Hello out there!!! I must begin (once again) by begging for your forgiveness in the area of keeping up with this blog. I guess I just don't find that I have anything interesting to say!! But I want to be true to my fans (no autographs please) and give you an update.
It is sad, but true that my good pal john is retiring from the blog business... let us pause for a moment of silence....
Ok...enough of that. But anyway, he has written his final blog, or so he says, and john, you will be missed. I will miss our Fridays when you call me into your office to read your blog as you watch me practically cry with laughter each week. (He knows that I think he is so funny. and he gets an ego boost when he watches me read it). But to keep a long explanation short, I am saying farewell to my good friend’s blog. BUT in honor of John, I am going to steal his format for this blog...in honor of him of course, not just cause I wanna be like him, cause that is just nonsense!
So here we go...
Apology of the week:I think that I already did that in the beginning, but I will once again apologize for not keeping up with this blog as I should. There is just no excuse for it! I guess I figure writing no blog at all is better than writing a dull one. I will try my best to keep up with it in the future. Try is the key word there...
Embarrassing story of the week...well actually month:The other day after a Wednesday evening church service at The Father's House, Denis and I went out to dinner with our good friends Matt and Andrea. We had a great time catching up and we were out far past my bed time, and I just can't be held accountable for what I say or do after about 10 at night. So anyway, I am not quite sure HOW we got on the subject of albino's, but we did and Denis made a comment about this black woman he knew that was an albino, to which I quickly corrected him saying that if you are black then you can't be albino. In my head that just made no sense. How can you be black and albino at the same time? (Even though I am black and white at the same time....hehehe) Denis just gave me this look, that said "wow, I can't believe you just said that you ignorant boob." I know he wanted to say it out loud, but his look said it all for him. You would think that most people would just stop talking, but oh no, it was 12:30 and I just kept going insisting that I was right and he was wrong. Well, that got me nowhere, as usual, and by the end of the conversation Denis, Andrea and matt were begging me to just stop talking cause I was just making myself look like a fool... Looking back, that is exactly how I feel.
Quote of the month: This came from one of my students during their graduation. To preface this, what happens is my students were all up on stage at their graduation ceremony and they were getting ready to receive their diploma. I call their name and they come down and get their diploma from me, pose for a picture and then go sit with their parents. This story is about a little boy, let’s call him bobby.
Me: Bobby Jo Johnson (not his real name OF COURSE)...This is his cue to come down...well he just stood there
Me (again): Bobby Jo Johnson (he then proceeded to shake his head at me)
Me (holding the microphone away from my mouth) come on, you have to come down.
Bobby: No
Me: Bobby, come on, lets go
Bobby: Ok (and he makes his way down)
Me: Congratulations! Here is your diploma
Bobby: I don’t want it
Me: Huh
Bobby: I don’t want it, you keep it (and then he proceeded to walk away from me to sit with his mom, leaving me standing like a dweeb in front of a few hundred people.)
I guess I can’t expect a graduation with 3,4 and 5 year olds to go perfect.
Congrats of the week:First I would like to congratulate John. John is being ordained as a Free Methodist Pastor this weekend!!! He has worked so hard in seminary, believe me folks, he is a verse memorizing CHAMP! But really, I am so proud of you. You are going to be a wonderful pastor!
Second, a congrats goes out to Larry, Andrea, Heather, and myself for graduating from The Summit this week. The Summit was a 6 month program to teach us about leadership in ministry. I must admit, I wanted to quit a few times since it took the place of my date night, but I stuck through it and I am so glad I did. I really did learn a lot. So congrats to ME!
Jealous moment of the week:I actually don’t think I am quite over this yet, but I am doing better then I was at first. Let me take you back a few weeks where our story really begins. My friends John and Amy have been planning for a while to go down to Pittsburg and visit Rachel and Mike. Way back in March I asked if I could go with them when they picked a weekend. John was hesitant cause he didn’t want to spend 4 hours in a car with me. That and he has this complex where he thinks Amy is mean to him when I am around, which is just crazy talk in my opinion. Well a few weeks ago, John and I are having lunch, and he says to me:
John: So we picked a weekend to go and see Rach and Mike
Me: REALLY!!!! WHEN!?!?!?!
John: May 26th through the 29th
Me: oh…I can’t go
John: really? Why?
Me: I have a concert
John: Oh, in Springville, with Christopher on Friday night?
Me: (suddenly very confused cause I NEVER mentioned it before to him) yeah… how did you….
John: (who suddenly has a smug grin across his face) so you can’t go huh
Me: (now yelling) YOU PICKED A WEEKEND I COULDN’T GO ON PURPOSE!!!!
John: it was just the best weekend for us. And you just happen to have plans too. Sorry bec….
SORRY! WHATEVER YOU WEREN’T SORRY! But…like I said, I am getting over it. I am over the fact that you had a great time. I am over the fact that you saw their new house before I did. I am over the fact that you like Rachel better… I am over it…almost
Also, I am having a really hard time with the fact that EVERYONE is having babies. I can count about 6 off the top of my head that are due within the year. I have baby fever. I want a baby and I want one NOW! I guess I will just wait until John and Amy are married and then Amy and I can have a baby together. Right Amy…
Well I guess that is all folks. I had a great time visiting my parents for an ENTIRE week. It was so nice to be back in Allegany. I was tempted to use a quote from my dad and a quote from Rachel as my quote of the week, but I found it inappropriate for all viewing audiences. I am pretty sure my dad would disown me if I put his quote up for all to see. But lets just say, it was a side of my father I had never seen before, and don’t care to see again anytime soon!
Until next time
Stay Classy San Diego
7 comments:
Hey, I get to be the first to respond to your new blog! You guys are always so creative!! (even if you did BORROW John's format!?) and it is always so good to hear the 'little' things that happen in your life - that we forget to share when we do talk (not often enough, I might add!) Love you honey and hope you have a great weekend....and summer to rest up a bit before you start your new teaching and leadership job! Lovbe to you and Denis, Mom
P.S. that baby thing will come all in God's timing!! (tho, honestly, I can't wait to be a grandma - can't let Aunt Elsie get TOO far ahead of me!! eh??)
Becca…
Well, you wrote, and for that you are to be commended. I thought it would never happen again. Thank you for gracing the world with something, anything.
There, now that we have the niceness out of the way, I have to take issues with several things (in numbered points, of course, to drive Amy crazy).
1) I wasn’t ordained, I was appointed – it’s the difference between being appointed as a pastor and ordained as a reverend. I still can’t do weddings, give communion, or baptize people. Thanks for the shout out though. Just don’t want to mislead people.
2) Don’t think because I stopped writing that somehow my format was up for grabs. This is blatant copyright infringements. I think that in order to use this format you have to pay me due respect each and every time.
3) I feel like this is a letter to me, since this whole thing revolves around me, with the exception of the albino and graduation stories. If Amy wasn’t really good friends with you, she’d probably try and kill you in your sleep out of jealousy.
4) You and Amy aren’t having a baby together. First, reread what you wrote, it just sounds wrong Becca, or should I call you Ellen. Secondly, Amy isn’t having any babies for a while. We’re not even married yet, don’t start stirring those ideas up even more in her head, or we’ll totally move away – and no I’m not kidding.
5) I really did pick out the weekend before I knew you had plans – but you having plans just solidified that it was the right weekend!
6) Is it really that wrong to use a quote where your dad uses the word “horny”?
7) Last but not least – only someone who spends as much time with the African American population would come up with Bobby Jo Johnson as their random name to protect anonymity.
i know alot of it involves you, but you are the biggest source of ridiculousness in my life! i am sorry to say it, but it's true.
I had given up checking your blog for a while there, I must admit!
But you pulled through with an update!!
I'm excited for you guys to have a baby sometime...that will be one cute baby!
Becca, thank you for updating, I wasnt hating on you as much as everyone else but I would rather read boring blogs from you then nothing,
John, thanks for the numbers and 42 page comment to welcome Becca back.
John thinks if we move I wont be able to have babies, he doesnt know how that whole thing works apparently...but if you have a baby first I wont have to have one right away
I'm with you bec- how can black people be albinos?
I was SO excited to FINALLY see a new blog! Please write again before 2007. Thanks much.
Hey Becca...maybe Alive and Kickin would be a good name for a blog about your P4K fun today with an anonymous child.
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