Tonight

... was a strange night. But a good one.

There were several reasons why this night was strange.

#1. I made a casserole.

I have never made a casserole. Hence, the creation of said rachel-made tuna noodle casserole was quite unique.

#2. Courtney came over!

Courtney has only been to our house once. So, her second coming (to use a biblical term!) was an event to be remembered. It was oh, so wonderful to see her pretty face :). I don't get to hang out with her enough.

#3. Our neighbors arrived demanding cookies.

Our neighbors are a bunch of boys living two houses down. We opened the door to our calm and peaceful house, and about 7 boys traipsed in, requesting cookies that had evidently been promised to them at a previous time. Apparently Lauren had told them that I was going to make cookies, and they came expectantly. So, we whipped up some good ol' chocolate chip cookies and fed those boys. It was a little bit of an odd atmosphere though... because they brought a couple guys with them that half of the girls here had never met before... So everyone didn't know everyone and there was a lot of nervous laughter and phone-checking. And so, we sat: 13 people in our tiny living room, laughing at nothing. [don't get me wrong, though. i loved having them over :) I thrive off slightly awkward situations. THRIVE. Hah.]

#4. We played spoons. With 13 people.

Self-explanatory. All the boys cheated badly. All the girls lost. It was bad. There were several spoon fights and we all discovered a new viciousness in Lauren.

#5. All of the boys threw cards around for about half an hour.

John, one of our neighbors, knows how to throw cards really hard. It's some kind of mutant gift. Soooo him and his buddies literally threw cards at each other across the room for a looong time.

#6. I told them the troll story.

I'll have to blog about this later. It is quality.

#7. Whitney and Josh arrived.

Bearing expensive instruments! Yaaaaaaay! We had a short, quality time with them.

#8. Everyone left.

And we picked up cards and did dishes.

#9. I sent an email to my boyfriend.

It is still a novel idea to me. :)

#10. I'm actually using correct capitalization in this blog post.

The strangeness of this day is complete.