Wednesday, February 15, 2012

happy v-day, my people!

because of our packed school schedule, jon and i celebrated valentine's day on the 13th.
we had a christmas gift card from mei, so we had our dinner destination picked out for us! we went all out and got an appetizer, and we each got our own entree and dessert shooter. we were happy to discover that the gift card held $35 instead of $25! AND, they took the left over money on the gift card for a tip, so we didn't end up paying a single dime!
afterwards, we went and saw the vow. i have been excited for this movie for months andddd, it was such a disappointment. i mean, rachel mcadams is always beautiful, and channing...is channing. but, i wanted the movie to be more. i wanted it to focus on them falling in love again, but they didn't.
nevertheless, it was a fun night with my man and i was and still am so happy that he's here this year to celebrate with me! he makes even the most trivial holidays both fun and romantic.
he was good to me last year, thousands of miles away.
and, i like being able to celebrate my love for my gals as well. two of my favorite gals sent me valentine's in the mail. it was such a sweet surprise that made me feel so loved and happy. they are the best.
our new chalk board! i'll blog about this soon...

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

feeling contemplative. . .

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because nothing makes me feel more contemplative than this song.

Monday, February 6, 2012

it's me again, margaret.

looking through my pictures, it is clear that my life consists of only a few things. 
two of them being cats and my man. 
i can't help it though, both of those things are too irresistible to not take photos of. 
 i went into the back yard with the intention of taking a picture of the sun and green grass, then rumbi jumped up and just stood in the way. it made for a pretty cool photo, though, yes?
 my new years resolution (and yours too, probably) was to work out 4 days a week. no more, and no less. last semester wassssss rough. i was so busy with my classes that i literally had no time and no energy to work out. i've been doing so much better than last semester, even if i don't always hit my 4 times a week quota. when i start to work out, i usually work out a ton for a few weeks and then get burned out. that's why i put the 'no more than four times a week' rule into effect. although my clothes aren't fitting much better yet, my legs and arms are definitely improving. i'm hoping that if i slowly get to where i want to be, it'll take longer for those results to wear off.....rigghhtt?
 look. at those. little. arms. and slanty eyes. i love. 
oh yeah. we got another cat. :D
 saturday night, jon and i spent a couple hours doing lots and lots of homework. by the time 9 o'clock rolled around, we were both feeling pretty hungry and stir crazy. so homeboy offered to take me out! although chili's isn't the best restaurant in the world, i was craving a chicken caesar salad, so we went there. we shared it and contemplated getting some chocolate molten cake. HOWEVER, it was $6.29! are you kidders?? i remember when it was $4.99! no way am i spending almost the same amount on dessert that i did for my salad. ridiculous. 
 so we hit up yogurtland instead! we figured we'd feel better after eating fruit and fro-yo than we would after eating molten cake, anyway...
 we got back from texas on january 13th. and we. never. unpacked. i mean, we unloaded our suitcases and put those away, but we never really picked all of our other belongings up off the floor. until we had to leave for church. that's when we decided it was really important for us to clean our room. so we did just that. and still made it to the last couple hours of church....doin' good!
i'll leave you with two photos. 
rumbi's feet all squished up while she was sleeping. so adorable. 
and my other favorite thing-walking in on sleeping cats and waking them up. they look soo groggy. those tiny eyes! ugh, i love them both. 

Thursday, February 2, 2012

hai.

this is what we've been up to:
yup.
between the two of us, jon and i are taking 8 classes. 

my schedule at SDSU/one at Miramar College:
art history I
sociology 101
spanish 101
psychology 101
asian art
oral communication

jon is taking these courses from Central Texas College:
american government II
american history II

so things are very busy on our end! jon and i both have a 5 o'clock class on tuesday at the library on base, then he has one on his own on wednesday and i have one on my own on thursday. 

it's busy, but we are doing well and we are both very happy. 
in 6.5 weeks, i'll be down to five classes for the semester. 
and when jon finishes his 2 classes in 6.5 weeks, he'll have THREE more 8 week classes to take before he gets his ASSOCIATES degree!!

thought i'd do a quick update. 
brb, gtg to class. 
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