Coffee? Unlimited, please.

at 01/26/09 7:11PM

This is why a caffeine-deprived person should never toss around game ideas for their first-grade Bible class...

HOLLY: So what should we do for a game?

ME: Um...baptism! We're talking about Nicodemus, so we could do something with baptism.

HOLLY: Okay

ME: When I was a kid, we liked playing games with teams.

HOLLY: We haven't done that yet; that's a good idea.

ME: So we give each team a bowl of water...that they don't touch...ever...and we put a toy guy in each bowl of water and ask the kids trivia questions. And when one of the teams gets the most right, we put their figurine under the water so...whoever gets their guy baptized first...wins...

HOLLY: (the most polite expression of silent doubt)

ME: Of course, if they equated that with drowning, we'd have problems.

For those of you who are concerned, we later were inspired with the idea of having them just move little Nicodemuses down spaces on a board when they answered the questions right.

But...always drink your quota of coffee, or...yeah...

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So kind of like playing hangman, except creepier.

by mattmanua at 01/26/09 8:10PM
i'm with philip on this one...

by kattath at 01/26/09 8:15PM
I am impressed that you knew the plural of Nicodemus

by grannywriter at 01/26/09 10:41PM
i don't know... he comes up woth a good idea every now and then ;)

by kattath at 01/26/09 11:48PM
No. That actually was a serious statement.

by franky_g at 01/26/09 11:51PM
lol!

by obi_wan_kenobi at 01/27/09 4:33PM
haha it's okay! every thing's been doin good here too! :) how about u?

by cassiejean at 01/27/09 7:08PM
That's awful. I tell ya', some people were not blessed with even half-a-deck.

by runaweasgood at 01/28/09 7:54AM
Those are so good! :)

by mrsfionacharming at 01/28/09 12:35PM
LOL, that's pretty funny. Shoulda gone with the drowning. They would have remembered it the rest of their lives.

by sherbear at 01/28/09 2:09PM
Wow...I just don't even have anything to say to that...just...wow.

by babyelephant at 01/29/09 11:08AM
Be responsible and drink your coffee next time, okay?

by babyelephant at 01/29/09 11:09AM
(hahaha)

by babyelephant at 01/29/09 11:09AM
that. is. funny. and not a bad idea either.....

by emmybear at 01/29/09 2:50PM
lol yeah! :)

by cassiejean at 01/29/09 4:10PM
take care of yourself :)

by jdc at 02/03/09 5:02PM
Wahw Caroline...

by bookworm14 at 02/26/09 9:35PM
Hey !!!!! how r u ? write 2 me ♥-christina

by girl at 03/24/09 7:27PM
You need to call me darling honey pot! I want to hear about this banquet event thing fun madness. :)

by moonpi at 04/08/09 12:45AM
Dear...it is time to update.

by eladea at 07/26/09 10:35PM

You are ugly...

at 01/02/09 10:37PM

When you are able to ignore every part of you that is beautiful.

You are afraid…

When you perceive perfection as courage.

You are depressed…

When you forget friendships reward self-sacrifice.

You are different…

When you refuse to smile at the strangers who are so much like you.

You are alone…

When you believe you are inadequate for impacting your world.

“Be Yourself. Everybody else is already taken.” - Oscar Wilde

Thanks for sharing!

by grannywriter at 01/02/09 11:56PM
happy new year and have a great 2nd semester!

by jdc at 01/03/09 10:18AM
Thanks for sharing this ponderous wisdom. See you soon!

by emer at 01/03/09 3:19PM
"Courage is fear hanging on a minute longer"

by franky_g at 01/04/09 12:45PM
Ohhh... that's a hard decision... I would say both, but I guess I can't...

by mrsfionacharming at 01/04/09 1:04PM
Hi Caroline! I love you!!!!!! Your right, Sutton is the place to be!!!!

by sherbear at 01/05/09 12:55PM
Well, it changes... all right... right now, I say Peter... but it will probably change in the next few minutes if I keep thinking about it... :)

by mrsfionacharming at 01/05/09 2:40PM
How about you?

by mrsfionacharming at 01/05/09 2:41PM
:)... what was the total?

by mrsfionacharming at 01/05/09 5:36PM
?!?!? I would never call him a "creepy stalker dude" or say he needed a haircut! :)

by mrsfionacharming at 01/05/09 7:04PM
General George S. Patton

by franky_g at 01/05/09 10:53PM
:)

by mrsfionacharming at 01/06/09 10:17AM
"Everybody else is already taken." I like that. How lucky I am to have a roommate like you. :)

by eladea at 01/06/09 1:27PM
Thanks :) I actually did forget to put my name, but I remembered later...

by mrsfionacharming at 01/14/09 4:26PM
I know your caroline.

by finnbarr_galedeep at 01/14/09 6:49PM
The plural of platypus is platypode

by bibbit18 at 01/15/09 10:49AM
platypus babies are called puggles

by bibbit18 at 01/15/09 10:50AM
thanks for the langauge lesson, I'm glad they're teachin ya something up at that there school ;)

by emmybear at 01/19/09 11:33AM
Yes

by finnbarr_galedeep at 01/22/09 8:45PM

"For the Beauty of the Earth"

at 12/21/08 2:17PM

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

- Oscar Wilde

Let these words be the promise of the first deep breath that begins to guide your spirit every morning, and the peace of the sigh that settles your soul every night.

:) good words. I'm doing fine.

by mrsfionacharming at 12/21/08 4:45PM
Profound and beautiful words to live by.

by grannywriter at 12/21/08 7:40PM
I like that hymn! Nice quote, too! I can tell you're an English major. :)

by obi_wan_kenobi at 12/21/08 11:03PM
you are so poetic

by eladea at 12/22/08 12:19AM
Oscar Wilde wrote "The Importance of Being Ernest," right?

by emer at 12/22/08 7:47PM
^yes

by eladea at 12/23/08 1:29AM
cool beans? I think that's worse than lukewarm.

by franky_g at 12/23/08 1:17PM
Hey! You can never know how fun it is to twist beautiful things until you try.

by franky_g at 12/23/08 1:18PM
Is there something special about "exited" with two I's?

by franky_g at 12/23/08 1:58PM
we miss you too!

by mrsfionacharming at 12/24/08 3:59PM
Does the first line imply that you can find ugly meanings in beautiful things while being charming?

by runaweasgood at 12/25/08 9:39AM
In that case, I feel sorry for the world. I'm perfectly happy and content to take things out of context.

by franky_g at 12/25/08 1:52PM
I know! :) Will you be in Knoxville during New Years?

by sjbgurl at 12/25/08 8:57PM
Sounds like he's talking about Philip...

by runaweasgood at 12/26/08 10:08AM
Okay. I go back the 3rd as well. Monday my family is going to Knoxville to be with friends for New Years! What are your new years plans??

by sjbgurl at 12/26/08 11:24PM
I'm glad you finally approve.

by rustin at 01/02/09 11:29AM
well, i won't be back til late on the fifth.

by eladea at 01/02/09 5:00PM

Flying...

at 12/15/08 7:06PM

When you first start going up, you can still see the houses, all lined up next to each other, or winding around to create orderly circles. From up here, even amongst the soft-looking circles of grass and bare ground, the houses don’t look out of place. They don’t seem chaotic, or even synthetic; it’s like they belong there, like they’re just another part of the pattern. The tidy roofs in the circles of houses gleam as brightly as the beads on an elaborate Indian costume, surrounded by suede-like splotches of green and brown. The world looks as simple and small as a native’s historical dress, stuck behind the window of the plane instead of the glass of a museum display.

When you fly higher, the separate sections of dirt and grass start becoming bare outlines of simple shapes, with those complex, shrinking houses still scattered in between them. By now, the roofs look like little shards of glass, molded into the mosaic of a masterpiece.

Then, you get too high to even see the houses. All you dimly see are those fading green and brown regions of the earth. Somehow, they seem scattered amidst the blueness of previously unseen water. The paleness of the land’s now-diluted colors makes the land shapes look like clouds floating in a second sky. That’s when the entire world, every bit of it, just seems like extra clouds, wafting below and away…

After that, you pop up above the clouds; it’s like being in a sea of age-old snow, churned up by thousands of previous planes and left still and perfect just for you. But soon, your own plane pierces through the thick snow, slicing it into thin vapors that roll away so you can see the world again. The greenery glistens under golden rays. Even the sunlight seems to be below you. Just how high have you come? How long can you stay?

Beautiful writing! Keep it up. You will be famous one day!!

by grannywriter at 12/15/08 7:39PM
My dad wants to know if you are in a plane or doing drugs.

by franky_g at 12/16/08 12:24PM
^don't be mean philip! i'm glad you liked flying caroline. did you have a pretty good view then? i have been on 6 different planes and every time i have had a seat over the wing, so i couldn't see much. that is beautiful, by the way, what you wrote about flying.

by eladea at 12/16/08 12:58PM
I was speaking facetiously about the brown points.

by franky_g at 12/16/08 3:09PM
you are destined for greatness!!! I want an autographed copy of your first book!!!! You are welcome for the gift. I remember when someone unexpectedly sent me "a gift", I wanted you to have a memory of a random act of kindness that you can pass on someday. Love makes the world go round, but a little gift buys a drink at Sonic! Love you and think of you more often than you would imagine.

by jdc at 12/17/08 9:55AM
Have you ever heard Pink Floyd's song "Learning to Fly?"

by emer at 12/17/08 12:17PM
My eyes hurt...

by pianobub at 12/17/08 4:19PM
btw, your blanket has been wonderful. bekah used it to keep warm while we stood on the side of I-65 waiting for the state trooper and i have slept with it every night since i have been back. it is so warm and fuzzy! :) thank you again.

by eladea at 12/17/08 9:37PM
The blue on black is visual murder :-P

by pianobub at 12/18/08 10:23AM
I can't be sure, but I get the sense that you're being sarcastic.

by franky_g at 12/18/08 3:54PM
Break is going quite well. I've spent most of my time at Tampa MEPS (Military Entrance Processing Station) trying to get processed for the Marines.

by franky_g at 12/18/08 4:01PM
Don't freak out. I'm still going to finish school.

by franky_g at 12/18/08 4:03PM
No! Really? The test went just fine. Tomorrow will be my last day of testing, needless to say, I'm happy...and excited.

by franky_g at 12/18/08 10:36PM
Oh. A blue sky, eh? What about using more of a 'sky blue' instead of royal blue? ;-)

by pianobub at 12/19/08 2:37PM
Hey Caroline! How's your break so far?

by mrsfionacharming at 12/19/08 3:58PM
that is Audrey M.!

by kattath at 12/19/08 6:25PM
It doesn't? ;-)

by pianobub at 12/19/08 6:38PM
^^yes, I am Audrey Moyer :)

by mrsfionacharming at 12/20/08 11:02AM

Faith is a Blue Bird

at 12/12/08 10:50PM

Faith is a bluebird you see from afar,
It's as sure and as real as the first evening star;
You can't touch it, or buy it, or wrap it up tight;
But it's there just the same, making things turn out right.

(From Disney's, The Rescuers)

I didn't even know that that was a novel. I'll put that on my reading list.

by runaweasgood at 12/13/08 9:29AM
Good to see you last night. Glad you're back.

by amandochka at 12/13/08 11:39AM
Have an excellent break!

by emer at 12/13/08 11:52AM
I don't really remember that part of the movie...I haven't seen it in so long!

by obi_wan_kenobi at 12/13/08 12:19PM
And your point is...?

by franky_g at 12/13/08 2:02PM
Beautiful! Merry Christmas to you and yours.

by grannywriter at 12/13/08 2:02PM
I thought the whole point of faith is that you cannot not see it.

by franky_g at 12/13/08 2:03PM
It's what I live for. Besides, if I just took stuff lying down my brain would become dull and boring.

by franky_g at 12/13/08 9:55PM
If I agreed with everything you said there wouldn't be any intellect.

by franky_g at 12/14/08 2:47PM
Oooh, Browny points!!!

by franky_g at 12/14/08 2:48PM
awwwww Rufus.....

by emmybear at 12/15/08 12:05PM

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