The Three Stooges

My mother calls them "Who", "What", and "I Don't Know", but I call them the Three Stooges.

Gamaliel, Jesse, and Conrad have been in my life for a lonnnng time. They're staples. They will always be there. They will always be in my mind as "Those Holy Terrors" or "The Ravenous Hoards" or "THOSE DARN BOYS!"

I can recall a couple incidents in which both I was to blame and they were to blame..

• THE TREE HOUSE INCIDENT

So I'm four years old. And the boys are in their tree house. What am I gonna do? I have no friends at that point, since Jesse's sister Sarah was only like, two.. So I stood just below their tree house, whining and complaining and hurtling insults up at them when they wouldn't let me up. Finally, it got to a point where nothing that came out of my mouth was comprehendable, and in my four-year-old wrath, I picked up a rock half as big as my head and proceeded to chunk it through the air: up. Of course, you know the saying: What goes up, must come down.
And down it came! Right on my head. (It's most likely that the reason I was offended was I'd done it to myself.)
There was hell to pay. I screamed; I yelled; I danced around the yard holding my hands over my head and hollering accusations like a typical little girl would at her brothers. I then took it a step further and went inside, still crying and holding the growing red knot on my head.
The result?
Groundage for Jesse (one week) and a spanking for Gamaliel.
They've never let me forget it.

• THE LEMONADE STAND INCIDENT

Anyone who knows me very well has heard or read this story. Basically, my friend Katie and I went through a lot for a seven and ten year old to go through to make a lemonade stand. We tediously prepared the lemonade, stored it in the fridge in glass jars, and then went outside to make the actual stand. After digging around in the bodega (shed) and the back yard for an hour or so, we came up with an ugly yellow metal table and two falling-apart chairs that would just barely support our weight.
When we got back inside? All the lemonade had been drunk by Gamaliel and Conrad.
All of it.
We've never let them forget it.

December 2008 Update

Well, here I am again. It's December, and I haven't written in about two months.

Life has been very good, excepting the weather. Lots of snow and lots of clouds. I hate clouds.

Let's see.. For my birthday in October, we went bowling! That was fun. It was me, Jess, Lydia, Randi, Eric, Brenden, and Jeff. The other Jeff may have been there, too, but I don't remember. We had a lot of fun. It's quite amusing to watch Smithers (Jeff) bowl, because he never does it like a normal person.. He's always putting a twist on it. And by twist, I don't mean a spin-ball. I mean, he gets on the floor and pushes it with his feet, which generally results in one of us having to go fetch it out of the gutter because it didn't have enough oomph to get all the way to the pins. Or he'll bowl backwards, through his legs. Or, this one was amazing: He'll run, throw it, and end up on his face on the floor.. We got a video of THAT one. =D Haha.

We kids have been going out to lunch and supper quite frequently, though not so much in December as we normally do. I leave tomorrow for Texas for almost a month.
I almost don't want to go, but at the same time, I want to see Mama and Katie and all those people I never see in Alaska.. So.. Yeah. =) I'm just not looking forward to the plane ride. (You may have read my former posts about plane rides..)

Hopefully, I sit next to someone friendly again. But..
I GOT A WINDOW SEAT! WOOT!

Everything is packed. My violin, my clothes, except for the ones in the washer.. my laptop, my art stuff, my notebooks for writing, my stationary, etc.

Today I go ice skating with Brenden! Then Annie will pick us up, and I don't know what Brenden wants to do, if he wants to stay or not, but we plan on opening my presents before I leave. =) I LOVE presents.
Yay Christmas!
Of course, that's not the only reason I like Christmas. Duh.

I'm spending Christmas with my Mama! Yay! The..second? Christmas I've spent with her that I remember.

Well, the post is long enough now. Sufficient update?

Love, Bug

God is On My Side

I am not afraid
to live this life before me
to look into the future
and tell you what I see

I am not afraid
to be all by myself
but at least I can admit
that I may need someone's help

And I am not afraid
whether I get things wrong or right
I know I'll be just fine
God is on my side

It's Never Enough

Daddy said that she said
I will always hate you

She said that he said
we will never make it through

and everything is destitute
everything is falling out
everything is never enough
and when things are goin’ rough
we

Give up and give out
and end what we just began
and it’s never enough...
it’s never enough
to just be loved.

She said that he said
drama is so pitiful

But he said that she said
drama is so beautiful

And all we do is follow suit
all we do is go around
being tough
ignoring love and when things are goin’ rough
we

Give up and give out
and end what we just began
and it’s never enough...
it’s never enough
to just be loved.

Eheh.

"We love you RJ!"

Randi, Beth, and Jeff were ready...

Inga surprised Eric (for his birthday) by spraying them all with silly string. Jeff, Eric, and Brenden.

Me and Randi!

~Allie

Oops.

Yes, yes. I know I said I would post pictures. However, the second I got off, I realized that I didn't actually have the camera here with me. *eheh* It's in the back of Randi's car... along with my sleeping bag.

Ah, how absent minded we females can be. (I can just envision a hearty "AMEN" from the opposite gender...)

I'm going to TRY to post them Thursday. But no promises. I'm nabbing the camera tomorrow night at church.

Oh, the Good Times

Hullo.

I mentioned in my previous post that I'd be gone for the weekend. Well, I'm back, and I had an amazing, phenomenal, wonderful, terrific time. It was a perfect weekend, pretty much. Not even a low point in my mood. Not once. (That's sayin' something.)

Let's start this post out with some funny quotes from the youth retreat. We all like to laugh, right? (Nod.)

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I asked Amanda which guy was her dad, and she said, "The guy with the hat? And the beard?"
And Kim, a counselor, jumps up off her matress and says, "Santa Clause!"

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"Hello!" -Brenden (You had to be there.)

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"But didn't Rene'e go off to college?" -Logan
"I thought she was at school, yeah.." -Jeff
"She is.. She already left you guys.." -Allie
"Um." -Brenden
"We were joking." -Randi (insert "duuuuuh" look from everyone)

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I yelled to my Capture the Flag team that we needed someone not active in our group to go capture the opposing team's flag. I told them that it wouldn't work for me to go because I was team leader and they knew what team I was on. Little Halle raises her hand, jumps up and down, and yells, "I'm not active! I'm chubby!"

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"Hey girl, heyyy!" -Halle (Another one of those 'ya had to be there' quotes.)

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"What are you doing!!!" -Eric
"Looking for my Bible, okay?!" -Allie
"Well, do it in the morning." -Eric
"I won't be conscious in the morning." -Allie
"You won't be conscious anyway if you stay down here another five minutes." -Eric

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"John 3:16-" "WHAT?!" -Brenden

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"Sorry we didn't get ice cream, guys." -Kim
"Sorry doesn't cut it." -Brenden

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"I don't like things that crawl." -Amanda B
"You don't like BABIES?!" -Randi

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"Bees, I can handle. Beetles, I can handle. Pretty much anything I can handle, but there was a spider in the canoe and I nearly flipped us." -Lindsey

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"Let's row to the neighbors cuz it ticks him off." -Brenden

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"I ain't violent, and if you say I am again I'll take you down." -Allie

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"Ending a fiddle contest tune on a chord is kinda like ending an article with a closer." -Allie
"Ohhhh so... like, ending a movie with the credits?" -Jeff
(*closes eyes with pain*)

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Now, I'm going to go download pictures so I can post them tomorrow.

Good night.
~Allie