My little sister turned fifteen on 9/11, and I have now gotten around to putting her whole quote post together. I’ve done all of the other birthday posts on time this year, but I was working all day on her birthday, and I thought it was just as well to share this on a day that is less solemn with remembrance. On that subject, Lydia has a very unique experience with her birthday, since people give all kinds of reactions to the detail of her date of birth. She’ll often preface it by saying, “It’s kind of a bad birthday... It’s September eleventh.” Then some of her peers will look at her with blank expressions and ask, “Um... And why is that bad?” She told one of her friends to go ask her parents about it.
Now, here is one of the cute childhood photos that Lydia sent me for this post, and some of her funny quotes from the past year.
“Is it okay that I kind of have a crush on your fictional character?”
About said fictional character: “I also hate anyone who is mean to David. David is TOO PURE FOR THIS WORLD!”
“There are kids who don’t even know what a Blu-Ray is!”
“I guess it teaches you to not take food from strangers. At least Disney does that well.”
“Ben Rector’s new song ‘Range Rover’ is really good, and it makes me think of you and your truck, since your windows don’t go down anymore and you were just saying that it has a quarter of a million miles on it.”
About reading a story where my characters used a hotel pool: “I was like, ‘I want to go swimming! I’m having pool withdrawal!’”
“Like, when he was counseling her about that, I was like, ‘Is this just Dorothy’s inner monologue all the time?’”
“Why do you keep writing things down? Is this what your friends feel like all the time?”
Discovering a mangled Teefty lookalike in someone’s product review for a different stuffed animal: “Just… The state of EMERGENCY that horse is in!! But the fur looks like Teefty.”
About my fictional character again: “David cries a lot during the Olympics. And you could take out the last three words, and it would still be true.”
“I LOVE relays. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s my AWANA blood coming out.”
“The people in stock photos have lives. It’s really weird to think about that.”
“There’s either a tropical storm or a hurricane headed to Florida, and its name is Fred. Fred is not a very intimidating name! It does not sound dangerous.”
“These
were the top three stories that came up on my iPad yesterday, and I laughed at
all of them.”
About the counselors at a Christian day camp she attended for several years: “They’re supposed to be professional. As professional as extroverts descending on different towns can get.”
“You always knew a Girl World girl. She would have pink floofs in her hair, and a fresh manicure, or glitter all over her face. ‘Okay, you just came from Girl World!’”
“With Man Land, it was like, ‘You smell slightly of shaving cream. You probably came from Man Land.’”
“We’d have a thirty-minute skill, and then fifteen minutes of Bible time. The leaders would share their favorite Scripture and tie it into what we just did. If they could.”
“Last night, I dreamed that there was a moose climbing up a rope in somebody’s yard, and your truck was parked right by it. And then the moose fell down, but it fell right next to your truck, and we were all relieved that it hadn’t damaged it. But then! Then the moose went over and bashed its antlers into your truck and broke the windshield! And I was so upset. I couldn’t believe it did that, and I told Mom, ‘Dorie is going to be so mad at us for letting this moose break her windshield with its antlers!’ And she said that it was okay, and that it was all fine, but I was like, ‘NO! Dorie loves that truck, and she can’t replace it, and now it’s totaled because of this stupid moose!’ I went go to tell you what had happened, but I was so upset that then I woke up.”
“When I heard about Hurricane Fred, Kat, Ethan, and I were talking about how it sounded like something out of Studio C. I said, ‘It’s like naming a hurricane Larry.’ And guess what the name is of the hurricane that’s currently in the Atlantic!”
“Matthew listens to everything at three-times speed. It sounds like he’s listening to chipmunks talking politics.”
About someone’s hair during a broadcast: “He looks like he woke up on his parents’ basement couch and realized that it was time for the livestream.”
“This girl came up to me and asked, ‘Where’s Hazel?’ I have no idea who that is, so I told her that she should ask her leader. [...] I know they tell the younger girls that if they need help, then they should go talk to the older girls. But how am I supposed to be in a leadership role when I don’t know who Hazel is?!”
“So... Have you decided what cute picture from my childhood you’re going to put in my quote post?”
“I sent you the picture of me on the swing. But you could also use this one!”
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