Goodwill Wardrobes!

Since we thought you might not loading our blog all the time until we update again and seeing our bellybuttons (or those of our neighbors...) we thought we'd show you how much we dig Goodwill. Yesterday Goodwill had an amazing 50% off storewide sale, and we were there shortly after the doors opened. To be precise, we were there seven minutes after the store opened, at which point the cart corrals were already empty. When we had finished shopping, Jess and I stood in line to check out our clothes as well as Sara's and Andrew's, who had better things to do than stand in line, for an hour and ten minutes. But our wardrobes are amazing now, and far more amazing than these three wardrobe changes can show.

Four reactions to the same neighborly event

The scene: Our kitchen. With the blinds to the back door open. Two young neighborly male fellows are playing catch with a football in our back yard.

Kara: "Hey look, Sara, our neighbors are wearing shirts today!"
Sara: "Hallelujah! Look at that lovely shirt rippling in the breeze."
Jessica: (walking in with a stunned expression on her lovely countenance) "Wow, there are some good-looking men in our back yard!"
Mia: (Too engrossed in reading The Princess Bride on the couch to notice said neighborly figures)

Midterms

Last semester a person passing by Shingle Paradise would have been able to knock on our door almost any time of the day and find at least one resident home. This semester we all are on campus a lot more, and we have eerily coinciding class times. For example, at Nine O'Clock on Tuesdays and Thursdays every single one of us is in class.

Another eerie coincidence (in the coinciding sense, because of course everything is determined by Divine Providence and Professors) is that each of us had a midterm exam today.

Mia is now done with her midterms, and is off babysitting, working out and grocery shopping. I have one more midterm and six more pages to write on my midterm Twain paper before Spring break. Jess has two more exams, a paper on the Amish to finish, and her drawing portfolio to touch up. Sara wins the stress load, however, with three exams tomorrow and a Twain paper to finish, as well as a work shift tomorrow night.

All this leads up to a momentous event occurring tonight.

For the first time since August, we ate leftovers for dinner.

Be amazed.