Thursday, October 30, 2008

All Hallow's Eve

How's my best girlfriends??  So, what is the 411?  What is everyone going to be for Halloween?

Giovanni- Captain Hook
Ezekiel- Peter Pan
Joslin (and a few friends I've collected)-Kissin' Kate Barlow (a favorite character from the imaginative and refreshing Children's novel, Holes) and her band of bandits.  (Or simply cowgirls and boys with a slightly less cliche twist.)

What are yal gonna be?  What are yals doin these days? 

Look, I know I've not been the best poster but let's not let Grace's efforts go to waste, LET'S KEEP THE YELLOW HOUSE FOREVER! Keep posting I want to hear what everybody is doing. 

Oh, me.  I am thoroughly enjoying living in Santa Barbara.  I am now substitute teaching semi regularly, for various high schools around town.  Downtown is too fun and too fun.  This is the closest I've come to living in a city of any appreciable size, Santa Barbara is still only 86,000, but there are so many good stores.  Never knew what city life could offer me.  So it's fun going into town, to the beach, or into the scenic hills on a bike.  Everything is beautiful.  I'm running a half marathon on Saturday, Nov 1.  That's in 2 days.  Hm.  Other personal information I guess I'll have to give out over the phone.  So, Grace is in New York.  Crazy huh!  Love you all. You're all my hump days.  Talk soon!


Monday, October 6, 2008

Love the tramp.

Hey hey hey, how's my best girlfriends?  Please tell me you all remember that part from mean girls, if you don't it's way less funny.  I'm just sitting in our front room right now trying to study for a quiz but actually I'm bored of that, so I'm going to post instead.  Time for an update on the house.  

School owns my life, so that, along with lacrosse, pretty much take up all of my time.  But no worries girls I love what I'm learning about so it's fine that I still have a bajillion years of school left.  Brynne and me have recently taken to the trampoline whenever we have some minutes so that we can be soaking up the last few days of warm weather and bright sunshine, so I decided you should all be aware of the greatest events on the tramp as of late.

#1--It decided to cut someone's eye open.
This is Mike, my sister Allie's boyfriend.  He was doing a trick off the tramp, when one of the springs decided it was fine to actually fly off of the tramp and hit him in the eye, cutting it open.  The whole thing was actually a lot more funny than it was stressful, but kinda scary anyway.  I wish you could see from this picture, but he actually has bruises in the shape of the spring across his face.  Pretty funny.  Anyway, Allie laughed a lot, I made a makeshift bandage, and we were all on our way to a successful break the fast in our front yard after that.

#2--Picnic Picnic Picnic!
So since Brynne and I don't see a lot of each other between school, work, lacrosse, and Trevor time, we recently decided to have picnics on Fridays when she skips school and I don't have class until 12:30.  It's worked out really well, especially since our neighbors walk by at great times to take pictures for us.  Thanks Kyle.  The pictures from last week are better, when we decided to just eat chips and salsa for lunch.  We ate an entire container of salsa in 20 minutes and watched a girl back her car into the ditches outside of our house.  Maybe I'll steal them from B soon and post them later.  

#3--Sleepover time

The rugby boys decided that after months of talking about it, the time had come to make the sleepover on our tramp happen.  Problem I had with that was that it was freezing that night, and so I refused to participate past tucking them in and making up a goodnight story.  They kept telling me I was crazy, that it wouldn't be cold, but let's be honest, I was right.  Here's the highlight of the sleepover:

Guess the guy walking by in the morning either couldn't figure out what was going on, or couldn't get enough of it.  Either way, I'm so glad Brynne is a grade A creep and took a picture of the guy creepin the rugby boys through our window.  So proud of her right now.

Okay girls I have to actually go study for my quiz before class happens, but I love you all.  Hope your lives are going well.  Jos, I want to hear about NY.  Beth, it's been like a month since I talked to you so you have a lot to update me on.  Grace, I was with you all weekend, but you should think of something nice to say anyway.  Megan is exempt.  Love you love you love you.