March 2013 Quotes

Guy 1: I don't like bagels.

Guy 2: Do you hate babies and sunshine, too?

Girl: So today I made dinner. I made the usual portion that my mom makes for our family of six--I ate. All of it.

Lacey: Okay, this may sound really stupid, but let's think about Winnie the Pooh for a second. How stupid must he and Christopher Robin have been to be like, "Tut tut, looks like rain, oh that'll fool the bees!"

Zach: I'm not distracting her! That's like telling the sun not to shine.

Taylor: And then you freak out cause your alarm won't change to PM, and then you're like, "Oh wait, I'm a soldier."

Taylor: If I don't want you to talk to someone, I'll kill them.

Lacey: You're really good at...speaking words. And I mean that from the bottom of my soul.

Lacey: Oh my gosh, Dani, I have to add another friend. You know why? I have 666 friends, and Shari's face is creepily poking out the bottom.

Guy: In the construction industry, you usually have a fatal death per week. One or more.

Lacey: Okay. Thank you for sharing your life plan with me. I am not going to be a part of it.

Brad: I'm so happy. I just sent some beef jerky down to my friend in Nicaragua.

Taylor: Do I look as attractive as I think I do?

Taylor: I hope we didn't just hit a pedestrian. I don't think we did, cause I didn't hear a thump.

Taylor: My hands are all dry and crackley, like a pickle.

Taylor: Good thing those cars aren't called "peeps," cause then it would be a poop.

Lacey: I feel like ginger isn't a nationality.

Taylor: Look! That one's dying! Either that, or it's in labor. [Later] Look! That one's having labor too!

Taylor: They're doing handstands. Or, upside down handstands. That's called standing.

Lacey: Second winter is my least favorite of the winters. Unless there's a third winter coming up, in which case, I definitely don't like third winter.

Lacey: What did I just find in my belly button? Look at that, it's like a little stick. How did I get that in my belly button?

Michael: I think you're going to Africa.

Dania: Africa is a continent, not a mission.

Michael: Nuh uh! I can't narrow it down! All the black people need you, Dania.

Michael: I can breathe! I have one and a half nostrils.

Michael: Something about being a single guy makes you really hungry.

Lacey: Trying to fill the hole in your soul that need to be filled by a woman?

Taylor: You need to learn how to be rude.

Brad: It's like a drunk, but without the alcohol content.

Taylor: I bet if you were there, I wouldn't like picnics.

Taylor: I'm not like you. I don't take advantage of my significant other's car.

February 2013 Quotes

Taylor: What's funny, is I made the joke, and you're the only one laughing at it.

Rachel: I cried my lipstick off!

Lacey: Where's my deodorant?
Dania: I ate it!
Lacey: Dani, that is so unhealthy! There is NO nutritional value!

Taylor: My back just made a funny pain.

Random Girl: And then she tired to beat me upside the head with a pillow. And then she put her FEET on me! It was horrible.

And apparently those are the only funny things that happened all month. Lies. Lots of funny things happened in February, but they were all documented in places that I no longer have access to. Like text messages that have since become inaccessible.

Because I have deprived you of your monthly escape from reality in the form of quotes, I've decided to include something funny provided by the wonderful world of the internet.

My professor found this video and showed it to us all. I hope you like ponies.

Grounded

The ground is severely underrated.

I love the ground. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's just my inner child demanding to be expressed (again), but I just love it down here. I feel safe on the ground. And happy. And real.

Sometimes I remember that I'm a real person who lives and breathes--and I'm surprised! So often,  I think about what I have to do, and where I have to be, and who I'm going to be with. I think about the check lists and the deadlines. The plans and the priorities. I run around and I do all these crazy things, and I love the life that I lead. But in the process, I sometimes forget that I am a person. I forget who I am.

Some places, some situations, ground me. (Ha! Ground. Get it?) Not because the situation itself is particularly inspiring, but because it just puts me in a mindset where I can think about my purpose. They're just times where I can stop. The continual whirr in my mind slows itself down, and I remember a little more. And the ground is one of those places.

So, here I sit. I'm on the floor, and I'm wearing my crazy rain boots and my flannel, rainbow plaid, lumberjack shirt. You know what? I like being a kid.

January 2013 Quotes

Janae: I wish these were babier carrots.

Brad: I feel like gouging your eye out with your iPhone isn't the best use of the technology. You don't want to make it an actual eye-phone.

Michael: Why is your door locked?!

Dani: I am freezing and miserable.
Lacey: At least you're not in (chuckle) the French Revolution.

Ethan: I'm an extrovert. I can't just go to bed whenever I want!

Zach: I can't grow a beard...I wish I could just sneeze and have one for a day.

Lacey: He needs a haircut. His head is starting to look like a mushroom.

Girl: Those golden Oreos? My favorite. They make me feel feminine.

Lacey: I feel like this is the way our mornings go--we kind of just follow each other around and I watch you eat.

Lacey: Do you want these last two biscuits? Or should we feed them to children as we pass them in the street?

Lacey: What, are they playing Jumanji up there?!

Taylor: My married friend's fiancée. I mean...what are they called when they're married? Wife.

Taylor: I should have packed more than a bunch of white flower and chemicals.

Joe: [watching Tangled] Dude. You're setting the bar too high. I can't beat that!

Wes: It's such a manly movie, you'll cry at the end. I didn't cry, but I thought about it.

Dark Blue

Some songs demand my attention. I hear the first few notes and immediately drop whatever I'm doing. I associate it with memories and emotion, and I want to completely soak them in.

Dark Blue is one of those.

I never particularly cared for this song until my roommate, Cali, made a most marvelous comment:

"I hope my husband is like this song. I know it inside and out, every little detail of it. But it never gets old. I still get so excited every time I hear it."

And, suddenly, I can't get enough of it. All I want to do is listen to it over and over. I look it up and I put it on repeat. I should probably just buy the thing, but that is a concern for another day.

The point is that I hear this song and, in my mind, I hear those words. And for some reason those words bring me such peace and hope. Hope that someday I can find a this song to my life.

Toast.

I'm not sure why it is, but I have this strange tendency to take any question that I have to this here web log thing I signed up for. But that's irrelevant.

As you can tell from the title of the post, today I want to talk about dreaming. And not the kind that you have at night, and not the kind you have during your most boring class either. The kind that plays itself out somewhere deep in your soul, and every so often you catch a glimpse into. The kind that shows you what it is that you truly, deeply love. The kind that you would be willing to throw your current life--everything that you know--completely aside for.

The desires of your heart.

Sometimes, I dream big. Oh, I dream big. I dream about using my degree (that I have yet to obtain) in recreation management to change the world--or at least a corner of it, somewhere. I could start a non-profit, I say. I could work with youth, I could travel the world via humanitarian trips to various third-world countries. I could get a master's degree. I could learn a language. I could, I could, I could. There are so many wonderful, beautiful, remarkable things available. So much good. And I dream about being a part of it.

Sometimes those big dreams are beautiful. Sometimes they're the most beautiful thing I could ever see. Because when something is just a little bit far off, it still has that extra sparkle. From the outside looking in, the smudges are a little harder to see--especially with that glint in your eye. Sometimes we get selective vision--when we dream up our visions of grandeur, we see the excitement and the glory and the goodness only in the big things. We miss the detail that makes it splendid in the first place.

There is something immensely beautiful in an individual's ability to devote a life dream to something that draws little to no attention. Something that people all too often gloss over. It can be difficult to go after a dream like that in a society that so often pushes "bigger is better" as we trample each other in the race to the top. It takes remarkable courage and, to me, courage and beauty are unfailingly intertwined.

What's funny, is that I think that we all do that. We all have our number one, most important dream. And that's the one that we live. It's the one that we put all else aside for. But what do we do after that? So often, we hold onto our second best, our third best options. Not even for the sake of a backup plan, but to show them. Because we ask each other these things--what is your biggest dream? And we need an answer, don't we?

And for some reason, we never think to answer, "I'm living it." Clear and simple. None of the if's and the maybe's and the hopefully's and the it'll probably never happen's. Just gratitude. Just recognition that you chose to be where you are for a reason.

I guess what I'm saying is that I don't want to be afraid to dream my biggest dream in something inconspicuous. Sometimes that's where accomplishing dreams is the sweetest.

But all this dream-talk is making me hungry. I think I'll go have some toast.

December 2012 Quotes

Stephen: Man up and do the splits, we'll take you to the hospital later.

Brad: What if the cure for cancer is found in the Arabian ladybug?
Nathan: Then let's breed it like heck!

Jared: I'm going to marry someone who I hope is a her!

Taylor: Oh, my tummy just made a funny chorus of sounds.

Taylor: My food is like my temple. ...That I eat.

Brad: ...I have no idea what you just said, so I am just going to agree with you.

Brad: At what point do you decide that it is okay to sing in the bathroom that loudly?

Lacey: I had a bad dream. I was Harry Potter, and Voldemort came and crashed my party and I had to kill him.

Brad: If I was husband hunting, there would probably be more death involved.

Taylor: Hey, there's a chance this couldn't happen! Give me a crowbar.

Nick: I don't know the guy, but I don't like him.

Carrie: If he likes dogs, he can't be that bad.
Steph: Well Hitler liked dogs...

Steph: Except that right not it's so hot that cuddling is hard.

Jordan: Jasmine's giving awkward looks, so I think I'm done.
Jasmine: Jord, I'm just awkward. My face is just...awkward.

Aaron: I need to get a girlfriend so I can sit on the couch with her all day.

Brad: Only Mormons and chick flicks date.

Sister Clark: He's met almost everyone I've dated! Well, not everyone I've dated. But almost everyone who asked me to marry them.

Brad: He thought he was being sneaky, but I out-snuck him.

Brad: Because normal people don't make headlines.
Dani: But they give accurate information.
Brad: But then we wouldn't have the bedroom intruder song.

Janae: Guys, wanna smell my armpits? They smell really good.

Tori: They're really nice, and they don't even smell like old people.

Benny: Dania, I'm going on a mission to Sprout. And do you know what I"m going to bring back from my mission? My own ax!

Mom: Oh look! That person likes to do his visiting teaching!

Tori: Mom, what would you do if I was a perfectionist?
Mom: Slap you.

Tori: All size fits one. I mean...you know what I mean.

Catie: Robbie, hold my hand!
Robbie: No!
Catie: Why not? It'll be funny! My friends will think I'm dating someone!

Brad: I know less about Africa than I know about the surface of Mars.

Dania: I'm going ot miss you! I just want to kidnap you so you can't leave.
Kristy: Or you could just decide to marry a southern latin cowboy and move out to visit me.