I'm Baaack!

Hello, I'm back! It has been a long 2-3 months of procrastination, but I decided to start posting again. So to start things off, I'm going to share a really good recipe.

Individual Rice Krispie Treats

Sometimes you wan't to have a really tasty dessert like a rice krispie treat, but don't have the time it takes to make a whole batch of them. That is where the individual rice krispie treat comes in, I am sure it could be put to good uses such as a reward for obedient littles.

• Take a 1/2 tablespoon of butter and 3/4 to 1 cup of marshmallows in a bowl and microwave it for 30 seconds.
• Stir it up and add some rice krispies, then stir some more.
• (Warning! This part is messy!) Drop the mixture on a plate and mold into a square shape, sprinkles are optional.
• Put it in the fridge for about 30 minutes.
• Eat it

Also, while I was on the internet, I found a video of what Allison calls "the Japanese equivalent of The Backstreet Boys", Watch here.

My Personal News Report No.2

Today I went rollerskating with Grandpa, unfortunately Allison chose not to go, She had to be at church around 6:00 so we would have had to leave Skate Station at 3:00. Today at Skate Station I learned how to cross my legs while turning backwards (now I can skate backwards really fast, ZOOM!) so I am really excited to show Allison when we go skating on Thursday. In other news, Sophia can now scootch/crawl forward... and really fast too, which has introduced the "where's Sophia? game" to our house.

The "Pancake Profile" no.1

Thankfully my cold that I talked about in my previous post only lasted a couple days, and now I will tell you all how to make nicely shaped pancakes *applause*.

First, TURN ON THE STOVE, electric gridles are optional and actualy work better because larger work spaces are easier to work with.

Then, take a spoon full of your favorite batter, I advise you to make the plain pancakes for the people who dont like toppings first and then add the toppings to your big bowl, but back to bussiness, take a spoonfull of batter, about this much and wipe the drips of the bottom.


Then make an outline of your Fancy-Shmancy pancake, but only make a thin outline(remember, this side you see here is a mirror image of the side that has the picture)


Then, fill in the pancake outline with batter, but be careful, like with a coloring book, try not to go outside the lines.

Once it is ready to be flipped, flip your pancake over very carfully especially if you have a larger picture like a monkey or a car.
And here is the finished product, I like to make special pancakes for my little siblings so they will eat, I make cars for Isaac and Allison and Genevive like my monkeys.

My Personal News Report

Welcome to my 1st news report, today was the 16th anniversary of happily married couple,

Eric & Lisa G, so to kick this day off I made a special heart shaped pancake for mom. Currently I am stuck in scenic burning hot/freezing cold, Jon's room. I am currently wrapped up in a really thick comfiter and my head is burning and my body is freezing. Now let's look out the window, It is really shaky/blurry and I wont be able to find "down" until the floor finds it for me...

Well I'm going to pass-out in bed, Bye!

Ps. My next Report will tell you how to make nicely shaped pancakes.

And Another Week Flies Bye

This past week has been great, on Thursday Allison and I went to Skate Station with Grandpa and played extreme tag. We got so many people playing that we didn't even know all their names! On Saturday we played tag again but then we only had 5 people playing. Although we only had 5 people, we had a lot of fun and one of our new friends made up a dance to the song "Break Out" and she taught it tous and when we started doing her dance, people started lining up and dancing beside us! On Sunday, Guess who turned 5! Thats right, Genevieve turned 5 and we had a nice little family party, She got all sorts of stuff such as a new, some video games and sea monkeys. On Monday, Genevieve, Isaac and I went to Chuck E. Cheese's with Grandma G and Genevieve won a full 41 more tickets than me! Also, for my schoolwork I have to do an architecture project, so I am going to make a whole little town... out of paper. Here are some Pics

My little house
The Church
And the shudders open!

My Week So Far...

On Sunday Allison and I had a great time with Grandma G, She took us to the Imax. We got to see "Harry Potter and The Order of the Pheonix". It was an awsome movie, First of all the screen is massive, it makes you feel like your in the movie because the screen is 4 stories tall and 80 feet wide! As for the movie, the special effects were spectacular and the new characters were exactly how I imagined them (except for Tonks and Kingsley who played very short roles). They made Miss Dolores Umbrige evil and Luna Lovegood very, well, erm... strange. Then we went to golden corral.
On Monday we went to the park, it was kinda boring, I spent at least half the trip running back and forth to and from the car. But I didn't miss much. After that we dropped "The Littles" of at Grandma Glasnapp's house and got some peace and quiet at home.
So far, nothing that remarkable has happened today.

My Excessivly Absurd Aristocratical Name

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: His Most Serene Highness Lord Jonathan the Imaginary of New Porton Wells Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

My celebrity look-alike

According to www.myheritage.com I look like the pianist from Pink Floyd, Please comment about what you think.

MacGyver

Today I caught a cold, So I spent a large portion of my day in my room. I did good in my schoolwork, I got an "A" on my math lessons and I finished this weeks science work. Also I decided to try and fix our 16 year old super Nintendo, so I came up with a MacGyver types solution and guess what... IT'S ALIVE, I fixed it with an extension cord and a piece of floss. So now I can play all my favorite Snes games whenever I want.

My Week in 60 Seconds

I had a good week. On Saturday I went skating as usual for 4 hours, I am learning to skate on my front wheels only. Right before the skate station races I drank a whole can of Full Throttle and another can once I got home (soda machine gave me a freebie) And I spent the night bouncing off the walls! Then at 4:30 in the morning I passed out while watching leave it to beaver. On Sunday I had to sit through a very long and monotonous meeting about all the details of my upcoming Confirmation classes, at least they had free pizza and watermelon. On Monday we had a "SUPER CLEANING DAY"! We cleaned the entire front half of the house sometimes I wonder how we manage to make such a mess in just a couple of days. On Tuesday (yesterday) we had water fun day at P.E and we played all sorts of games, like a sponge marathon where we had to fill a sponge with water and run about 15 feet to our bucket, empty the sponge into the bucket and run back to our team to pass on the sponge, us men beat the girls team twice in the sponge marathon and in the squirt gun marathon, where it was like the sponge marathon except we were given these squirt swords. Then our P.E teacher decided we were "mature" enough to play a game of Duck, Duck, Goose. Today, I woke up and did my schoolwork, then I ate breakfast and came upstairs to my room to write this extremely long post and I just realized that I don't really have Anything left to write and I am questioning why I have not ended my post yet. Bye.

My Blogger Award!

I got an award a few days ago from Bess and I am very proud of it :D.

My Award!

A Very Short Day

Today was very short, This morning for school I did my math and studied Japanese, I studied on speaking and writing japanese, I learned two more Kana (A.K.A. letters), also, I do web design for my schoolwork, I have been making a website for my Grandpa Smith's subdivision. Unfortunately I can't post a link to the website yet but I will as soon as I get it up and running.
Today, we also went to Publix to do our weekly grocery shopping, now that was hard task, we have to buy so much food that we needed two carts to get the food to our car O.o
I can't think of anything else to write about so here are some pictures of my most recent drawings.

Japanese Quote of the Week

Ohayo gozaimasu

Means

Good morning

Another Post

Greetings from scenic my room, I am currently blogging as my little sister is trying to kick my door down. But locking Genevieve out is the only way I can get some peace and quiet. Now, I have been learning Japanese for my schoolwork and I am learning to draw Manga (Japanese comic book style). Today for my schoolwork I got to do some cooking, I made bacon, eggs and Biscuits, I did my math and I got to spend an hour drawing. I think I did good in school today, well time to let Genevieve back in, Bye.

The Japanese Quote of the Day

Neko ga, nekonda.

Which means,

The cat is sleeping.

Burgers

Now that's what I call a hamburger! As promised I am posting a picture of "The Ultimate Bacon-Mushroom Cheeseburger" A.K.A. "The Perfect Krabby Patty"

• 4 Slices of bacon
• 1/4 Cup of olive oil
• 4 Medium portabello mushrooms about 4 inches in diameter each
• Black pepper
• 4 Hamburger Patties
• 4 Slices of the cheese of your choice, I used American Cheese
• 4 Hamburger buns
• 4 Crisp lettuce leaves

1. In a large saute pan over medium heat, cook bacon until crisp, about 10-12 minutes. Remove the bacon and set on a paper towel to drain. Save the bacon fat in the pan and add the olive oil.
2. Remove and discard the mushroom stems. clean the caps with a most paper towel and, using a spoon, scrape out the black gills from inside the caps. Generously brush them with the bacon fat oil mixture. Season with pepper.
3. Dethaw your hamburger patties or make your own, Season both sides of your patties with salt and pepper.
4. Grill the 4 burgers and mushrooms to your liking, you must grill the mushrooms for as long as you brill the patties. during the last minute or two, add a slice of cheese to each of the patties and let the cheese melt. During the last 30 seconds grill the buns until lightly toasted.
5. Serve warm with each burger topped with a patty, a mushroom, a leaf of lettuce and condiments of your choice.

Yawn...

Man I am tired, mom took me all over town today. We went to Larry's Giant Subs for lunch, then we went to Staples and picked up one-hundred dollars worth of art supplies and then I attempted to fix my bane-of-all-things-good-and-peace-loving wireless internet reciever. I am going to try and bribe dad(or ask him real nicely, whichever works) to go analog and ditch the wireless internet.
Everything has been kind of quiet ever since Allison went to the National Youth Gathering in Orlando on Saturday, She will return on Wednesday.
Yesterday, I got to do some culinary arts training by ruining some muffins, I ruined the muffins by mistaking vinigar for vegetable oil and putting 1/2 a cup of it in the muffins! lol. but I made up for it by making the perfect "Krabby Patty" A.K.A "the ultimate bacon and cheeseburger, I found the recipe in my Grandpa Glasnapp's copy of Weber's Big Book of Grilling . I wil post pictures as soon as my computer lets me.

Summer Cleanup Challenge

Today I finished the cleanup challenge! Here are the pics.

Truck cleaning

Today has been an ok day, not much has happened today. Except, Mom asked me to clean out "THE TANK" AKA. her car
And when the weather looks like this,
you can tell nothing good will come out of it. So I improvised :D

My day

Today was a great day, I did good in my schoolwork (I wake up at 6:00 am every morning and work 6:30 - 11:30), I got to go to the adventure landing water park with my cousins Nic and Bree, I worked on the summer clean-up challenge for a while and found some interesting items I had lost. Here is what I found. The old playstation
My kewl japanese egg
A copy of the Constitution, a bosons wistle, wire cutters, my old gameboy color, my swiss pocket knife, a mancala game, my slingshot and my hackysack.

And my cold war world atlas, it literaly is from the cold war, I can tell because in this atlas Germany is cut in half and in stead of Russia there is the Soviet Union.

Summer Cleanup Challenge

I decided to take my moms summer cleanup challenge, so here are my before pics,

You can join the challenge to by going to http://lisashomeschoolcircus.blogspot.com/

Intro

Hello all you readers, my name is Jon, I lead a really crazy life! I have a nice older sister named Allison, age 15, there is me, 13 years old, my funny little 4 year old sister Genevieve my cute little brother and sister, Isaac age 2 and sophia, age 5 months. And this is my blog tracking my hectic homeschool experience.