How do you feel when you stay with a babysitter?

I really don't know how I feel. My Mama Lou usually watches us when Mom and Dad have somewhere to go. Grandma Shannon used to watch us when we lived in Santa Rita. I like to go around the babysitters' house and find hiding places and cool stuff in the house. I love adventure. If there's a part of the house I haven't seen yet, I'll explore it. Even though I'm gonna be 13 soon, I love to play Hide n' Seek at a babysitter's house. I can hide in places I've never even noticed before.

I guess I like being babysat. Mostly because whoever babysits me, has a kid I can do stuff with. Just as long I have something to do when being babysat, I'll be okay.

What do you think about when you can't fall asleep?

I think about Heaven. What it's like there and what it would be like if it didn't exist. What if after death there is nothing. What if after death, your existence just stops. No reincarnation or life after death. I believe Heaven exists, but what if I'm wrong? That's just one of the many mysteries I think about. Or what if Reincarnation exists, and your life, the people you love, the social status you hold, just disappears from your memory in your next life. Your parents, teachers, uncles, aunts, friends will all be forgotten in your next life and be replaced by new people. Thinking about it scares me.

I also wonder if everything, this world, it's people, it's animals and plants, are all part of my imagination. What if I'm an alien in another world, asleep and dreaming of a little boy, Justin Cruz. What if this world is something like a movie for an advanced civilization. An advanced force created and is being entertained by us. We are no more than imaginary creatures given artificial intelligence. A TV show.

I know I sound wierd, but that's what I think about when I can't sleep. Stuff like that just pops into my mind.

If you could take three people with you on a trip around the world, who would you take, where would you go, and why?

I'd take Rain, Kevin, and Michael on the trip. Then, the travelers would be only kids, no restrictions or time limits. Halo all night! I'd probably visit Japan, I'd like to buy something like Pokemon Platinum in Japanese, It would be cool to get the game where it was created (plus, having a Japanese game would be cool ). I'd visit loads of sushi restaurants, and fish places. Then I'd buy a Japanese PSP (if I had the money). Kevin can visit the Martial Arts Dojos, he loves that stuff.

Then we'd go to Thailand, Mom and Dad said that that place was cool. They said something about huge malls, I want to see how huge. I'd want to eat some Thai food, I've tried the restaurants here, they're good. I wanna go on a riverboat cruise!

I'd also like to go to Germany and see my Dad. Or we could go to Africa, I'll bet Michael and Rain would love to see the place Arrival and Sierra117 (Halo 3) were based on. Exploring the African Jungles would be fun. I'd also like to go to South America to see the Amazon. Floating down that river would be fun.

Then off to the United States. I want to go to Six Flags. There's this huge room I went in last time. There's loads of slides in there, and ball guns at the top. The top guns can be loaded with balls. You're given bags before you go in to store the ammo that comes out of the tubes or ammo that's already been fired. And on the ground area, there's a big gun that can load six balls instead of three. By then, I'll probably be homesick. Time to set out for home!

Who or what has had a strong influence on you in your life?

Leonardo Jose Babauta-or to me, Dad-has had a huge influence on me. Thanks to Dad, I've become a more respectable person. I've still got some stuff to work on, but with Dad's help, I now eat at the very least one fruit a day. I always finish my vegetables. (That sentence sounded kind of like I was a geeky toddler showing off.) Dad taught me about blogging, and exercise, and best of all: a healthy life style.

Before: I'd eat Vanilla Wafers or Chips Ahoy as a daytime snack. My lunch bag was filled with junk like Spam, KFC, McDonalds, Receese, Kit Kat, Wendy's, the list goes on. My Breakfasts would be Doughnuts, Fried Rice, Froot Loops, and other Junk. I still like that stuff, but I don't eat them as much.

My lunches now: no meat Spagghetti, no meat Chili and beans, meatless Tacos, Salmon, Grilled Cheese, and loads of healthy stuff. I eat a fruit with or after breakfast and sometimes after lunch. My breakfasts have become Heart to Heart cereal, Life, Kashi Waffles, Chex, Cherios, Kicks, and occasionally a peanut butter toast (on special occasions, I have cinnamon rolls). Thanks to Dad, my future will not include Diabetes, Heart Disease, or Stroke. All I need to add is the excersise.

Review: X-Men Origins: Wolverine

This is a good movie if you like action. The stuff in it look cool, but are unrealistic. The fighting scenes are awesome, the plot's okay, and the graphics are pretty good. It basically explains how Wolverine, or Logan (his name in the origins movie is James), gets his Adamantium claws, loses his memory, and gets the name Wolverine.

Watch only if you've never read the comic, or else (according to other people on the web-I've never read X-Men) it will seem pretty messed up. I did some research on the comics and it's way different. It might be a disappointment to some X-Men Comic fans.

Most critics say it sucked because they liked how Wolverine had a mysterious past (and they thought it was thinly plotted), but I liked it (then again, I'm just a kid, what do I know about critiquing movies). The action was pure awesome! I'm a kid, I don't care about plots as much as awesome, hardcore action. But if I had to rate the plot, I'd say it was okay. It wasn't as great as Star Wars or anything, but it wasn't that bad (or thin). A 3.0 story. It has a lot of fighting (action!) which is good.

The movie opens to a dark and stormy night, in a big mansion (Canada 1800s). A sick boy (James) is lying on a bed, kept company by his brother (Victor), the groundskeeper's son, though James doesn't know that Victor is his brother. James' father walks in and seems outraged. He tells Victor to go home. Later that night, screaming and gunshots are heard. James runs downstairs and sees his dead dad lying on the floor. This makes his claws come out (for the first time). He runs at the groundskeeper (Logan) who killed his father. Logan tells James that he is his father only after being stabbed by bone claws.

Good Stuff: Loads of fighting and cool characters like Agent Zero and Gambit. I loved the action. The plot isn't too bad, but it could use a little more like the character Rose and her story.

Bad Stuff: All I can think of that was bad about this movie, is that the writers didn't include Rose, and that it wasn't clear at the end who Weapon 11 was (I had to tell Rain who it was, and Maia didn't know either). There was also the fact that Wolverine now had a back story, but that didn't bother me too much.

Final Score: The movie is good over all--mostly because the action--and earns a 4.0 of 5 (remember, I'm just a kid and am doing my first ever movie review, I'm not your best choice for a review yet).