Finding Memo

My Dad is a pretty cool Dad.  He isn’t like most Dads in the world.  First of all his name is Mike.  He likes to geek out on the computer, surf, snowboard, skateboard, and play video games.  Unfortunately he can’t surf, snowboard, or skateboard right now because his knee is sort of messed up.  My Dad had to have surgery on his knee earlier this year because the cartilage in the knee wasn’t growing right.  A few weeks ago he went to get an MRI done on his knee to see if he needed another surgery done.  He didn’t get to find out if he needed another surgery done because the MRI had to get sent to his doctor.  Yesterday my Dad went to see his doctor and he said that they have to do some injections, and if the cartilage doesn’t start growing back then he’s going to have to have another surgery.:,(  It has really been bumming my Dad out about his knee.  I love my Dad so much and I really hope he doesn’t have to have another surgery!!!!

Have you ever heard of the song I Like Cereal by Biz Markie?  If you haven’t, it’s a funny song about how he and everyone that he knows likes cereal.  I like to say that, that song is a lot like me!  I get int the morning and I have my bowl of cereal.  Maybe some times I’ll have a bowl of cereal for dessert.  My favorite kind of cereal would probably have to be……… Fruity Pebbles.  When I have a bowl of fruity pebbles in the morning, I’ll most likely be in a good mood that day.  One of the reasons I like Fruity Pebbles is because they are colorful and fruity.  The cereal I probably will not eat is defiantly Raisin Bran!!(Yukkk! EEu!)  My top five favorite cereals are; #1 Fruity Pebbles, #2 Honey Bunches of Oats, #3 Special K, #4 Honey Nut Cheerios, and #5 Trix. I like many other kinds of cereal too, but I don’t have all day to tell you all the kinds of cereal I like.

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As you’ve heard my mom is a fantastic cook!  This year for Thanksgiving she’s going to be cooking dinner.  I can’t wait for the juicy turkey, those melt in your mouth mash potatoes, and the pumpkin and apple pie that makes your mouth water like crazy!

Thanksgiving dinner has to be one of my favorite meals and holidays in the whole world.  One of the other reasons I like Thanksgiving, besides that I like the food, is the fact I get to spend time with my family!  About a week from Thanksgiving I make these decorations that are made out of my hand.  You can make them by tracing your hand and coloring all the fingers.(The fingers are the feathers.)  Add eyes and a wattle on the thumb and then draw feet at the bottom of the hand.  Oh, and by the way the wattle is the red thing on their neck.  Well it’s about a week a way so I’m going to go make a few!

I did some really fun things last weekend.  Saturday I got to spend the night at Meryl’s aunt Mandy’s house.  There were a few people there, Meryl, Meredith, and Samantha.  Meryl and Meredith are my neighbors and Samantha is their cousin.  We all got makeovers by a make up artist from Mary Kay.  After the makeover Mandy bought us some makeup.  For dinner we had pizza and then we had brownies.  Samantha didn’t stay because she wasn’t felling so good.  Later we watched The Breakfast Club and Steel Magnolias.  We went to bed at like 2:00a.m.  In the morning we watched Harry Potter then played rat slap and Monopoly.  Meryl and Meredith’s uncle Ben won in Monopoly.:-(  I came in third place.  Then Meryl’s mom picked us up, we went to Big Lots on our way home.  When we got home Meryl and I made cupcakes.  This weekend I think I might go snowboarding with Meryl and Meredith for the first time this year!

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Adam is my uncle.  In Spanish it’s tio.  Adam was born in March 1984 at Saint Joseph’s Hospital, Mishawaka, Indiana.  He has two sisters Michelle (my mom) and Laura (my aunt).  Adam went to Saint Anthony Catholic School from kindergarten-8th grade.  In kindergarten he met one of his best friends, Nick.  In 7th grade he went to the National History Fair in Washington D.C. for a video project on operation Dewey Canyon, a military battle in the Vietnam War.  One of his favorite subjects in middle school was Social Studies and the teacher was Mr.Buras.  Adam went to Mishawaka Marian High School, his A.C.P History and Government teacher, Mr. Rethlake was his favorite there.  Adam’s group of friends officially named their  group Weuww in 1999.  In Senior year spring break he went to Panama City Beach and caused trouble.(he didn’t tell me what, so I can’t tell you) Adam went to I.U.S.B. and I.U.P.U.I for college and decided to study political science.  Adam’s favorite teacher at I.U.S.B was Linda Chen.  At age 19 he got his first apartment.  He studied in Belgium, Luxembourg, France, and Germany and he studied the European Union.  Adam’s favorite teacher at I.U.P.U.I  was Dr. Brian Vargus who taught Research Methods and Political Marketing as well as Election Studies.  Adam said  that he thought that he was the smartest teacher ever!!  He moved from South Bend to Indianapolis.  Adam graduated I.U.P.U.I in 2007 with a 3.1 G.P.A.

Adam has worked at Ruby Tuesday, Carrabbas, and Traders Point Organic Creamery.  He moved to Colorado in Sept. 2008 to live with my mom, dad, and I.  He worked for the Obama campaign.  Adam’s interests are fitness, health, all things political, election studies, good food and drinks, and tall blond woman.

In the future Adam wants to help service peace corps, do firefighting,globalisation integration.  He wants to be the president and pursue a libertarian philosophy of peace and prosparity through trade.  Adam wants six kids, three girls and three boys.  He plans to see every country int the world besides Texas and Saudi Arabia.

Last night my family and I went to see Madonna.  Before the show we went out to a restaurant called Zengo.  Zengo is a fancy Mexican, seafood fusion restaurant.  Madonna is a singer, and she’s my favorite!  The concert took place downtown Denver at the Pepsi Center.  When we got to the Pepsi Center we went to our seats.  We all couldn’t believe how close we were to the stage.  We waited and waited for like 45 minutes until she came on.  She started with a box that had screens on them, they rose up, but the front ones went up in little parts.  You could just see stairs when the screens rose up, but then the stairs turned around 360 degrees and there she was sitting in a chair.  She started to sing.  We went CRAZY!!  The first song she played was Candy Shop.  In the middle of the the show she played a really good song called Get Stupid.  The song was good because it was about global warming, the people in Africa, Iraq, and Barack Obama being the next president of the United States of America.  Throughout the show the lights were going every were!  There was this point in the show that there were lasers shooting everywhere on the ceiling.  There was also a screen that was like a tube that came down and she was dancing and singing in it.  She had a lot of really cool dancers and she was really good at it too!  The end of the show came around and she played two of my favorite songs, Like a Virgin and Hung Up.  Before she played Like a Virgin, she asked one of the front row people what song they wanted to hear, and what do you know, they chose my favorite song.  Madonna probably had about eight or nine clothes changes throughout her show.  When the show was over my mom bought me a Madonna shirt that says, Madonna Sticky and Sweet Tour.  We parked by Zengo so we had to walk back to the car, but it wasn’t that far.  That concert was definitely a very, very exciting, that had to be the coolest concert ever!!!!

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Can you imagine the world without colors?  It would be a very, very boring life!  A world without the beautiful blue and white skies, purple and green mountains, multi-colored tie die shirts, and the color of your tan skin!  Life would be like living at the bottom of the sea, in a dark hole!  It would make video games too boring and movies too plain.  When you take a picture there would be no point because you wouldn’t be able to see anything.  You would still have your other senses smell, hearing, touch and taste.  I fell really bad for dogs, because they can only see black and white.  It’s like looking through a camera with the black and white setting on your whole life.  People who don’t get the experience to see all the colors of the world, don’t know what it’s like.  It’s a whole new world.  I’m really thankful that I can see all the colors!  If there were no colors, what would life be like?  What would you do in a life without any colors?????

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Michael(my dad) and Mei-Li (my Ah-Ma)

Mei-Li is my grandma (I call her Ah-Ma because that is Taiwanese for grandma).  Mei-Li was born on Nov.1948 in Guammeau, Taiwan.  She lived in a big, old brick house.  Mei-Li has five sisters and two brothers, and she had one brother that died.  When she was my age, twelve, she moved to Tainan, Taiwan.  When her and her family moved to Tainan her father started a laundry business.  Today it is still open.  My family and I went to visit Taiwan and we got to stay in the laundry house.  I know two of my Ah-Ma’s sisters, Ah-hui and Mickey. Mickey lives in Texas and Ah-hui lives in North Carolina.

Mei-Li went to Nan King High School.  In 1969 she met an American solider(George, my grandpa) and they got married in Taiwan. They had my dad ,Michael, on Nov. 1971.  They moved to Michigan in 1972 and they had my uncle, Billy on Jan. 1974.  Mei-Li and her husband got divorced in 1983.  After a couple years they moved to Florida.  My Ah-Ma went to Daytona Beach Community College.  She moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1992 and she was working as a heart monitor tech. at Memorial Hospital.  She got married again in 1992 and divorced in 1995.  My Ah-Ma likes to write poetry, and she started to write a book of poems 15 years ago.  She finished her book in 2005 and is still writing more books today!  Mei-Li retired in 2007 and is still living her wonderful life!