This Is The Song That Never Ends...

Tonight was the Teen Mystery Dinner at the O'Neill's house. Lex and I got our costumes just in time to wear them to the event! So we dressed up and drove over (I actually in all honesty didn't get dressed today until I put on my costume. I didn't see the point...) We were the first to arrive and we got there at the same time as Kaleb and Savannah. At the door we were handed menus and taken pictures of! Kaleb was dressed a a boy scout, Savannah as a homeschooled nerd! Lex and I stuck with the pirate thing. Emily was in her pirate costume too. Then arrived Taylor, Andrew, Robynn, Nathaan, Caleb, Megan, and Sarah. Zach showed me this cool article on Lego Mindstorm NXTs being used to create satellites. It was really neat! And it was super nice of him to show it to me. We sat down and began examining the menus, which consisted of 4 courses, and about 17 things to choose from (including silverware!) which were code named such things as "Bloody Brains," "Eyeballs," "Scared Stiff," and many others. My first course was actually pretty good aside from the fact that my only eating utensil I managed to order was a knife and I was eating spaghetti, olives and a breadstick. LOL Ever eaten spaghetti with a knife? Savannah got sprinkles, a fork, spoon and napkin I think! My second course was a pickle, a fork and a spoon! I got to eat my last bite of spaghetti with a fork... I actually ate the pickle with a fork and knife, just to celebrate my newfound utensils! And Robynn thought that was pretty gross. She hates pickles apparently. Zach's second course (or third maybe?) was chocolate syrup on a plate!! Brenten arrived around this time, late. He was wearing his "Military dress" from which Emily had announced before he arrived, that he was wearing a dress, and after that everyone kept going on about Brenten wearing a dress. Because his nametag read "Schmelling" he gained himself a new nickname via Megan - "General Schmelly". And after that she insisted on delivering messages across the table to "General Schmelly!" She turned to me and asked "What is a message you'd like to send General Schmelly?" Me:"Ummmm... OH! Slinky! Just say 'slinky,' he'll know." Zach: "What is it with the whole 'slinky' thing?" Me: "When we were at Camp Meeting they had this really weird funny song, and every time it said something bad, or really just weird, funny, it would say SLINKY! So we just kept saying SLINKY! I really actually love that song, but it's weird." Megan: (Loudly)"General Schmelly, we want you to sing the slinky song!" Brenten: "Wha - oh! Haha! Well, I think Halie..." (I forgot what he said! But it added up to he was shoving the singing off on me). Me: "Well, I already said that about you!" Brenten: "Well I'll sing it... If you sing the 'Hallelujah eh eh' song." Me: "Really? That song's not as bad! I'll do it if you sing the Lions song! And you have to sing the one part!!" But we didn't. We slacked. After eating we all began to kind of migrate away from the table. We played "Have you ever" which is like a variation of "The Great Wind Blows". It was very dangerous! Everyone fighting over seats and then some outrageously funny ones. I believe one was "Have you ever... been born?" We played some funny signaling game which didn't go so well.. We then asked the parents "Could we just go play ninja?!" It wasn't raining so we all piled outside in the dark to play ninja. Tooo many people in too dim of light. We were altogether confused! Then we split up into girls vs. boys teams. The girls won.. We went back in when we'd had our share of laughing senselessly in the dark and confusion. Then we played the blanket game, and finally Apples to Apples. Apples to Apples was really fun! I sat between Savannah and Brenten and showed them my cards and got to see their cards and between the three of us it was utterly hilarious. That game has some seriously unnexpected words! At one point we all ended up just standing in a circle singing "The Saga Begins" which we got halfway through before it turnined into "The Song that Never Ends" and then "Ten Green Bottles". All throughout the night someone would exclaim "I LOST THE GAME!" (I LOST THE GAME!!) and then a huge chorus of voices would shout "I lost the game!!" Then I complained to Brenten about still not knowing how to play Speed, (Wow what a complainer I am!) and he just said, "Hey did anyone bring a deck of cards?" And then he continued to try to teach me Speed, but just as he began Taylor, Andrew, Robynn and him had to leave. SO I'm hoping Zach and Em will teach me... Later today... ?? Then everyone's parents started arriving and picking them up and pretty soon everyone was gone except the O'Neills, Lex and I. We had enough time for one quick round of ninja before leaving. Lex said to Em on the way out "Love ya! I would tell Zach I love him too (like a brother) but that would be weird." And then Emily pretty much reiterated everything Lex said except leaving a pause before saying "Like a brother" during which Zach said ".. Well I really hope you don't..." Then we went to the Dollar Store on our way home and searched for last minute add ons for my siblings' costumes for tomorrow. Fun fun. Anyways we're home now! Hurray Hurrah! I'm tired and I'm going back to hang with the O'Neills later and I currently look like I have two black eyes thanks to the makeup my mother put on me, (hahaha...) and also from lack of sleep probably so I'll go get some sleep! I watched a few episodes of "Psych" because Megan said it was good and it can go in your instant qeue on netflix. And honestly? I like it! It's almost like a modern day Sherlock Holmes. ROFL. I really like it! Now if I could just catch up on Psych, 21 Jump Street, Bones, and several other TV series I really want to watch (All seasons), and school, and sleep, and time with my friends who are the awesomest, I'll be good! Laterz!