The Epic-ness of Us *Updated*

*Updated from the original post on 3/11/2011. More quotes added to the end*

Ah, what an enjoyable morning.
I just spent a few hours dancing, eating lunch, and chatting with a very pleasant friend of mine.
The topics of conversation were varied. Some of the discussions were about:

• super-gluing and bleaching spiders
  
• the dangerous, upsetting nature of food
• "Hate is a strong word, but I really, really, really don't like you..."
• the 411 on how to deny stress
• the murderous nature of hot water to some hard-backed creatures- but Asians love it
  
• french-kissing an ant
• "too many midgets"
• eating tomatoes like apples
• you can't have a fly for a pet
  
• Psych is the West Coast of tv shows
• "I feel like AJ right now!"

Add on to that enjoyable luncheon the great times we've had preparing for and competing at Dancesport. We went and picked out shirts (and tie and vest for him) that matched. We had pizza with Ruth and he 'made a fool of himself' jumping to grab me an abandoned, yellow balloon on the ceiling. I named him Ben (the balloon, not James), who was then taken from me at the Marriott Center because they "don't allow balloons in here." More unforgettable quotes that need mentioned were:

• Ooh, that one! I hate that one!
• But why orange? Orange isn't a color. It compliments, only.
  
• "I told him you're fine with it."
  "With what?"
  "Going to Wal-Mart before dancing."
  "Oh, yeah, I'm fine with that."
  "... Thank you for re-affirming what I already said."
• 'We beat Stephen' *cue sing-song voice and funky, victory dance*
  
• Who's that dancing with the banana?
• Go AJ!
  
• "What do you think of this one?"
  "Actually, I think I hate it."
• Watching open is like watching a bunch of Skittles dance."
  
• He's more twisty than a pretzel!
• *Aaaaye don't liiiike o-ran-ge-ehs*
• Powerade tastes like laxative.
• That's rude!
• I like that couple, because they're married, and that's nifty.
  

From the 'what if...?" random-answer game and other events of the night.

• ... I would like it. And it would probably end with them sucking on my toes.
• ... Excuse me sir, you have a banana.
• What if you were stuck in the sewer and couldn't get out? - I would have myself a tasty soup.
• What if we all had 6 toes growing from our elbows? - We would all look like old grandpas.
• What if Jimmer was a golfer instead? - I would move in with your mom instead.
  
• ...Geico would save you 15% or more in car insurance.
• What if there was an earthquake and you were stuck with JB and he made a move on you? - I would take a bite out of them!
  
• ... I would like it... then, maybe not.
• What if the hills were alive with the sound of "Friday, Friday." - We would burn them down.
  
• "I wasn't chewing them up... I was just sucking on them for a bit."
  
• "Oh, my giant blue head!"
• "Oh, yeah that's funny. That random 'she' friend was ME."

And any others:

• But I'm still reliable!
• Hmm, pudding... yeah, I'm thirsty.
  
• What gain comes from stomping on slugs?
• Hey man look at my new dog! - Oh yeah, that's pretty cool- Aaaah! There's no dog there. Oooohhhh - Aaaahhh...
• There's something on your face? *punch* It was pain!
• *Camel laugh*
• Oh, they're gonna do that, but it didn't show it.
• And we thought; sad.
• "eeeeeeeeeeeeee"
• Hyperbole and a Half blog
• "Aaaahhh... "
  "There is no __ there!"
• *vacant stare* Oh, no. I was just noticing that Kimber's foot is basically massaging my breadsticks..."
• "James ?" -Argh! What?! What do you want from me?!
  
• "Admit it, I'm pretty bad."
  "Well... I'll admit you're decently bad."
• Gr-urk-ah-br-ngh-gasp-akgr-blgr...Brain freeze!
• Come on, French people can't lasso!
• Hey, why can't I be a stone pig with horns?
• Is that how they used to tell if someone was dead? Drown them?
  
• Her head is always tilted to the right.
  It's because of the earring.
  
• Aaaaaehhhhhh... dead? or sleeping...?
• "Bla, bla, Toms, bla, I'm awesome, bla bla, Toms, Toms, Bla."
  "Well, I got these at Shopco for $3."
  "..."
  "Good."
  
• They're like eating happiness. And the happiness is all gone!
• Well these have stupid, little pictures on them too, why not just get these?
• James, what is this? I feel like I'm being possessed!
  
• This just in - I'm Awesome!
• "Why are we friends?!"
  "You're not my friend. You need me."
• Homegirl totes cray-cray.
• *text chain* R: You're late. J: Lol. No i'm not... R: Well you arent here J: Yes i am... R: ... where? J: Umm...here of course R: >:P Let me know when you get to 278 then J: I'm already there...
• I have a village of muffins in my fridge.
• *both simultaneously out of several minutes of silence* doo doooo, doo doooo, doo doo doooo doooo...
• Crunchy leaves are like steak...
• ...they probably outlaw it because ducky has too many brothers and sisters.
• mm^hmm.
• "Why do I always assume your father was eaten by that cat?"
  "Ooh, that's no good!"
  "It happens."
• Suit up!
• Run forest run! This makes me nervous for you... eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
• A large, noisy Brazilian with food smelling strongly of bbq has taken over our table.
  The table is under attack by an army of dwarves.
  
• "Are you dead?"
  "Yes. But I'll be there in a sec."
• No it's not- shut up.

Youtubes

Over the last week I've needed a lot of music and humor to get me through studying. I've found that I like a lot of Jon Schmidt's work. Here are some of my favorite youtubes that saved me from lasting insanity (I'm not going to rule it out completely):

Pain
A Drop in the Ocean
Soaring
Jeffery is Bored
All of Me
Before the Morning
The Sound of Rain
Pachabel meets U2
Prank
Sacred Ground
Rubik's Cube
Elisha and Jared
Long Ago
Hidden Wedding
Pirates
Mad World
Airplane Story
A Place for Us
Here It Goes Again

I may make this a regularly updated post with any youtubes I want to share. We shall see.
Enjoy!

E.F.O.A.S.K.

My post for Ben-jokes and quotes. Some I said, some he said, some just amazingly ridiculous moments we've had.

• Throwing ice cubes and "I think someone said 'Ow!'"
• I changed my name!
• "You would!"
  "No... you would..."
• Was that, like, a guy and his mom? 'Cause she looked really old!
• Frosties and chicken nuggets.
• Laughing hysterically @ The Magic Flute
• If you kill me, I'll hurt you.
• Pirdidle.
• Screaming and singing and nearly-dying in the car
• You know you love it!
• No dipping with a backpack on.
• You have waaaay too much energy
• *Poke* "No touchy!"
  
• If I didn't know you, I'd say you were always high..
• Have you gefukled today?.
• Wal-mart?
• We might have to park in a tree.
• Staring contest- with your lips!
• Clyde
• Did you just call me Iago?
• "You're probably more conservative in your eating habits than I am." *suave smile*.
• Thuswise and hencewith!
• Don't give me none of that black lady sass!

That's all for now.

Things...

So, I feel I need to jot down a few things so I don't forget.

1. Tanya and my efforts in transporting my bike via her car to Wyview was... quite the experience. We first tried the trunk. Silly idea. Then we tried shoving it into the backseat handles first. Again, silly idea. We had to move around to the other side of the car so it was 'downhill' and finally got the bike in. But it was too long. So we stuck one handle out the rolled-down-window, didn't quite get the other door to latch properly and shoved the driver seat so far forward that... well. To save dignity, I will end there. In any case. I laughed quite hard about how ridiculous it must have looked. My hands were black, Tanya had grease marks on her face, and the top-inside of the car was marked up from the handles.
2. I rode to school this morning. In 40° -something weather, with a plastic sack over my ripped-up, water-logged bike seat, and while it was hailing (sort of). Note to self -and anyone wise enough to learn from my experiences- DON'T DO THAT! Bad for you!
3. I'm pretty sure that I'm going to take Astronomy, first half D&C, Dance 380, and Weight Lifting. But who knows, honestly. I'm hoping to get a job Ushering in the HFAC (I turned in an application yesterday), but I'm thinking that might not happen.
4. I'm mostly unpacked. Yup, already. In 2 days. A record for me.
5. My friends Yuri, Grant, and Ben (probably others as well) made Spring team. I almost tried out, but I didn't want to have to get up so early every day. I'm beginning to regret not giving it a go though, it would have been fun. Oh wells.

I think that's all for now...

Strange Dreams

I usually never remember my dreams. Sometimes I wake up with a few images or something, but they usually fade. Last night I had some pretty interesting, lasting dreams that I thought I would share. They actually have to do with a few things in my life, so I'll gives a short preface (if I can manage to keep it short).

Yesterday, during one of my short breaks from studying, I watched a couple Britain's Got Talent performances. I saw someone sing, a couple of kids dance, and a dog perform.
Also, yesterday, I was worrying a lot about having time to study and take all my finals, and still be able to pick up my sister (Donalee) from the airport and take her to the MTC. I thought the testing center closed at 5pm on Wednesday (my lovely roommate informed me this morning that it doesn't, fortunately) and I wouldn't have had time to pick her up and take that final.

So, on to my dreams. I had two. The first was that I was on Britain's Got Talent (even though I'm American, I know). But instead of several rounds (semi, finals, etc.) We had to perform three different things in a row, and I couldn't just sing three times. I hadn't known this ahead of time so, panicking backstage right before I went on, I decided to sing an opera piece, then dance the polka in a Tango outfit with my 7 foot tall turtle. Yeah. lol It was crazy. They showed this whole clip of me with my turtle and how I raised it from a little egg and etc. Then I went onstage to perform and some director dude rushed after me and started fixing my dress and telling someone to 'fix up her nose.' What was wrong with me nose? I think I sort of woke up after that or something, because I don't remember how I did, or what my third act would have been.

My second dream, has to do with seeing Donalee and finals and all. I dreamed that I was with Donalee, but we were somewhere... else, where she was living, by the ocean. And I was visiting her because she was going to be leaving. So we were hanging out, taking boats out on the water looking at starfish mounds (I don't those actually exist, tho) and she was super excited to go see this aquarium, but it was like a 5 hour drive, and I told her that I couldn't because I had a final scheduled at 2:30 and it was already 11 and, really, I should probably do some studying. lol Basically, I was just all stressed in my dream that I wouldn't get to spend time with her and do my finals. Ridiculous how obsessed I am with things...

Encore!

The Ballroom Dance Company's 50th Anniversary Performance was amazing! There were a few that I've seen before, but they were still good. My favorites were Kaboom (Cha Cha), which had Toffer and Whitney, Caleb and Amy, and Tia and Katie.
I also really like Micgalaxy- the glow in the dark alien dance thing by the Tour Team. It was just super entertaining.
And the back-up tour team did a Samba to a song called Lollipop. That was a ton of fun. My favorite part was when... I'm not even sure how to describe it. They guys were on the floor in push-up position, and the end guy rolled underneath all of them in a row as they 'popped' themselves up in time to the music. It just looked really sweet.
I also enjoyed Sean Moe's 10:00 team. They did a foxtrot to "Mahna Mahna." It was cute and unique. I love Sean. Miss him teaching...
Anyhow. That's my rant about the performance.
It was quite good.