Just A Warning, this is a long long long entry. After these funny things is a real entry so keep reading.
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This made me laugh:
"· He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
· She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room temperature Canadian beef
She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.
The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.
McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.
Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
· Even in his last years, Grand-pappy had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut
The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.
· The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for awhile.
· He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
· The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
· He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.
· It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall" -Thanks jesuslvr17!
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Today Whitney and Alecia and Jessi came over for my birthday celbration, because my birthday is next week, but so is youth retreat. So I couldn't have it then. So they came over, and we at pizza and watched "Hardball", and I cried for the second time. I only cried a little though. I promise!
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On Saturday I went to Choreography for the musical I am doing, Kiss me Kate, and our new choregrapher, Shelly, is so much more dancy-dancy then out last one, Sally. Sally did very simple, but good stuff. Shelly is so much more.....FOSSE. I don't know how to explain it. You have to be in theater to really understand. Anyway, but it is a lot harder than what we used to do. But that was the first practice, so I might get used to it. I doubt it though. I have always just squeeked by on the dancing part of out plays. I guess I am just going to learn how to dance whether I like it or not.
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I cannot wait till retreat. Here is what happened last time:
Well, let me tell you, the bus-ride there was lots of fun. At first i was bored, because I was sitting next to Courtney and I don't really know her, but we started talking and stuff. And even though she is quiet, she is still really cool. But after that, she went to sit somewhere else, and everyone like shifted in their chairs, so i was just sitting by myself, and layed down on 2 chairs. And Tim and Nick kept "falling" on me. Nick would be like, "oops im falling" before he fell. And there were like 3 dogpiles on top of me. Y'know all together, I think I am fitting in with "the group" more. Well, we got there later then we should have, dropped our stuff off at the cabins, prayed, and worshipped. Let me tell you. I hadn't eaten since breakfast and man, I was HUNGRY!!! They brought the pizza in while we were worshipping, and I was like FOOOOOOOODD!!!! But i had to keep worshipping. I was not very into the worship that night. I was just hungry. So we had free time, and then showers and beddy bye.
Well, the next day, Saturday(duh) we got up, and ate breakfast. We(me and Whitney) wanted some of the guys to sit near us, and Sarah was like, "No guys at this table with us" and me and Whitney were like, giving her funny looks. We got out of breakfast, and we had service, and worship was really good. Well, after that, we had free time, where the girls watched the guys do the zipline. We like cheered them on and everything. After that was lunch, and we had and hour and a half of free time. We got out and Cameron was like, "Claire, come with me" I was like, "Why?" and he was like "I want to hang out with Courtney, but I don't want to actually hang out with her." I rolled my eyes, and I was like, "You like Courtney?" He's like, "She's cool!" So I hung out with Cameron and Courtney for a little while and got to know her better. Then the girls had their zipline time. I went on the zip twice. The first time I went with Whitney, and I tried to go upside down, but I was too late. The second time I went with Audra and got up side down real quick. It was way more fun upside-down. After the zip, we played capture the shoe (yeah, yeah, we ARE weird). And we had a dude named Logan on our team, and he captured the shoe twice. The other team got it once. That was alot of fun. I didn't get to be on Whitney and Jessi's team. So after that we had girl time and guy time. Brenda (Whitney's Mom) and Robin Fellgate gave their testimonies. I actually knew parts of Brenda’s because of Whitney, but Robin's was totally new to me. The first time she was healed powerfully was when she wasn't a christian, and she got up and she was like "It felt like cocaine!!" Which I laughed pretty hard at. So later after dinner, I was bored, so I went into the game room where Shane Fellgate was being a loser, and Nick was losing it, and like cursing at him, and I swear he was gonna punch him. Dude. So he had a talk with one of the leaders, named Lawrence who kind of gave him a lecture on anger. Nick like, has anger problems or something. He said he is going to start to take anger manangment classes or something. Well, after he talked to Lawrence, we wandered over to the swings. He was like doing pull-ups, and he made me feel weak, because I have leg muscles, but nothing in my arms. So we were talking, and he was like "Have you ever seen bone come through the skin?" And he looked like he was going to punch the bar. And was like "Don’t punch the bar!!!!" And he was like, "Why not?" and I just kind of looked at him in disbelief. But we went over to swing, and I mentioned being able to hear Whitney across the park. He and Whitney used to go out. And he was like "Whitney is..." and he sounded pissed. And he started to diss Whitney. And I was like "Don't talk about my friends in front of me. I just don't want to hear it." He was like, “Fine.” So we were talking, and I was like "You are so violent!" And he was like "Violence is cool! Pain is cool!" And I was like "Um... No!" And then we were talking about Shane being a loser, and he was like "I hate people" I was like, "Thanks, I feel special." And he goes "Just dumb people" So I was like "Do you hate me?" he's like "Not really.” And I'm like, "Do you hate yourself?" And he was like "Yeah. I only like myself when I’m high, and I don't do that anymore." And I was like, "Why do you like yourself when you’re high?" And he's like, "Because I don't have to deal with reality." I felt real sorry for him. Then Whitney came over, and he like made a pissy noise, and walked off. So Whitney was like, "What?" And I kinda told her what we were talking about her earlier, and she got kinda mad, and we went into service. She had saved me a seat and not Nick, and I felt guilty. I told Akpene that, and she moved for me. So I invited Nick to sit with us, and he wouldn't. I asked him who he was mad at and he said "Whitney" and so I worshipped, and I felt guilty, like i should do something as his friend, and i felt God telling me to pray for him. So I went back, and I was like, crying, and praying, and I experienced God in a way I never have before. So after that, he still sat up front instead, but at least he wasn't sulking in the back. And I think he made up with Whit. After service we went to bed.
So the next morning we woke up and packed, ate, worshipped, and I gave my testimony about what had happened Saturday night, but without mentioning Nick's name, which I thought might be sort of embarrasing for him. I think he might have known that it was him but he didn't mention it. So we signed this banner, which was really cool. Then we got into the bus, and we drove home. Shane went and pooped in the bathroom right before we took off, and we had contests to see who would survive in the bathroom longest, so that was fun. Then we got home, I went home, did chores, from my mom who is now officially dubbed "pissy bitch" and then I did setup, taped the video or Stomp, and when I came home, a bunch of the high-schoolers were watching "Showtime" So I watched that with them and went to bed."- from rainy--days, my locked diary
Can you tell why I can't wait? Ok, that was really long. One more thing.
I LOVE THE SONG EL TANGO DE MARMALADE.