Shorts, Snakes, & Shamrock Shakes

Thats what today was supposed to consist of. Tiery and I were going to go Work Tour shopping for shorts and rubber snakes for some pranks we planned. We've tried to do this the past few weekends, but it  hasn't worked out. So this morning we actually decided to go around 2:30. I

As of 3/17/10:

Sorry, I was interrupted and forgot to finish the post. Basically: I was P.O.'d because Tiery canceled on me again. But I called her after church the next day (Sunday, duh) and we ended up going shopping then. It was unsuccessful on the shorts part of the quest, as well as the snakes. We did find some fake cockroaches at the dollar store, which should be just as amusing.  We're thinking more about pranking Rachel though, instead of the guys as per our original plan. Rachel is an adult at our youth group, and very much disliked by all of the girls after she interrupted out Cosmo reading at Fall Retreat. She used to have Cosmo readings when she was part of the group, they used to do them in the freaking vans with adults and guys listening! Its not like the seniors are telling us how to ---- someone or anything! She just came in (we had actually finished the reading and were just sitting around playing Never Heve I Ever (which, by the way sucks when you haven't ever done anything exciting, risky, or even had an effing boyfriend!) and she just came in the room and stood there,  so we went all "omg, school is, like, so boring! hahaha!" (by the way, none of us talk like that normally). So now all of the girls hold a grudge against her. Tiery and I did get Shamrock Shakes though, because everyone at school was talking about getting them and we had no idea what they were. They were ok, not something I'd ever waste money on again. They have an odd taste, like mint and lime jello-like.

The school week after that was uneventful, except for a pre-Pi Day party in math (Pi day was Sunday).

Pi Day (Sunday):

*one second, got to go eat dinner. I will actually come back and finish this time!*

Sorry about that.

I taught Sunday school in the morning, though I had to leave for 15 minutes during the 10:30 service for the Work Tour send-off.

Later that night we were assigned our meal crew night and met with our groups to discuss food/themes. I am part of the Wednesday night group. We have an AMAZING group. The adults are Kinzel, Meghan... I can't remember the other two. In our group: Anna, one of the Hacklers, KK (yes!)... once again, can't remember who else - it's not my fault, we only met for half an hour! We have the TC dinner, so we don't have to worry about food. The TC dinner is in memory of a guy killed in a car crash that was a part of the youth group, and loved it. His parents always pay for us to have a dinner, which is usually catered, but this year Kinzel's going to Make TC's BBQ chicken. The themes we came up with (only the decent ones): Survivor (my idea), retirement home, WonDeland (Alice in Wonderland - we are staying in Deland, FL). We chose Retirement home, and had it all planned out, but Kinzel changed his mind and said we couldn't do it because it would be too close to mocking the place we are volunteering at, which is a home for the mentally and physically challenged. He's right, but it was disappointing. So our theme got dummed down to "Florida Vacation". Pathetic, right? Everyone -including adults- hate it, so with luck (cross your fingers for me! please!) we will change it on our meal crew day. What should we change it to? My vote is for Woodstock (idea courtesy of mi madre). It would be easy- we would all just have to buy tye-dye shirts or some other Hippie wear, buy tons of beads, borrow my friends iPod to blast music (I know she has a bunch of music from the bands that played there - I don't have the moola to buy them all). Decor would be easy to find too. Maybe we could even build a "stage" to serve from and some fake giant speakers out of boxes (you can get boxes free from many furniture store if you ask - we did once, to build the most epic fort ever outside one year (summer of '05 I think)). It would be awesome!

This week has been s o  f r e a k i n g  s  l  o  w  .   .   . Every time I see a Work tour person, or they see me, we always shout out how long we have left to wait. Right now it is 1 day, 22 hours, and 15 minutes away. AHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's so close, but so far away. I have so many tests/ projects still this week. ugh.

So, yeah, that's life right now. I probably will past again either a) tomorow, screaming (meyaphorically, of course) something incomprehensible about Work Tour, or b) Tuesday after Work Tour so I can record what happened (this, again, will probably make no sense to a reader because it isn't worth trying to explain WT to someone who hasn't gone, and it would ruin the magic of it) WARNING: any posts for a while after WT might be affected by the severe case of PWTD (post-Work Tour Depression) that usually affects 90% of the group for up to a few months after WT and reoccurs sporatically throughout the year. I usually get a pretty bad case. This is no joke. It's not technically an official medical condition, but most people really do get severely depressed after coming home, crying and constantly texting, calling, emailing, etc. other people from the trip. Whatever though, it's hard to understand unless you've been.

By the way, 1 day, 22 hours, 8 minutes!

(can you tell I'm excited, by any chance?)