When We Knew This Was a Great Idea

Just for a little bit of background on our prior roommateness, here is a bit of what went on the last time when we house sat for a friend...

"I was cooking breakfast this morning and I looked up to read the spine of a cook book on the shelf.  What I read was "Taste of Home Animal Recipes" and in my morning and 'just-having-been-in-China' thinking I immediately envisioned recipes of how to cook your dog or cat. Well, what it actually said was "Annual Recipes." Note to self, never make quick assumptions when it's not only morning, but when that is also paired with having recently been immersed in a much different culture."

"It was a rather uneventful evening, and then I went to the pantry and saw several boxes of pop tarts.  I did not, however, read the 't' in the tarts as a 't', but rather as an 'f', and so I busted up laughing and attempting to explain myself to Julia.  Shortly after, I went and asked Julia for my dental floss. She proceeded to throw it to me, but seeing a flying object headed at my head and me being myself, I ducked to the floor while spinning in a circle and squealing... The floss ended up flying over me and landing in the corner.  We then spent 20 minutes using face cream to make mustached on ourselves.  To close the evening with a big finale, I was in bed and just about to go to sleep when I hear this loud, strange hollering sound and look up to see Julia flying at me mid air.  I truly believed she was planning on killing me by crushing me, and I flipped over in bed while screaming. We spent the rest of the evening in fits of laughter."

Maybe one of the funniest instances that occurred, happened one evening as we were cooking dinner and waiting for some water to boil.  You see, I had gotten these chopsticks in China while I was there on a mission trip a few weeks back and I was demonstrating to Ellisa the "Walrus Face" that all too often occurred at the meal times.  We ended up both having these chopsticks shoved in our mouths and giggling all the while when this man walks by on the street.  Mind you, the kitchen window is huge and well, you can imagine what happened next.  We both semi freeze and slowly turn our heads to look and stare back as he walks slowly and confusedly by while giving the one eyebrow raised in awe/confusion slow head nod.