Kissing The Goat
First off, and might I add, that this is side note… Strawberry Shortcake is not a positive moral example to my daughters. The fact that they want to watch SS (that’s the initials for Strawberry, and coincidentally. Might look familiar to you… especially if you’re a war buff. Not many people know this, but the elite Nazi forces known as the SS were in fact named after Strawberry Shortcake) is disturbing in itself. I thought I raised them better. In 1/2 hour of SS, this is what they saw.
- No parents anywhere. These kids are fending for themselves.
- They had sleep-overs with both: boys and girls present. Again, no parents.
- They would take day long trips out into the forest without any weapons.
- I didn’t see anybody working, and yet they have stuff. They’re either thieves or drug dealers. That Ginger Snap girl has some high tech stuff in her backpack. How’s she paying for that?
- Their songs were worse than top 40 pop music.
- Strawberry talks to her pets, and really thinks that they are communicating back with her.
Before the SS incident, we spent all day at the church. Today we held a one day VBS. I’ve sacrificed a lot for VBS in years past. Pies have been thrown in my face. I learned a valuable lesson. Use shaving cream. When whip cream gets into your nose, it sours quickly, and you constantly smell curdled milk for a whole day. I shave my head one year. I was dunked in a dunk tank… and this year, I kissed a goat. (it didn’t, btw, look like the one pictured… it was some kind of small cashmere goat). Kissing the goat was, by far the most pleasant VBS punishment I’ve endured. It was a clean goat. It didn’t even shoot berries all over the carpet.
August 3, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Excuse me but I remember you ran from the sanctuary and hid like you had some form of PTS Pre-Disorder because you had to kiss that little goat.
Wait till next year, we’ll make you kiss a Teletubby! Or even worse Strawverry Shortcake!
Oh the trauma of it all!
August 4, 2008 at 2:18 am
I thought the goat was very cute. My kids very much enjoyed watching Pastor Chad kiss the goat.
I’m debating donating my hair to Locks of Love if the kids meet their service goals next week. If I do, it will be the shortest it has been in 15 years. I’m not sure I’m psychologically ready for that commitment.
We shall see.
Dana
August 4, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Sounds like a fun time Chad. I thought the Strawberry gang had some GM cars named after them, I would have never thought of the Nazi connection,…. It’s always those stinking Nazi’s!!
August 5, 2008 at 6:30 pm
VBS is all week this week here. We have a mexican theme, and the whole church has been transformed to a 3 Margaritas restaurant look alike contest, including all of the class rooms and even the sanctuary which has sombreros and pinyata things hanging everywhere but where the ceiling fans are.
August 8, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Our VBS focus was on Missions. Today I realised The Opening of the Olympics is occurring in China.
Yay! I have been waiting for a long time. 7:30 EST – though I think they start(ed?) technically at 8:08 on 8/8/08. The number 8 is lucky in China!
The first 90 minutes of the ceremonies should be good – they are usually spectacular, and this time they were directed by the director of the movie House of Flying Daggers. After that, the athletes file in, and at the end is the supersecret method of lighting the torch.
It does stink about the pollution – it is amazing how Beijing got the Olympics. Of course, Mexico City and LA had the Olympics, too. A friend who has jogged in Beijing said he literally hacked up black stuff.
I also think it is very much warranted to protest China’s human rights problems, but it’s so hard to say whether we should boycot or not. I’m not sure it is fair to use the Olympics for it, b/c the athletes have spent their entire life working incredibly hard to compete, and it is a worldwide sports competition. I do not think China deserved to get them, but they did.
Maybe one lost soul can come to the Lord through Chinia opening it’s doors to the World, including Christians. We never know when a seed can be planted.
August 21, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Strawberry Shortcake = SS. Everyon in the office looked at me weired cuz I laughed so hard. That is the funniest thing I have heard today. I have to print this out to show to my wife.