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!

congratulations to me!

i had my last final exam yesterday! 

even better: my professor returned our research papers to us and I got an A. and i don't think i did too bad on the exam, either. horray! i officially have two more semesters of school. unless i decide a masters degree is in the cards...lets just focus on these two semesters. i'm too excited about having over an entire MONTH off school.

today, i'm going to celebrate with lots of Hulu, the gym (finally i have time for that!) and some light christmas shopping. then i have to go to work, what a drag. 

fortunately, i've been balancing my two jobs alright. i'm very happy to have school out of the equation. the past few weeks have been the busiest! i'd literally rather not have a job than money. i need to see my spouse more than two nights a week, even if that means reading a book together instead of going out, and eating top ramen! 

 we had our annual christmas party with lindsay and wes! unfortunately, i didn't get any other pictures. jon grilled us steaks and asparagus, wes made potatoes and gravy, and i heated up some corn and made dessert. (...) we made ornaments with sand from our beach and a picture from lindsay's birthday party! i'm hoping the picture will flatten up a little bit, but i'm actually not mad about how it looks. then we went on a walk and watched "it's a wonderful life". we haven't finished it yet, but the first hour made me realize that it is the funniest! movie! ever! i'm sure the ending is great too. 

 after my final yesterday, i headed straight to the temple to witness a beautiful sealing between two beautiful peeps! i'm pretty ashamed i didn't get a picture of the happy couple, but i got this one of the temple. we spent the day hanging out with jeff and kayleene and the rest of kenny's family. it was really fun!

 lucky they got married yesterday instead of today because its been raining for like 16 hours straight. san diego doesn't do well in the rain. every time it rains, its like the whole city has never seen it before. i can never understand why. the whole city floods. isn't that weird? it happens every time it rains, why haven't they figured something out?

you'd think my raspberry bushes would like it...its hard to tell though when they're hugging the ground like this. 

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. 

<3

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. 

school project.

I had to ask 5 people what they would want to be renown for and why. I asked my dad via text and he said.

Dad - "World Peace. Lol."
Me - "Why?"
Dad - "That's what all the Miss America contestants say."


thanks.

SHUTCHYO MOUTH.

today was so good to me!
of course i was ten minutes late to my 9 oclock class with only 8 people in it.
i walked in and had to squeeze past people with my huge bags and the teacher handed me the roll because i was the only one not signed in. so i write my name on it and hand it back to him. he looks and it and starts to lecture us on following instructions. apparently at the top it said write your name, last name first. and i had written alexandra robinson.
and he looked and me and i was just like "oh...sorry."
AWKWARD!
but then we learned how to write the alphabet! i should put a picture of it up. its a really fun class, drafting.
after class me and my friend dana went to her apartment. i didn't do an assignment we thought was due today and she had an extra so we went to print one out for both of us. her apartment was tiny and ghetto. and she lives alone. it was cute, but seriously so small.
then we went to historical styles and i took three pages of notes in an hour and half, that class is IN. TENSE.
you really have to pay attention, she goes so fast-but enough of that boring stuff.

we have these cats. that reside outside our windows at night. and really, they sound like they're in a WHOLE lot of pain. i can't hear them tonight. but we've heard them the last 4 or 5 days and i die everytime i hear them. last night i text casey (our wall is a curtain.) and was like those cats. right when i got a text from her saying "those cats are dying again!!!" and then i heard her recieve a text then laugh and i really died laughing and it was 2 am. we couldn't sleep, i don't know why the sound of cats moaning didn't get us to sleep.

me, oscar (www.youtube.com search =" oscar on eternal families "), casey, and a man (who wants a piece) named Rob went to I HOP. it was the unlimited pancake special. the good quote of the day came from this.
oscar is from new york and has lived here his whole life so has a really thick thug accent. he was very messily eating his 'all you can eat pancakes' and i remarked
"you are the messiest eater in the world!!" as he was dripping syrup all over. he immediately lashed out, pointed at me and said
"SHUTCHYO MOUTH LOOK ATCHYO SLEEVE!" and we all looked and i had the biggest piece of hash brown stuck on my sleeve.

we all got a pretty good laugh.

then those boys walked us home and i was laughing so hard i snorted (i think for the first time ever) and i had tears streaming from my face. everyone keeps asking me and casey, and me and morgan how long we've known each other because we get along so well. i told them tonight that casey was sent straight from jesus into my apartment.


i hate my apartment but love my room, too bad i have to leave it. but i will be so pleased and so suprised to have so much leg room in my new bedroom that i don't have to share!
p.s. i got rob to help me move. uh.


p.p.s. couch boy moved out! he didn't say anything about his missing alcoholic beverage and we can freely and happily roam around our apartment in leggings and a tank top and not be uncomfortable.

my first day at school!!

it started pretty calm. i woke up at 8 oclock...the time i was supposed to leave for the train. so i rushed and got ready (i got all my stuff ready and had my outfit picked out last night becuase for SOME reason....i thought this would happen). i didn't shower or anything ;) and headed out at about 830. so i headed to where i thought the subway station was. i knew i had to walk a long way....so i walked a few blocks before i asked someone where the subway station was for the 6 train. i happened to ask the sassiest policeman, who was of course giving a parking ticket to someone. he said "UM you've got a long way to go if you want to get to the 6 train. its about seven blocks away and they are LONG blocks." i was very confused because when me and my dad walked there it was only, like, 5 and i had already been walking for awhile. so whatever. he told me to get on the subway station near us and take the C train down the west side and get off on 72nd street and then take the S shuttle across the park to 68th. so i got on the train and got off at 7200 and couldn't find the S anywhere. so i asked the person at the desk and she said that he gave me awful advice. and to take the bus that was right above the subway. so i went and jumped on the bus and it dropped me three blocks from my school and i ran into my class 15 minutes late. there were only 14 people in the class and i was the last one to enter.

so that was pretty cool. anyway i had a good day at school and made a friend! she was good to me and gave me good advice!

more later. luvz ;);)<33333

homeless already?

new york is a crazy place. and it gets crazier when you have a crazy owner of your apartment.
she told me i'd have my own room when i got here. so when i moved in and found bags in my room and clothes, i was very confused. turns out, the girl who was staying in the room was actually the girl who's room it was...sister. if that makes sense. but the girl whose room this WAS decided not to move back in (I WONDER WHY), and the sister took on another bed. so it left me with my own room. me and my dad went and bought new sheets and cute things for my new room. i called julie, the owner, to let her know i wanted my own room. we really played phone tag all day, we each called each other, like, 3 times. finally, we got ahold of each other and i asked if i could officially have my own room and pay the rent that erin, the previous owner of this room, had been paying. she said "oh actually one of my interns is moving into that room and she wants her own room. so you and casey are moving into the front room together to share like we'd planned in the beginning." we'd NEVER planned this from the beginning. and just yesterday she told casey she'd have the front room by herself. so she is lying to someone and just trying to make everyone happy and it isn't working.
so, in february i have to either share a room (right now it has one bed. but she said she'd get two beds for it. we'll see.) here, OR have to find somewhere else and lose the deposit money. so its pretty crazy and very stressful. its enough to be living in new york city by myself, but its another thing having to deal with housing drama. its been such a blessing to have my dad here with me, but he's leaving sunday. if we would have known about this sooner, we could have been looking for an apartment this whole time. CRAAZY.

another interesting thing. i think i'm moving home in december for good and i might not go to summer school here.

besides the drama, i'm getting used to new york. i went to my school and loved it.

 it should be really fun, the teachers are all willing to help me and get everything figured out. i know how to get to my school and everything, yay. i talked to journeys and they offered me the jobb! its at a really busy place in midtown. right across the street from the huge macy's. i think i'm going to take the job there! the people that work there are crazy, and nice. one of them said "those eyes. thats all she needs in order to sell shoes." that is false, but was cute of him to say.
we saw the eiffel tower aka empire state building, juilliard,

 rockafeller center,

building they filmed enchanted in,

 times square. we saw legally blonde on broadway which was AMAZING. i highly reccomend it. i get bored way easily and i was entertained the whole time! we went into the huge macy's and bought a really cute coat for my dad. we went to the NBC store and bought swag. "stuff we all get." i got an office poster, and an office shirt that is too funny.

dad got a heroes hat and other shwag for my family... not amanda sorry. :(

we were going to go to chinatown tomorrow to canal street and buy designer things but now i need to find a home! its 1 am and my dad just said i needed to go to sleep. he's sleeping in the bunk bed below me and i guess he can't handle the typing:)

goodnight.