Rolling in the New Year

Hey guys,

Whatsup? It's been a great Holiday break and I'm not ready to go back to school. Today I uploaded a video I have been working on since around Christmas. It is a look back at all the important things in 2008:


Yeah, I know the singing isn't my best. I was so rushed to get it out in time because I just had a few days to record, film, and edit it. The editing didn't turn out as good as I planned because when I imported it using my new software, i couldn't edit it in my old. So I had to do the ENTIRE project in unfamiliar software. VERY BAD IDEA! So yeah, sorry if the editing isn't up to par with my usual style. I had to cut 40 minutes of green screen footage down to 4 min. Then I had to go back and add the background and position each individual green screen shot. Oh well, hope you like it.

I'm gonna do like last year and make a list of things I want to accomplish in 2009. But first, here is my list from last year. Let's see if I lived up to my goals:


Get all A's on final report card
YEP!

Exempt my exams
YEP!

Get my Permit
YEP!

Start looking for a job
Lol, no. I'm not old enough!

Make new friends
Duh! I had to at a new school (this is before I knew I would switch)

Build better relationships with my really close friends
...I've kind of lost good relationships with people at my old school. And one of my best friends moved away. So, I can't really say I completed that. Unless you mean online and with Jake, then YES! ;)

Save Money
Hahaha....No

Exercise more
You're kidding right? NO!

Eat less junk food
I guess I sorta did this....Sorta.

Do good in "Smellin' Coffee"
I think so!

Get over my mild stage fright
Lol, I like how I said "mild" and yes, I am over it!

Pray everyday by myself (not including school)
Well, I kind of let myself down on that one. I have actually been praying less than when I was in a Christian School. I haven't really thought about it until. Dang! Sorry Jesus! I mean I have prayed, but not as often as I used to. I do sometimes at night if I go to bed kind of early. :(

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Ok, so time for REALISTIC goals for next year:

1. Become a Partner on YouTube.
2. Create at least 20 parodies over the year.
3. Get over 2,000 Subscribers.
4. Get good grades next semester (and First semester, 11th Grade).
5. Share my faith every opertunity available at school.
6. Be more outgoing, and not so shy around strangers.
7. Find a good charity to sponsor after I get a job and donate regularly.
8. Get a job.
9. Get my Drivers License.
10. Find a way to share Christ's love through my videos (without being forceful)
11. Find a way to sneak over to Jake's house and hideout in his Attic.

Haha, JK about that last one. Btw, Jake I wanted to let you know I'm still alive. Sorry I didn't write you yesterday. I didn't realize editing would be an all day process. I guess instead of writing you I'll include it in this entry. Thank you so much for being my friend this year. Well and the year before but I think this year we have grown closer than we ever were before. Sure, we had a few mishaps and even some arguments but we always ended up getting back together. Hopefully our friendship will grow even stronger in 2009, if that's possible, haha. You are my Online BFF and you will always be. I love you (like a brother) dude! :)

Well I'm having the craving for a scary movie so I'm gonna go look one up. I'll make sure to catch the ball drop too!

Everyone have a great New Years and "Good Luck in '09!"

3..2...1....HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Clifton

Have I Given Up?

If there are any readers out there (that I haven't kept in contact with in other ways) then I sincerely appologize for not giving you guys an update in weeks. A lot of my time has been dedicated to schoolwork, videos, and talking with friends online. I have a Vlog that you can subscribe to at:
http://www.youtube.com/user/SlythPersonal

I try to update as much as possible along with extra stuff not on my main channel. I am not giving up on my journal, I just am finding less time to keep you updated as often as I would like. The more popular I become on YouTube, the more time I have to dedicate to my videos to keep my fans happy. And it's something I really enjoy doing. YouTube is my other life right now. And I look at it as a way to practice for my career intentions in the future. I hope you understand.

I will still try to update as much as possible, but I don't want to consider this blog a priority. I put my online friends (Mainly Jake) and my videos above anything else online. Of course I like to keep the world updated on my life, along with my future self. But I consider videos another way to record my life, the creativity side.

So yeah, just wanted to throw this quick update out there. I hope EVERYONE out there has a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. I surely plan on updating before New Years with my goals for 2009. I will recheck my goals from last year and see what I achieved.

Jake, I haven't heard from you in a few days buddy. I hope everything is going ok with you over there. I know the holidays are a busy time for you, and I hope they are going great! Merry Christmas Bro!

Good Night to all, and to all a....Yeah!
Clifton

The Point of No Return

10 Days in the dark. MY BAD!

This past week or so has been CRAZY busy. I really had a good time though. Our plays on Thursday and Friday of last week went fantastic. I was really pleased with my performance. This class has tought me a lot. Saturday we went to Charlotte to work on the Operation Christmas Child workshop. It was so cool to inspect the boxes and help stuff them with extra stuff. I just thought it was cool knowing that the next person to look inside that box after me would be a kid that may only recieve this one gift all year or posibly all their lives. I am definitely doing my own box next year.

So, I'm sick! Wednesday I woke up with a really bad sore throat, Thursday I had a runny nose, and today was both combined. Not to mention the medicine I took this morning "may cause drawsiness". I felt like crap in my first two blocks. Oh well, hope I get over it soon.

We have to do a monologue for Drama on Monday. I took mine from Hello, Dolly. I had one from another play picked out but I like this one better. Yesterday and today we worked on blocking it. I hope I'm ready for it on Monday. We also had to do a Resume. We had to list all the plays we have been in since 8th grade. That was pretty cool to make. We also had to list "special skills" so i put singing, jazz and irish step dancing. At the end of class today (fun class, we laughed so hard with no reason at all!) we were talking about spongebob and mrs. Daniels was grading our papers and called out my name really loud and said "CLIFTON! You can do Irish Step dancing?!?". Everybody tried to get me to do it but i didn't, lol. I only know a little bit (from old school) and I didn't want to look stupid, lol.

We watched a movie on earthquakes in Southern California in Science class. Pretty scary stuff.

Jake, are you okay there little buddy? lol. Haven't heard from you in a few days. Write soon!

I took some of that medicine again and I'm starting to get weak and sleepy. I guess I'll close here. I will probably have a new video up tomorrow so i'll try to update then. Everyone have a great night, especially you Jake!

CLIFTON

Happy 27th!

Happy Birthday Britney Spears! Haha, that's the best way I could think of to open the entry :p I just downloaded your new album online on Limewire! ;)

Sorry I haven't updated in like a week. My break was pretty busy with Thanksgiving and stuff. By the way that went good in case you were wondering.

Our play is Thursday and Friday and I'm really excited about it. We have a dress rehearsal tomorrow during class so I get to wear my PJs! Lol. Tomorrow will be my first time running the lights on my own. I'm kind of scared because I'm unsure about one part in the first play. Hopefully I won't miss my cue. I don't want to dissappoint Mrs. Daniels. Other than that 1 part I think I have it down.

Saturday I'm gonna work with my partners (yes, we have another person with us now) on our trrbuchet project. We still haven't started :( I'm not gonna get into that now but I would have liked to start last weekend.

Oh I made a preview trailer for my new parody coming out Friday!


I can't wait to release it!

I know this entry is short but I just wanted to fill you in on whatsup. I'll try to update Saturday after Operation Christmas Child. I won't be able to until then unfortunately. But after this week my schedule should go back to normal.

Everyone have a great night! Especially you Jake. I haven't really heard from you in a couple days so write when you can! NIGHT!

CLIFTON

Pucks for Scouts

Howdy!

Sorry I haven't updated in a few days. I've been...busy (LAZY!). Normally, I'd update on each day I missed, but I'm gonna cut it down to this weekend.

Saturday:
We had a class at church for the guys in our troop and 1 other troop working on "Disability Awareness". The instructor was from the other troop. We went around the room and asked people if they had any disabilities. He counted glasses as them but other than that there were a couple kids with ADHD, one with Diabetes, and ummmm allergies. Haha. When he got to me he kind of hesitated and I was like "my arm". he kind of looked at me and said yeah and moved on. Hold up, he kind of skipped right over me. The others he asked questions and stuff but he just kind of moved right on. OK THEN! Haha, what's even funnier was the next thing he talked about was being comfortable with people with disabilities. Hmmm, i think he needs to learn himself :p But after that we got to shoot and go get a basketball in a wheelchair. Word of advice: Don't try to roll a wheel chair using one arm, you will just go in circles. Lol, I used my feet.

When we got home I waited up and watched YouTube live. It was pretty cool, although I got lied to by Youtube!:


Link to message:
http://i33.tinypic.com/i1myqh.jpg

GRRRRRRZ! Still no apologies. WHATEVER!

OOOOH, I talked to one of my BFFs..... JAKE! We chatted for a while and it was wicked awesome! So is he!

SUNDAY:
Today we continued our Disability Merit Badge work. However.... this time it was FUN! We (scouts) met at the church at about 12PM and then headed out to Pineville, NC. There we ate a quick lunch and then rode over to the TRAIN STATION! coooooool! I've never rode a train before. We parked our bus (after running over a curb. THANKS TODD!). When we went to get our tickets I put in a 20 dollar bill (the tickets were 1.50 round trip) and it spit out like 18 gold coins., DUDE! I gave 5 of them to my scout master for a 5 dollar bill. We were all laughing when they kept coming out. I had never seen the gold dollars. They look really cool. Except... they don't say "In God We Trust". WOW! That's a first. :(

Anyways, the train ride was so cool and fun. Then we met at the "Time Warner Cable Arena" and were given a tour of the accesibility for handicap fans. Wow, there were lots of stuff for them. We also toured the private suites and it was so cool! I felt like a VIP!

Then we went to our seats and watched the game. It was a little boring except for the fights and the cheerleaders next to us. Then, one dude came over to us with 2 cheerleaders and told us we were the fans of the day. The camera turned on us and we were on the big screen. Then they made us start to cheer for the team. Haha, it was so cool. Except it was weird that hundreds of people were watching us embarass ourselves, lol. Oh well, two hot cheerleaders were sitting behind me so it's all good :)

After the game we rode the train back to where we parked. DUDE! The train was packed full of people! I almost fell over when the train started to move. Todd had to catch me, lol. I wasn't the only one though. After that we ate at Arby's for supper then headed home.

The trip was a lot of fun. So I went to my first hockey game and rode my first train/lightrail in one trip. I love Charlotte, although I'd hate to live there. Too much crime. But I love big, busy cities.

I have pics of the trip but I probably won't share them because I don't feel like editing the scout uniforms to make them unidentifiable. JAKE, I'll email some to you as soon as I'm done with this entry.

Well, that's it for this entry. Sorry it's so short, well, not really. Anyways, I'll try to write/vlog later this week. Only 2 school days, WOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!

Love ya!
Clifton

Scouting For Food - 2008

First VLOG!

I'M STILL HERE

Yep! No time for an entry tonight but I wanted to make sure you guys knew I was ok :) Crap, now back to my history homework :( I'll update tomorrow!

President Barack Obama!

CONGRATULATIONS PRESIDENT OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Yay, my candidate won!!!!!!!

This is a quick entry. I just wanted to express my excitement, haha. So I can say I've been in the same room as our president, the first black president of the United States. Haha, what an awesome story to tell my kids.

Quote from January 24th, 2008

We went on our first field trip since seventh grade. Went to hear one of senator Obama's speeches. He is one of the presidential candidates in the United States for 2008. I am neither republican nor democrat. I am not that much of a politics guy. I don't really follow it that much. But it was cool to actually see a guy who could be the next president. We got a really good view too. We were in the back of the room to start with but my friends and i snuck to the middle. It was a cool speech even though he put down President Bush a lot. And when he was getting ready to come out the whole crowd started chanting "Fired Up! Ready To Go!". I guess that's his slogan or something. It was fun! If you ever get the chance to go to one of these speeches, please go! I thought it would be boring but it was really exciting!

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Oh yeah... here is my vid:


Haha, hopefully that lightens up your mood if you were a McCain supporter :)

Everyone have a great night, especially you Jake. I hope scouts was a blast!

Loveeeeeeeeeee,
Clifton

Reach Out And Touch Me!

Yeah, I've been listening to Hilay Duff's new single:


Lol, I've been a Hilary Fan since Lizzie McGuire. That was my favorite show. I wasn't to big of a fan of her last album "Dignity" but her first 2 were great. I own them both and listen to them regularly. This new single is HOT! It's a whole new style for her but I'm liking it. Hey, she's 21 now, she doesn't have to live up to that preteen image anymore. She can be sexy! BTW, did you know her and my sis were born like a week apart, same year? Pretty cool!

Oh wait... this isn't my music review blog. HI!!!!!!!!!

Today was pretty cool. It went by sort of fast though. We have tomorrow off because of elections. I have been working on a video this past weekend and I plan to release it early tomorrow. So since there is no school, make sure to check it out!

Yeah I know Jake, I haven't updated in a week. MY BAD! Thanks for the reminder though. I don't know what I'd do without ya ;)

No big plans for the week. Besides school. :(

I'm gonna get to bed now. I'm pretty sure I will update tomorrow since I will have a new vidseo so check back then! Everyone have a great monday night! Especially you J-J-J-J-Jake!!!!

Clifton