat cruise to greenwich
just walking around
hampton court palace

food we have in mind:

wagamama (awesome noodle place) with mindi godfrey who will be london too!
eat a meat pie!
fish and chips!
can i legally go into a pub??
ice cream, a daily essential in any country
and of course, high tea

that is what we tentatively have planned. we won't be able to do everything on the list because we only have 4 full days plus our arrival day. i want your input! what should we do! and is there other good restaurants we should try? (i have a confession to make though. i kind of am pretty darn picky. so i tend to like things less exotic and extreme.)

cheerio!

disco dancing

2009-04-01T18:56:00.000-07:00

my dad and i have been working on a new dance routine. it's real. don't get all weird and stuff (like it's not real).

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Kids' Choice Awards 2009?!

2009-03-29T09:03:00.000-07:00

the kids' choice awards is something nickelodeon (a kids tv network) does where it's kind of like the academy awards but in kid form and it's not just movies. they also include music, tv and books and video games. the reason it's called the kids' choice awards is because kids vote to choose the winners of each category. BUT ALL THE KIDS WERE WRONG! they voted incorrectly!

for best movie, the nominees were:

iron man
bedtime stories
high school musical 3
dark knight

guess what one won? wrong! guess again... wrong again! one more chance... wrong, wrong, wrong!!! sadly, high school musical 3 was the victor, but fear no evil cause at that moment i swore my vengance on that movie. and no more shall people have to suffer from the stupid musical singings of zac efron and vannessa hudgens, i promise you good people. my tactics are not violent, only that i will send out energy from my palms which will cause them to be unable to sing any longer and all the cds and dvds of high school musical movies will shatter spontaneously into millions of pieces. you can rest at ease people with good movie taste.

every year the kids' choice awards uses thousands of gallons of slime and each year they beat their record of how much slime they use. this year will ferrell did the sluge (giant slip and slide but instead of water, slime of course). he landed in this huge tub of slime and it was awesome. as awesome as it was, it did not compare with some previous year slime stunts. my favorite slime stunt was probably the one where they shot a man out of a canon and he landed in a giant pool of slime. very cool.

so next year kids, vote correctly. feel free to check with me if you're unsure of who to vote for next time. and nick, figure out a better slime stunt next year. you know those roller coasters that go really fast down into water and then curve back up? replace the water with slime! that'd be awesome and have a bunch of kids ride the coaster! i want the front seat!!

jo bros

2009-02-27T18:09:00.000-08:00

as much as i hate the jonas brothers, they were on saturday night live a little while ago, and were really funny. they were really the musical guest, but they were in two skits too. here they are:

this made me respect them a little bit more!

xmas vacation

2009-02-01T08:49:00.000-08:00

over the xmas break (like, a month ago) i went to michigan (did u now they call them selves michiganders ha ha ha).

well, anyways... when i went to michigan (like i do every year), i saw my mom's side the family, with my cousins lydia, hannah, julia, sarah, their parents (my mom's brother), rodney and ronda, and my grandparents, papa turner, and grandma nola. my grandma fixed really good breakfasts, and my papa has lots of cool things that i can play with. but, most of the time when i'm at their house, i'm playing ping-pong (they've got a killer ping-pong table).

and then, of course, there's my other side of the family (my dad's side), with my cousins rachel, kirsten and her husband jordan, jacob, zack and his new wife rachel, and shana. and then, on that family, there's also my grandma and grandpa oestreicher, along with my aunt lisa, aunt lori, uncle joe, and uncle rod. and then there's always a bunch of other people who come over, such as: luther and allison, angela and jack, robbie, michelle (and two of her kids, lindsay and sam).

they've got a ping-pong table there too. :)

i don't have a ping-pong table at home in california, but when i'm in michigan, i am "mr. ping-pong"!!

so, to sum it up: all i'm doing, mostly, at both grandparents' houses, is eating food made by my grandmas, and playing ping-pong.

hope you had a merry christmas too!

the shnazzy blog

2009-01-16T18:17:00.000-08:00

i have recently changed my blog's name, from crazy max's blog, to the shnazzy blog. the reason i did this is because i have words that i make up, that are not real, but deserve to be. this one, i have actually heard in some other places; and i thought it was the awesomest word -- EVER. so now i use it a lot. if something's cool, i say, "that's shnazzy!"

i was talking to my friend forrest about shnazz and my blog, and he said that i should name my blog "the shnazzy blog." so i did!

i have also recently decided that if you do not have any shnazz in your life, if your life is shnazzless, you have failed at life.

so, by max law, i now command you to try to put shnazz into your life. and even if you fail, your trying is enough to have the shnazz god thrust shnazziness upon you.

shnazz on!

these r all the smileys i could think of

2009-01-13T16:19:00.000-08:00

:), :(, :0, :], :[, :}, :{, :!, :i, :$, :\, :|, :z.

more eyes, %, &.

noses, -, +.

favorite smileys, %0, &}.

mix and match then tell me witch is your favorite.

6 random things about ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-12-14T13:27:00.000-08:00

i got tagged by my friend tash in new zealand, and i have to write 6 random things about myself. so here goes!

1. if i had been born a girl, i would have had the name "mara".

2. i recently decided that "the four main food groups of max" are:
- lasagna
- chocolate lava cake
- orange juice
- syrup

3. i like to cook. i know you would not expect that from such a manly and buff guy like me. i cook the usual: eggs, bacon, pancakes. i also cook other foods that aren't for breakfast.

4. the worst movie i've ever seen is "dragon wars".

5. i recently received a sock monkey (i named him "socko").

6. i'm collecting these things called uglydolls. look it up. i have "wage", "tray", and "chukanuka". as you might guess, they are dolls, and they are ugly (well, they're not really dolls, they're more like stuffed animals. but, anyways...).

i'm tagging mindi godfrey. mindi, you should feel special that i'm only tagging you!

B-day : )

2008-11-30T17:55:00.000-08:00

today is my b-day!

i am 11 years old, not 10. 11. not 10.

stand in awe of me.

smiley guy and smiley brick

2008-11-28T15:34:00.000-08:00

i found two new games that are really cool. one is called "splitter", and one is called "super stacker". i called splitter "smiley guy" because you have to get a little smiley face, that's a ball, to a home base. he may be sitting on wood. the way you get him to the home base is to cut part of the wood, or a string that's holding something else. i know it sounds a little confusing, but you can check it out here, and then you'll get it. it's really fun and addicting game. hope you like it.

super stacker i call "smiley brick". that's because it's a series of bricks that you have to stack without them falling. they all have little faces; and when they're smiling, that means it's stable. and when they're frowning, that means they may fall. you have to stack all the blocks that they give you on each level, then the stack has to last for 15 seconds (or something like that). this one's much shorter, and i've completed all the levels. but it's still really cool, and i think you'll like it. here it is.

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2008-11-01T12:34:00.000-07:00

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sacramento convention

2008-10-18T11:06:00.000-07:00

last weekend, i went to the national youth workers convention, in sacramento. here are 10 things that i liked:

1. my nametag. everybody at the event has nametags hanging on lanyards. i know the people who make the nametags, so i got to choose what i wanted on mine. instead of "max oestreicher", i got "mr. important". i thought it was pretty funny, and anyone else who saw my nametag did too.

2. the magical unicorn. in the exhibit hall, there was one exhibit called "ride the magical unicorn." it was one of those bull-riding hicky-doos, except they made it look like a unicorn. they had a wizard controlling it, along with a bunch of elves and fairies. i rode it, and i'm a wimp on those things! so that's pretty good for me. i stayed on longer than most people, but, the wizard was going easy on me.

3. fake 'staches (mustaches). on the "ride the magical unicorn" hicky-doo, they gave you free fake mustaches. and one of 'em kinda looked like a uni-brow. so i put one like a regular mustache, and one like a uni-brow. and, then, i gave one to my sister, and one to my mom (and i took off the uni-brow). here's a picture:

4. hawk nelson. well, my favorite bands are: P.O.D., family force five, the beatles, coldplay, muse, and hawk nelson. so i was very excited to hear that hawk nelson would be playing at the convention. i got to meet justin nelson (yes, that is his name, not "hawk"), so that was really cool.

5. our suite. the hyatt (a hotel) is right next to the convention center where we had the convention. and, since my dad is the president of youth specialties, the hotel gives him a free suite, because they knew that a bunch of people would be using the hyatt so they could go to the convention. our suite was huge. it didn't have a balcony, but it was still cool. there was a room with two queen sized beds for me and my sister, a living room, dining room, kitchen, tv room, master bedroom, 3 bathrooms, and my personal favorite -- the laundry room! (i'm kidding - i never used the laundry room).

6. the governator. since the capitol of california is right across the street from the hyatt, arnold schwartzenegger (or however you spell that), lives -- part time -- in a suite right below the suite we stayed in. his suite has a HUGE balcony (which he apparently never uses, since we didn't see him!). we couldn't open the windows in our suite, because of his suite being right below it. i just thought it was funny that you couldn't open the windows. me and my sister wondered if there would be guards there, but we didn't exactly want to check.

7. the green room. if you don't know, the green room is the backstage room where people who are going to be onstage in a general session wait. sometimes there's hardly anyone back there, and sometimes it's really crowded. it's really cool, because i'm always just back there (drinking a lot of soda, and eating a lot of candy that they have set out!) just sittin' down, watching all the famous people do what they do -- which is usually pretty boring, because all they usually do it type on a computer or something. but there is lots of candy!

8. the escapes. there was four illusions that i saw. one was a girl getting out of a closed and locked water tank (i actually missed that one, but heard it was really amazing). the one i saw was the girl in a straight-jacket, getting hung by her feet really high up. somehow, she got out of the straight-jacket, and got free. another one was the guy who got out of a straight-jacket also -- he wasn't as good as the girl, mainly because wasn't being hung by anything. but they tightened the straight-jacket really tight. the last one was the girl getting into a box, and the guy folding the box into a much, much smaller box that i'm sure no human could fit in. then he stabbed swords through it, took them out, and unfolded the box to it's normal size. she crawled out unharmed. it was really cool.

9. tiny bug. you might know who tic long is. he works with my dad. i call him "tiny bug" because, as you probably know, a "tic" is a tiny bug. and he always gets really annoyed (actually, he pretends to get annoyed), and usually pokes me. it's just this goofy little game we have with each other.

20,000,000. free candy everywhere. there was free candy EVERYWHERE. in the green room, in our suite, in the exhibit hall, at convention headquarters. literally everywhere. practically wherever you were, you would only have to walk about 20 feet to get to the nearest candy bucket (yes, i said bucket). i ate a lot. it was good. :)

as you can see, this was a very fun convention.

future me(s)

2008-10-07T19:04:00.000-07:00

my dad found this website called yearbook yourself, and i thought it was really cool. i've played a lot with it, using my face, my mom's face, my dad's face, and lots of other faces.

what you do is, you take a picture of your face, and it photoshops it into a bunch of old black and white photos. sometimes it doesn't quite work; but usually you can fix it. but sometimes your face is just not meant to be in that head!

so, here's some of the ones i liked best. i think the picture of me really fat is the creepiest. which one do you think is funniest, creepiest, works best, etc?

summer of max

2008-09-26T21:44:00.000-07:00

tash mcgill came to my house (my old one) from new zealand to visit us. she brought a big camera, that you could take a bunch of pictures at once with, and flip through the pictures really fast. so you could make claymation. we made a claymation thing in my backyard.

a month or two after she went back to new zealand, my dad shows me this video that she made from the pictures. she calls it "summer of max."

tash's blog

sorry

2008-09-21T09:12:00.000-07:00

sorry, i started school and kinda forgot about my blog.

i'm really excited for this year, because we're going to be learning about ancient india and persia. we're already learning about india. we learned about the indian buddha. and i found out that buddha believes in god. and then i thought to myself: i wonder if god believes in buddha. well, it doesn't exactly say that buddha believes in god, but it does say that buddha forsaw that jesus was coming to the earth. and he was happy because then jesus could tell people the way of life.

i'm mostly excited about egypt. 'cause i've learned some things about egypt already, and it's really interesting.

this year we get to start woodwork class, which is just making things out of wood. but we're not allowed to use any electric tools until 6th grade, i think. and i'm in 5th grade now, so it won't be that long. but right now we're making this toy that's a square stick of wood, with a bunch of notches in it, and a little propeller at the top. we'll use a round stick, and rub it down the notches. then the propeller will spin because of the vibrations in the wood. right now i'm still making the notches with a knife. but it's a really easy project. so i'll be done pretty soon.

we have handwork, which is knitting, sewing, etc. right now, they're just telling us to knit a certain amount of rows and stuff, because they haven't told us yet what we're making.

for school, we have to play a stringed instrument -- either violin, viola, or cello. btw, the viola is just bigger than a violin. and, yes, it is a different instrument. i play the cello. i started a year and a half ago. we can stop in 6th grade if we want, and i think i might, because i play drums, but my drumset broke. so i haven't played i a while. and when i get enough money to buy another set, then i'm going to start playing again. and i think it would be easier just to play one instrument.

so, as you can see, there are lots of ups and downs in my new school year. but i'm still really excited about it.

moved

2008-09-01T17:09:00.000-07:00

i just moved into the house that i mentioned a month ago. and for those of you who didn't see that post, it's way smaller than my last house but there's a jungle in the backyard, its a small jungle but yes, a jungle. there's also a granny flat which is a guest house in the back yard. and you can walk to so many things from our house: including, baskin robbins (ice cream), cosmo's (a coffee shop, always stocked with ibc rootbeer), and a delicious restaurant -- i don't remember the name -- but i got lasagna, and it was amazing. my sister got cheese ravioli, and it was amazing. they had homemade gelato; which, in my opinion, is the best kind of ice cream/frozen yogurt/sorbet/etc. i got cookies and cream gelato, and instead of the base being vanilla, it was chocolate (so, it was chocolate cookies and cream). and i loved it.

i got over the sadness of us moving away from our pool very fast. and after all, i'm very happy that we moved.

vacation, volume 2

2008-08-18T21:21:00.000-07:00

recently, we got back from canada.

i stayed in the fairmont banff springs hotel, which is a 5-star hotel. and because of my dad's work, we got it free. and our room was a suite, which was sweet! (ha-ha, get it?) we stayed two nights there. it was really fun: we went to really good restaurants. i had "tea time" for the first time in my life. and we went 5-pin bowling, which, for some of you canadians out there, that's not an american thing.

after two nights of that, we went to radium hot springs, which is another place in the canadian rockies. we stayed in a condo for 6 nights with some friends that i've known my whole life who live in seattle (we used to live across the street from them in pasadena). one's name is ben. and one's name is emma. emma is 12, and ben is 15. and even though they're older than me, we still had fun together. their parents were there too, and since we used to do little shows that we made up for their parents and ours, we did that one last time. we made a reality show, called 'dr. feelbetter'. i was dr. feelbetter, and it was really funny!

we went tubing on a lake, which was really fun. and after a while, i just stopped holding onto the handles on the tube. me and my dad tried to stand up together on it, but that didn't exactly work out.

another day, we went whitewater river rafting. it was really fun. we looked so stupid in our wetsuits, life jackets, and huge plastic helmets.

we also watched lots of the olympics (who's with me?), played lots of wii, and ate lots of homemade food.

it was a great vacation!

winner of the competition

2008-08-18T21:12:00.000-07:00

sorry i took so long to pick the winner for the contest to give me the wildest idea you can for our new granny flat. i was on vacation.

anyways...

i liked a lot of the ideas, and it was hard for me to choose. but, i'll have to go with kevin's idea, which is: catching small animals, and making a neighborhood zoo in the granny flat. charge people to go see the animals. become rich and famous.

that was really funny, and i liked the rich and famous part!

kevin wins a valuable cash prize! the problem is, kevin has to come all the way to where i live, to get his ONE DOLLAR cash prize! or, if kevin is coming to the sacramento NYWC, and sees me, reminds me who he is (because i might forget), i'll give him a buck! woo-hoo, aren't you a lucky man!

moving

2008-07-29T13:06:00.000-07:00

we're moving sadly, which means i have to say goodbye to my big pool. i was frustrated about that at first, but now we found a house which we're going to get. it has a freaking jungle in the back yard. i mean it's got bamboo of all sizes, it's got a koi pond, and a bunch of different kind of green plants that look jungly to me. it has a granny flat too. it comes with a full on kitchen, a bathroom and a fridge so we don't have to use that junky one we have in our garage. we all have different ideas on how to use it:

i think that it should be used for me! i want use it to hang out with my friends and for sleepovers. it would be like a club house. it would be ok if my sister used it that way too, as long as i wasn't already scheduled to use it that day.

my mom wants to use it as a guest room/spiritual direction and a spiritual retreat space. think candles and incense and crosses everywhere. fun huh?

my sister wants it to be a place her and her "band" can rehearse when they haven't even had one rehearsal yet. she'd also like to use it for sleepovers.

my dad wants to turn it into a theater/gaming room.

i think me and my dad's ideas can kind of go together and liesl's can with a little bit of work. but see there's one problem. mom (dun dun duhhhhhhh)

how do you think we should solve this problem? if your idea is good enough, we may actually use it!

i'm also going to have a contest right now! what do you think is the craziest and funnest idea for using a granny flat? you might get a very valuable cash prize. ok, probably not but play anyway!!

all ideas for granny flat use have to be turned in by monday, august 4. good luck to you all.

movie review 2: batman the dark night

2008-07-20T13:53:00.000-07:00

Batman is a very good movie... and when i say very... i mean very. Surprisingly there are 2 villains. I'm not going 2 tell you the other villain besides the joker but i will tell you that it is disgusting.

favorite joker quotes:

"how 'bout a magic trick? i can make this pencil disappear"
bam!

"here's my card"

favorite scene:

picture the joker in a tight nurse's uniform walking away from a hospital that is blowing up.

this is my rating 1 to 5 with 5 being the best: 4.8

vacation

2008-07-15T14:16:00.000-07:00

i am on vacation. i went to michigan first,for my cousin's wedding. i danced like crazy and obviously i am such a great dancer. and then from there,we went to chicago, which is now my favorite city that i've ever been too. when we went there we saw something called, "blue man group". it's these three guys with blue (painted) skin. this was probably my favorite part of my vacation, because it was really funny and really random. they have these little holes in their stomache and they ate some twinkie that apparently upset their stomaches and it sprayed out of the holes into the audience. yuck. a big glob landed on my foot! at the end of the performance they ran to the back of the audience and there were hundreds of streamers they pulled down over the crowd. we were in the front row which meant all the streamers that were being pulled down from the back of the crowd to the front all ended up on top of up. i was completely buried! i just got back to michigan in a cabin with my cousin and grandparents. it's a block from lake michigan. time to walk to the ice cream parlor, so gotta go!

farting hero

2008-07-10T13:47:00.000-07:00

this is a really fun game. it is called "puzzle farter". it's a little guy, with a turtle neck sweater, big square glasses, and what looks like a fish for a head. you run around and fly (by farting), to get from one door to another. it's mostly just trying to get to the other end through an obstacle course. and lots of times, there are living obstacles, such as fishes with stilts, giant fat chickens, and cats who throw paper airplanes at you! this is a super-addicting game. and so far i've made it to level 20 -- way farther than my dad or sister (my mom doesn't play video games).

can you get higher than 20 levels?

here's the link!

K

2008-07-07T20:17:00.000-07:00

kangaroo kyle can catch. what can't kangaroo kyle catch?

i'm going on a vacation to michigan this week for my cousin's wedding. i think i should be in the wedding, but no-o-o-o. anyways. were staying in a cabin with my grandma and grandpa for a while, and my family is going to spend a couple days in chicago. we're going to go to a bunch of museums and stuff. and i'm really looking forward to the trip.

i've been reading through the harry potter books, finally! like, everyone else has already read all of them! and i've read a lot of books, but not harry potter. so far, i've finished the first book, and i'm halfway through the second one. and i just started reading them about a month ago. i'm hoping to get through another one on our trip.

that's all for now!

I

2008-07-01T09:06:00.000-07:00

Oops!!! I know my alphabet. Really I do. But i forgot "I". So here it is.

I ate ink!

And I think this one's actually pretty hard, so say that ten times fast!

J

2008-07-01T08:37:00.000-07:00

here is my tongue twister for J. in honor of my mom, since the first letter of her name is j, i will do something involving her!

Jeannie jumped on jello over jam and jelly jars.

This is more entertaining than hard, but whatever.

H

2008-06-28T10:30:00.001-07:00

and, now, continuing my tongue twister tour through the alphabet world, it's time for the letter H!

he hears his hyena howl her hiney off.

try it! say it fast. lots of times.

movie review: WALL-E

2008-06-28T10:05:00.000-07:00

WALL-E is a very good movie. it's about the future, when the earth gets filled with too much trash. and, then, humans take a space ship out to space for 5 years while little robots all named WALL-E clean up the trash while they're gone. this particular robot is the only one left; and the humans ended up staying in that spaceship for 700 years. this is a problem, because they end up spending their lives in hover-chairs, with robots doing all the work for them, and all the entertainment they need. so they're all super-fat, haven't touched a foot to the ground in years, and do nothing but stare at screens of entertainment in front of their faces.

WALL-E is very lonely, and a spaceship comes down, with a beautiful robot named eve. i'm not going to tell you why she's there, because that might ruin the story. WALL-E falls in love with her, but she's unsure about him. later in the movie, he proves he is very heroic, and eve can't resist his rusty metal charm.

there are a couple other fun little characters in the movie. there's a cockroach, who's WALL-E's only friend on earth. he's like WALL-E's pet, and always follows him around. then, on the spaceship, there's this funny little robot named mo. he's very small, and his job is to clean things. he has a little roller attached to both of his hands, and uses it to clean up dirt. he starts out being kinda annoyed by WALL-E and his mess, but ends up being a loyal little dude.

i thought this movie was a very good animated movie. i'll use a 1-5 rating system, 5 being the best. and i give WALL-E a 4 1/2.

Liesl (Leesl)

2008-06-20T16:46:00.000-07:00

i realized i had never said anything good about my sister. i talked about her but all i said is that she is snotty and i hoped that wouldn't get in the way of our spring vacation. she really is nice, although, yeah, she can be snotty. we get along really well compared to some other brothers and sisters. here's a few things i like about her:

she's willing to play with me (not always)
she gets happy real easily
she can have a good sense of humor
she is very smart (but sometimes she asks me how to spell things)
we keep each others secrets and i can trust her with that
i like that she has musical interests like i do.

she got my dad's old electric guitar as a middle school graduation present. when i get my new drum set i think it'll be fun to play with her.

i'm glad that liesl is my sister.

just cause i didn't want to make two posts, i'm going to combine my tongue twister for G with how cool my sister is!

Girl's got game!

(girl = liesl my sister)

try it!

Book Review: Diary of a Wimpy Kid

2008-06-18T22:22:00.000-07:00

diary of a wimpy kid, a novel in cartoons, #1 new york times best seller by jeff kinney

i just read the front cover of this book and my mom typed it in. this is a very good book. the book is exactly what it says. it's supposed to be a diary of... a wimpy kid! it's all written in sloppy printing with many doodles all over it. it's a funny book about a kid who has to go through middle school. he's this scrawny little boy named greg who can get wrestled down by a boy named fregley who's way nerdier than him, way smaller and a little bit crazy. greg and other wimpy kids get mixed up in school with these huge, mean bullies who are already shaving.

this is the beginning: "September, Tuesday. first of all let me get something straight. this is a journal. not a diary. i know what it says on the cover, but when my mom went out to buy this thing i specifically told her to get one that didn't say diary on it. great. all i need is for some jerk to catch me carrying this book around and get the wrong idea (imagine a doodled picture of greg writing in his diary while a bully punches him to the ground and calls him sissy)."

i recommend this book. there's comedy, romance, drama and action. ok, so maybe it doesn't have romance, drama or action, but it is funny. and i guess he does have to run away from a bully now and then and i guess that would be counted as action.

i'll use a 5-point rating system for book reviews, 5 being the best. and i'll give diary of a wimpy kid a 5 and 1/9th!

p.s. www.simplycole.blogspot.com rocks. please keep on blogging cole!

F

2008-06-18T22:10:00.000-07:00

farmer fil finds festive food in fridge

that is my tongue twister for F. i think this one might be a little easy. See how you do with it!

p.s. simplycole.blogspot.com rocks so cole, keep on blogging!

E

2008-06-14T15:19:00.000-07:00

error eel ate egbert

that was my tung twister for E . and i don't think you under stand, good tung twisters but i want tung twisters from the letter i'm doing.

All Father Odin

2008-06-01T11:29:00.000-07:00

My class did a play and since we've been studying Norse mythology, we did one about the Aesir gods. The Aesir gods are like Odin, Thor, Loki, and all that stuff. I don't know if you've heard of Odin or Loki, but surely you've heard of Thor. The Aesir is the city of the gods which is much more than just Odin, Thor and Loki. I got the parts of Odin and Petmyr because we did the play twice. Odin is the "all father god" (the main god). Although he is not the main person in the play. Here are my lines for Odin. Imagine me like in the picture, holding a fake spear, speaking in a low, powerful, loud voice:

The daylight ends and darkness deepens
The sun descends, his horses leaping
Lightly over Asgards peaks
Night stars sparkle cloak
With sleep covers all
Let each return royally to his high hall
To wearily wonder
To dream or to ponder.

Frigg, my wife, both dread and dear
Wend you well to Finsalir
Hemdall, sleepless sentry, watch
O'er Asgard from Valasgalf
Freya, goddess of love and sorrow
to Sessumir go until the morrow
Thor, my strong and stalwart son
Bid abed till dark be done.

And though we live in laughing light
The Norns know of a deadly night
Will one day deepen Asgard's heights
A twilight thrice forsaken
From which we'll not awaken...
But Aesir--
We still live in lights bright weaving
Sun gold gifts with grace receiving
Let not the night lead you astray
While with Aesir might you make your way.

Petmyr is an interesting character. Thor has to take three trials to win the woman of his dreams, Gana Hafta. Gana Hafta is a two headed giant, but Thor doesn't know. Loki tricked him by saying she was "twice" as lovely as any fair maiden. One of the trials he had was to pick up Utgard-Loki's (Gana Hafta's father) cat, named Petmyr! So i had to sit in the middle of the floor dressed in a really stupid cat costume while my friend, Nicolas, wearing a red and orange beard as Thor, and has to pretend that he can't pick me up. Here are my lines:

meow

i don't know which one was more fun to play but i sure wish i had a cat picture i could show you!

pretty toes

2008-05-11T13:56:00.000-07:00

we got my mom a pedicure for mother's day, and thought it would be fun for all of us to get one with her. so, i got a pedicure for the first time, and for fun, decided to get my toe-nails painted. can you guess which toes are mine?

D

2008-05-08T16:19:00.000-07:00

Dracula drank Drano.

That was my tongue twister for "D"! This one isn't my best, but my Mom can't say it very well. Here's another tongue twister that I found on the TGIFriday kid's menu a long time ago. This was one of my inspirations for making up tongue twisters when I have nothing else to do:

any noisy noise annoys an oyster

When me and my sister were first learning it, we kept on saying, "any noisy noisy noisy noisy noisy noyster." It takes some time to learn, but I think it's a pretty good one.

stickmen fighting

2008-05-04T16:52:00.000-07:00

i just thought this was cool, watch the black guy

fluffy puff marshmallows

2008-05-04T16:48:00.000-07:00

my sister's friend's little brother, paul, randomly in the car, said, "fluffy puff marshmallows." later, my sister was on youtube, and she asked me what to type in on the search line. i said, "fluffy puff marshmallows," and this is what came up...

I Haven't Blogged in a "While"

2008-04-23T19:51:00.000-07:00

i haven't blogged in a while and i'm sort of sorry about that but i'm gonna blog now, so there. ok. i never finished my tongue twister thing, so i'm going to go with "C".

cranky cooper's crap cried

say that 10 times fast! i know it's a little weird but i just had to make something up off the top of my head. my mom can't do it so try to do it more than twice and you'll beat her record. send in your own tongue twisters starting with a "C". make it up by yourself!

9 crazy max facts

2007-09-27T19:44:00.000-07:00

i was tagged by mindi a while ago. so i'm going to blog about nine crazy max facts:

fact #1: my favorite animal is the kiwi. and i know what you're thinking. but my favorite animal isn't a fruit, but a wingless, flightless bird from new zealand that is also called a kiwi.

fact #2: i have a collection of percussion instruments from all around the world. (my dad got them -- go, dad!)

fact #3: my nickname, that i made up on an RV trip, is "stinko the clown". for instance, my dad's (which i also made up on the RV trip) is flabbio.

fact #4: i've eaten a termite body. not the head, just the body. don't question it.

fact #5: i've also tasted guinnea pig and rattle snake (but not in the same meal).

fact #6: in addition to lots of states, i've been to mexico, guatemala, peru, and new zealand.

fact #7: i've just gotten into "Calvin and Hobbes" comic books. and, as you know, if you've ever read one comic, you can't stop.

fact #8: i'm learning to ride a unicycle for school. and, yes, it's a private school.

fact #9: i play drums, cello, recorder, and the nosenfluggle (one of those isn't true).

tongue-twisters for the letter b

2007-03-03T12:05:00.000-08:00

like i said earlier, i like to make up tongue-twisters. earlier, i posted some for the letter a (and some of you added some fun ones too). jacob added two of my favorite ones (peggy bupkiss, and notebook), but he didn't really follow the rules. jacob, that was supposed to be tongue-twisters for a. as in, words starting with a. but anyways, those were really good.

here are some tongue-twisters for b. i'm making them up right now:

boney bonnie boxed her brother's bear

bob and beverly brought beatrice a beautiful bouquet of begonias (say THAT 10 times fast!)

now, as you know, you are invited to add your own tongue-twisters. but not for "a" -- for "b". as in, words that start will the letter b, jacob!

ADDITION

hey, we were just cleaning up the dishes from eating dinner, when my dad put the leftover bread in the bread bag (it's a bag we have for keeping bread). we might it might be a hard "b" tongue twister, so we tried it. and, "bread bag" is REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY (etc) hard to say a bunch of times fast. try it!

family

2007-03-03T11:52:00.000-08:00

i just realized i never talked about my family. i DO have one -- i'm not an orphan (i've got orphans on my mind, though, because i'm reading all the lemony snicket book -- that you may not have heard of, but you've probably heard of the movie).

i have three family members. my dad, marko (and you probably know him), my mom, jeannie, and my annoying sister, liesl.

my dad is probably the coolest dad in the whole entire world. and he didn't make me write that. i'm going to go to st. louis with my dad in a few days. my dad will be speaking to a couple thousands junior high kids, while i am backstage fooling around with all the candy that they put out there for the crew.

my mom, on the other hand, is the one who reads me the lemony snicket books. we're on book #6, the ersatz elevator. a couple days ago, my sister and dad were gone, and i camped out on the couch -- overnight -- with my mom. it was fun. it's a big couch, a sectional one.

my sister, liesl, is 13. and if you have an older sister, than you probably realize how frustrating it is to have a 13 year old sister. we used to get along really well. but now, since she's a teenager, we still get along, but we get mad at each other easily, and don't hang out as much.

that's my family. i love them. we're going to new zealand in a few weeks, and i'm sure it's gonna be really fun - if my sister's not too snotty!

my wee me

2007-01-30T20:00:00.000-08:00

my dad saw on his friend's blog that there was a cool website called weeworld.com. you make little cartoons, and you can make them look just like yourself. and there's another website he showed me about underwear -- but that's a whole other story.

so, my dad and i went to weeworld.com, and i made a wee me max! here i am!

angel helping grandmother

2007-01-25T19:12:00.000-08:00

this last halloween, guess what i was? i bet you know. because there's a picture on this post! and i was a... wait:

either...

a. a monster truck

b. an angel, or

c. a grandma

now, if you think b, raise your hand (huh, huh, huh). sorry, just couldn't help myself.

anyways, if you think it's b, that's weird. if you think it's c, that's ok. and if you think it's a, you've got problems. yes, it's c.

this picture does not really show it, but (heh-heh-heh, i'm about to talk about a butt, and i said but, and i didn't mean that kind of butt) -- anyways -- my butt was a humunguation (big) butt. we stuffed it with stuffing. and i mean, seriously, dude (or, dudette), it was like sticking out a foot farther than my real butt.

so here's the picture of me and my sister. she's the angel.

Da Book

2007-01-24T19:46:00.000-08:00

I am going to make up these little tongue twisters and put them in a book. They're probably really easy to do but some of them might not be. And I'm going to post them occasionally. Guess what? I'm going to write them A - Z and I'm also going to write the little and in between Y and Z like the song!

Guess what? Chicken butt! Sorry about that. Couldn't help myself :o)

Guess what? You are invited to make up your own tongue twisters and put them on my blog for the world to see! Cool huh? Please only send in tongue twisters you've made up yourself!!!

Here's my tongue twister for A:

Annie accidentally ate another of Alex's absolutely amazing apples.

Say that 10 times fast!
I'll bet you can't do it. I really bet you can't do it. Ah, what am I saying? That's super easy. But that's ok cause that's just the beginning!

Now you can send in any A tongue twister that you make up! Get to work! Guess who? Chicken poo! ha ha ha :o)

Friends

2007-01-06T12:29:00.000-08:00

I have 3 really AWESOME friends, Miles, Nick, and Quinn. We like making up silly songs and annoying the girls. Here is one of my songs.

It's called "WORMS" and should be sung with a slow, sad, southern, slurry accent.

Nobody likes me
everybody hates me
I think I'll go eat worms.

Nobody likes me
everybody hates me
I think I'll play with worms.

When I open my lunch box
and look in a thermos
I see a pile of worms.

Everybody laughses
everybody teases
I think I'll go eat worms.

Oooooohhhhh, nobody likes me
everybody hates me
I think I'll go eat slugs.

Nobody likes me
everybody hates me
I think I'll play with slugs.

When I open my lunch box
and look in a bag
I see a pile of slugs.

When I look at the bag
and read what it says
it's says, "desserts desserts".

Ooooohhhhh, nobody likes me
everybody hates me
I think I'll go eat beetles.

Nobody likes me
everybody hates me
I think I'll play with beetles.

When I go to IHOP
and order Beetle Pancakes
the waiter screams and runs.

Screams and runs
like a little baby girl
in the nighttime with her closet open.

Nobody likes me
everybody hates me
I think I'll go eat worms.

Nobody likes me
everybody hates me
I think I'll play with worms!

It's beautiful, isn't it? Am I right? Am I right? I'm right, aren't I?

cool thing

2007-01-04T22:39:00.000-08:00

Hello my name is -- wait, just saying this guy is looooopy. so if you're weird or odd or both, this is the right place for you. Anyways... my name is Max, I'm 9 years old, and my last name is Oestreicher (Ostriker). I got a blog because I was bored and there was nothing on TV.

That is my story.