Happy Things

These from Matt, Jamie, Nina, and yours truly . . .

 

• Hearing Pastor Goodwin trying to pronounce names of rap stars-and referring to a deceased rapper as "Schupbach Shakur"
• Driving in snow
• Talks while line running
• The Paines' willingness to do unpleasant jobs
• Gina telling me that "nothing" rhymes with her name. Given this challenge, I proceeded to discover that several words do, indeed, rhyme with "Gina."
  My #2 favorite: "hyena"
  My #1 favorite-the way a Bostonian might say "hot dog": "weenah"
  (I don't think that Gina will resurrect the subject for a while)
• Jamie: "Give (guys) power!" (second part of quote intentionally omitted)
• Kendra, when reminded that killing all guys would result in the extermination of life, she says: "What are we waiting for?"
• Matt, the Out-of-Context king
• Nuh-uh! I was there!
• Kendra's "new and improved" way of brushing her teeth [I was brandishing the long lighter, immediately after lighting my candle]
• Jamie and Kendra thinking of practical jokes like shocking people, and what if it didn't work right? [I was recalling the legendary story of the Fairwood men who rigged a bed so that they could shock its occupants]
• Winning my first game of Phase 10
• Being dubbed a snot [by myself] for the above
• Alison's dream about health conference . . . that Matt got up for announcements and said that, thought not everyone would believe in this, they were going to post a list of recommended wines and highlight one for each meal-then they put up on the marker board which wines went with which meals
• Matt crowing, " . . . as virtuous as a grape! . . . (and you know what comes from grapes when they are squeezed-w(h)ine!" (actually, Matt's whole character quality monologue)
• Roommates who make my bed
• Arts and crafts in leaders' meeting [idea compliments of Julie LaF.]
• Good books (such as Paul David Tripp books)
• Brent eating flowers
• Kendra to John Michael, who was wearing a crown: "Do we have a king at our training center? . . . a prince? Should we bow or curtsey to you?"
  Mrs. Paine: "No." (to John Michael's credit, I think she shook her head above him)
  John Michael: "Yes."
• Line running with Alicia M.
• Out-loud laughter
• Tiah's predictable choice of raspberry lemonade
• Being ahead on school
• A phone call and an e-mail from Taiwan in the same morning
• Letters from former EQUIP students (like Jeanne Marie)!
• Comments on my blog
• Bonus dessert from the kitchen
• Anticipating seeing Jason again!
• Finding Carrie Fulton's blog and so picturing her saying, "I yearn to be a Flylady."