Quotes
"Hey, Brad, when I need you to, could you reach down my dress and turn me on?"- I really wish I had been there when this happened. This was Amy to Brad backstage during drama. She was talking about a mic, I swear."I have a watch!"-My effort to boost morale during the blackout. No one really understood."That was a good apocalypse. I always thought there'd be more brimstone, though."-Brad after the lights flickered and the power went out in much of the town."Let's go north, we never go north!" "No! Let's go south, I always go north!"-A prime example of my efforts to ruin my friends' birthday surprise plans for me."Man, whoever thought of putting cheese in cheesecake?" "Press on your fingernail and see how long it takes for the color to come back. If it takes a really long time, you're having a heart attack."-Todd during Christmas break. The first was intentional...so he says."Hey, look, they have Baby Coupons! We can buy babies!" "That's sure easier than the way I did it."-Looking at online ads is always fun with Mom."Hey, trumpets, where have we heard that before?" John Spicer chimes in from the percussion section "Aladdin!"-You'd kind of have to be there or hear the music...but we were working on Festival of Light, a piece telling the story of Chanukah, and so having a very middle-eastern feel at times."...I saw this shirt and it said, 'Tact is for people who aren't witty enough to be sarcastic.' I just wish I'd seen that two weeks ago."-Andrew Pearl"Thweet peeeeth!"-Flaming sweet peas. No more explaination will be given. Just ask us (Andrea and me) to say it, and life will be pleasant there..."Okay, I'm done now. Can I have dessert?....Ok, Cara, now write me up some dessert for this essay!"-Andrea empathizing with my essay-writing situation and providing a sort of pep talk."Oh, it's in three?!?!" "OH, you mean we have to know the counts to all the sets?!?! ...I just thought we had to know when the time signature changed, and, well, Amazing Grace is all in three, and I would hope Cara knows that, so I figured we were good."-Amy. Need I say more?"Now, I think this nozzle thingy or whatever you wanna call it on these Bunsen burners comes off like this..." and she proceeds to remove it. "....Now, you don't EVER, EVER want this to happen! It's very bad!" "Before they redesigned this room, to turn off the water when you had a fountain of water from a broken faucet, you had to crawl under here and maneuver around this wood here and reach back there to turn it off. Now it's much easier. " A student: "Where is it?" "Oh, I don't know, I think it's over in that room over there. They haven't told me yet."-Mrs. Lizenby, my crazy Chemistry I teacher."How can you spend a day in darkness?"-Mom, while watching news coverage of the big blackout in the Northeast. Genius."This weather stripping is stressing me out!"-Something I said in the company of Andrea, Dad, and Todd while painting a shed. They found it funny..."You know, you really should take out the lines." "Ok" I proceed to take out the lines "No! No! Don't do it!"-Andrea's comments while I was making up certificates for Freshman Marching and yet another example of how she tries to bend my mind."...yeah, I guess you're right. I do need to..." "...What did you think I said?" "'Now it's your turn to diet!'" "NO! I said, 'Now it's your turn to dye it'!"-A conversation about how few can tell us apart turned into one big accidental insult from Andrea"...with all your speeches about wrinkles and skin cancer! I thought it'd be Cara that would give in, not you!" "Wow, I so don't want to be here right now."-Mom, expressing her great expectations for me, and my reaction."YAAAY! I'm the Cara-can Idol!!"-Becka's and my own version of American Idol...where I'm the judge and,"There's no contest!""...and then I looked down and I thought I was dying!" "Yeah 'Oh my! My bottom is a printing press!'"-Yeah...um...this was the end of a long discussion on toilet paper."But if it tasted like tomatoes, then they'd have to change the name to something like 'Tomato.......up.'"-Ever notice how ketchup tastes nothing like tomatoes? We did. Then Becka explained why. She's a genius."Cara, if it wasn't so extremely unsanitary, I'd let you drink my spit!"-Elloree showing her generosity in response to my incessent proclamations of being "parched""You know what's really funny? That we thought that was funny." "And that's even funnier!""Patrick!" "Patrick!" "Patrick!" "Patrick!"-My parents' thought processes...aloud."I didn't come all this way to sit and have a Dr. Pepper!" *GASP*- And the "Dr. Pepper gasp" was born thus. Also, let me insert here that we will never be invited back to a North Harrison High School drama performance--we enjoyed it way too much!"Sorry, Cara's yelping again."-Elloree fell victim to "Cara at 11 at night"."So after we get to Ell's house we're getting to town how? On camels? Donkeys? I dunno...I got nothin...I wonder what sound a camel makes...." "Well I think it sounds something like a grunt." "How would you spell that?" "e-e-e-r-r-r-r"-Planning's always fun with Elizabeth and me!"Hey, Cara, I have something really important to tell you!"-Elloree helping me ward off stalkers..."NO! I'll tell Mom to check the attendance list. I'll be like 'Mom, check the attendance list!'" "Wow, Cara, that was almost as brilliant as what Elloree said!"-Elizabeth and I further pondering the complexities of life."Cara, you can't make something that isn't true...................................................true."- Elloree's prophetic moment after my panicking because Rachael was sick for the second day in a row."What did he say?" "Oh my GOSH" "Guys, guys, I think he said 'LAST'." "Oh, 'cause I was about to say '20 pushups and 2 laps'!"- The result of Mr. Peterson not enunciating the "l" and "t" in "last" in a pep talk during Warm-Up at contest."I have a BS from BSU...and that makes me cool."-Mom, you don't have to defend yourself, we know you're awesome!"You melt my yogurt!" "You can't say that: yogurt doesn't melt!" "Fine...you melt my frozen blue yogurt!"-Now, if the school didn't serve us strange things like frozen blue vanilla yogurt in a packet, I wouldn't have this quote." NO- I'm NOT wearing pink!"-Poor Jerod...It's sometimes hard being best friends with a girl."...Yeah so I guess I'm kind of weird......I'm sorry, Rachael, what did you say?" "Oh, nothing, I was just talking to myself"-Rachael and me while unpacking."BEEP...Two...One....."-Rachael counting off a set...metronome style."Well, the tempo should push...that is, if you progresh."-Some sage advice from Kelly, the drum major staff."No no, you can't BE the beat, you have to lead the beat. You have to be the beat's mommy!"-A moment of genius on my part"Amy, don't make me put you on my 'I hate you' list!"- The contest for chairs in that lobby was frightening."So, do the staff take a shower and dress up or do they just go and stink?" "Well, I think I'll wear a polo...oh, and pants and all that stuff."-Kelly and Mr. Peterson discussing Senior Night etiquette."Cara, what are you doing?" "I'm dancing." "Oh...."- Ok, so I shouldn't have left the door open..."OOH, she's got that Andrea face again!"-Hougie pointing out how my sister and I look alike when mad."I was mad. And then I was mad because I couldn't rightfully be mad at you when you were being so nice."-You can bet I felt pretty silly after I said this to Zach"AWWW! I just got passed by a GO CART!!" "Well...it was going the other way..."-Out on the town in Madison. (Aaron and Killer)"Great linds think amike!"-Mom....her version of "Great minds think alike""I ran up the door, closed the stairs, said my pj's, put on my prayers, turned off the bed, got into the light, and all because you kissed me goodnight!"-A friend's screen name on MSN Messenger*with a British accent* "Look, I just tossed me socks in the cooorna." "Rock 'n' roll!"-A Snicker's commercial Andrea and I heard on the way to Michigan. We've never heard it since." Would I even SAY that if I knew how?....see how much trouble you're giving me? If I DID know how, I would tell you so I wouldn't have to go through this!"- Someone asked me if I knew how to play euchre: I said "no". They said "You don't!?""Crumpet Treepers"- Mom inventing a new wildflower...related to the trumpet creeper."So do you just not like food?"-Andrea NOT speaking what she's thinking when talking to a vegetarian."You know what they should do? They should sell cars, like on a lot you know, that are replicas of Jeff Gordon's car. With the number and all. Golly, and you know here will be people who will take out a mortgage on their trailer for that!"-My dad" Why don't you just ask them to burn it?! I don't understand how you can eat it like that!" "Well then, don't eat my steak and we'll all be just fine!"-Dallas and I settling our Medium Rare vs. Medium Well differences