Watts of Stories

Look, you're flying!  It's okay, I'm used to it; I lived through the sixties. - The Santa Clause Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night. When I wake up, I'm getting a CAT scan! - The Santa Clause You smell like beef and cheese. You don't smell like Santa. - Elf I just like to smile. Smiling's my favorite. - Elf Buddy the Elf, what’s your favorite color? - Elf This place reminds me of Santa’s Workshop. Except it smells like mushrooms, and everyone looks like they want to hurt me. - Elf I'm a cotton-headed ninny muggins! - Elf Now you listen to me, young lady! Even if we’re horribly mangled, there’ll be no sad faces on Christmas. - The Grinch Let's go alphabetically. Aardvarkian Abakaniezer Who, I HATE you! Aarabee Benson Who, I hate you. Hate, hate, hate, Double Hate, Loathe Entirely! - The Grinch 4:00 , wallow in self-pity. 4:30, stare into the abyss. 5:00, solve world hunger, tell no one. 5:30, jazzercise; 6:30 , dinner with me—I can’t cancel th...

We live in the greatest country in world history. Most people can agree on that. And even the ones that don't still stay in the U.S. instead of moving to a "superior country."     One of the most miraculous things that makes our country the greatest of all time is our Constitution. But did you know that we were ten steps away from all speaking in British accents?     In the Constitutional Convention, there were several very important votes that caused very intense situations and sparked anger between the states.     There were several arguments that had a united source. The large states, Virginia (which included what is now West Virginia), Pennsylvania, New York, and Massachusetts, wanted the number of votes from each state to be dependent on the population of the state. This would mean that those states would be the most influential in choosing political leaders.     The smaller states, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, Delaware,...

 You can look at almost any news source and find a lot about the Kirk assassination, but very few are like this one for a couple reasons.      Reason number one: Before September 10, I'd never even heard of Charlie Kirk. My parents were both Charlie Kirk fans, and were only becoming more so. All of my older sibling had heard of him, but my younger sister and I didn't know who he was.     Reason number two: Because I'd never heard of Charlie, I have been watching and listening to everything about him, and have several people's takes and opinions on the assassination.     One thing that I have listened to repeatedly is Tom MacDonald's new song, "CHARLIE". Although the rhyming isn't top notch, there are several good lines in the song. One such line is: "He left behind a wife and a daughter and a son. All he did was try to speak for all of us." That line is so true. That is what Charlie Kirk has done. He has spoken out against the left for all Re...

 This week I have enjoyed telling CoPilot, an AI website, to draw some awesome pictures. Have you ever seen the batmobile jumping off of a canyon into a volcano? Now you have!     What about a jackalope that looks like the joker carrying a bazooka riding a flamingo Lamborghini? There you go.     I also have several different stages of a horse riding a motorcycle. This being the first:      The second stage of this drawing was this horse wearing an overcoat and a fedora riding a bulletbike.     And the final drawing was this horse in a Batman mask and a sombrero, still wearing the overcoat:           So I couldn't argue that AI isn't fun to mess around with, and I also want that last picture hanging in my room, but AI is also terrible.     Recently I was able to talk to the New York Times Bestselling author Jennifer A. Nielsen, author of The False Prince among several other incredible books.   ...

Summer vacation was fantastic. My family got a foreign exchange student from Spain named Alejandro, who was awesome to have around.      My family  also went to New York and Washington DC with Alejandro and had a great time there.      Another thing that we were able to do is float down the Ashley River. Me, my brother, and two friends of ours got a standup paddleboard, and four tubes that were tied to the paddle board. Two of the tubes were pretty good. In fact, they were pretty nice for Walmart. One of the other tubes was a tiny toddler tube with a rainbow on it, and the final one was a giant yellow duck. While we were floating down the river we saw a six foot alligator. To see if the gator was following us we sent the rainbow tube back to see if the gator took it. (It didn't.)     Another highlight of the Summer was the platform. When Alejandro was here, our friends took us out on their boat where we found a rope swing and wooden platform....

 I finished the chapter of my book and set it down. Wow, I thought. I want to have an adventure.      I was daydreaming of having a dangerous adventure when I heard my mom's loud whistle, signaling that dinner was ready.     I ran down the stairs to the table, almost shaking from anticipation. I held off my excitement as long as I could, as I scooped the soup into my bowl. Then, after we blessed the food I couldn't stay quiet any longer. "I'm going on an adventure!" I exclaimed.     "Oh," my dad said. "What kind?"     "Like the one in my book."     "When?" My mom asked.     "Tomorrow."     "That will be very fun," Mom said. "How was work Dave?"     "Fine," my dad said.     And they spent the rest of dinner talking about work and politicts. I didn't care. I was lost in thought, dreaming about my adventure.     After dinner I did the dishes and then turned on the TV to watch a sho...

  MY BOP IT EXPERIENCE Today was a pretty exciting day. Okay, maybe not super exciting, but I realized something very important. I was doing math. More accurately, I was supposed to be doing math. I was lying on my bed looking at the posters of national parks on my wall, when my eyes landed on the greatest of all of God’s creations. Bop It. Glancing back at my math I thought to myself I’m more than halfway done. I can take a break to play a couple rounds of Bop It. So I walked across my room, grabbed the toy, went back to my bed and started playing. My first round did not go as well as I would have hoped. I barely made it to thirty points. The second time, however, went better. I bopped, twisted, and pulled like I was an olympic Bop Itter. I was feeling really good when, all of the sudden, the game stopped. “You reached one hundred,” it said. “Bop It if you would like to go to expert mode.” A hundred! I thought. That’s my new record! So I bopped the button and contin...

  My latest Adventures Since my last post, some cool stuff has happened. Since the beginning of February, two of my brothers and I have been running track for the high school by my house. You might be thinking, “Watson, you’re only twelve, what are you doing running high school track?” Well that is one of the beauties of the south. There are very few middle school sports because seventh and eighth graders are allowed to do (or at least try out for) varsity sports, I’m only on the JV team though. There are a couple other middle schoolers who do track at the same high school so I’m not too much of a sore thumb. I run with the long distance group, which is the group of people who run the 800, 1600, and 3200. I’ve only run the 1600 though. I set a PR in that event a while ago at 6:37. Not super fast, but when your previous PR was seven minutes and eleven seconds, it’s a big achievement. I’ve been doing track for most of the season, but a couple weeks ago I decided to try doing ...

  Update of these last few weeks Can my Family Control the Snow? A lot has happened in the last few weeks. For example, here in South Carolina, it snowed! I guess my family makes it snow wherever we move. A few years after we moved to South Carolina, it snowed. Then we moved to Utah and it got more snow than it had ever had on record. We then moved to Ireland, didn’t get any snow, before returning to South Carolina and now it’s snowed again. When my family moved to Ireland, my parents promised that when we got back to the United States we would get a dog. The last time we lived in South Carolina, we had a dog. His name was Roger and he was a mix between a beagle and a basset hound. He was the laziest dog ever. When we tried to take him on a walk, he’d get to the end of our cul de sac before stopping and when he stopped, nothing you did would make him move another inch. If that wasn’t bad enough, the only time he’d ever get energetic was when he would bite the neighbors. We were...

  Chapter Three Squadron Picks Maverick leapt into the cockpit of the Mustang and reached under the seat, pulling out his pistol. Without a clear idea about what he was going to do, he roared down the runway and into the air. The spy jet was flying a few hundred feet ahead, and it was stretching its lead. Maverick opened the canopy and stuck his arm out. He aimed as best he could and fired. From what Maverick could see, the bullet had hit but did little. Suddenly, another jet flew in behind Maverick and fired a missile at the jet. The enemy plane burst into flames. As Maverick turned his plane around and closed the canopy, he waved at the pilot of the jet. The pilot flipped up his visor and grinned at Maverick, who was shocked to find that Payback was the pilot. Payback had been one of the pilots on the last mission. Maverick grinned and gave Payback a thumbs up before the jet rocketed off toward the base. Maverick descended and landed on the runway. “Did that jet get him?” Rooster...