Hello, hello. The school year at the old high school just ended this week, so I am down to two jobs (I'll explain later!) and I might have a second in here to continue my favorite end-of-the-year tradition: FUNNY QUOTES! Yay! This will make up for my lack of updating, yes?

So, as we all remember from last year, I inspired these brilliant young minds to start a quote wall. They not only love having it, but they put up so many quotes that it was basically overflowing this year. I recently sifted through them, removed the inappropriate or sketchy ones, and am sharing the rest with you all. :)

Let me first introduce the cast:

Hi, friends!

We decided to add a new section this year, taking some of the quotes and reading them as a "New Theater Guild Motto". :) And here they are:

Laura: "Persistence is key... but sometimes it doesn't work out"
-10/10/05
(quite the motivating... and realistic sentiment!)

Stephanie: "Be a team player- dammit!"
-10/11/05
(ha!)

Mysti: "Now that I have a noose, I can do whatever I want!"
-11/1/05
(can you really argue that?)

Ciara: "We like to keep this a fatality-free facility"
-2/9/06
(I am glad someone picked that as a motto!)

And now onto the rest of the quotes-- enjoy! Oh, and note how many of them involve me not hearing something right or saying the wrong word... and I imagine you won't be surprised. :)

Amira: "Hey, Ciara, thanks for the womb thing"
-9/21/05
(trust me- it's a long story, but it involves me telling the kids about only being alive in the 1970s in the womb and... long story!)

Christine: "I totally thought you just asked me, 'How many 10' by 1 by 4 by 12's do we have?' And that confused me because it'd be going into the fourth dimension!"
-9/29/05
(awww, misunderstandings with standard sizes of lumber!)

*while watching the paint crew paint wrestlers on a carousel poster*
Ciara: "Can I give that wrestler a bookmark?"
David: "Huh?"
Ciara: "Uh, I meant a 'birthmark'"
-10/6/05
(there I go again!)

Amira: "Did you eat all of that candy in the past 5 minutes?"
Jane: "No, if we had eaten them all in 5 minutes then we would have gotten sick"
Amira: "Yes, it'd be like eating packets of diabetes"
-10/27/05
(they have such an interesting way of looking at the world...!)

Amira: "What's taking the people on stage so long?"
Ciara: "They are working on the fight scene"
Josh: "The magnetic one?"
-10/30/05
(Josh actually got distracted by Zach's magnetic work gloves, but we all agreed that a magnetic fight scene would be pretty awesome!)

Becca: "And then I asked Al to Homecoming, which was probably the most spontaneous thing I've ever done... but I guess it turned out okay"
-11/7/05
(haha... she says of her boyfriend of over a year...)

Becca: "Ciara, I have a sign language story for you"
Ciara: "A WITCH story?"
-11/29/05
(I actually thought she said "a sighing witch story"!)

Becca: "I'm in a really bad mood and could just smack you right now"
Josh: "You're always in a bad mood!"
Amira: "Yeah, really, you're always like, 'Guys, I'm in a really bad mood right now'"
Becca: "No, that's not true! I'm only in a bad mood when I'm talking to people!"
-1/19/06

Phil: "Jamie and I are really old friends. We've known each other since... sand was discovered"
-2/3/06

Amira: "Ew, I just swallowed a splinter! I guess that's what I get for eating popcorn off of the floor"
-2/21/06
(that might be one of my favorite quotes of all time!)

Emily: "Can you bring me over a new Exacto blade?"
Ciara: "Do I remember which play?"
-2/21/06

Becca: "I don't have a first hour class this year"
Ciara: "Awesome- that means you can sleep up-- er, sleep IN!"
-3/10/06
(oh, classic Ciara... "rest up" and "sleep in" or "get up late" all mixed!)

Amira: "It's hard to put the hinges on the jacks because the screws keep going through"
Ciara: "Then use the 3/4ths inches screws-- Geez, I mean 3/4-inch screws!"
Christine: "Those won't work because they are too thinny-- I mean, thin and skinny!"
-3/17/06
(awww, my kids talk goodly like me!)

Donald: "My diction is like the worst in theater"
Amira: "What???!"
-3/24/06
(apparently he's right!)

*As I carry WAY too many things*
Ciara: "Can you take this, I don't want to drop the bottle of water under my arm"
Donald: "Water or vodka?"
Ciara: "Water or a poptart? Clearly water!"
*Pause*
Donald: "Do you have a hearing problem?"
Ciara: "A dairy problem?"
Donald: "I guess that answers that question"
-3/24/06
(okay, in my defense, he had JUST said he had bad diction!)

Amira: "Kalindi, it's SO hot, how can you be wearing a sweatshirt?"
Becca: "Yeah, seriously, that's a good ques-- oh, wait, I am wearing one, too"
-4/22/06

Yay, babies! Too bad we won't be able to enjoy them again until the fall. Hope they gave you just an ounce of the joy they've given me. :) Oh, and for all of the babies reading this- have a great summer and I'd better see you soon!