First of all, a few of my favorite memories of the year:
(do YOU remember any of these?)
1. There are about 30 people in my house right now. They are screaming "CARL YOU ARE A FUCK UP! I OUGHT TO PUNCH YOU IN THE STOMACH, I OUGHT TO PUNCH YOU IN THE STOMACH!"...
Apparently Shereen invited 18 of these 30 people to spend the night. And where is she? She is passed out in the bed next to mine.
2. Today is rained really hard. Because of the rain, these huge, deep puddles were everywhere. As Kelly and I walked back from German at 1:30, we were almost crying because we were so wet. After coming home into the warm house, taking a shower, and eating lunch, Kelly and I decided that we weren't leaving again that day. This meant that we would skip our classes. And we did just that.
3. WINDOWS!
4. Joe and I rode our bikes around looking for a creek until we discovered that the railroad tracks were a grand source of rocks. We drove my car over and got three "harvests" of rocks. The flower bed looks awesome now.
5. Patrick and I were on the teeter totter and he sort of went down fast and I popped up a little. I told him he should launch me. I didn't really think he would, but all of a sudden we went down really fast and I flew forward. I almost caught myself, but then slowly fell the rest of the way onto the nasty wood chipped ground.
6. today i was standing in the street of the south oval and i see ashley approaching on her bicycle. i greet her with 'hey ugly!' and she proceeds to beat me with her bike lock. now, i think that was a bit extreme. i was expecting 'bitch' or 'cuntface' or maybe 'whore' and that would have been a little harsh. i think a 'hey stupid' or 'hey dork' would have sufficed but... no! she beats me with her bike chain.
-kelly
7. Me, Xavier, Kelly, and Max were all smooshed together in the back seat of this 1979 Mustang when suddenly Smashing Pumpkin's "1979" came on the radio and Kelly and I started to sing. All of a sudden, Xavier starting dancing in the seat... moving and shaking his hands around. I decided to join him.Then Kelly joined in... then Max.
8. After we finished and were waiting for our check, we turned our attention to our lemons in our glasses. I started tasting it a little as Kelly laughed at my twitching eye. She then picked hers up and started inspecting it. While she was doing this, I decided to take a huge bite. I started spazzing out and my mouth turned into a frown and my eyes were twitching and some of the lemon was hanging out of my mouth. Kelly looks up at this opportune moment and can't stop laughing. I join her. After we finally catch our breath, she says, "It's like I looked away for a second and you O.D.ed on the lemon!"
9. Jenna is sleeping in my room because there was a huge spider in her bed, which Tim killed and now she's saying that her room and our house are unlivable so she doesn't have to pay rent if Eddie doesn't fix it.
10. We decided that "strip teeter totter" would be much more effective if we were intoxicated. It was a Wednesday night though... Kelly, Patrick, and Mono had 8a.m. finals the next morning... it was already 1a.m. We can't drink tonight.
.... or can we?
11. when we were on our way to lawrence, we were trying to think of ways to get alcohol. seeing as it was sunday, we couldn't just get someone to buy it for us. so we creatively asked my brother if we could buy some alcohol off of one of his high school friends. after an hour, he called back and told us to meet this guy at the elementary school and he'd sell us 1/2 bottle of gray goose and 1/2 bottle of hot dam for $10.
12. ashley rob and i went to coltrane's house last night to ouija it up. we set down the glow in the dark ouija board and start messing around. spelling 'fuck' and 'ass' and 'ashley sucks'. after we're done doing that i call theresa (one of our neighbors) and ashley talks to her saying we are at our house and hear noises coming from the coltrane house and telling her to check it out for us. i dont know why we would even care if there were noises coming from the house. but theresa agrees to meet us on the porch. so when she gets there we're all upstairs and ashley starts banging some wood on the floor and of course she knows it's us. then ashley starts saying things like 'i'm the ghost of coltrane' (coltrane isn't dead) and other things. then theresa goes back into her house.
-kelly
13. In April Rick found this HUGE spool (like from a construction site) and rolled it to our house where he was going to store it until he got an apartment this fall. So this summer, the spool has played many roles. It was on Matt's porch for a few weeks where we ate dinner off of it. Then the spool was a pawn in the game of "Let's Put a Giant Spool in front of Each Other's Doors". Then the spool finally settled in the backyard by the campfire ring where it served as our hotdog/marshmellow table. All was grand and we loved the spool. We always thought the spool was perfectly safe back there. First of all because it was in the backyard where no one can really get to it, and second of all, because he's HUGE and takes two people to move it. Besides, who wants a spool? So that's why it shocked us all when FUCKING LES HIRED A FUCKING THREE TON WRECKER TRUCK TO TOW HIS STUPID JEEP AND THE STUPID WRECKER DECIDES TO DRIVE THROUGH OUT BACKYARD AND RUN OVER OUR SPOOL!!!!!!!!
14. after passing this test the cop looks at ashley and says 'you know i could arrest you right now.' and gives her a little speech. then turns to me and says 'you're her roommate?' and i say 'yes'. she said to take her home and watch her. if she starts to throw up call an ambulance. i say okay and we run to the car. which has 7 people in it. and it's a 5 person car. we speed home. ashley says she's not going to ever drink again. but we all know that's a lie.
-kelly
15. We have a cat now. His name is Jorge. There was a little confusion about his gender. We thought he was a boy, but then the lump that we thought was a penis was actually an umbilical hernia. So he was a girl. But then the vet said that was a boy and just had really small balls.
16. at 3a.m. the party had died.
everyone was in bed.
random boys walked into the house yelling "where are the faggots?"
shereen let some boy smash my pumpkin.
i made her go pick up the remains at 2:30 in the morning.
And last, but not least, a couple of my favorite quotes of the year:
"Where are you Theresa?"
"I'm on Marvin Gardens"
"No, Theresa, that is not you. That's a house."
--Theresa
"Hello everybody, this is Josh Jones, wishing you a happy Halloween. I'll see you around."
--Josh Jones (haha)
“s’alright.”
--Josh
"Hey, Ashley, I got you the best present in the whole world. Brains!"
--Nicholas (this is not a real quote)
“Shut up, girl.”
--Benjamin
“Common guys, let’s go!”
--Nick’s Babies
"The mailman injected you with AIDS, mother fucker."
--Matt“Gate 12! Burn in hell!”
--Monica
I hope everyone has enjoyed my tribute to 2004! Looking back, this has been a really fun year. Thanks to everyone who helped make it that way. See where it says “BOOK” at the top? That is where you leave me comments, so why don’t you leave some?
I just realized that Nick is not in any of my memories (or he realized). That is no good! :(
17. Hey, Nick do you remember that spider who was screaming in the middle of the night, “you girls don’t get stolen”, rainbow inn, the guy who wanted to fight us in the parking lot, getting the handicap sign put up in front of pathways, our “spiritual” snow experience, buying our day planners, saving my sick orchid, you breaking the shot glass… and the martini glass, your hurricane, carrying those big branches, spitting on shereen's car, losing the keys when we drove east, seeing the shotting star on the fourth of july, lying to me about sheridan and memorial, stealing toilet paper, everyone wrestling in the meditation area, seeing the wheelchair guy naked, getting pulled over by the cops, saving brains, crazy eyes, how I could see your reflection through the door, shaving your potato, reenacting "i remember everything", broken arrow is not south, fuckin’ damn?