wk 36.

my life has been crazy. it seems as though every other weekend i have visitors.

am i complaining? not. at. all.

in mid february, i had a girlfriend from kansas city come visit me. 

our men went to boot camp together. we met on one of those really lame but totally worth it websites where you meet girls from the same unit as your marine. 

so we talked on facebook/via text the whole summer of 2009 while our guys were suffering at boot camp. we met at their graduation in august 2009. that is the first and last time i'd seen her.

we've kept in touch really well and her boyfriend deployed a few months after jon. 

so, what are two lonely girls to do? spend time with EACH OTHER over valentine's day!

she is so cute, i love her dearly. 

she literally intoxicates me. 

i could go on and on about her. she is one of my rare friends that i can be totally open with and that makes me laugh so. hard. i haven't been that happy for days on end since jon left, haha. 

it was such a fun weekend. we went sight seeing,

(went to the midway with one of my favorite families that just moved away. ugh, another goodbye. it was awful.)

saw JB: NSN and passed out over it, 

went to dick's last resort with THIS GUY,

and even did karaoke. well, she is a professional, but that is the FIRST time i've everrr sung in front of people at a bar.

i was so vulnerable but...we sang justin bieber 'baby'
and the whole crowd (really just two black women) went wild. 

i don't have a video of it, but i DO have a video of jessi singing exactly how you'd expect miranda lambert to! i'll let the video speak for itself.