"Jenga, Fight For Your Life Edition"

This is gonna be quick, i just wanted to blog and have all of you pity me because i lead such a dangerous life. today, as the sun was going down (so like around 16(3) o'clock), i had to go out and get more wood. i prefer to do this when the sun is out but...what you gonna do? once the sun has gone down, it's down. so anyway i pulled on my cool boots (i like them because they make me think "whoa, this type of thig was probably the type of footwear prefered by the people at the battle of hoth" (Star Wars episode V:The Empire Strikes Back)) and went to get the wood. as the cold wind cut into my face i thought about how annoying it was to have to keep getting wood, but about how inevitable it is *sigh* poor me. and then i went and started getting wood, first kicking open the door to the woodshed then chucking in the metal wood carrier. i then proceded to look for the pieces of wood best suited for the fire, and then played a tiny game of Tetris fitting the wood into the carrier. but the name of this post is "Jenga" not "Tetris". so then i had the carrier about half full and i was looking for some smaller pieces of wood, it's always good to have a mix of small and large wood. and then i found the perfect piece...right on top of one of the piles. now the piles are like 8 feet high and i'm like 6 feet. so i reached up and grabbed it, it stuck. i yanked a little harder, it stuck fast. i reached up and yanked with all my might, determined to get that wood and was rewarded for my efforts, i got the wood. only problem was i didn;t just get the one piece, half the stack decided to come with it. so, using my excellent video game honed reflexes, i did a kind of sideways jump thing, rolling into another pile of wood, which thankfully stayed up. and so then i stood up, dusted myself off, and started to dig out my wood carrier, now buried in wood. and thanked god that i didn't get killed playing my game of "Jenga, Fight For Your Life Edition" then i found my piece of wood i had wanted, cleared away enough wood for me to get out of the woodshed and carried a wood carrier full of wood into the house. and now, so that all may pity me, i tell the story for you.

THE END

Wasn't that great? so...you guys gonna start pitying me and telling me i'm a hero yet...? i'm waiting...oh come on...well whatever, Cya.

Cold Annoyances Cookies...

Actually that should say cold and annoyences and cookies, but i'm to lazy to go and fix it. today was one of the coldest days so far this year. it was like someone said "hey, it's december 20th, time to get COLD. so of course this morning i had to get up out of my nice warm bed and go get wood from the shed, alwasy quite a cold enterprise but even colder today. but i'm proud of myself because i now can easily pick up the fully loaded wood carrier with one hand. it was like this last winter too, about the middle of december my muscles just got used to the daily (and sometimes twice daily) strain of getting wood. heres one annoyance to tell you guys about, last night after coming home from helping my drop off a van full of clothes at the "Kristlik Noorte Kodu" ("Christian Youth Home") i went to unlock the door with my key and, OH NO!! i fumbled it and it fell into the crack between the porch and the house, i've been worried that would happen for a while now. and even though it was only around 18:30 (6:30) it was already pitch black out. so now i can't get my house key out and that's a problem because my bike key was on there too. now thats not a problem now because in some areas there's a foot of snow on the ground and anyway my tire popped at the end of the summer. but next summer i'll need that key, and right now i need the house key, later me and Elizabeth (my 10 year old sister) will need to try to get it out, i need her help because she space is just to small for my hands.

so anyway, today we did something i love, something i've been waiting for for a long time...we made cookies!! we had wonderful ginger bread cookies, decorated with the sugariest (probably not a word) frosting we could find. in a word, yum. and now onto my main annoyance, i've been wanting to blog all day but this is what actually got me to do it. one of tyhe kids from the corps, named Andrei, is sleeping over at our house tonight, and of course, by our house i mean my room. whenever he stays at our house i get about 2 hours sleep (about 10 hours less than i need) and i wake up cranky. and i always sleep with my mobile phone and my pocket knife within easy reach when he's around. but today he's is especially annoying because he showed up with a "Eminem" CD. now of course he expected me to be excited that he has a Eminem CD but i've never had much respect for the rapper who's name makes me think of one of my favorite candies. but today he had a sure fire plan of how to make me like his CD, he had me listen to a nice song called "just the two of us" about Eminem and his child (i don't know if its a boy or girl). now for a while i thought it was a nice song, the first minute and a half were ok, all this nice stuff about building sand castles and playing together and stuff, all of it reminding me of my little brother peter (21 months old). until it came to the part where it said something like "...help daddy tie a rock around her feet and roll her in the water, no more fights with daddy, no more restriction order, no more mommy, wave goodbye..." and i said "no more Eminem, bye bye" and hit the stop button.

oh, woe is me. so much cold...so much annoyances...so many cookies!! i want cookies!! well anyway, hope i sleep well tonight. hope he doesn't bug me to play his CD to much (i will stubbornly refuse, as always). and hope i keep up this good habit of blogging, i really think it's good for me. now i gotta go, Cya.

yo, here i am to impart my knowledge upon you...or something...or other...or...yeah....

well anyway its been a while since i've just blogged upon life and my inteligent thoughts about it, so here i go. its has recently become my opinion that Finland is a fortress of DARKNESS!!! No, seriously, for once i am not being sarcastic or joking. some of the craziest (in a bad way) people i have ever met have been finns. and it has now been brought to my attention that 2 of the creepiest bands i've ever heard of are finnish. first of all there is the band H.I.M which stands for "His Inernal Majesty" (no joke) and i known to be satanic. in the bands two big hits (as in the ones played on the radio enough for me to know them) where called "join me in death" and "on the wings of a butterfly". "join me in death" was a song about suicide and said "this life ain't worth livin'..." along with so many other depressing lyrics. and then thec song "on the wings of a butterfly" sounds nice at first but is a nice ballad about offering yourself as a sacrifice, and judging from this bands reputation i get the feeling they mean a literal sacrifice, and not exactly to God either. and then the second band is my enemy on a more...personal note. they have by thier very existence offended the true love of my life, Amy Lee, lead singer of Evanescence. i read online they are considered competition for Evanescence. the name of this band is Nightwish, quite a stupid name if you ask me. when i heard they were considered competition for Evanescence i got some of thier songs and discored such disgusting melodies as "the kinslayer", such nice stuff. when compared to Evanescence's "bring me to life", a song of beauty and power, it's just sad. so i i'm just slightly biased against this band. but anyway many things have brought me to the conclusion that finland is just evil.

so anyway now that i've stated my suspicions of the country of finland i just wanna say i really do love the finns, really. now let's see...more news...well, my aunt is coming for Christmas!! she comes the 22nd!! isn't that great!! she keeps telling me she got me all this stuff for Christmas, but you know what? i don't care! this is the first Christmas i haven't really cared about presents(this Christmas i actually asked for socks), all i care is that i have family coming for Christmas! isn't that cool? well i can't think of anything interesting anymore, I'm going to bed! Good Night! Head Ööd! and so on...

And now...to finish

so anyway, next morning we had a nice chill morning (as in, we, like, chilled...totally...dude...) and then we went to the helsinki multicultural (russian) corps, which was really nice for our narva (who speak russian) girls. and by the way, the next time some one uses my blog as a place to put adds for sites i would not want on my STRICTLY Christian blog, i will reach through my monitor and strangle you, somehow. i just noticed on my last post an add for a "russian girl pool site" and i wanna ask, what the heck does that mean? then i asked myself "do you really wanna know?" and i answered truthfully "not exactly..." and therefore i will only hazard a guess and assume that this add was for a site featuring russian girls a little "underdressed" for the occasion, or any occasion for that matter. dressed russian girls are already more than i can handle. and that reminds me...(i'm getting WAAAYYY off track) last weekend in helsinki i was with masha and Anneli trying to improve my russian. i still can't figure out how to say "i'm tired" so i always say "i want to go to sleep" which though longer in english is simpler in russian, but nwe shto (whatever in russian). so that day they had taught me a slang way of saying girl (dyevooshka) and so i was attempting to say "yo girls, i want to go to sleep" as in, yo, i'm overworked, i'm tired. but in russian i said "yo dyevooshka, ya hatchew spat" which in english, when translated directly makes perfect sense. but judgeing by the looks of shock on thier faces...i guessed i didn't do it right. then when they started laughing at me a minute later i knew i had screwed up, and then they went on to inform i had just said "yo girl, i want to sleep with you"...oops...so every russian speaker on the team got a good laugh out of that...

so where was i? oh yes...so the narva girls all enjoyed going to the russian corps and all got to do something in the meeting. i played drum which was, of course, fun. and i was quite dissapointed because even though all the soldiers on the team had been to to bring uniform only me and the narva girls did, same as always. so then after that we didn't do much except get on the boat, we had a fun time because we went on a nicer boat where there weren't so many drunk freaks. i enjoyed singing backstreet boys' song "everybody" with anton, which is always really funny when me and him sing together because his voice is much higher than average for a guy his age and my voice is a bit too deep. so together we sound very unmatched. but anyway that was fun...

so next day my dad had a meeting so we were in tallinn for a little while, then we took off home and here i am! now i am truly done, i just hope nothing to interestingly blog worth happens this weekend...Cya...

FINIS

And on and on and on and...

...and on and on and...oh, hi. what are you doing here? well what ever. now your here, you must read!! muhahahaha!!! so after being a christmas elf/joseph we all trooped upstairs to go to the small youth christmas party the youth group was having. by the end only 4 youth had showed up (they told us only about 5 would come anyway) but it was fun anyway. when we first got there, there were only to guys so we all trooped in and took over (the mission team is good at that) and then the leader asked if anyone had a english bible, of course i did, so i ran upstairs to get it. and when i came back there was a beautiful girl standing at the door. and then after letting her in a got some nice apluase because everyone thought it was great that i left to get a bible and came back with a beautiful girl. and then after reading lots of luke we went upstairs for our final christmas party, the mission team party. the tables were set up in a square so we could all see each other, and ate pizza, since i was sitting next to evelin and sarah they made me thier servant. "Chris! Get me more pizza!!" "Chris, i want some coke!!" and so on...

well anyway, as i served the food to my masters i also said hi to miika, who had been a bit of an exile. he hadn't come on the trip. so then after a nice hour and a half or so of testimonies about this years team we were able to just chill.......there was of course some of the usual mission team drama. which i will, of course, censor. miika told me (...**CENSORED**...) Anneli, and so just to bug miika we stood by the window and (...**CENSORED**...) which of course included lots of thumb wars and high fives. confused? good! just so you know, the censored bits do not contain the words "kiss" "held hands" "likes" "is in love with" and so one. so don't be worried. and just so all you beautiful girls know i am still completely single. if anyone is interested please apply at front desk with my horribly attractive secretary. so where was i? oh yes. so then after this Anneli, sarah and i played "whos line is it anyway?" (sarah's good idea) where two people acted something out while a third did voices for them. everyone loved it when i did voices for two cheerleaders (i was tempted to sing gwen stefani's "hollaback girl", but didnt) and when i played a guy hitting on a girl (sarah) in the movies, which was especially funny because when we did it for kati she almost broke my nose, i swear it still hurts. so advice, dont bug a girl while shes watching elijah wood, they get mad.

that night the elves left more in the shows, but it was much harder because the adults were on the alert. and because of a shortage of...well...anything, the elves were forced to use teabags and sugar cubes. and for some reason the teabags said "merry christmas from:anton and chris". kinda makes you wonder who the elves are? well its late, i gotta go, i'll Cya'll

Continuing.......

I know i spelled that wrong but what ever! any way more now. so saturday morning after being rudely awakened (it wasn't that anyone did anything rude to awaken me, it was just rude to wake me up) we got up, had a nice breakfast, played uno and chilled all day. no kidding. we just had free time until 11 A.M., then went and went out into helsinki and just chilled. which was really fun because while Sarah, Evelin, and I were walking around we stumbled upon a river, well not really stumbled but you get the point. but the river was frozen over, so we did the obvious thing, picked up rocks and commenced to attempt to break the ice. the key word is "atempt", that was some strong ice. so of course were forced to go up on a bridge and try to break the ice from there. so with some satisfying thunks most of our rocks bounced off. i got 2 to go through, Sarah kinda got one to go through a little, but all the rest of our rocks just made cracks.

so after our adventures abroad we came back and donned our cool new red sweat shirts from the salvation army in britain and went and did a christmas party for the corps we were staying above. i got to have all the fun as they made me play a double role, i was both joseph and a christmas elf! what a contrast! as joseph i didnt do, just kinda stood around. you know, hanging out with jesus and mary, that kinda stuff. for mary i had kristel, one of the cool mission team girls (well, they're all cool so thats not saying much) and i had some violent shepherds behind me, who kept painfully whacking me with thier crooks. and then after that i had to quickly change out of my joseph costume, but the only problem was that angels were changing in the same room. and of course i had just put on my costume over my clothes, but aperently the young angels (all under 13 by my best guess) had not. so i walked in, half out of my costume, chatting with sarah (one of my violent shepherds) about linkin park and then as i finished getting off my costume and looked for a place to throw i turned and saw the angels in the middle of changing. i instantly turned and chucked my costume at the nearest chair i saw, narrowly missing the person standing next to it, then in one breath quickly said "the angels are stripping! joseph is officially outta here!" and quickly ran out into the hall to get some refreshments leaveing a laughing sarah behind me.

so then i had to play the part of a nice little christmas elf, kind of hard for someone my size. and i had to wear a red cristmas hat that must have been meant for toddlers. it was so small!! and so i shoved the demonic mini hat on my head (painfully) and proceeded to help santa carry in and hand out presents to all the little children, plus those two attractive teenage finnish teen girls...who i noticed came to me and anton's box rather than anneli and masha's despite the fact it meant they had to walk farther. so then after this it was our job to hand out the remaining presents to the mission team, quite nice little gifts. candy and a teddy bear. me and anton both gave our teddy's to our 2 favorite girls on the mission team, whose names will not be revealed at this time. ;-) well im sorry but once again i've gotta run, ill finnish tommorow, really. Cya

Back from finland and ready to rock!

i'm back from a weekend mission team trip that went awesome (as always) and now i'm all pumped to blog. there was nothing else really interesting that happened at the officer christmas party so i won't talk anymore about that, to time consuming. but i will tel you one interesting thing, i got a new fleece at the party! i love to wear fleeces, they're just so nice and warm. so thanks to the tyrells for the present. but anyway i am going to tell you in condensed form about my trip to finland. ok, ready, GO! friday went to finland, saturday did christmas party and did mission team party, sunday did church at russian corps and came home, monday back to tartu. sound fun? what? you want MORE information than that? how could you want more? well what ever, the reader's always night or gight or something like that.

so anyway on monday i went up to Tallinn and met up with all the cool mission team people and we all got on the boat, it was a fairly normal trip, we sang kareoke, danced in the danceing bar, and had fun dodeging drunk guys, which i personally think should be a sport. the only upseting thing was that in kareoke i was supposed to sing "yesterday" by the beatles with Anton and Ricky Martin's "livin' la vida loca" with Anneli but the stupid kareoke dude skipped them both. well at least i got to sing the titanic song with Anton. and believe it or not no windows shattered! and another thing happened on the boat, Sarah, Evelin, and I were in the dancing bar just chiling when this guy with a freaky dyed red gotee comes up to her and rattling off in finnish amd so she's just like "i'm sorry, i can't understand" but this guy was not so easily put off. so then he starts in english "please, you must dance with me, please dance with me!" and so she mumbled something about not knowing how to dance (LIE) and he keeps insisting "i don't mind, i can help you. i can teach you if you want, please dance with me..." and so seeing the desperate looke on her face i see that i have no choice. i did the obvious thing, i leaned forward and i sayed "i'm sorry, but she only dances with me!" trying to put as much of a threatening edge to my voice as possible and trying not to laugh at the same time. but then he did the funniest thing, he turned to me and on his knees started begging and so i calmly and coolly said "she doesn't want to dance with you, she only dances with me" and so, shooting me a dirty look, he stalked of back to his buddies to tell them of his loss, as Evelin said "thank you Chris, your my saviour" and i was just like "no problem, gimme five". and i tottally killed 2 birds with one stone, i both defended one of the most beautiful girls on the team and one of my best friends as well as making a wicked cool story to tell to all you.

well anyway that night of course nobody wanted to sleep so us boys decided to follow a old estonian tradition. in estonian tradition in all the days of december leading up to christmas "elves" leave candy in the slippers of the children. now since we were traveling we didn't have slippers but all the shoes were out in the hallway. so we made a unanimous decision at 2 in the morning after 3 games of uno and 2 bars of chocolate, we would leave cookies in the girls shoes as a surprise in the morning. now of course we had been told 3 hours ago to go to sleep, but since when has a room full of teenage boys followed the rules? so we attempted to sneak out but since when can a room full of teenage boys be quiet? cries of "TASA(quiet)", "OLE VAIT(shut up)", "SUU KINNI(shut your mouth)" and so on rang out as we tried to sneak out, but of course we got caught, or more like, i got caught. why did my sleeping mat have to be the one right near the door? you know, the one that the angry leader sees first?? well whatever, Kati just told us to be quiet and go to sleep, we didn't, but thats beside the point. eventually someone snuck out at 6 and played the elf but that was after i fell asleep.

well anyway *yawn* i don't think anything interesting is happening tommorow so i can finish this post then *yawn* Cya....ZZZZZzzzzz......

HA! I bet you guys thougt you'd gotten rid of me!

Haha, no one gets rid of me THAT easily!! Now i'm back. so Kristi, Maret, and everyone else, you happy? Good! well now i'm blogging again and your not gonna be able to get rid of me now. I'm back and i'm staying that way! now see if i've blogged again in the next month...WHAT? blogging is harder than it seems!! i've had other things to do! don't look at me like that! and really, really don't ask how i know how your looking me even though by the time you read this i am almost definitely in another country from you and nowhere near a computer. just don't ask...

well anyway, now i'm back i think i should tell ya guys some stuff. i will most likely never finish writing about prague, or anything else i ever said i'd finish writing about. SO DON'T BUG ME!!! right now i am gonna tell you guys, briefly, about the officer christmas party. there are some small detail i will omit (as in leave out) because certain info is supposed to remain confidential, i don't know why it's supposed to be confidential. and don't doubt i could right a whole blog post on the subject, but...i would rather not get myself in trouble. so anywho (anywho? what the...? i think my brain is off somewhere...) on monday me and my family took the long annoying trip to tallinn to go to the stupid officers christmas party. since i was in tallinn i would have much rather have gone for a walk in old town then go to be attacked by the OBA. the OBA is what i am officially calling all the officers kids in the region under the age of 13, so, like, five from narva alone, and then theres Jacob, Emma and Christian. Jacob and Emma from america, then Christian as the only estonian officers kid on earth, well, besides his big sis. and then theres my little sister, Elizabeth. so all together...umm...1..2..9! altogether thats nine! so now lets me explain OBA, its stands for "officer's brat army". OB is a very popular short term for officer's brat, which is just what most people call us. because come on, just face it. life as an officer's kid can turn you into a brat pretty fast...but hey, i haven't been a OB long enough to count, and living over seas has screwed up any hope of ever being a true officer's brat...oh well....

well anyway, now that i've cleared that up let me explain why the kids themselves are, an army! the main reason for someone reason, on this day the brats were all outfitted in armor, with shining plastic swords, ready to destroy any threats to the royal princesses (they had two princesses so it was lot of work) and for some reason i went in to the category of "threat". i'm sure why, possibly because i'm two feet taller than them or maybe it's because i'm just fun to beat up, i'm not sure. maybe both. but anyway using swords in exactly the way they were meant to be used, painfully. they would grab me by the elbows and with a spear in my back and sword on each side they would force me up into thier "dongeon tower". this was quite a painful experience because they decided the best way to get me to move was to poke me repeatedly in the butt, which made me jump and feel a whole lot like one of those stupid cartoon villains, who i now pity. but despite the fact that they had tiny plastic weapons they where no match for...the adults!! i was always freed by an aduly who needed me to carry something, just because i'm the only teenage guy doesn't mean you have to make me carry everything! not that i mind but whatever. so i was rescued by Mrs. Tyrell, who of course needed me to carry some bags. so i did that. abd then after getting captured and escaping again i saw that the wittenberg girls had arrived and since they are georgous it was my duty as a male of the species, and as also since i'm the same age as them, to greet them. now for a long time i have pondered the best way to adress a beautiful girl, i have tried many ways but here is the best. walk up to her and say "yo". you wouldn't believe that this actually starts off a much nicer conversation then "hey baby, your legs must be killing you 'cause you've been running through my mind all day". that usually (in my experience) recieves a slep in the face nota "hey" like you hope for.

so now that i got way off topic let me get way back on topic. so after greeting the wittenberg girls (did i mention they're beautiful?) the meal started and we ate some delicious chicken, which coming from me doesn't mean much because i always think chicken tastes great. but this was really good. and i sat with the wittenberg girls and someone took a picture of us and as beautiful meaghan wittenberg pointed out "there Chris, thats proof that you hang out with us" which is what i've needed for the longest time because i'm just not as "cool" as the wittenberg girls i wouldn't be surprised if they usually pretend not to know me. so after eating i was again captured and then saved by the adults needing me to help them carry some donations into the warehouse. some body donated a whole huge truckful of instant noodles which me and all the male officers had the distinctly dusty pleasure of unloading. now of course there were some jokes from this little enterprise there was major tyrell commenting on the fact that if this was noodle company was "the taste of asia" we must have got the whole continent. and then when a large pile of boxes attempted to make me a bit flatter i threw out the obvious fact that you can't have a party until something falls down (or blows up, or gets thrown at a wall or...) so anyway after this some really interesting stuff happened!! not really, but really. but i have to get off now, i'll finish tommorow, and i really will this time. Cya