GBAG

OMG I FOUND A NEW WORD

IM KIND OF OVER EXCITED RIGHT NOW FOR NO REASON

SO IGNOR THAT

GBAG

IT'S GENIOUS

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT MEANS

THEYOUNGTRAVELER AT YOUR SERVICE

Ps
I looked it up online and got images of a bunch of weird Korean snacks. Ummmmm.....

Snowy the Snowman

This is written in honour of my wonderful sister and the best to-be mother I have or will ever know. I love you Elissa.


A winter's day, 'ere at last
Not this much snow in winter's past
So cold and oh so white
But my such beauty when comes to night!
This house is but a big white cake
For which the clouds did joyously make
Even though you'll freeze to death
It's oh so fun to see your own frosty breath
Oh, out there in the cold thin air
If it's wet, shall freeze your hair!
A small black dog will frost its fur
A quick gray fox will leave little paw prints for sure!
The sad brown plants all withered and gone
Are replaced with fun cheery snow song!
After school all children come
And they all are church yard from!
And snowmen they make
With snowballs they take
From the pure white ground
And snow hills and mounds
Leaving divots in the earth
Which brings great mirth
For as a cold pillar I stand
And watch all play on the land
And all are merry and festive and joyful
But when I melt all will be soulful
For then winter is over and spring has come
Where they will experience a later dawn
Then comes planting for farmers
Saying without weather's harm
And spring cleaning for city folk
With hopefully some a funny joke
And green will sprout out on the lawn
And trees will live without their pawn
Children forget the snow that was here,
And run to the swings, unmeddled by their peers
Parents will laugh and talk to each other
Till a child gets hurt, and runs to Mother
Then she take a cloth and pats the boys's head
And words come out stopping the tear shed
Calming and soothing, and off he goes
To play with his friends and a small cut he shows
Then says "My mommy's the best, she stopped my sadness!"
And giggles he will bring out of funny madness
And even though I have melted
My heart feels like it's felted
Then after that comes that summer time
Where kids play in lakes and of course that is fine
As long as they know how to swim
And maybe play the game of Nim
But in the lake would not make sense, water that is
That would ruin a game, and would not miss
But anyway, they run and play
And still the mother watchs in May
With caring eyes full of love
She feels like she has found her favorite dove
Even she knows that hardship will come soon
For they grow faster than any would think in a room
Then orange and yellow and red and brown
Color the leaves without a frown
And fall has arrived!
With an early sunrise
And then the apples and veggies are ready to pick
Without preservatives to make you sick
Then cook and boil and mince and bake
And then there are plenty of leaves to rake
But that only lasts for a few little months
Then back comes my favorite season
Which is for obvious reason
Winter means I can return
And watch the little children at play,
With mothers and fathers helping the day
White snow forms me again
And this time I have months to mend
Before I melt once again
And I will be made with a smile on my face
Though I have no legs, so that means no race
But know that I don't complain,
It's better than being melted again.

Ha that one's better

I hope you like!

TheYoungTraveler

Silent Assasson

I just found this poem that I wrote years ago, and after editing, I decided to share it :) hope you like it!

My greatest fear is hope.

My greatest hope is fear.

Yet to my heart I hold so dear

A pain so horrid and all consuming

You will cry out from your soul marooning

"Stop, end this misery," you scream

Though none shall hear and you redeem

What hell you live shall doom the damned

Brought forth from in a flame they stand

An evil so much like a black hole

Which will suck you and thou'st soul

An evil so whence and hideous

That love itself would seem ridiculous

This is the hell that's modern day

This is the road that rules the way

Yet while others go 'bout their work

In the shadows do I lurk

Listening. Waiting. Striking.

Open war is but for a Viking

Not a silent assassin in the night

Slitting throats just for spite

A dagger to a pulcing throat

Splattered blood on a fur coat

A young priestess killed while sleeping

A little maid fallen to weeping

At her kind master's demise

While a girl sits eith evil eyes

A knife concealed within her cloak

With which she slit her father's throat

Yet for he murdered the love of her life

While they were bound in deadly strife

Over a single chair and mead

And then no reason did they heed

And out came shining tips of dagger

Fought till each were tired and haggard

Then, oh, the lover fell

Taken hence by drunken spell

Over him stood father panting

Like caged beast was he ranting

And drove the dagger through this man

Cutting wind like a fan

"Never again shall you part our ways

For I, a lord, shall end your days!

You loved my daughter yet in vain

For she is mine to give to pain

For though she loved your more than I

I shall kill you, then you die!

Kill me I think not

So in the ground then you shall rott!

For I defeated this rotten foe

Hence you are a dimwitted bozo!"

Hunting, part one

Hunting. This is a topic that I have wanted to write about for a while. I go hunting. My dad goes hunting. Countless other people go hunting. But the ratio of hunters to animal activists is only 6:5. The AA say that hunting is horrible. Is it? No. I've done so much research on this before I got my hunting license, and no, it's really not bad. It's actually good for the animal population. I'm not joking. Think of what might happen if you have a five gallon bucket, but over fill it. Water spills out, and slowly hurts the bucket. Now think of this. There are 100 acres of open space, which can hold more or less 1000 elk. What happens when that population over flows? The grass will die due to grazing, trees will be stripped of leaves, water will be even more contaminated than it is now, with all the feces. Is that, I ask you, a good thing? No way in ___. The amount of natural predators has gone down due to lack of space, which in turn is due to us, building houses and such, and thus, with no natural preditors to hunt them, the elk will soon over populate and destroy the land they are on. With human hunters (well I guess you could be alien hunters too, but is that likely?) the elk population will be kept to a reasonable value, that, my dears, is why the hunting centers and smart valued peoples make regular laws: you can only hunt bucks, you can only hunt for two elk, etcetera. Without us contributing to the wild life, it would very soon be out of control. This, of course, applies to more than elk, duh, that was just an example. All in all, it is extremely good to have hunters. Not trophy hunters that's sick, but I'll get into that later ;).

Your awesome and wonderful wacko,

TheYoungTraveler

The Coyote Problem

We have coyotes here. Over the past few months, they have been getting a lot more aggressive. Example. A guy jogging was attacked by three coyotes on the road next to ours. My neighbor's chickens were attacked and killed by the creatures IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY with the guy gardening next to them. I've seen them trying to creep up on our bird flock every once in a while.

My mom was annoyed and started posting stuff like "Careful, keep your pets inside" and such, and a bunch of people wrote things like "Well can you shoot them?" and this friend of ours, who's a total animal rights peep, writes "We can't shoot them! We evaded their territory and they just want food!" We've been here and owned a farm here for over a century. She is wrong also cause coyotes don't have territory. They range for over 5 thousand miles in their life, and never stay in one spot for more than a week. I understand her love of animals, i love them too, but we should co-exist. They can go after rabbits, but I will kill them if they try to kill my pets.Plus, if 'you' want the coyotes to be able to do whatever they want, would you like us to cramp myself, the cows, the chickens, my cats, and my dogs into my 1800's farm house? She doesnt understand what being on a farm means. You have to protect your land. You have to take risks. You have to make the hard decisions. A city-grown person does not have the right to say what we should and shouldn't do. It's either their (the coyotes) life, or one of the farms, or even mine. So pease keep in mind people, don't tell other people what to do. Sharing your beliefs are great, but forcing them upon someone is not.

TheYoungTraveler

Dogs in Hot Cars

Alright. So, I'm on Facebook, duh, and it really annoys me when these animal protection groups/ humane societies post these dramatic things about "Don't ever leave your dog in the hot car" and put temps up there. What these animal freaks (and I'm a freak so that's not an insult) don't know is that dogs, no matter what breed, have an extra layer of fur that act in hot weather sorta like their winter coat does in cold weather. This layer keeps out the heat, and keeps in the coolness. The reason that so many people mess this up is that it is CRUCIAL that a dog has water to drink. It won't be hurt by the heat, but it will dehydrate twice, if not three times, as fast as it would in the winter, and people confuse the need of water with "don't keep your dog in a hot car at all". I was seriously lucky that I ran across this, and believe me I know what I'm talking about.

Basically, you can have your dog in a hot car, but I suggest only for an hour MAX. It's still true what people say, they've just exaggerated it over the years. Thanks guys.

The*Awesome*YoungTraveler

Okay, I'll Release my Epic Finger, thank you very much

I saw an add for a game on my iPad today, and it was one of those HearthStone games or some such nonsense, but anyway, it was of this girl pressing her finger to something glowing, and the caption was this:

"Go ahead. Release your epic finger." Wow. What do you say to that? "Um, yeah, okay, let's play that finger game, shall we?" Wow. Yeah, that's just a little strange. Definitely an eye-catching caption, I grant you. But does it make me want to play the game? Not really, thank you.

Education

Education just seems really counter-intuitive at times, honestly.

And, along with all that, piling homework assignments on students just causes unnecessary stress and, if you're a good enough teacher, why should you assign busy work anyway? We go to school to learn, why should we have to go home and learn stuff for school when not in school? They (the teachers) might have more "experience", but they seem to forget what's actually important for people approaching the end of their childhood to learn and experience, rather than just what they'd like to have them learn. People say that getting a good education is the gateway to having a successful life, but there's no success in store for someone who, despite being intellectually brilliant, can't pay their heating and electric bills for the lack of knowledge.

Here's a quote from a friend of mine.

"I only learned how to use a charcoal grill last May, which I should've known how to use far sooner. It's actually kind of scary to know I'll be on my own in two years and have so much to learn about living on my own. And school seems to think that we don't need to learn these things or that our parents will teach us, but my parent's haven't taught me how to do much of anything when it comes to managing life on my own. XD"  

They should teach stuff like government and history in collage and the tax/payments and stuff in high school when you get a job, a lot of parents never teach their kids that stuff. Why bother with teaching something that won't help you when you could teach something that could be usefull right away? I don't have this problem because I have parents that teach taxes and things, but most kids don't have that luxury, so really, teachers are just teaching kids fancy facts and sending them into the world without knowing any useful stuff. Spelling? Useful! Grammar? Useful! Algebra? Useful! Calculus? My dad has not once used that in real life. Just because someone super smart came up with it doesn't mean that EVERYONE else needs to know it. Sorry peeps that are in the history books. No offense to anyone, but how will knowing the past presidents of the U.S.A help me in real life? Will that knowledge pay my phone bill? No, I think not. I can fight for animal science, if something bites you you want to know what it is right? But I don't think I'll find myself stuck in the Civil War and say "Huh, I wonder what war this is, oh I should have studied more on that final..." Whoops! Wrong answer get stuck by a sword bye bye. See kids that what happens when you don't know your history. No no no, anyway, yeah, I think I've gotten the point across.

Your Rebelling Sunflower,

TheYoungTraveler

P.S.

Obviously I suck at grammar. See that's something useful. <3 u all

Um, another weird random post

Well well well. This is almost embarrasing and I dont wanna do it but I gotta.

So my birthday's in a few days, and for fun I'm going out with a few (all) of my three bffs on the mall. And my awesomeness BFF Lizzles got me to buy and wear a tutu. Ugh. And the crazy thing is Im going through with it. Hey I guess I wont be that weird dressed as a rainbow, I mean she saw a unicorn there so yeah (im pretty sure shes also a basket case). Well I really dont know why im posting this but whateves, wish my luck lolol.
THEREALLYHYPERYOUNGTRAVELER

The Cone of Shame

     Well, my dog just got fixed a few days ago and it was so funny because for a while he had to wear a cone so he wouldn’t lick….The Cone of Shame…. It was so funny because he just would just shove the cone on the floor and just run full speed ahead with the rim of his collar pressed to the floor.

     While he had the cone he reminded me of a lampshade. As a lab he would stick his nose straight up in the air to sniff, and just walk around with his head looking like a fluffy lamp. Poor guy.

     Speaking of the Cone of Shame, my brother’s dog was also just fixed and had a cone. This little guy discovered that if he lowered his head to the ground and ran, he would scoop up snow, and then he would just toss it up in the air. So seriously he would just run through the yard scooping up snow and toss it in the air behind him. Our dog’s not smart enough to do that.

Always here and forever crazy,

TheYoungTraveler J

Blue Sky Kiddnapping

I was in a Starbucks a few days ago and was examining their billboard and at the bottom there was a little tag that said Blue Sky Kindergarten, but since I looked fast it seemed to me:

Blue Sky Kidnapping

I'm just trying to figure out what they were advertising there.

Want a break from your kids? A romantic getaway with you love? Well now you know where to go! Just call Blue Sky Kiddnapping and we will come in the middle of the night and kidnap your child FOR FREE! Warning though, there is a $500 dollar ransom to get your offspring back! Just call 376-kidnappers or email us at wetakecareofit@44kidnaping.com

What? Who would take that?

"Oh honey, if we can't send Jeffie to school, this is a great alternative!"

If that's what you come to, you got problems.

TheYoungTraveler

For dads everywhere

There's always that moment in your life when you stop looking at your dad like the hero you always thought of him as and realize that he is actually an imperfect, selfish human. A kid can only go so far while being ignored. I realize this now that not all of you have or had dads like mine, and I knew mine was messed up a bit, but seriously, that moment that your pa stops acknowledging you really hurts. So here you go dads. No matter what happens at work or at home or how your feeling, always be nice to your child. Even if he/she doesn't want your love and attention right now, it stings when you don't give it when they need it. Believe me I know.

A little depressed right now but always yours,

TheYoungTraveler

People

Does it ever bug you when compleat strangers tell you what and what not to do? god, it does for me. So we were picking up my beloved dog from the local Humane Society after getting nurtured and the doggie nurse was talking to us about him.

Well it turns our that he threw up the tail of his green toy snake, and the lady was just going on and on (well I might be exaggerating but really does "she said briefly" make for a good story? No. I think not.) about how we should watch him every second and crap like hat and in my head I'm just going "My moms dogs ate a bike, two garden hoses, and a flipping lawn chair. I think he's good with a slippery snake tail." And then she really got into the whole surgery recovery thing. She's like "You should keep him from running, or walking, or playing or swimming, wrestling..." I am just like "And he's a puppy? Are you sure you have the right dog hee, or are you just kidding us? Ollie's never gonna stay like that. Not for a day not for 2 weeks. Nun uh." all in all she was actually really nice, but that part just killed me.

Anyway, Ill head off, write another blog post, who knows.

To all my non-existent fans,

TheYoungTraveler

What does it mean to be human?

What does it mean to be human? Why can we call ourself "the higher species"? We are responsible for a million more human deaths than the lion, hippo, shark, bear, rino, and snake combined each month. People say that we have a right to call ourselves "educated" "advanced" "inelegant" "chosen". Why? Because we have found "advanced" ways to ruin the health of our planet? Because the "inelegant" scientists have created powerful ways to kill millions of people in less than a freaking minute? Because "educated" teachers have taught and will teach hundreds of kids new ways to kill people? Because the "chosen" governments create stupid laws that keep girls from protecting themselves and raised prices so that billions of people can't afford to have houses, food? Why do we have the right to call ourselves "the smart ones", just because we have the power to kill anything and everything? Think, where will our planet be in 100 years? Who will win the next war?We all know that there is bound to be another with the corruption called China and Korea. Think with our currant pollution problems. Think with the growing population, will we have any agricultural farm land left? There are millions of outcomes, and they are all ending in desolation unless people actually do something! Right now, nobody is doing anything except the small people. And can we do anything? Us kids, or small people? I have seen so many chances for people, big people with big reps, to do something to help the environment, or starving people or animals, but do they do anything? No. They refuse to get their fat butts off their plush couches and make a difference. They instruct their hired staff to do their dirty work, and that means "take care of me". The politicians, the government, the big business people, they don't care about anything but themselves, money, and maybe a select few other people. I mean, it's the little guys out there that really care.

Well once again I must go, short post I know. Remember, I shall say again that this is only my point of view, and if you don't like it WELL STOP READING.

Forever and always,

TheYoungTraveler