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*coughs sheepishly* July 31, 2007

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I am still around, as a matter of fact… and I do have a plan to do a post on Friday about Antion, who will soon be off to college :(  In the meantime, I’ve been getting ready for school.  Our first day is tomorrow (Wednesday), and that’s our only day this week… next week we should be back to school full time.  My senior year!  *gasp*

Hmm.  Yesterday and today we went swimming, due to the hot temperatures.  There was too much adventure on the way to the pool yesterday, i.e., the truck directly in front of us was crashed into by a car which ran the red light.  No one was hurt, and it sounds awful, but we started sort of laughing when the young man who had run the red light hopped out of his car… on crutches.  Yep.  It does make you wonder, doesn’t it?

And now for a beautifully drawn picture which Atanvarne found (no, she did not draw it, she found it somewhere):

Frodo

And then yes, I know, this is terribly lazy of me, but I’ll just post some more lovely captioned Lord of the Rings pictures which Atanvarne has sent to me to amuse me.  I cannot remember which ones she captioned herself and which ones she found somewhere else (sorry dear!  You’ll have to comment and straighten me out!) but I hope that you enjoy them all…

 

Zoo day July 28, 2007

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I got the camera!  *evil grin* 

Sleepy bear

The bear, who was having a lovely nap.  Who we felt like joining. 

 

closeup of the sleepy head

I was into taking closeups.  As you shall see.  It’s fun to try to figure out what has to be showing so that the whatever-it-is is identifiable, but no more showing that the thing which you’re photographing.  No background, please!

 

ELEPHANT BABY!!!!

I love elephants.  ^_^

 

sea dragon

The very, very funky sea dragon. 

 

flower

What is man, that You are mindful of him?

Christmas in July July 26, 2007

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Okay, for any of you who missed the announcement on Mom’s blog (which, knowing my commenting readers, is no one), yesterday was Christmas in July.  We baked cookies, decorated a small tree, went carolling (to some shut-ins), watched The Bishop’s Wife, and I spammed a bunch of people with an e-card.  So, to let you in on some of the behind the scenes work… Justin helpfully laughed at me as I tried to find a card and said he thought that would be difficult to do.  He also declined the offer to come carolling with us, saying that he’s not that good of a singer, ha.  :P  Fine.

About the card…

“That was great!  It made me so confused at first, but it all made sense when I read your note at the end.  Thanks!” ~ Marita

“haha thanks so much!” ~ Christine

“You crack me up!” ~ Mrs. W the Craft Lady 

So, goofy as it was, the result seems to have been cheer. 

Now, when we went carolling, we took plates of cookies.  We came home with chocolate and vegetables.  Go figure.

So a bit of cheer and… um… goofiness went forth into the world.  And (I think) it was good.

Ben M July 23, 2007

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Ben, the younger brother of my friends Abby and David, showed up at camp.  I say “showed up” because neither of them had bothered to mention to me that he was coming!  (If they had, I would have gone prepared with my cloak!)  Anyway, he wasn’t too sure what to make of me most of the week, but on Saturday morning he apparently decided that we could have fun together.  And we did. 

Actually, on Wednesday, we had the square-dancing, and Ben was one of my partners.  He was good, too!  Especially for his first time!  David taught me how to dance, I taught Ben… now he’ll have to teach my sister!

He put his long-sleeved shirt which was functioning as a jacket over his head and tied it up in such a way that it made him look like a babushka.  I told this to him.  He found it hilarious. 

We discussed important milestones coming up in his life.  One milestone was a huge dance.  Ben said, “It’s not that long.  It’s only 3 years.”  (You have to be 12 to attend.)  Then we talked about Ragnarok — the huge Dagorhir battle.  To participate in that, you have to be 16.  Ben:  “That’s like half my LIFE [until I’ll be old enough].”  I knew what he meant.  That’s a long time. 

The craft hut had to be cleaned up.  First we made an “ant line” to carry all the boxes and boxes of supplies to the car.  As we walked into the building, Ben turned to me and said, “You can be the Queen.”  I was exceedingly perplexed and asked him, “Queen of what?”  “Queen of the Ants!” he said, with a tone that suggested it had been quite obvious.  I suppose that it had been, but I was low on sleep.  ^_^

 After the boxes were out, we worked on sweeping out the building (along with Abbie, Zach, and Beth).  Ben asked me if he could steal my pile of dust and add it to his own.  I said yes, then thought the better of it and said (jokingly) NO!  Of course at that point, he was already taking it, so I turned my broom around so that it would be a more useful weapon.  He, being well trained in fighting, did the same and we started a lovely broom war which came to a sudden end when I quite unintentionally whacked him in the hand.  *looks sheepish*

Ben told me that he was afraid that next year, the juniors wouldn’t be allowed to play Assassin.  (They sort of overused/abused the waterguns this year.)  I told him that they were far better than last year, but if the juniors weren’t allowed to play next year, I’d tell the Spymaster that Ben was an honorary senior.  ^_^  He liked that.  (Sidenote:  I was into making people honorary whatevers.  I made Lloyd an honorary King — he was actually a Priest — because he was being so helpful to us on soccer.)

I asked if he knew about the GopherBrane thing.  Ben:  “Yes, but I never did quite figure out who it was.”  Since that had been the point of my question, I said, “Oh, well, it was me.”  His jaw hit the floor, and that is barely hyperbole.  That seemed to be a thought which had not crossed his mind, and he found it amusing.  HIGHLY amusing.  ^_^  It was fun to get to see a reaction to that news in person, since I had only gotten to read Abby’s reaction and David never mentioned a word about it.  *evil laughter*

As a matter of fact, the one girl asked Ben on Saturday morning, “Is she your sister?”  We cracked up and Ben told her that I wasn’t.  (Sidenote again:  David was also taken to be my brother.)  Then she asked if we went to the same church and we were forced to confess that we had never even met before this week. 

Oh, yes.  Last story of the night.  We managed to drive everyone who happened to walk past crazy by standing in the middle of the path for about half an hour, rambling on and on about Kiltboi.  We were having a grand time of it.  Everyone else was like, “WHAT are you talking about??”  We tried telling them “Nothing.”  (I think we were actually trying to figure out my rather under-developed character.)  They didn’t believe that, but I don’t think they would have believed it if we had tried explaining it, either.  We did (sort of) try once, but it was the sort of explanation which was designed to dissuade other questions.  Anyway, Ben got to explain his character to me, including his superpower (cloning).  Then we went to get my stuff out of the cabin and into our car.  Then, as I said before, we carried craft stuff up the hill.  It became tiring.  I turned to Ben and said, “Ben, now would be a pretty good time to start cloning yourself.”  He laughed.

More quotes July 22, 2007

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“I swore that all of them had either been in or remembered the Civil War.”  ~ Pastor M, about the people at one of the first Bible studies he went to.

“Grant, I just follow you!” ~ Nathan, trying to excuse himself for ending up on the girls’ singing side.

 ”We’re related to Alexander the Great?  I didn’t know that!” ~ Pastor L

*yawn*

Okay, so I didn’t say it was many more quotes.

A few camp quotes… July 21, 2007

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“My name is now Frustration & Stupidity!” ~ Pastor J, talking about Mahlon and Chilion.

“I’m Moses and you’re Ramses!” ~ Nathaniel D (who had the spirit stick) to Joseph.

“I did not think it was possible to hate a shower that much.” ~ Shelby, on the ridiculously cold or hot showers.

“I’m getting up at 7 tomorrow.” ~ Zach, trying to figure out why we had gotten up an hour before everyone else.

“There’s no special treatment; everyone gets abused.” ~ Pastor M

“I’m hard of hearing in one ear and obstinate in the other.  So move up.” ~ Pastor M

“And we ask WHY is this person SO ANNOYING?!?” ~ Pastor J

“Anyone wanna help me stretch my pants?” ~ Lindsay B.

 ~~~~

Justin:  “I’m sitting by you again.”

me:  “AGAIN?”

Justin:  “There weren’t other chairs open!”

me:  “Yeah, well, just as long as it’s your last resort!”

Justin:  “You’re not a last resort!  You’re my second resort!”

me:  O_o  *doesn’t ask*

~~~~

“Learn English.  It’s your first language.  Practice it.”  ~ Pastor M

 

“I thought this was a not-so-subtle hint already!” ~ Pastor J, when Mrs. M left her watch up on the podium by mistake.

 

“Come on, put your hands up.  Don’t be afraid just because you’re wrong!” ~ Pastor M

 

“Harlot sounds better than prostitute… so um prostitute’s probably the better word.” ~ Pastor J, about Rahab.

 

“…which Peter had written down in written form.” ~ Pastor L

 

“My feet feel bad.  Well, just the outside.” ~ Sara  (I think she meant so say the TOP.)

 

“Whoever groaned — someone smack him in the back of the head.  In love, of course.” ~ Pastor M, when someone groaned about him going overtime.

 

“You’d probably just grab the front of my head and smack it down harder!” ~ Zach, on me offering to catch him if he fell off the bench.

 

Talking about the need to dress modestly…

“Silly boys.  They should gorge their eyes out.” followed by “They just shouldn’t HAVE eyes.” 

~~~~

Mom:  “What are you going for?  Total world domination by the time you’re 30?”

Jesse:  “Actually, 25.” 

(He was a regular one-man Mafia at Assassin.)

 

 

Book review page July 14, 2007

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So… um… I was kind of starved for books after being in Florida for a week with very little to read except David G’s dumb book Evil Genius.  :P  Having pretty much remedied that, I decided that I may as well start a book review page (clever name, is it not?) so that I don’t keep posting all these reviews (that translates:  so that you won’t have to read them, thinking it’s an entry.) 

So there we go.  Here is a link http://opckid.reformedblogs.com/book-reviews/ until I decide to change my template (I have a really cool new one, but I’m quite fond of this hobbit one, too) and can get links on the page again.  Hopefully I’ll be adding more books as I read ‘em.

Enjoy.

Life II July 12, 2007

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Quotes, with as little (or as much) background as I deem fit.  ^_^  These are not all exact, but how would you know that? *evil grin*  They ought to be fairly accurate.

Gideon:  “My, this knife is dull.  It won’t cut my bread.”  *runs fingers along it*  “It won’t even cut me!”

me:  “So…. are you gonna sue them?”

Gideon:  “For what?  Being traumatized by dull knives?”

Haiden:  *tries it on his tongue*

Arika and I:  “EWWWWW HAIDEN!!!!”

*much reference later on to the knife covered with Haiden’s spit*  (notice that it fortunately was not Haiden’s blood.)

(During our incredibly annoying “concert” — EleventySeven providing most of the annoyment/headaches)

*people cheer*

David:  “Something is wrong with people.”

*people clap*

David:  “Why are we clapping?

me:  “Because they’re done!”

David:  “Where is the main power generator?”

me:  “I don’t know.  Unfortunately.”

David (telling someone about how worthless I considered the concert):  “And she just sat back down and started writing again!”

Josh:  *is giving out hugs*

me:  “Hey, don’t I get one?”

Josh:  “Sure!” *hugs*  *hugs someone else*  *smacks me in the face in the process*  *is highly embarrassed and gives me another hug*

About my hair:  “Isn’t it pretty?  I’d hate to have it!” ~ Arika

“Someone in our group is ironing?” ~ Pastor B  (worse still, it was a GUY ironing!)

“I saw how you took a youth group of 200 and grew it to 70.” ~ Francis Chan

“It was before psychology was really big, and you just dealt with it.”  ~ Francis Chan

“You know they’re Life kids when they’re sleeping on the floor waiting for the elevator.” ~ Matt

Jay:  “I fell asleep in class.  No, I was STANDING UP.  And I fell forward like this,” *demonstrates* “caught myself, and then started falling backwards!” *demonstrates*  *almost hits a girl behind him*

Alicia and I:  “JAY!!!”

Jay:  “I know there are people all around!”

“And they’ll be like, ‘You, my friend, are on crack.’” ~ Ben W, about wandering up to random people and asking them to sign his shirt.

“Maybe I’ll sign it in BUBBLE LETTERS!  Except no.  Guys aren’t supposed to know how to do bubble letters… one time I did a poster for church in bubble letters and everyone was like, ‘Wow!  Whatever girl did that did a great job!’ and I’m like *grin sheepishly*  *looks around humming*.”  ~ Ben W.

“Wow.  That’s a lot of people.” ~ Sam

“Is this your first Life?” ~ Arika (we pointed out that she made us sound like cats!)

(talking about deep thoughts) “For some of us the bottom comes shorter than others.” ~ Samwise

me:  “For small group time, can we just all take a nap?   Then we won’t be so likely to fall asleep in class!”

Pastor B:  “That may not be such a bad idea.”

“We are all approaching the end of life.”  ~ Eddie, with a perfectly straight face.  (And, in a duh-Anya moment, I looked up to see what our bus was going to smash into which was going to lead to all our deaths.)

Antion:  *singing*  “All you need is loooooove….” (he had been going on and on with that for some time)

me:  *glare*  “All you need is a gag…”

Eddie:  “Yeah really!  All you need is a muzzle!”

Antion:  “ALL YOU NEED IS —”

Anna: “ANTION!”

*Antion shuts up*

Antion:  *in a very small voice* “love.”

me:  “May I please strangle him with my cord?  At least partially?”

Sam:  “Yeah, I’ve been to the aviary.”

me:  “They have a lot of cool birds… wow, that was pretty dumb.”

Sam:  “That’s okay.  At 2:33 in the morning, I don’t require very sensible thought.”

Sam and I:  *are talking*

David (a few seats behind us):  “Wow, this is getting serious.”

Sam:  *turns around and glares*  “David, can you actually hear us?”

David:  *smoochy sound effects*

Sam and I:  *crack up*

Sam:  “Okay, well how about shut up and go back to sleep.”

(David admitted the next day that he couldn’t hear a word we were saying.  >_< )

Life I July 9, 2007

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Okay, so I kept a journal.  Everyone found it amusing how much I wrote in it, but I knew that some people would be expecting an account.  So here goes.

LIFE 2007

People from my youth group who went

1. Jenn

2. Alicia

3. Katie

4. Abbey

5. Arika

6. Haiden

7. Gideon

8. Josh

9. David

10. Daniel

11. Alex

12. Bryan

13. Andrew

14. Matt

15. Brittney

16. Marah

17. Anna

18. Lacey

19. Sam

20. Sean

21. Emily

22. Antion

23. Josclin

24. Edward

25.  me!

And of course there were four adults — Pastor and Mrs. B, Mr. K, and Mrs. N.  There were also 10 people from another youth group.  And now we come to actual journal part.  Please excuse ridiculous errors and put them down to lack of sleep, brain being jarred, and so forth.  Also it may be lame all around.  You don’t have to read it.  ^_^

SUNDAY

39 people on the bus, and 2 drivers, which is extremely loud.  Which is why I moved up.  Aimirgin (nickname of Antion) is sorta jealous, haha.  It’s 10:30, we’re just in NC and uh… I had dinner at McD’s with Emily, Alex, Anna, Eddie, Daniel and Britt I think.  Chicken sandwich and broccoli cheese soup, which was surprisingly good.  And now, for some reason unbeknownst to us, the bus is shut off.  Yay.  Although Antion is kinda getting his wish, it’s definitely quieted down.  So far we’ve watched Napolean Dynamite (interesting but barely heard a word) Princess Bride and partway through Dead Man’s Chest.  *yawn*  Let’s see.  Daniel “directed” traffic [when we were going to McDonald’s.  He almost got run over, too!]  I used Matt (one of my bro-for-the-week)’s phone, which is so cool.  =)  [It’s a Treo, and they are fun.]

Josh: (when the bus wasn’t working)  “Maybe I should walk outside in my bare feet and find out what’s going on?”

me:  “Sure.”  (For goodness sake, he’s less than a year younger than me and fairly sensible.)

Josh:  *delighted grin*  “REALLY?”  *does so*

Josh:  *not having found out what was wrong*  “What’s wrong?”

Mr K.:  “They say there’s one too many [Josh’s last name] on the bus.”

Josh:  *very quickly*  “I volunteer Abbey to stay!” 

me:  “She likes North Carolina, right?”

Josh:  “Yeah!”

MONDAY

We stopped about 12:45… yeah… everyone is rather “bleh”*yawn*ish, so fun.  Although it was funny, cuz I went back to the ‘lavatory’ — NOT a ‘washroom’.  Then when I tried to come out, the door was being forcibly held shut.  So I shove at it, saw the person holding it shut’s shoulder (which looked familiar), and rammed it.

Matt:  “Hey!  Who is in there?  Bryan, who’s in there?”

me:  *not wanting to wait for Bryan*  “Your sister for the week!”  [he had decided to adopt me, by the way].

Matt:  “Oh, SHOOT!”  *steps away*  “I thought it was Eddie again.”

4:41 am  Just into Georgia.  At this point Sam and I do look like twins.  Okay, zombie-hobbit-twins.  YEAH!!

6:19  That was rather amusing.  I decided to make use of this row, so I stretched out on my back, turned on Good Monsters, and then proceeded to fall asleep during the LAST SONG (Oh My God).  I woke up and was like YES!  I finally fell asleep! and then I noticed my iPod and realized that I hadn’d thear the last half of the last song.  I found it funny for some reason. 

Ugh.  *yawn*  As a pretty good example of how mind-numbingly tired we were, at our 12:45 stop I went to talk with Antion (maybe it was the 10:30 one)

Antion:  “Have you read this book?”  *holds it out backwards*  *flips it over*  *turns it rightside up*

It was, I think called Babylon Uprising and is by Ted Dekker, and the answer was NO.

It was humid when we got off in Georgia.

~~~~And now that’s it for the present.  Many more quotes will be coming soon.  Hopefully.~~~~