Our Exciting Lives

We are now almost two weeks into the school year and I finally have a moment to sit down and write. It's crazy that it was only one year ago that we traveled the lovely Oxford and came home five months later as awesome friends.

What's also crazy is the stuff that goes on in our house. I'm not kidding. I live with very, very strange people. And yes, Jo tops that list. You should stop by our house sometime and visit. But be warned: you might catch us acting a little childish. Most of the time, Jo and I are holed up in our rooms labouring over homework. However, sometimes even I forget we're not all little kids. Take, for example, the following situations.

If you hear us singing "I'll Make a Man Out of You", it's because it is our new theme song. Our housemate Alyssa is in on that too.

We also like to stay up having dance parties. We enjoy dancing to anything, but we particularly enjoy Disney tunes. You should see our interpretive Mulan dance.

We periodically throw paper at one another. If you haven't tried it, you should. It is a fantastic way to waste time and avoid doing homework.

Jo and I like to sit for hours looking through pictures of our Oxford travels (once again in lieu of homework).

Jo likes to laugh at me for absolutely no reason. Honestly, I can't always figure out what in the world she is laughing at. On the same note, we still have fun with "Who can make a straight face first?" contests. Usually neither of us win.

Obviously our lives are very exciting.

P.S. Hopefully we'll have some good quotes soon. We need to hang out with our quote-supplier!

Reunited... and it feels so good

Rebekah and I are once again living together! We aren't roommates anymore, but we are housemates. It's all good - it still has the word "mate" in it, so I guess we can still call each other friends.

Our house is home to 5 girls. I'm already loving the fun atmosphere that last week demonstrated, but I'm kind of apprehensive about how it will be once classes are in full swing. When school starts, stresses rise, and there is less hang out time. Ah well. We will work it out.

We got a new pet! Rebekah finally got the horse she always wanted. Her name is Helen. She is ten inches tall, 9 inches long, and about 2 inches wide. She likes Tommyknocker Almond Creme and Gutterball, our pet elephant from last semester. They reside in a special niche in our hallway, right above the phone book, but Helen often leaves to go cuddle with me.

So! Here's to a new season of laughs, cries, cooking together, decorating, walking to school, paying rent and water and gas and electricity and internet bills...

Bear Terrorizes Neighborhood

In a little over a week, JoAnna and I will finally be together again! I'm sure everyone is anxiously anticipating the day when we once again post our adventures together. Other than that, I have very little news to write about. In light of that fact, I thought I'd just post a link to a little video that I found amusing. I don't know the full story on this video, but I do know that it is an actual news story.

Because I am technologically inept, I don't know how to post the actual video on this blog. Instead you'll just have to make do with clicking on this link here.

Lush

Joanna bought her plane tickets to Abilene several days ago. She texted me yesterday saying we have just one month before we get to hang out again. I actually dreamed last night that I forgot to pick her up from the airport. I just went to our house and she was there. Only then did I remember that I had been supposed to pick her up a couple of days before that. No one worry, though; this most certainly will not happen in August.

JoAnna told me she passed a Lush today in Boulder, CO. What a lovely reminder of our time in Oxford. We both would love to be strolling down Cornmarket right about now. Someday perhaps our dream to return to jolly old England together will come true.

I know this picture is old, but I thought I'd post it anyway. I can't wait to hang out with JoAnna while we fill ourselves up with caffeine. You should come by sometime and have a cuppa with us. By the way, notice the beautiful drawings behind us. We drew them to help remind us all to wash all of the dishes.

Random thought for the day: if you type "God's love is fab" into the google search engine, our blog shows up on the first page. Don't ask me how I know that, I just do.

Voices

I just wanted to let everyone know that Rebekah and I are still alive, and we heard each other's voices through voicemail yesterday. It was quite the momentous event, as I haven't heard her since the beginning of May. Anyway, life is still life. Wonderful. Catch up with us on our individual blogs. Ciao.

Five Sentences

I've been in Denver for four weeks and I just went to the zoo, whereas I've lived in Abilene for about two years (give or take) and I have never been to theirs. Rebekah and I need to fix this, especially since Havar the white tiger is now in town. Speaking of Rebekah, I have been missing her and Abilene sorely, particularly these past few days.

In other news, I now have a copy of "All the Single Ladies" and listening to it reminds me of the great dance we made to it.

I miss the times when this blog was so interesting... full of boring facts about our roommate life...!!

First Day of Summer

Today was the first official day of summer, though of course we're almost two months into summer already. I think the summer so far has been good for both JoAnna and me. We’re both doing fun and great things, which we’re recording in our personal blog. Speaking of which, if you haven’t checked out JoAnna’s blog yet, you definitely should.

Unsurprisingly I find myself missing JoAnna fairly frequently. The white tiger, Havar, finally made it to our zoo in late May. Too bad we’ll have to wait until the fall for our zoo day.

JoAnna recently reminded me of a site we enjoyed looking at over the semester. It’s a British news site that includes weekly editions of “Sign Language,” a collection of humorous signs from around the world. Anyway, if you want a good laugh then you should check out The Telegraph.

I came across another quote the other day. I recorded it way back in February, but lost it somehow. Thankfully it resurfaced now, just when we have a huge lull in quotable material. So I leave you with yet another fantastic quote:

“I don’t, like, want to make out with God.”
(Kat again. Thanks so much for the wonderful material you provide us with)