Stacey is getting MARRIED TODAY!!!!

and so.

stacey is getting married today.

wow.

:)

and we're all getting ready at her house, listening to pandora's love songs station, and singing at the top of our lungs.

dang i love that girl. and she's gonna be a wife by the end of today. aaaaah happy.

Hi,

Andrew.

told you. :)

INTRODUCING.....

... JOANNA the AMAZING!!

ladies and gents, we have a new contributor. her name is joanna.

she is my cute little sister.

and, i believe that the little stories and parables about her life will add greatly to the completeness of our blog.

you see, we have only really been capturing life from my and lauren's perspectives. now i have invited briellega AND joanna to join.

while i have yet to hear back from briellega, joanna has obliged my fancy and agreed to come on board.

on the blogger board, that is.

so, please join me in welcoming....

JOANNAAAAAA!

Why hello there...

So.... in celebration of my commencement of becoming a blogger on this here blog, i have decided to share a very delightful and inspiring story...

So in my geog class (that's what i prefer to call it.... geog... mmm i just love the sound of that resonating on my vocal chords. well actually i am just thinking it, but i am thinking that the sound of it resonating on my vocal chords would be a very good sound..... BUT this is besides the point).... where was I? Oh yes, so i'm in this geog class which has a lecture of several hundred students, and every so often a student will send an email out to everyone, literally EVERYONE in our class asking them to give them our notes. This young fella had a particularly inspiring excuse...

And i quote,

"Im sorry to bother you guys but I couldnt attend last lecture cuz I had a major case of diarrhea which lead to overflooding my whole hall, so I was wondering if someone was willing to email the notes. Thamk You

P.S Also I just wanted to notify you guys to sit away from me in class for a few weeks since I now tend to let out nasty gas"

ewwwwwww.

I hope i don't accidentally sit next to this guy in class...

Well, hope that story edified and inspired you!! :) I sincerely hope you and I never have to use this excuse.

That being said, I feel I should go.

Goodbye dear readers.

(p.s. are you really out there....?)

i am currently sitting at my table, listening to distorted classical music being played over the speaker phone of my cell.

i am on hold for the CVS pharmacy.

i just finished a delightful meal. breakfast for lunch, to be precise. however, this breakfast for lunch will probably serve as my dinner, for it had so much delicious protein and carbohydrates that i will probably only have a little snacky before going to the big meeting tonight.

it was an infamously delicious ham, cheese and egg bagel. i ate it with relish. that is, i relished it, not that i put relish on it.

i relish relish. do you relish relish?

i do.

but not on ham, cheese and egg bagels.

on another note, vignettes are funny. i'm in a vignettey mood.

so, i am just sitting here, facing the window. and wondering at the mystery of our neighbor. apparently there is a old vietnamese woman who lives next door. in all of my years in this house, i have seen no sign of her, apart from the light in the window across from ours which mysteriously turns on and off. never have i seen a person in the room, even when the blinds are wide open.

i bet she's dead.

i bet her grandson killed her.

and there's a timer on the light in there.

oooh.

that would explain some things.

oh, speaking of neighbors, we have a neighbor lady who is a psychiatrist. i affectionately refer to her as "the psycho lady".

examples:

"oh look! the psycho lady is at our front door! uh oh!" [this happens once every few months]

"oh, the psycho lady is taking out the trash! that looks heavy!"

"hi, psycho lady!!!"

"hi, psycho lady's husband!"

ANYways, when we had the GIANT snow storm a few weeks ago, parking was very hard to come by on our street. innocent little lauren took said psycho lady's husband's parking spot. i just happened to be shoveling outside when the happy couple discovered lauren's car.

what followed was a stream of expletives and this note, which is now posted on lauren's bulletin board in her room:

and that's all for today. i have to go and buy things for stacey's wedding, like shoes and tights and.... relish.

not.

i leave you with this:

bye.

peaceful wednesday night happenings

"we keep having this problem... people get married, and we still get their mail!"

- lauren

no but seriously, kate and stacey get more than any of us combined... and it ALL comes here. and it's ALL about getting married. we have SO MANY WEDDING MAGAZINES.

OH, and speaking of getting married, lauren and i split a year-old wishbone yesterday.

well, i suppose that's not quite "speaking of getting married," but let me explain...

i have had this wishbone for over a year. i have been keeping it on my desk, waiting for the day that i have a good wish. SO, yesterday i decided that it had been sitting there long enough. i called brielle in and we decided that whoever got the big end of the stick would get a boyfriend this year. and then we decided that lauren was older, so she should participate instead of brielle.

so, we went and found lauren and explained to her the importance of this wishbone. as soon as she heard the stakes, she did not want to participate. brielle and i convinced her that she could make a dumb wish, so lauren decided that she was going to wish that a guy would ask her out the next day. but brielle and i really still knew what it would mean if she won. :)

SO. we braced ourselves, pulled the ends and..... POP, the middle part of the wishbone FLEW into the air, leaving both lauren and i with pitiful little sticks!!

we all stared in amazement for a second and then BURST out laughing. i guess there's always next year!

and here is the accursed thing! replete with our valentine's day decorations!

anyways, in general, life has been good and sweet.

there is a bouquet of beautiful valentine's day roses on our table, from our caregroup's guys. that makes life a little sweeter. :)

this evening i got home from my class, ate a warm cookie that lauren made and cuddled on the couch with joanna and talked about life and school and friendships and God, while i scratched her back. meanwhile, briellega peacefully slept on the other couch.

then lauren came in limping from a pulled muscle.

then we all sat around talking and laughing and procrastinating some more.

then ellen arrived from her late class and we talked and laughed some more.

now i'm sitting on the couch, blogging and listening to elvis's "only fools rush in".

i love ellen.

and now, i have to go perform my chores (vacuuming and sweeping the floors).

i'm hoping to get to bed early tonight, so i can awake early to read my Bible.

i am terribly sorry that my life isn't more amusing right now. it's just peacefully progressing onwards.

and i like it just fine :)

Prediabetes and Drew Brees

Today I ate an unusually great amount of sugar. I will not even list it all. After I consumed this enormous intake of sugar, I started thinking that I should cut back. Diabetes has been the topic of many recent conversations and so it has already been on my mind. I started to think that I might have prediabetes. So I researched it. Dr. Oz and WebMd are awesome resources. Here are some symptoms. I excluded a few:

What Are the Symptoms of Diabetes?

Common symptoms of diabetes include:

• Excessive thirst and appetite
• Increased urination (sometimes as often as every hour)
• Unusual weight loss or gain
• Fatigue
• Nausea, perhaps vomiting
• Blurred vision
• Dry mouth
• Slow-healing sores or cuts

Anyhow. I really think I am going to get checked. But for now, I am going to cut back on the sugar.... This is a sad day. A very sad day.

ANNNNDDDD. In other news, Drew Brees. I'm wondering if he is a Christian. He is now my favorite football player.

TITANIC

hi. this is rachel.

i have a pleasant announcement to make. tonight, in just a few minutes, i am about to see TITANIC for the first time. the very first time.

this post is really to appease lauren, who has threatened to not post anymore, if i don't say anything.

i don't know why, but i have been so unmotivated to blog recently. zero motivation. i just haven't been seeing things with "blogging eyes", as i like to call them.

for example, i could have done a post about brielle's pushups, which will (and i quote) enable her to rescue large men who are about to be flattened by trucks.

"rachel, stop making fun of me for doing push-ups. if you were stuck on a road and were about to be run over by an 18-wheeler, wouldn't you be glad that i did enough push-ups to carry you to safety?" "uh, yeah... sure, brielle."

or i could have written a post about the freakish display of black birds yesterday, while i was driving home from school. now, if you have been a faithful blog follower, you will know that i have a phobia of birds. luckily, this time, i was safely in my car. but, there were about four or five hundred black birds in the trees at a particular intersection, frantically flying to a bush on the other side of the street to eat berries or something.

it was weird.

anyways, hopefully i'll be in more of a blogging mood, or else lauren will boycott blogging and the world will be deprived of an irreplaceable and essential blobber.

haha.

i mean blogger.

ha. but blobber is funnier.

ok, now i'm off to watch titanic!

SNOWWW

We got snow this morning! Once everyone woke up, we sat around the table, just like a cute little family, and had pancakes. Then we got on our computers and enjoyed the fact that school was delayed. It's been a wonderful morning. YAYYA.

We ARE back.

Hello blog followers.

Much has happened since we tuned in last time. The semester has begun and we are all adjusting to this new half year. I'll provide you with a brief intro.

First. We have started the semester off in layers of sweatpants, socks, slippers, coats, and gloves. Why? Our heater has failed us. It is about 50 degrees in our house at all times. I wake up thinking that I just finished a night outside. But I shouldn't complain. There are people who really do wake up outside. But it is cold. And we are trying to get our landlady to fix it. And to fix our water. It's lukewarm. And to fix Rachel and Joanna's light in their room. It blows a fuse every time we turn it on. Man. Talk about the fact that all these things don't make buying a house look exciting.

Second. Our schedules are very different this year. We are all up early every morning since we are have morning classes. Ellen (she is the Third point) and I have to get up at insane hours for work and placements. Coffee will be one of my best friends this semester. In spite of these earlier schedules, everyone in the house (except me, the grandma) goes to bed at wee hours of the morning.

Third. Ellen M. (cannot mention last names for safety reasons). She is gorgeous. And she is our new roomie. Stacey has left us to get married (YAY) and Ellen has brought in a bed to replace Stace's. We will be posting some fun facts about Ellen later. But here are the basics. She is gorgeous. She is godly. She gets along with everyone. She is able to run very many miles. And she has more of a social life than anyone in this house. More to come on this wonder woman.

Fourth. 3 of us in this house are 21.

Fifth. No mouse sightings as of yet.

Sixth. BRYCE H (no last name) came over last night and secretly shoveled and salted our stairs outside. Seriously. THANK YOU BRYCE.

Seventh. This house is going to be so much fun. I love every girl in here. Who knows what this semester will bring. God has much in store. We are all making our plans, but God has the last say.

"Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed."
Proverbs 16:3

We are committing this semester to him. Thanks readers!