The Trend Continues...

Here's what comes up when I put "Rachel needs" in to google search...it's scary how some of them are true. SOME! Read number four....

1. Rachel needs to have blush that is very bright and colourful

2. Rachel needs some good thoughts

3. Rachel needs guidance and normal supervision

4. Rachel needs help when she enters Manhattan's meat-packing district to help three transvestite hookers find out who murdered one of their friends

5. Rachel needs to throw more bacon parties

6. Rachel needs to get over herself and she needs to do it NOW!

7. Rachel needs to be killed the joker.

Too good

I am pretty sure someone (LStew most likely) posted things of this nature on her blog a while back but I came across some more of these silly (yet actual) metaphors found in essays by teenagers across Toronto. Sorry for any overlap, but truly these are hilarious even the second-time around.

1. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

2. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.

3. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.

4. They lived in a typical surburban neighbourhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.

5. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for awhile.

6. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.

7. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.

8. She walked into my office like a centipede missing 98 legs.

9. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.

10. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.

Emmi

I just wanted to dedicate a blog to Emmi, my dear Finnish friend, because she is a wonderful, beautiful, gifted woman and a sister to me. Em, I miss the old days. But, more than all of that, I just miss your very presence, your laugh, and your voice. I'm here for you!

My First Time Singing and Proof That I Had an Afro

I was rummaging through some old photos and found this one of my Dad and I the first time I ever sang on stage when I was three. Any of you who were at my wedding may have heard the recording that my uncle played of me singing "Lonely Little Robin" back then. That was one of the most touching experiences of my life, since I didn't even know that recording existed. Also, for Ashley, proof that I once had an afro. I love pictures.

I've Got Friends

Here are some beautiful pics from BVO and Jenny's wedding. There is also a random one of me dancing with my cat, Sara, to "Long December" by the Counting Crowes because she likes it when I dance with her. That is how we spend quality time together. I thought it was a cute picture and you might all enjoy it.

Things That Are Funny

Some things are just worth writing on the chalkboard every year in the music room, such as:

Poop=funny [thanks to Matt McKenna, I always have the urge to write it on the board for the sake of Dr.T's awkwardness]

which spawned:

Poop= (very) funny [from Gayle]
Serenades=Death [from LStew]
Laura=Pretty[from me]
R.Legg's Face=Hot[from LStew]

and then LStew drew a picture of her death on the chalkboard because we were singing serenades. And Sarah Vedder and LStew were running around in their robes flapping their arms (like they were flying) and flashing people. And there was much laughter and much singing and some weeping and gnashing of teeth on behalf of people (Sarah V.) who could not get a robe to fit. There was also bitterness directed at those who could get robes to fit. All in all, today's robe fitting was one of the most surreal and most entertaining experiences of my Redeemer choir career.