Sunday, 09 December 2007

• I have returned!!

  I didn't post last week, did I? Well I guess that's okay, because I didn't have much to tell, anyways. Now I can make a decent post combining the past two weeks.
  
  Lets start with last week, shall we?
  
  The only 'big' thing that we did that week was go to a Christmas party on Friday, which we do every year. Our dad usually plays piano for the party, but this time I played, too, and I played for nearly an hour, I think. It was fun. :) Lots of stuff to eat, lol. I actually don't know a whole lot of people there, though, because it's one of our grandparent's friends that hosts it, so it's mainly a lot of elderly people who like to tell me how much I've grown and how much I look like my dad. O_O Haha.
  
  On Saturday, we went to cut down a Christmas tree. It didn't take us long to find a good 'un, although it's not a 10 footer this time... it's only 9 feet. But then later that day Nathan started feeling bad, so we didn't get to decorate it that day. Or the next. But the day after that we got the lights and ornaments on, so that's good. :P It's weird... two or three times a year, Nathan gets sick like that. But he doesn't seem contagious, because none of us have gotten it. He gets a fever one day, then the next day he coughs, and then the day after that he's fine. What in the world...
  
  So now we're back to this week. On Monday, our friends were doing that home-church type thing at their house again, but we couldn't go. Nooooo! And I was looking forward to it. But instead, Leah had signed up to go make Christmas cards at the library, our mom was going to a cookie exchange with some other moms from our homeschool group, Nathan didn't feel well, Michael doesn't usually feel like going to those things, and our dad didn't want to go without our mom. So I was left as the only one who wanted to go, and I was outnumbered. :(
  
  The Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End DVD was released on Tuesday! :) Our library is so utterly awesome, we had it in our hands by 1:00, without paying a cent. We've been watching some of our favorite scenes all week.
  
  On Wednesday, we had some friends over. We talked with Jonathan (Around mine and Michael's age) for quite a long time while the other's played Apples to Apples. Interesting conversations going on, I must say... there's a lot of interesting relationships intertwined with our mutual friends, to say the least. Haha.
  
  On Thursday we went to our cousin's house and decorated Christmas cookies. (A tradition.)
  
  And this weekend was quite a bit of fun, because I got to see FRIENDS! YAAAY! We went to two different Christmas parties; one on Friday, one on Saturday.
  
  Friday's party was a lot of fun. It was for all the teenagers in Home on the Rock. We got to the house at a little after 7:00 to find a van unable to make the climb up the snowy and icy driveway to the the road. I jumped out of our van and with the help of several other guy friends, we actually pushed the car up the hill. It's rather hard, especially when you have no traction under your feet because of all the ice. But we finally got it out. And then another got stuck. Frankly, we were pushing cars up the hill here and there throughout the night, lol.
  
  I soon made it to the house, and was warmly greeted by a few friends, and not-so-warmly greeting on the backside with a few snowballs. It was really warm in the house, with a hot fire going and nearly 50 people in it. In the house, not the fire, I mean... yeah, I didn't mean that... uh ok yeah. *clears throat* Where was I.... oh yes, I was greeted warmly by a few friends.
  
  
  
  We talked for about 10 or 15 minutes, introduced ourselves to everyone, prayed, and then everyone went off to get some FOOD.... except for me, because I wasn't hungry.  :P It was kind of ironic, though... while we were introducing ourselves, they had some things you had to say about yourself, and one was "what are you allergic to?" I'm allergic to dairy (particularly ice cream), and that's what I said. Hold on to that thought for a moment. So just a few minutes later, while everyone is getting food, Bethany (yeah a friend) comes up with this glass of some interesting drink. She takes a sip and says "wow this is really good, have a taste" so I taste it, and it was very good. So she offers to get one for me, which she does. Very good stuff. I'm drinking it and she walks off for a moment. Then this guy walks up to me and says "Hey, are you the one that was allergic to peanuts?" And I kind of laughed and said "No, I'm allergic to dairy." And he says "Oh, okay" and walks off. I smile and lift the cup to my lips when suddenly I realize, after that short conversation, that I am allergic to dairy and this drink I'm drinking tastes rather like it has ice cream in it... I look over to the bowl where the drink was being made, and sure, enough, there they are, pouring milk and raspberry ice cream in it. I had completely forgotten that I was allergic to dairy, and here I was, drinking some dairy drink. So I give it to Jonathan (who can't believe I won't drink it) and wait for Bethany to come back. She does and she's like "did you already drink all your drink?" And I grinned and said "Well, no..." and I told her what happened. Haha, I was like (joking, of course) "That was real smooth, Bethany... oh yes, 'have some of this DAIRY drink, Andrew!'" She was going all panicked like "Oh my gosh I am so sorry! I had no idea... oh my gosh, are you going to be okay?" Hahaha, yeah, it was ironic, and funny. When I have dairy, my chest hurts a little and I have trouble breathing. But thankfully I didn't have that much and it my pains/breathing thing only lasted for about 5 minutes. Haha. Um, okay, yeah that probably actually wasn't very funny to you... why did I just type all that out anyways.... whatever. :D
  
  Then we had a white elephant gift exchange, and I got stuck with some lame fuzzy cat in a basket thing...lol. :P Someone told me that I got a cat because I am, of course, the one and only "Catman". There was a tobyMac CD going around, but, of course, nobody would take my fuzzy kitten, so I didn't get the CD, lol. And then we got a group photo... (try and find me, lol.... if you can correctly guess me, Michael, Leah, Bethany, Hope, Andrew [the other Andrew], and Jonathan, I will give you an entire PLATE of cookies. Lol. Leah is, like, half hidden...)
  
  
  
  After that, some of the kids went outside to go sledding, but I didn't bring a sled, so I stayed inside and talked some more, lol. We had a good time... lots of funny conversations and jokes. And boy, my tail bone hurts. Lol. I'll tell you why.
  
  So we're standing in kind of a small group talking. It's me, Bethany, Hope, Jonathan, a crazy guy (another Andrew), Leah, Tori (Jonathan's "girlfriend", Hope's friend, and one of my fellow cast members in the Cheaper by the Dozen play), and Michael dropped in and out of the conversation a few times. To give you a slight basis on relationships in this circle, Andrew (not me, the crazy one) likes Hope, and Hope doesn't like him (more than a friend, that is). Jonathan is Andrew's best friend, and Jonathan is one of my best friends, and Hope is one of my best friends. Just to give you an idea of some of the relationships here. (And that's not the half of it, lol.) So Andrew has told Jonathan he likes Hope, who, in turn, told me, and I told Hope. So Andrew doesn't know that Hope knows he likes her, but, like, everyone else in the circle knows that Andrew likes her and Hope doesn't like her back. Lol, got it?
  
  Annnyyyyywaaaays..... Andrew starts being goofy and throwing chocolate bars in the air and catching them in his mouth. I kind of lean over, grin, and tell him "You aren't impressing anyone, if that's your motive." He stares at me, grabs my shoulders and RHINOS me. If you don't know what that is, it's where you grab someone's shoulders from the back and knee them real hard in the tailbone, lol. Ouch, hahaha. So later, when he's not expecting it, I rhino him. Ha. So there. Then he rhinos me again. And I rhino him again. Soon we're both standing with our backs against walls so we can't rhino each other, lol. So that's kind of forgotten. But not too long afterwards, the conversation shifts to Johnny Depp. Now, 95% of the female population in the world is wild about Johnny Depp, lol. Especially Bethany. Lol. So as we talk about him for a moment, and then suddenly Andrew pretends to faint. He gets up, laughs, and says "See, I'm a good actor." Bethany retorts "Yeah, you can act drunk and crazy." And I smoothly reply "Well then, you can act about as much as I've ever seen Johnny Depp act." Now you have to admit, that was a good crack, and everyone else thought it was hilarious (I got more than one high five on that one, lol). Bethany, however, was insulted, hahaha. She marches up to me and I'm like "you wouldn't..." She grabs me, twirls me around, and gives me the hardest rhino in history! A GIRL! It was absolutely hilarious. :P Maybe you won't find it as funny here, but everyone was cracking up. So as you can see, there was a lot of rhinoing going on. She says later "Boys make great punching bags because they won't hit you back." But although we don't punch back, we certainly can TICKLE back... ;) Guess the rest of the story here... ;)
  
  Ah. Soooo. Yeah we talk for quite a while. The not so good news is we didn't leave on the greatest of notes. Some of you may have heard this, but a while back, Jonathan and I made a brilliant prank call. We connected Hope and Andrew together and they both thought each other had called them, because their phones would ring at the same time and both pick up. (It's an ingenious system.) They seemed to be fine with it until they found out that Jonathan and I were behind it. They'd known it for some time, but this was the first time we'd gotten together with them personally since it happened. The conversation came up pretty late in the night as we were getting ready to leave, but it was soon decided that Andrew would kill Jonathan and Hope would kill me, except that Hope didn't want to kill anyone, so Bethany took her place, except that she didn't want to get my blood on her because I was her friend, so she would kill Jonathan and Andrew would kill me. Hm. Doesn't sound very happy, does it? Of course, it was a joke, but as it were, we left with Hope a little ticked at me. I tried to settle it with some kind of an apology, trying to make up, but Bethany told me "She won't be making up with you for a while... it's too bad you aren't me, because she only stays mad at my for about a minute." So although I tried to get things back to normal with a lighthearted "hope you aren't still made at me" or "sorry that I upset you", none of my apologies were really accepted and the "goodbyes" from her were not extremely warm. Hm... I'm hoping everything is okay, but ya know, sometimes girls can be really sensitive, and I had no idea this prank would be such a big deal. I was thinking at first, what was the harm done? It's not like we embarrassed her in front of someone she really does like. And why should Andrew be mad? He actually had been wanting to call Hope for a while, but couldn't work up the nerve... we did him a favor with that, because now he and Hope have called each other a couple times. Maybe there's something else... whatever it was, Hope just kept saying to me "I can't believe you did that." So who knows how this will all play out...  I haven't heard from her since... EDIT: Hey hey, we're all good again, lol. Exchanged emails, and everything's alright. ;) So in other words... she's no longer mad at me. Yay! :P
  
  Well, moving on... Saturday brought us yet another Christmas party (that's 3 in just a little over a week), this time it was a Christmas party for everyone 11 and up in the Ruby Home on the Rock EP. (That's the group that put on the play.) It was quite a bit of fun as well.  We stood around and talked for a while about a lot of random topics, from moose, to Nathan Endres' garden that would soon be a forest, to how long the guy in Beowulf walked around naked in the movie. Yep, lots of interesting topics, lol. Nathan Endres came up with a few more "Nathan Endres Masterpieces"... he's going to become a cook, so sometimes he'll just randomly shout "Oh, I just had an idea for the greatest sandwich ever..." or something like that. One of his recent creations was "fruitcake in a bowl". Lol! And he nearly made me choke on my food three or four times... that guy is just too funny. ;) We also had a white elephant gift exchange and I ended up with a squirt gun, lol. Well at least it's more useful than that fuzzy fake kitten I got on Friday... ;)
  
  We had pizza and dessert, and played a game where you each have a candy cane in your mouth with the hook sticking out and you have to pass a candy cane down all the way to the end of your line and back without dropping it and only using your candy canes that are in your mouth. Lol. ;) Then later on we ended up in a room with a piano and I started playing Skillet songs and people would sing along. It was cool. I love playing Skillet on the piano, lol, because the songs have cool piano parts... especially "The Last Night". It was fun to see everyone again. Also, down the street, one of the other families from Ruby was hosting a party for everyone who was under 11. So when we went to pick Nathan up from there, I saw some of my little buddies from the play, lol. ;)
  
  Ha, I know you didn't read all that (and if you did, congratulations), but there it is... my week. More like my weekend with a few paragraphs about other things.
  
  - Andrew
  
  
  

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