Roxie Hart.
It's interesting reading about how many women were up for the roles of her and Velma Kelly from Chicago - quite possibly the best musical of all time...just below RENT.
Get this out of the way and go from there,
For those of you who didn't get yesterday's "Towanda" reference:
Fried Green Tomatoes best scene. That's pretty much how we were laughing in the car during the whole "Jansen!!" experience.
Highlights:
Morning: Had Diet Dr. Pepper and some donuts for breakfast. I'm super sad that it's my coworker's last day at work - she comes every summer and ditches us for the school year. Makes me sad cause she's just that awesome. But she brought us donut holes. I think I'll see her later this week at the other branch though so it's cool.
Work: I think I was on the main floor the entire day until lunch and then the very last hour. It's not that I mind but I find it amusing because apparently I'm social. Or at least helpful. I don't know if I like being called social. It's just weird to me. Since I'm not. At all. But at work it's different. Cause it's an actress thing. Which sounds weird but if you work in public service I'm sure you understand.
But sometimes people are such good an actress that patrons stop by to give them recipes for cabbage soup they 'seemed' interested in and then patrons force me to find the woman they were talking to just to give her a copy of the freaking recipe so I have to send out the weirdest staff email I've ever sent asking for who it was she was talking to about cabbage soup and what they want me to do with the freaking recipe. I put it on Girlscout's desk. She can deal with it when she comes in.
-Saw a book today in the nonfiction called "Sesame Street Unpaved" it had a bunch of behind the scenes stuff. I was amused.
-Had lunch with the security guard today. She's pretty cool, drummer in a band, I posted the video of my favorite of their songs here: My Life in Closed Captions: Can I Keep You - Some Assembly Required We hit up my favorite new burrito place, a recent phase but it's close to work and has cheap food. Invited me to go see a band play tomorrow night, we shall see. It depends on how much I want to crash and burn after golf tomorrow.
-I enjoy my foreign friends. Contact with them makes my day. They are just that awesome. Which reminds me that I'm supposed to be working on one of their projects instead of 20 of my own. Woops. Freaking writer's block goes away when I actually need it.
Tonight: The tire pressure light is on in my car and it's weirding me out. Cause it's not flat. But maybe it's about to go flat or something. I don't know, I'm still not smart enough for Jarvis. Every couple months I end up hitting that call button on the stearing wheel and shouting vulgarity that it then asks if that's who I want to place a call to. Go here: My Life in Closed Captions: "To call hell say dial."
Now: Jesus is staring at me. No, seriously. There's a picture of Jesus in my bedroom and he's looking at me. Freaking me out. Lord's Supper picture is leaning against a chair in my bedroom and staring at me. I have no idea where it came from but I came home and it's here. And now all I can think of is the Davinci Code. There's not a specific object on the table and there's a big space between you know who and you know who. And that's all I'm gonna say for those of you who haven't seen it/read the book. Although, I think that enough time has elapsed that if you actually had a desire to see/read it you would have by now. Both the book and the movie are excellent.
-Speaking of coming home, I get here, walk in and Mom's like, "What are you doing here?" And not in a pleasant fluffy tone, no. I called! And told Dad not to lock me out. You'd think he would relay the message, but on. Apparently he enjoys surprising her or something. But I learned he did enjoy the HeeHaw skit and he's currently helping me write lyrics to next year's already. Feeling special.
-Voice is officially back. I think. For the most part. Superwoman was enjoying the quiet version of me. Again, apparently I actually talk at work and act like a normal person. This is brand new information to me.
-Came home and watched Bones episodes on the DVR. huzzah!
Songs today: Chicago, the town of murder and mayhem
"I can't do it alone" - Chicago (2002)
"Watch this" yes I know all the words and actions, I'm that pathetic. but it's an excellent movie musical.
"We both reached for the gun" - Chicago
"Are you kidding?" love this one too.
Tomorrow is golf with the 2G gang. I'll have to upload pics of us all in our bright orange. I'm wondering whatever happened to my lazy time. Before on the weekends I did like nothing, then I got a job and I worked most of the days but there would always be that day where I stayed in bed and did absolutely nothing. I think that was all destroyed by camp. Maybe now that it's over it'll come back.
I'm watching that NSync video again and whatever happened to JC? I know Chris has some sort of clothing line, Joey was an actor, Justin Timberlake is Justin Timberlake and Lance has become some sort of an icon as well. I'm just curious since JC was like number 2 man in America for how many years and he just disappears? Yes, number 2 man Sketch. Justin being number one. Don't think I was saying he was trumped by one of those crazy BSB dues. Anyway, that was a while ago.
Friday, August 5, 2011
Thursday, August 4, 2011
I've never heard silence quite this loud.
JANSEN!
I love it. It's like "Towanda" minus the bubblewrap.
Have you ever had one of those days where you're so sore that doing something as simple as walking up a flight of stairs makes you want to writhe in pain? That was me today. And I worked 9-6. It wasn't a total epic fail though, I shelved and got a lot done this morning, then worked at the desk basically all day. Work Big Brother found this pair of paper glasses and said he'd pay me a dollar if I wore them for the rest of the night. And since there was only 10 minutes left in the day he owes me a buck. I rocked them.
Oh, my, god. So people know me now. Which sucks. I liked blending in. Even when I had red hair they still had no idea who I was. Today I called a branch looking for a hold that was supposed to be picked up at one I'm at but she accidentally sent it to be picked up somewhere else and the dude who answered was very nice and helpful and after he found her hold and put it to be sent over he's like, "oh and you have a hold." "for Martin?" "no, you." Um. what? I didn't tell him my last name, just my first and he made the connection. Although I have no idea what hold he was talking about for anything being held there for me. I'd never been there before the Food Drive. Which is what brought this all on in the first place. I sent out so many mass emails that I'd be surprised if everyone didn't know my name by now. Or at least that my name exists in the system. Man.
Have you ever watched a fictional show that has like magic or supernatural stuff in it and then switched over to a regular mystery show and just feel like at any point they're going to whip out some magical weapon or discover some artifact that is causing someone to kill all these people? or is that just me after watching a marathon of Warehouse 13 online. Caught up. Stoked about H.G. huzzah!
Can't believe camp is over already. Well, sort of. Now it's all the after camp meetings plus send out mailing stuff and feeback, burning picture cd's and sending them to all campers, checking budget, paying for everything we owe. yikes.
I was really proud of the kids and how they pulled off the skits. Here are a few, as promised.
3rd Grade Boys - Keeps Running
*Half of boys stand with arms up as trees, other half are birds that fly across the stage the counselors run through the trees 'til the end*
"This is the story of Camp Jefferson.
Every year starts out the same. During spring, the trees get greener and the birds come back north for the spring." *trees stand up with leaves and birds fly across*
"Then in the fall, the birds start their long journey south for the winter." *birds fly back across*
"And the trees start to change color." *trees spin around*
"In the winter, the trees have lost all their leaves" *drop leaves but keep arms up*
"Then in the summer Camp Jefferson takes place and the whole process repeats its self. Yep, Camp J is just like any other camp. And, just like any other camp, the sap keeps on running through the trees."
The 3rd Grade Girls sold brains, 1 was extrememly expensive because "It's the brain of a counselor, it's never been used!" sorry Emily.
4th Grade Boys had a firing squad - the boys about to be fired at would yell out a diversion, point behind them and the others would turn around and look while the original boy escaped. "Ready, Aim..." "Tornado!" turn. "Ready, Aim..." "Hurricane!" turn. last one wasn't so smart "Ready, aim..." "FIRE!" and then yeah, got shot with a water gun.
4th Grade Girls did Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. literally. They were all piano keys except the musician which was the one going around and hitting them on the head. Every time she hit one they would sing the next note in the song. We did it all the way through and I told the last one to be way off key so they musician lifted up her arms, smacked her on the forehead, shook her, then stomped away and after that she finally did it right.
5th grade boys were in a contagious disease ward. every time another one came in they'd get their symptoms as well. then a pregnant boy walks in and they all ran.
5th grade girls had the Scary Monster skit where one of my favorite girls - I've known her since she was like tiny tiny cause her mom used to be my counselor and she would bring her along. Anyway, she was under a sheet and people would come, look under the sheet, see her, scream and faint, until the last girl came and instead the monster jumped up and ran. Cause she was ever scarier than the monster.
6th grade boys fought over tracks - they're beaver tracks, no they're deer tracks, no they're beaver tracks, no they're deer tracks. turns out they're train tracks so you're dead because you don't look up in time and you get run over by the camp jefferson express
6th grade girls did Pencils for Sale in which there's a russian chick who only knows the following words "Pencils for sale" "3 for 50 cents" "yellow" "if you don't someone else will." not a good variety of english when someone comes by and doesn't want to buy pencils. it ends with "i'm gonna punch you in the face!" "if you don't someone else will." kablam!
7th and 8th grade boys did the HeeHaw skit with the 8th grade girls - I'll get there.
The 7th grade girls were a giant group so I had to divide them up. Group A got to do a continuation of last year's Rapunzal skit. Told you I'd bring her back. It's the later years. And I kill her off. Sort of.
7th Grade Girls group A - "She appears to be dead"
Witch: So, you thought you could escape the tower, Rapunzal, but no. I have found you and for your punishment you get the curse. Fall down on the ground and appear to be dead! MWHAHAHA! *girl falls down, 2 girls come to rescue*
Girl 1: You gotta call for an ambulance. She appears to be dead!
Chick: 911 what’s your emergency?
Girl 2 calls: Please, please you have to send an ambulance! There’s a girl here and she appears to be dead!
Chick: Who is she? What happened?
Girl 2: I don’t know, everything was fine then an evil witch cast a spell on her and she fell over and appears to be dead!
Chick: Where are you?
Girl 2: The sign says Montgomery and Westchester.
Chick: What did you say? You’re breaking up.
Girl 1: What’s wrong?
Girl 2: I’m breaking up. Blast this cellphone service!
Chick: Repeat what you said. Where are you?
Girl 2: Montgomery and Westchester.
Chick: Where?!
Girl 2: Montgomery and Westchester!!!
Chick: Westchester and what? I still can’t understand you! Try spelling it.
Girl 1: We’ve got to do something! She appears to be dead!
Girl 2: Uh, it’s M..O….T…G … hold on a minute. Let’s drag her over to King and Elm!
so that's the later years. maybe next year we'll cover Rapunzel the middle years.
Group B did this one:
Airplane Disaster
Four campers are sitting on chairs, one pretending to be an airplane pilot, and the others are the passengers.
Pilot: "The plane is too heavy - we can't land!"
1: "I'll throw out the drink cart!" (Throws a gatorade cooler out an imaginary window)
Pilot: "We're still too heavy to land!"
2: "I'll chuck out this packet of peanuts" (Throws peanuts out)
Pilot: We're still too heavy, throw something else out!"
3: “I’ll throw Cassie out!”
4: “What?! Not again!” *thrown out* “AHHHHH!!! This stinks!”
Pilot: “What’d you do for?”
3: “hehehehehe” evil laugh
Pilot: “Almost there, just one more thing!”
2 Pretends to throw something out and says: "Done."
Pilot: "What did you throw out that time?"
2: "A Grenade"
Pilot: "I don't think you should have done that. Oh, well, at least we can land now. Prepare to land. Everybody ready? 1.2.3. Jump!" *they all jump*
Pilot and passengers land the plane and start walking away.
They pass Camper 1, who is holding her head and the gatorade cooler.
Pilot: "What happened to you?"
Camper 1: "I was walking along and this drink cart fell out of the sky and hit me in the head!"
They pass Camper 2, who is holding her head and eating peanuts.
Pilot: "What happened to you?"
Camper 2: "I was walking along and this packet of peanuts fell out of the sky and hit me in the head!"
They pass Camper 3, who’s sitting in shock staring at passenger #4.
Pilot: What happened?!
Camper 3: “I was just sitting here, eating a banana when suddenly this chick just falls right in front of me. It’s rainin’ women!”
They pass Camper 4, who is laughing.
Pilot: "What happened to you?"
Camper 4: "I farted and the bathroom I was standing in blew up!"
And then there was the highlight of all highlights aka the 7/8th boys and 8th girls. These are the verses I used this year. I found them online - some lyrics, some youtube videos. next year i'll have to write more.
GIRLS 1. Remember when you went out hunting for possum? -- You said you’d get one and wouldn’t be long. -- That’s ten years ago and I’m sitting here waiting -- beginning to wonder if something went wrong.
Where Oh Where are you tonight? Why did you leave me here all alone? I searched the world over and thought I found true love. You met another and *pbbb* you was gone.
BOYS 2. Down here on the farm the weather is messy -- lying around with nothing to do -- when you went away you took my cow Bessie -- I miss her darling more than I miss you.
Where Oh Where are you tonight? Why did you leave me here all alone? I searched the world over and thought I found true love. You met another and *pbbb* you was gone.
GIRLS 3. Pardon me dear if my words seem bitter -- There’s no defense for my broken dreams. -- I didn’t know I married a quitter -- my life is coming apart at the seams.
Where Oh Where are you tonight? Why did you leave me here all alone? I searched the world over and thought I found true love. You met another and *pbbb* you was gone.
BOYS 4. Remember you phoned me a-sobbin' and cryin' -- The dog bit your maw, and drug her around -- You said she looked pale and thought she was dying -- I said "Don't worry, I'll buy a new hound."
Where Oh Where are you tonight? Why did you leave me here all alone? I searched the world over and thought I found true love. You met another and *pbbb* you was gone.
GIRLS 5. The noises you made at our supper table -- Your habits, my dear, were surely absurd -- But how many times do I have to tell you -- Soup is a dish to be seen and not heard
Where Oh Where are you tonight? Why did you leave me here all alone? I searched the world over and thought I found true love. You met another and *pbbb* you was gone.
BOYS 6. You took out your false teeth, your wig and your glasses – You were just scattered all over the place. – I wanted to kiss you and hug you so tightly – I guess I would have if I’d found your face
Where Oh Where are you tonight? Why did you leave me here all alone? I searched the world over and thought I found true love. You met another and *pbbb* you was gone.
Still working on uploading that video. I'll have plenty of pics to go with it once I get Jim's camera and all the pictures downloaded.
Other than camp life is good. Busy with work. Oh, quote of the day. My mom, who now reads this blog, read yesterday's massive post and all she had to say was, "didn't know you liked Justin Timberlake." I cracked up. Apparently actual people read this thing. which is a little nervewracking since I'm a nerd but I'll go with it.
"Story of Us" Taylor Swift
Completely stoked for Saturday. Tee it up for tuition is gonna rock. This is how we golf.
"Oh Oh Oh" Golf Boys
Song and dance included. And if it's a bad hit we say "there was no woohoo in your backswing." And Pastor is hysterical. "Woohoo with you. And also with you." Our orange t-shirts came in and they are super super bright. Apparently. I haven't seen them yet, they got sent to Nic at the school. I'll get mine Friday night. Huzzah!
I feel like there was so much more than I'm forgetting. Oh well, I'll post more tomorrow.
I love it. It's like "Towanda" minus the bubblewrap.
Have you ever had one of those days where you're so sore that doing something as simple as walking up a flight of stairs makes you want to writhe in pain? That was me today. And I worked 9-6. It wasn't a total epic fail though, I shelved and got a lot done this morning, then worked at the desk basically all day. Work Big Brother found this pair of paper glasses and said he'd pay me a dollar if I wore them for the rest of the night. And since there was only 10 minutes left in the day he owes me a buck. I rocked them.
Oh, my, god. So people know me now. Which sucks. I liked blending in. Even when I had red hair they still had no idea who I was. Today I called a branch looking for a hold that was supposed to be picked up at one I'm at but she accidentally sent it to be picked up somewhere else and the dude who answered was very nice and helpful and after he found her hold and put it to be sent over he's like, "oh and you have a hold." "for Martin?" "no, you." Um. what? I didn't tell him my last name, just my first and he made the connection. Although I have no idea what hold he was talking about for anything being held there for me. I'd never been there before the Food Drive. Which is what brought this all on in the first place. I sent out so many mass emails that I'd be surprised if everyone didn't know my name by now. Or at least that my name exists in the system. Man.
Have you ever watched a fictional show that has like magic or supernatural stuff in it and then switched over to a regular mystery show and just feel like at any point they're going to whip out some magical weapon or discover some artifact that is causing someone to kill all these people? or is that just me after watching a marathon of Warehouse 13 online. Caught up. Stoked about H.G. huzzah!
Can't believe camp is over already. Well, sort of. Now it's all the after camp meetings plus send out mailing stuff and feeback, burning picture cd's and sending them to all campers, checking budget, paying for everything we owe. yikes.
I was really proud of the kids and how they pulled off the skits. Here are a few, as promised.
3rd Grade Boys - Keeps Running
*Half of boys stand with arms up as trees, other half are birds that fly across the stage the counselors run through the trees 'til the end*
"This is the story of Camp Jefferson.
Every year starts out the same. During spring, the trees get greener and the birds come back north for the spring." *trees stand up with leaves and birds fly across*
"Then in the fall, the birds start their long journey south for the winter." *birds fly back across*
"And the trees start to change color." *trees spin around*
"In the winter, the trees have lost all their leaves" *drop leaves but keep arms up*
"Then in the summer Camp Jefferson takes place and the whole process repeats its self. Yep, Camp J is just like any other camp. And, just like any other camp, the sap keeps on running through the trees."
The 3rd Grade Girls sold brains, 1 was extrememly expensive because "It's the brain of a counselor, it's never been used!" sorry Emily.
4th Grade Boys had a firing squad - the boys about to be fired at would yell out a diversion, point behind them and the others would turn around and look while the original boy escaped. "Ready, Aim..." "Tornado!" turn. "Ready, Aim..." "Hurricane!" turn. last one wasn't so smart "Ready, aim..." "FIRE!" and then yeah, got shot with a water gun.
4th Grade Girls did Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. literally. They were all piano keys except the musician which was the one going around and hitting them on the head. Every time she hit one they would sing the next note in the song. We did it all the way through and I told the last one to be way off key so they musician lifted up her arms, smacked her on the forehead, shook her, then stomped away and after that she finally did it right.
5th grade boys were in a contagious disease ward. every time another one came in they'd get their symptoms as well. then a pregnant boy walks in and they all ran.
5th grade girls had the Scary Monster skit where one of my favorite girls - I've known her since she was like tiny tiny cause her mom used to be my counselor and she would bring her along. Anyway, she was under a sheet and people would come, look under the sheet, see her, scream and faint, until the last girl came and instead the monster jumped up and ran. Cause she was ever scarier than the monster.
6th grade boys fought over tracks - they're beaver tracks, no they're deer tracks, no they're beaver tracks, no they're deer tracks. turns out they're train tracks so you're dead because you don't look up in time and you get run over by the camp jefferson express
6th grade girls did Pencils for Sale in which there's a russian chick who only knows the following words "Pencils for sale" "3 for 50 cents" "yellow" "if you don't someone else will." not a good variety of english when someone comes by and doesn't want to buy pencils. it ends with "i'm gonna punch you in the face!" "if you don't someone else will." kablam!
7th and 8th grade boys did the HeeHaw skit with the 8th grade girls - I'll get there.
The 7th grade girls were a giant group so I had to divide them up. Group A got to do a continuation of last year's Rapunzal skit. Told you I'd bring her back. It's the later years. And I kill her off. Sort of.
7th Grade Girls group A - "She appears to be dead"
Witch: So, you thought you could escape the tower, Rapunzal, but no. I have found you and for your punishment you get the curse. Fall down on the ground and appear to be dead! MWHAHAHA! *girl falls down, 2 girls come to rescue*
Girl 1: You gotta call for an ambulance. She appears to be dead!
Chick: 911 what’s your emergency?
Girl 2 calls: Please, please you have to send an ambulance! There’s a girl here and she appears to be dead!
Chick: Who is she? What happened?
Girl 2: I don’t know, everything was fine then an evil witch cast a spell on her and she fell over and appears to be dead!
Chick: Where are you?
Girl 2: The sign says Montgomery and Westchester.
Chick: What did you say? You’re breaking up.
Girl 1: What’s wrong?
Girl 2: I’m breaking up. Blast this cellphone service!
Chick: Repeat what you said. Where are you?
Girl 2: Montgomery and Westchester.
Chick: Where?!
Girl 2: Montgomery and Westchester!!!
Chick: Westchester and what? I still can’t understand you! Try spelling it.
Girl 1: We’ve got to do something! She appears to be dead!
Girl 2: Uh, it’s M..O….T…G … hold on a minute. Let’s drag her over to King and Elm!
so that's the later years. maybe next year we'll cover Rapunzel the middle years.
Group B did this one:
Airplane Disaster
Four campers are sitting on chairs, one pretending to be an airplane pilot, and the others are the passengers.
Pilot: "The plane is too heavy - we can't land!"
1: "I'll throw out the drink cart!" (Throws a gatorade cooler out an imaginary window)
Pilot: "We're still too heavy to land!"
2: "I'll chuck out this packet of peanuts" (Throws peanuts out)
Pilot: We're still too heavy, throw something else out!"
3: “I’ll throw Cassie out!”
4: “What?! Not again!” *thrown out* “AHHHHH!!! This stinks!”
Pilot: “What’d you do for?”
3: “hehehehehe” evil laugh
Pilot: “Almost there, just one more thing!”
2 Pretends to throw something out and says: "Done."
Pilot: "What did you throw out that time?"
2: "A Grenade"
Pilot: "I don't think you should have done that. Oh, well, at least we can land now. Prepare to land. Everybody ready? 1.2.3. Jump!" *they all jump*
Pilot and passengers land the plane and start walking away.
They pass Camper 1, who is holding her head and the gatorade cooler.
Pilot: "What happened to you?"
Camper 1: "I was walking along and this drink cart fell out of the sky and hit me in the head!"
They pass Camper 2, who is holding her head and eating peanuts.
Pilot: "What happened to you?"
Camper 2: "I was walking along and this packet of peanuts fell out of the sky and hit me in the head!"
They pass Camper 3, who’s sitting in shock staring at passenger #4.
Pilot: What happened?!
Camper 3: “I was just sitting here, eating a banana when suddenly this chick just falls right in front of me. It’s rainin’ women!”
They pass Camper 4, who is laughing.
Pilot: "What happened to you?"
Camper 4: "I farted and the bathroom I was standing in blew up!"
And then there was the highlight of all highlights aka the 7/8th boys and 8th girls. These are the verses I used this year. I found them online - some lyrics, some youtube videos. next year i'll have to write more.
GIRLS 1. Remember when you went out hunting for possum? -- You said you’d get one and wouldn’t be long. -- That’s ten years ago and I’m sitting here waiting -- beginning to wonder if something went wrong.
Where Oh Where are you tonight? Why did you leave me here all alone? I searched the world over and thought I found true love. You met another and *pbbb* you was gone.
BOYS 2. Down here on the farm the weather is messy -- lying around with nothing to do -- when you went away you took my cow Bessie -- I miss her darling more than I miss you.
Where Oh Where are you tonight? Why did you leave me here all alone? I searched the world over and thought I found true love. You met another and *pbbb* you was gone.
GIRLS 3. Pardon me dear if my words seem bitter -- There’s no defense for my broken dreams. -- I didn’t know I married a quitter -- my life is coming apart at the seams.
Where Oh Where are you tonight? Why did you leave me here all alone? I searched the world over and thought I found true love. You met another and *pbbb* you was gone.
BOYS 4. Remember you phoned me a-sobbin' and cryin' -- The dog bit your maw, and drug her around -- You said she looked pale and thought she was dying -- I said "Don't worry, I'll buy a new hound."
Where Oh Where are you tonight? Why did you leave me here all alone? I searched the world over and thought I found true love. You met another and *pbbb* you was gone.
GIRLS 5. The noises you made at our supper table -- Your habits, my dear, were surely absurd -- But how many times do I have to tell you -- Soup is a dish to be seen and not heard
Where Oh Where are you tonight? Why did you leave me here all alone? I searched the world over and thought I found true love. You met another and *pbbb* you was gone.
BOYS 6. You took out your false teeth, your wig and your glasses – You were just scattered all over the place. – I wanted to kiss you and hug you so tightly – I guess I would have if I’d found your face
Where Oh Where are you tonight? Why did you leave me here all alone? I searched the world over and thought I found true love. You met another and *pbbb* you was gone.
Still working on uploading that video. I'll have plenty of pics to go with it once I get Jim's camera and all the pictures downloaded.
Other than camp life is good. Busy with work. Oh, quote of the day. My mom, who now reads this blog, read yesterday's massive post and all she had to say was, "didn't know you liked Justin Timberlake." I cracked up. Apparently actual people read this thing. which is a little nervewracking since I'm a nerd but I'll go with it.
"Story of Us" Taylor Swift
Completely stoked for Saturday. Tee it up for tuition is gonna rock. This is how we golf.
"Oh Oh Oh" Golf Boys
Song and dance included. And if it's a bad hit we say "there was no woohoo in your backswing." And Pastor is hysterical. "Woohoo with you. And also with you." Our orange t-shirts came in and they are super super bright. Apparently. I haven't seen them yet, they got sent to Nic at the school. I'll get mine Friday night. Huzzah!
I feel like there was so much more than I'm forgetting. Oh well, I'll post more tomorrow.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Camp J 2011 Highlights
prepare for a massively massive post. gone for a week but coming back with a vengeance.
DAY ONE:
-The Sideways Hat Theory
::: So, I have this theory. I call it the sideways hat theory. It goes something like this. I’m the boss. Well, me, Jim and Pastor, plus Phil, Liz, Jayne, Cantrell, Steve and Cherie. Those are all the section leaders. But I handled all the registrations, assignments, schedule, ordering stuff – my name is on everything they send in and everything that goes out. So, everyone associates camp with me. But! When they all show up and I wear my hat backwards and slightly sideways they walk straight past me because I look like a Junior Counselor. It’s awesome because they go to someone else with their problems…but then of course the adults they go to then come to me so I’m screwed anyway.
-“Get my Cantrell on”
::: Night patrol sucks. I didn’t realize that before I had to do it. People don’t give our usual guy enough credit. Seriously. Those 3rd graders kicked my butt. I couldn’t believe it. They were up later than the 8th graders. It was crazy, every time I walked by I was all “It’s passed lights out. Go to bed.” “We can’t sleep!” Try it anyway. Okay. So they would try. Then I’d walk by again a few minutes later and they were waving around glow sticks and laughing. Go to bed! “We can’t sleep!” “Close your eyes and count to 100.” Okay. So then they’d try that. Yeah, no. I wanted to yell Go to bed!! I want to shower and go to sleep!! Ahhh!! It was amusing though to sneak up to cabins and join in their conversations. They jumped.
-“Looks like I have junk”
::: The teen helpers this year rocked it. I was proud. Which is new, cause last year they were awful. Well, some of them anyway. My skits and worship crew was fantastic - got the kids to sing, played guitar, helped with skits. I was proud. And the teens are really funny. Especially when you get them all together to sing Pharaoh Pharaoh. It gets pretty intense. Got myself a new ringtone.
-I live my life behind the tab.
::: We have these songbooks with all of our music in them. The sacred songs are in the front and then there are silly songs in the back behind the tab. Everything is in alphabetical order but there’s a tab to separate the sacred from the silly. I like to think I live my life behind the tab, amongst the not so serious. That way I can jam out with My Bonnie, Catalina Madalina, and Three Myopic Rodents, argue about holes in buckets, and repeat after myself with The Bear Song all day long. Which is what I did this week at work while shelving. Well, that one and HeeHaw. Which I’ll get to shortly.
DAY TWO:
-Take ‘em to the bridge
::: Timberlake style. Saturday means taking the kids tubing down the river. It’s not the safest river but it’s fun. Steve and I took the front, checking for danger in the water and all that. Yes, danger in the water. “This was no boating accident!” There’s a lot of cars down there, and trees and metal and all that sticking out of the water. We start just right outside the gate where there is a bridge and we go past one bridge and to the second one to be picked up. It usually takes a couple hours to float all the way there but this time the water was pretty high so the current took us there in about an hour and a half.
-“This is about the time when Phil said there’s no water”
::: Last year the pipes got clogged and we didn’t have water for a few days. And, with all the timing, it started right when we got back from tubing so no one could shower and it was just disgusting. This year we were pulling in and Steve had brought up that last year this is when we learned about all that. And then Phil stepped into the bus and we all held our breath. I was like, “Steve! If he says there’s no water I’m blaming it on you!” Last year we hosed down a bunch of kids with an actual garden hose. Then told them to jump in the pool. Which, in turn, made the pool disgusting. One of many reasons why I chose not to swim in it. Which leads me to my next tidbit.
-“It stings and I know why!!”
::: There’s this line in Will and Grace that Karen says when she goes to one of her Step-Kids’ swim meets. “A public pool?! Why doesn’t somebody just pee directly on me?!” That one sticks with me, which is why I’m not so much into swimming anymore. This particular line came from one of the teen helpers about kids in the pool and when your eyes start to sting from the water. It’s not the chlorine.
-“Where’s your lost and found?”
::: It’s amazing what someone can find under a cone on the game field here at camp. One of our game helpers found a pair of boys’ underwear and it was funny because she carries them all the way up to the cafeteria holding on to as little a piece of them as possible, brings them to me and asks where the lost and found was. Then, with her perfect timing, the nurse was there and asked “Somebody lose their skivvies?” It was hilarious. I told her to put them on the table against the wall, that’s usually where our lost and found starts before it gets moved outside. Then the nurse was like, “Don’t put them there! I deal meds there!” I think it’s one of those things that you had to be there for but it was hysterical.
-Gracebook: God would friend you
::: Every year at camp we discuss possible future camp themes. Everyone keeps dissing my idea of Brokeback Camp J – which is probably not a good theme but I’ve been joking about it ever since the movie came out. Usually we throw out a bunch of weird ones when we’re writing the awards. This year, because it’s so hot, we decided to skip the awards all together and just go with the skits. That way it was over sooner. The possible theme for next year is The Ultimate Transformer. Liz already has some ideas rolling around for her song. But Pastor had also suggested Gracebook instead of Facebook – God’s Social Network or something like that. I found it amusing. But the t-shirts would be cool. We like to keep them related to TV shows, movies, music – that way the kids can tie them to them. Like this year it was Jesus is my Guiding Light so there was a lot of soap opera drama – even the kitchen help did a skit at the campfire – year before that it was Extreme Makeover: God’s Edition, few years before that it was Survivor in Christ based on the Survivor show, we’ve also done Fear Factor, and Mission Possible – not impossible, possible….and many others. But it’s cool to have that tie-in so the kids are excited about it.
- “I can’t believe I turned around for that”
::: Ever since we did the theme “Survivor in Christ” like 5-6 years ago, maybe more, we have all the cabins come up with their own cabin cheer. Some of them are really original, some of them not so much. I guess it depends on your perspective. If you’re a 5th grade boy and don’t like campfire, singing, or cheers, watching the 7th grade girls form a line and spell dynamite wrong probably isn’t all that appealing. Not that he noticed you spell it with an A and not an O. We did. Whatever. The point was that there were so many of the 7th grade girls that we didn’t have space enough for them to spread out to do their cheer so we made everyone turn around on their benches to see them do it in the back where there was more room. Long story short he was not a fan.
DAY THREE:
-And *pbbb* You Was Gone.
::: Sunday’s events always include breakfast, camp cleanup, church service and the skits right after it. I give the kids the skits when they get stuck with us for an hour during the day when they make their rounds. We go over the songs and then the skits then we kick them out for their next period. But, in the case for the 7th/8th boys and 8th grade girls their skit was a song. And not just any song. Oh yeah. It was The song. You know the one I’m talking about. The one I’ve been talking about for a few weeks now. Posting and reposting the video. Singing while I’m shelving. Driving everyone nuts with it. That’s right. HeeHaw. Yes, I made them do HeeHaw. I’ve reached the ultimate low. But they loved it. As did the parents. Of course in my intro I had to tell them how I heard about the skit in the first place and blamed it all on my dad and his DVR. But the parents loved the whole thing and requested for it to be an annual thing. Guess I’ll be writing more verses. Originally we were going to make them sing one verse then have one grade perform their skits, then have them be an interlude then move up to the next grade, lather, rinse, repeat but, me being as unorganized as I am, totally forgot. So, we just made them do it all at the end. It was a battle royale. Girls vs. Boys. Girls sang one verse and the refrain and the boys answered with a different verse and refrain. I think I ended with about 6 verses. And on the last one the boys sang the verse and we all joined in on the refrain, yelling it in each other’s faces. I’ll have to upload the video. We got the last one on tape. Hysterical.
-“Jansen!”
::: So, we were making our usual teen camp grocery run on Sunday afternoon after the teens had started to arrive. We planned on getting food for supper plus supplies for Monday at least. It’s ridiculous how much food 29 teens go through in a couple of days. So, we’re driving and we see all these clothes and a towel on the gravel. It looked like they had fallen off the top of someone’s car. Turns out they had fallen out the back. We pulled on to the highway and saw one of our helpers stranded on the side. His fuel pump went out. Jim lent him his phone and he called his mom. And this guy is over 60 so his mom is probably pretty far up there. Anyway, she was apparently hard of hearing, so he had to repeat things about 20 times, getting louder each time. We tried not to laugh, but when you’re in this weather and you’re miserable, even the tiniest things can be hysterical. I swear we heard the word JANSEN!!! in that phone call more than most southern Nebraskan’s have in their entire life. We ended up just towing him back home, then coming back and going grocery shopping. It didn’t take too much longer. I fell asleep after playing Angry Birds. Jim claims that I slept-talked about evil green pigs. There was a lot of yelling the following words throughout camp because of this incident: “Jansen.” “Rock Creek Station.” “Jansen!” “PFD Road” “JANSEN!” “I’m between Steele City and Endicott!” “JANSEN!!!”
-Ben’s Little Blue Slew
::: Turns out that teens will eat or drink anything. Even if it looks like the color of the river they went tubing on. Tang + raspberry lemonade + grape juice = A disgusting looking dirty river-colored drink. It was surprisingly delightful. I think that’s true for a lot of things at camp though. Everything tastes better at camp. Like, I hate Gatorade. I can’t stand it. Especially that fruit punch crap. I have no idea why. But at camp, it’s awesome. Maybe it’s because we’re so hungry and we’re so thirsty so, because it’s sustenance, it’s perfection. But it’s gotta be something more. I mean, at teen camp we’re spoiled. Steaks, burgers, pizza, tacos, fancy breakfast stuff. Much better than I eat at my apartment.
-Chickens In The Sandbox
::: One of the other counselors here was talking about her chickens. They live in town but her daughter talked her into buying chickens. So they keep them in their backyard in their old jungle gym thing. You know where you got like the two levels with the sandbox on bottom then the slide and the triangle roof and all that. Yeah, her kids weren’t using it anymore so they put boards around the sandbox, took the ladder and put it sideways and they love it. And apparently chickens aren’t actually chicken. In the scared sense of the word. They chase right after you. Then try to come in the house after the dogs do. But, of course they’re not allowed in so they end up tapping the glass door with their beaks while the dogs stare at them through it. Reminds me of Carter when we’re at the farm in the winter. He looks out at the outdoor cats and says, “Haha, I’m inside in the warm and you’re out in the snow. Look at me, all nice and warm. I shall walk back and forth in front of this window strutting and bragging because I’m so cool and you’re just cold.” Okay, so he doesn’t actually say that…out loud. But I swear that’s what he’s thinking. Just like right now when he’s staring at me like, “Why aren’t you feeding me? You left me alone with your sister for a week and she just laughed at how fat I am and made fun of the bullseye on my side. She thinks I want to eat her. I wouldn’t have to if she feeds me more. Talk to her. Tell her I need more food. And treats. I like treats.” I need to stop using the Garfield/Carter voice, it’s freaking me out. “PS – she stole your DVD and made fun of your Marshmallow Mateys. She didn’t listen when I tried to tell her that Second Sister talked you into buying them.”
-Do you have a concussion?
::: Sometimes you do have to worry about teens in the pool. You know when they hit their head on the side and one of them says, “Do you have a concussion? Quick what number am I thinking of?” When the one who hit her head replies with “Pizza” it’s time to get out of the pool. Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water… Well, there’s that and one of them wearing 2 right shoes tubing down the river. But it was her mom that packed them.
-the Thing and the Thing
::: So, Sketch and I have this thing. Where we’ve been friends for so long that we know what each other is thinking. We call it “the Thing and the Thing”. Because that’s what it is. Sometimes it’s really amusing. Especially when you live thousands of miles apart, haven’t talked in days and decide to text each other at the exact same minute. Apparently we can only be apart for so long.
-You’ll shoot your eye out!
::: I’m in a quandary. Ken gave me a slingshot. A homemade one. With a lead bullet. Mine is red. He gave Jim a black one. The quandary is that if I shoot it inside I’ll break something but if I shoot it outside I’ll lose my bullet. But I want to shoot it. I’m glad I got the red one. When he was showing Jim how to shoot the black one the rubber band came off and hit him in the face. These can apparently shoot through a deck of cards.
-Everybody Loves Jim
::: More quandaries. I have two ideas for this year’s song. Either I rewrite “Everybody Loves Me” by OneRepublic to “Everybody Loves Jim” cause I keep telling him it’s his theme song or I take “Sitting, Waiting, Wishing” by Jack Johnson and stick in my camp highlights like always. I’m leaning toward the latter. And I’ll make “Everybody Loves Jim” an ongoing project. "And he shall be called, Wonderful Counselor, Mighty Electronic Wizard, Everlasting Chef, Prince of Camp." He and I are stuck with camp for all of eternity. Or so we’ve been told. Maybe I’ll scrap them both and rewrite “16 Military Wives” by the Decemberists. I’m hooked on that freaking song. – I wrote this one earlier, I started with the Jack Johnson one and have made progress but nothing final. It’s harder to write a parody by yourself when you’re used to having your Delayed…Reaction partner helping you. He chose to get engaged this weekend instead. Which is probably a better choice, considering we’re all crazy and it was super hot outside.
-Everlasting HeeHaw on the wall
::: Every year at teen camp we watch movies on the wall. And it’s tradition that at least one of them is cheesy. So, when Ken brought me a copy of the 10th Anniversary of HeeHaw filmed in 1978 I couldn’t say no. Especially after putting everybody through that skit. Oh. My. God. I thought that thing was never ending. And now, I’m gonna have to buy it online for Dad because I know he’d love it cause it’s filled with all these musical performances and their best skits and all that. And he’s gonna make me watch it with him. Again. Crap. Just reminds me of Roseanne Roseannadanna. “and I thought I was gonna die!”
-Oreos on my stomach
::: Yes, on my stomach. See, I’m the cool aunt. I stuff my nieces with oreos and send them to bed. But that only works when there aren’t 100 other kids around. It causes stampedes. So when they came toward me I shoved the box under my shirt. And it just looked like I had swallowed the box whole. Claire just kept laughing and couldn’t stop. Then she punched me in the stomach and it was hilarious cause you could hear the crunch. The kids looked over and I made her stand in front of me. “What was that?” “Nothing. I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
-It’s official. I’m old.
::: Oh my god, so Noel and I were playing Apples to Apples with all the kids – we started it actually and they joined in, but it was awful because there’s such a generation gap. References/People the kids didn’t know: Austin Powers, Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Casablanca, Mahatma Gandhi, Georgia O’Keefe, …. See, I’m only 23. And with my daily routine that puts me as usually the youngest at what I’m doing – directing camps, working at the desk, etc. So it’s weird for me to actually have to explain something to a younger generation while feeling totally sad that they’ve missed out on life.
-Freaking Spiders.
::: I’m covered in bites. At first I thought they were all mosquito bites. Now that one on my foot has made my ankle swell to twice its size they say it’s an allergic reaction to something – possibly a spider. Maybe it was Aragog and his children. Don’t they live in the woods? or the Forbidden Forest. Our woods were filled with poison ivy, that makes them forbidden, right?
DAY FOUR:
-Tubing down the Little Blue
::: I stayed back while the kids went tubing. I was exhausted, plus my foot was all swelled and I didn’t want to have to walk down a river after the water had dropped a foot dragging my ankle through all the gross. I worked on the song. And watched Warehouse 13. Cause I’m awesome like that.
-The Slow Clap
::: Another theme at camp is somehow we always end up slow clapping someone. This time it was slow clapping a song. We sang Awesome God at campfire and he was playing it a little slower than what we’re used to so we were clapping and it was like super super long time between claps. Abnormal even. So Bailey and I were like “Screw it! Double Time!” Fixed it.
-“Woops, shouldn’t dance to that.”
::: A lot of our songs have actions, especially the sacred ones. There’s a lot of crosses and lifting your arms up and clapping and all that. Our favorite one to dance to is Pharaoh Pharoah. Or King Jesus is All. But sometimes we get really into it and dance to the others. Even when it’s on a somber note. So, when you’re leading, and end up dancing to a line that goes something like, “There in the ground his body lay” you should probably tone it down a little.
-More teen help hysteria
::: So, one of the kids has those round glasses like Harry Potter and a girl was trying to ask him if he got those glasses because he was a Harry Potter fan. But she didn’t word it correctly and even though we/he knew what she meant his reply was, “No, I got them because I have bad eyesight.” This was in the middle of a game of Apples to Apples – yet again, as that’s basically the only board game we play. Even though it isn’t technically a board game because it’s just cards and no board. Well, the played Twister too. Which, again, not a board game.
-Cosmo’s War of the Planets
::: A few years ago Jim and I went to town and bought a load of cheesy movies for a dollar at Walmart. One of them had 4 movies on a single disc and they were all about alien invasions and encounters in outer space. The best out of all the four was called Cosmo’s “War of the Planets”. The plot is confusing, the characters are conflicting – even their names change halfway through the movie – the sound effects are non-existent and the music is far too loud. But, the movie is so cheesy that it’s fantastic. And it came out the same year as Star Wars so it really had no chance. We were thinking that the filmmakers of this one went to see Star Wars after they made theirs and said, “Well crap.” There were a lot more kids that watched it this year – usually it’s just the adults and the kids play Capture the Flag. That’s hardcore intensity in a game. Pure darkness. They get pretty into it. We only made it halfway through the movie before it was lights out.
DAY FIVE:
-Take me out to the Bowl Yard.
::: Every year we take the teens bowling. Mostly because it’s hot and after we added that extra day we ran out of organized activities to do with them. Anyway, we have to call ahead to reserve the place and we took up all but one lane. Mass hysteria. Every year we have our usual group bowl together but this year I was not only out Boggs, Martha and Cory I also lost Megz and Beth aka Boomer and Chickenfro so it was just me and Jim as the usuals. Plus Beck and Giggles aka Heidie who we bowled with last year. Yes we all have nicknames. Jim is Obi-Wan, Josh is Badger, and I’m Maynard. They originated the first year and we’ve stuck with them. I think Scuba Steve bowled with us last year too. But we try to keep the adults together, that way we give the kids a chance. HA! I sucked it up, majorly. I got like 1 strike in 3 games plus some spares. Or no, wait, was it four games? We stayed longer cause it was so hot outside and nice and cool in there. Whatever, my point is that I haven’t always sucked. In high school we did a section on it for P.E. and went bowling to learn how to keep score manually. I bowled a turkey aka three strikes in a row and got a high five from Tutor Hahm who was the teacher and not actually a Tutor or one of our teachers anymore either. After my Sophomore year he became Mr. Hahm. Now he’s Mr. Hahm and far far away… yet we still call him Tutor Hahm. It’s one of those things, you meet him that way as a Freshman and the name sticks. Plus bowling with us means the return of the slow clap. Last year we figured out that it doesn't matter how good you are - if we slow clap you you'll get a gutter ball. My favorite line from last year: "We won't judge you. We may slow clap you, but we won't judge you." That was one of mine.
-Thank you for calling Salty Dog Escort Service – I’ll have the extra salty please.
::: So, we went to Walmart to get soda pop after ordering 10 pizzas from Pizza Hut. Then picked up the pizzas and realized that wasn’t enough for over 30 people, especially with how many boys were there, so we ran back to Walmart and had perfect timing cause – okay, you know when you see someone who clearly just doesn’t blend in or look like they belong there. Like, one of these things is not like the other? Walmart in Nebraska is filled with hicks with redneck tans. This chick was about 6 foot with her black stilletos and skirt that was about 10 inches too short. And I’m of course with two older guys who just couldn’t stop laughing and making jokes about an escort service. “Where do you want to go?” “Well, let’s start at Walmart and go from there.” There isn’t a lot of options in that town. Other than Ray’s Apple Market and some bar called Wally’s. I just remember commenting on her and something about inches and Obi-Wan replied “Not every inch! Why would anyone want every inch of that?!”
-So close yet so far…
::: And a Budweiser plant. Which is just out of our reach and haunts our dreams. Not that we’d be stupid enough to bring alcohol to camp. We already had to call in the cops on our kids once. That was not a fun year. But it made for a good coming back to school story. “What’d you do this summer?” “Got a job, went swimming, taught VBS. What about you?” “Oh you know, directed a kids camp, caught them with alcohol, stayed up the whole night interviewing kids and decided to call the cops around 4AM who then showed up with their K9 unit and tore apart one of the cabins. Then got to hang out with the Sheriff while they searched the grounds. You know, the usual.”
-The Impossible Bedbugs vs. the Unstoppable Squiters
::: We try to play softball every year and make the teams semi-even. It was crazy this year though because we had the better team yet we kept getting smoked and 5-runned. BUT! We caught up! We were down by like 12, held them and were within 3 with the bases loaded and 2 out. Didn’t turn out in our favor but it was fun. I was stoked Scuba Steve and I got to be on the same team. That rarely happens.
-Impromptu Dance Party
::: So, a few years ago when we were talking about things to do with the teens someone suggested having a dance, to which another person replied, that would be lame. Which, it would be. If it was scheduled and planned. However, if someone happened to be playing music on their laptop while they waited for certain adults to come out and finish Cosmo’s with her and others surrounding her said, play some NSYNC and she just happened to have some, an impromptu dance party might take place. And it did. For half an hour. With my music. And Bailey’s ipod for Party in the USA. Another age gap thing I think. Miley Cyrus isn’t my strongpoint.
-Cosmo’s War of the Planets take two
::: Finished the Cosmo’s. Did I mention we watch it every year since we’ve bought it. It’s hysterical. Even though it’s not supposed to be. So finished that and then watched Clue. Which is another tradition. Those are basically the two movies we watch. Plus a serious one if we have time. The first night we decided to watch HeeHaw instead.
DAY SIX:
-I hate mornings.
::: Breakfast at 8:30, then camp cleanup, packing up the trailer and closing service all done before 12:30. Shock. Usually we’re there ‘til at least 2. Church was fun, Hillman is a great speaker and we sang more than anything else. The teens this year were very impressive voice-wise. Josh was loving it. We ended with King Jesus is All – actions included “Weeellllll….” – followed closely by Someday. Which the kids soon learned is not my favorite song after singing for 5 days straight. My voice is shot. Completely. And that’s high soprano stuff. Never-ending high soprano stuff. It sucks. But the song is great. Another fun ringtone. I enjoy leading it, lots of clapping and all that. It’s semi-dorky but sounds totally awesome.
-Stumbling Isn’t Falling
::: That may be, but why would you use that as a slogan for a chiropractor clinic? It’s interesting the buildings you pass by in small towns. I love the historic buildings, they’re so pretty. Small towns are so cool. I miss small town life/farm life. You could see the stars. Camp was awesome cause the skies were clear at night. Wish I had a camera that could take actual pictures of stars, not just pitch black screens. The drive back went okay – and of course we had to stop for McDonalds as is tradition. Me, Scuba Steve and Obi-Wan go every year. Sit in practically the same booth and get basically the same thing. Except this year I went for the chicken selects over the hamburger. All in all it was a good year. Nobody had to go home from homesickness, nobody got majorly injured, we didn’t have to call the cops… And! Guess what I got to drive through on my way back home….. JANSEN!!
The song that started it all: "Pop" NSync
aka the impromptu dance party. it started here, went to backstreet boys, spice girls, bieber, miley, cupid shuffle, etc etc etc ended with the cha cha slide. this is my favorite of their videos. yes i was a fan. get over it.
The song to end all songs: "Where Oh Where" HeeHaw
was super proud of my 7th and 8th graders for pulling this off. now just gotta write more verses for next year.
DAY ONE:
-The Sideways Hat Theory
::: So, I have this theory. I call it the sideways hat theory. It goes something like this. I’m the boss. Well, me, Jim and Pastor, plus Phil, Liz, Jayne, Cantrell, Steve and Cherie. Those are all the section leaders. But I handled all the registrations, assignments, schedule, ordering stuff – my name is on everything they send in and everything that goes out. So, everyone associates camp with me. But! When they all show up and I wear my hat backwards and slightly sideways they walk straight past me because I look like a Junior Counselor. It’s awesome because they go to someone else with their problems…but then of course the adults they go to then come to me so I’m screwed anyway.
-“Get my Cantrell on”
::: Night patrol sucks. I didn’t realize that before I had to do it. People don’t give our usual guy enough credit. Seriously. Those 3rd graders kicked my butt. I couldn’t believe it. They were up later than the 8th graders. It was crazy, every time I walked by I was all “It’s passed lights out. Go to bed.” “We can’t sleep!” Try it anyway. Okay. So they would try. Then I’d walk by again a few minutes later and they were waving around glow sticks and laughing. Go to bed! “We can’t sleep!” “Close your eyes and count to 100.” Okay. So then they’d try that. Yeah, no. I wanted to yell Go to bed!! I want to shower and go to sleep!! Ahhh!! It was amusing though to sneak up to cabins and join in their conversations. They jumped.
-“Looks like I have junk”
::: The teen helpers this year rocked it. I was proud. Which is new, cause last year they were awful. Well, some of them anyway. My skits and worship crew was fantastic - got the kids to sing, played guitar, helped with skits. I was proud. And the teens are really funny. Especially when you get them all together to sing Pharaoh Pharaoh. It gets pretty intense. Got myself a new ringtone.
-I live my life behind the tab.
::: We have these songbooks with all of our music in them. The sacred songs are in the front and then there are silly songs in the back behind the tab. Everything is in alphabetical order but there’s a tab to separate the sacred from the silly. I like to think I live my life behind the tab, amongst the not so serious. That way I can jam out with My Bonnie, Catalina Madalina, and Three Myopic Rodents, argue about holes in buckets, and repeat after myself with The Bear Song all day long. Which is what I did this week at work while shelving. Well, that one and HeeHaw. Which I’ll get to shortly.
DAY TWO:
-Take ‘em to the bridge
::: Timberlake style. Saturday means taking the kids tubing down the river. It’s not the safest river but it’s fun. Steve and I took the front, checking for danger in the water and all that. Yes, danger in the water. “This was no boating accident!” There’s a lot of cars down there, and trees and metal and all that sticking out of the water. We start just right outside the gate where there is a bridge and we go past one bridge and to the second one to be picked up. It usually takes a couple hours to float all the way there but this time the water was pretty high so the current took us there in about an hour and a half.
-“This is about the time when Phil said there’s no water”
::: Last year the pipes got clogged and we didn’t have water for a few days. And, with all the timing, it started right when we got back from tubing so no one could shower and it was just disgusting. This year we were pulling in and Steve had brought up that last year this is when we learned about all that. And then Phil stepped into the bus and we all held our breath. I was like, “Steve! If he says there’s no water I’m blaming it on you!” Last year we hosed down a bunch of kids with an actual garden hose. Then told them to jump in the pool. Which, in turn, made the pool disgusting. One of many reasons why I chose not to swim in it. Which leads me to my next tidbit.
-“It stings and I know why!!”
::: There’s this line in Will and Grace that Karen says when she goes to one of her Step-Kids’ swim meets. “A public pool?! Why doesn’t somebody just pee directly on me?!” That one sticks with me, which is why I’m not so much into swimming anymore. This particular line came from one of the teen helpers about kids in the pool and when your eyes start to sting from the water. It’s not the chlorine.
-“Where’s your lost and found?”
::: It’s amazing what someone can find under a cone on the game field here at camp. One of our game helpers found a pair of boys’ underwear and it was funny because she carries them all the way up to the cafeteria holding on to as little a piece of them as possible, brings them to me and asks where the lost and found was. Then, with her perfect timing, the nurse was there and asked “Somebody lose their skivvies?” It was hilarious. I told her to put them on the table against the wall, that’s usually where our lost and found starts before it gets moved outside. Then the nurse was like, “Don’t put them there! I deal meds there!” I think it’s one of those things that you had to be there for but it was hysterical.
-Gracebook: God would friend you
::: Every year at camp we discuss possible future camp themes. Everyone keeps dissing my idea of Brokeback Camp J – which is probably not a good theme but I’ve been joking about it ever since the movie came out. Usually we throw out a bunch of weird ones when we’re writing the awards. This year, because it’s so hot, we decided to skip the awards all together and just go with the skits. That way it was over sooner. The possible theme for next year is The Ultimate Transformer. Liz already has some ideas rolling around for her song. But Pastor had also suggested Gracebook instead of Facebook – God’s Social Network or something like that. I found it amusing. But the t-shirts would be cool. We like to keep them related to TV shows, movies, music – that way the kids can tie them to them. Like this year it was Jesus is my Guiding Light so there was a lot of soap opera drama – even the kitchen help did a skit at the campfire – year before that it was Extreme Makeover: God’s Edition, few years before that it was Survivor in Christ based on the Survivor show, we’ve also done Fear Factor, and Mission Possible – not impossible, possible….and many others. But it’s cool to have that tie-in so the kids are excited about it.
- “I can’t believe I turned around for that”
::: Ever since we did the theme “Survivor in Christ” like 5-6 years ago, maybe more, we have all the cabins come up with their own cabin cheer. Some of them are really original, some of them not so much. I guess it depends on your perspective. If you’re a 5th grade boy and don’t like campfire, singing, or cheers, watching the 7th grade girls form a line and spell dynamite wrong probably isn’t all that appealing. Not that he noticed you spell it with an A and not an O. We did. Whatever. The point was that there were so many of the 7th grade girls that we didn’t have space enough for them to spread out to do their cheer so we made everyone turn around on their benches to see them do it in the back where there was more room. Long story short he was not a fan.
DAY THREE:
-And *pbbb* You Was Gone.
::: Sunday’s events always include breakfast, camp cleanup, church service and the skits right after it. I give the kids the skits when they get stuck with us for an hour during the day when they make their rounds. We go over the songs and then the skits then we kick them out for their next period. But, in the case for the 7th/8th boys and 8th grade girls their skit was a song. And not just any song. Oh yeah. It was The song. You know the one I’m talking about. The one I’ve been talking about for a few weeks now. Posting and reposting the video. Singing while I’m shelving. Driving everyone nuts with it. That’s right. HeeHaw. Yes, I made them do HeeHaw. I’ve reached the ultimate low. But they loved it. As did the parents. Of course in my intro I had to tell them how I heard about the skit in the first place and blamed it all on my dad and his DVR. But the parents loved the whole thing and requested for it to be an annual thing. Guess I’ll be writing more verses. Originally we were going to make them sing one verse then have one grade perform their skits, then have them be an interlude then move up to the next grade, lather, rinse, repeat but, me being as unorganized as I am, totally forgot. So, we just made them do it all at the end. It was a battle royale. Girls vs. Boys. Girls sang one verse and the refrain and the boys answered with a different verse and refrain. I think I ended with about 6 verses. And on the last one the boys sang the verse and we all joined in on the refrain, yelling it in each other’s faces. I’ll have to upload the video. We got the last one on tape. Hysterical.
-“Jansen!”
::: So, we were making our usual teen camp grocery run on Sunday afternoon after the teens had started to arrive. We planned on getting food for supper plus supplies for Monday at least. It’s ridiculous how much food 29 teens go through in a couple of days. So, we’re driving and we see all these clothes and a towel on the gravel. It looked like they had fallen off the top of someone’s car. Turns out they had fallen out the back. We pulled on to the highway and saw one of our helpers stranded on the side. His fuel pump went out. Jim lent him his phone and he called his mom. And this guy is over 60 so his mom is probably pretty far up there. Anyway, she was apparently hard of hearing, so he had to repeat things about 20 times, getting louder each time. We tried not to laugh, but when you’re in this weather and you’re miserable, even the tiniest things can be hysterical. I swear we heard the word JANSEN!!! in that phone call more than most southern Nebraskan’s have in their entire life. We ended up just towing him back home, then coming back and going grocery shopping. It didn’t take too much longer. I fell asleep after playing Angry Birds. Jim claims that I slept-talked about evil green pigs. There was a lot of yelling the following words throughout camp because of this incident: “Jansen.” “Rock Creek Station.” “Jansen!” “PFD Road” “JANSEN!” “I’m between Steele City and Endicott!” “JANSEN!!!”
-Ben’s Little Blue Slew
::: Turns out that teens will eat or drink anything. Even if it looks like the color of the river they went tubing on. Tang + raspberry lemonade + grape juice = A disgusting looking dirty river-colored drink. It was surprisingly delightful. I think that’s true for a lot of things at camp though. Everything tastes better at camp. Like, I hate Gatorade. I can’t stand it. Especially that fruit punch crap. I have no idea why. But at camp, it’s awesome. Maybe it’s because we’re so hungry and we’re so thirsty so, because it’s sustenance, it’s perfection. But it’s gotta be something more. I mean, at teen camp we’re spoiled. Steaks, burgers, pizza, tacos, fancy breakfast stuff. Much better than I eat at my apartment.
-Chickens In The Sandbox
::: One of the other counselors here was talking about her chickens. They live in town but her daughter talked her into buying chickens. So they keep them in their backyard in their old jungle gym thing. You know where you got like the two levels with the sandbox on bottom then the slide and the triangle roof and all that. Yeah, her kids weren’t using it anymore so they put boards around the sandbox, took the ladder and put it sideways and they love it. And apparently chickens aren’t actually chicken. In the scared sense of the word. They chase right after you. Then try to come in the house after the dogs do. But, of course they’re not allowed in so they end up tapping the glass door with their beaks while the dogs stare at them through it. Reminds me of Carter when we’re at the farm in the winter. He looks out at the outdoor cats and says, “Haha, I’m inside in the warm and you’re out in the snow. Look at me, all nice and warm. I shall walk back and forth in front of this window strutting and bragging because I’m so cool and you’re just cold.” Okay, so he doesn’t actually say that…out loud. But I swear that’s what he’s thinking. Just like right now when he’s staring at me like, “Why aren’t you feeding me? You left me alone with your sister for a week and she just laughed at how fat I am and made fun of the bullseye on my side. She thinks I want to eat her. I wouldn’t have to if she feeds me more. Talk to her. Tell her I need more food. And treats. I like treats.” I need to stop using the Garfield/Carter voice, it’s freaking me out. “PS – she stole your DVD and made fun of your Marshmallow Mateys. She didn’t listen when I tried to tell her that Second Sister talked you into buying them.”
-Do you have a concussion?
::: Sometimes you do have to worry about teens in the pool. You know when they hit their head on the side and one of them says, “Do you have a concussion? Quick what number am I thinking of?” When the one who hit her head replies with “Pizza” it’s time to get out of the pool. Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water… Well, there’s that and one of them wearing 2 right shoes tubing down the river. But it was her mom that packed them.
-the Thing and the Thing
::: So, Sketch and I have this thing. Where we’ve been friends for so long that we know what each other is thinking. We call it “the Thing and the Thing”. Because that’s what it is. Sometimes it’s really amusing. Especially when you live thousands of miles apart, haven’t talked in days and decide to text each other at the exact same minute. Apparently we can only be apart for so long.
-You’ll shoot your eye out!
::: I’m in a quandary. Ken gave me a slingshot. A homemade one. With a lead bullet. Mine is red. He gave Jim a black one. The quandary is that if I shoot it inside I’ll break something but if I shoot it outside I’ll lose my bullet. But I want to shoot it. I’m glad I got the red one. When he was showing Jim how to shoot the black one the rubber band came off and hit him in the face. These can apparently shoot through a deck of cards.
-Everybody Loves Jim
::: More quandaries. I have two ideas for this year’s song. Either I rewrite “Everybody Loves Me” by OneRepublic to “Everybody Loves Jim” cause I keep telling him it’s his theme song or I take “Sitting, Waiting, Wishing” by Jack Johnson and stick in my camp highlights like always. I’m leaning toward the latter. And I’ll make “Everybody Loves Jim” an ongoing project. "And he shall be called, Wonderful Counselor, Mighty Electronic Wizard, Everlasting Chef, Prince of Camp." He and I are stuck with camp for all of eternity. Or so we’ve been told. Maybe I’ll scrap them both and rewrite “16 Military Wives” by the Decemberists. I’m hooked on that freaking song. – I wrote this one earlier, I started with the Jack Johnson one and have made progress but nothing final. It’s harder to write a parody by yourself when you’re used to having your Delayed…Reaction partner helping you. He chose to get engaged this weekend instead. Which is probably a better choice, considering we’re all crazy and it was super hot outside.
-Everlasting HeeHaw on the wall
::: Every year at teen camp we watch movies on the wall. And it’s tradition that at least one of them is cheesy. So, when Ken brought me a copy of the 10th Anniversary of HeeHaw filmed in 1978 I couldn’t say no. Especially after putting everybody through that skit. Oh. My. God. I thought that thing was never ending. And now, I’m gonna have to buy it online for Dad because I know he’d love it cause it’s filled with all these musical performances and their best skits and all that. And he’s gonna make me watch it with him. Again. Crap. Just reminds me of Roseanne Roseannadanna. “and I thought I was gonna die!”
-Oreos on my stomach
::: Yes, on my stomach. See, I’m the cool aunt. I stuff my nieces with oreos and send them to bed. But that only works when there aren’t 100 other kids around. It causes stampedes. So when they came toward me I shoved the box under my shirt. And it just looked like I had swallowed the box whole. Claire just kept laughing and couldn’t stop. Then she punched me in the stomach and it was hilarious cause you could hear the crunch. The kids looked over and I made her stand in front of me. “What was that?” “Nothing. I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
-It’s official. I’m old.
::: Oh my god, so Noel and I were playing Apples to Apples with all the kids – we started it actually and they joined in, but it was awful because there’s such a generation gap. References/People the kids didn’t know: Austin Powers, Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Casablanca, Mahatma Gandhi, Georgia O’Keefe, …. See, I’m only 23. And with my daily routine that puts me as usually the youngest at what I’m doing – directing camps, working at the desk, etc. So it’s weird for me to actually have to explain something to a younger generation while feeling totally sad that they’ve missed out on life.
-Freaking Spiders.
::: I’m covered in bites. At first I thought they were all mosquito bites. Now that one on my foot has made my ankle swell to twice its size they say it’s an allergic reaction to something – possibly a spider. Maybe it was Aragog and his children. Don’t they live in the woods? or the Forbidden Forest. Our woods were filled with poison ivy, that makes them forbidden, right?
DAY FOUR:
-Tubing down the Little Blue
::: I stayed back while the kids went tubing. I was exhausted, plus my foot was all swelled and I didn’t want to have to walk down a river after the water had dropped a foot dragging my ankle through all the gross. I worked on the song. And watched Warehouse 13. Cause I’m awesome like that.
-The Slow Clap
::: Another theme at camp is somehow we always end up slow clapping someone. This time it was slow clapping a song. We sang Awesome God at campfire and he was playing it a little slower than what we’re used to so we were clapping and it was like super super long time between claps. Abnormal even. So Bailey and I were like “Screw it! Double Time!” Fixed it.
-“Woops, shouldn’t dance to that.”
::: A lot of our songs have actions, especially the sacred ones. There’s a lot of crosses and lifting your arms up and clapping and all that. Our favorite one to dance to is Pharaoh Pharoah. Or King Jesus is All. But sometimes we get really into it and dance to the others. Even when it’s on a somber note. So, when you’re leading, and end up dancing to a line that goes something like, “There in the ground his body lay” you should probably tone it down a little.
-More teen help hysteria
::: So, one of the kids has those round glasses like Harry Potter and a girl was trying to ask him if he got those glasses because he was a Harry Potter fan. But she didn’t word it correctly and even though we/he knew what she meant his reply was, “No, I got them because I have bad eyesight.” This was in the middle of a game of Apples to Apples – yet again, as that’s basically the only board game we play. Even though it isn’t technically a board game because it’s just cards and no board. Well, the played Twister too. Which, again, not a board game.
-Cosmo’s War of the Planets
::: A few years ago Jim and I went to town and bought a load of cheesy movies for a dollar at Walmart. One of them had 4 movies on a single disc and they were all about alien invasions and encounters in outer space. The best out of all the four was called Cosmo’s “War of the Planets”. The plot is confusing, the characters are conflicting – even their names change halfway through the movie – the sound effects are non-existent and the music is far too loud. But, the movie is so cheesy that it’s fantastic. And it came out the same year as Star Wars so it really had no chance. We were thinking that the filmmakers of this one went to see Star Wars after they made theirs and said, “Well crap.” There were a lot more kids that watched it this year – usually it’s just the adults and the kids play Capture the Flag. That’s hardcore intensity in a game. Pure darkness. They get pretty into it. We only made it halfway through the movie before it was lights out.
DAY FIVE:
-Take me out to the Bowl Yard.
::: Every year we take the teens bowling. Mostly because it’s hot and after we added that extra day we ran out of organized activities to do with them. Anyway, we have to call ahead to reserve the place and we took up all but one lane. Mass hysteria. Every year we have our usual group bowl together but this year I was not only out Boggs, Martha and Cory I also lost Megz and Beth aka Boomer and Chickenfro so it was just me and Jim as the usuals. Plus Beck and Giggles aka Heidie who we bowled with last year. Yes we all have nicknames. Jim is Obi-Wan, Josh is Badger, and I’m Maynard. They originated the first year and we’ve stuck with them. I think Scuba Steve bowled with us last year too. But we try to keep the adults together, that way we give the kids a chance. HA! I sucked it up, majorly. I got like 1 strike in 3 games plus some spares. Or no, wait, was it four games? We stayed longer cause it was so hot outside and nice and cool in there. Whatever, my point is that I haven’t always sucked. In high school we did a section on it for P.E. and went bowling to learn how to keep score manually. I bowled a turkey aka three strikes in a row and got a high five from Tutor Hahm who was the teacher and not actually a Tutor or one of our teachers anymore either. After my Sophomore year he became Mr. Hahm. Now he’s Mr. Hahm and far far away… yet we still call him Tutor Hahm. It’s one of those things, you meet him that way as a Freshman and the name sticks. Plus bowling with us means the return of the slow clap. Last year we figured out that it doesn't matter how good you are - if we slow clap you you'll get a gutter ball. My favorite line from last year: "We won't judge you. We may slow clap you, but we won't judge you." That was one of mine.
-Thank you for calling Salty Dog Escort Service – I’ll have the extra salty please.
::: So, we went to Walmart to get soda pop after ordering 10 pizzas from Pizza Hut. Then picked up the pizzas and realized that wasn’t enough for over 30 people, especially with how many boys were there, so we ran back to Walmart and had perfect timing cause – okay, you know when you see someone who clearly just doesn’t blend in or look like they belong there. Like, one of these things is not like the other? Walmart in Nebraska is filled with hicks with redneck tans. This chick was about 6 foot with her black stilletos and skirt that was about 10 inches too short. And I’m of course with two older guys who just couldn’t stop laughing and making jokes about an escort service. “Where do you want to go?” “Well, let’s start at Walmart and go from there.” There isn’t a lot of options in that town. Other than Ray’s Apple Market and some bar called Wally’s. I just remember commenting on her and something about inches and Obi-Wan replied “Not every inch! Why would anyone want every inch of that?!”
-So close yet so far…
::: And a Budweiser plant. Which is just out of our reach and haunts our dreams. Not that we’d be stupid enough to bring alcohol to camp. We already had to call in the cops on our kids once. That was not a fun year. But it made for a good coming back to school story. “What’d you do this summer?” “Got a job, went swimming, taught VBS. What about you?” “Oh you know, directed a kids camp, caught them with alcohol, stayed up the whole night interviewing kids and decided to call the cops around 4AM who then showed up with their K9 unit and tore apart one of the cabins. Then got to hang out with the Sheriff while they searched the grounds. You know, the usual.”
-The Impossible Bedbugs vs. the Unstoppable Squiters
::: We try to play softball every year and make the teams semi-even. It was crazy this year though because we had the better team yet we kept getting smoked and 5-runned. BUT! We caught up! We were down by like 12, held them and were within 3 with the bases loaded and 2 out. Didn’t turn out in our favor but it was fun. I was stoked Scuba Steve and I got to be on the same team. That rarely happens.
-Impromptu Dance Party
::: So, a few years ago when we were talking about things to do with the teens someone suggested having a dance, to which another person replied, that would be lame. Which, it would be. If it was scheduled and planned. However, if someone happened to be playing music on their laptop while they waited for certain adults to come out and finish Cosmo’s with her and others surrounding her said, play some NSYNC and she just happened to have some, an impromptu dance party might take place. And it did. For half an hour. With my music. And Bailey’s ipod for Party in the USA. Another age gap thing I think. Miley Cyrus isn’t my strongpoint.
-Cosmo’s War of the Planets take two
::: Finished the Cosmo’s. Did I mention we watch it every year since we’ve bought it. It’s hysterical. Even though it’s not supposed to be. So finished that and then watched Clue. Which is another tradition. Those are basically the two movies we watch. Plus a serious one if we have time. The first night we decided to watch HeeHaw instead.
DAY SIX:
-I hate mornings.
::: Breakfast at 8:30, then camp cleanup, packing up the trailer and closing service all done before 12:30. Shock. Usually we’re there ‘til at least 2. Church was fun, Hillman is a great speaker and we sang more than anything else. The teens this year were very impressive voice-wise. Josh was loving it. We ended with King Jesus is All – actions included “Weeellllll….” – followed closely by Someday. Which the kids soon learned is not my favorite song after singing for 5 days straight. My voice is shot. Completely. And that’s high soprano stuff. Never-ending high soprano stuff. It sucks. But the song is great. Another fun ringtone. I enjoy leading it, lots of clapping and all that. It’s semi-dorky but sounds totally awesome.
-Stumbling Isn’t Falling
::: That may be, but why would you use that as a slogan for a chiropractor clinic? It’s interesting the buildings you pass by in small towns. I love the historic buildings, they’re so pretty. Small towns are so cool. I miss small town life/farm life. You could see the stars. Camp was awesome cause the skies were clear at night. Wish I had a camera that could take actual pictures of stars, not just pitch black screens. The drive back went okay – and of course we had to stop for McDonalds as is tradition. Me, Scuba Steve and Obi-Wan go every year. Sit in practically the same booth and get basically the same thing. Except this year I went for the chicken selects over the hamburger. All in all it was a good year. Nobody had to go home from homesickness, nobody got majorly injured, we didn’t have to call the cops… And! Guess what I got to drive through on my way back home….. JANSEN!!
The song that started it all: "Pop" NSync
aka the impromptu dance party. it started here, went to backstreet boys, spice girls, bieber, miley, cupid shuffle, etc etc etc ended with the cha cha slide. this is my favorite of their videos. yes i was a fan. get over it.
The song to end all songs: "Where Oh Where" HeeHaw
was super proud of my 7th and 8th graders for pulling this off. now just gotta write more verses for next year.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
We can get crazy let it all out....
Why are the pockets always sewn shut in dress pants? Do men have that problem? Are your pockets sewn shut too or is that just another "let's torture the woman-kind thing"?
Like, "Ha! We will give them something that looks suspiciously like a pocket but when they try to use it...EPIC FAIL!"
Why are they giving you a pocket in the first place if you have no access to it? Is that some sort of style thing? Like, "These pants would look awkward without pockets. Let's give them fake ones." Cause you know, real ones would be just too functional.
And then, if you try to cut your way into it, you cut a hole in the pants. And really, how can you explain that at something like camp when you're surrounded by 100 kids?
"Um, I needed a pocket."
"So you made one yourself?"
"Well, sort of. Not that it's functional. But it's more of a pocket than the one they gave me."
And then they'd look at me funny.
Well, moreso than usual.
I know if I didn't add that Oldest Sister would.
No, I didn't cut a hole in my pants. I did buy new capri-type whatevers for camp but then realized that army green would look really bad with tangerine camp t-shirts - not that I aim for fashion, but since there will be parents and I'm supposed to look semi-adult and you know director-ish...I have no idea where I was going with that. Long story short the pants are staying here not only because it's super hot and I won't wear them anyway, but also because the pockets just make me mad. Or lack of pockets. Seriously. It's like the taunt you.
"Haha, you thought you could use us, but no!"
Yes, I know, this is very ranty and when I read that last line outloud it came with a French accent... I will try to tone it down a bit.
Was grandpa left-handed? Cause I have one of his shirts and the buttons are on the wrong side. I put it on when I'm stressed. Or cleaning. Which usually means I'm stressed anyway cause really the only way my apartment gets cleaned is if I'm avoiding doing something else. Like, oh! I have to write 8 skits by Friday morning! I'm gonna clean the apartment. Or, hey, isn't that paper due tomorrow? Nope, gonna clean the apartment. So, if you come to my apartment and it's actually cleaned and not just things thrown in the back closet with the door closed, BEWARE!
I'm freaked. Directors are dropping like flies - one of the tri-directors bailed, another has kidney stones, Jim is gone, Liz won't be there 'til Saturday night so the 6-headed monster is just down to me and Pastor. and Jayne. Who's a miracle worker in the kitchen. Plus Cherie for crafts. But music is me with 3 teen help and Nic. Because we're making her come. For Friday anyway. Then it's Becca on Saturday and I'm assuming Sunday.
And, if you took any part of that beginning rant seriously, you'd realize that no, I haven't written/found skits yet. Well, I started. You know, looking through a website and tagging a few. But they suck. Cause they're not mine. But I think mine always suck anyway. So maybe they're okay.
Jim says we should do "tankety-tank-tank" again. Think I'll save that for next year maybe since the boys that did it 5th grade year are only 8th graders now. After they're teen help and/or gone enough time will have passed to use it again.
It's my favorite so far. I'll post it later. Along with the list of others I use. Or used. As this is my last post for like a week. Yeah, Wednesday night I come back. Then work 9-6 Thursday.
But I love my job. And my boss. Who gave me 3 points today for Food Drive related statements. Basically what I learned by co-chairing it leadership-wise. I came up with some oddball stuff, I think there were 13 things I'd learned that I listed and maybe 2 of them were serious. Like how to get to all the branches and how much the Food Bank does with so little support. The others were more like if you text Fearless Leader *invisible milkjug dance* *invisible milkjug dance* over and over she'll remember to pick up empty milkjugs after work. Or Remember to grab your apartment keys out of your vehicle if you're switching with someone or you'll get locked out of your apartment for 8 hours. And if I mention the words "Food" and "Drive" to the Cool Aunt she'll drive over and donate. Oh, btw - if you're reading this, we won the competition. Downtown had the most total but per person we dominated. Mostly because there's only 7 of us.
Woops, did I just let that slip. Well, I'm e-mailing the announcement tomorrow during work anyway. So for those of you reading this before like 1PM...ish maybe 2 or 3, congrats. You've got the...what do you call it when you get the news before everyone else? Dish? or like Inside Scoop? Whatever. I can't even think of real words how am I supposed to write skits?
WHO PUT ME IN CHARGE OF THIS ANYWAY?! I was volunteered! I honestly don't know how this happened. But I'm here. And I love it. Mostly. So I should probably get back to it. Or clean my apartment.
But speaking of work, SHE'S SAFE! Well, for now anyway. Unless they really do plan to fire me - they're going to have to do it over the phone. That'll be pleasant. Budget cuts at work suck.
Oh, btw, I'm thinking of making my 7th/8th grade boys do this:
Seriously. Or like a series of them between skits. I found a bunch of others. Maybe I'll make them do it between each grade or something. But getting an older boy to sing is like bloody murder. Especially when the girls are around. But I got Jeffrey. He's brave. I'll make him be lead. Or his sister will since she's my teen helper. He was the victim of tankety-tank-tank too.
Okay, I was literally singing that refrain over and over and over while shelving this morning. Drove me bananas. So, gonna blast it out with this one, find skits, shower, finish packing...or maybe I'll just clean my apartment. And watch Warehouse 13.
Watch this.
Everyone loves H.G. Wells.
Badass.
"You were covetting my grappler."
...
"It's a little old fashioned."
"Well, it wasn't when I invented it."
See, and now I've lost all motivation again. Okay, kicking myself off of here.
I'll post next week, in the meantime enjoy this little vacation. You put up with all my crap all the time, take some time off. You deserve it.
Tonight, Tonight - Hot Chelle Rae
Summer song makes another appearance because I'm clueless as to anything other than Where Oh Where's theme of the day.
Like, "Ha! We will give them something that looks suspiciously like a pocket but when they try to use it...EPIC FAIL!"
Why are they giving you a pocket in the first place if you have no access to it? Is that some sort of style thing? Like, "These pants would look awkward without pockets. Let's give them fake ones." Cause you know, real ones would be just too functional.
And then, if you try to cut your way into it, you cut a hole in the pants. And really, how can you explain that at something like camp when you're surrounded by 100 kids?
"Um, I needed a pocket."
"So you made one yourself?"
"Well, sort of. Not that it's functional. But it's more of a pocket than the one they gave me."
And then they'd look at me funny.
Well, moreso than usual.
I know if I didn't add that Oldest Sister would.
No, I didn't cut a hole in my pants. I did buy new capri-type whatevers for camp but then realized that army green would look really bad with tangerine camp t-shirts - not that I aim for fashion, but since there will be parents and I'm supposed to look semi-adult and you know director-ish...I have no idea where I was going with that. Long story short the pants are staying here not only because it's super hot and I won't wear them anyway, but also because the pockets just make me mad. Or lack of pockets. Seriously. It's like the taunt you.
"Haha, you thought you could use us, but no!"
Yes, I know, this is very ranty and when I read that last line outloud it came with a French accent... I will try to tone it down a bit.
Was grandpa left-handed? Cause I have one of his shirts and the buttons are on the wrong side. I put it on when I'm stressed. Or cleaning. Which usually means I'm stressed anyway cause really the only way my apartment gets cleaned is if I'm avoiding doing something else. Like, oh! I have to write 8 skits by Friday morning! I'm gonna clean the apartment. Or, hey, isn't that paper due tomorrow? Nope, gonna clean the apartment. So, if you come to my apartment and it's actually cleaned and not just things thrown in the back closet with the door closed, BEWARE!
I'm freaked. Directors are dropping like flies - one of the tri-directors bailed, another has kidney stones, Jim is gone, Liz won't be there 'til Saturday night so the 6-headed monster is just down to me and Pastor. and Jayne. Who's a miracle worker in the kitchen. Plus Cherie for crafts. But music is me with 3 teen help and Nic. Because we're making her come. For Friday anyway. Then it's Becca on Saturday and I'm assuming Sunday.
And, if you took any part of that beginning rant seriously, you'd realize that no, I haven't written/found skits yet. Well, I started. You know, looking through a website and tagging a few. But they suck. Cause they're not mine. But I think mine always suck anyway. So maybe they're okay.
Jim says we should do "tankety-tank-tank" again. Think I'll save that for next year maybe since the boys that did it 5th grade year are only 8th graders now. After they're teen help and/or gone enough time will have passed to use it again.
It's my favorite so far. I'll post it later. Along with the list of others I use. Or used. As this is my last post for like a week. Yeah, Wednesday night I come back. Then work 9-6 Thursday.
But I love my job. And my boss. Who gave me 3 points today for Food Drive related statements. Basically what I learned by co-chairing it leadership-wise. I came up with some oddball stuff, I think there were 13 things I'd learned that I listed and maybe 2 of them were serious. Like how to get to all the branches and how much the Food Bank does with so little support. The others were more like if you text Fearless Leader *invisible milkjug dance* *invisible milkjug dance* over and over she'll remember to pick up empty milkjugs after work. Or Remember to grab your apartment keys out of your vehicle if you're switching with someone or you'll get locked out of your apartment for 8 hours. And if I mention the words "Food" and "Drive" to the Cool Aunt she'll drive over and donate. Oh, btw - if you're reading this, we won the competition. Downtown had the most total but per person we dominated. Mostly because there's only 7 of us.
Woops, did I just let that slip. Well, I'm e-mailing the announcement tomorrow during work anyway. So for those of you reading this before like 1PM...ish maybe 2 or 3, congrats. You've got the...what do you call it when you get the news before everyone else? Dish? or like Inside Scoop? Whatever. I can't even think of real words how am I supposed to write skits?
WHO PUT ME IN CHARGE OF THIS ANYWAY?! I was volunteered! I honestly don't know how this happened. But I'm here. And I love it. Mostly. So I should probably get back to it. Or clean my apartment.
But speaking of work, SHE'S SAFE! Well, for now anyway. Unless they really do plan to fire me - they're going to have to do it over the phone. That'll be pleasant. Budget cuts at work suck.
Oh, btw, I'm thinking of making my 7th/8th grade boys do this:
Seriously. Or like a series of them between skits. I found a bunch of others. Maybe I'll make them do it between each grade or something. But getting an older boy to sing is like bloody murder. Especially when the girls are around. But I got Jeffrey. He's brave. I'll make him be lead. Or his sister will since she's my teen helper. He was the victim of tankety-tank-tank too.
Okay, I was literally singing that refrain over and over and over while shelving this morning. Drove me bananas. So, gonna blast it out with this one, find skits, shower, finish packing...or maybe I'll just clean my apartment. And watch Warehouse 13.
Watch this.
Everyone loves H.G. Wells.
Badass.
"You were covetting my grappler."
...
"It's a little old fashioned."
"Well, it wasn't when I invented it."
See, and now I've lost all motivation again. Okay, kicking myself off of here.
I'll post next week, in the meantime enjoy this little vacation. You put up with all my crap all the time, take some time off. You deserve it.
Tonight, Tonight - Hot Chelle Rae
Summer song makes another appearance because I'm clueless as to anything other than Where Oh Where's theme of the day.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
I have the magic ingredient, it's called Splenda.
Freakin' H.G. Wells. Seriously. The woman is a mystery. But the finale was fantastic, and sad. Gonna have to find the first episode of season three online cause duuude...cliffhanger.
So yes, you'd think that after a hard day of moving 12 bins all over the place that were overflowing with food and weighed about 100 pounds each, plus collecting all the change, taking it to the bank to figure out the winner, and then coming back to work after all that - AND did I mention that I left my apartment keys in my car back at the farmhouse so I was locked out all day plus I took a detour to visit Oldest Sister's house to take care of their animals - that all I'd want to do is come back and write skits for camp. Write skits and plan and freak out about how I'm not ready and Skits & Worship is going to be a disaster without Liz because we only have 1 guitar... I have no idea for new skits I'll have to find some online because I don't have time or inspiration - i hate writer's block.
But no, instead I crashed on my bed and turned on season two of Warehouse 13 and watched the last disc. H.G. Wells is tricky. Is she good? Is she bad? Yes, that H.G. Wells, they turned him into a her and her into a mystery. I won't say anything more in case someone else on earth actually watches this show other than me. But yeah, the last disc, including when Claudia Donovan guest stars on Eureka in a big crossover episode.
"I came to Eureka and I got was this stupid fence?"
I tried that series but couldn't get into it, even though it's basically the same kind of story except in Eureka, Oregon instead of podunk South Dakota. And-
OH MY GOD that's a giant bug and it crawled across my wall. Gotta find a shoe.....
....
..
....
..
Or a dealer's license plate, that works as well. Dude. giant bug.
Now I'm just starving and exhausted. But my fridge is empty. Maybe I have something in the freezer.
Alright, I started packing. I'd upload a picture of my bedroom right now but it's probably enough to make even the messiest person scream in terror. And speaking of screaming in terror - I live in fear of opening my mailbox because every day I get more application forms for camp. I just love it when I get them on the 26th when camp is on the 29th and the deadline was the 1st. AKA 25 days ago.
Okay, food. Then crash. Long day tomorrow. Work all day then need to write all my skits - 9 of them btw...just throwing that out there. any ideas email me - then pack my car cause I'm leaving straight after work on Thursday.
Clip of the day:
The BAU does horoscopes
one of my favorite scenes.
Song of the night:
Blackbird - Glee Cast Version
OUT!
So yes, you'd think that after a hard day of moving 12 bins all over the place that were overflowing with food and weighed about 100 pounds each, plus collecting all the change, taking it to the bank to figure out the winner, and then coming back to work after all that - AND did I mention that I left my apartment keys in my car back at the farmhouse so I was locked out all day plus I took a detour to visit Oldest Sister's house to take care of their animals - that all I'd want to do is come back and write skits for camp. Write skits and plan and freak out about how I'm not ready and Skits & Worship is going to be a disaster without Liz because we only have 1 guitar... I have no idea for new skits I'll have to find some online because I don't have time or inspiration - i hate writer's block.
But no, instead I crashed on my bed and turned on season two of Warehouse 13 and watched the last disc. H.G. Wells is tricky. Is she good? Is she bad? Yes, that H.G. Wells, they turned him into a her and her into a mystery. I won't say anything more in case someone else on earth actually watches this show other than me. But yeah, the last disc, including when Claudia Donovan guest stars on Eureka in a big crossover episode.
"I came to Eureka and I got was this stupid fence?"
I tried that series but couldn't get into it, even though it's basically the same kind of story except in Eureka, Oregon instead of podunk South Dakota. And-
OH MY GOD that's a giant bug and it crawled across my wall. Gotta find a shoe.....
....
..
....
..
Or a dealer's license plate, that works as well. Dude. giant bug.
Now I'm just starving and exhausted. But my fridge is empty. Maybe I have something in the freezer.
Alright, I started packing. I'd upload a picture of my bedroom right now but it's probably enough to make even the messiest person scream in terror. And speaking of screaming in terror - I live in fear of opening my mailbox because every day I get more application forms for camp. I just love it when I get them on the 26th when camp is on the 29th and the deadline was the 1st. AKA 25 days ago.
Okay, food. Then crash. Long day tomorrow. Work all day then need to write all my skits - 9 of them btw...just throwing that out there. any ideas email me - then pack my car cause I'm leaving straight after work on Thursday.
Clip of the day:
The BAU does horoscopes
one of my favorite scenes.
Song of the night:
Blackbird - Glee Cast Version
OUT!
Monday, July 25, 2011
Dear Roseanne Roseannadanna
Highlights of today:
-Slept 'til noon. I know! I was shocked! That never happens here. Dad thinks 8AM is sleeping in.
-12-5 was putting up corn - Increments of every 10 bags of corn required a Woohoo! That's how we kept track.
It was Mom, Dad, me, Brother and Sister-In-Law and their kids plus Sister-in-law's mom so it didn't take too long. The kiddos were pretty helpful as well, shucking corn - well, the oldest one helped, the boy played angry birds on my ipod and the youngest refused to stay in the shop - which is where we did all the cleaning and stuff now that it has air conditioning - so I was chasing after her while trying to keep her away from the hot water.
Me: "What's on your shirt?"
Abbers: "A Donut!"
it was a monkey.
Mom: "Did you do that to my phone? It's like that card. You could reprogram my phone to Spanish and I wouldn't know how to change it back."
i put a picture of a knocked over pivot as her background.
-Dropped off lyrics and corn at my mentor's bank for her to look over. She's the one who writes the songs every year but this year she left it up to us. She gave us the thumbs up.
-Finally sat down and turned on last week's episode of The Closer cause the new one was on next and I was like, "Should we watch last week's?" and Mom was like "Sure, I watched it already." The thing starts and literally 30 seconds later she bombards me with questions about what's happening in the episode.
"I thought you said you saw this one."
"I forgot it already."
-And Dad of course, after I had watched all of Swamp People, forced me to watch Hee Haw. And the only thing that ever makes that bearable is when one of these pops up.
Where O Where
the refrain is always the same but the verses vary. love it.
Song of the day:
Cool Rider - Grease 2 Soundtrack
Sketch dared me to walk/dance like that past the cafeteria. Fortunately it was during winter time so it was too dangerous for me to agree.
Clip of the day:
Roseanne Roseannadanna
My hero. Final clip of her doing this ever. Sad day.
I love Gilda Radner, Roseanne Roseannadanna is my favorite, along with Emily Litella, but you should check out her Best Of SNL DVD. It's fantastic.
Tomorrow's gonna be super long even though it doesn't start until noon.
Food Drive central. Pick up all the barrels and drop them off at the two libraries plus go to bank to count change and switch out with bills plus figure out the winner to the branch competition and a prize for that winner. And I suck at all things baking so I think I might leave that one for Fearless Leader when she gets back. Dunno if I can do all that plus camp at this time. But I'll figure it out.
Keep you posted. Out!
-Slept 'til noon. I know! I was shocked! That never happens here. Dad thinks 8AM is sleeping in.
-12-5 was putting up corn - Increments of every 10 bags of corn required a Woohoo! That's how we kept track.
It was Mom, Dad, me, Brother and Sister-In-Law and their kids plus Sister-in-law's mom so it didn't take too long. The kiddos were pretty helpful as well, shucking corn - well, the oldest one helped, the boy played angry birds on my ipod and the youngest refused to stay in the shop - which is where we did all the cleaning and stuff now that it has air conditioning - so I was chasing after her while trying to keep her away from the hot water.
Me: "What's on your shirt?"
Abbers: "A Donut!"
it was a monkey.
Mom: "Did you do that to my phone? It's like that card. You could reprogram my phone to Spanish and I wouldn't know how to change it back."
i put a picture of a knocked over pivot as her background.
-Dropped off lyrics and corn at my mentor's bank for her to look over. She's the one who writes the songs every year but this year she left it up to us. She gave us the thumbs up.
-Finally sat down and turned on last week's episode of The Closer cause the new one was on next and I was like, "Should we watch last week's?" and Mom was like "Sure, I watched it already." The thing starts and literally 30 seconds later she bombards me with questions about what's happening in the episode.
"I thought you said you saw this one."
"I forgot it already."
-And Dad of course, after I had watched all of Swamp People, forced me to watch Hee Haw. And the only thing that ever makes that bearable is when one of these pops up.
Where O Where
the refrain is always the same but the verses vary. love it.
Song of the day:
Cool Rider - Grease 2 Soundtrack
Sketch dared me to walk/dance like that past the cafeteria. Fortunately it was during winter time so it was too dangerous for me to agree.
Clip of the day:
Roseanne Roseannadanna
My hero. Final clip of her doing this ever. Sad day.
I love Gilda Radner, Roseanne Roseannadanna is my favorite, along with Emily Litella, but you should check out her Best Of SNL DVD. It's fantastic.
Tomorrow's gonna be super long even though it doesn't start until noon.
Food Drive central. Pick up all the barrels and drop them off at the two libraries plus go to bank to count change and switch out with bills plus figure out the winner to the branch competition and a prize for that winner. And I suck at all things baking so I think I might leave that one for Fearless Leader when she gets back. Dunno if I can do all that plus camp at this time. But I'll figure it out.
Keep you posted. Out!
Sunday, July 24, 2011
good times never seemed so good
The time has come. Swamp People is officially over for the season. Sad day. But they tagged out so it's okay.
I love Troy and Elizabeth. Plus Jacob. They're my favorite team. Troy's the comic relief while Liz and Jacob are more sane.
"Lochness must have had a twin brother. Cause we just caught him." Good god, their boat is gonna sink. Tons of pounds of gator filling a boat in a storm. There's like 4 inches of boat over the water. Stupid.
"It's the only bad habit I got and I'm going with it." Junior's wife about smoking. Someone on the boat is always smoking. Doesn't matter which boat.
Today was a full day and actually pretty busy. Plus media central now that Amy Winehouse died. Total sad day that she joins the Forever 27 Club. True thing too. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, all died at 27. So apparently there's some sort of club. I don't know. Google it. Sounds like a curse to me.
Also, Lady Gaga shot a music video in a bean field here in the awesomeness that is Nebraska. We're assuming it's for her new song written about her Nebraska-born boyfriend.
So I was all excited because I get tomorrow off and I could do camp stuff. But my partner in crime is gone, and Nic is gone so it's just gonna be me. And I was like yay! I get to sleep in! I can stay around the house and work at my own pace, I'll get stuff done...but I walk in the door and Mom's like "we're doing corn tomorrow."
Crap.
The phrase "doing corn" means picking 80 million ears of corn, shucking them all, cleaning them all, then cutting them up and putting the pieces of corn in ziplock bags that are measured out. The process sucks. And it's disgusting cause you get all wet and sticky.
Man.
They better let me sleep in. I moved out for a reason.
Should'a stayed at my apartment.
Man.
Okay, why would someone who was put in a hospital because of a snakebite, be out during a full moon voluntarily catching snakes with his barehands for extra cash? Seriously?
With a long sleeve shirt and some gloves. Crazy.
But I like Willie. He's the one with one of his front teeth missing. Not the most school-smart hunter, but he's got some strength and swamp-smarts. yeah, swamp-smarts. I'm going with it. He usually hunts gators with his Dad.
Songs for tonight = Puck's greatest hits
Fat-Bottomed Girls - Glee version
love it.
Sweet Caroline - Glee version
Alright, out for the night. Have a good one.
I love Troy and Elizabeth. Plus Jacob. They're my favorite team. Troy's the comic relief while Liz and Jacob are more sane.
"Lochness must have had a twin brother. Cause we just caught him." Good god, their boat is gonna sink. Tons of pounds of gator filling a boat in a storm. There's like 4 inches of boat over the water. Stupid.
"It's the only bad habit I got and I'm going with it." Junior's wife about smoking. Someone on the boat is always smoking. Doesn't matter which boat.
Today was a full day and actually pretty busy. Plus media central now that Amy Winehouse died. Total sad day that she joins the Forever 27 Club. True thing too. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, all died at 27. So apparently there's some sort of club. I don't know. Google it. Sounds like a curse to me.
Also, Lady Gaga shot a music video in a bean field here in the awesomeness that is Nebraska. We're assuming it's for her new song written about her Nebraska-born boyfriend.
So I was all excited because I get tomorrow off and I could do camp stuff. But my partner in crime is gone, and Nic is gone so it's just gonna be me. And I was like yay! I get to sleep in! I can stay around the house and work at my own pace, I'll get stuff done...but I walk in the door and Mom's like "we're doing corn tomorrow."
Crap.
The phrase "doing corn" means picking 80 million ears of corn, shucking them all, cleaning them all, then cutting them up and putting the pieces of corn in ziplock bags that are measured out. The process sucks. And it's disgusting cause you get all wet and sticky.
Man.
They better let me sleep in. I moved out for a reason.
Should'a stayed at my apartment.
Man.
Okay, why would someone who was put in a hospital because of a snakebite, be out during a full moon voluntarily catching snakes with his barehands for extra cash? Seriously?
With a long sleeve shirt and some gloves. Crazy.
But I like Willie. He's the one with one of his front teeth missing. Not the most school-smart hunter, but he's got some strength and swamp-smarts. yeah, swamp-smarts. I'm going with it. He usually hunts gators with his Dad.
Songs for tonight = Puck's greatest hits
Fat-Bottomed Girls - Glee version
love it.
Sweet Caroline - Glee version
Alright, out for the night. Have a good one.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
This was no boating accident!
"Use the hair tie, it's on my right arm."
"I just thought it was an ugly bracelet."
Pete and Myka switch bodies. Laura Harris is a guest star in this one and guess what! It has commentary! Huzzah! Apparently she has a massive native american tattoo on her shoulder. I told you, nerd when it comes to WMC. Although I guess I can't blame that completely on WMC.
I love my boss. Just so you know, if you hadn't figured that out already. I text her in the morning to tell her I'm double scheduled and she lets me sleep in. Just another instance of My Boss is Cooler Than Your Boss mentioned here: My Life in Closed Captions: Here's a little segment called: "My boss is cooler... continued here: My Life in Closed Captions: Can I Keep You - Some Assembly Required and added to here.
12-6 then dinner/jam out session with Slim Shady. total relaxation. Now it's back to the Warehouse and then I'll crash. Fun fact, they have some sort of zodiac symbol in each episode of second season.
PS - there are Star Wars cookbooks at the library. I'm stoked. Although in order to use it would mean that I would actually have to cook something. We'll see.
I'm out. I know, I'm boring. Totally exhausted even though got to sleep in.
Never Going Back Again - Fleetwood Mac
been down two times
I don't understand how he can play that all by himself.
"I just thought it was an ugly bracelet."
Pete and Myka switch bodies. Laura Harris is a guest star in this one and guess what! It has commentary! Huzzah! Apparently she has a massive native american tattoo on her shoulder. I told you, nerd when it comes to WMC. Although I guess I can't blame that completely on WMC.
I love my boss. Just so you know, if you hadn't figured that out already. I text her in the morning to tell her I'm double scheduled and she lets me sleep in. Just another instance of My Boss is Cooler Than Your Boss mentioned here: My Life in Closed Captions: Here's a little segment called: "My boss is cooler... continued here: My Life in Closed Captions: Can I Keep You - Some Assembly Required and added to here.
12-6 then dinner/jam out session with Slim Shady. total relaxation. Now it's back to the Warehouse and then I'll crash. Fun fact, they have some sort of zodiac symbol in each episode of second season.
PS - there are Star Wars cookbooks at the library. I'm stoked. Although in order to use it would mean that I would actually have to cook something. We'll see.
I'm out. I know, I'm boring. Totally exhausted even though got to sleep in.
Never Going Back Again - Fleetwood Mac
been down two times
I don't understand how he can play that all by himself.
Friday, July 22, 2011
10 points for Gryffindor!
Subtitle: Shenanigans ensued.
Theme of the day: "Put on some music, it'll make her look less crazy."
I learned a lot things today.
1. Everything tastes better when you're drinking it out of a funky glass from your cool aunt. For instance - we made Butterbeer today, which sounds disgusting, but it was surprisingly delightful.
2. Beware when filming your Smart Cousin while she sings karaoke. I threatened to play it at her wedding and she threatened my life. "I will murder you at my wedding. I'm not above that."
3. Voldemort could have thought of much better/safer options for his horcruxes. "Old dirty underwear in a dump. No one would look for that." "That would be the best horcrux ever."
4. Gryffindor is the best house. Seriously. I kicked ass in Harry Potter trivia today. I was actually the first of our group to be sorted. Mostly because the Smart One would yell out trivia and I would answer it or finish her quote and she would respond with "Ten points for Gryffindor!" She ended up in Slytherin - sidenote, we would not be surprised if she turns out to be the next dark lord. She kind of has it all planned out already. Anagram'd name included. Watch out PotterMore! My Vegan cousin + Justoooone were in Ravenclaw, and the Young One - aka the youngest of all the cousins together, not just this group of us - voluntarily chose Hufflepuff. He said he's bringing it back. When you think about it, who is from Hufflepuff even other than Cedric Diggory who doesn't come around until the 4th movie and Susan Bones...who gets mentioned during the sorting hat scene in the first movie. At least Ravenclaw has Luna and Cho.
It was a very HP day. Cool Aunt made themed cookies, we watched 7A until the end when we ran out of time and they did a fast/comedic summary, then we played HP 20 questions which is actually really fun and difficult cause it's not just people you're guessing it's objects and places included. Vegan cousin chose Mad Eye Moody's eyeball, and Smart one and me went back and forth for like half an hour with that as our top choice but we kept hypothesizing because we didn't have many questions left.
And we saw HP7B in 3D which was awesome. and ran into one of our tech guys from work which is ironic because when I went to see the 2D version he was coming out as I was going in and the same with this one. Out of all the theaters and days and showings...
5. I finally understand why our family is so crazy and gets thrown out of places. I mean, I already knew we were crazy, but now I understand why. When you get all of us together our energy like builds until we're just this endless ball of adrenaline. Seriously. Plus, there is usually some amount of alcohol at these family gatherings/reunions/dinner whatever's and that just adds to it until we get loud and obnoxious and they kick us out.
6. I feel like an awful granddaughter. I freakin' live in the same town as Grams and I don't make enough time to go over there. We went over today to see her and she was so happy and so surprised that she just kept telling us how happy she was. Like I was all emotional about that which hopefully she didn't notice but I feel like crap. Cause I should go over there more often. I lived with the woman for months for crying out loud. Then went back to school and it was like complete life change. I don't know how to explain it. Other than I should go over there more.
and speaking of - totally feels weird going back to a house you used to live in, letting yourself in with the code and seeing all the furniture/setup different. My cousin is taking up residence there now so we jammed out there for a while.
Decisions made today include:
We need to start a cousin band named "Marvin Gardens" and write themed songs about Monopoly. And then others about Harry Potter. We all play different instruments so we could make it work.
Cousin roadtrip - this is always mentioned and thought about but it never actually takes place. We used to go all over the place - Florida, California, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon... us girl cousins are thinking Vegas. Last time we were there we were too young to get the whole experience of it. Maybe for like a weekend. But like I said, always just an idea.
Soak Up The Sun - Sheryl Crow
"maybe I am crazy too."
one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite artists. and a good theme for the day as well. her greatest hits is definitely in the running for most listened to CD in my collection.
and with that i leave you. i'm not sure about my schedule for tomorrow, it's conflicting which isn't unusual. I'll probably just go to one branch in the morning even though I'm not scheduled to go until 11 and then go to the other at 12 because yeah, overlapping and unlike the Smart One I'm not talented enough to be in two places at once.
Theme of the day: "Put on some music, it'll make her look less crazy."
I learned a lot things today.
1. Everything tastes better when you're drinking it out of a funky glass from your cool aunt. For instance - we made Butterbeer today, which sounds disgusting, but it was surprisingly delightful.
2. Beware when filming your Smart Cousin while she sings karaoke. I threatened to play it at her wedding and she threatened my life. "I will murder you at my wedding. I'm not above that."
3. Voldemort could have thought of much better/safer options for his horcruxes. "Old dirty underwear in a dump. No one would look for that." "That would be the best horcrux ever."
4. Gryffindor is the best house. Seriously. I kicked ass in Harry Potter trivia today. I was actually the first of our group to be sorted. Mostly because the Smart One would yell out trivia and I would answer it or finish her quote and she would respond with "Ten points for Gryffindor!" She ended up in Slytherin - sidenote, we would not be surprised if she turns out to be the next dark lord. She kind of has it all planned out already. Anagram'd name included. Watch out PotterMore! My Vegan cousin + Justoooone were in Ravenclaw, and the Young One - aka the youngest of all the cousins together, not just this group of us - voluntarily chose Hufflepuff. He said he's bringing it back. When you think about it, who is from Hufflepuff even other than Cedric Diggory who doesn't come around until the 4th movie and Susan Bones...who gets mentioned during the sorting hat scene in the first movie. At least Ravenclaw has Luna and Cho.
It was a very HP day. Cool Aunt made themed cookies, we watched 7A until the end when we ran out of time and they did a fast/comedic summary, then we played HP 20 questions which is actually really fun and difficult cause it's not just people you're guessing it's objects and places included. Vegan cousin chose Mad Eye Moody's eyeball, and Smart one and me went back and forth for like half an hour with that as our top choice but we kept hypothesizing because we didn't have many questions left.
And we saw HP7B in 3D which was awesome. and ran into one of our tech guys from work which is ironic because when I went to see the 2D version he was coming out as I was going in and the same with this one. Out of all the theaters and days and showings...
5. I finally understand why our family is so crazy and gets thrown out of places. I mean, I already knew we were crazy, but now I understand why. When you get all of us together our energy like builds until we're just this endless ball of adrenaline. Seriously. Plus, there is usually some amount of alcohol at these family gatherings/reunions/dinner whatever's and that just adds to it until we get loud and obnoxious and they kick us out.
6. I feel like an awful granddaughter. I freakin' live in the same town as Grams and I don't make enough time to go over there. We went over today to see her and she was so happy and so surprised that she just kept telling us how happy she was. Like I was all emotional about that which hopefully she didn't notice but I feel like crap. Cause I should go over there more often. I lived with the woman for months for crying out loud. Then went back to school and it was like complete life change. I don't know how to explain it. Other than I should go over there more.
and speaking of - totally feels weird going back to a house you used to live in, letting yourself in with the code and seeing all the furniture/setup different. My cousin is taking up residence there now so we jammed out there for a while.
Decisions made today include:
We need to start a cousin band named "Marvin Gardens" and write themed songs about Monopoly. And then others about Harry Potter. We all play different instruments so we could make it work.
Cousin roadtrip - this is always mentioned and thought about but it never actually takes place. We used to go all over the place - Florida, California, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon... us girl cousins are thinking Vegas. Last time we were there we were too young to get the whole experience of it. Maybe for like a weekend. But like I said, always just an idea.
Soak Up The Sun - Sheryl Crow
"maybe I am crazy too."
one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite artists. and a good theme for the day as well. her greatest hits is definitely in the running for most listened to CD in my collection.
and with that i leave you. i'm not sure about my schedule for tomorrow, it's conflicting which isn't unusual. I'll probably just go to one branch in the morning even though I'm not scheduled to go until 11 and then go to the other at 12 because yeah, overlapping and unlike the Smart One I'm not talented enough to be in two places at once.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Sushi for lunch + Fajitas/Margaritas for Supper = Best Food Day Ever
Today was mass craziness/awesomeness.
9-11 as an LA2 plus 11-12 as an Aide, then sushi with Second Sister and her kiddos - I have so many freaking leftovers it's insane - then stopped by work ON MY DAY OFF CAUSE I'M CRAZY! to do some Food Drive stuff. It actually worked out well because I got to get skit material. Now I can have the inspiration that I keep putting off. After that it was cleaning my apartment - couch included, then jalapeno margaritas!! with the cousins, then they came and hung out for a while and now I'm off to bed.
Sushi was fun, we ordered far too much but that's usual. Gotta love those leftovers. They're best at 2AM. We also hit up the candyshop as well. Little KJ was excited about his gummy spiders and BekBek had her Hello Kitty marshmallow thing so they were all over it.
Cleaning was an expedition. Seriously. I want the place clean so when I come back from camp it won't be nightmare-esque. But I was vacuuming and I'm like I should vacuum the couch. And yeah, don't think anyone has ever done that to this couch before. And I got it from Grams house and yeah. Found some interesting stuff. Lots of pens and spare change and all that, also some post-its, a magnetic O - Grams had this magnet board thing with all the letters that you could spell stuff out with - and then some sort of knitting thing that actually belonged to my cousin who I saw tonight! So that worked out well. She lived with Grams after I lived with her and I knew it wasn't mine so... yeah. But now it's clean! As is my apartment. For now. We'll see how long that lasts with my cat.
I love my family. Seriously. They're fantastic. We hit up our favorite mexican place and got some jalapeno margaritas for the table! minus those under 21, talked about lots of movie/tv stuff and all that and tomorrow!! we're gonna go see Harry Potter 7B in 3D! Huzzah! Cause I love it. And the Cool Aunt and Justooooone haven't seen it yet. So that's tomorrow. and Justooooone has a cape. That they bought. So we'll see if he's gonna be brave enough to wear it.
And yeah, they came over for a while and we watched a bunch of youtube clips while they played with my big fat cat. Harry Potter Musical clips on youtube are awesome. Darren Criss as Harry Potter is amusing.
But I'm gonna work in the morning, we're gonna meet up after that and go see Grams then watch Harry Potter 7A and then go see Harry Potter 7B in 3D. sorry, that's funny to me. I love it! "I've always to use that spell!"
song for the night then I'm out:
The video seems more like someone's drug-addled visions put on tape. But whatever.
This song was one of the first songs I ever uploaded onto iTunes. However, I didn't know the title. It was filed under SONG THAT IS ALWAYS STUCK IN MY HEAD. I'm pretty sure it would have stayed filed that way until Arizona senior year when I finally got tired of not knowing the title and had to google the lyrics. We were down there for a basketball tournament - btw, there is such a town as Corn On The Cob, Arizona. We gave Smo crap for it. We were driving to their high school and suddenly she was like "Did that sign say Corn On The Cob 6 Miles?!" We were like you're imagining things. Are you on something? Who would name a town Corn on the Cob? Seriously? And yeah, on the way back we saw the sign and had to take pictures under it. Corn On The Cob, Arizona. I don't remember where I was going with this. Oh, right, iTunes. Yeah, had to google it cause it was driving me nuts. But we're good now.
out!
9-11 as an LA2 plus 11-12 as an Aide, then sushi with Second Sister and her kiddos - I have so many freaking leftovers it's insane - then stopped by work ON MY DAY OFF CAUSE I'M CRAZY! to do some Food Drive stuff. It actually worked out well because I got to get skit material. Now I can have the inspiration that I keep putting off. After that it was cleaning my apartment - couch included, then jalapeno margaritas!! with the cousins, then they came and hung out for a while and now I'm off to bed.
Sushi was fun, we ordered far too much but that's usual. Gotta love those leftovers. They're best at 2AM. We also hit up the candyshop as well. Little KJ was excited about his gummy spiders and BekBek had her Hello Kitty marshmallow thing so they were all over it.
Cleaning was an expedition. Seriously. I want the place clean so when I come back from camp it won't be nightmare-esque. But I was vacuuming and I'm like I should vacuum the couch. And yeah, don't think anyone has ever done that to this couch before. And I got it from Grams house and yeah. Found some interesting stuff. Lots of pens and spare change and all that, also some post-its, a magnetic O - Grams had this magnet board thing with all the letters that you could spell stuff out with - and then some sort of knitting thing that actually belonged to my cousin who I saw tonight! So that worked out well. She lived with Grams after I lived with her and I knew it wasn't mine so... yeah. But now it's clean! As is my apartment. For now. We'll see how long that lasts with my cat.
I love my family. Seriously. They're fantastic. We hit up our favorite mexican place and got some jalapeno margaritas for the table! minus those under 21, talked about lots of movie/tv stuff and all that and tomorrow!! we're gonna go see Harry Potter 7B in 3D! Huzzah! Cause I love it. And the Cool Aunt and Justooooone haven't seen it yet. So that's tomorrow. and Justooooone has a cape. That they bought. So we'll see if he's gonna be brave enough to wear it.
And yeah, they came over for a while and we watched a bunch of youtube clips while they played with my big fat cat. Harry Potter Musical clips on youtube are awesome. Darren Criss as Harry Potter is amusing.
But I'm gonna work in the morning, we're gonna meet up after that and go see Grams then watch Harry Potter 7A and then go see Harry Potter 7B in 3D. sorry, that's funny to me. I love it! "I've always to use that spell!"
song for the night then I'm out:
The video seems more like someone's drug-addled visions put on tape. But whatever.
This song was one of the first songs I ever uploaded onto iTunes. However, I didn't know the title. It was filed under SONG THAT IS ALWAYS STUCK IN MY HEAD. I'm pretty sure it would have stayed filed that way until Arizona senior year when I finally got tired of not knowing the title and had to google the lyrics. We were down there for a basketball tournament - btw, there is such a town as Corn On The Cob, Arizona. We gave Smo crap for it. We were driving to their high school and suddenly she was like "Did that sign say Corn On The Cob 6 Miles?!" We were like you're imagining things. Are you on something? Who would name a town Corn on the Cob? Seriously? And yeah, on the way back we saw the sign and had to take pictures under it. Corn On The Cob, Arizona. I don't remember where I was going with this. Oh, right, iTunes. Yeah, had to google it cause it was driving me nuts. But we're good now.
out!
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Oh no, the babysitter exploded!
I'm stoked! They're bringing back "All That"! Well, re-running it anyway. If you've never heard of it it's like the kids version of SNL. It ran on Nickelodeon from '94 to about 2005. Basically launched the careers of Kenan Thompson, Amanda Bynes, Nick Cannon, etc. I find it awesome that Kenan is now on SNL.
Now they're bringing it back from like midnight to 4 along with a bunch of other awesome 90's shows and calling it "The 90's Are All That" with the All That logo. It'll be like "the Amanda Show" - "court dismissed! bring in the dancin' lobsters!", Clarissa Explains it All, Kenan & Kel, Doug, ROCKET POWER! Which I'm stoked for! I was a total skater nerd because of that show. I sucked but I was still a skater nerd. Hence the "hawk" in erynhawk.
Anyway, All That - they did this one spoof of Harry Potter called OHMYGOD I found it!!! I've been looking for this clip for years!!! Sorry, did I mention stoked?
Spoof of Harry Potter called Harry Bladder and he battled Lord Moldyshorts. And then there was Re-Ron and HerHiney as his best friends. And it was hysterical.
AND I FOUND IT!
just ignore the first sketch.
"Look what you've done to HerHiney!"
I remember it being less awkward. But dude! I've like googled this skit in so many ways that I'd given up. But it lives! It lives!
Episode was hosted by Melissa Joan Hart with Usher as the musical guest.
But yeah, it's like mini-SNL with all the sketches and all that. That particular one has haunted me for years. I can remember where I was and who I was with when I saw it the first time. Seriously. I have no idea why. But I do.
And yeah, stoked. It's supposed to start on the 25th then of course I'll be at camp so I'll miss a lot of them. I don't know how long it's gonna last. I'll watch them online.
Okay, gotta zen myself out. Songs for the night:
You Were Meant For Me - Jewel
love her.
Who Will Save Your Save - Jewel
i find her intro completely fascinating. kermit the frog. hilarious. love the variations of her voice.
did i mention i was a nerd.
Okay, gonna Warehouse it up. Yes, nerd. Get it out. Just say it. I know you want to. I'm a nerd. But you're the one still reading this.
out!
Judge Trudy from The Amanda Show
because i know my uncle is such a big fan of foreign subtitles.
"Look, we can but-hey all day but you're still gonna lose!"
COURT DISMISSED BRING IN THE DANCIN' LOBSTERS!
Now they're bringing it back from like midnight to 4 along with a bunch of other awesome 90's shows and calling it "The 90's Are All That" with the All That logo. It'll be like "the Amanda Show" - "court dismissed! bring in the dancin' lobsters!", Clarissa Explains it All, Kenan & Kel, Doug, ROCKET POWER! Which I'm stoked for! I was a total skater nerd because of that show. I sucked but I was still a skater nerd. Hence the "hawk" in erynhawk.
Anyway, All That - they did this one spoof of Harry Potter called OHMYGOD I found it!!! I've been looking for this clip for years!!! Sorry, did I mention stoked?
Spoof of Harry Potter called Harry Bladder and he battled Lord Moldyshorts. And then there was Re-Ron and HerHiney as his best friends. And it was hysterical.
AND I FOUND IT!
just ignore the first sketch.
"Look what you've done to HerHiney!"
I remember it being less awkward. But dude! I've like googled this skit in so many ways that I'd given up. But it lives! It lives!
Episode was hosted by Melissa Joan Hart with Usher as the musical guest.
But yeah, it's like mini-SNL with all the sketches and all that. That particular one has haunted me for years. I can remember where I was and who I was with when I saw it the first time. Seriously. I have no idea why. But I do.
And yeah, stoked. It's supposed to start on the 25th then of course I'll be at camp so I'll miss a lot of them. I don't know how long it's gonna last. I'll watch them online.
Okay, gotta zen myself out. Songs for the night:
You Were Meant For Me - Jewel
love her.
Who Will Save Your Save - Jewel
i find her intro completely fascinating. kermit the frog. hilarious. love the variations of her voice.
did i mention i was a nerd.
Okay, gonna Warehouse it up. Yes, nerd. Get it out. Just say it. I know you want to. I'm a nerd. But you're the one still reading this.
out!
Judge Trudy from The Amanda Show
because i know my uncle is such a big fan of foreign subtitles.
"Look, we can but-hey all day but you're still gonna lose!"
COURT DISMISSED BRING IN THE DANCIN' LOBSTERS!
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Aye Aye, Captain Bligh
Jammin' on my couch. Eatin' corn. Watchin' Warehouse 13.
"We interrupt this concert to bring you your regularly scheduled job."
I want Claudia's headphones. Oh! Look! She's from Firefly! Jewel Staite, she plays Kaylee. And she guest starred on Dead Like Me. With Laura Harris aka Jill. Who also guest starred on Warehouse. But she'll forever be Jill. Yeah, yeah, WMC. Moving on.
Today went pretty fast even though it was pretty long. 9-1, 2-4, 6-8.
Mom brought my cellphone so I'm back with the world! I had to actually set an alarm alarm on a clock clock instead of just my alarm on my cell. Was afraid I would sleep through it but it worked. I set two separate ones actually.
And Cool Aunt stopped by today with stuff for the Food Drive, huzzah! She rocks. And on Thursday it'll be jalapeno margaritas!
So, got Warehouse 13 Season Two from Target and I watched the first episode because of the major cliffhanger from last season but I haven't seen any of the others yet. Which of course I'm choosing to watch even though I have movies due back to the library next week. Eh. I'll get to them.
It's Super Myka!
pretty much the cheesiest dialogue in the show and she's dressed like catwoman. She doesn't usually look like that. I mean, she's a badass but she's like a secret service badass. In a suit. With a Tesla.
As badass as Myka can be, Claudia Donovan is still my hero.
Boom Goes The Dynamite
Serendipity
love the look from Artie there at the end.
Disturbia music video to Warehouse clips
cause i'm a nerd. don't worry i didn't make it.
Basically the premise is that Myka and Pete were secret service agents who protect the president and one day they're mysteriously reassigned to guard this warehouse in podunk South Dakota. But! The Warehouse - number 13 after the previous 12 burnt to the ground or exploded etc - is filled with mysterious artifacts from all over the world. Artie calls it America's Attic.
But there's stuff like Sylvia Plath's typewriter which makes you completely depressed,
Harriet Tubman's thimble which changes your appearance,
the disco ball from Studio 54 makes people dance,
H.G. Wells' Time Machine that allows you to be someone from the past, etc. But H.G. Wells is a chick. In this anyway.
and Nikola Tesla's pistol which stuns people instead of you know killing them with bullets. It's cool.
But yeah, so these artifacts all over the world start causing trouble and problems and stuff so they go snag them, bag them, and tag them then bring them back to the Warehouse.
Yes I'm a nerd. Get over it.
Okay, eating, watching, and soon will be crashing. So, I'll throw these at you and give you a break for the night.
"Juicy" Better Than Ezra
family song.
"Birds of a Feather" The Rosenbergs
castle song. love it.
OUT!
"We interrupt this concert to bring you your regularly scheduled job."
I want Claudia's headphones. Oh! Look! She's from Firefly! Jewel Staite, she plays Kaylee. And she guest starred on Dead Like Me. With Laura Harris aka Jill. Who also guest starred on Warehouse. But she'll forever be Jill. Yeah, yeah, WMC. Moving on.
Today went pretty fast even though it was pretty long. 9-1, 2-4, 6-8.
Mom brought my cellphone so I'm back with the world! I had to actually set an alarm alarm on a clock clock instead of just my alarm on my cell. Was afraid I would sleep through it but it worked. I set two separate ones actually.
And Cool Aunt stopped by today with stuff for the Food Drive, huzzah! She rocks. And on Thursday it'll be jalapeno margaritas!
So, got Warehouse 13 Season Two from Target and I watched the first episode because of the major cliffhanger from last season but I haven't seen any of the others yet. Which of course I'm choosing to watch even though I have movies due back to the library next week. Eh. I'll get to them.
It's Super Myka!
pretty much the cheesiest dialogue in the show and she's dressed like catwoman. She doesn't usually look like that. I mean, she's a badass but she's like a secret service badass. In a suit. With a Tesla.
As badass as Myka can be, Claudia Donovan is still my hero.
Boom Goes The Dynamite
Serendipity
love the look from Artie there at the end.
Disturbia music video to Warehouse clips
cause i'm a nerd. don't worry i didn't make it.
Basically the premise is that Myka and Pete were secret service agents who protect the president and one day they're mysteriously reassigned to guard this warehouse in podunk South Dakota. But! The Warehouse - number 13 after the previous 12 burnt to the ground or exploded etc - is filled with mysterious artifacts from all over the world. Artie calls it America's Attic.
But there's stuff like Sylvia Plath's typewriter which makes you completely depressed,
Harriet Tubman's thimble which changes your appearance,
the disco ball from Studio 54 makes people dance,
H.G. Wells' Time Machine that allows you to be someone from the past, etc. But H.G. Wells is a chick. In this anyway.
and Nikola Tesla's pistol which stuns people instead of you know killing them with bullets. It's cool.
But yeah, so these artifacts all over the world start causing trouble and problems and stuff so they go snag them, bag them, and tag them then bring them back to the Warehouse.
Yes I'm a nerd. Get over it.
Okay, eating, watching, and soon will be crashing. So, I'll throw these at you and give you a break for the night.
"Juicy" Better Than Ezra
family song.
"Birds of a Feather" The Rosenbergs
castle song. love it.
OUT!
Monday, July 18, 2011
By the time that we get through the world will never ever be the same and you're to blame.
I left my phone at the farmhouse. I called Mom from my sister's house. "Yes, I have your phone. It was in my chair." So if you've been trying to get in touch with me and I haven't answered that's why. You can text my mother if you're so inclined. I'm not sure if she knows how to answer it on my phone though.
You could be like Superwoman. Work people kept calling my mother when they were trying to get a hold of me because they had that number on my record. Then mom would have to call me to relay the message so I gave my boss my cell to switch it out and she says, "Maybe we like talking to your mother." She is quite enjoyable.
Today: yes, we wrote the song posted below but also we did get a lot done, talked to the tshirt dude, cleaned out the trailer - Ahh!! and finished the actual song. Well, it's more like a verse, we're adding a verse to an existing song. Chicken strips of awesomeness for lunch.
I hate making nametags. I don't know how the program works, I can't use it. I hate it. I hate Vista. Stupid Vista. We blame everything we don't like on Vista even if it had nothing to do with computers. It works well for us. Even made the song two years ago. Which I think was the last time the program worked. And that's only because my Delayed...Reaction partner worked a miracle as he was in charge of them.
I filled out the whole database with everything but then when I went to print nothing showed up. But it was there. I know it was cause I saw it, just not when I printed it. Stupid Vista.
But we made an icecream run. They basically melted all over Nicole in the passenger seat. Madness.
My cousins are in town! I have a lot of cool cousins but these ones are actually my age! so that's nice. The Cool Aunt called and says she's taking us out for jalapeno margaritas later this week. Huzzah!
"Hey There Delilah" Plain White T's
awesome.
"Banana Pancakes" Jack Johnson
love him and this
OUT!
You could be like Superwoman. Work people kept calling my mother when they were trying to get a hold of me because they had that number on my record. Then mom would have to call me to relay the message so I gave my boss my cell to switch it out and she says, "Maybe we like talking to your mother." She is quite enjoyable.
Today: yes, we wrote the song posted below but also we did get a lot done, talked to the tshirt dude, cleaned out the trailer - Ahh!! and finished the actual song. Well, it's more like a verse, we're adding a verse to an existing song. Chicken strips of awesomeness for lunch.
I hate making nametags. I don't know how the program works, I can't use it. I hate it. I hate Vista. Stupid Vista. We blame everything we don't like on Vista even if it had nothing to do with computers. It works well for us. Even made the song two years ago. Which I think was the last time the program worked. And that's only because my Delayed...Reaction partner worked a miracle as he was in charge of them.
I filled out the whole database with everything but then when I went to print nothing showed up. But it was there. I know it was cause I saw it, just not when I printed it. Stupid Vista.
But we made an icecream run. They basically melted all over Nicole in the passenger seat. Madness.
My cousins are in town! I have a lot of cool cousins but these ones are actually my age! so that's nice. The Cool Aunt called and says she's taking us out for jalapeno margaritas later this week. Huzzah!
"Hey There Delilah" Plain White T's
awesome.
"Banana Pancakes" Jack Johnson
love him and this
OUT!
2G's version of Oh Lord of Light
So, we decided to write a song for Camp J this year since our usual songwriter can't. It started out serious...but then, of course with our 2G Gang at the wheel, it got wacked out along the way.
To the tune of "Oh, Lord of Light"
"We went to Dairy Delite.
It was quite a sight.
Jim passed a kidney stone,
Through his parietal bone.
He was wearing too much cologne
While playing a very loud trombone.
And Adam & Eve sat down to laugh
While drawing a double-bar graph.
Nicole ordered a blizzard
And cut it up with scissors.
Then it started to melt
So the side of the building she pelt
With such great force we were kicked out
And sat on the sidewalk to pout.
Threw our icecream down a spout
And out flopped a rainbow trout.
Pastor shmoozed and they let us back in.
Said we belong in the looney bin.
He ordered a parfait,
Approved by the USDA.
Next he wanted to have a drink
Saying it was the missing link.
He swallowed it whole, losing all control,
And out the door he did stroll."
Nicole: "Why don't you have a verse?"
FINE!
Verse Four:
"We followed him back to the school,
Riding on a mule.
Carrie said 'It's too freaking hot!'
Jim said 'That's right, I forgot!'
When we got to the school we all konked out,
And were woken up by a Boy Scout.
He said 'Come with me under the sea'
So we sign off as 2G."
Nicole: "I'm not quite sure what the accident was but the guy was wearing a sweater!"
pastor is wearing his sweater driving home cause he doesn't want to carry it. he says he might faint while driving.
To the tune of "Oh, Lord of Light"
"We went to Dairy Delite.
It was quite a sight.
Jim passed a kidney stone,
Through his parietal bone.
He was wearing too much cologne
While playing a very loud trombone.
And Adam & Eve sat down to laugh
While drawing a double-bar graph.
Nicole ordered a blizzard
And cut it up with scissors.
Then it started to melt
So the side of the building she pelt
With such great force we were kicked out
And sat on the sidewalk to pout.
Threw our icecream down a spout
And out flopped a rainbow trout.
Pastor shmoozed and they let us back in.
Said we belong in the looney bin.
He ordered a parfait,
Approved by the USDA.
Next he wanted to have a drink
Saying it was the missing link.
He swallowed it whole, losing all control,
And out the door he did stroll."
Nicole: "Why don't you have a verse?"
FINE!
Verse Four:
"We followed him back to the school,
Riding on a mule.
Carrie said 'It's too freaking hot!'
Jim said 'That's right, I forgot!'
When we got to the school we all konked out,
And were woken up by a Boy Scout.
He said 'Come with me under the sea'
So we sign off as 2G."
Nicole: "I'm not quite sure what the accident was but the guy was wearing a sweater!"
pastor is wearing his sweater driving home cause he doesn't want to carry it. he says he might faint while driving.
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