I didn’t hit a lick this weekend besides SLEEP.

Lately I have been feeling so tired and drained from doing nothing – well if you count nothing it will include having to go to school and put a thinking cap on.

On Friday night what made it even worse is that I had a few friends over playing video games and they didn’t leave until 1:00 a.m but it was such a good game that I didn’t want to stop playing until I beat the level. I’m not quite sure when I fell asleep however when I woke up around 8:15p.m on Saturday evening I was very confused and disoriented as to what day we were on. The house was dead quiet.

This is the first weekend that I actually got to sleep in without anyone bothering me.

According to google “During sleep, a person's weight and the number of hours he or she sleeps determines how many calories do you burn sleeping. Normally, a person burns about 0.42 calories for every pound in one hour of sleep. For instance, a 150 lb. person burns about 63 calories in one hour”

I doubt that I will get away another weekend with being able to sleep the day away however for now I can say that I am well rested and I burned a few calories in the process.

Party party party

This weekend I was bombarded with birthday parties – I ended up on the beach, at a restaurant, and a house party.

I’ve been going to a few sweet 16 parties this year but this weekend the party that stood out was the one held at The George Town Yacht Club for my good (girl) friend Ajah.

The George Town Yacht Club is close to the airport. The food was phenomenal and the view from the deck overlooking the pool into the harbour was breathtaking and the DJ was lit.

I bumped into a lot of my friends that I hadn’t seen since leaving Clifton Hunter High School it was a mini high school reunion.

I must say that I looked mighty sharp (as usual) my outfit of the night included a fresh haircut, white Hugo Boss Polo Shirt, ripped jeans and white Jordans

The night went off without a hitch there was no fights, no overly dramatic teenage girls, just easy laid back good music with laughter echoing through the air.

Yo-ho-ho! what did ye do this weekend I got into Pirate things.

Well shave me belly with a rusty razor! this weekend thee 39th annual Pirates Week celebration was officially launched in The Cayman Islands.

Yo-ho-ho! Friday night me clan and I went on the town to watch thee fireworks - I have to admit they were amazing. Every year it gets better and better and better.

No quarter! we ended up staying a while. Thar was a lot to see and thee music was pretty good. gave me good leg a shake and danced a jig with a young lass. Sail ho away we had so much fun.

Ahoy Matey, Saturday was an even better event. Shiver me timbers! Invasion of thee pirates and thee float parade were worth standing in the hot sun for almost three hours.

Shiver me timbers! I was able to stay past curfew on Saturday night and attended thee Teen Dance, hung out with a few mates I hadn’t seen since the last time the Pirates invaded thee good ole Cayman Islands.

Sink me! I always look fore to thee Pirates Week events especially thee grub at thee district days. These are thee only events that I actually git to go to and stay out past curfew.

http://www.speakpirate.com/

freezing my tush off

brrr brrr where is this weather coming from

its cold, muy frio, shivering, gnashing of teeth

and I'm sitting under the sheets, covers pulled up to my ears

I'm practically freezing turning icicle blue and fingers numb

my dogs nose is extra wet I’m sure I saw his shivering too

don’t even dare step outside without the proper winter gear

on second thought I double dog dare you to step outside 

wearing nothing but a t-shirt, shorts and flip flops

bet you a dolla you wouldn't last a minute

I haven’t felt weather like this since last November

I guess I can’t complain give me the cold over the heat any day

No not the below negative zero type of cold 

Sir, I suggest you can keep that weather over there

while drinking my third mug of hot chocolate 

I heard on the news that a good ole' norwester is rolling through this weekend

I guess that is Mother Natures way of giving us advance notice 

Christmas is on the way in a haste and there is no delay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj7-VqN6b2c

bored...

Saying your “bored” in my house is like saying a cuss word and the end result is getting a slap upside the head and someone saying “go and find something to occupy your time”

There were a few things I could find to occupy my time, no problem, but this particular weekend I was bored out of my mind because I was grounded for something stupid I did the previous week thankfully my sentence was for two days; but it felt like an eternity.

Being grounded for me is what I picture prison to be – except I have to go to my Grandmothers house locked up in the house all day where there is no tv, no cell phone, no interaction on social media and no video games.

So this weekend instead of doing my usual I was forced to think outside of the box. I drew a few pictures. I used to be really good at drawing and I was always encouraged to continue as it is a “God given talent”. I drew a Marlin and a Robot which are worth mentioning.

When drawing wasn’t working out I would catch a few cat naps, do some push ups or read a book.

This particular book caught my attention “Hardy Boys, Deprivation House” it was very interesting and the plot was similar to what I was experiencing.

The Hardy Boys had to go undercover and join a cast of teenagers on a reality show called Deprivation House. It has a bunch of teenagers living together in a house and competing to see who can go the longest without the modern luxuries us teenagers are use to; like tv, cell phones, social media and video games. Whoever went the longest was in to win one million dollars. So with the usual Hardy Boys book there is a potential victim, suspects and every one is a suspect.

whats for dinner?

I’m fine with a Pineapple and Bacon Pizza and a Lava cake – but this weekend my Mom decided that we should go out to a restaurant, sit down and eat. According to Mom aka “the Queen does not cook” we need to get out more and socialise. Trust me she finds every excuse not to cook and surprise surprise this weekend was no exception.

After a huge debate we were back and forth between staying at home and ordering the usual pizza or eating at Deckers a family friendly restaurant located in West Bay. We had eaten there once before and although I really enjoyed the food, especially the all you can eat Lobster I wasn’t up to getting up, getting dressed up and being social.

Looking back at it I have to admit the all you can eat Lobster was tempting and made my mouth water a little but I really and truly wanted to stay home. We settled our differences the way we settle all our differences by doing rock, paper, scissors and my little brother won. Surprisingly and for the first time in a while we were both on the same stay at home and order a pizza page.

We ended up ordering the pizza, when it was time to go pick it up I lost out on the rock, paper, scissors challenge and had to go in to pay for it. I doubled checked the order making sure that they had included the lava cake.

While leaving the store I was thinking about how many slices I would devour and completely missed that last step tripped over my own feet and went through the emotions of shock, terror, horror and disbelief as I watched my pizza and lava cake go flying through the air and landed with a dramatic plop splatter to the ground.

I felt like a clown, my mom rolled her eyes, while my little brother shaked his head in disappointment.

“So umm Mom is Deckers all you can eat Lobster still on the table for dinner”?

Adventures in Baby Sitting ....

I was asked to keep an eye on my two year old cousin this weekend although I was very tired I managed to keep one eye on her.

This little girl was too energetic and loud, so very loud. She babbled off her list of demands and I had the hardest time figuring out what it was she was demanding. She went straight for my controller and when I didn’t give it to her she started to throw a tantrum. Wild crazy throw yourself on the floor tantrum.

I was able to distract her by crinkling up a plastic bag; the noise the bag made startled her at first and I braced myself for more screaming but then out of the blue she started to laugh – I found this so weird but kept doing it.

When she wasn’t crying she was laughing her head off at the silliest of things from the crinkle of a plastic bag then to keep her entertained I pretended to be a monster and chased her around the house we only stopped when I tripped and fell flat on the floor. The best part of spending time with my little cousin was that you couldn’t possibly stay mad at her for too long.

You can already see this little girl knows how to wrap you around her little finger she has such a kind heart and limitless amounts of personality.

There was a special moment we shared while she was eating a cookie she was willing to share it with me the cookie was soaked in drool and I didn’t dare say no to her generous offer as it only ended up in my mouth and smeared across my face.

I feel like we can all learn something from babies they are filled with unconditional love and innocence. They show us that we shouldn’t keep scores of when our loved ones do or don’t do something and we should stop taking yourself so seriously and that we should laugh even at the stupidest and most random of things and sometimes it’s okay to have a meltdown and throw a tantrum.

bad boys, bad boys what you going do when they come for you ....

About four of my friends and I were walking home after midnight on Friday we usually meet up to play games and hang out. We were all laughing, joking and play fighting basically being boys and minding our own business when out of nowhere flashing lights came on and the “whir whir” of police sirens could be heard. About two police cars blew past us.

We were slightly confused when one of the police cars pulled over and a burly Police Officer came out. He looked to be 7ft and 300 lbs – I laughed to myself thinking “imagine him trying to catch us if we all decided to bolt”

Even though he was huge he didn’t intimidate us but we were a bit nervous anyone who listens or watches the news knows about the whole racial profiling in the United States and of black men being killed in cold blood by the police.

We were polite to the Police Officer as he approached us asking where we were coming from as it was late. We explained to him that we usually hang out on Firday nights to play games and as we all are from the same neighbourhood we were trying to make it home.

We then asked the Police Officer what all the commotion was about he only walked away and said “you gentleman walk straight home”.

I wanted to say “punk that’s where we were headed before you stopped us”

Why is it that adults in authority feel like they don’t have to answer to kids?

The Weekend World wide 

So you think you’re having a bad day, weekend, month, life. This week at school was pretty tough for me. Surrounded by adults that accuse you and throw daggering glances. I thought I had problems but I was reminded that ‘if we all were to put our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back’.

In California fire authorities found a corpse in a burned out section of a forest. The deceased male was dressed in a full wet suite, complete with scuba tank, flippers and face mask. A postmortem later determined that the man did not die from burns, or smoke inhalation, but from massive internal injuries. After further investigation it was revealed that on the day of the fire, the man was diving twenty miles from the forest fire. The fire fighters seeking to control the fire called in a fleet of helicopters with large buckets to be used to collect water and dump it at the fire site. In addition to filling the bucket with water they also collected the unsuspecting diver. That day water and the diver were emptied at the site of the forest fire.

A woman came home from work to find her husband shaking uncontrollably in the kitchen; he had some sort of wire running from his waist towards the electric kettle. In an effort to save her husband from the deadly current she hit him with a rolling pin breaking his arm and cracking a rib. Up to that moment the husband was happily listening to his Walkman.

There are so many stories of people having a bad day, weekend, month, life. Some stories are extremely dramatic while others make you roll on the floor and laugh your head off. At the end of the day for those of us that are lucky we get another twenty-four hours of a new day to make better choices and dodge any drama that we might find ourselves in.

"WEEKEND its been so long - nice to see you Buddy".

That is always my reaction at the end of the school day on a Friday. This Friday was no exception. First Friday back to school after Summer and it's the first Friday that after a hard week I didn't "slip up" in school by making poor decisions.

Today was a special Friday now that my school has implemented a new school policy, if a student gains enough points on their rewards sheets then the student has a reward period, free period you have the option of leaving at 1:30 or sticking around until 2:30.

Did someone say leave school at 1:30 oh yea, I could get use to this.

Because of my behaviour at school and at home I was able to use my reward period and go to my friends house. Its always nice to visit with my friends I only saw them a few times over summer and although we stayed connected over social media it was cool to just hang out in person and catch up on jokes.

My Mom picked me up after work and as usual she could lost on her way to my friends house. The woman has no sense of direction and will get lost in aisle 5 on a Saturday in Fosters. After my friend was able to talk her through the directions she got me and we were on our way home.

Home there's no place like home, me, my bed, my room, playing on my xbox, eating, sleeping - heaven. I plan on doing absolutely nothing but relax, recoup and reenergise this weekend cause I deserve it.

As usual my Mom had other plans for my weekend. She rattled off a list of chores I had to accomplish which of course I tuned her out grunting every now and then to make it appear I was tuned in.

This is where little brothers come in handy they can be annoying but for the right price an hour of play time on my xbox and chocolate cookies they can be bought. He didn't know it yet but his chore list had just increased, like I said I plan on doing absolutely nothing this weekend.