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 :)