Analogies are like … Waffle Fries

Every year, English teachers can submit their collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays in order to have them published and sent out for the amusement of other teachers across the country. I got an email today through work that shared some good ones. Here are my favorites:

1. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

2. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.

3. He spoke with the kind of wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who goes blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now he goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

4. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine.

5. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.

6. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.

7. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

8. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.

9. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.

10. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.

*special "waffle-fry-shout-out" to BC, MW, JW and CR ... yeah, feel loved :)

yeah, we did it ... again (a-burn!)

Welp. John and Lauren come back from their honeymoon tonight. We wanted it to feel homey for them. So we stacked all their wedding gifts nicely in the living room, put some groceries in the fridge, set out candles in the bedroom, and ....

painted the music room.

Yeah, that's right. We did it. Again. In August of '06 we thought it would be a good birthday prank to paint John's bedroom pink for him while he was at work. And it was.
(If you missed it the 1st time, check it out here)

And once again we were faced with an interesting situation. An empty house, a key, and 5 mischievous friends. It had to be done. But what better way to make John feel at home than to bring his pink room from his old house to his new one?

Go on over to my Picasa Albums to look at the rest of the pictures.

We love you, Millers!
-- your freakin' hilarious friends

(okay last time. promise ..... no seriously.)

"2 DAYS, 2 LOCATIONS, THIS BURN'S ON TOUR!"

Go See "Once"

So tonight we watched the film, Once, together over at the Haus. Wow. It ended, and I wasn't sure what emotion I was feeling ... but I knew that I loved it. So organic. So simple. So compelling. The beauty of everyday life and relationship -- two stories touching.

Read Nick's entry on the film for more thoughts and details.
and then, Go rent it.


The freshly purchased soundtrack is tinkling through my speakers even now...

Favorite parts that will not give anything away: the 2 main characters don't even have names. They are billed as "guy" and "girl." Also, they are both people that aren't initially striking, but both become increasingly attractive, beautiful even, as you get to spend time with them ... as their quirks tumble out along with their hearts, on a backdrop of original music. To me, this is one of the most lovely things about how relationships work in real life, and I love that they captured it ... intentional or not.