I, like many people, I have parents.

And even better!

I think they're pretty good ones!

My mom and dad have always wanted the best for me and

my brother and didn't let us do stupid stuff like lean back too far in our

chairs at the dinner table... So good job on not letting us be stupid guys! Thumbs

up. Gold star.... Well, I did lean back too far that one time, but I'll give you a pass

on that one. And I learned my lesson... Everyone has some sort of guardian

figure in their life and I'm always going to be grateful I was able to grow

up in a loving family with good parents. There's been ups and downs; arguments,

disagreements... But when it all comes down to it; they're just looking out for me.

"Jaden, tie your shoes before riding your bike" "pfft, what do you know?"

I'm actually at a big step in my life right now, because I'm moving out of their house. I'll

finally be out of the nest making my own choices. A free bird... If I want to have

oatmeal for dinner my family is not going to be there to walk in and look at

me weird. I don't care about your "oatmeal is a breakfast food", I like it and will

eat it when I desire! Just watch me! Moving out has made me think a lot about

my life growing up and everything my parents have done for me to be able to

get to this point, and even though I can totally make a heartfelt video about all

the sacrifices they've made, and nights they've spent caring for me... I'm going to

talk about funny stupid stuff because that makes a better YouTube video. I'm on

my own now, I got bills to pay! when I was little I was into a picky eater. I'm

pretty sure I ate almost anything on my plate. Some kids are all "No, I do not

like the taste of this mush, and will not consume it no matter what you tell me! I

will sit here with a pouty lip and arms crossed for all eternity in this high

chair and when I die of starvation it will be. Your. Fault!"

"Hun, just eat the friggin carrots..." Even though I wasn't a picky eater, my parents

would always make up games to try and get me to eat stuff I still didn't like. One

night, we're all the dinner table and my mom had the brilliant parent idea of

saying "Hey, how about we have a contest of who can eat the most green beans the

quickest?" Harmless, right? She was just thinking it would be an easy and sneaky

way for us to get into our vegetables. But she underestimated my power. "You dare

challenge me?! Not only will I win, but I will eat the most green beans you've

ever seen anyone eat in their entire life!"

I ate so many green beans in such a short amount of time that night. I won,

obviously, (because everyone else is a scrub) but after dinner I got really sick

and my mom's plan kind of backfired. But I still won so... Besides the infamous green

bean-eating-contest (which we never did again), my mum always had a "who can make the

loudest carrot crunch?" competition. I don't need to explain the rules, it's right in

the name... My brother and I would go CRAZY over that contest. We didn't even think

about how we were eating carrots, we just wanted to DEFEAT EVERYONE ELSE. It wasn't

until recently I was thinking about it, and went "wait did you make that contest

just so we'd eat more carrots?" "Heh. Yeah." *Gasp!* Betrayal!

Even my mom's sister was tricky with my cousins and getting them to eat their

vegetables. My mom told me stories about how when my cousin was just barely

learning numbers and counting, they'd be eating dinner and she'd say to my aunt

"Mummy, I don't want any more carrots." "How about you just eat three more?" "How about...

five?" "Hmm... Well, okay fine!"Parents have become the masters of getting kids to eat

vegetables. Which is good, I applaud them for it. Nutrition is important, kids! Like,

how many times has your mum just randomly baked you brownies as a kid? And how many

times did you think about if there's broccoli in it?

"HAH! Gotchya kiddo, you're getting so much vitamin C and K right now you don't even

know!" if you didn't know about that, there's a way you can hide broccoli in

brownies as an easy way to get kids to consume more nutrients without them

fighting you because they only want to live off sugar... Brownies are good at

hiding a lot of stuff actually. Have you ever heard of black bean brownies?

There's ways you can add black beans to brownies, and, no one will even know.

Here's one. Go and try it. I-uh if you want... It's a good way to add protein to your

diet, because everyone's so obsessed with protein and for some reason society

thinks it's the only macronutrient we ever need and carbs are the devil and

will DESTROY YOUR LIFE and KILL EVERYONE YOU LOVE. And, so that's a tangent for another

video... So, yeah. Two people who didn't know. You can hide broccoli in brownies, black

beans (some people try other herbs), let's move on. I'm going to tell this story

because it's kind of stupid and doesn't matter but I'm still a bit salty about

this so you'll probably get a kick out of it. Every kid has their thing growing

up. Some likes dolls, some like cards, some like pushing other

kids off the swings. I was all about stuffed animals.

They were my JAM. Still kinda are. Anyway, one day I said; "Hey, I like stuffed

animals, and I like Pokemon. *GASP* Mum! Blaziken Plush! OH MY FRIG! "Dont say frig."

My mind was BLOWN - two of my favourite things combined together.

Blaziken was, and is, my favorite Pokemon so I was desperate to have this Blaziken

pokedoll. I was willing to wash the dishes, clean the house, make a deal with

the under lord, sell lemonade - and since my mom's such a pushover. *Technical Difficulties*

And since my mom so *nice* she let me and my brother pick out a poke

doll we each like. I, of course, picked out the Blaziken. And my brother got the

Totodile one. And can we just stop and appreciate this Totodile by the way?

Let's continue. So my mom ordered the plushies (they were like 20 bucks or

something), and we were pretty happy campers when they arrived.

I LOVED that Blaziken doll for a really long time, but of course as with most

children and their toys, I started playing with it less after a while.

I still liked it! But I gradually stopped bringing it everywhere, and eventually

just kept it in my closet. Maybe like a couple years ago the memory of it just

popped into my head, and I wanted to look at it again. "Yeah, I remember all the fun

times I had with that doll! I'd take it everywhere I went, I fell asleep with it...

Where'd it go? I don't remember where it would be... Mum, do you know where my old

Blaziken pokedoll went? I can't find it."

"I got rid of it." YOU WHAT?? Sometime, while mum going though all our stuff,

she decided to get rid of my Blaziken pokedoll - WITHOUT ASKING ME! I was

crushed!... pfft Well that is a bit extreme... I went from having a normal day to having

a bit of a, less good day... But then I thought 'Wait, I'm an adult, I can just

find another one and buy it myself. I don't need my mom's permission anymore!'

So I looked on Google to try and find a new Blaziken pokedoll and, APPARENTLY,

now they're ultra-rare collector's items that aren't even being sold

anymore and are freaking worth a crap ton of money!

"NOW I'm having even LESS of a good day!" Yeah, apparently these things are worth,

like, more than a hundred bucks now and everyone's desperate to have one, and we

bought it when it was like $20! Mum, do you realise what you've done?! So it's

become my GOAL. Someday I will have another Blaziken pokedoll. 1. Because...

I really like it. And 2. I'm not a collector of anything, but (now this might

seem a bit evil to people in the rare collectors community) I want to have as

many rare pokedolls as I can find, just because I'm not a collector... I want to

have all these pokedolls that are super rare and then a collectors like

"Holy crap! You have the set of the Hoenn starter evolution pokedolls!? Can I have

them?" And I can be like "No." "Aaa, do you realise how RARE these are? Collectors like me

would pay anything to have them!" "I know. and that's why I want it". *giggle* I'm on a journey

to get as many rare pokedolls as I can now. I think my target is Blaziken,

Swampert and Sceptile, because it's the trio and they're my absolute favorite

(and their stupid rare). It's an evil plan! I know. But I, think it's funny. This video

ended up being like, 60% of me talking about getting tricked into eating

vegetables... I have more stuff to tell so I guess there's room for a sequel video. It

won't be next though, because I like having other videos in between sequels...

but it's on the list! There's also coincidentally my mum's

birthday the other day, so happy birthday mum!

I'm going to take you out to dinner soon I just have to get this video done... But

it's up now! So, yeah. Let me know where you want to go. Anyway, I think there is

something else I wanted to say here, and I think it was important because I

remember thinking to myself, "Oh I don't need to write that down, it's too

important for me to forget!" Or something like that, and... Here we are... This is a bit

awkward. Watch I'm going to remember right as I click upload for this video,

because that's totally something my brain would do to me. Well I guess that's that.