Quiz meet! January 5, 2008
Posted by Anya in : spontaneous degeneration, smiling is good for you , 2commentsAlex: *pointing at a map on the wall* “Hey, Johnny! Here is where your parents are gonna send you if you’re bad.”
Johnny: *looks at map* “Oh, Hellsville. Teehee, Alex, very funny.”
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Dakota (a little boy who’s about 4): *starts punching me*
me: “DAKOTA! I am NOT Johnny D!” (whom he had been punching)
Dakota: “You’re Johnny Depp!”
He continued to insist on this for quite some time. *sigh*
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And Ben W was there! I haven’t seen him since LIFE, and he is one of the most awesome, most encouraging quizzers around. Unfortunately, he graduated and I hadn’t seen him for… a while. :( But today he came, being on Christmas break and all. I was delighted. Anyway, I had to introduce him to Peter.
“Peter,” I said, “this is Ben. Ben, this is Peter. He’s on my team.”
Griffin had been standing there, talking with Ben. “I know Peter!”
I sighed and glared at Griffin. “I know that you know Peter, you’ve challenged for him –”
Poor Griff. (Tongue semi in cheek) He looked sad. (A little sad.) “I know,” he said, sounding a bit pathetic. “I was inserting myself in the conversation” [which I had more or less interrupted him to start] “to try to affirm my sense of self-esteem.”
Ben had no sympathy whatsoever. He picked up his foot and pointed at the floor. “Your self-esteem.” *stomp* “Squish.”
I did mention that he is a very encouraging person, right? 
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Griffin was teaching his team how to be friendly. He led them over to the other teams and started the high-five-I-hope-you-have-a-good-quiz routine, so that they could follow his example.
me: “Hey, Carson, good to see you!” (having not seen Carson in three months)
Carson: “Great to see you too!” *grin* *high five* *walks away with look like Who on earth was THAT?“
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*on the way to the quiz*
Alicia: “WOW! Look at the sun coming up! It’s beautiful! I don’t think I’ve ever seen it before!”
me: O_o “Alicia, how about when we’ve gone to DC?”
Alicia: *looks sheepish* “I was just talking to people the whole time. I didn’t watch the sun come up.”
Sad, considering that I’ve watched it with her younger sister Bethany.
Alicia was also trying to get a picture of it with her cellphone, but it couldn’t capture it. That seemed fitting. I’d be worried if a cell (HP wants to get typed… the Indonesian abbreviation for the word for cellphone!) could capture all the majesty of a sunrise.
Time for a goofy post January 4, 2008
Posted by Anya in : spontaneous degeneration, smiling is good for you , add a commentIt’s been quite a while since I did one of the quote-type posts… things like this:
“Now when you jump, do not jump straight up, ‘cause then you end up leaning back, and it slows you down. So jump forward.”
“Just fall out of your seat, onto the floor.”
“Yeah, that works. Actually, it’s really fast.”
Anyway, even when I don’t post those quotes, they are still being said.
Talking about insults/bullying the other night…
(Peter was supposed to think of an insult and couldn’t)
me (as we’re walking into another room): “You stupid idiot! How hard is it to think of ONE INSULT????”
Peter: “I was standing there waiting for you to say something like that! I was just going to repeat it!”
me: “I know. That is why I didn’t say it.”
Later
Peter: *writes persop*
me: “You cannot spell. That was an insult.”
Peter: “I am so insulted.”
me: “No, it was a fact.”
Peter: “That’s true.”
Mr. K: “So if you say something, and you notice that their face is funny, and realize that it was insulting, you should apologize.”
Samwise: *looks puzzled* “Like… hey, I’m sorry, I noticed that your face was funny.”
Samwise: *comes in late to quizzing*
me: “I was ready to yell at you for being late.”
Samwise: “I was only a little bit late. And *brightens* I was earlier than Pastor B.”
me: “I do not accept excuses.”
Samwise: “We’re still on the practice questions!”
Hmm… Andrew was doing something which he found amusing, and which I found amusing, and which he therefore found more amusing. But now I can’t think of what it was!
Okay, I’ll resort to bits from AIM:
me (9:11:29 PM): If you’re making muffins, don’t forget to grease the pan. ^_^
A1 (9:12:38 PM): the beautiful thing about silicone muffin pans is that you can still get the muffins out if you don’t grease 
me (9:12:46 PM): Aha.
me (9:13:04 PM): I’m still not convinced that they’re good for you. Skeptical that way.
A1 (9:14:22 PM): muffins is good for people
me (9:14:36 PM): Silicone muffin pans, not the muffins.
A1 (9:14:58 PM): well, I wouldn’t eat one
me (9:15:08 PM): that is reassuring to know.
After a conversation mainly about headaches, siblings’ and dogs’ ages:
I enjoyed the serious, deep, intellectual conversation [Ben B]
Rightho. I did, too, as a matter of fact. 
And, finally…
Peter (9:35:30 PM): have you herd that qote before
Me (9:35:53 PM): what quote?
Peter (9:36:05 PM): ” ” world war two
Me (9:36:19 PM): umm… it’s not ringing a bell
Peter (9:36:24 PM): 
Peter (9:37:55 PM): you make sad
Me (9:38:14 PM): sorry
Me (9:38:16 PM):
Peter (9:38:20 PM):
Peter (9:38:22 PM):
Me (9:38:28 PM): oh boy
Peter (9:38:28 PM):
Peter (9:38:28 PM):
Peter (9:38:28 PM):
Peter (9:38:31 PM):
Me (9:38:32 PM): don’t make yourself sick
Peter (9:38:44 PM): i am drownd ing
Me (9:38:48 PM): swim
Peter (9:38:56 PM): cant swim
Me (9:39:00 PM): ?????
Me (9:39:02 PM): WHAT?
Peter (9:39:05 PM): there is a curent
Me (9:39:06 PM): are you serious
Peter (9:39:26 PM): pulling me down
Peter (9:39:36 PM): trying to fight it
Me (9:39:37 PM): *throws you a raft*
Peter (9:39:40 PM): ahhhh
Peter (9:40:11 PM): *catches raft just in time*
Peter (9:40:36 PM): ohh no
Peter (9:40:41 PM): peter says
Me (9:40:48 PM): what now?
Peter (9:40:54 PM): my sho sank
Me (9:40:59 PM): oh well
Me (9:41:01 PM): that’s okay
Peter (9:41:18 PM): it was my faverate sho
Me (9:41:23 PM): well
Peter (9:41:24 PM):
Peter (9:41:30 PM):
Me (9:41:32 PM): it is more important that you are alive
Me (9:41:36 PM): *sigh*
Peter (9:41:37 PM):
Peter (9:41:40 PM):
Peter (9:41:42 PM):
Me (9:41:43 PM): *dives in and gets the squishy shoe*
Peter (9:41:44 PM):
Peter (9:41:52 PM): yay
Peter (9:42:09 PM): *dances in boat
Peter (9:42:10 PM): *
Me (9:42:22 PM): STOP
Me (9:42:33 PM): you’re going to tip it over!!!!
Peter (9:42:46 PM): *grabs sho and puts it on proudly*
Me (9:42:53 PM): it’s wet
Me (9:42:54 PM): !
Peter (9:43:16 PM): peters happyness dryed it off
Me (9:43:31 PM): ummm
Me (9:43:32 PM): good
Peter (9:43:32 PM): that and 20 hair dryers
Me (9:43:37 PM): hahaha
Me (9:43:42 PM): where did you plug them in??
Peter (9:44:04 PM): water powerd hair dryers
Me (9:44:13 PM): O_o
Me (9:44:17 PM): you make my head spin
Peter (9:44:17 PM): lol
Me (9:44:30 PM): I think I’ll put part of this conversation in my post…
Peter (9:44:42 PM): LOL
Me (9:44:50 PM): if you don’t mind…
Peter (9:44:57 PM): no me no mind
Quiz tomorrow. Goodnight.
Best (and Worst) of 2007… January 1, 2008
Posted by Anya in : Uncategorized , 4commentsMovies:
Best:
Pride and Prejudice (A & E version) — very nice, it obviously gets a lot of the detail in which shorter versions can’t.
Facing the Giants is a good movie… and the bloopers are hilariously quotable.
Mr. Bean’s Holiday is a hysterical movie. I don’t recommend eating while you are watching it; if you do, I refuse to be held responsible for your death. I’ve warned you.
Worst:
Happy Feet. The one movie that I purposely missed the end of. BLECK.
Books:
Best:
Stephen Lawhead’s Pendragon Trilogy. I love Myrddin Emrys. It’s something that my friends just have to deal with. And (bad me) I sprang it on Samwise pretty much like that, only at about two in the morning coming home from Florida.
A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanuaken. This book is absolutely incredible. And… actually… it would be great if you stop reading my post, go read that book, and then get back to me.
Heretics and Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton. Wow. Although he does a fair amount of Calvinism-bashing… could cause insanity in me since he just bashes it, and not really anything about it. Other than believing in predestination (which apparently he had confused with fatalism. Sigh.) But that was the downside; other than that (in my never ever humble opinion!) they were excellent books.
Worst:
Unfortunately… the Kate Martinelli mysteries by Laurie King. Gak. Here I was thinking they’d be light, pleasant flashlight reading and they’re about a lesbian cop. There went light. And they have a lot of perverted details. There went pleasant. There went my reading. Oh well. I always have Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians, right?
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger: RUN AWAY!!!! *GAGS* Seriously, this book… BLECK. Don’t read it. If I was censoring it, it would be going from a 500+ page book to a five page brochure on the dangers of time travelling. Totally immoral and… *walks away mumbling “And I thought the Canterbury Tales were bad.”)
C.D.s
Best:
As far as CCM CDs were concerned, this was a great year for me. MercyMe’s Coming Up to Breathe, Sanctus Real’s Face of Love. Newboys’ Go, Jars of Clay’s Good Monsters. Aaron Shust’s Whispered and Shouted and The Swift’s Singing Back To You, Trace Bundy’s Adapt. Derek Webb’s The Ringing Bell and Casting Crowns’ The Altar and the Door.
There wasn’t too much in the way of “worst”. A few. But you probably already heard rants about them.
Various other good stuff: The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit. Isaac Asimov’s Foundation and Robot series. Shaun Grove’s song Welcome Home, Cover Me by Bebo Norman, Isn’t It Love by Andrew Peterson, and Protest to Praise by Down Here.
And. There we go.
Goodnight!
