3 C's

Community.
Thanks, ladies and husbands and boyfriends of ladies, for a wonderful evening last night! Great food (salsa, ice cream, and strawberry milk soup)! Even greater company. I am publicly committing to more regular dinners with y'all. Rotating houses. On occasion, we may have to ditch our boyfriends/husbands for girls night. But, many times boys will be involved too!

It is good to spend time with girls...girls who are old friends. Girls who are like home to me. Girls who go to bed early! hahah. And it is good to be in the company of cheeseballs like Paul and Ben who like to pretend to eat whole, living, cows.

Funny story from last night:
I was talking to Paul and Elaine about a friend who lives in Syracuse.

Ev: "Do you guys remember Jason.....?"
Elaine: "Jason who???"
Ev: "umm...jassssoooonn...(thinking....) oh! what's his last name!?!?!?"
Janet: "Ho?"
Elaine: "HO!?! Janet, you think ev would forget her own boyfriend's last name?!?!?!"
ok, maybe it was only funny if you were there. we can reenact it for you someday if you ask us nicely.

I've been longing for community, and I've been blessed with community a plenty. Friday Night Krew (welcome back newlyweds!), LAME, Ohana, the old school BP/Saratoga girls and extensions of that circle, great roommates, quality time with jason, and now regular dinners with this crew. Time with people is so deeply satisfying. I do, however, need to make time and make it a point to spend one-on-on time with people. As much as I see people in groups, I miss some alone time with folks.

Calm.
My life is settling in nicely. Our house feels like home now. Work is settling down. Have lots of cool people to hang out with. My classes start soon. I've been reading a lot. (We didn't get cable. Who would've thunk it that if I didn't have 60 channels to watch on tv, I'd watch a lot less tv and have very few hankering pangs of "oh, I wish I had food network..Rachel Ray, where are you?!").

Contest.
Mary, Janet, and I are also soliciting names for our house. If we pick the name that you suggest, umm...you can...come over. hahaha. and maybe i/we will feed you (can't make promises for the other roommates. Please comment.