Update On My Life

Welcome again to as Connor sees it. I haven't been blogging for a while because a lot of stuff has been going on in my life. I'll get to that.

My parents got divorced. Yay. Literally actually yay. Because they're best friends now and I have a new person in my life-- Mitch. My Mom and Dad are family so they'll never hate or dislike each other so that's why this is a happy divorce and not like other divorces. As a matter of fact we like to take 30 minutes of time that I could be playing video games when he comes to pick us up for them to catch up on Dad's dates and Ronin having tantrums and then just talk and talk instead of getting into the car so we can get to the pool or Xbox. On holdays, the whole family including Mitch and Mom and Dad all come together-- mainly the big holidays but we act as a family all the time, and we go to Great America all together, and we are going to go to Disneyland all together. A lot of people think it's weird that we're all happy together and that we all love each other but I'm also happy because Mitch is in my life and he lives with me. There's another benefit to my Dad moving out-- he has an awesome apartment and an awesome roommate. He hit the roommate lottery. Basically my mom and dad are like brother and sister and they don't care what anyone else thinks except for Mitch. My Dad had a stroke and my Mom and Mitch screamed at him to make him go to the hospital. That's what divorce might be like in other situations. Screaming. But Mom and Mitch only scream at Dad if they think he is going to die if they don't take him to the hospital. They had to scream and in the end I think he was glad that my mom had to act like a bully or angry person to get him in the van and fix the stroke. Technically Mom and Mitch when they have a baby, the baby won't be anything to my Dad but he will be Uncle Chris because that's what they all picked. But it will be weird because if Dad has a baby, then the baby won't be related to Mom's baby so they don't know what those two will be. But my mom said she promises that Dad's baby would be a great friend or family to Mom's baby because they would both be my siblings so they need to be family.

The fight with the aunties. It's interesting. I want to talk about that. Just to recap. It's really sad to see that such best friends would break up like that. And it's like you see a dark side to everyone. Also my sister and her best friend had to stop seeing each other but they got together to play recently, and I am going to see if I can go see Lorenzo soon because I think of him as a little brother because he has normal every day disputes with his stepbrother because his step brother is around my age and you know, moodiness and stuff, so I tried to kind of help him out because it is hard to understand when your older brother suddenly is too cool for the room. I get that way. Anyway I love my mom's other friends. As a matter of fact Becky and Laura and James and Michael were here the other night so that was great. But you know it's like the aunties, that is a big shock. She took down the pictures of the aunties and the kids while we were at Dad's a few months ago and my sisters freaked out so she said they could keep the picture in their own room. She meant in a box or something but they put it on the wall and there was huge drama with the girls because they don't understand what's going on or why Mom doesn't want to look at the pictures. It was just like one day we were going to Pinkberry instead of the shop and "drop it" is the only answer. I mean except for me because Dad and Mitch and I know. The most sad thing is that I bet every person is sad but no one can admit it. And the thing that adds a little sting to it all! There was one dude who purposely added confusion and caused everything and that dude is not a good guy. He doesn't even seem like a good guy when you look at him but that is a different story. He looks like a killer from the fifties or the guy who wants every kid to smoke. But that is too late and that guy is still happy because even if someone knows you are a bad dude you can still be happy if you get some other people to think you are a good guy.

My best friend, not Q-- the other one. He came out at school and I'm proud of him for being brave to tell everyone at school about who he is because man that is hard in high school. He got upset with me recently because I was supposed to go over for this movie thing. He's a brony so I got him a great poster at the comic book convention of My Little Pony but its really cool, with this really heroic background. So I am going to take him the poster as a peace offering because I don't want him to be upset.

SPOILER ALERT IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2

So I saw Amazing Spiderman 2 and it may be the saddest movie I have ever seen. No, Gwen!

I've been thinking I want to write some fictional stories. But I want to see what you guys think of it. If you vote for me doing a fictional blog, tell me. And by you I mean Uncle Bobby. Haha.

We've kind of finally ended the thing with Grandmom. There was a big thing with my Dad. It's fine because we don't really know her and we just don't want her to be a bad person. Mom and Dad are always like "I don't know why I am surprised. Are you surprised?" or "You will never guess what happened with my mother." And I am like "You say this every time. No one is surprised anymore."
Earlier like a few days ago she facebooked him with nonsense again and it became a big battle. My Dad made a pretty good point and she said think what you want to think, you know. I doubt we'll hear from her again.

Update

Hi. I'm sorry I haven't blogged ina while. A lot of things have been happening. I just had a staycation which is basically where we stay home and have basically a vacation near home. And a lot of things happened. Not in particularly happy or sad, but just a lot of things. Like my friend Jack moved away. And we just got new Great America passes and we've been having a fun time there. And just a lot of things have been happening but the main thing is that I'm twelve now so I need to update my blog bio thing. I've been twelve for more than half a year and I still haven't updated it.
I haven't blogged in a while so I haven't told anyone that I have a new crush and it's kind of sad because she's moving away in like a week. That's kind of sad. We were good friends for a while. We were outside together almost every day and it was good times.
Me, my Dad, Rory and Riley went to Great America and had a great time and went on the water rides, and regular rides, and we just saw the Happiness is Snoopy show. Then we came back. That was the last day of our Staycation. I'm reading a new book. It's the Chronicles of Narnia. I'm reading the first book. I recently finished Harry Potter.
Recently it was my friend Quin's birthday and it was possibly the best birthday party I've ever been to. It involved Laser Tag, pizza, a sleepover and a ton of movies. And Quin, of course. He was turning ten. I'm halfway through being twelve. I'm almost a teenager. I'm going to end the blog now.

Another Randomness

Hey it's me Connor on another one of As Connor Sees It. And since I can't find anything really specific to blog about I'm just going to do a bunch of stuff that I have wanted to blog about that are too small to put into one blog.

So first subject. We just went to great America with my brothers godmother Katie and we were so lucky to catch Great America because it was the last day that they were doing till next year. If you go on facebook there is a bunch of awesome pictures that you could find of the day. They even asked us to take a picture of us and all of the Peanuts gang because we were all dressed up as the Peanuts gang. Anyway my brothers and sisters were but I was dressed up as Claudio.

Speaking of Claudio I just got very exciting news. Coheed and Cambria and Between the Buried and Me are coming six days before my birthday. That is February 21. Daddy will probably interview them again so I will probably meet them again. And this time they are headlining. So freaking exciting.

Next subject. Also on Halloween night my Mom freaked out on a little kid who kind of hit my sister and she full on yelled at him. And she feels bad because she knows his parents aren't very nice to him but she lost control because she wanted to protect my sister because you know how I sometimes get angry when someone messes with my sisters but I am shy about it. He did the same thing to my sisters the other day and I said something but thats it. That is unusual for my mom because she is usually very peaceful and at that moment she freaked out and I guess she was not thinking first. Kind of a shoot first ask questions later moment.

And by the way I got a job that I haven't blogged about yet which I am surprised about. I have already done my fourth day. Technically it is an internship where I get a stipend. I am learning about business and how to sell things and I am getting lots of money. This is how I sell the bacon chocolate because most people say eew. "It's sweet at the start when you chew it and then you hit a piece of bacon and you get a little spike of salt." And then people say "Well you talked me into it. I want to try the bacon chocolate." You can find me at the farmers market every Sunday.

That is pretty much it. See you next time I blog.

A Sweet Peacock

Hey it's Connor on another one of As Connor Sees It. Today I'm going to be talking about something very important that happened while my mom and dad and sisters were at the store and they saw an older woman came out of the bathroom with her son and her son was saying things such as you don't know how to use the toilet and other mean stuff to her. He was swearing at her and scaring her for more than half an hour. She was crying. I can't believe I wasn't there. This girl had dementia and that's why my mother cried because it reminded her of her Pap and that girl had nothing to do about it because she was confused and scared and she couldn't do anything about it. My mom offered to call adult protective services and my mom said are you scared? I will call adult protective services if you would like. And she said yes and she was scared and she said yes call adult protective services. And my mom kissed her on her cheek and the man pushed my mom and drove off. We were trying to do some research on this lady. Her name was Peacock. I feel bad for her and sad for her and I hope somebody helps her and the cops get the man who was abusing her. I hope someday she will be happy and without that guy or that he will turn a new leaf and stop abusing that woman because I think he went home and said stop embarrassing us it is all your fault, stuff like that. He said more mean things to that lady. But my mom called the police right after they left. She gave them the license plate number but she didn't know their address. My mom was crying and thinking of her pap and how sad he was about having dementia and that lady was helpless and couldn't do anything about it and we couldn't do anything about it and we tried everything. I hope they catch the man who was abusing her and I wish her the best. We are thankful that Pap had a family who did not abuse him and loved him for who he was even though it was probably hard to not make him upset and to not say things that would upset him. For anyone who knows The Secret you should send out positive affirmations for Mrs Peacock.

PS. I might be watching this cool new show of Dancing with the Stars All Stars. Bristol Palin is back. Go Bristol!

Grandparents Day...Really?

Hey, it's me Connor, on another one of As Connor Sees it.

I am here to talk about a new going crisis with my Grandmom. I didn't send her a present for Grandparents Day. First I'd like to say that my Mom found this information on Grandparents Day on the internet.

According to the National Grandparents Day Council, the holiday is intended to make children aware of "the strength, information and guidance older people can offer." In addition, it is meant to give grandparents an opportunity to show love for their children’s children. Although many see it as a day to give gifts to grandparents, it is appropriate for grandparents to give gifts to grandchildren on Grandparents Day, especially if they are gifts that honor family traditions.

My Mom put that in there for me.

My mom found information that the grandparents are supposed to give the child presents as well as the child gives the Grandmom presents. But I wasn't mad at Grandmom for not getting me a Grandparents Day present. But she was mad at me. She called me out on facebook and all of my cousins and brothers and sisters. I did not call her out for not getting us all presents. And I certainly did not call her out for the time she didn't come to my birthday party after she said she would. Or the time she said she was coming out here to visit and she didn't. There's lots of other times that I can't really recall but there are lots more things. There is one in particular thing that one of her friends said, that she said that she should forget my birthday now in return for forgetting Grandparents Day. I dont' even think Grandparents Day is even really a real holiday. We didn't even do anything for Grandparents Day except, I don't know, talked about it at the lunch table. And I'm grateful that she is my Grandmom and she cares about us, but a lot of the time she feels that she deserves more than she should. I could say things about a bunch of stuff, but I don't. I try to be polite. I try not to embarrass people. That would be very embarrassing. But it did embarrass me a little. I don't care what people think but it still embarrassed me because I don't even think it is a holiday. Is it really important? Because whenever we come to visit, we say hi, give hugs, and all different stuff to show our love. Why do we need Grandparents Day. We treat them special anyway. I'm not doing this just for me, but I am doing this for my brothers and sisters and cousins because it was them she called out too and they don't have blogs.

You Never Know When You Will Meet a Friend

Today I will be posting about the day I met my best friend. And just so you know, I have gotten the permission from him to use his name.

A few years ago I was before he moved here I was really sad because my friends Noah and Hunter were moving away and I was really sad because they were really good friends to me. But then after like a month or two, four new people moved in. One of them was named Quinn and I remember there was like a giant crowd of people so they could sign papers for the house and stuff and Quinn was tryig to smoosh his way through the crowd and I remember he got out on his scooter and he was like phew. We walked over to him and we introduced ourselves. And he said his name was Quinn and I remember thinking, "He has really long hair." He said, "Hey, yeah I'm gonna be moving here." And then months later we were like, going in his house, playing games with him, doing a bunch of stuff and eventually we were best friends forever. My mom and dad trust their parents enough for me to go in his house and go on sleepovers with him and go to the pool with him. He even took us to Great America for his birthday. He slept over here many times too. He's a really good friend and sometimes we don't get along but most of the time we patch things up quickly. It's never "Goodbye and don't come back." It's almost like we're brothers because we fight like brothers and get along like brothers and protect each other like brothers. And the best part is, he has a sister too which is my sisters best friend, and we get to hang out with them a lot and play a game that Rory made up. We're purposely renting a house that we don't even really like just to stay near them so that we can play every single day and not be "pen pals" or something like that.
That's basically it. See you next time on another one of Connor Sees It.

Randomness

Hi it's Connor on another one of As Connor Sees It. Thank you for reading.

I'd like to talk about that my Dad got a way big new promotion last week. And I am really proud of him. And I am really happy that he got that job because it's going to make life much easier in my house because he's going to be home more in the evenings. He is the Associate Director of Family Teaching Model Services. Or I call it, ADOFTMS. Haha. Mom thinks it is important to remember that her office is still bigger than his. Haha.

I know it's a year away, actually a year from September, but I am really excited that a year from September the Elio family is going to Disney World. I remember a bunch of stuff from Disney World. The laugh floor comedy club, and the Buzz Lightyear ride, and the Pirates of the Carribean ride, and much more.

I also overheard my Mom talking about Chick Fil A and his "No Gay People" issue. It is really mean and selfish because gay people it's not like they are a different species. They are not a different life form. They are not different from us. It's just that they like the same sex as you. I think that it is rude and I would be very sad for anybody who reads or sees or hears that Chick Fil A thing because what if you are a gay person. You can't do anything about it because you can't call the police on him, but he's giving money to organizations that say untrue things about gay people.

I am really excited for Friday night because I might be going to a Coheed/Iron Maiden concert and I am really excited about it because Coheed and Cambria is my favorite concert. And here's the catch. My Dad is interviewing them and he is going to take me in with him if he gets the interview! We may even meet Iron Maiden. Because they like legends and I like their stuff.

I guess that pretty much wraps it up for what was up this week with me.

P.S. I might blog about my trip to Great America this week on the next blog.