On a lighter note

It hit me after posting yesterday that I’ve put some pretty heavy stuff on the blog since I arrived. I should try and lighten the mood around here.

Good or funny things that have happened in the past few weeks:

The Camden JV house pooled its resources over the weekend to enter a raffle, and we ended up winning FREE ORGANIC MILK for a WHOLE YEAR! Woot! Simply living is awesome when you get 52 coupons for free anything, let alone organic dairy products!

Last night Mark, out of the kindness of his heart (and his stipend), bought flowers for his roommates. :)We are a lucky group of girls to have him around.

None of us has gone running for a while because there’s been some pretty shady activity on and around the bridge. Our favorite bicycle cop told us a few times once we got there not to cross the bridge because it didn’t look safe for us. I knew it was too good to be true, having a safe place to run. I think the shady stuff picked back up as soon as the mornings started getting darker. But the happy phoenix from the ashes is that we’ve been doing yoga together to get some exercise in. Yoga and weight routines… I’d better have some decent muscles come springtime!

We’re a particularly musical household. Mark practices guitar a lot, and I’m sure I’ll start borrowing his chord books to learn as soon as my guitar arrives. Last night, after the guitar’s curtain call, I was drying my hair and belting out selections from Les Miserables, which gave us all a lot to talk about. Good times.

I’m developing a fascination with Lady Gaga. Between a beautiful voice and the masquerade thing she has going on, I’m overlooking how weird she is. Wouldn’t it be fun to be her for a day?
My birthday is coming up and all I really want to do is go to Independance Hall and check out all the historical stuff in Philly. I've been there before, but I'd like to go refresh. I have a sentimental weakness for American history.
We used our leftover apples to make apple crisp for dessert last night. Hello, autumn. You smell like baked apples and cinnamon.
It feels good to write about less heavy things than work. I'll remember to do this more often.