HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

Happy Thanksgiving. As you all know, I will be celebrating Thanksgiving by myself this year, but I hope that everyone has a great one.

Just for fun and for you to know a little history on my family, my great ancestors actually sailed across on the Mayflower and signed the Mayflower compact and celebrated the first Thanksgiving. Here is a list of the names that signed the mayflower compact:

The Mayflower Compact

In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereigne Lord, King James, by the grace of God, of Great Britaine, France and Ireland king, defender of the faith, etc. having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honour of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northerne parts of Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civill body politick, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enacte, constitute, and frame such just and equall laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete and convenient for the generall good of the Colonie unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cape-Codd the 11. of November, in the year of the raigne of our sovereigne lord, King James, of England, France and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fiftie-fourth. Anno Dom. 1620.

John Carver	Edward Tilley	Degory Priest
William Bradford	John Tilley	Thomas Williams
Edward Winslow	Francis Cooke	Gilbert Winslow
William Brewster	Thomas Rogers	Edmund Margeson
Issac Allerton	Thomas Tinker	Peter Browne
Myles Standish	John Rigdale	Richard Britteridge
John Alden	Edward Fuller	George Soule
Samuel Fuller	John Turner	Richard Clarke
Christopher Martin	Francis Eaton	Richard Gardiner
William Mullins	James Chilton	John Allerton
William White	John Crackston	Thomas English
Richard Warren	John Billington	Edward Dotey
John Howland	Moses Fletcher	Edward Leister
Stephen Hopkins	John Goodman

::My ancestors names are Samuel and Edward Fuller. I have always liked learning about my family and where I came from. I feel that it's important to know who your family is and what kind of challenges they faced during their time and where they traveled to. If you want to know more about your family and do some background research, The LDS Church offers free services to those who want to do some genealogy work on their family. Here is a site that will help:

http://www.ancestorhunt.com/mormon_church_records.htm

Lots of people from all over the world will travel to Utah (Mormon or not) and will do their genealogy work at the building downtown. There is a vast database of information that they have and it's cool to see other people who care about their family and want to know more history about them. Here is the website for the genealogy library and just a little paragraph about it:

http://www.utah.com/mormon/family_history.htm

"The Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the largest genealogical library in the world with copies of millions of original records including the names of more than two billion deceased people. People come from literally all over the world to search the library's records and find information about their heritage. The library has become one of the most popular tourist destinations in Salt Lake City."


So hopefully everyone has a good Turkey Day! Make sure you save a plate for me when I come back to town, lol.

Don't spill the beans!!

So last night me and my roommate were talking about cleaning up the fridge and moving stuff around, and he had mentioned that he still had this can of beans in there. Now this can of beans was bought from Sam's club when he first moved in, so it's been in the fridge for 6 months and he's only eating it a couple of times (he doesn't like to throw a lot of stuff out). So I told him we need to clean some crap out of it because he's never going to get around to eating it anyways. He didn't want to throw it out either that night because he states "he's lazy" but I told him we should and I would walk with him to the dumpster. So I go to my room to throw a shirt on and all of the sudden I hear this scream of horror and sudden disgusted laughter. I peak my head around the corner and was asking him what was wrong. He said to take a look at the can of beans......and this is what i saw:

You couldn't pay me a million dollars to eat that crap!!!

Here's the can of beans that was in the fridge for so long

Here's my crazy roommate....some of you know the stories....and yes, he plucks his eyebrows!

So anyways, I was obviously disgusted by the beans and we went and threw them out. I have a physics final to study for tonight and I hope that I do well on it tomorrow. I guess I better start complaining!! LOL

Hope all is well with everyone, don't be afraid to post comments either = ).

***side note*** still teaching myself how to encode the quicktime player into this blog so that way I can get my animation posted and you can loop it to watch it continuously....that's the best way to watch it. I will also have some more drawings from my animation class up tomorrow and some nice things to say about the class and the teachers.

peeling away the years

I got bored earlier and decided to put this peel off mask on. It was too funny though because I have never been able to peel off the mask and have everything still stay in tact. Luckily when I peeled it off, it stayed all together as 1 piece so I had to post it because its awesome.....look at all of those dead skin cells, lol.

physics update....1 more test to go

So I got into class yesterday and it was nice because it was a very short day (kind of pointless to go to class) but anyways, I got my grades for the last test. Before I had gotten the test back however, the teacher said "would the following people stand up"...he had called a couple of people, then he got to me and I stood up. He told everyone that the people who were standing up had scored a 90% or higher. I was very very happy! So if you're wanting to know what the score was on my test, it was a 100% = ) I feel relieved, but now there's 1 more test to go and we'll see if I can still pull possibly a B or a high C. I certainly don't want a D, that's for sure. So I will be finishing up my flipbook today (which is almost done) and then studying for the final and doing a couple of chores that I have to do.

I was up til 5:45 this morning working on my flipbook. I also talked to a good friend for awhile and it was nice to catch up. Thanks!

I tried to load the animations last night again, and the blogger uploads them, but then it never processes them....it just sits there and says processing for 1/2 an hour (annoying) I'm going to see if I can find a way to embed quicktime on here so that I don't have a problem anymore, I was doing some tests last night, but it's been weird w/ youtube and the blogspot video displayer. So you'll see the videos when I finally find a way to post them right!

That's all of the new news for today. KEEP MOVING FORWARD

The physucks tests!

I was trying to post my animation earlier, but the blogger video kept taking forever to do anything so I think they might be having a problem right now. I will try again tomorrow. However, I did do some extra credit for my physics class. My teacher said to just draw something physics related, so I decided to draw this. A little violent yes, but I hate cats...and so does he!! = ) So i'm sure that he'll like this and i'll get my 10 points. If not, at least I had fun drawing it.
I also took my 3rd physics test on Thurs. There are only 4 tests in the class and each one is 20% of the grade, so there's a little bit of pressure to do good on your tests or else you fail rather easily. My first test I got an 81% (not bad), my second test I made a bunch of little mistakes and I got a 47% on it (ouch!!). The 3rd test that I just recently took, I'm pretty sure I made between a 96-99% (amazing) and then on Tues I will have the final (dramatic drum sound). Hopefully I will do ok on the final. (Notice I didn't say great, I just want to pass = ))..) I really don't want to repeat this class!! So I will be studying a lot this weekend as well as finishing up my flipbook for my animation class.
As far as everything else goes, it's ok. Just lots of pressure at the end of each month since you have so much to do in so little time. I of course want an A in animation so I tried to put as much as I could into what I was doing, so we'll see what I get. As far as physics goes, I feel i've been doing fairly well. I remember for the most part what I studied and I can honestly say that these past 3 months of math courses have been the best that I have ever done since the 6th grade!! (I kid you not!) Math has never interested me in the least bit, but these past couple of months I have taken interest in bits and pieces of it and I find that I learn the most when I complain about it! LOL.

So I came up with a style of learning that helped myself study and could possibly help others study as well. So here's my method for people out there who have always had problems with math and studying for it. Just complain about it! Through complaining you'll come to realize how much has actually been retained in your mind and it's easier to remember the things you hate....honestly....just think of any song your entire life that you just couldn't stand to hear no matter what...then think of the lyrics for that song...more likely then not, you will remember the lyrics because you hate it so bad that you can't help but mock the living crap out of it. So anyways I'm going to call my style of learning...The Fuller Method...*copyright* (you read it here first)

Now the only reason I did so bad on the 2nd test is that according to my method, I didn't complain enough. So this weekend there will be a lot of complaining by me!! lol. But, you also have to remember that you need to look at what you're complaining about as well. There has to be some visual or auditory part of what you're studying in order for it to sink in. Because if you're just complaining about nothing and not knowing what you complain about, then it doesn't work. = ) Simple enough. "Wow...that sounds great, tell me more" "well, glad you asked, for a small price, I can teach you this method and send you many dvds on how to complain and learn through complaining, like a pro. However there is no money back guarantee, because I can't help you if you can't complain good enough.... and if you can't complain good enough, then you're retarded!"

Well that's about it for now, if you read this whole thing, then good for you, you're making me proud to write this and are a great friend, etc. If you didn't read it all the way through, then I hate you and you're not a true friend!!! j/k (but really, go kill yourself) = P