I'm a story teller. I tell stories.

I just realized something the other day: I'm a story teller. If I can relate a story to the topic of conversation, and I can slip my voice in to speak, I make my experience known. Maybe I just like to brag about all the crazy stuff that happened at Central. Maybe I have to tell about all the insane people I've met in my life. I really don't have an explanation for it. I just love to tell stories.

Arynn told me the other day that she had just painted something, and has all this "untapped expression." It was really weird that she said that, because I had just been thinking about writing short stories (and have written one so far) because I was feeling the same thing. It wasn't really well written or anything, but it was loosely based on what I've gone through in the past couple years. I thought about posting it, but... we'll see what comes after it.

You know the American Furniture Warehouse guy, Jake Jabs? If you're not from Colorado, AFW is the biggest furniture store, and the commercials all have the owner, Jake Jabs, in them. The commercials also always have Tigers and their cubs, and other random animals. Anyway, my great grandma, or Grammy, as she's known around these parts, apparently got a great deal from him once like 40 years ago, and he sold the furniture to her directly. She always talks about how one day she's going to go down there and he's going to be like "Ann Scott! I remember you! How's that dining room set?!"

I'm not saying this to make fun of her. The thing is, I think I'm going to do that when I'm her age. Because I'm a story teller, and I think I'd be a decent writer (though I'm nowhere near as good as Amy! ;-) ) I think I'm going to tell stories about how, when I went to Bible College, I had a class with THE Dr. Reese, and we would have lunch together, and he was the funniest guy ever. Or how when I went to CCU, Dr. Ames and I were this -crosses fingers- close.

I was thinking about that, and chuckled to myself. I'm totally going to be a lying old man, and I'm really okay w/ that, because I guess that means I'll be happy w/ my life. :-)