real v day.

i opened jon's gift as soon as i got it, the anticipation was killing me.

so when the actual valentine's day rolled around, i had nothing to do.

in fact, my dinner was in n out in my car, on the way to school, by myself.

what a lonely day.

it ended up alright though, jon called in the morning AND night and i also got cuddle time with my cat that i treat like a human in a creepy way.

how cute is that tongue?

flash back:

in fourth grade, jon and i both had mr. evans as a teacher.
i sat by jon and a few other boys. we were all opening our valentine's.

i got one that said
"will you be my valentine?"

i wasn't sure how to act around boys, so i read it out loud and said "ew!"
jon was sitting right by me.

a few days later, he wrote me a note that said "that was my valentine."
13 years later, we are married.

wk 35.

i didn't get to spend V day with my husband.

so we celebrated it by sending each other gifts, halfway across the world.

my lover got me such a nice surprise.

ever gotten one of these?

yeah...i haven't.

i passed out when i saw it. then i woke up and opened the box.

and saw this cute. little. pouch!!!!

and this is what it was. 

cute charm necklace with an even cuter card from jon.

i wear it nearly every day.

it comes in a close second as my favorite gift.

my chair happens to be number 1.

i decorated a package for him really, really manly with lots of lace and glitter.

it didn't make his friends very happy to have glitter all over, but i am certain that they thought the decorations were cute and creative, even if they didn't say that. 

i filled it with nauseatingly cute photos of us, funny books, tons of candy, homemade cookies and cake in a jar. he liked it, and ate the cookies in one sitting. 

i need a man here to calm me down when i'm emotionally skyrocketing almost as much as he needs a woman there to stop him from eating like this is first and last meal EVER.

but i promised i wouldn't make fun of his eating habits.

its hard not to be alarmed, though, when his meal is gone before i've even picked up my fork.

...

ha!

cashmoney. $

very good guesses...four of them..!

so i will break it down, not sure if that interests you but we will see how it goes...

Tide: Regularly 15.99 on sale for =$9.99

Milky Ways: .88 on sale for .50 each plus a buy one get one free coupon so they = 3/$1.00

Milk: not on sale =$2.89

Oatmeal: Regularly 3.99 on sale for 2.50 plus a coupon for $1 off=$1.50

Always: 1.49 plus a coupon for $1 off=$.49!

Tums: 2.99 plus a coupon for $1 off=$1.99 

Raisin Bran: Regularly 3.99 on sale for 1.99 plus a coupon for buy two get $1 off so=$1.49 each

Body wash: Regularly 4.79 but buy two for 8 =$4 each

M&M's: Regularly 2.99 on sale for 2.50 plus $1 off two so=$2 each.

I hope that makes sense!

So I bought $51.54 worth of items.

it was all on sale for $35.84

from an earlier shopping trip, i had $29 worth of +UP rewards, meaning i could spend $29 on anything in the store. 

so that brought my total down to $6.84.

THEN i applied the $5.50 worth of coupons i had. 

so in the end i paid

$1.34 

for all of those goodies!!!

and at the bottom of my receipt i got a $5 credit to use on anything next time i go.

!!

my sister and i are obsessed. obsessed with saving money.

guessing game!

guess how much i spent on alllllll thiss stuff at rite aid today!!!!!

take a wildddd guess!

maybe the winner will getttt those tums. or panty liners. just maybe.

wk 34.

here i am, swamped with accounting homework on a sunday night.

good news though, i only had to call my father 4 times instead of 15 like last week. although he never apologized for insulting me last sunday by saying "you're just not getting it." i forgive him and think that i AM getting it. even though it took me 5-7 hours to do one assignment.

school is going well. it helps the time go by. we are 67% done with the deployment.

ummm....... when should i start panicking and trying to do everything that i was going to do while he was gone ?

okay, seriously, those chairs WILL be refinished when he gets back.

oh, we got a new camcorder! 

seriously, it is my new best friend!!!

i can NOT wait until jon gets home and we watch hours and hours of footage of rumbi being cute!

rumbi eating, rumbi chasing a laser around the room, rumbi walking around the house....he'll love it.

that is all.

oh, and yes, i thoroughly enjoy wearing shirts that glow. 

you?