thinking about life and college

(PSA- I didn't proofread this. Sorry.)

Man: Oh no. You don't know this dog. You don't live with this dog.
Woman: you don't know what my pets are like. My cat eats everything. She ate a pack of cigarettes, she ate my bed.

Man: You shouldn't smoke anyway. The cat's doing you a favor!!

This conversation was spoken in such animated tones that I couldn't help but chuckle and write it down. I wonder if I'm considered creepy for copying down someone's conversation. Would I be creeped out if I found out someone had written down one of my conversations? Probably not. After all, I am a very clever comedian in training except not at all because I hate public speaking.

 

 Rose, I already told you your post was magical but I'll repeat it for all the interweb to hear. Your post was magical.

Mercy, yes. Also, can we just talk about how awful movie Ginny is?

Laura, everything was so much better than I could've written. I'm so bad at processing my thoughts and getting them down on paper. I used to be so much better. Or maybe I just thought I was really good when in reality, it was just as bad as it is now. Which is a shame. Because I miss writing fiction. I miss passing letters to my friends at church. I miss journaling and I miss clearing my head with some words and letters. 

So I just got back from an amazing Ethiopian restaurant with my crew from 30 Hour Famine and I can't get over how amazing it was. I have not had food quite that good in a ridiculously long time. It was so different from American food and yet I loved it just as much, if not more, than everything I've always had and grown up with. And I love that about different places and different people and cultures. I love how different we are and yet how we can connect over things like food, music, or the concept of story telling. 

As I've been thinking about college and what I want to study, the study of Anthropology has really peaked my interest and I've been reading a lot about it. (If I've blogged about this already, lemme know. Or just skip down to the end.) It's so interesting and it makes me want to travel everywhere and see everyone and eat food, and talk new languages, and study different people. I want to learn different ways of thinking and different ways of doing things just by hearing grandparents tell stories of long times ago. I want to learn from countries and cultures that are so much more advanced then our own and I want to constantly hear what others have to say and I want to help and be helped. 

And it all sounds great and lovely and adventurous but very far out there and sorta unrealistic but crazier things have happened. Also I'm only saying it sounds unrealistic because it can't happen right at this moment. 

But you know what can happen at this moment? Bed. Because it's 10:38pm and I'm as tired as a tired monkey. 

Once again, I know this is short. I feel like I've been giving so little to this blog lately. I don't know. I've been giving a lot of effort into every other aspect of my life right now and soon some of it is going to be no more but I don't know how I'll feel after that. I don't like change. 

<3 Grace

Rose rants in third person this week.

Hey ladies it's Thursday and on Thursdays we're teddy bear doctors!

This week has been weirdly good for Rose. She got up stupid early on Memorial day and went to this Vietnam war memorial thing-y, then got some bagels and schmere, and went home and took a 4 hour nap. Rose is bad at many things (Whistling, feelings, riding bikes, math, people, seeing outside herself, exercise, drinking coffee when it's still hot, knowing what people groups I can say certain things in, sports of all kinds, keeping in contact with people, and science to name a few). But she's certainly a champion sleeper.

Rose is going to reply to your post now.

Grace/Laura: Rose is somewhat unhealthily obsessed with the Duggar debacle. She's trying to exemplify the love of Christ in this situation but failing miserably. She often finds it hard to show grace to people who commit certain sins, which is silly because we all sin and no one is any better than anyone else. LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR IS HARD OKAY?

Mercy: Your post was..ah yes. According to Solomon (the wisest man who ever lived) everything is pointless, and I think your post illustrated that perfectly. Don't take that the wrong way...it was meant tot be a compliment...

Here's a better compliment

Let's get down to business, shall we?

In case you haven't noticed, Rose has been writing this entire post in 3rd person. And no, it's not because her secretary alpaca Dave is writing for her. (Although she should definitely teach Dave to do that). There are too reasons why she's writing like a loony toon.

1. It helps her become aware of how much she talks about herself, which she is trying to stop doing.
2. It helps her view her life differently. 

On a scale of 1 to 7 she's 5,000% done with high school. The drama, and the paper people, and the ignorance, and the lies, it bothers Rose a lot. Will it ever end? She asks herself. Does silliness go on forever? 

Also, can we have to conversation about the American dream for 5 seconds? When people first came to this country, they came for freedom. This country gained its independence from Great Britain because we did so because we wanted freedom. The American dream is freedom. But somehow it got screwed up along the way, and now the American dream is success and prosperity. Rose doesn't have a problem with with success and prosperity, but no one seems to acknowledge the fact that they are both relative terms. What is successful to one person, may not be successful to another. But in America we have a particular brand of success. This success entails money and romance, but makes no mention of happiness. And that's what success really is. When a person is proud of what they do and no matter where they came from. And that's what America's all about. But that seems to have gotten lost in translation, Rose is just frustrated. There's no need to listen to her silly ramblings.

HOLY SNOT! ROSE HAS TO TELL YOU ABOUT A BOOK!

So Carrie Hope Fletcher did this video where she gave a bunch of book recommendations. And one of the books was this book by Markus Zusak (The guy who wrote The Book Thief who is therefore bae) called Getting the Girl. So Rose went to see if her library had it and she discovered it was actually the last book in a series, so she got a book that had all three books in the series in it, and she has been reading it, and it's fantastic.

 It's about these 2 brothers, who remind her a lot of Laura and herself  because they come up with a bunch of really silly plans that they either don't do or fail miserably at. The other thing she really likes about it is that the main character has really boring life and does all these really strange things and all these existential crisis's and that is her life.

That's all Rose has to say this week.

Grace, until tomorrow!

Gurl please. -Rose.  

Can I retire yet?

I forgot I had to write a post uny write now. 

Good evening girls, it's Wednesday. 

Rose, I'm watching an old episode of Jimmy Fallon and Michelle Obama is on it. My mom has a giant crush on Jimmy Fallon (not Michelle Obama.) 

It's very hot and I'm in a very bad mood. 

Rosie- the moment I downloaded the BuzzFeed app was the moment I sold my soul. 

Grace and Laura- both of your insight on the Josh Duggar thing was very smart. I have nothing to add because my brain is fried. Sorry??? 

I have a headache right in between my eyes and it hurts very bad. 

I've had this problem lately, where I can't stop shopping online. Like even if I'm not buying anything, the act of putting something in my cart makes me /feel/ like I'm buying it but I'm not.... And this app I use called ThredUp removes items from your cart after like 24 hours I think, cuz it's an online thrift store and so there's only 1 of everything, so yeah, it's nice cuz everything is on the cheaper side.

Then there's this app called Wanelo and it's kinda like Pinterest but mostly just clothes and accessories and phone cases and things like that. I'm addicted. 

Is anyone else SO EXCITED for the Dear Hank and John podcast??? Me too. 

Ooh lets go through my camera roll 

I drew this one day while I was bored during math. Tyler Oakleys Podcast is one of my favorite things ever, it's also the highlight of my week. 

This is why I love tumblr 

Oh yeah remember that one time TyLER OAKLEY FAVORITED MY TWEET AUGH MY LIFE WAS COMPLETED THAT DAY. 

True 

I like this list and I'm just gonna leave it here. 

This post had no point, sort of like my life. (Lol jk) 

Rosie I'll hear from you tomorrow?

xoxo,

Mercy

I'm still down for posting to stop at the end of May, hi Laura, thanks for totally commenting on this idea lol ok bye gotta go✌🏼

In which Laura hatches a plan, and talks Duggar

Happy Tuesday!

I LOVE BEARS.

this man is also perfect.

    Remember when I used to post a picture of JarPad every Monday? What in the Sam Heck (see what I did there?) happened? I guess I started posting on Tuesdays and acquired a male suitor. Both valid and legitimate reasons. But I still miss this attractive face.
   

Despite his Keith Urban haircut, I do love this picture.

    Anyway, I loved all of your posts from last week. Mercy, I am beyond happy for you and your new man- maybe we can double-date?

    Rose, I think you should get off of Buzzfeed and do something productive with your life.

    Grace- I am so glad that you are doing well and interacting cool people, and I hope our summers can join together at some point as well.

    Which reminds me: I have a plan.

    And it involves Paper Towns and a piano recital.

    Grace, your senior piano recital is the same weekend that Paper Towns premieres in theaters. So, the obvious plan would be for Rose and I to come to your recital, sleepover at your house and see PT the next day. Of course, we are inviting ourselves over to the Ege household, but this would not be the first time.

    It's an idea. If y'all are okay with it, we shall broach the subject to The Mothers. Let us know what you think!

    ***

    Another thing I wanted to reply to was the Josh Duggar commentary offered by Gracie in her Friday post. This is an issue I have been following surprisingly closely, for someone who tends to pay no attention whatsoever to media and celebrity scandals. If I truly cared about stereotypes, I would worry that as a conservative, homeschooling, Christian family, the Duggars are painting "people like us" in an unattractive light.

    Does it eat me up inside because his accusations make our kind appear to be hypocritical creeps who received an improper and somewhat suppressed sexual education from the church and their home? A little bit. And although what he did was truly awful, it shows a side of the church which I am just coming to understand: being a Christian means you are set apart, but no better than the next guy. Growing up in a conservative, rules-oriented community, I thought I was better than my peers because I never yelled at my parents and wore a purity ring. However, it has come to my attention that we as followers of Christ are of no better character and judgement than our fellow, unbelieving human beings. We are no better, just better off for knowing the Lord.

    I trust the Duggar's word when they say that Josh and the victims received counseling and prayer to overcome the issue. I think it takes a radical form of grace for Josh's wife to forgive him and admire his honesty when he informed her, before they became man and wife, of the issue. Do I believe in a God who loves and forgives His children, regardless of how much they have sinned? Of course I do. Does that make me appear crazy? Absolutely. But I would not be so swept off of my feet by a Redeemer who lets liars and gossips off the hook while condemning rapists and homosexuals. I firmly believe God loves everyone.

    However. Rape is not a joke. Molestation is a serious, confusing issue, and many victims do not register that what happened to them was sexual abuse until years later. And the fact that Josh's parents did not immediately alert the police makes me angry. Being a Christian means that we trust in God for ultimate healing. Because of this, we cannot blatantly disregard the justice system enforced by our country (which was founded on religious values) in order to cover up the darkness of sin.

    It isn't rocket science, folks. Sin that is covered up with more sin creates another sin and does not illegitamize the original sin. Will God still forgive you? Of course. Does that validate your actions? Of course not. We as followers of Christ are called to model our lives after Jesus. Would Jesus have ensured that justice be brought to the rapist (who is being talked to death by the media) and healing for the victims (who are hardly being mentioned)? Absolutely. That is the beginning and the end of the issue at hand.

    If Jesus didn't do it, and the Bible preaches against it, then it is wrong. And it is not our job to judge Josh Duggar- that goes between him and God and the people dragged down with him and the troubling events of his past. What he did was wrong, and in place of judging him, we should pray for him. And pray for the victims, who are not being talked about, most likely for their own privacy. 

    No one is glorifying the actions of those involved. If anything good has come out of this, it is the realization that the Christian life is nowhere near perfect. The only place where perfection is guaranteed is Heaven, our promise and reward for toughing it out in this tangled web called life. And thank the Lord for that, because I am so far from perfection and undeserving of grace. And yet, Christ still loves me, and I cannot thank Him enough for that.

    I feel like I've ranted enough. I swore I wouldn't be one of those bloggers with an annoying, unpopular opinion, but there you go.

    Mercy, I'll hear from you tomorrow.

--Laura :)

I'm just sorta tired

I'm currently sat in the guest bedroom, under the covers of the very comfortable bed. Anatomy on my lap, ice cream on the end table, and George Ezra on pandora. This week has been busy and especially tiring. There were highlights and lowlights but I'm mostly just glad it's over. This weekend should be a good one. Tomorrow I get to see cool people, Sunday I'll get to see cool people, and Monday is Memorial Day, which although is wide open at the moment, has become such a staple summer holiday that even if we stayed home all day, I'd still have fun. And the fact that I don't have to work until Tuesday is beautiful. 

Laura- your summer sounds beautiful and I can't wait until mine joins it.

Mercy- Cashew and Clandestine forever. 

Rose- Buzzfeed will be the end of me. 

Can we just take a second to talk about the Dugger issue that has been the biggest gossip the last two days? One of the more awkward things that has happened lately. I'm not really sure about any of it but it does make me disgusted by the people and the issues populating the world. Like I realize that nobody's perfect (I GOTTA WORK IT. AGAIN AND AGAIN 'TILL I GET IT RIGHT.) and everyone makes mistakes and I'm no better than anyone else, but still. Some issues just makes me sad and more upset than other issues. Rape is something that we should have figured out by now. It's something that shouldn't even be considered. I mean, I guess it's the same with murder or stealing or anything else that's stupid and wrong. But I don't know. I don't understand people and sin. And it just makes me angry. But I'm too tired to have my thoughts function comprehensively. 

Do you ever find those people who you just mesh really well with? And you just instantly are like in best friend love with them? I like those people. They're fun to hangout with. And they're so much nicer than people you feel like you should be friends with but don't actually like. I have some of those. Which I guess isn't very nice, but oh well. 

Anyway. I gots to go. I hope you all have beautiful Memorial Day weekends. 

<3 Grace 

Still petitioning to take June, July, and August off. 

Someday when I write my autobiography it'll be called "I Have an Incredible Talent For Wasting Time on Buzzfeed"

Hey gurls its Thursday 

School in the Backus household has all but halted for the summer which is pretty frickin' exciting, but more on that later because I'm going to reply to your posts. 

Grace: I'm really happy and terrified that you're (almost) a grown up. I'm also really happy and terrified every time I see a picture of Beyonce because she's so perfect it's scary but that's a story for another time

Laura: STOP.YOU'RE TOO PERFECT AND I CAN'T.

Mercy: I'm glad to hear you've found love. I wish you and Cashew Almond every happiness.

I'M (almost) DONE WITH SCHOOL FOR THE SUMMER!

Holy crap they're doing the train conductor

I'm planning to do nothing but read and sleep, which is basically what I do in the school year, but whatever. There are many things happening this summer. I'm going on a missions trip to Philadelphia, my family's going to Cape Cod, Annie's supposed to be coming home, it looks like it's going to be a fairly average but fun summer. And hopefully, it'll be one where the Foursome is together a lot. 

I have nothing else to say really, but y'all wrote long thoughtful posts this week and God knows I have nothing else better to do...

Buzzfeed quiz? I think yes.

"Which New Doctor Should You Accompany Across Time and Space?"

I GOT TEN? WHAT? Oh right because I am Donna Noble.

"What Disney Sidekick Should Be Your Sidekick?" Or rather, "What Disney Sidekick is Mercy?"

Dude, I got the Pegasus from Hercules? Buzzfeed, you have failed me.

"Pegasus should be your sidekick! Even if you go years without seeing each other, he won’t hesitate to jump right back into your life and help you out. Bonus points for Pegasus because he can also fly you around."

Oh I get it, Pegasus should be my sidekick because I'm lazy and he can fly me around. That's fair.

Oh my God, I just found this gem.  And this.

Holy crap I have wasted soooo much time.

Okay, Grace I anxiously await tomorrow!

Gurl Please, -Rose

***DISCLAIMER*** I swear I'm not a pervert, just really, really tired.

Good evening girls, it's Wednesday. 

I tried posting a slow-mo video of Millie barking, but it wouldn't let me, so you get this instead.. 

4/4 selfie from 5.17.15. THANK YOU NIALL. 

So I um I did read all your posts but I only remember Graces, I don't even know why... Hold on... Ah yes. Laura's was about her absolutely perfect life, Graces was about her busy life, and Roses was about criminally insane children. 

I have such wonderful friends. 

No, honestly though I enjoyed all of your posts. I am so so ready for this school year to be over, even tho I'll still have to finish up stuff over the summer. I am completely and totally NOT ready to be a junior, it actually scares the crap out of me. I'm not smart enough to be a junior. I can't take the SATs, or at least take them and get a reasonable score- no. I already know I am bound to fail them, so why take them at all? I was never smart in the first place, so why test that now? I could tell you right now that I am not smart, no SAT needed. I mean like maybe I can be socially smart or street smart or have commen sense or whatever else you wanna call it, but I'm not academically smart, don't even fight me on this. 

I'm done. 

Hey girls, so I met this guy. He's really funny and he's a hipster, he lives in this really exclusive town, there's only like 2 other people in the whole town, it's tiny. Anyway, he's funny and smart and he gardens and he's social but he likes to stay in too, he loves documentaries and he loves cooking, he loves animals, and he has this really nice neighbor and they work at the same place too, I've met her she's actually awesome. 

Anyway, this guy, he's more of the depentant type, as in he needs a lot of caring for, and since I'd said I've got a pretty nurturing personality, we go well together.

 Anyway, his name is Cashew Almond and I thought y'all should know about him. 

There he is. Isn't he a cutie?? 

Anyway, I should go, Rosie I'll hear from you tomorrow. 

xoxo,

Mercy

In The Interim

Good afternoon, ladies, it's Tuesday.

    I read and loved all of your posts from last week. Mercy, I have yet to see the new Avengers movie and am hoping to see it with Joe perhaps at some point this summer. And I agree, we should do the thing from that cool-seeming blogger, whom I shall greet warmly with John Green's face now:

John Green is our king.

    Rose- aren't you glad we're roommates again? Cheers to 3+ more years of sleepovers and dance parties and ghost stories EVERY SINGLE NIGHT.

Accurately describes my level of excitement. The above dinosaur has to do with a private joke between my friend Sabrina and I which I will explain to you when you're older.

    Grace, your life sounds busy and changing and beautiful. I am so proud of you and all you are accomplishing and I can't wait to celebrate the end of the four awkward and usually disappointing years known as high school with you this summer.

this man is almost always right.

    I like knowing that I have plenty of time to write this post. I am home from Sacred Heart for the summer, finishing up choir week on Sunday when we sang at graduation (and cheered loudly for all of our senior friends when they received their diplomas). I moved back into my childhood bedroom, where I will be living for the next three years instead of a dorm as a proud commuter nursing student. I kissed Joe goodbye on Saturday night, and he headed back to New Jersey the following morning. But he'll be back at SHU next week, staying in a dorm for the summer to do some psych research and write an exhaustive philosophy paper. We'll be less than three miles apart for these next three months, and the following semester, until he finishes up his undergraduate career in December. It's nice to have him in such close proximity when he has such a definite place in my heart. Nerd love is ten times as awesome as regular love, and I'm glad I've found it in the here and now.
    It's over. I passed everything and am officially a college sophomore. In the fall, I'll start Nursing 1 and get to wear my bright red scrubs and use the stethoscope Aunt Dixie bought for me for the very first time. I'll also be a Sacred Heart Student Ambassador, and have the privilege of leading prospective students on campus tours and welcoming them at admissions events. I hope to do more work with Habitat for Humanity and run in another 5K in October. Our 1500 incoming freshmen, this class of 2019, could contain some new friends, and I could not be more excited. I'll sing in choir and go to the theater meetings and hopefully have my own car. Time is passing, and I anticipate it with the knowledge of my own ability to handle it.
    But for right now, I have so much time on my hands. This summer is stretching out long and peaceful in front of me. On the first of June, I start microbiology classes at Housatonic, to get it out of the way for the fall semester so I can take two classes for my Global Studies minor. I'll be practicing driving and babysitting and saving up for a car and nursing textbooks. I anticipate taking a road trip with Libby down to the Jersey Shore to visit Rachel, and maybe taking the ferry out to Long Island to see a few other people. I also hope to have as many Foursome reunions as is humanly possible, because I miss our tiny community like crazy and I wanna stroke all of your lovely faces. I'll have many picnics and Starbucks dates with Miss Megan and possibly rob a bank with Becca and Liam. Joe and I will have our own little adventures, whether it's studying together or going hiking or watching the sunset on the golf course. And then there's Cape Cod, and early morning runs with Johnny before he leaves for California, and endless hours of afternoons spent in the backyard hammock reading old books.
    This is the time God has given me, and by His grace I shall try to make the most of it.
    It's a beautiful life, ladies, and like good cheese, it gets better with age.
    Mercy, I'll hear from you tomorrow.
--Laura :)
(p.s, here is an article on everyone's favorite subject, waiting until marriage, which spoke to me and I felt led to share).

This is short.

Okay. Hey. Hi. How are you? I'd just like to say that last week was my artistic statement that yes we should take the summer off of blogging (maybe ending at the end of May) and regroup in September. Because that's a fantastic idea that I sorta helped come up with and I agree with it wholeheartedly.

I also didn't post because I was busy and we went to go see The Avengers: Age of Ultron and crap. That movie has improved my life in drastic ways. I freaking love it. I basically haven't stopped thinking about it in a week. Almost a week. It's only Thursday. I started this early because I'm going to be at 30 Hour Famine tomorrow and I don't want to miss another week and throw everyone off. BUT CAN I JUST SAY HOW OFFENDED I AM THAT NO ONE NOTICED UNTIL MONDAY WHEN LAURA POSTED??? You guys are so rude. jkkjkjk I realize y'all are busy and I still love you gurls.

Okay it's not Friday and I don't have a lot of time to talk. I feel like my whole life is just getting to the next thing. Going to work, coming home to cram in some school work before I go to sleep just so I can wake up to go back to work. And then piano lessons and trying to organize a Senior Recital and a grad party and trying to finish all the stuff my church requires to get baptized. And trying to get all my siblings hired where I work and keeping everyone's schedules straight in my head. And answering a million questions about where I'm going to go next year and unfortunately not having any answers for anyone. And helping move my sister to Japan and then remembering to eat a healthy diet and keeping track of the last time I showered. It all piles up and it's busy. I would necessarily say it's bad but I wouldn't say it's good. It's just busy. And part of me wishes I had all the time in the world to scroll down tumblr or watch every BookTube video available but I'm also sort of glad I have responsibilities and I'm slowly figuring things out and going from one part of my life into another and it's all very exciting and new and busy. 

I'm not sure if this is exactly what I invisioned when I complained in my journal about my life going nowhere or when I sent anxious texts to my friends about my life being stuck in an endless spiral of chemistry and algebra 2. But I am now keeping busy and seeing my life shape itself as I sort out priorities and realize what's really important. And I'm kicking my Sophmore year self for having my head so full of boys and I'm cursing my Junior year self for not finding a job sooner and figuring out that community college and online classes are things that need some forthinking (and saved money). And I'm reprimanding my Freshman year self for not taking my school seriously. If I could do highschool again, I wouldn't because it really sucked. As much as I say I loved it, I'm glad it's over. I'm glad biology and vocab aren't sitting in forgotten piles on my bedroom floor anymore and I'm glad I have the opportunity to decide what this next year holds and I'm so so so glad you gurls stuck with me through highschool. I also hope you can come to my graduation party. It's June 13th. Please mark your calanders and tell your mother now. It's at my house. 

Anyway, I know this was short and doesn't anywhere make up for last weeks missed post but I really am busy and this was quite honest and I have to go now. 

Have a great weekend wherever you may be spending it 

<3 Grace 

Children: Cute, Funny, and Criminally Insane.

Well gurls it's Thorsday

I find myself sitting at my kitchen counter, watching my dear mother make a huge pot of meatballs and sauce for the crowd of hungry college kids Laura's bringing over this evening. I feel bad for kids who's parents don't cook them delicious food every night.

ON TO YOUR POSTS!

Grace:

Laura: You get a star for the best Gracie impersonation I've ever seen (read?).

Oh my God, remember the tumblr Moon Moon faze? Good times

Mercy: OH MY GOD! I'M GOING TO TRY AND FANGIRL ABOUT THE AVENGERS WITHOUT GIVING ANY SPOILERS. FIRST OF ALL, HAWKEYE. SECOND OF ALL, THAT PART WHERE THAT CHARACTER KILLED A PIECE OF ME. OH MY GOD I DIED IT WAS SO FREAKING PERFECT. Also, we should do that blog tag thing-y next week.

Every Wednesday night since September, I've been helping out with this kids program at my church called Kids Night Out. It's essentially a mini VBS, except much less stressful. I help out with the first grade, who are both adorable and annoying. It's been a fairly enjoyable experience, so I thought I would share with you some of the funny things these kids have said and done over the last 7 months in the hopes to make you smile and also make you never want to have children because, I'm gonna be honest here, I don't want to see any of you pregnant.
One week we were talking about gratefulness so we had all the kids go around in a circle and say what they were thankful for. Most of them said things like "My family" or "Jesus." One girl went on for a minute straight before we stopped her. One boy said, "I'm thankful for video games. And I guess I'm thankful for my mom who buys me video games." Then there was this one kid who said, "I'm thankful.for my Pokemon cards." I asked him if that was all and he thought for a second and was like, "I'm also thankful that I have a thousand Pokemon cards and my sister only has one."
There was this particular little girl who was adorable and also kind of the devil who did a number of hilarious things. Like when she told me I wasn't cool and could maybe be cool if I grew my hair a little longer. Another time she started flat out sobbing in the middle of the lesson because she didn't want to die. One week I spent ten minutes making her stuffed dog a cast out of construction paper and tape because he had "broken his leg."
There was this one boy who was really rude and one time at the end of the lesson, stomped on his bible and told me that "Today was a good day because we didn't pray." And then left and never came back.
There's this really cute little boy who only started coming a couple of weeks ago who went on this huge ramble in group time. He was like, "You know when you're in the jungle and there's huge tornadoes of knats and your dad had to squish them but there still there?" (At least, that's what I think he said, he spoke really incoherently and used a lot of distracting hand gestures) I assumed this kid was just weird and had a huge imagination, but I later found out he was a South American missionary's kid who lived in the actual jungle.

I really can't make fun of these kids though. I thought and did a lot of very silly things when I was their age.

Stupid things I thought/did when I was a child:

• I thought when you hit your funny bone it was supposed to tickle. And every time I hit my funny bone, I'd laugh even though it really hurt and I was absolutely convinced I was dying.
• Ben and Annie once convinced me that later always meant 8:30. So when someone said they'd do something later, they meant they would do it at 8:30. Which really upset me because 8:30 was past my bedtime.
• John once convinced me that I was supposed to be born first, but he pushed me out of the way. I started crying.
• When I was about 11 and all of my siblings where too old to play with me, I would stand on the steps of the pond and "conduct" the wind, like it was an orchestra. I would talk to the trees and everything.
• I remember being about 7, I was in the back seat of my friend Kelly's car, and the two of us had a very in-depth conversation about rising gas prices. I could never figure out why her mother was laughing at us.
• There's this factory downtown, near the library that always had smoke billowing out of it, and me and all of my siblings called it the cloud factory, because we all thought that's where clouds came from. 
• Laura and Mary-Kate would call Broom-Hilda Water-bucket until I cried. I'm not really sure why this offended me so much, but it did.
• I listened to the 5th Harry Potter book on tape about once a month for a year or so because I was convinced if I listened to it enough times Sirius wouldn't die.

So maybe I wasn't the brightest of kids, or maybe I had the meanest of siblings...

Well I should bounce because I have things to do.

Grace, until tomorrow!

Gurl please. -Rose

In which I use only Avengers pictures and talk about our Fandom.

Good evening girls, it's Tuesday!!

So, I'm sitting in the den, its around 7pm, I'm trying not to let the stress of up-coming share days at school, jury's (a theatre kids finals) and essays that are due on Monday, get to me at the moment, by drinking a big mug of green tea (with sugar and milk in it because I'm a weirdo!), and listening to my Disney station on Pandora. 

Lol running anyway from my problems like 

First I'm gonna reply to your posts and then I'm going to talk about some super exciting things!! 

Rosie- I loved your post so much!! Your way of writing is impeccable, and I can completely relate to your deadness right now. I was feeling that way for a long time these past few months, as the end of the year stress came upon me, but now since we're SO FREAKING CLOSE to the end of the year, I'm just like "screw it, I can do this," and I've kind of just been pushing through these past few days. It's trying my patience. 

Grace- wow, your post was short it's like it almost didn't exist. 

Laura- Oh, I get it now ^^^

OKAY I'm listening to my Disney station on Pandora and this song is literally the best 

okay, so I was reading Rosies post and I noticed someone commented, and of course I got so excited. So I read the comment and it was from a lovely viewer named Ali! I'll copy and paste her comment right now...

Hello! Sorry to bother you! 

My name is Ali, and I started reading this blog around the beginning of April and I absolutely love your content!

If you four wouldn't mind, I've tagged you in a versatile blogger tag that I thought you would enjoy doing :) You honestly don't have to do it if you don't want to, or you could post them on your personal blogs instead, if preferable! 

Good Luck, if you chose to accept it!
- Ali xx

She was so sweet!! and I found her blog and read some of her stuff and she seems so, so cool! (Ali, if you're reading this- HEY!! 

 

(And this is where the text centers itself and because I'm on my stupid phone, I have no idea how to fix it) 

So yeah, y'all should definitely check out her post where she nominated is for this cool thingy!! 

I don't have anything else to say so here's all my bæs 

 

Literally us.

I ordered myself an avenger phone case and I'm SO SO EXCITED!!!! Also, if y'all haven't seen Age of Ultron already- GO SEE IT ITS AMAZING I AM IN LOVE WITH HAWKEYE. 

Rosie, I'll hear from you tomorrow. 

Okay bye.

xoxo, 

Mercy