The Things (Ron Clark) Says

" One by one, I got in the face of each child, saying, 'You can do it! You don't have time for fear. You don't want to regret that you didn't do this!' And one by one, they took their journey across the gorge.

And then, they were all gone. And I was by myself.

Crap on a spatula.

I realized I had to do it."

From The End of Molasses Classes by Ron Clark.

Crap on a spatula. I'm going to start saying that.

The Things We Say (at the LifeTeen Leadership Conference)

Greg: Do remember watching movies on laser-disk?
Me: Laser-disk? Was that before VHS?
Russ: Was laser-disk before VHS?
Me: Sorry! I'm confused...
Russ: Clearly.

The Things (other people) Say

Me: What am I supposed to do with my life!?

Fr. Seper: Love Jesus.

The Things We Sa(id) (Junior Year) Part II

Me attempting to open a High School Musical ornament: "I can do all things through Christ who strengths me... come on Christ!"

Me: Do you like cheese?
David: Yea, I like cheese! I like to cut it too.
(Long silence)
Me: Nobody found that funny.
Daz (starts laughing): That means farting right?

Me: Daz, don't be one of those people.
Daz: Knock, Knock.
Me: Who's there?
Daz: ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE!

The Things We Sa(id) (Junior Year)

"If God had a crap shelf, all of this stuff would be on it!" -Melissa

Kristie: It was sarcasm!
Melissa: Heretical sarcasm!!

Daz (to me): Five years from, every time I see a whiteboard, I will think of you, and it will make me happy.
Me: Unless I died

Daz (filling out her ministry application): My greatest weakness...hmmm... I know what it is. I just don't know how to verbalize it.
Me: Impatience...pride...lack of gratitude...
Kristie: This from the girl who said she likes to organize her gifts! (It was a mistake, and I erased it before turning in my application)

Kristie: Microwaves are the devil.
David: Yea, he has four of them.
Kristie: That's how they heat hell!

Daz: I almost hit you in the face!
Me: That's okay, I would have fallen and said 'My Baby!'

Me (from the bathroom): I'm picking up what you're putting down.
Kathy: I'm not picking up what she's putting down!

David (introducing Luke to Abby): This is Abby. If you make her angry, she'll take a dump on your face."

Melissa: This is my zen place.
Daz: I thought that was the window.
Melissa: No, that's my prayer place.
Daz: Oh! This is a different religion.

Daz: Your wedding is going to be so Catholic.
Me: Yea, until I fall in love with a Protestant.

The Things We Say (When We Just Need Comfort)

Melissa: I just need to help a mom with family bathtime. That will make me feel better.

Kristie: Do you wanna help me wash my feet?

The Things We Say - In Text Messages

Me: What do you think about playing drinking games with soda at youth group?

Pete: I am fine with drinking games at youth group as long as they're drinking games that are not already associated with alcohol.

(I found this hilarious. Daz did not. Such is life...)

The Things We Say - Ash Wednesday Version

To Set the Scene: Since I'm student teaching at a Lutheran School, I participated in their Ash Wednesday service. Thus, I received what I spent the day calling "Lutheran Ashes."

Daz: Nice ashes.

Me: They're Lutheran Ashes.

Daz: I can tell.

Me: How?

Abby: They're shouting "sola scriptura"

The Things We Say

I sneezed.

Daz: Bless you.

Me: I've been sneezing a lot today.

Daz: I know. You've got about two more before I stop saying it.

The Things We Say (That are sometimes worth saying)

Me: Do you think it is strange to think back and know that there are conversations you had that you will never remember and things you saw and did that you won't remember either?

Kristie: Yea.

Me: Until Judgment day...which could really suck.

Kristie: Well hopefully you will have more good conversations than bad ones.

Me: Talk about motivation to have good conversations...even the seemingly insignificant ones we will never remember.

The Things We Say

Daz: I know! I'm going to get some of my sherbet and put 7-up in it and have...a...
Melissa: A sherbet float?
Daz: No...what's called...it's something...
Melissa: It's a float. Put Vodka in it if you want to call it something else.
Daz: PUNCH! That's what it's called.

The Things We Say

Today in Theology of the Church Dr. Blosser called on Karmen to answer a question. She didn't know exactly what he was talking about, so her answer wasn't perfect. Later this conversation occured...

Dr. Blosser: Karmen, do again what you did before. Can you do that?

Karmen: What? Not know the answer?

The Things We Say

I'm not sure why it took until today for me to realize this brilliant idea. My friends and I love to laugh. And we find each other (and ourselves) very funny - frequently when no one else sees any humor at all. SO - here's to a new "feature" on my blog, one that will allow you to share in the pleasure of the things we say...

(As we are thoroughly enjoying eating the cookie dough we mixed up without intending to ever bake):

Daz: What are we going to do when we aren't in college anymore.
Me: The same things, just lonelier.

{I have this feeling my apartment may be the only ones who enjoy these posts...)