beautimous creatures

Lyds: "that's what Perry always does to me- he tries to pick my nose."

Perry:(in imitation of our dermatologist)
"Your whole world revolves around your skin- we've got to do something about it!!"

Mel: "It was like.. like... I dunno."
Perry: "Ooooohh!"
Mel: "Shut up."


Perry:"Let's talk about something more important. Like Lydia. Lydia, Lydia Lydia. Lydia Lydia Lydia. Lydia, Lydia, Lydia, Lydia......"


Mel:"I cant, I've got to have my fans.......I mean friends. I meant friends."


Me: "No, it's Mel who remembers funny things, not you."
Char: "It's Melissa who IS funny things."


Me:"Why are they so hard to read?"
Char:"Because they're actual pieces of literature, first of all..."

Char:"She has not even returned my call yet, Triflin' Heffa!"


Mom:"Perry, how nice, you came to be with us!"
Perry:"Actually, I was going to take a shower."


{over the phone}
Melis: "Lydia, are you eating Mac n cheese right now?
Lyds: "..No."
Mel: "Are you about to?"
Lyds: "...No."
Mel: "Are you going to later?"
Lyds: "..No."
Mel: "Oh, I, ah, just thought uh that you were."
Lyds: "Good one Mel!"


Me:"Yall are where the action is."
Mom:"You're the action people."
Perry:"Except for me, I'm not, I'm the rebel" {smirk}.


Lydia: "We were doing a puzzle, and I got mad, so I bit Gabby in the arm in 2nd grade. Whenever I was mad, i'd just bite people."


--Lydia's sleepwalking lap----- Circus of the Jesus Freaks-and How to get out of jury duty by sounding as such


Perry:(country accent to a tune in Team America)"What would yew dew, if your Daddy didn't brush your hair for three days."


Me:"Yeah, I have like 30 hours till I leave."
Perry:"Oh yeah! {pause, and then..}(to a beach boys tune) 'I wish they all could be California nurses'."

o crap

i'm getting scared. not really of a new life and a real job (OK granted that's pretty scary too) but most of all of leaving this family. I love them SO MUCH I can't even express and enjoy them intensely and immensely. They make me laugh, oh they make me laugh. Lydia's little hugs and Perry's smart quips. Mel's profound depth and Char's childlike affection. Mommy's warmth/hugs and Daddy's quiet love. I'm ill to think of leaving them for who knows how many months before I see their faces again, how much they'll grow up and grow together before I am with them again, if I'll ever be with them in this way and amount and context ever again. I don't know, I don't know and that scares the frickin crap out of me. really really. Making new friends (when I have such kickin awesome ones here, already) is sucky too, though of course it will be fun. It just won't be the same. Things will never ever be the same again, and I like them so much already. It's like leaving high school all over again, but much bigger and farther and more permanently. I fear the changes in relationships and people, mostly my siblings. I'm afraid I'll never belong in quite the same way again in this family or be as close to my siblings again. I'm not one to be overdramatic, but these are my intense fears. I can't imagine anything worse to me than drifting from these relationships with my precious precious family. Holy crap this is gonna hurt.

classic

"For example, ever heard of Plato, Aristole, Socrates?"
"Yes."
"..... morons."

1 John 1:5--2:17

This is the message we have heard from Him and declare to you: God is light; in Him is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with Him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin. If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.If we claim we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar and His Word has no place in our lives.

My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense--Jesus Christ, The Righteous One. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. We know that we have come to know Him if we obey His commands. The man who says, 'I know Him,' but does not do what He commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But if anyone obeys His word, God's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in Him: whoever claims to live in Him must walk as Jesus did. Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard. Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in Him and you, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining.

Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkeness. Whoever loves his brother lives in the light and there is nothing in him to make him stumble. But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness; he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded him.

I write to you dear children becasue your sins have been forgiven on account of His name. I write to you fathers because you have know Him who is from the beginning. I write to you young men because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you dear children because you have known the Father. I write to you fathers because you have know Him who is from the beginning. I write to you young men because you are strong and the Word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world the love of the Father is not in him. For everthing in the world--the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does-- comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.

back in the N.O., because once in a summer is deficient

Char: "ew, I don't think I can look at him for a whole movie!"
Me: "really? I think he's kinda cute."
Char: "Marcelle, do NOT bring home a boy that looks like that."


Char: "I'm going to name my daughter Dorignac."


heart to hearts and cleaning


Regarding Garden State:
Char: "I didn't know it was like a normal movie, like about a love story, because you and Melissa like it."
Me: "well, I mean, it has some deeper themes that I really connected to."
Char: "yeah, I know, like he was sad and then he fell in love, and now he's happy."
Me: --LAUGHTER--
Char: " what?!"

i'm going to miss them a lot

Perry: (regarding Newsies) "It's not part of my childhood, but it's kind of memoryish,.. but it's not a good movie."


Mom: "...as we say in Nashville, ding dang dong."
Perry: "I've never heard that before in my life."


the above were told by my hilllarious brother in the car on the way home from taking all my boxes to be shipped after riding with me, him, and Melis all in the front seat of the Cadillac because the massive trunk and back seat were filled with my junk-- the best way to ride and still be legal:)


the below took place on the Bellevue tennis courts where me, Char, Mel, Lyds, and B played tennis last night. It was a frickin blast. Melis dancing around, lyds spazzing around, char in her little skirt, and B the athlete, being my match at the net. Restarting the lights that kept going out and sitting on the court for 15 min waiting for them to light back up. Walking home with Lyds holding hands.

Mel: "I can't hit it everytime Charlene happens."

Lyd: "Alright, just talk to the racket, OK."

down to the wire

we're talking two more days in nashville. then it's on, to something new, away from everything and one that I know. closest friends on the east coast, honduras, the far northwest and then in nashville, and me westward ho. from NYC to winston-salem to seattle and all in between, my closest friend from school yet 12 hours away from me in san fran. a city i've spent a whole day in:) no more that 1 week in the state to which i now have a nursing liscence. and as much as i'm going to miss my friends and FAMILY (oh) i'm not scared of moving. of starting over. of being alone. no, i like these ideas. what scares me to death is being the nurse. of having my own patients and a real life job. that is terrifying, and that would have to occur in whatever state i ended up in. so i guess the journey is nothing to fear. it is just hard to believe altogether. but i've never seen the desert before, so that ought to be great. maybe the only great thing about a five day car ride! not really, i've got Cousin, so i'm straight.

paaaaaaary; he acutally said this, in imitation

"yes you ding dong dang can in America, honey bun."

question of today

are there any truly good guys out there who are also simultaneously cool?

holla back youngin


it seems there must be, but my, how hard is indeed a good one to find