FTW

Ladies and gentlemen, you may not know this, but I play on a soccer team. This soccer team is named Infinity. Tonight I scored not a goal, not a point, but a moment. The goalie of the opposing team had run out of the net, as all of our team was up, except me. The one game this season I decided to play defense, and I had stood back, as a good defense should. Time slowed down a little, the goalie hit the first line on the field. Time slowed again, I could see the little stress lines as he battled to keep away from our center, who was struggling valiantly to retrieve the ball. He reached midfield and slid, hoping to get the ball around me, but it jumped right over his leg and towards my waiting figure. It was the perfect setup. The ball coming directly towards me, no weird spin, no opposing players, just me and the ball. The moment of connection was exhilarating, a moment of pressure, then I watched as the ball sailed up, up, up, much too high to stay in the field. It was a valiant effort, but too much power, not enough control. I watched as the other players started to walk back into position. But then... The ball reentered my vision, it still hadn't touched the netting above the goal, it was still floating, perfectly content, perfectly in bounds. And then, thunk. The screen at the back of the net shuddered, and a whistle blew. There was a second of confusion but all eyes turned to the net. The ball... was in.

the feelings of words.

Today I realized the power of using very specific words. I was at work and I was already having a pretty stressful day because of all the tables that I had in quick succession. I was behind on getting everyone their drinks and I had just had another table sat, so I still had to take their order, and I was just really stressed. And then Ali comes up to me and says "uh, you know that they ordered a perogy pizza at 63 right?" (all the tables are numbered so we can keep track of them) And so I started freaking out cuz I had no idea what to do, should I get that taken off the bill? Should I order a new one? Should I just pretend that it was the kitchen's fault? (totally wasn't) So I mush have said something out loud because Ali just says "oh, just order a perogy. They're just munching on the pepperoni for now." And just because of the word munching I totally calmed down. Just right there. Oh, they're just munching, that's okay! No panic there! It was the weirdest thing ever, but I thought it was really cool and I'm going to be looking a lot more for words with a very interesting reaction. I'm kinda excited!

The continuation of the morning show even though it isn't really early in the morning

So all the grass was still a lightish browny color and the antilopes were begining to complain of slight indigestion because of it. The plug pondered this problem and asked the councilers what he could possibly do to help. "I dunno," replied the councilers very sincerely. "All righty then!" said the poor plug, "I'll find it myself." He went down to the palace library and searched for the answer. He searched in 'Grass and what to do with it', 'The many colors of of the ground growth', 'How to make blue into purple', and even in the book 'The adventures of grass treatment: A complete guide for all your grass treatment needs'. But he simply couldn't find any help, although he did find some very interesting gravy recipies. He was about to give up when a dusty old book cought his eye. He pulled it down, blew the dust off the cover and opened the first page. 'What to do when all the grass in a kingdom turns a lightish browny color' it read. The plug pored over the book and found that there was a wise west-warbuller in the western peaks of the Goofdomdom mountains. He immediately set out on his quest to return the grass to it's original color. He had many great adventures on his way to the Goofdomdom mountains, but they are quite unimportant and don't move the plot onwards at all so I shall tell of them another time. But I will say that the most exciting one involved a jar of icecream, a stick of dinamite, and a compass that pointed only north northwest. But anyways he finally reached the base of the monsterous Goofdomdom mountains. The wind howled and shreiked as he started the long assent. Presently he came across a slight crack in the precipise so he stopped to rest for a bit. He was surprised when a chipmunk jumped up from behind a rock and leaped onto the plug's back. "Hokey dina it's cold out there!" the chipmunk exclaimed with a twitter. Abruptly a fine mesh cage crashed on top of them, trapping them inside. "Dagnabbit! I knew this'd happen" pouted the chipmunk. "Well I sure didn't! What's going on?" cried the poor plug. The chipmunk quickly explained that he had accidently borrowed a few acorns from the north troll without asking. And of course, trolls love their acorns so he wanted them back.

The morning show

Ah the joys of bing up at two in the morning. The scents that fill the air, the amazingly large amount of noise, the darkness peirced by the light of the computer screen... It's epic! So what to write about... Hmmm... In my taskbar there is a plug. It seems to be like any other plug on any other screen on any other computer in any other home. But it isn't! This little plug was once the proud ruler of the kingdom of Valencia! A mystical kingdom where antilopes bounded amongst the trees and the willows swayed in the light breeze. This plug held his land in the highest regard. Only the finest of food and grass was given unto his subjects. And all he asked in return is that they would not abandon him in his hour of need. Of course this seemed like a very good deal to his subjects so they agreed. But then one day there was a rift in the space time continuum! It sucked up all of the trees of the kingdom and turned the grass a lightish browny color. The noble plug, fearing the worst, called for a council meeting and they all had a light lunch. "Whatevers shall I do? Wherever shall I go?" cried the plug in his distress. "I dunno" replied the councilers very sinscerely. "All righty then!" said the poor plug, "I'll find it myself." So he quickly created a time machine and opened a small portal into the year eighteen oh two. He then jumped through and promptly started looking for the trees. He searched far and wide for those trees but he just couldn't find them. There were lots of trees that looked almost the same, but they just weren't perfect like the trees of Valencia. Luckily a passing traveler happened to know of a place where you could find the most fantastic tree seeds ever! The plug promptly headed off to the troubled land of Huhubonkananapoh. A foul place this was. There was hardly a health looking tree in sight. Just miles of sludge and strange viney type things. So the plug said unto himself "Odd..." for he thought it rather odd that there were no trees in such a wonderful tree seed good findingability type place. (For those of you who do not understand morning gyberish, there will be lessons on that next Tuesday at exactly sometime. In the meantime the translation is 'for he thought it rather odd that there were no trees in a place where there are supposedly wonderful tree seeds') Anyways he started his maticulous search of this strange land called Huhubonkananapoh and promply noticed an eerie swallowing noise coming from a place with excessive amounts of sludge and strange viney type things. He slowly made his way towards it and there he discovered a large water bottle filled with As and Ms. He looked at the water bottle for a bit and then decided that that was quite boring and continued to look for a little while longer. Finally the water bottle cried "Why are you staring at me you strange little plug?". "I'm terribly sorry. It's just that all those As and Ms are rather facinating." replied the plug. "Too true. Too true." sighed the water bottle. "AMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA" muttered the As and Ms. The plug went on to explain his plight in great detail while the water bottle listened intently and the As and Ms muttered "AMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA" to themselves. "I can give you some really nice tree seeds but first you must bring me............... Ps and more Ms!" Anounced the water bottle after the tale was finished. So the plug set out to find Ps and Ms. He went to the mountains but there weren't any there. He went to the prairie but there weren't any there. He went to the big cities but there weren't any there. He even went to his old aunts house who wasn't really crazy but just seemed like it so no one ever went out to see her, but there weren't any there either. As he trudged dejectedly back towards Huhubonkananapoh, he was stopped by a little child. "You're weird!" said the kid. "That's slightly rude but I don't really mind because I'm rather in need of some Ps and Ms." coughed the plug dejectedly. "I don't have any of those," giggled the child with a twincle in his eye, "but I do have some peas and some m&ms!" The child giggled and laughed and chortled and gaffawed and just had a merry old time and dropped the peas and m&ms on the plugs back. "Thanks a bunch!" called the plug as he set off in quite higher spirits. "You're weird!" yelled back the kid with a little wave. The plug concluded his journey to Huhubonkananapoh and showed the water bottle his findings. "Oh that'll do just wonderfully!" crowed the water bottle. "AMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA" agreed the As and Ms. So the plug received two thousand nine hundred and eighty four seeds and a little card that read 'Thanks for shopping at Huhubonkananapoh! Hope you come back again!'. The plug returned to his small portal and went back to his own time. Luckily by this point all the seeds had grown into beautiful trees and so were distributed around the kingdom. Unfortunately the grass was still a lightish browny color! But I'm going to bed so I'll save that for later. Good night!