You have 150 pounds of blueberries at home?! HOLY CRUD!

Eric picked me up a little late, but that was okay because I was reading the Enron book I borrowed for my brother. We discussed Korey, Strong Bad hiatus (baby girl), gas prices, stupid traffic, composting, Pho, family in Victoria, how it's my fault when anything bad happens, bubble tea, and arrangements. When Eric called Korey, he got a certain voicemail message for the first time ever: it IS smart, but tricks people! I shared how I'd hung up on it the first time I got it, and yelled at it the second, haha. Once we got to the church, I joined the revolving party in the kitchen while scavenging some blueberries / Isabel's Terra Bread / Darren's Pho meat / Jon's chicken and noodles. (he wasn't happy about that, haha) Laughed at Chris and Vanessa's bantering about BRIDGE songs (they should busk - but those licenses are annoying!), told Randal that Stanley and I ought to get together with Jon to send him some weird Japanese noise music / metal / System of a Down, marveled at Stanley's SPINACH shirt and cheered when he said he actually bought music (with a free toy), and was amused when Chris convinced Stanley to go to Resonate instead of watching CHARIOTS OF FIRE. ("dude... it's just a MOVIE even if they're having POPCORN!") Someone was playing the theme song on the piano outside, and Vivian said it just highlighted how badly out-of-tune the instrument is: too bad Uncle Johnny's in Hong Kong, doing something much better than tuning pianos! (we later used it as offering music, to everyone's great amusement - "pass the offering box around slowly like it's a relay baton!") Stanley said he wouldn't have enough money for a new church piano... just a guitar and such things to go with it!

Jon said that Chris would definitely need non-leaking shoes in Ottawa, since two of his four pairs leak, and another one might be close to it soon. Chris demonstrated that he knows the difference between NEEDING something and WANTING something: he could get a new pair of shoes now, but then it would be a year till he wore them, and it wouldn't be good for other reasons. (Jon also congratulated him on that) Said hi to the Soon sisters; one of them is almost done with exams, so can actually SLEEP! Talked to Christon about various things like the grad banquet and how he has 150 pounds of blueberries, and learned that Darren's going to Ireland on September 24. Bugged Jon about the birthday cards - ultimately, I only got him to sign one because I'd be seeing Eric H. pretty soon. *sigh*

CHARIOTS OF FIRE was pretty good, and contrasted two rival runners - Jeremy and I shared a bunch of amusement, as per the usual. (I'm Afraid of Americans, French as "frogs," pork not allowed for Jewish people, etc.) During the discussion, I went upstairs to make a quick phone call - it was so noisy in the sanctuary that I had to go to Dad's office for a quieter environment than 50 people talking after Resonate! Grace saw me on the phone and said hi, so I waved back. After going downstairs and getting teased by Chuck ("it's so easy!" he told Andrea :P), I went back upstairs when we were done, and shared my excitement with Grace: YAY, BOYFRIEND COMING! Joey mentioned that they had had a poo pool in Mexico, kinda like baby pools when people are pregnant. Then Chris mentioned that they'd been pretty open with each other about their puking and bowel movements by about Wednesday - I heard later that the kids' water bottles were all dark brown, and Chris got dehydrated. Michelle said that Steph was anti-social by reading HARRY POTTER, and that she was also a pig since she ate a 320-gram bag of Lays chips (almost) all by herself on the trip! (Steph denied being a pig, but she really should watch the eating, hahaha) Janette could have lived without the snoring, but she doesn't take so many things for granted now.

Talked to Phil, Grace, Citrus, and Cordia about birthdays in general. Grace noticed Cordia's "sarcasm is one of the services I offer" shirt, and was amused. That had been a birthday gift, and that set them to talking about how I was really good at remembering birthdays. I recalled the time that Citrus said his parents forgot about his birthday for about two weeks: "did we miss something?!" Hahaha, they're getting up there in age if they can't remember how old their kids are... but then, sometimes we forget these elementary things too. No idea what that says about us... haha. Daniel talked to Calla about David Fellowship, and I agreed with him that our fellowship has more unity / growth in the past year or so! (largely thanks to Karen!) Talked about the corn maze, grad banquet, the Maritimes (I'll talk to Cindy later), Jeremy's jazz band gig conflicting with the grad banquet, Angus and Melia, etc. On the way home, we saw a BAD butt display at the gas station - let's just say that there are SOME short shorts that you shouldn't wear if your butt is of a certain size! (we needed eye bleach!) Vanessa isn't Erin roast material (Erin's wedding roast could easily last two hours!), but in-jokes are fine. Steph's JEOPARDY roast last year of Erin was HILARIOUS: "have a question, but my siblings can't answer!" As I recall, Auntie Brenda was HORRIFIED at the answer! (of course it involved blood!)