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Contest

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:31:00 -0500

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I'm Back

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 20:25:00 -0500

I know what your thinking I've said that I'm Back a 100 times but now I'm going to try to blog some more.

Things to look forward to knowing about whats going on

1. Working at Chick-fil-A

2. Moving to Virgina

3. Movies and Games

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Contest!

Sun, 2 Sep 2007 18:36:00 -0500

5 Minutes for Mom is having a contest. It's for an HP Photosmart A626 Compact Photo Printer. Check out the details here!

What Is Up

Wed, 2 May 2007 12:12:00 -0500

Well I have worked at Chick-fil-A now for six times. I still love it. On Monday the Forsythes came for a visit. And we had a good time talking and watching movies. The next day they had to leave at 10 in the morning. We said our good byes then I had to get ready for work. When I went to work I felt better than ever. Well I'll try to get to ya later.

PS Spider-Man 3 is in two more days.

The Container

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:57:01 -0500

Yesterday I had to get up at 7:00 in the morning to leave at 8:30. The container was already there waiting for us. My dad and the driver opened the doors to the container and then I opened the storage. After about a few minutes everyone started to show up. I hoped into the container with about two other of our friends and started to hand out some of our stuff to the men below. We left out some of the stuff to bring back to my grandparents house like Tennis Rackets, Bikes, Movies and my computer that I am now typing on. And right before they started to unload the piano my grandmother drove me home to get ready for work.

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First Day at Chick-fil-A

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:23:00 -0500

Yesterday, was my first day at Chick-fil-a. Some people on my blog want to know what Chick-fil-A is. I had a good time there; my first assignment was the cash register. I picked that up pretty quick. And I also did a few other things as well. The people I work with are AWESOME! Their nice funny and they act as if they where your brother or sister. All day I had to do math (that I had no problem with) and stand up strait. When I got home my back was killing me. Over all Chick-fil-A is a great place.

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Gabe

Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:41:00 -0500

Yesterday I got my Chick-fil-A outfit and it also came with a name tag. The owner asked me what everyone usually calls me. I was going to say Gabriel because I love the name. But then again if people where going to call me by my name it would be easy to just glance at the tag and read Gabe. Instead of them trying to read at your tag and you wondering why they were looking at you so funny.

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I Got A Job

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:49:00 -0500

About a week ago I went to an interview for Chick-fil-A. When it was finished the owner said, "We'll give you a shot." Today I went there and did some paper work and I had to watch a video of what to do and how they want you to behave. Chick-fil-A is a great place to work. It is a Christian business that has great employees to work with. The video also had the origins of Chick-fil-A and S. Truett Cathy. If you are ever going to start your first job before college or during then work at Chick-fil-A. Right now I am trying to earn money for a cell phone and then possibly a car. Also they are closed on Sunday!

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PS Please pray for me when I go to work, thank you.

I Finished Lincoln

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:33:00 -0500

Yesterday I went back to art class and finally finished Lincoln. It took three weeks and now I'm starting on one of our most loved presidents, Ronald Reagan.

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Comics

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:21:00 -0500

Quote of the Day
Dwight D. Eisenhower- "If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it."

Have you ever wanted to make a comic book of your own? You sit down at your desk not knowing what your superhero will be like, his name and his hero name. Or his powers and story of how he got them. And also trying to think of all the many villains. I my self am wanting to make a small comic book of my own, because I love to make stories and I can draw too. If you have any ideas of what you think would be cool for my story, please tell. Ideas like the hero's name, powers, villains any thing. I also think that I'll make my hero have the past of being a homeschooler.

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P.S I all ready want the costume to be white.

Sorry

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:47:00 -0500

WW2 Quote of the Day
    Winston Churchill- "Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter."

    Sorry that I have not been able to blog for some time. I have been doing all kinds of things lately. Mainly I have been trying to catch up with a lot of school. My dad and I are also pulling out a lot of our stuff from my grandparents' attic, and been taking it to a storage place. And so when our container arrives we will also have a place to store it all until we find a house.

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PS Please be praying for us to find a nice house.

LOST

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:36:00 -0500

    WW2 Quote of the Day
        Joseph Stalin- Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.

   I never really got to the point where I told you that my family and I love the series LOST. In Romania I watch the first two episodes of the first season. Hours later I got my dad and my sister Hannah hooked on it. About a year later Hannah did the impossible. You want to know what it was? She got my mom hooked on it and shes crazy about LOST. And my little 9 year old sister likes to watch it also. The 3rd season is real cool, I still liked the 1st one better because it was the LOST that got me hooked. My 3 favorite characters in order is Sawyer, Kate and Hugo. Then it would be Jack, Locke and so on. The last episode was really good. Right now we are just waiting for tonight.

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Easter Sunday

Mon, 9 Apr 2007 10:57:00 -0500

    WW2 Quote of the Day
           Winston Churchill- "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

    Yesterday, Easter Sunday, was also my sister Holly's Birthday. I got her an organizer thing with drawers for her desk that she has been asking for and I also got her a Wal-Mart gift card. She turned 9 and is happier than ever. Easter was also real fun. We went to my grandparents' house and ate a great ham dinner. In the morning we went to my uncle's church and he made an easter bunny video. It was funny, it's about how the easter bunny is taking away the meaning of easter, when we all know that it's all for Jesus. My Uncle and his friend are testing out if the easter bunny can do most of the things that Jesus did on earth. Real funny. I'll put it on the blog later.

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Spider-Man 3 the Book

Sat, 7 Apr 2007 10:47:00 -0500

WW2 Quote of the Day
Winston Churchill- “All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”

Yesterday my dad wanted Chinese for dinner. And I asked if we could go to Books-a-Million while the Chinese Restaurant was making the food. My dad and I got into the car and he let my drive again. We stopped by the restaurant and ordered, then we walk to Books-a-Million, because it's in walking distance (personally almost anything where is walking distance to my dad and I, because we walked every where Romania). I had a book in mind, Spider-Man 3. We both entered the store, dad went another direction and I went into the Sci-Fi Fantasy. And sure enough I pick up the 2nd last Spider-Man 3 book. At the same time thinking about how cool it would to be to find out what’s going to happen next in the story. My dad thought that it may ruin it for me, and I didn't think it would. I read Revenge of the Sith after the movie all the book had was better acting and more to the story. I'm reading the book now and I have only gotten to where Venom landed on earth in a small meteor. Plus the movie is going to be better because it is going to have great music fighting and more, mainly the music. A novel by Peter David.

PS We drove a car when we needed to or wanted to.

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Art Class

Fri, 6 Apr 2007 08:29:00 -0500

WW2 Quote of the Day
Franklin D. Roosevelt - "If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time."

Yesterday I went back to art classes and my little sister Holly joined along too. The last time, I drew George Washington and George W Bush. This time I am starting with Abraham Lincoln. I needed a little review first but then I started to pickup on it again. I have to go back next week to finish it. Holly drew a Raggedy Anne doll.

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Not Much To Say Today

Wed, 4 Apr 2007 08:34:00 -0500

    WW2 Quote of the Day
                Dwight D. Eisenhower- " In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains."

    Today is my mom and dad's 20th anniversary. Unfortunately my mom is sick today, she has been for a while. I have been reading for the past few days about WW1-2 and the Bermuda Triangle. This morning I read about British and German ships of WW2. It's very cool, I'll have to tell you later about it. Yesterday I detailed our van, it took me about two hours to get it nice and new looking. And when my dad saw it he was overwhelmed.

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Please pray for my mom.

South Carolina

Mon, 2 Apr 2007 10:39:01 -0500

WW2 Quote of the Day
Dwight D. Eisenhower- "I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then."

On Friday morning my family and I went to South Carolina. It took about seven hours to get up there; my grandfather let us take his van because it has a DVD player, to pas time. We watched Holly's dumb Hannah Montana shows 1st then Open Season. That was funny. When we got to our destination, we spent a lot of time talking with our friends there. Mainly the adults. They have two children, an 11 year old girl and a 6 year old boy. Hannah spent time with the girl most of the time and Holly played with the boy like the whole time that we were there. (holly plays with anyone that she can boss around with) The day that we got there both of our families went to Dean's baseball game. (The 6 year old.) His team creamed the other. The next day we played games out side all day long. Then we went out to eat at a Mexican restaurant. After that we went back to their house and watched Benchwarmers, which is one of my and my dad's favorite comedies. The next day was Sunday we went to a church that we are very close to in Lexington County SC. And had a great time, my dad got to preach that Sunday too. When church was over we went to a Chinese restaurant, me and my dad live off Chinese food. After talking to a lot of people that were at the church and the missionary guest that were there too we had to head back to Alabama. So we had our good byes and left SC. On the way back we watched Equilibrium and The Ringer. We got back safely and had a good nights sleep.

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PS please pray for my mom, shes feeling real sick.

All My Stuff

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:45:00 -0500

WW2 Quote of the Day

Winston Churchill- "However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."

I keep on trying to find something for something that I need real bad. So then after 30 mins, I remember that it’s on the way here on a container. Just the other day I asked if we had brought over the tripod for our video camera. So I have to wait for a few weeks for all of my stuff to get here. Life for example, Guys you would be dying if your music, sports, games, movies would come in about a month, right.? And girls same thing but with clothes, music and makeup, am I right?

Well that’s it for now, please be praying for our container to arrive safely.

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Flight 19

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:15:00 -0500

WW2 Quote of the Day
Winston Churchill- "Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

I went to the library the other day and got some books. I was looking for WW 1 books but they did not have what I was looking for. I also tried to look for some books about Nicola Tesla. So I found some books about the Bermuda Triangle. Today I read about the Flight 19. A training run of 5 TBF Avenger Bombers flying over the Atlantic. They were reported missing on December 5th 1945. While flying high on a clear sunny day, all of a sudden the sky was cloudy and stormy (I read other myths about the triangle and the stormy weather always looked like dark golden yellow milky clouds). The leader, Lt. Taylor was not aware of the disappearing in the triangle. He had already gotten lost three times in World War 2. Taylor was the only one out of the 5 who had magnetical problems. They knew that they had to be off course. They were able to communicate with the naval base and the last thing Lt. Charles Carroll Taylor said was, "We are completely lost, we're going to..."

100s of US navy ships made a search for the Flight 19. A PBM Mariner (Navy plane that could land on water) vanished also while trying to find the 5 Avenger and was never heard of again, nor was the flight 19.

Its My Birthday, Its My Birthday!

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:06:00 -0500

     WW2 Quote of the Day
             Winston Churchill- "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

    March 25th, my 16th Birthday. I went to a Mexican restaurant that I personally did not care for. But I got 90 dollars. I told mom and dad and the rest of the world not to have those waiters put a 25 foot long hat on my head. But at the end they put one on me, they also baptized me in whip cream. I didn't get a car (sadly) but oh well. My two uncles and their families came also my grandmother and 2nd cousin.

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Me and that crapy hat.

My best friend and I.

My younger uncle and his daughter.

My uncle and his granddaughter.

That hat looks better on her.

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