Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Happy Birthday, Ava! [2]

Ava is one of the most remarkable, unique people I know. I greatly enjoy spending time around her, and always appreciate her different perspective, spunky personality, and wit.

Once, Sophie wanted Ava to perform something, but Ava was offended by something she said and responded, “You disrespect me, you don’t get the voice! You don’t get the faces! You don’t get the hair!”

“This is the SADDEST DAY OF MY LIFE. Let’s go.”

“Guys, we have to laugh at all of Sophie’s jokes in the car so that she’ll have good self-esteem on the plane!”

“My favorite youth group memory is Dad taking me to Hardees every week and buying me ice cream and memorizing Bible verses with me because I was SO SALTY that I couldn’t go to youth group. So salty. And I’d come home and be like, they’re right downstairs in my living room, but I can’t be with them!

“For my real favorite youth group memory… This is kind of embarrassing, but she’s gone, so it doesn’t matter! It was when [Name] fell asleep in small group. It was her turn to pray, and we were all waiting. We thought she was just thinking. And finally we were like, ‘uhhh… she fell asleep!’”

That’s the worst! When you think you remember something but it’s really just a dream or a story you heard!”

After losing an argument: “When you know they’re right, so you just have to mock them!”

“When word gets around that you’re funny, it’s a lot of pressure.”

“Ughhhhh… Do you ever just sing a line of a song so much that you’re even annoying yourself?”

“I’m so tired of using slang all the time. It even annoys me! I have got to stop… But I still say ‘savagery’ and ‘lit’ all the time, even though it annoys me so much!”

“Trials and tribulations! TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS!”

Eating out of a party-size Doritos bag: “Now, if you’re judging me, then that is a sin, and that is your problem, and you had better deal with it.”

About sarcastic compliments: “Oh, I give them all the time! Like, ‘wow, Sophie, you look soooo beautiful today!’ Just kidding. You do look beautiful, because you’re related to me. Hahahaha.”

“We would have hand sanitizer races. We’d squirt it on our fingers and race to see who could get it to drip down the fastest. And because I was little and dumb, I didn’t know that you had to squirt out a lot out make it go faster, and Sophie would always win.”

When I asked where their parents were: “How am I supposed to know? I guess they were just really bad at parenting!” (Since I don't want her to get in trouble, I'll note that she said she was joking.)

About Sophie going to college: “I won’t have a life anymore, because she won’t be around to take me places!”

“That's what I say to get out of awkward conversations. ‘Sorry, gotta go, my cat is on fire.’”

“Speaking of ‘Mrs. Stoddard will be mad if you break things…’”

Playing Scattergories: “Well, I wrote one down for everything…”

Personality traits: “Saucy… Thinking about myself!”

Beverages: “I’m underage, so hi-c.”

“Guess what I did today! Missed my first class of the whole school year. Starting off great.”

“If you say it’s from the 80s, we just have to believe you!”

About the family dog: “He’s getting sentimental in his old age. Like, he’ll come into my room and get on my couch! What is this?”

“When I’m home alone, he’s my only hope!”

After Mr. O’Dell said that whoever knocked something down in a game would be the loser: “It’ll probably be me, because everything in my life is collapsing right now.”

“Sophie said that she saw a girl walking so fast that one of her hoop earrings fell out in traffic.”

“I just wanna see one fair pic where the caption says they're having more than a fairly good time :/ so sad.”

“I won’t tell you, because I don’t want to ruin pumpkin for you forever.”

“And I was like, ‘wow, that sounds so delicious!’ Actually, no, I didn’t lie. I said, ‘I hate pumpkin!’”

“It’s a community full of old people. And death.”

She said that while getting out of a car, and I asked her what the context was. “I was telling my dad that when I was younger, I didn’t know that nursing homes were for sick old people. I just thought they were a place you lived… You retired, and then you went to a nursing home!”

When her brother criticized her youthful habit of dancing to songs in movies: “I’m sorry I had joy in my heart!”

“Mom and I were talking about my Sad Face today… I still got it!” *pouts dramatically and looks like a kicked puppy*

“‘Slay’ was so last year.”

When all someone could guess in charades was 'donut': “Donut getting it right!”

“Ladies, get yourself a dog that'll stop walking when you gotta tie your shoe.”

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