SDSU graduation.

 yep! i walked in the San Diego State commencement ceremony!

I am going to miss this campus a lot. the palm trees, the architecture, the green grass and the beautiful weather makes going to class a teeny bit better. especially since all the classroom doors opened right to the outdoors and the classrooms usually had the windows open. 

on the day of graduation, jon gave me this perfect little gift. two bangles with special engravings on the inside. i love him.

so proud!

it was such a fun day. i have a few classes to take in the fall, but i'm SO glad i made the choice to walk early. i got to graduate with my fellow art history major friends! that would not have happened if i waited until next may to fly back to CA to graduate.

it was such a fun three years at state...the early semesters sucked since they were core classes and my teachers were all too liberal. but once i got into the art and art history courses i was so happy! the teachers were all still liberal, but they weren't so open about their political opinions since we were mostly just talking about art. i loved my teachers and could tell that they enjoyed their jobs. they worked so hard to get what they deserved and what the students deserved amidst all the budget cut stuff going on. 

i'm also thankful for this guy who was so supportive through all of this. i would do homework for hours and hours and hours and he'd sit across from me at the table and use his computer just to keep me company. he would stay up late and read me my notes before my tests the next day and it always helped! he also spent hours reading me literature in my last semester from haughty philosophers like plato, derrida, vasari, panaofsky, foucault, and baudrillard...things that sounded like complete gibberish and didn't make a lick of sense. 

i am excited that the tables have turned and that it is my turn to sit on the sidelines and cheer him on! i guess i'll read to him about cash flows, FIFA, accounts payable/receivable, etc. all those things that i struggled with so badly and soon after changed my major from accounting to interior design. and later in the semester from interior design to art history. i am sure jon will do much better in a business degree that i would have!

and now on to the next chapter in our lives!

christmas and school.

lately, i feel like i haven't had anything to blog about.

i've been blue lately...or maybe just tonight.

this is my life lately:

cute babies all day long. just LOOK AT HIM!

i chose this dark picture to post because i'm not sure how his mother feels about having his photo on the WWW?

 katie and her roommates had a christmas party last week. they tried calling it a holiday party, but everyone dressed in christmas attire. it was an eventful night...

 this is the sunset i saw while christmas shopping. i can't wrap my mind around it. i'll be extremely 100% depressed and miserable in the snow when i go to utah this weekend but soooo utterly happy and content that it will actually feel like christmas. a little torn. 

 katie and i had a romantic night out. we walked around balboa park and across the beautiful bridge. my favorite part of all of san diego. 

 see how pretty?

it was such a fun night! i loved being able to see downtown with the pretty sky. 

i think katie is really great for lots of reasons. i like her tonight because when i was feeling aimless and blue she reminded me that people who are aimless don't GET ACCEPTED TO SDSU! and don't pay off her and her husbands vehicles and dont get job opportunities that won't just pay me but pay for my school as well. 

so how about i suck it up and go to utah for a month and then come back here, start school at the local university and get a job to pay for it?

thanks katie. merry christmas. 


oh, and i'll have a marine house sitter so don't even think about breaking in.