(about our previous visit, see this entry and this one.)

There were too many funny things for me to remember them all.

But, a few.  Note:  These are not the exact words on all convos.  1) Even my memory is not that good.  2) Sometimes I had to change a few words so it would make SOME sense even if you weren't there.

~~~~~

The Keystone Cop sequence at lunch *cough*:

We were eating outside, and it was windy.  As I had drunk everything in my cup, my cup began blowing away.  So I reached out to grab for it and ended up knocking over Elpinoine's cup of water.  Fortunately, no one was sitting there and it was just water, so it wasn't a big problem.  Well, then I hopped up to try cleaning up the water and... erm... forgot that the bench which Madeline and I were sitting on had a bad tendency to TIP if the person at one end got up, so I nearly deposited Madeline on the porch floor.  Oops. 

Atanvarne:  "WELL Narie, I just cleaned the porch, actually!"

me:  "Um... I was just trying to help out?"

Atanvarne:  "You could have just told me that you thought it needed to be washed!"

Abigail:  "It's not her fault that it got spilled, the wind knocked it over!"

Atanvarne:  "The WIMP?  Did you just call her a wimp?"

~~~~~

me:  *is trying to get something out of my pocket*  *lays down on Madeline's bed and tries to jam hand in pocket*

Madeline:  O_o  "Erm... just make yourself at home, okay?"

me:  "Thanks, I am.  Actually, I'm just trying to get something out of my pocket!"

~~~~~

Madeline:  *is trying to retrieve something from Andrew's room*

Abigail and I:  *are waiting for her*

Abigail:  "Are his junk stacks four feet high yet?"

Madeline:  "Actually pretty much yes!"  *shoves at door*

Abigail and I:  *try to force door to open enough so that she can get out*

Madeline:  "Arg!  Don't break it!"

Abigail:  "His door?  Or the stuff we're trying to squish behind it?"

(later)

me:  "He has it that way so that he never has to go on a diet.  If he gains any weight, he will not be able to fit out that door."

~~~~~

Andrew:  "I was saying that HE is an over-achiever because he IS!!  I am not an over-achiever."

me:  "Yeah, who was that thinking of triple-majoring...?"

~~~~~

Andrew:  "Look at this!  I started a trend!  I mowed the grass and now everyone on the street is mowing their grass!"

~~~~~

me:  "Abigail, you're too tall!  Don't grow any more until the next time I see you."

Abigail:  "When will that be?"

me:  "I have no idea."

~~~~~

Ethan:  *checking out my cloak*  "Hey look!  It has holes!"  (the arm holes)

me:  *evil laughter*  "The better to grab you with!!!"

~~~~~~

Alexandra:  "Daddy, my burger tastes like the gas grill."

Emma:  "That's because he cooked it on the gas grill!"

Dr. C:  "Actually it's because all the oil dripped down and then it caught on fire and then it shot up all over everything."

~~~~~

Sophia:  "Daddy burnt the burgers!"

Emma:  "That's because last time they were raw!!"

~~~~~

Mom:  "Andrew just added a Dr. Suess book to his philosophy library.  Do you remember Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?"

me:  "What was the book?"

Mom:  "Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are --"

me:  (thinking that was her question)  "No, wait, what was the book?"

Mom:  "Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are."

me:  "Wha... OHHHHH!"  

*and there was great laughter*

Mom:  "I guess that would be a no."

~~~~~

Mrs. C:  "And Andrew lost his calc book..."

Andrew:  "I did what?"

Mrs. C:  "You lost your calculus book and had to redo a bunch of the lessons."

Andrew:  "What?  I don't remember that.  Are you sure it was me?"

Mrs. C:  "Yes.  It was you.  You lost your book.  And had to redo a bunch of it."

Andrew:  "I completely do not remember that!"

me:  "Apparently he lost his memory as well as his book."

*uproarous laughter*

~~~~~

me:  "And Sam...wise..."

Madeline:  "Sam...pause...wise."

~~~~~

Ethan:  *comes running in with a Ken whose head keeps coming off*

me:  "Ethan, please stop throwing that head across the floor at us!"

Ethan:  *evil laughter*  "It just falls off!  I can't---" *head falls off again at my feet* "--help it!"

~~~~~

Atanvarne, Madeline, Atara and I were upstairs in their bedroom giggling hysterically.

me:  "Erhem!  *cough*  Madeline, WE are supposed to be the mature ones here!"

Madeline:  *stops laughing*  "We are!"

me:  frightening thought!

~~~~~

Atanvarne:  *holding sachet out to Atara and me*  "Here, smell this!  It smells wonderful!"  *chokecoughsputter*

Madeline:  "ATANVARNE!  REALLY!"

me:  "Atanvarne" *laugh* "you could never *laugh* be an Assassin..." *is laughing too hard to finish the thought*

Madeline:  (quite helpfully finishing it for me)  "That is, you'd take a small bite of some food you had poisoned to prove to your victim that it really wouldn't hurt them before handing it to them..."

me:  "And you'd keel over dead right before they took a bite!"

~~~~~

Random funny things

~Sophia and I pretending to fall off the edge of the porch

~The stealthy eaters of the cinnamon poptart

~The stealthy eaters (oops, I mean people helpfully cleaning up!) the cake crumbs and frosting

Technically, this post was last night's post -- I typed it up then, and it refused to post it, so...

we'll give it another go.

me: So... anything happening...?

A.W.: nope

me: Do you ever get off the computer?  =P

A.W: occasionally

me: what, between 2 and 8 am?

A.W: That’s actually true…but sometimes more than that :-p

and another round...

me: I haven't heard from you in a while; how're you doing? 
  
  (we all know that I just miss having someone to trade educated
insults with... ^_-)

A.W.:  I'm doing great! I'm also not studying very hard, which means that in a
few days, I won't be doing great at all...

Comment allez-vous?

me: Non! Je déteste le français! 

Autre que celui, je suis très bien.  Mais j'ai monter méchant d'essai de physique, un bon nombre de trigonométrie.  =P 

La semaine dernière une de mes amis emailed me seulement dans l'Espagnol. 

Est-elle ainsi cette semaine française?  =)

A.W.: The scary thing is I was actually able to understand most of that without using a dictionary or translator :-p. 

What was the purpose of this email, again?

me:  Uh...to reinforce the fact that I hate French?  And don't speak it?

A.W.: Ah…c’est bon, I guess…

Why not just shoot at a French dictionary with an air rifle or something?

Pretty much I just email him when I'm bored... but the really amusing part is is I try running that ^ email which I sent him in French through dictionary.com.  It translates as

No! I hate French!

Other that, I am very well. But I have to go up malicious of test of physics, a good number of trigonometry. =P

The week last one of my friends emailed me only in the Spaniard.

Is it thus this French week? =)

For some reason, that translation really amuses me.  "Malicous of test of physics"???  It's almost as good as David's "whack charismatically" of ancient renown.

Oh, and the latest development...

me: anything you want me to add to my post, since it's random emails of the A.W. nature?

A.W: *shrug*

:-p

me: OK then. 

BE that way. 

*can't help it and cracks up* 

Actually, I'm linking David's old Latin translation which he pulled the phrase "whack charismatically" out of... funness. 

why do you always stick your tongue out at me?  If you do that again, I will draw on it.  =P

A.W.: :-p 

Draw on that!

me: Ha.  I deleted that email TWICE, intending to reply..  

*gets out purple sharpie* 

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but there's no way that I will risk ruining the blue one by drawing on your tongue with it.  *shrug*

And now he seems to have gone away, and I must do the same.  Goodnight!!

So, yeah, that was last night's post.  And now for the news from tonight.  ^_^

We had youth group, and Antion was back from the Dominican Republic, so things were, presumably, a bit crazier than... um, well I can't really say than usually.  *cough*

The sound system went haywire during one of the songs, causing Antion a good deal of worry as he thought that those were its I'm-About-To-Blow-Up type sounds.    The song actually still sounded okay.  *shrug*  We had a lesson on triumphant prayer from I Samuel 1 and 2, where Hannah is given what she asked of God -- a son.

At times, I am afraid it becomes obvious that our youth group is a little on the ... silly end.  Alright.  We were talking about envy (as in, between Hannah and Peninnah).

Mr. K:  "So what happens if you and another guy like the same girl?"

Sean:  "Get married!"

~~~~

Mr. K:  "And what if your husband, who already loves her more than you, give her twice as much of everything?"

me:  "Call her fat."

~~~~

Antion:  *talking about heaven*  "It'll be more better...

Sam and I: *crack up*

~~~~

Toasty:  *tries to pull out the poker or shovel to whack me with*  *grabs a handle*  *grabs the handle of the carrier-thingy which they're in*

me:  *laughs unmercifully*

~~~~

Toasty:  *glares intimidatingly at me*

me:  "Er... you know, it would look more intimidating if you got the frosting off your face first."

~~~~

me:  "So, how was the Dominican Republic?"

Antion:  "Oh, it was GREAT!  Lots of Spanish!"

me:  "What was the best part? ...the Spanish?"

Antion:  "THE PEOPLE!  The people who spoke Spanish!!  Actually most of them spoke English (except one, who was my favorite) but as soon as you'd say, "Yo hablo Espanol" they're all like "No hablare ingles mas" [he said something like that] and wouldn't say another word in English so I was lost half the time.  But it was good."

~~~~

McKenzie, who apparently missed me after not having seen me since Saturday, came running at me tonight.

Although, on second thought, maybe she just missed my cloak.

~~~~

Oh yes, the cloak.

Mr. F [Antion's dad]:  "It ought to be red."

me:  *blank look*  "Oh!  I actually had a red one when I was little."

*we stand there for a minute*

Antion:  *bounces in*  "Have you read Lord of the Rings?"

me:  Duh.  I'm wearing an Elven cloak. "Yeah..."

Antion:  "You know that part in book five --"

me:  *looks blank*  "Oh --"

Antion:  "Each book is --"

me:  "Yeah, I know."

Antion:  "When Pippin dies I was like NOOOOO!  How can he die?  This can't happen!!!"

me:  "Um... yeah..."

Antion:  "I LOVE Pippin!"

me:  "Yeah, I like him too.  One of my favorite parts is when they're having a bath and Pippin splashes his water all over the floor..."

Antion:  *looks confused*  "I don't think I'm to that part yet."

me:  "It's in the FIRST BOOK."

~~~~

*rolls eyes*

So, there it is.  The mega-long post.  Goodnight!

Oh, and here is a cool LotR clip movie.  ^_^ http://s95.photobucket.com/albums/l145/Elven-Archer/?action=view&current=IWillCarryYou.flv&refPage=&imgAnch=imgAnch1

“I like the doors.  They just don’t understand me.”  ~ Beth
 

*watching tanks on TV*  “I want to buy one of those.” ~ Andrew
 

 “Next year we’re quizzing on Gollotions.”  (Galatians and Colossians)

*later on, reading what she had written*  “Galican?  Oh!  Gollotions!” ~ Beth
 

*after being told that something she was looking for was right under her nose*

“It’s not under my nose.  My finger’s under my nose.” ~ Beth
 

“Don’t sing along.  Especially when it’s kinda in another language.”  ~McKenzie (aka Kenny)
 

“I just took a bite out of my plate.”  ~ Beth
 

“AAAAAAH OH MY GOODNESS I almost just said…. That’s… depressing.”  ~ Kenny  (We banned that phrase, since Antion overused it so extensively last year!)
 

“I don’t think the windows understand me either.”  ~ Beth
 

“Beware the skipping guys!!!!!” ~ me, Kenny, and Beth, trying to pretend that we did *not* know Josh and Sam, who were skipping across the parkinglot.
 

“Mulch is not exactly a weapon.” ~ Mrs. B
 

“With many other woids, er, many other words…” ~ Johnny D
 

“I feel more like having a nap than doing two more quizzes.” ~ Mark, my captain
 

“We seriously cried.  It was hilarious.” ~ Kenny

“I’m not sure anyone wants to be me!” ~ Beth
 

Only at Districts…

*CRUNCH*

everyone in car:  “WHA--?  Oops, that was a water bottle (which we just drove over and which exploded)”

Kenny and I:  *exchange glances*  *laugh hysterically*

Beth:  “Let’s turn on the light!”

Kenny:  “Push the button.”

Beth:  *pushes and pushes*  “It’s not a button!”

me:  “Try twisting it.”

*light snaps on*

Beth:  “AAAAAH!  BRIGHT!”

Kenny and I:  *laugh hysterically*

me:  “Josh… are you BITING your pop can?”

Josh:  “Actually… yeah.”

Kenny:  “WHY?”

Josh:  “I’m trying to make a hole in it!”

Beth:  “… has it worked?”

Josh:  “Well, I’ve made a dent in it…”

Beth:  “Why don’t you use a fork?”

me:  “Because he wants to do it with his teeth!”

Kenny:  “We are NOT a good group.”
Beth:  “And we are not good together.”

Kenny and I:  O_o

Kenny:  “That what I just said!”

Josh:  *pretends to shut door on me*

me:  *hits Josh with backpack*

Josh:  “That’s not very nice.”

Quizmaster:  “And just because I’m interested… can anyone tell me what a proconsul is?”

Alex:  “Some sort of Roman official… Mark, clarify.”

Mark:  “What?!”

Alex:  *standing up to try answering the question*  “Stop it, Mark!”

Quizmaster:  What?

Alex:  “He was smirking at me!”

me:  Is that a camera in the back?

Molly:  WHAT?

Mr. G:  So just jump.  We have nothing to lose.

me:  Except points...

Molly:  *laughs*

As tonight was the last practice before Districts... it was... crazy.  Josh is probably as wound up as I've ever seen him.  This will be his first Districts ever and... you can pretty much tell.  Actually, Andrew, I, and Josh were all bouncing off the walls; Sam was mainly just giving us "you're crazy" looks.

Josh:  "So why is it, that when the angel strikes Peter, he just wakes him up, but when he strikes Herod, he is eaten by worms and dies?"

Mr. G:  "Um... Peter was tougher than Herod?"

Sam:  "He just struck Peter.  He struck Herod DOWN!"

Pastor B:  *in Obi-Wan voice* "And if you strike me down... well, you know."

me:  "I will be eaten by worms and die!"

Pastor B:  "So please please don't strike me down!"

~~~~

Josclin and I commiserated over Chinese.  We agree that 1. It is very hard to learn.  2.  We can prounounce it exactly the way our native-Chinese-speaking friends tell us to, and they say, "NO!  That's wrong!"  3.  That your throat only makes certain sounds if you learned them shortly after birth.  4. We do not instantly recognize if a character is written wrongly!  Sorry!  There is nothing programmed into our brains which screams Ahh no the radical points the other way!!!  *sigh*

And, I was quite pleased with myself... we played a Frisbee game... and I caught the Frisbee!  ^_^

Um... goodnight.  =)

"You have not lied to the Holy Spirit but to God...  AAAGH." ~ myself.  I think this is the stupidest thing I've said all year during a quiz.  >_<

~~~~~

Antion:  *comes into room*  "I'm your coach!"  (Our coach had been stolen to be a quizmaster.)

Josc and Abbey:  *groan*  "Nooo...."

me:  "Yeah."

Antion:  "I am!"

Josc and Abbey:  "No you're NOT."

Antion:  *looks at me*  "Aren't I?  Isn't that right?"

me:  "Yeah --"  (I recruited him earlier in the year!)

one of the other girls:  "2-1, we win!"

me:  "Captain, and I say that he is."

Antion:  *grins*  *is our coach for that quiz*

~~~~~

Quizmaster:  "John baptized with --"

*everyone in room jumps*

~~~~~

Abbey:  "I'm hot!"

me:  "Take off your hoodie!"

Abbey:  *looking extremely sheepish*  "Uh, I couldn't find my quiz shirt..."

me:  O_O  "Wai... wha... um, do you mean that you don't have anything on under your hoodie?  Nevermind!  Don't take off your hoodie!!!!"

Abbey, me and Josc:  *start laughing hysterically*

Josclin:  "Wow, you changed your mind fast on that one!  'DON'T TAKE OFF YOUR HOODIE!!!'"

me:  "Well... it was just... like... AAAH!"

Abbey:  "I DO have a shirt on.  Just not my quiz shirt!"

me:  "Whew!  I was really worried there for a minute."

~~~~~

*in the middle of a quiz, everyone in the room starts talking*

Mr. K:  "Let me know when you're done.  *to the other adults*  This is the chattiest bunch of quizzers I've ever had!"

~~~~~

Katy:  *holding up an empty soda-bottle*  *very proudly*  "I just chugged a whole energy drink!"

me:  "Oh... no."

Ben (her brother):  *rather proudly*  "I gave it to her!"

me:  "WHYYYY?"

Ben:  "Um... it seemed like a good idea at the time?"

me:  "But it wasn't!"

Ben:  "Well..."

~~~~~

Matt:  "Hey Narie!  If Alicia and me got in a fight, who do you think would win?"

me:  (and understand that Alicia is petite and Matt is BIG.) "Alicia."

Matt:  "WHAT?!?"

me:  "Hannah, what do YOU think?"

Hannah:  "Huh?"

me:  "If Matt and Alicia got in a fight, who do you think would win?"

Hannah:  *thinks*  "Um... Alicia."

Matt:  "WHAT?  I don't believe this!!"

me:  "She WOULD!  She'd get upset and you'd feel bad and let her win."

Matt:  *laughs*  "Well... yeah I probably would."

~~~~~

Josclin:  "Hey Josh!  Remember me?"

Josh:  *shakes head*

Josclin:  "Whew!"

~~~~~

Antion:  *hands candy back to me*

me:  "But I don't want them!  I was trying to get rid of them!"  *throws candy at him*

Antion:  *doesn't catch*  (I hadn't, uh, exactly warned him.) 

*tube of candy falls on floor* 

*a bunch spills*

Antion:  *picks up candy*  *pours it into my hand*  *it overflows my hand as my hand is far smaller than his*  *we begin picking it up again*

Dad:  *comes past and sees us kneeling on floor*  "What are you doing?"

Antion:  "Um... I guess you could say that we're picking up dirty candy hearts!"

~~~~~

Matt:  "What's fun to do is to go to [this fancy restaurant in town] and order spaghetti and eat it with your fingers.  The waitresses look at you like you're crazy and you get the weirdest looks!"

Alicia and me:  "Wonder why!"

Matt:  "You should try it!  It's fun!"

me:  "No!  NO!"

~~~~~

Antion:  *about his senior picture*  "Ugh!  I did not get that one!!" 

Sam and me:  "Yeah... that's pretty obvious from your face.  Uh, I have NO CLUE what the answer is..."

Antion:  "In fact, I didn't hear the question!"

~~~~~

me:  *looks over at Sam who has his arm over his stomach*  "Um, are you hungry?"

Sam:  "I'm STARVING! Josh said at the FIRST quiz that he could my stomach growling the whole time."

me:  "Samuel!  Didn't you eat breakfast?"

Sam:  "I did!  I did!  I ate a bowl of cereal just like I do every day!"

me:  "That sounds like a story."

Sam:  "What does?"

me:  "Sam began the day with a bowl of cereal, like he did, every day."

Sam:  *laughs*  "It seemed like every other day.  But this day was different!  ...um, why was it different?"

me:  "Because today Sam would be helping peel a gazillion pounds of potatoes."

Sam:  "Yeah!"

~~~~~

So... yeah... as I hope these quotes give you some idea, it was a LOT of fun.  ^_^

Okay.  I've been wanting to have a debate... for some time... just 'cause I haven't had any good ones in youth group in quite a while.

My months of waiting were paid off tonight.

We were discussing the Lord's Prayer, and got to the part about "forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors."  [And I am summarizing the following conversation.]

Mr. K:  "So, do we have to forgive all people?"

Matt:  "I don't know if we have to forgive them if they don't apologize."

Mr. K:  "But you're saying forgive us as we forgive others so that would be saying for God NOT to forgive us!"

me:  "Uh actually, I think that I read something on that point... about how you must forgive people who ask for it but even if you didn't forgive people who DIDN'T ask for it, you could still ask God to forgive you as you forgive others since... you'd... be asking for forgiveness.  If that makes sense."

Mr. K:  "Uh... yeah... I think I follow that..."

(I did clarify later that I WAS NOT saying that I think that is a good idea; it's a rotten idea and a stinky, un-Christian attitude to walk around saying "Well, I don't have to forgive them, they haven't apologized."  I was solely introducing another idea to clarify Matt's point.)

Then somehow we got onto if God forgives sins before we ask... and if Jesus' death atoned for all sins or only our past sins, and if so thus our salvation DEPENDS UPON our repentance.

Well.  I brought up Martin Luther and how he struggled with this issue until he found that we are saved BY FAITH THROUGH GRACE.  That our salvation cannot depend upon anything in ourselves, even our repentance!

Antion and I at this point were sitting there with immense grins on our faces.

Mr. K:  "I can see two people up here just biting their tongues -- this is a Calvinist-Arminean debate..."

Antion and I:  "NO!  NO!  This is a Roman Catholic - Protestant debate!"

Brittney:  "Oh my goodness, they AGREE on something!"

Antion or Mr. K, don't remember who:  "Well, I'm sure that one side is more Arminean and one's more Calvinistic."

me:  ^_^  "That is, one is more right!"  =P  (I discussed with Antion afterwards how one does point more to assurance of salvation, which is a more Calvinistic/Reformed view.)

And then our resident Roman-Catholic-in-a-Protestant-youth-group, Paul, kicked in the Roman Catholic view of confessions.

It was fun. 

And I have left out tons of what went on... I'm not sure that I succeeded at ALL in explaining why it was fun... but it was.

Then, immediately after class, Samwise came over with the verses from Hebrews 6:  4 For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5 and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6 and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.

He wanted to know, I think, how this fits in with assurance of salvation!

The discussion didn't go much of anywhere, as was pretty obvious when I said, "Well okay, you know about the visible and invisible church..."

Jenn:  "AHHH!  Theology 101... I'm walking away!"

Sam:  "What?"

me:  *sigh*

We had a fun-ish quiz practice, too... I think I'm ok for Saturday.  Antion probably is too, as between us we came up with almost every answer.

Pastor B:  "Everyone take a deep breath."

*we do so*

Antion:  *doesn't breathe out*

me:  *automatic reflex, I knew he would do that*  WHACK!

Antion:  *breathes out*

Andrew richly deserved the shoe which I threw at him in the middle of practice.

Sam:  *meaning to say women* "Wemen."

Antion:  "May I have some wemen with my water?"

Andrew:  "I wuve wemen."

me:  *slides shoe off*  *hurls it at him*

It gave a most satisfying smack.

And he was NOT hurt.  He sat there laughing his head off. 

Oh, I think I figured out why guys are not so bright sometimes.  My science book says that the average male burns less energy in one day than a lightbulb which is on for TWO SECONDS!!!

And the last story... as we came out of the church Antion was being courteous and holding the door for us (!).  I had on my cloak.

*it was a dark and stormy (and windy) night*
*cloak blows impressively*

Antion:  *stares*

me:  *goes to hit him*  "Stop staring!!!"

Antion:  *rather uncertainly* "I like your... Elven-cloak?"

me:  "Good job.  You used the right words."  *grins at him*

He has an incredible capability of pulling out the one thing that I want to hear (in this case, Elven and cloak.) without any hints.

Of course, sometimes his life depends on it, so I guess it is a skill worth honing.  =)

OK... these probably won't be fun unless you were there or unless you know the people involved or unless you are, as we were much of the time, mostly asleep.  ^_^

~~~~~

David:  *sitting in an odd way on the bus with the result that he couldn't see over the seat behind him*

me:  >:)  *pretends to whack him over head*

Abigail:  *ditto*

Jocelyn:  *cracks up*

one of them:  *takes balloon*  *holds it right over his head*  *David's hair stands up*

David:  *never notices a thing*

~~~~~

Abigail:  *reading captions on CNN*  "U.N. sanctifications --"

me:  "Um, I think that was sanctions."

~~~~~

Madeline:  "You JUST got together and you're already talking about beating each other up?!?"

me:  "...we had to make up for lost time!"

~~~~~

me:  "Justin is slouching."

Abigail:  "And of course he's sitting next to your sister who has perfect posture."

~~~~~

Lauren:  "Well, tie your balloon down somewhere where the BOYS won't find it."

Abigail:  "Why?"

Lauren:  "They'll make a hole in it and suck out the helium!"

~~~~~

PJ and I, the hulahoop champs, bow and curtsey to each other (respectively).  Except curtseying is difficult in jeans.  Oh well, I tried.  He then went on to beat me (I shouldn't have given up that hulahoop!)

~~~~~

David:  "I had to remind myself about a JAZILLION times to put your book in my bag."

~~~~~

Alexandra:  "YOUR DEAR FRIEND IS ON THE FLOOR AGAIN!"

me:  "What???"

Alexandra:  "Oh!  He's on the floor again!"

me:  "WHO?"

Alexandra:  "Your dear friend!!!!"

me:  *sees who is on the floor*  "Alexandra, he is NOT my dear friend!  I just said he's my friend!"

*a minute later*

Alexandra:  "Your Dear Friend is on the floor again!"

me:  *ARRRRRGH*

~~~~~

Hmm... I'm sure I'll think of more eventually...

Now on for some amusing parts from old emails I'm coming across, just as a bonus because I'm feeling random (as is the type size and color, which keep changing on me!)

"I really go for the Calvinist vampires." 

"Perchancehaps"  ~ that was the entire email.

"Okee, story…my friend’s sister is getting married on Saturday, and he related to me that he has decided to be the pope and perform the ceremony --- PRINCESS BRIDE STYLE!! BWAHAHAHA   >XD   can’t you just picture it……… at a real wedding? … some sixteen year old kid getting up and announcing dryly, “Mawwiage. Mawwiage is wot bwings us togevah today …”    *cracks up*"

On Lord of the Rings...  "No me gusta las peliculas. Ellas mienten." ~Antion, during Spanish week.  (Translation:  I don't like the movies.  They lie.)

"An email in complete parenthesis? Weird."

"Ah, a pox upon me, but it would appear I forgot my Greek NT on my desk at school."

"Pish. I wouldn't do blue hair. Purple, maybe."

"Poor Antion, I get the feeling you torture him horribly."

someone else: I'm sure you don't want a boyfriend for like, years and years...

me:  Uh... was that a question? 

and then a series....

me:  how're you doing?

a certain guy:

me: *reincarnates*

him:

me:  OK, I just want to be clear on something...

Obviously, there was quizzing tonight, and it didn't leave much to be desired on the quote front.

Watching the movie on Acts 11 & 12:

movie:  When they heard this, they had no further objections and praised God, saying,

Antion:  WOOHOOO!!

movie:  *Peter, just out of prison, goes up to a random beggar on the street*  Now I know without a doubt that the Lord sent his angel and rescued me from Herod's clutches and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating!  *he was shaking the beggar*

*Peter dances off*

*beggar looks like Why did you tell me that?

movie:  *James has his head cut off*

*people in movie*  YAAAAAY!

David:  YAAAAAY! (such a nice little boy.)

Antion:  Oh, I'm getting too old for this. 

Sam:  *playing with my little metal puzzle*

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Although I am SOOO incredibly confused about who’s on my team… I’ve had almost everyone from my church on my team, or intended for my team… and at the last moment they completely switched my team… so I really hope it stays the same for the rest of the year!  Right now, it’s me, Abbey, Josc, and Arika. 

OK, but I’d better move on to some stories, eh?

me:  “So if we don’t know it, just say ooh, shiny! right?”

Sam:  *laughs*  “You know, it would be really funny if you just said that and it was right, like if the question was two men in what kind of clothes and you said ooh, shiny! and they said correct!”

me:  “Yeah… it would be like, WHAT??”

Then, a little later on in the day, I was watching one of Antion’s quizzes.  He didn’t know the answer in the exact words, mumbled something about, “Um, an angel of the Lord… appeared… brought a message from God… in shiny clothes!”

me:  *tries very hard not to laugh*

Quizmaster:  “Correct.”

me:  *really seriously cracks up* 

*as we finish up an 8-person prayer*

Jenna:  “Hey, look!  Someone has a cute little smiley face on their finger!  Whose hand is that?”

me:  *looks at mess of hands on top of each other*  *thinks oh, that is cute*  *thinks oh, what do you know, that’s drawn on my fingernail with a Sharpie*  *thinks really I am not the brightest sometimes*  “Um, that’s me.”

Jenna:  “So what’s it named?”

me:  “It doesn’t really have a name yet.”

Jenna:  “OK, it can be Harold.”

Josh:  “Oh look!  A hunter!”

us all in car:  *look*

Josh:  “Isn’t he hard to see?”  (in all bright orange against green trees and a green hill… yeah, quite hard.” 

me:  *is reading Aragorn and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day*  (and I suggest you read it before you finish reading my entry...)

Sam:  *starts reading over my shoulder*  *starts laughing hysterically*

me:  *hands it to Sam*  “You have read Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, right?”

Sam:  “Yeah.”  *finishes reading* 

me:  *passes it to Andrew*

Andrew:  “I’ve never read it.”

me:  “Oh my goodness, what a terribly deprived childhood!”

Sam:  “…well, I didn’t read it until the beginning of junior high.”

me:  “Uh… you were trying to catch up on your terribly deprived childhood.”

Sam:  “Something like that!”

... 

Sam and I spent the next several minutes repeating to each other, “I hope you sit on Sting, I said…”

... 

Talk about easily amused!

Then let’s see, what else happened…

We got to the quizzing place, had our coach stolen from us so that he could be a quizmaster *pout* and quizzed like crazy.  ^_^

me:  *says a bunch of stuff, anything related to the answer that I could think of*

Quizmaster:  “OK, correct.”

Josc:  “You keep doing that!”

me:  “That’s, like, three times now…”

Josc:  “I know!  But it keeps working!”

Josc:  *praying*  “…because we know that it’s not really all about winning… Amen.”

me:  “But You know, we really would like to win one…”

Not that we ever did.  *sigh*  But I got a lot of quotes, so that made me happy…

*at lunch* 

me:  “These pieces of pizza are HUGE!”

Sam:  “Oh, I know.  I was thinking that I would buy two, but then I saw the price… but then I saw how big they were, and so…”

OK, and now for a few random observations:

~some of the kids think they can NOT quiz without caffeine… tons and tons of caffeine.  For example, the one girl today (and she’s about 14) had bought a huge cup of coffee with a high caffeine content.

Also a bottle of Jolt.

Also a pack of Jolt gum.

Um, excuse me, and you wonder why you feel lousy by the end of the day???

~In Borders (the bookstore, ya know) I was highly amused to find The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy under the heading Horror.

Um, excuse me, what is horrific about that book?  It’s GOOFY!

~Also in Borders, I found out that the book Eragon has been made into a movie.  This could be good, thought I. 

Ha.

I found some pictures from the movie, and they have completely messed up something as basic as the one character’s hair color.  I know that the hair color in itself is not a big deal, but it seems so … elementary!  The book clearly states that she has black hair, and they go and cast a blonde.  GRRR.  It does not inspire great confidence in me that the movie will be especially true to the book…

Oh yeah, the other thing was I got to hear our material for this quiz, Acts 8-10, on the way down.  The sound system was nice, too... except for a few times when the speakers weren't quite syncronized...

Yep, I had Sam on my left, Andrew on my right, and Antion in front of me. 

*bashes head into wall*

I have a song called "Wake Up" stuck in my head.  I heard it about four times tonight at youth group.  And the part which I have stuck in my head goes

du du du du du

WOOO!

du du du du du

WOOO!

du du du du du

WOOO!

OK, well, if I'm going to have that stuck in my head, I may as well tell you any funny quotes...

Matt:  *checks cellphone*

David:  He's just talking to all his girl friends.  He has about ten.

Matt:  Do not!

Antion:  *strumming guitar DURING quiz practice*  How's that sound?

me:  WAIT UNTIL I GET A QUESTION!

me:  Sam, I just want to realize that you are now being spoken to by our church's top quizzer...

Samwise:  *ignores*