What kind of award is this?

Today I just had my Eagle Court of Honor and I was perpared to be enraged about the medal that I would be presented for my efforts from my freind's ceremony that I attended. For those that do not know what a Eagle Court of Honor is it is a ceremony for the highest rank/ achievement in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). It is earned by having the scout earn 24 merit bages and plan and carryout a leadeship service project for some other oganization that is not BSA. There is more to the criteria and is harder to do then it sounds. This is the highest achievment that can be earned and is mostly about giving back to the people that helped you when you were younger by giving back to the community. Everything that happens during the project was planned and lead by the scout.
What drives me insane is that the national office has made a ton of budget cuts that is to be expected during a tough economy but, they have cheaped out in the making of the metals and pins associated. I have to pay for the metal which the price has not changed from when the metal was made from puter to aluminum. originally it was made of silver and then changed to puter and now it changed to cheap printed white metal. It is insulting to me that the national office would pull sucb a low blow. There are few that actually like and respect council or national they just stay for the programand the principles that are written and fallowed by the volunteers. I like those people and have no respect for council or national.

Another sleepless night

     For some reason I can't get my self to fall off the edge of consciousness and enter the desired dreamscape paradise that I create to fit the present mood. I tried watching some old Dolly Parton clips on Youtube but then I got too interested to nod off. That was about 3 hours ago. Next I tried reading the days headlines on Google Currents and that didn't make me tired at all. Right now I am drinking a white chai tea and I have some theroys as to why I am unwillingly going to watch the sunrise.
     Theroy #1 I have slept too much over the past few weeks. As a summer vacationing college student there is nothing to do so I sleep the morning down to 30 minutes. I also go to bed and fall asleep around midnight to 1:30am.
     Theroy #2 I drank too much tea. I drink about a pot of tea every night before bed so the cafiene idea is not appicable as there is no change there.
     Theroy #3 the moon is full. Seems legit to me
     Theroy#4 I'm stressed over my eagle court. This seems to be the one. Got to finish planning this thing. Too bad no one is up to call and see if they can do a part right now.

Table Games

         I strongly dislike how rude some people have been recently with their cell phones when I go out to eat with them. Now I am the same way when I am out with my parents and either the conversation has run stale or when there is that awkward silence because there is nothing new to talk about. I was on my Google+ and in my stream there was a post about a game to play with the people that are with you at a restaurant. The game goes like this. Everyone puts their cells in the center of the table once everyone has seated themselves. from this moment on no one is allowed to touch their phones, if some one does they lose and pay for everyone's meal. If no one touches their phone before the bill arrives then everyone wins and pays for their own meal.

          I am looking for other games but so far this is the best one that I have found.

Stranded in the house

There is an issue with being allergic to bee stings and the time being spring. While my gardens aren't in bloom the weeds in and aroung them are which, the bees are going after. I cant cut the grass because the mowers are all in disrepair and my father hasnt taken them in to be fixed. So while i wish to be outside there is almost an entire hive out in my front yard where i would like to work. If the grass was cut then there would by almost no dandilions for the bees to go after. Inturn this would mean that there would be little to no bees out there right now. Well I guess I can always clean the house again......... jk

The dreaded pre android devices

At the moment I am on my old touch that has recently risen from the depths of the dreaded tech drawer of the dead and unwanted. As a member of the apple haters organization this post is to remind myself as to why I hate any and all of the Apple products that I encounter which includes iPhones that I have to set up email for as no one in my college seem to know how to do. What I hate the most about the touch is that there are many applications that are portrait mode only * cough blogger cough cough*, there is no voice dictation available when typing, and it is hard to tell when one is in capitals or not as the keys are static. Also it takes too long to find the symbol like the asterisk. Which can be found on the keyboard directly and accessed by a push and hold. This thing it so limited and can only run one app at a time. I will continue this later as the keys are making my hands cramp up.

The time

As much of a believer in the fact that time does not exist I find that there are moments in which I feel the squeeze but no one else seems to. For example I feel like I am going to miss my train right now. We have a hour and a half to get to the station which leaves me five minutes to get on the train. It takes a hour to get there. My sister keeps on finding places to stop because of that extra 30 minutes. Why didn't you fill up the car before we today if the tank was getting low?

Just a post

I have the sudden urge to wear a big black top hat with a black cloak and a came. Why you might ask? Well its because i'm a villian and that's what we villains do.

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Top Hats are amazing

So I bought a top hat two days ago. I didn't intend to do it but I had been looking for one for about four years now. A few of my friends and I went to a costume shop on Mass Ave. and I saw it on a shelf it looked so only and invited me to ask one of the clerks to get it and try it on. Once I tried it I had to have it. I payed a little more then I wanted to but it was worth it. I loved this shop it was so nice and all of the staff have a great personality

Can't Sleep

It is too hot here where I live. I'm used to the cool and nice winters of -10ish and the springs and falls with highs of 48 to 56ish. Right now the temp is around 85 and I can't stand it. I love the cold weather. I feel like I'm melting with all of this sweat that is pooring off of me. Slight cleché I know but I am not in the mood to come up with a original metaphore.
In othe news I have met with my Eagle Advisor and I feel a lot better with creating the project workbook which I have procrastinated on for 3 years. So I am meeting with him on thurs day where I should have it all done. I have no idea if I will have it all done by then because I feel like I will be asleep on the ride home and will not get the Signature that I need to proceede with this. From this whole eagle mania that has gripped my house I have been bitched at and nagged for about 3 hours a day. I can't wait till this is over with by completion or by ageing out, I'll take whichever comes up first. I know that this is a horrible thing to say for all of the scouts that arwe reading this but in reality I do not want to receive this award everyone else wants me to get it. That will be a post on it's own so I will get to that later. Hey if I do end up making eagle then I should totally post the work book up for all of you to see what it was that I have been loathing for all of my scouting career. Sometimes I wish that I could have quit scouting.
Since I have said that I will go into why.
Reason #1) as a kid I never really had a social life. Where everyone had parties to go to I was marries to scouting. "Hey Rob I'm having a party this weekend. Can you come?" "No sorry I have to go camping this weekend." I have missed more parties to scouts then family or school commitments.
#2) There seems to be a magical expectation that happens to all scouts where they are held up to being all of the scout law which I do like what it says that everyone should be and I love it to 12 pieces but then when you have friends that don't know how to be polite and responsible they make you look bad out in public.
I can't say that I regret being in scouts because I have made a ton of friends and I have gone to some places that without this program I would have only gone in my dreams. So I guess you could say that I'm on the fence with this.
I'm going to try too fall asleep again so I will hopefully not put up another post till I am well rested or who knows I might endup doing a Freudian slip and sleep post everything.