Funny Quotes

I imagine that everybody is ready to shoot me in the street for not having posted for weeks. Here is another post to preserve the peace! Funny quotes from the last three days: "Oh, first you steal Connecticut Avenue and now you steal my mad skill too!" -Me, playing Monopoly w/ family "But putting your game piece on every square is fun! It's like taking a little trip!" -Mom, playing Monopoly "They're the type of boys that fill water guns with milk and them squirt them at each other." -Kate, talking about her old neighbors "Now that Apples has embarassed herself in front of the city and county of Broomfield exactly seventy times..." -Me, slipping down the hill when going sledding

It's Beginning to Look a Lot like Christmas...

Heck yes it is! TIS SNOWING! And not the crappy half-inch stuff either! 7 INCHES! But of course school won't be cancelled. (I'm trying reverse psycology, if I say it won't close school, it will) And christmas decorations are up, people are baking cookies, this is a picture perfect christmas! demeI need to start making/buying presents!

Utah...

I have emerged, struggling, from the evil clutches of the car after a eight-hour battle. This sounds a lot cooler than "I just drove home from Utah." That was really long in a way, and really short in another. Here is a summary of the trip's events.

• Tuesday: Pack for trip.
• Have dad get very mad at mum for taking forever.
• Drive from house.
• Get severely POed at Mo for getting the wrong cord for the DVD player, cutting off some of our entertainment.
• Spend eight hours listening to Pride and Prejudice, eating Mike+Ike's until wanting to throw up, sleeping, having people sleep on your lap, listing all the geographical landmarks beginning with "A", and reading.
• Enter Utah Valley.
• Go on trip down memory lane with mom and dad from their college days (insert Mo: "Hey, look Moriah! There's where you were concieved!" Thanks Dad.)
• *Grumpily retrieves the keyboard from Mo* Give Randy+ Jen (aunt and uncle) and offspring (Kiersten, Natalie, Ian and Truman) fifteen minute warning before we show up.
• Show up and talk for several minutes.
• Make plans to go to dinner to Brick Oven (a pizza place where, fun fact, Dad took Mum on the date when he first kissed her) with Randy+Jen+Offspring.
• Register for Turkey Trot, four-mile race on Turkey day.
• Go to Brick Oven with Randy+Jen+Offspring, order pasta, stuff face.
• Go back to R+J+O's house.
• Play scrabble with Mo, Kiersten, and Natalie.
• Go home, fall asleep in car.
• Arrive at grandparent's empty house that we are staying at while they're in Japan.
• Wednesday: Get mad because everybody is taking forever to get ready.
• Revive Mo from heart attack after seeing our uncle David's picture of when he was younger, and looked a lot like a certain someone...
• Shop at Wal-Mart for christmas presents for relations, food (there is none of it in the house), and ballet flats for Mo.
• Go home, have lunch, watch Back to the Future III.
• Drive to Seth+Karelynn (aunt+uncle) and offspring (Kenzie+Kendyl)'s house.
• Take tour of house, gape at some of Seth's drawings. (he's an animator for Sony (he was using GOLD LEAF))
• Watch Surf's Up (one of the movies Seth worked on) with cousins. It was definitely better than Monster House.
• Drive home.
• Cooked dinner, ate dinner.
• Watched Mobsters and Mormons, one of the funniest movies EVER! Even dad was laughing his head off!
• Go to bed.
• Thursday, Turkey Day: Awoken by mother at 5 am. Not very happy about this.
• Get ready to run a race. Am cautioned about how cold it is out there.
• Go to race. Realize how cold it is out there.
• Meet up with relations. (Grandpa Hippen, Aunt Holly, Cousins Allison, James, Elaine, and Steven, Aunt Hillory, Cousins Serenity and Katie, Uncle Seth, Aunt Karelynn, Cousins Kenzie and Kendyl, Uncle Nate, Aunt Heather, Cousins Chase, Avery and Courtney, Uncle Eran, Aunt Hannah, and Cousin Sydney *whew*)
• Participate in Turkey Trot. Make up story about worm mosh pit. Nearly get frostbite.
• Eat after race snacks, watch "kid's races".
• Try to win turkey/pie from random drawing. Are grievously disappointed.
• Go home, use binoculars to view huge stoplight. Scream. Get laughed at.
• Watch Earnest. (P2P's version was better, but this one is still great!)
• Take nap.
• Wake up.
• Take another nap.
• Go to Grandparent's house for Thanksgiving dinner.
• Watch Meet the Robinsons (pretty stupid) with cousins
• Engage in lively conversation with Aunts and Uncles (Eran is so funny!)
• Watch part of Night at the Museum witih cousins.
• Uncle Eric, Aunt Ginette, and Cousins Connor and Declan arrive.
• Eat Thanksgiving dinner. Get third helpings. Nearly throw up.
• Go on walk with some of relations (too lazy to list them all)
• Return to eat "the pie course".
• Eat a slice of pumpkin pie. Feared explosion.
• Watch part of "Hairspray" with cousins.
• Discuss scary movies with Aunts and Uncles.
• Go home, sleep.
• Friday: Spend eight hours listening to Pride and Prejudice, eating Mike+Ike's and Milk Duds until wanting to throw up, sleeping, having people sleep on your lap, and reading.
• Return home to our 45 degree house in honor and glory.

Looking back, I watched a lot of movies and nearly threw up quite a lot on this trip. Oh well. Hope everyone had lots of purkey and some tumpkin tie!

The Optimism List

Things I'm Happy About or Thankful For

1. I'm alive.

2. My mother

3. My father

4. My sister

5. God's love

6. That I live in a free land

7. I have a house

8. Said house has heating

9. I have enough food

10. I get to learn about a lot of stuff

11. I have the means to communicate with my friends.

12. I have friends.

13. I have amazing friends.

14. I have clothes

15. Music

16. Encores

17. Great books

18. Fuzzy socks

19. When an audience starts clapping on the beat

20. Michael Buble

21. When your sister writes stories and puts you in them

22. Musicals

23. The Hallelujah chorus

24. Humming

25. Colorful sharpies

26. Finding old journals from third grade

27. Christmas

28. Babies

29. Talking to computers

30. Having Taz make your make-up crazy

31. Thanksgiving

32. Finding Ms. Bunting's break-up notes in your desk

33. Discussing these notes for fifteen minutes in class

34. Completely mental Beatles songs

35. Muffins

36. 3/4 time signature

37. Hair Curlers

38. Little girls with really poofy dresses

39. Little boys with huge cumberbuns

40. Boys wearing suits

41. Shouting out an answer at Brain Bowl

42. Orange peelers

43. Clementines at Thanksgiving

44. The shuffle button on music players

45. Old people pretending to be Jamaican

46. Bean bags

47. Socks that say "no nonsense" on them

48. No school

49. Snow

50. Autumn leaves not getting raked

51. Running around with your friends screaming because of a tick

52. Your teachers treating you like an equal

53. Pumpkin cake

54. Waterfalls in the mountains

55. Having straight A's (that'd be something to be happy about!)

56. Getting published (in my dreams)

57. Looking out the window of a plane and seeing both the ocean

and the mountains

58. Cream pan and orange juice for breakfast

59. Sudoku books

60. Driving in a car at night in Wyoming

61. Being able to see so many more stars than normal while driving because of little light pollution in Wyoming

62. That we're done with inequalities in math (they suck, especially absoulute value inequalitites)

63. Being able to make french silk pie.

64. Playing duck-duck-goose with cousins

65. Aspen trees

66. The Flatirons

67. Playing silent ball and *accidentally* hitting Johnathan's head in Science class

68. That I don't have cancer or other deadly diseases.

69. Mangoes

70. Mondays off (no early forensics!)

71. Borrowing Mo's shirts

72. 50 cent mashed potatoes at the cafeteria

73. Shakespeare

74. Lying in a beam of sunlight on a saturday morning

75.Tire swings

76. Zoos

77. Pillow Fights

78. Cats sitting in my lap

79. Singing in the shower

80. Playing stalker/secret agent/spy

81. Running around in the rain and getting soaked

82. Pajama pants

83. Pie day in math class

84. Frost on pine trees

85. Finished kitchens

86. Ice cream for $.50 at Little America

87. "We built this city" by Starship

88. Indian curry

89. Japanese curry

90. Little Japanese kids coming up to you and saying "He-ro. War ar yo furom?"

91. No family members are convicted felons.

92. Simon and Garfunkel

93. Trampolines

94. Designing cruise ships with Erin in Access.

95. Foam pits.

96. Chocolate

97. President Bush's regime is nearly over

98. Discussing Etymology with your sister during church

99. Writing stories

100. Cucumber sandwiches

Say goodbye to Tabasco Sauce

Bye,bye,tabasco sauce!

I feel alone...

Everyone else is jumping on the romance bandwagon, while I alone am single. I fear I will never see a bachelorette of a score again! I don't understand romance. It just seems like an unending flow of embarrasment, depression, hurt, and angst. I am going to have to start a society with UC1 which celebrates single people. The world is driving me crazy.

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