A Tune

I just want to say that I find it extremely amusing that Rebekah whistles as she studies. I am in the living room right now about to start a paper and she is in her room down the hall with her door open reading Tolkien (for a class). She is whistling a tune, but I'm not sure that it is actually a song.

In other news, it rained in Abilene for about four days, bringing along with it lots of fond memories of Oxford - especially being in the kitchen, doing homework, and drinking tea. Today it was even cool enough in the morning to wear a light jacket! That's a step forward for Abilene.

Bogged down with homework, all of us. Blergh.

Autumn, come quickly.

So, we have yet to have a "roommate/housemate night" which is severely disappointing, since we are excited to get together and cook and eat and hang out. I feel like we are all almost always doing homework. We spend all of Saturdays (all two that we've had so far) studying.

Rebekah and I have found a couple weekend nights to stay up until 3 AM talking. Instead of talking in our room, which we no longer share, we do it in the living room. Her mom found a loveseat at a garage sale, and it is SO comfortable. I definitely spend a lot more time in the living room now because of it. She also found us a table and chairs for our kitchen. We had one already for the dining area, but it's nice to also have something in our kitchen so that we don't have to keep going in and out to sit during the lapses in cooking.

We began respecting once again our Saturday night tradition with Anna at The Den. Unfortunately, since I am no longer on a meal plan, I must use Bean Bucks... so in order to get only a frou-frou drink I must pay over $3. Good thing that Pumpkin Latte was yummy. Funny thing - I think we're closer to The Den now that we're off campus than we were when we actually lived on campus. Because Sikes is on the farthest edge of the world.

I'm excited because I have a few brown bananas... which can only mean one thing: BANANA BREAD! Pretty soon we will have delicious banana-y goodness... not that there hasn't been enough baking going on in the house already.

We are ready for cooler weather.

Helen, Gutterball, and the legendary Almond Creme (see 8/24/09 post)

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.