A Farewell, A Film, and Furds

July 8th, 2005 | Comments (1) | Trackbacks (0) |

The past few days have been very interesting.

The two youth pastors - Brandon & Brandon - and a bunch of students left today for a week long mission trip to Belize. None of the interns, (myself, Molly and Megan) are going, so for a full week we will be “alone” at work. Anyway, Megan had the brilliant idea of meeting the group at the airport to say goodbye and whatnot. It’s just that they met at the airport at 5:15am. We decided to do it, and we met at the church at 4:30am in matching outfits with signs that read “We L♥ve Belize Team!”. Megan brought miniature American flags - I don’t know why either - for us to wave… it was really quite ridiculous. No one knew we were going to be there and it brought some smiles to people’s faces which made the trip worth it. I didn’t even sleep last night, figuring that three or four hours of sleep would only make things worse instead of better.

After saying goodbye to the Belize Team, we went to Perkin’s for breakfast, where I ordered the Tremendous Twelve®. In case you aren’t familiar, the Tremendous Twelve® is:

I finished nearly all of it save about 1/3 of the pankcakes, at which point I felt like I was going to vomit. Thankfully, though, Megan and Molly were very supportive and encouraging and I finished my tremendous breakfast with no vomiting.

After two hours of sleep between 8 and 10am I headed back to church to meet some people who wanted to see the movie Dark Water. Actually, I’m fairly certain that I was the only one who wanted to see the movie and everyone else just said they would go with me out of courtesy. Now, the movie was advertised as being written by the same author as The Ring, so I figured that I would mess myself at least twice during the film, but that was not the case. I mean, the movie didn’t suck, but as far as scary movies go it wasn’t the best. At least it wasn’t as bad as Boogeyman.

Which brings me to my next point - candy (I need to work on my transitions). Have you ever opened a box of Nerds, only to realize that each individual Nerd is covered in a thin layer of fur? Yeah, it happened yesterday. Laina, who I work with at church and who has forced me to wear diapers because of her overflowing abdunance of humor, came running into the office and told me to look at her box of Nerds. Take a look for yourself. What the heck is that stuff? Mold? Fur? I ate one of them, and nothing seemed to happen. Laina ate the whole box. She didn’t feel good later that night, but she is okay now. We decided to call them Furds… get it?

I’m off to hang out with T.J., a former co-camp counselor who also worked at Rosebud this summer. He’s silly.