Today Is a Rather Fine Day for Lady Rachel.

Hello! I am victorious! I went SHOPPING!

Actually. Well. It wasn't REALLY shopping, it was iTunes browsing. And I only bought one song: "My Help Comes From The Lord," by The Museum (I know! It's like songs never use correct grammar - it should be "My Help Comes from the Lord," but songs never do the proper capitalization rules!!!).

Lettuce see.

After drinking a caramel frappuccino with Jenna Cox, Erica Witzig, and Misha Cox, we went to the Family Video store to find Penelope. Sadly, it was checked out. We made a beeline back out to our car when we realized the "evil Family Video guy!" was working. Haha! That's what Jenna calls the slightly very much flirtatious movie-checker-outer. Several insiders were made that night.

We went to Washington church, then spent a couple hours at the Dreste home, where Erica and I learned (or tried to learn!) Settlers of Catan.

The Jones family then had us over for dinner, along with several other families. And, despite the advice of Steve and Susie Jones, I'm going to buy a painting from their son next time we go there. Well...maybe I will. If he acts too greedy, I won't. Haha.

Aaand, that about sums up the weekend. If I decided to go into detail about Saturday and Sunday, the post would never end!

Cordially,
Lady Rachel

P.S. My new favorite names?

Girls: Cassandra. Elizabeth. Juliet. Therese. Jenny. Liese. Persephone. Jillian.
Guys: Johnny. Adonis. Marcus. Chandler. Kyler. Brett. Evian. ALEXANDER!!!

AND that's it! Toodles!

Ha!

Gracious, goodness me! It's been forever since I last blogged!

Let's see here, let's start from the top.

What all have you missed in my life? Well, three noteworthy things happened since I last blogged:

1. I got a yellow tanktop. I wear it over my brown tee.

2. MY SISTER, MARTA, MOVED TO FLORIDA!!! There is a recent picture of Jaivyn right about this text!!!

3. I set up a Starbuck's coffee/Penelope-movie-watching date with Jenna! It's happening this Saturday!!!

Any cool Bible verses? I love 2 Timothy 4:13. But it's not the average verse you'd expect. Go check it out for yourself - I (personally) think it makes the Bible seem so much more real (even though it couldn't possibly get any real-er than it already is).

Any other news? Let's see...I am starting up ballet dancing again. No, I haven't found a good studio with lessons that are worth the money, but my old dance teacher sent me a really good dance DVD. I can follow along. I have majorly been slacking off when it comes to ballet - but I really need the exercise, so what better to do than ballet?

Cordially,

Lady Rachel

DARLING JAIVYN(:

Here is a picture of my darling little nephew, Jaivyn! He is a DOLLFACE.

A Pinch of This and a Dash of That

Well! I've been extremely busy these past two weeks!

After sharing our Israel presentation in Indy on Friday and Saturday, we were going to leave on Sunday, when Teryn (one of my Indy friends) told us...drumroll...she was heading up to Peoria on the next Saturday! So we got to stay in Indy for a whole extra week.

FUN, FUN :)

I have to say, one of the best parts was getting a makeover in Ulta, a really cool cosmetics store. Teryn applied foundation, blush, mascara, regular eyeliner, lipliner, lipstick, and - get this! - GLITTERY EYELINER! At the end, she added bright pink lipstick. I was going to wear it out and about the mall, but Erica said I was an embarrassment. And you know me - I go out of my way to keep from embarrassing Erica...haha. Did you catch the sarcasm? I felt pretty bad, though - we went into Ulta and sampled all their makeup, then walked right out of the store without even buying anything! Oh, well, what's a bit of makeup gonna cost 'em.

By the way, there's this really fun slumber party game thing that I strongly recommend. Everyone writes eight or so questions on slips of paper, then throws them in the middle. You take turns drawing and answering the questions. My questions have ranged from thought-provoking ("What is one deep, dark secret you've never told anyone?") to kind of strange ("What is Rachel's best facial feature?") to downright ridiculous ("Did YOU put Peter the purple elephant in my refrigerator?").

Mmm...oh, how I love my Indy girls :)

Life lessons from which I think everyone can benefit:

__never entrust my sister, Erica, with a Wendy's frosty while riding in Maria Steidinger's car. She promptly spilled it all over.

__don't add fake chocolate chips to frappuccinos.

__if you buy thirty $ worth of iTunes gift cards, remember that you can't buy thirty songs - most likely, some of the songs will be $1.29.

__if it looks like wet paint, it probably is wet paint.

I'm going to buy some songs off iTunes :)

Cordially,
Lady Rachel

Just a Little Note from Me.

Did you know that the most common password is simply "password"? I know, right? How amazing!



Here are two funny things about Erica that I'm sure you didn't know!!!



1. She called a little boy "toilet" in Spanish because she thought it was the word for "goof." Hahaha. "HEY, YOU LITTLE INODORO!!!!!!!!" hahahaha



2. She kept calling the cook "pollo" instead of "Coyo." Pollo (poy-oh) is chicken. In Spanish, of course.



Did you know that ANNA can be made into NANA? Haha!



Every teacher deserves a thank-you. That's what a cardboard box by me says. Hahahahaha. I mean, yeah, every teacher deserves a thank-you, but why write that on this blog? Beats me.



In case you haven't noticed, I really have absolutely nothing to say. Nothing!

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGG. I absolutely despise having nothing about which to write!!! So I guess I'll wait until after Indy. I should have plenty to write by then. Oh, and California is coming up soon! I'll have to write all about that, too :)

Cordially,
Lady Rachel

Here and Now.

I'm going to warn you, right here and now, that I am going to often change the format of this blog. Hope you don't mind.

Well, nothing really major has happened since my last post, so I guess it's goodbye for now. I'll try to have something to write next week!

Byebye!

Cordially,
Lady Rachel

P.S. Oh, yeah, Keelin Isch was very disappointed in me for not mentioning her in any of my blog posts as yet. So haha. I just mentioned her. Haha!

Whoa.

So, basically I just got back from Mexico, on a work team...
...and I left parts of my heart with each kid there. I got closest to Michel, Daniel, and (idk how to spell her name in Spanish???) Kayla...Oh, how I love those kidlets...

Hmm, what all did I do on this work trip? Hahahahaha, well, would you like me to arrange my jobs in alphabetical order or in order of importance??? I have to say that the best job I did was sand down the new house walls. Seriously, that was so fun - and I don't even know why!!! I'd do it again in a flash. Also, baking 38 1/2 dozen cookies - 462, to be exact - was absolutely fantabulous!!! Despite getting kicked out of the kitchen for not keeping one of the bakers under control, I had an amazing time...oh, wow, that kicking-out-of-the-kitchen thing was epic. And not in a good way. But it's all behind me now. Trust me, it was not incidental!

So now I think I have a son. His name is Daniel, and he's ten years old. Yeah, he's five years younger than me, but ha! he's so adorable. And so dear to my heart.

Michel was awesome, too. I had an amazing time tossing around the football with him. And he taught me the Spanish word for jumprope - I'm pretty sure it's spelled brinka or something. Brinca? Idk.

So I basically have this whole lineup of people waiting for the computer. I have to go; people are telling me to hurry up...(but come on, what's more important than this blog!!!)...

So I seriously HAVE to go.

Cordially,
Lady Rachel