"Doctor Who and the Bean Fiends"

This is going to have to be quick, but I just wanted to say that I had a spectacular time this weekend, hanging out with the Rachels. :-)

Here is a picture of the Doctor and Donna potatoes and Rachel and I did for our county fair. Even through we got second place, our entry was awarded the "Carol Carlson" award, which gave us $5! Yay! :-D

Everything is okay...

Okay... So first I'd like to say sorry about the drama... I ended up not having to work today... And I don't have to work tomorrow... Pat, the manager at work had told Brandon that we were working on Saturday as a joke, to see his reaction, but Brandon believed him and then told me. Which resulted in the extreme previous post. Not cool. But I'm glad everything has worked out. I still don't like my job, but it's not as vehement as two nights ago.

Thank-you to all who commented and Facebooked me words of encouragement. And thank-you to Rachel D. for the hugs and for not killing me. And for the chocolate.

Also, today I put a down-payment on a car. A blue 2003 Pontiac Vibe. (The picture's a 2007, but it's pretty close.) :-D I can't get it yet, due to loan co-signers being in other states, but I'll have it in about 2 weeks! YAY!

Okay, I'm off to see Rachel V...

Doctor Who tonight! :-D :-D :-D

Just in case you were wondering...

I hate my job. I hate it so much. I hate having to work from 3:30 pm to 2 am. Every day. I usually don't get to bed until 2:45-3 and then I sleep in til 11:30 am. Jessica works from 9 am to 5:30 every day. Then goes home and gets to sit and watch all the movies I wanted to see with her, because I'm at stupid work. Every freaking day.

I also hate work because the people in charge are saying that we are probably going to have to work 10 hours on Friday and another 4 on Saturday. WTF. For real. WTF. The ONE WEEKEND I have plans with Rachel D. to go visit Rachel V. and they are saying I have to work 14 hours overtime. I came home in tears and would have been yelling about how much I hate my job if it hadn't been 2 am.

I am so angry about this, I am in tears. I am blogging at 3 am, crying, and eating the king size twix bar Rachel D. bought me, because she could tell that I was having a crappy day.

This afternoon I also ran out of gas on my way to work. I luckily had enough momentum to get off the highway. But then I had to sit there and wait for mom to bring the gas can, so I could get to work. I ended up being only 10 minutes late, and I didn't get in trouble (which I actually was worried about.) But still. I was already running late. I didn't give myself time to get enough to eat... It was not a happy situation

I do not want to buy that Chevy Lumina. It is exactly like Leah's car, except it is white with a blue interior. I don't care if it is kept in better condition. I do not care that it is only $4,000. I do not want it. It's like the Buick. Don't tell me I can trade it in in a year because knowing me, that won't happen. Next year I'll graduate, get kicked out of the house, and be too busy finding an apartment and a job (THAT IS NOT AT A STUPID FACTORY) that I won't have the time or the opportunity to shop around for a newer car and then I'll be stuck driving a car I didn't want in the first place. That is why I don't want the Lumina. I just didn't feel like it was polite to explain all that while we were at the car dealership. So I'm angrily blogging about it.

And I wish people would stop sending me Lil' Green Patch invitations on Facebook! I DO NOT WANT ONE.

Rachel D. and I collaborated and made Doctor Who-themed scene using potatoes for the North Iowa Fair "Potato Parade" catagory and it only got 2nd place. Honestly, I feel gypped and want to know what that judge was thinking. We made a TARDIS and everything! 2nd place???? REALLY? And Stephen's "Batpeople" were super cute. And Philomena's Sumo Wrestlers? That came with captions! I think they deserve more than a Merit ribbon. Lame lame lame lame lame. REALLY LAME! Rachel did most of the work on the potatoes and the whole thing is really cool! WHAT THE CRAP????

I have many more things to rant and rave about. Mostly about my being single and my perceptions and opinions regarding people who are couples. But I have a feeling that I would regret what I said later. But still....

... I still haven't finished reading Eclipse yet. Mostly because it makes me feel frustrated about being single. I'm just tired of being lonely.




... I'm just in a mood where I don't want anybody to be happy, if I have to be so miserable... I'm at the highest point of what Rachel V. calls my "Contrary Mood" which usually means that almost all social filters leave my brain and my tendency to audibly state what I'm REALLY thinking increases significantly. Usually it's the mean, nasty, sarcastic ones.



Have I mentioned that I hate my job????

Oh. And working on Friday means that I'll miss the TV airing of the 1st part of the Doctor Who Season Finale. It's not the same watching it illegally on YouTube.

I am just tired of dealing with life. It's 4 am. I'm going to bed.

Flash back...

That song equals awesome. :-) And I agree... I want a Book 8 and the Epilogue was crap. Sometimes I wonder what the editors were thinking, allowing that to be printed. (And I have that STAR WARS book... Hahaha....) And there really is fan fiction of all sorts regarding what happened to Sirius after he fell through the veil. Oh, and remember the Pillar of Storge? I do.

Last year at this time this, this, and this was going on.... It's hard to think that it's been a year since the 7th book came out...




In other news, Funimation just released the names of the voice cast of the American dubbing of Ouran High School Host Club. I really don't know anyone in the cast, by name. But I've seen some of Full Metal Alchemist, and the person who does the voice of Ed, will be doing the voice of Tamaki. I am really excited for this! :-D I've already checked Amazon.com and there's no pre-order yet... But when there is... I'll be ready for it! The first part of the season will be released on October 28th! I wants it!!! :-D

Too True...

"Everyone wants to save the world. No one wants to help mom do the dishes." -PJ O'Rouke

Life is a little better....

Okay, so I got a call from the bank and they talked to Shazam and they will be refunding all the money spent, and restoring my debit account to its original balance. I don't know if they caught the guy, or what, but I'm just glad it's over and I get my money back. The bank is sending me a new debit card in the mail.

*whew*

In other news, car shopping continues to drag on. Either it's out of my price range, a Pontiac, we were too late, or its been a rental. It's only slightly frustrating.

Friday night there was a fairly big thunderstorm that went through and blew down a lot of branches in Jessica's yard so I helped her and her dad pick them up and take them to the burn pile. Jessica accidentally bumped my left big toe with a branch and took of a part of my toenail. There was some blood, but it's okay. It'll just take a while to grow back.

We spend the whole day vegging in front of the TV. It was fun. We caught up on Amercia's Got Talent, and then watched "Hollywood's 20 most Gruesome Murders". It was kind of disgusting, but definitely entertaining. Then we watched America's Funnies Home Videos, which is like our kind of guilty pleasure. Her mom made spaghetti for dinner and then Jessica and I went to Culver's and had ice cream. :-) We ate it by the lake and then went back to her house and watched more TV. We watched Legally Blonde, since I had only ever seen the Broadway show, and during the commercials we watched Miss Universe.

Okay, that's all for now. Rachel D. is coming to visit on Thursday and I am super excited! :-D

I'm off to look for more cars...

PIT OF PIRANHAS FOR YOU!!!!

So someone, somewhere... Well, in Houston Texas..... Somehow got a hold of my debit card number and bought $298.15 worth of something at a Diamond Shamrock over the 4th of July weekend.... And it wasn't me.... From talking to the bank, it *sounds* like I will get reimbursed, but it will take a while.


Super LAME!

Now I have to pester the bank every day to see the progress on my account.

Remember these commercials? Well, they are excellent at conveying the idea of what I'm feeling right now... Having someone I don't even know spend a lot a lot of my money...



I'm just glad I didn't have my student loans in there.

Quick dream post

So I had another Doctor Who dream last night. :-) It was a little strange, but not too bad.

The Doctor (as played by David Tennant), Captain Jack and I were trying to find Donna, who had gone off with some friendly aliens. (And I don't know if she was on a different planet or what, I don't remember that part of my dream.) And for some reason the three of us were at the park across the street from my house trying to figure out what to do.

Jack and the Doctor decided that they needed a better viewpoint, from someplace higher up, so because I was "the smallest of the lot" I was elected to climb one of the trees in the park and look across the horizon to try and locate Donna. Kind of a good idea, if maybe we were on a different planet. But where I live if relatively flat, so I can't imagine what climbing a tree for a better view would do. Also, the tree I climbed in my dream wasn't really significantly tall... ANYWAY, this tree *was* tall enough that I couldn't just climb up, and I really don't have any upper-body strength, so the Doctor gave be a leg up.

So I'm perched in this tree, trying to maneuver into a position that would allow me to move without loosing my balance. And the Doctor gives me this golden telescope that I need to use to scan the horizon. Because not only are we looking for Donna, we are also looking for some place that is quite high up to hide for some reason that wasn't imminent or dangerous.

As I look through the telescope, I'm trying to move around to see through the leaves of the tree. (Because for some reason I don't climb to the top of the tree. I'm just sitting on the bottom-most branches.) The conversation went like this:

Captain Jack: Can you see anything?
Me: Not yet. *extends the telescope* It just looks the same.
Doctor: You'll have to adjust the settings.
Me: *Takes telescope away from face and looks at it* How do I do that? There aren't any knobs.
Doctor: Turn the end of the big lens towards you.
Me: Towards me? Which way is that?
Doctor: To the right.
Me: Ah.

After this I start to move around some more, trying to get a better view through the tree.

Me: There's too many leaves... I can't see through. AH! *Leans forward, slips, and almost falls out of the tree. Captain Jack and the Doctor move to prepare to catch me should I actually fall out of the tree.*
Captain Jack: Are you okay?
Me: *clutching the tree, trying to catch my breath. Somehow I have managed to not drop the telescope* Yeah, I'm okay... The tree is just a little slippery. I'm just glad I didn't fall... I could have broken my arm!
Doctor: *in his most confident, reassuring tone of voice* Don't worry, I'm a doctor. You would have been fine.

(*siiiigh*)

So I ended up not being able to see anything important from the tree, even with the telescope. (Which didn't do anything different, btw.) And we're walking around, now in a place I've never seen before, and we find Donna and she is with these aliens that look similar to the aliens growing the clones in STAR WARS: Attack of the Clones, but with shorter necks and not fancy clothes. And they were kind of upset for the same reason we were looking for a high place to be, (except in my dream I wasn't scared or anything, so I have no idea what was going on) and Donna was doing her calming thing, i.e. talking to them gently, and being quiet and reassuring. (like in Planet of the Ood) Donna came with us and all I remember about this part was that I looked her straight in the eye and said that we missed her a lot and she smiled.

In my dream we ended up finding a high place to be in my neighbor's backyard... They had one of those swing-set towers that you climb up and then go down the slide on the other side... Except that it was really tall... Like about a story high.

And then my dream ended with Captain Jack, Donna and the Doctor going off to grab some supplies and me playing fetch with my dog.

So that's it... Kind of weird, but cool. I mean, I like it. :-)

Quotes...

So I was bored and feeling nostalgic... So I started going through the file I have on my computer of all the past Facebook quotes that have been on my page since I joined Facebook in 2005. Some of them are kind of amusing, so I thought I'd re-post them for you all you enjoy. I've added some commentary to help explain some of the quotes.


"OMG! LOOK AT THAT JAWLINE!" -Me, referring to Isaac and his role in The Swordsmen.

"It's the piccolo that makes it piratey!" -Me.

"Quoi????" Matt used to say this a lot.

"You're breathing on my peanutbutter lid!!!" -Julia. We were fighting over a jar of peanut butter.

Me: I can remember ALL the flute solos I ever played for competition...
Julia: Wow! I can't remember ANY of *my* flute solos...
Me: Julia! You don't play flute!
Julia: What? Oh! I mean oboe! I can't remember any of my OBOE solos! -Awesome dinner conversation, from freshman year.

Me: ...We'd have to use translucent Jell-O, though...
Jessica: What Jell-O *isn't* translucent?
Me: Well, you know, the white kind.
Mom: Sarah, there is no white Jell-O.
Me: Yes there is! You know, those fancy Jell-O dishes... They have a layer of clear Jell-O, then white Jell-O, then more clear Jell-O on top.
Mom: Sarah, that "white Jell-O" is whipped cream.
Me: ......... No!
Jessica: Yes Sarah, it is. It's whipped cream.
Me: No, it's gotta be white Jell-O! It helps it stick together!
Mary: Sarah, Jell-O doesn't stick to Jell-O very well.
Me:........ Well, what if it's meringue?
Mom: (sarcastic) Yes, Sarah. They put torched meringue between two pieces of Jell-O. It still isn't white Jell-O. -Discussing food at the dinner table...

(The next day, at the grocery store)
Me: (holding a Jell-O box to Jessica's face) LOOK! It's *WHITE JELL-O!!!*
Jessica: Uh, Sarah you might want to read the box a little closer... That's vanilla pudding.
Me: ........ Oh.

"My Life is soggy..." -Erik Lamp, referring to his cereal.

"Practice rooms are for practicing music! Not practicing MARRIAGE!" -Bryan Houts to Margie when we heard about what went on in some of the Wartburg music practice rooms.

"I need a paperclip..." *looks down* "Darn... There aren't any in the floor...." -Me. My side of the room was so messy freshman year, there were times I could find what I needed by looking at the floor.

"The black one is dad, the blue one is mom, the pink one is Mena, I’m the green one, but I lost my eyes in the river.” –This was the description of a picture Stephen drew for me.

“Look at me, I’m a woman!” –Stephen, who had put on a couple dress up necklaces.

Jessica, to her dog: Maggie, you can't have any of this food. You'll get fat. You need to keep your girlish figure.
Sarah, in a high-pitched voice, talking for Maggie: But I'm neutered.... I don't need to attract dogs!

"Hmmm... What's in sushi... Well there's fish... I think she can eat fish.... And there's seaweed... That doesn't have any whey or gluten in it... And there's rice.... Which is made out of...... Rice..." -Jessica talking about a friend of her's who is allergic to milk, whey, gluten and a bunch of other things... Then we were talking about my potential trip to Japan next year and that led to sushi.

"I want always to be an undergraduate and to have fun!" -Amanda N.

Sarah, looking at Scott's nice muscle-y arms: Oooo Scott! You have some nice guns!
Scott: Thanks. I prefer to call them cannons. -Chillin' with Scott and Jessica summer, 2006

"If I were President I would try to make world peace. And if that didn't work, I'd take over the universe." -A little girl on a TV show similar to "Kids Say the Darnest Things"

Confucius say: Man who stand on toilet be high on pot!

"Argh! I will avenge my beloved's death, because I am a womanizing cheeseball!" -Jessica adding commentary while watching The Swordsmen. Some of you may know who this is referring to...

"100% Vitamin C... And Johnny Depp."-Me paraphrasing off the ingredients on my PotC Fruit Snacks box.

"The Death Star? What does it do?"
"What d'you MEAN 'what does it do????' It's the *Death Star*! IT DOES DEATH!!!" -Eddie Izzard

"Oh my gosh!!!! I just read this tea-bag and thought it said: 'Orgasmic Bigot'!" -Me reading the label of some organic tea.

"Ah! I'm trying to get away from this bee! It likes my pants!" -Isaac running around Derek's pool, as he was being chased by a yellow-jacket.

"No! It's EAST by some broccoli!" -A pirate reading a treasure map in the movie “The Pagemaster." Best line ever.

"Sarah! I think I just saw my sixth-grade kindergarten teacher!" -Jessica one day at Fareway.

"Hey! I think this has got Gangrene! POW!" -Jessica imitating a Civil War doctor.

Julia: Will you really write an editorial about no soft-serve ice cream?
Sarah: Yes! I'm paying almost 30,000 a year to go to school... I deserve soft-serve ice cream! They should have at least taken a vote!
Julia: Haha! What kind of democracy do you think Wartburg is?
Sarah: A *communist* one!

"I am doing to DIE! That's what I'm doing to do!!! Then I'm going to *kill* myself and die AGAIN!" -Me getting ready to do ear-training homework. For real. Ear training is one of the worst forms of homework.

"Trumpets are instruments when they're not Elephants." -Melissa S.

"What are you doing to Alaska???" -Leah to Jesse who was playing Risk.

"Who is Miriam and why are we screwing him?" –Me, Outfly 2006. Someone corrected Leah's grammar and she started talking about the dictionary.

Leah: Mmmm... Someone is doing their laundry. It smells good.
Sarah: Yeah, it does... Mmmm... How good?
Leah: Like, turns me on good!
Sarah. What?!
Leah:.... Ye-aaah..... Well, how would you describe it? Like, fresh baked bread good?
Sarah: No, like clean laundry good.
Leah: No, that doesn't count!
Sarah: Okay, it's like fresh towels and blankets out of the dryer... All warm and fuzzy... And you wrap them around you and go cuddle-cuddle-cuddle-cuddle!
Leah: *laughs* What? Cuddle-cuddle-cuddle-cuddle?
Sarah: Yes. Just like that. All warm and fuzzy. -This was walking back from Wal-Mart late one night. Leah and I are weird sometimes. :-)

"Don't go near the turret Nate! You'll get turreted!" -Luke watching Nate play STAR WARS on his computer.

Leah: I don't like philosophy. I'm not a good philosophizer.
Sarah: What?! Philosophizer?
Leah: Yeah. That's what they're called. Philosophizers.
Sarah: No, I believe the correct term is philosophers.
Leah: Oh.
Leah/Sarah: *LAUGHTER*

"What? Leave me alone! I'm angstily chewwing my animal crackers..." -Me being grumpy. It was like 2 in the morning and I had just finished doing ear training homework. Leah told me to stop throwing animal crackers at her, so I just started biting off the heads of the crackers and leaving them in a pile.

"Leah, you're making my brain cells die!" -Me after Leah changed clothes 12 times in an hour. For real. She went from super dressed-up Sunday best, down through semi-casual to ripped, holey jeans and an old t-shirt. And she kept asking me if she looked okay.

Leah: Sarah, are you good with tweezers?
Sarah: Have you SEEN my eyebrows?
Leah: Don't do that! You're not supposed to answer a question with a question!
Sarah: Well, Socrates did!
Leah: Yes. Well. He's dead, isn't he? -Questions while doing homework. No I'm not good with tweezers.

"Stop it Leah, you're breaking the spaghetties!!!" -Me, when Leah was trying to stir the uncooked spaghetti noodles in the boiling water.

"We're playing this like we're musically constipated..." -Me while practicing my flute solo with Leah accompanying.

"Haha, he's like Superman, but with asthma..." -My brother Matthew while watching Superman Returns.

Jessisca: 'Hi. I'm Jessica and I got pregnant by cuddling. With clothes on.'
Sarah: Haha! You got pregnant by pheromones!
Jessica: Yep. It's a boy.
Sarah: Wow.... That baby is either gonna look like Scott or Jesus. ---Jessica and I discussing a pseudo-pregnancy as an excuse for Jessica's moodiness and eating habits. This was while she was dating Scott. (Obviously.)

"STOP POKING BABY JESUS!" -Jessica when I was bothering her.

"I think the ISU mascot would be the result if Storm from X-men and a character from the books Animorphs got married and had a kid..." -Scott and I talking about Iowa State's mascot.... A red Cardinal in a Cyclone.

"AH! I hate getting the finger!" -Me playing the board game "Tribond", where on the category dice there is a picture of a pointing hand and it means you get to move without answering the question.

Sarah: JULIA! Don't eat the raw cookie dough! You'll get salmonella and DIE!
Julia: See? I ate it and I'm not dead.
Sarah: NO! It's a slow death by diarrhea!
Julia: Eww.... -Baking with Julia is always a blast. :-D

Julia: I like how you're stabbing the cookie dough with the spatula...
Sarah: This is my cookie dough of ANGST! -It actually was just really hard cookie dough.

"I like how you just tried to spell "diarrhea," like 5 times... It's got an "H" in it... You should put that part on your Facebook too..." -Julia commenting on my typing during a conversation on MSN...

Music Theory Quotes:

Dr. Mrs. Black: Okay, how are these two musical phrases connected?
Me: By barlines?

"Yeah, my lyrics totally don't allow modulation back into minor... It ends with Jesus being born, I'm not gonna fast forward to Good Friday!" -Amanda N. while discussing her music theory composition.

Dr. Mrs. Black: (while talking about fugues) What happens after episode one?
Me: Anakin destroying the droid army and the Gungan celebration?
Dr. Mrs. Black: ….. I think that sounds like something my husband would understand.

Sarah: Nathan, do you play duck-duck-goose or duck-duck-gray duck in Illinois?
Nathan: Duck-duck-goose.
Duane: I play duck-duck-YOUR MOM! -Back when we made a lot of "your mom" jokes...

Me: Hmmm... My roommate isn't going to be here this weekend... What should I do....
Jesse: Go crazy!
Ted: Throw a party!
Me:...I think I'll take down the Christmas decorations...
Ted: You rebel.

"Okay, so let me get this straight... Nate is Elizabeth Swann, but he is a blue peg, and he has a "wife"..." -Me while playing PotC LIFE with my Bethel friends. Luke made Nate use a car from the original game of LIFE as his game piece instead of the pirate ship.

Luke: *reading the LIFE square that Nate just landed on* You have rescued someone from a island of cannibals collect $300...
Everyone else: YOUR WIFE! THAT'S YOUR WIFE! YOU RESCUED YOUR WIFE! GIVE HIM A PINK PEG!
Nate: Wha-AAAAT?!

Nate: *reading the LIFE square that he had just landed on* You were attacked by the Flying Dutchman, Pay any player $300.
Me: And you got a baby.
Nate: Wha-AAAAT???
Me: Yeah... They um... Ran out of ammunition.
Luke: So they used babies.

Isaac: *sadly looking at the ship he just bought* I could only afford a Galilean.
Me: You mean a Galleon? -PotC LIFE, what else?

"Nate! Just for that comment you are now the proud father of three triplet girls!" -Me putting more pink pegs in Nate's LIFE car.

Nate: Ahhh! I'm so broke!
Me: Well, why didn't you pick a different character, instead of Elizabeth Swann?
Nate: Because I though I could sell my body and make more money!
Me: Well that's against the rules.

"Nate! Your babies are spilling everywhere!" -I don't remember who said it, but it was still during PotC Life.

"Sarah! You're stomping on Nate's babies! Why?" -Luke during PotC LIFE, after I finally reached the end.

"Blood on the doily, blood on the floor, blood on the kitchen and blood on the door!" -Nate making up a song about blood while we were playing "Encore"

Me: There's a wind chill advisory out tonight.
Ted: Really? For what?
Me: For WIND! It's a wind chill advisory!
Ted: NO! I mean for what temperature!?
Me: Oh.... I don't know. -Walking to B-lot in January.

"Revenge is selfish, and justice is impartial." -Me discussing "A Time to Kill" during Human Relations.

"ARRRHHHHHHGGGGAAA! I'M ANGRY AND I DON'T KNOW WHY!!! I'm gonna invade this country and start a war for NO REASON!!!!! DIE DIE DIE!" -Me acting out what guys would be like if they had PMS.

"You cannot expect others to stand up for you, if you first do not have the courage to stand up for yourself." -Me, being frustrated with people.

"Wells Fargo Bank owns my soul, and I'm a slave to Wartburg College." -Me, looking at my loan statement.

"Lassus wrote 700 motets... And 57 masses... *FIFTY-SEVEN MASSES!* Oh, my gosh! That’s a Mass for every Sunday of the year plus the major Holy Days! He wrote enough masses to last a WHOLE YEAR! HE HAS NO LIFE!!!!" -Me studying for Music History

Me: Have you seen the painting on page 333 of our music history book?
Leah: No.
Me: It's a portrait because they couldn't afford photographs... wait... -Me trying to talk about a painting from the Renaissance. It was a painting of a woman who was... Very... Um. Exposed.

Jessica: Pterodactyls are not related to birds.
Me: I know. They're more like flying lizards.
Jessica: Yeah. But Flying Monkeys are cool!
Me: What?!
Jessica: I mean flying squirrels... - Jessica and I discussing evolution....

"God sends me flashing neon sights... I mean signs..." -Jessica about God's will.

"There's a fifty-fifty chance that that person is a cross-dresser..." -Daniel while watching America's Got Talent.

"I'm just a bad judge of sex today." -Jessica while watching Legends of the Hidden Temple. She actually meant gender.

Me: *reading the newspaper* Hey! Bald Eagles are no longer considered an extinct species!
Daniel: You mean endangered?
Me: Yeah... Endangered...

"Ooooh look! Secret Service cars! From..... Minnesota..." -Me at out 4th of July Parade. Bill and Hilary Clinton were in it and they were preceded by two black SUV's with Minnesota plates... You don't really think of Minnesota when you think of Secret Service Cars.

Me: *counting Cribbage points* Two, four, eight... Wooo! Eight points!
Jessica: Uh, no. Count again.
Me: Huh? Okay. Two...... Four.... Eight! Right?
Jessica: No......
Me: OH! Two, four, eight, TEN! Wow! How did I miss that?
Jessica: No! Count *again!*
Me: *intently* Two..... four....... Eigh--no SIX! *Six* is next! Wow...
Jessica: Yeah. This is why you're not a math major! I'm sitting here thinking "Six! Six is next! Where is six?!" and you kept going "Twooooo, fouuuuuur, eiiiiight..."
-Jessica and I playing Cribbage. I guess I should practice counting by twos...

"You're in for some Olympic medal, ninja wandage..." -Jason Isaacs (Lucious Malfoy) talking about the upcoming 5th Harry Potter movie.

"I think I was just about to think that! I just wasn't quite there yet..." -Jessica suffering from jet-lag.

"Philomena, 'Machine gun' is NOT an option when playing 'Rock-Paper-Scissors'!" -my brother Matthew.

Me: Handle-bar mustaches are so cool! If I could grow a mustache, I would. And I would wax it and make it an awesome handle-bar mustache. And I would wear it around campus.
Rachel V.: You know what, Sarah? I believe you would.
-Rachel V. and I discussing "villainous" attire after seeing "Meet the Robinsons"

"Mom, I love your brown hair. You should paint the gray ones..." -My six-year-old brother Stephen

"Caution: Children left unattended will be given an Espresso and a free puppy." -a sign at our local coffee shop.

"Officer! You must arrest them! They own... a BUICK!" -Gomez Addams, The Addams Family

"I'll just climb into my bed and say aloha to myself..." -Rachel D. She has pink, Hawaiian-pint bed sheets.

"Don't lose
your head
to gain a minute
you need your head
your brains are in it
Burma-Shave"-an old shaving-cream jingle

Me:(while watching an 80's Cinderella movie, with Tudor-style costumes.) Wait. Where's his codpiece? He should be wearing a codpiece with those period poofy-pants.
Rachel V.: Maybe it's under the poofy-ness...
Sarah: No, codpieces are worn on the outside.
Rachel V.: Like an out fly?
Sarah: ..........Outfly?
Rachel and Sarah: ..........BWAHAHAHAHAHAAA! -This is definitely a Wartburg culture-centered joke.

Me: You can't just walk into a zoo with a gun and go "Hello! I'm little game hunting!" and then go shoot the penguins!
Rachel V.:... You mean "small game" hunting?
Me:...Yeah...
Rachel V.: Ooooh I'm totally telling your dad you said that. -Rachel and me discussing my desire to go penguin hunting.

Stephen: Knock knock!
Me: Who's there?
Stephen: Stephen!
Me: Stephen who?
Stephen: Just kidding! It's mom! I changed my name!
-My little brother telling knock-knock jokes.

Stephen: LOOK! LOOK! SHE'S DEFYING GRAVITY! That's amazing! -My 7-year-old brother watching Nancy Kerrigan ice skate to Defying Gravity from Wicked, on TV.

"OH MY GOSH! DO YOU WANT TO GO GIRAFFE HUNTING WITH ME?" -Me to Tim Harmon.

"My hand got cramped up and I just started to write in Wingdings!" -Rachel V. about a 3 page, hand-written essay we had in a test.

"Oh, my gosh!!! I had a dream last night that I had a BOYFRIEND!!!! ....Except that his name was 'Basso Continuo'... Which pretty much seals my fate as one of the dorkiest music majors of all time...." -Me. It's true. I have a sad, sad life.

"You may not know what the future holds, but you know who hold the future." -This was from an inspirational bookmark that someone gave me.

"Make friends. Make peace. Make believe." -This is on the wall of my favorite coffee shop.

"I don't know what you should be more concerted about... The angry ball of light zooming about your room or the young boy sitting at the end of your bed, sharpening his knife." -Me while watching the musical version of Peter Pan, starring Cathy Rigby.

"You look like you're about to go do something really adventurous, or something really weird..." -Leah, as I put on my trench coat for Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day. I was a Time Lord.

Travis: Well this is just great... Larissa has decided to be deaf and Rachel is from the future...
Eric: What is with everyone today?!
Travis: Finals must be getting to them... -The conversation at lunch during Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day. There's a class on American Sign Language, where you have to be deaf for a day, and that's what Larissa was doing.

Me: It's like that line from Hamlet! "Duncan was from his mother's womb untimely ripped."
Rachel: You mean Macbeth?
Me: Oh, yeah! Sorry!
Rachel: Waaay to confuse Shakespeare Sarah... Macbeth takes place in Scotland and Hamlet takes place in Poland.
Lourey: Or maybe Denmark.
Rachel: Crap! I was thinking about Chopin!
Sarah: Haha! We both messed that one up! -This is what happens when one person is discussing a paper on the virginity of Mary, and the other two are trying to study for music history...

Rachel V.: You know what else is awesome about Scotland? David Tennant lives there!!!!
Me: I kNOW! He makes pancakes in my mind! -Good times studying for Music History. I really wanted pancakes, and Rachel wanted David Tennant... This conversation lead to both of us discussing how we would imagine waking up to find David Tennant making us pancakes for breakfast. It was also about 1 am.

Tommy: Wait, wait! Who did they think you were?
The Doctor, glancing at psychic paper: The King of Belgium evidentially. -From the episode The Idiot Lantern.

Me: *gasp* You burnt the pizza!
Jessica: No I didn't.
Me: YOU burnt the PIZZA!
Jess: No! It's just a little bit crunchy!
Me: YOU BURNT THE PIZZA! Oh, man! Ooooh man! This means... We can no longer be friends......
Jess: Oh, stop it. You're so emo.
Me: Haha! No, this is emo... (pulls hair over face and speaks in a low voice) The world... It burnt the pizza.... My life no longer has meaning... *siiiiiiiigh* (brushes hair way.) But really. You burnt the pizza.
Jess: DID NOT! -Jessica cooked a frozen pizza for our dinner and followed the directions which led to a pizza that was rather dark in places...

Jessica: You are such a spazzmobile!
Sarah: I AM NOT A SPAZZMOBILE! -We were trying to get situated to watch Ouran High School Host Club.

"ARE YOU PUNISHING THE BUTTERFLIES?!" -Doc in conducting II.

Me: Everyone's got baggage! It's part of life! Baggage baggage baggage!
Rachel V.: Yeah, I know!
Me: "I'm lookin' for baggage that goes with mine..."
Rachel V.: I'm a freakin' LUGGAGE TROLLY!
Me: Haha! I like that... Luggage trolly.... -We were talking about the drama that other people created.

"Sarah, I have a feeling that if you went back in time and lived during this period, you'd run around pointing out all the fire hazards..." -Rachel V. We were watching a movie that took place during the Regency Period in England.

--Here are my current quotes--

"The following program contains accents you would have heard a lot more had you not thrown our tea into Boston Harbor. Please feel free to use closed captioning." -Shown before the TV show TORCHWOOD on BBC America. I love British television!

Me: What are you doing Stephen?
Stephen: (staring intently at the Nintendo DS in his hands) Fighting evil!

Stephen: Mom, it's a good thing you and I have different DNA.
Me: What?!
Mom: Yes, Stephen. What do you mean?
Stephen: You and I have different DNA. I'm a boy and you're a girl.
Mom: Yes, and what is DNA?
Stephen: It's this thing that swirls around and it has things across that look like stairs and it tells your body what to look like...
Me: How does he know about DNA?
Mom: Have you been watching Bill Nye the Science Guy?
Stephen: Yup!

Rachel D.: Dr. Survilla says I have perfect Canadian comma usage and I'm not Canadian.
Me: That's weird... Were you taught by a Canadian?
Rachel: No, I was taught in grade school!

"Who IS that magic woman?" -Matthew Broderick in Cinderella.

"NO! You are not a part of the red blob! Go away!" -Me. Rachel D. and I were wrestling with blankets. I had a red one and she had a green one...

Me: AH! Mr. Weasley is taking off his clothes!
Rachel V.: AHHH! He's getting NAKED!
Rachel D.: MY EYES! AHHHHHHH!
Me: Now he's running around the woods! MR. WEASLEY IS RUNNING AROUND THE WOODS NAKED!!!
Rachel D.: I'M SCARRED FOR LIFE!
Rachel V.: AHHH!!!!
-We were watching Masterpiece Theatre's "Room with a View" which takes place pre-WWI and Mark Williams (who plays Mr. Weasley) was in it... and he joins some people in a swimming hole... Yeah...

Rachel V.: Sarah, do you realize that we'll get to hang out with Jim Henson when we're in heaven?
Me: Yeah... That'll be pretty much awesome!
Rachel V.: I know...

"Childbirth! Easy?! I'll tell you! It's like pushing a piano through a TRANSOM!" -Barbara Streisand as Fanny Brice in Funny Lady

Stephen: Sarah, did you kiss anyone while you were in England?
Me: No... Why?
Stephen: Because you need to get married. So you need to kiss someone first.
Me: Oh, I see... Stephen will you give me a kiss?
Stephen: No! I can't marry you! I'm your BROTHER!
Me: What if you give me a kiss, but we don't get married?
Stephen: Okay. Just a little one. On the cheek.
-This was the very first conversation I had with my 7 year-old brother when I returned home after visiting England for 3 weeks.

"Look! A Smart Car! It's like driving a roller-skate!" -Jessica's mom, driving home from the 4th of July Fireworks.

Weekly post...

Hello folks!

It's the 4th of July weekend and I didn't have to work today! It's nice actually seeing the sunset and stuff. And by stuff I mean, like, fireflies. The quiz answers are all updated, so be sure to check those out if you were curious.

Tonight for the first time ever in my life I made hamburger helper. Daniel helped. It mostly consisted of Daniel browning the meat. Me reading the directions on the box a million times and then turning the stove burners up higher because the food wasn't cooking fast enough. In the end, I used two pots instead of the one the box said I needed and cooked a lot of the meal to the bottom of said pans. I'm eating the leftovers now, and at least it doesn't taste too bad.

I went and saw Wall-e tonight. It was super cute. I enjoyed it. :-) I took Stephen, Philomena and Daniel. Initially Jessica was going to come too, but she had already seen it and wanted to go to a Beetles tribute concert that was going on in the park, so she went to that. We are going to hang out tomorrow, though. After the parade. Probably watch America's Got Talent and then play cribbage or something to that effect.

This past weekend was my roommate, Leah's wedding. Well.... I guess we're not really roommates anymore.... Which is weird to say... But, anyway. I was a bridesmaid and it was a lot of fun. :-) Here is a link to some of the pictures, if you haven't seen them on Facebook already. It's both Margie and Jon's wedding, at the beginning of June, and Leah and Travis's which was at the end. Everything went fairly smoothly which was nice. My only mishap was that I dropped one of the earrings Leah gave me down the drain. :-( I tried everything but taking the drainpipe down with my bare hands to get it. Rachel V. saved the day though. She ran into Wal-Mart on her way into Waverly and picked me up some awesome replacements. (THANK-YOU!)

The wedding was beautiful and the reception was a lot of fun. The wedding party rode around in a limo for a while and then went to the reception. Dinner was good and the dance was great! It was a lot of actual *dance* music, like swing, polka and waltz-like music. I think I sat out for a total of 4 dances. People kept asking me to dance! I danced with a couple of Travis's friends, from both high school and one from graduate school and I danced with some Wartburg people. All around it was a super good time. :-) The ride home was interesting... It's an hour and 15 minute drive, and I was really tired so I had the music up very high. I almost hit a deer and a raccoon, but luckily I didn't. That helped keep me awake as well.

Yesterday I went to Grinnell to attend my siblings farewell concert for their European tour with the group Iowa Ambassadors of Music. I went on this trip in 2004, and Mary and Matthew are going to have a blast! I'm very jealous of them! They are going to England, France, Switzerland, Austria, Lichtenstein, Italy and Germany, all in two weeks. I am *not* jealous of the traveling though... They had to leave on a bus for Chicago at 2:30 am this morning. Yuck. Before the concert I hung out with my friend Devon. It was a good time. :-) We went and got ice cream, and then played Guitar Hero. Which I am massively bad at.... Mostly because I forget to strum and forget that my pinky is the blue key. I also hit myself on the chin with the plastic guitar when I was trying to activate star power. It hurt, but was kind of funny. Driving home last night was boring. I stopped and bought some McDonalds to eat on the 2 1/2 hour drive home and sang really loudly to my favorite Broadway soundtracks.

The "Twilight" series by Stephanie Meyer has become quite popular. Like, ridiculously popular, to the point where it is the *cool* book to read. I totally read it LONG before it was the *cool* book and so did my friends. Silly people jumping on the bandwagon...

My left big toe has limited feeling in it... I've only noticed this recently, and it's weird. It doesn't *hurt* but it's kind of numb. I've trimmed the nail as short as it will go... I don't know if it has anything to do with my shoes or dancing over the weekend or what. I just noticed it on Monday. It's the same toe as this... I wonder if that has anything to do with it.

Nerd time: So on Monday I was driving home from gift unwrapping at Leah and Travis's apartment and I saw a pick-up truck pulling a trailer that was holding 3 blue port-a-potties and my brain instantly went LOOK! TARDISes! And then I realized what they really were and laughed at myself and called Rachel V. and told her about it.

Rachel V. burned me a copy of John Barrowman's Reflections from Broadway CD and it is fantastic! :-) I love it! My favorite track being "Dreamers"


Dreamers have mountains they will climb
There are dreamers who don't believe in time
Only dreamers have worlds where they can fly far away.

Certain dreamers have kingdoms they will build,
Filled with treasures and dragons to be killed
Only dreamers have wings with which to fly far away.

Some people dream of being rich,
While others dream of being tall
And there are people who don't dream at all.

Dreamers have shooting stars they chase,
There are others with nightmares they must face.
Sometimes dreamers are forced to leave their dreams far away.

And there are people who don't dream at all.

Sometimes you need to take the time
To find treasures and mountains we can climb.
And maybe we dream to change the way that we feel,
'Cause to dreamers the real world can be unreal.

Quiz! Completed!

****Updated! Here's all the answers to the other songs that people couldn't guess... I know some of you are going to go... "Oh yeah! *facepalm*" ****

Okay, I agree with Isaac... I miss this... But I'm sticking with music lyrics.

I have 5523 songs in my iTunes library.... And YOU get to guess the name of the song from the provided lyrics! *** New twist! When you guess correctly, I'll try my best to find an audio of the song, so you can hear it. (which I will do later)*** I'll post the answers a week from today. If you are one of the people who read my multiple blogs, you can only guess/post answers at ONE blog.


Here we go....

1. They say he has enormous feet
And that he tends to overeat
I've heard he's fussy with his food
And eats his breakfast in the nude
Is he robust? Or very pale?
At least we know he's male! (The Scarlet Pimpernel, from the Broadway show The Scarlet Pimpernel. Guessed by Rachel V. Ignore the random Anime pictures in the video... It's all I could find.)

2. How'd ya do and hello!
I'll be running the show!
I'm your host and Emcee!
(He's your host and Emcee!)
I'll pop up here and there,
But you'll never know where,
Who and what he might be! You'll see! (Oh, the Things You Can Think! from Seussical the Musical, guessed by Rachel V. I couldn't find this version on YouTube...)

3. Every time I see you dance
In my homeroom class, makes my heart beat fast
I've tried to page you twice
But I see you roll your eyes
Wish I could make it real
But your lips are sealed, that ain't no big deal. Hey Juliet by LMNT.

4. Norway, and Sweden, and Iceland, and Finland
And Germany now one piece,
Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia
Italy, Turkey, and Greece. Countries of the World by Yakko Warner, from Animaniacs.

5. I remember the way,
Our sainted mother,
Would sit and croon us,
Her lullaby.
She'd say, kids, there's a place,
That's like no other,
You got to get there before you die.
You don't get there,
By playing from the rule book.
You stack the aces.
You load the dice... (Easy Street from Annie, guessed by Rachel V.)

6. And as he asked if I would come along
I started to realize
That everyday he finds
Just what he's looking for,
Like a shooting star he shines. (Ordinary Day, by Vanessa Carlson, guessed by Rachel V.)

7. As knockabout clowns, quick change comedians
Tight-rope walkers and acrobats
They had an extensive reputation
Made their home in Victoria Grove
That was merely their center of operation
For they were incurable given to rove. (Mungojerry and Rumpleteaser, from the musical Cats. Guessed by Rachel V.)

8. He's modest, clever, and so smart,
He can barely restrain it.
With so much generosity,
There is no way to contain it! Wonka's Welcome Song from the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I can't believe no one got this!

9. The wind in the wires made a tattletale sound
And a wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the Captain did, too,
T'was the witch of November come stealing. (The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, sung by Cantus. Guessed by Rachel V.)

10. Her cheeks could not flush pinker!
It’s clear as h2o!
She’s caught – hook, line and sinker!
Crushed out!
Switched on!
Worked up!
Far gone!
Knocked down!
Hard hit!
In deep!
That’s it! (She's in Love, from the Broadway version of The Little Mermaid. Guessed by Rachel V.)

11. Awe bleteth after lamb,
Lhouth after calve cu,
Bulluc sterteth, bucke verteth,
Murie sing, cuccu! (Sumer is Icumin In, an old English madrigal, guessed by Rachel D.)

12. Tom Cruise isn't, but I heard his agent is! Hanukkah Song, by Adam Sandler

13. So let me show you around, maybe play you a sound
You look like you're both pretty groovy
Or if you want something visual that's not too abysmal
We could take in an old Steve Reeves movie. Sweet Transvestite, from Rocky Horror Picture Show.

14. So have a good life,
Do it for me,
Make me so proud,
Like you want me to be,
Where ever you are,
I'm thinking of you oceans apart. Song for Ten, by Gary Williams, from the Doctor Who soundtrack.

15. And he spent his life savings on a split-level cave
Twenty miles below the surface of the earth,
And he really makes a mighty fine jelly bean and pickle sandwich,
For what it's worth. Weird Al Show Theme Song, by Weird Al.

16. The law was very firm, it
Took away my permit,
The worst punishment I ever endured.
It turned out there was a reason,
Cows were out of season,
And one of the hunters wasn't insured. The Hunting Song by Tom Lerher.

17. Sweet Polly Plunkett lay in the grass,
Turned her eyes heavenward, sighing,
"I am a lass who alas loves a lad
Who alas has a lass in Canterbury.
'Tis a row dow diddle dow day,
'Tis a row dow diddle dow dee! (Parlor Songs, from the musical Sweeney Todd, by Stephen Sondheim. Guessed by Rachel V.)

18. If you go down to the woods today
You're sure of a big surprise
If you go down to the woods today
You better go in disguise... The Teddy Bear Picnic. I don't have this version of the song, but I thought this video was cute.

19. When I sally forth to seek my prey
I help myself in a royal way.
I sink a few more ships, it’s true,
Than a well-bred monarch ought to do;
But many a king on a first-class throne,
If he wants to call his crown his own,
Must manage somehow to get through
More dirty work than ever I do... (Oh, Better Far to Live and Die, from Pirates of Penzance, by Guilbert and Sullivan. Guessed by Rachel V.)

20. ... Don't they know the whole world's already gone,
and reserved a copy from Amazon,
How many more books could you sell? (Accio Deathly Hallows, by Hank Green, guessed by Rachel D.)

21. Lórien laurë A laiqa alcar
O Ehtele lisse Nimrodel
A Nyére auta
A Lórien laurë A Lórien laurë
Lórien laurë A laiqa alcar
Orë áro Lothlórien! (Lothlorien, from Lord of the Rings, The Musical, guessed by Rachel D.)

22. Then we stumble away,
through dawns blinding sunbeams.
Barely knowing right from right,
nor left from wrong. (As We Stumble Along, from The Drowsy Chaperone. Guessed by Rachel V.)

23. If you say it softly the effect can be hypnoscious!
Check your breath before you speak, in case it's halitotious! (Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious from the Broadway version of Mary Poppins. Guessed by Rachel D. Does Mary look familiar? That's Laura Michelle Kelly... She played Galadriel in the Lord of the Rings Musical, and the Beggar Woman in the movie version of Sweeney Todd. Here's a link with the American cast...)

24. It paints you with indifference,
Like a lady paints with rouge... (Scrooge, from Muppet Christmas Carol. Guessed by Rachel V.)

25. The floor creaks,
The door squeaks,
There's a feild-mouse
a-nibblin on a broom
And I sit by myself
Like a cobweb on the shelf... Lonely Room, from Oklahoma!

26. Who's the sassy, bossy witch
Who all the boys pursue?
Grander than the Golden Snitch,
And more elusive too.
One may seek her,
One may keep her!
Both know how to score,
With Hermione Granger,
The pirate queen,
The pride of Gryffindor! (Hey! It's Can(n)on! by iTom. Guessed by Rachel D.)

27. Ladies and Gentlemen
Ev'ry duke and earl and peer is here
Ev'ryone who should be here is here.
What a smashing, positively dashing
Spectacle: the Ascot op'ning day. (Ascot Gavotte, from My Fair Lady by Learner and Lowe. Guessed by Rachel V.)

29. I'm not a fool,
I went to school!
I've been to Liverpool to Istanbul!-
Istanbul!-
I'm no fool!
And anyone will tell you that I am sharper than a knife,
But I've never seen anything like it
In my life! (Never Seen Anything Like It! From Doctor Doolittle. Guessed by Rachel V. I can't find this on YouTube...)

30. A built-in remedy
For Kruschev and Kennedy
At anytime an invitation
You can't decline... Killer Queen, by Queen.

31. Shoot low boys, they're riding Shetland Ponies.
Not, you Jimmy. You shoot normal. Spaghetti Western Swing, by Brad Paisley

32. I'll Be There
For To Me There's No Sorrow
Worse To Bear
Than A Life Lived Apart.
I'll Be There
Come The Mists On The Morrow
I'll Be There
By Your Side
And Deep Within Your Heart. I'll Be There, sung by Hadley Fraiser, from The Pirate Queen.

33. You'd never get away with all this in a play,
but if it's loudly sung and in a foreign tongue,
it's just the sort of story audiences adore,
in fact a perfect opera! (Prima Donna from The Phantom of the Opera. Guessed by Rachel V.)

34. Kizukeba itsu de mo Soba ni iru keredo
Honto wa kirai? Suki? Mousou na no?
Jibun no kimochi ga Kuria ni mietara
Redii de mo Hosuto de mo Kamawanai yo? (Sakura Kiss, by Chieko Kawabe. Guessed by Rachel D.)

35. My mother taught me to fly,
Not even knowing that she had done so!
I climbed on the roof,
A complicated route to the sky.
But the fireman got me down.
Oh, the fireman got me down. (A Route to the Sky, I have it performed by Rachel V.! And it was guessed by Rachel V. Enjoy the countertenor goodness of the video.... Haha!)

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BONUS:

It's not a song, but it's a part of my iTunes:

"And his children would come in and say: Galileo! Galileo! Will you do the fandango? Thunderbolt and lightening. And very very frightening." -Eddie Izzard, from his 6th tour The Circle