knitting frenzy.

Lately, there has been a lot of knitting at 2520.  Last week I came home and there were seven girls in the living room having a knitting party!  One left before the picture but here are the rest of them: 

I don't know how well you can see the item that Steph is holding up but in case you can't tell, it's a wrist-band she made for me.  It's lovely!  

writing idea?

Anyone have any good ideas for paper number 3 in my Creative Writing class? For the first paper I wrote about experiencing pain through other people (focused mainly on my sister's boyfriend almost dying). I wrote about my trip to China and true happiness for the second paper. If you have any brilliant ideas for the third one, I'll take 'em.......

2520 group chat

yesterday afternoon all of the 6 2520 girls were on googlechat--so we (or I) started a group chat. It didn't last long, but it was CRAZY while it lasted...

Lacy has joined
Andrea has joined
Sarah has joined
Stephanie has joined

Sarah Kron: this is retarded
me: this is where it gets confusing
Stephanie: what is this?
Sarah: house meeting
group chat
cha-ching
Andrea: oh my goodness
2:14 PM
Stephanie: what?!!! this is crazy!!!
Katie has joined
Andrea: this is crazy
i don't have time for this nonsense
Stephanie: where is lazer tag?
Lacy: interesting?!
So what's the first topic for discussion
Katie: I don't have time email, but I love it!
me: crazy huh?
sarah, you might need to be a little bit more expressive in your chats....for example use more exclamation points!!!!!!!
I don't either
Stephanie: OH MY GOSH!!!
2:15 PM
Sarah: laser tag
where are you?
this makes me laugh
Stephanie: i'm dying
Lacy: I'm in my room....zap!
me: lacy and katie...can you confirm sara
Stephanie: lacy, you aren't up on my googlechat
me: oops
Sarah
Katie: yes
Sarah: wow
me: :)
Sarah: i'm offended
me: ok
Sarah: by that
me: I'm done
Sarah: actually
Stephanie: LOL
i need to pee
Katie: this is so overwhelming
Sarah: woah
Stephanie: i hav eto go
bye!
Sarah: ADD
Katie: I'm over stimulated
2:16 PM
Lacy: what?
me: do you need to pee so bad your eyes are turning yellow?
Sarah: seriously over stimulated
Andrea: you guys are crazy!!!!!!
me: (lacy knows what I'm talking about)
Lacy: haha ellie
Stephanie: yeah
Katie: yes!
Sarah: but funny nonetheless
Stephanie: this is
how did you do this?
Lacy: steph...are you really dying?
Stephanie: yeah please help me
ok i gotta run bye!
Stephanie has left
2:17 PM
Lacy: um... sad...she just left...should we be concerned?
me: bye
Lacy has left
2:18 PM
Sarah: lacy you are funny
i just re-read what you said
zap
ha
Katie: ok, I'm out
me: me too
Katie has left
Andrea has left
me: I mean, I don't really have anything "important" to do, but I just feel like I should leave

sermons!

This week I've been listening to some sermons by Tim Cain. I've enjoyed them a lot because he shows us how "insanely beautiful" Jesus is and how everything is a gospel issue. They make me want to know Jesus more.

If you want to listen to them, go to: http://hopeingod.org/Youth.aspx. They are from the Bethlehem Baptist Youth Retreat. They're geared to Senior High students but they are really, really good!!

some things you oughta know.

After living with Katie for over a year now, I've come to learn that she is normally pretty willing to let people use her 'stuff.' However we've learned that there are some things that you just don't ask about! Wrapping paper, recipe book and her Brownberry Country Wheat bread.

Last Christmas....
Stephanie (just asking for formality sake): "Hey Katie can I use your wrapping paper?"
Katie (with a smirk, knowing the question would come eventually): "Well...no...I like to save that for myself. I like to be the only one with that wrapping paper."
Stephanie (quite shocked): "Oh...okay..."

In the spring, Stephanie had a folded up recipe (not 8x10)...
Stephanie: "Katie! Can I put this is your recipe book so they are all together?"
Katie: "Well...no...you can put that in the recipe box. This is for 8x10's and only for my recipes."

Tonight...
Katie: "Do you want a grilled cheese? You can have one with my cheese if you use your own bread."
Andrea: (testing Katie out): "Well, I'll have one if I can use your bread."
Katie: "I like my bread. It's the only bread I like and I can only buy this bread at Cub and I don't want to run out."


I do want to add that Katie ended up making Steph her own recipe book and also bought her a roll of her own wrapping paper. And I am sitting at the kitchen table eating a half grilled cheese that Katie made with her cheese...and my bread. And there are many times she makes me a meal...with her own groceries! Love ya Kate.

road trip '08!

We've talked about taking a road trip for quite some time but with the high gas prices we refrained. But as you all know, they've been dropping so last night we made it to Hudson. That's right ladies and gentlemen - Hudson, Wisconsin. If you don't already know, 94East takes you directly there.

After hanging out at Matt's Bar (home of the Juicy Lucy), we thought we were going home but "missed the turn". Trent was driving. Steph nonchalantly said: "Let's take a road trip!!!" Trent, being the literal interpreter that he is, said "Ok." So we drove around some St. Paul backroads and went through the McDonald's drive-through. It was quite disappointing that they only offered vanilla. But the good part was that Trent paid for everyone. After this, Trent pulled onto 94East rather than 94West (which would have taken us home). He purposly did this. Andrea said "Oh."

So we turned up the hip-hop music and did a little dancing. Trent kept driving and driving...all the way to Wisconsin. Trent and Katie jumped out of the car and ran for a couple minutes. We stayed in Wisconsin for about 5 mintues and turned around and came home. Oh man, it was fun.

On the way home we stopped at a rest-stop because Trent was getting sleepy. We pulled in next to the truckers and Trent reclined his seat into Andrea's knees. He requested a newspaper and used it as a blanket. After about three seconds he sat back up and announced that he was well rested.

The atmosphere was quite different on the return-trip. Most were tired and the music changed to country. The other problem was when Katie found out that her partially un-eaten ice cream cone that she stuck in the car melted. Hmm. Good lesson. So moral of the story. Don't leave ice cream in cars while on a road trip to Hudson.

Can't wait for road trip '09...or maybe road trip '08 part 2. Secure your spots now. The car is full. But we can maybe rent a van...or talk to Tyler.

height changes

Has anyone noticed that you are taller in the morning than you are at night?

I've noticed this because I have a habit of looking out our little sliver of a window by our front door because there is so much activity going on outside at all hours of the day and night. But the point of the story is that at night, I have to stand on my tip-toes but in the morning, I don't....

Maybe everyone already knows this but I did a google search and read that our spine compresses during the day and therefore makes us shorter at night.

Meet Manny

We made a little mistake, at least I think, by stealing a friend's (Seth) mannequin on Halloween night. It's lived at our house since then and keeps getting placed in random spots and scaring unsuspecting people. Manny has been found on the toilet, sitting on the kitchen counter, lying under blankets on the couch and so on.

Tonight somebody placed Manny in a bedroom closet --



We found the culprit:

If I have my way, Manny goes back to Seth tomorrow!

bd

bd=blind date.

some married friends of ours decided to set some of us (meaning the single ones) up on blind dates. one down. three to go.

ellie is next.

well, there's really no point to this post. i just thought it was kind of funny and an update on our lives.

peace out.

hey 2520 readers...

Why not make the blogging world more fun and friendly?

We've recently realized that we have some anonymous readers...some that we now know about :) and maybe others that we don't.

So we would love to hear from all the anonymous readers. Those of you who have made your presence known, you can give us a shout out as well!

Au Revoir!

Snow!

Today, November 7th 2008, was the first snow of the season. Just Tuesday of this week it was in the 70's and now..."it's like flippin' winter out there!"

Tell us what the weather is like where you live!

update

Hey friends...

I thought I would update y'all on our lives here at 2520. We are all enjoying the wonderful weather. It's super nice out....today I wore my flip-flops....in November! YIPPPEEE!!!

Sarah is celebrating her two-year anniversary in this house. She moved in November 6th, 2006. She was just offered a job as a teacher at the hospital. Congrats Sarah!

Ellie is down in Chicago right now. She and Sarah drove down there last Friday night, and then Ellie stayed down there to visit her friend, Autumn. Ellie isn't eating any sweets, too. Keep it up!!

Lacy just went to bed and is going to Duluth this weekend to be with family. Have fun at work!!!

Andrea is studying French right now. She recently found a bumper sticker on her car that reads, "Mullets Rock"....does anyone know about this? Andrea is making leaps and bounds with her vocal outbursts. She got scared twice today and didn't scream out loud. You go girl!!!

Katie and Trent just had pizza tonight and shared the rest with us. Thanks guys! You rule!! Her excitement of the day was when she scared the Executive Director of DG with a fake mouse today. Way to go, Katie! (And she didn't get fired)

Anyhow, just wanted to let you know what's going on. This blog post is pretty much amazing. And, I love my roomies! They are awesome....just awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay. Katie and I (Andrea) are taking over one paragraph. Steph voted yesterday in Shoreview and got free ice cream from Ben & Jerry's and free drip coffee from Starbucks. She is growing out her fingernails and this morning when she used the hair straightener, she felt as if it was not working properly.

We hope you feel updated. Cheers!

You Are God Alone (Not a God)

If my ipod has a play count, this song is high on the list. We sung it at church a while ago and since I downloaded it from itunes, I have listened to it over and over...and over. I love the words and they've been good for my soul to hear.

You are not a God created by human hands

You are not a God dependent on immortal man

You are not a God in need of anything we can give

By your plan, that's just the way it is

You're the only God whose power none can contend

You're the only God whose name and praise will never end

You're the only God whose worthy of everything we can give

You are God and that's just the way it is

You are God alone

From before time began

You are on your throne

You are God alone

And right now in the good times and bad

You're on the throne

You are God alone

You are God alone

If you ever download it, get the Billy and Cindy Foote version. A couple other worship songs I've listened to a lot lately and recommend: Come Thou Fount (Jadon Lavik), Mighty to Save (Hillsong), Come Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy (Fernando Ortega), His Forever (Sovereign Grace), Mission Accomplished (Shai Linne) and the Shane & Shane bluegrass sampler :) http://mp3.rhapsody.com/shaneshane/bluegrasssampler.

What songs do you love right now? Worship or anything...