ABC's

Thank you Mrs. S for giving me something to do while procrastinating doing real work. 

A- My AIR CONDITIONER is set on: off. we don't use it very often, but when we do it works really well.

B- My BEDROOM theme is: grey and yellow contemporary. i'm stuck in a rut with it...but i'll figure it out. 

C- The CAR in the driveway is: 2004 nissan altima. my dad just recently took his name off the title so its allll mine!

D- My DESK looks: pretty good. i cleaned it off yesterday because we had people over for jon's birthday. i also hung more stuff up which makes me realllllly happy!

its coming along....

C- The CAR in the driveway is: 2004 nissan altima. my dad just recently took his name off the title so its allll mine!

D- My DESK looks: pretty good. i cleaned it off yesterday because we had people over for jon's birthday. i also hung more stuff up which makes me realllllly happy!

E- The EXACT time I wake up daily is: between 8:30-10am.

F- The FIRST thing I wash in the shower is: My hair.

G- My GARAGE is filled with: empty boxes for all our wedding gifts ("in case we move"...), our bikes, my car, food storage.....etc. oh and the hideous blinds from our bedroom that i took down.

H- My HOUSE is: bigger than what we could afford in the outside world.

I- If you peeked INSIDE my bedroom you'd see: an unmade bed and messy dressers.

J- My favorite JUICE is: currently orange mango. yum yum. thanks amanda and nephi.

K- The best part of my KITCHEN is: our 60 year old kitchen table, the book case my uncle made for us by hand, and the dry sink. one of the first things my mom and dad bought as married couple. best part about it--they cut out the back so that they could put their tv in it.

L- The LAST person who visited my home was: jon's friends. friends from the shop, my cousin, and our neighbors. it was a fun night.

M- The last piece of MAIL for me was: a letter from my granny:)

N- My NEIGHBORS think I'm: loud. luckily i married someone who loves to sing as often and as loud as i do.

O- If you OPENED my fridge you'd see: lots of orange juice and rootbeer. jon's creme de le creme soda that he got for his bday, hamburger patties and leftovers.

P- My last house PARTY was: last night. a surprise BBQ for my one and only.

Q- A QUICK meal I like to fix is: tuna fish sandwich.

R- My favorite ROOM of the house is: the bedroom because its the only room that has started to get decorated...but i love our whole house.

S- The SHAMPOO brand I use: usually biolage but currently pantene pro-v...

T- My largest TELEVISION is: the only TV in our house. in the living room.

U- UNDER my bed you will find: my stuffed animal and a bag of jon's stuff that he doesnt know what to do with...

V- The last time I VACUUMED was: yesterday before the party. 

W- Looking out my WINDOW I see: my cat being nuts in the window sill and our shared backyard. i can see through the houses behind us to the street behind our house.

X- I wish I had X-TRA: energy. i always wake up tired and my whole day i'm tired. boooo.

Y- My YARD is: about 12x12 and contains two rocking chairs, a shelf for my plant and gardening tools, the litter box, jon's grill and my hanging fuchsia and hummingbird feeder. its cement. outside of our little gate is grass and a play set we share.

Z- ZZZZZZZ My bedtime is: usually around 11 or 12. after jon's been asleep and i've read for a couple hours. so annoying. 

restaurants.

i want to get caught up on all these pictures i have. i feel like i have so much to blog about!

we love going to new [cheap] restaurants, and we always take pics.

i want to blog about them so that i can remember to go back:)

i heard about a free surf museum in Oceanside. i called them, and they said it was free during the street fair. street fair?! i love those! so, i met jon there. he's working at camp pendleton right now. he's doing his training there for his upcoming deployment. that means he drives an hour north every morning. 

so we met halfway and left jon's truck in a parking lot, and drove the rest of the way to oceanside. 

we were both starved. we went into this random little bar and lucky for us, it was happy hour! also, roof seating!

because of happy hour, our meal wassss SO cheap. 

this is our view from our table. oceanside isn't the NICEST area...

before we left, we stopped at DQ for ice cream. 

i worked at dairy queen/Orange Julius in fashion place mall when i was 16. 

while jon was taking my picture, some guy walked past and asked if we wanted a picture together. we were caught off guard which is why we look so awkward. ha!
p.s.

wk 7.

driving home from our family vacation in st. george. 

by myself, obviously. 

wk 6.

not the most flattering picture of me...

but i like it.

i was squeezing the cat until he mewed with his mouth shut and both jon and i were laughing.

One Lovely Blog

Cutecute, my first award! Thank you Reagan from The Mrs' Blog for passing on this award.

 

The rules of the award are as follows:

1. Thank and link back to the person who gave you the award.

2. Share 7 things about yourself.

3. Pass the award to 9 fellow bloggers who inspire you.

4. Let them know about the award.

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7 Things About Me

1.  I have recently rediscovered the joys of playing Mario Kart 64 into the wee hours of the morning. 

2. My dad helped me buy a Nissan Altima for my high school graduation. I plan on driving it until it's kaput.

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3. I had a lazy eye when I was little. Thankfully, my dad got me surgery to get it fixed. I wore an eye patch for awhile. My sister Amanda told me my eyebrow was going to be ripped off when they took the patch off.  

4. My gramma got me a kitten when I was little. She told me it was a girl and so I named her Chrissy. When my other Grandma took Chrissy to get 'fixed', the doctors told her it was a boy. In fear of making me feel weird, my gran did not tell me Chrissy was a boy. Years later, one of my sisters spilled the beans. To this day, my whole family calls Chrissy "it" when referring to the cat. 

5. In 11th grade, my dad gave me a certain amount of Weight Watchers points that I had to eat a day to help me gain weight. Look at me now, worked like a charm!

6. A few weeks ago, Jon tried teaching me how to drive his truck. It ended in tears. He drove the truck home.

7. My new baking obsession has prepared Jon and I for the upcoming long, hard winter. We thought we could each use an extra layer preparing for the cold. 

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9 Lovely Bloggers

1. Addie Ohrn and future baby.

2. Kelly White being a newlywed.

3. Mrs. S air force wife. 

4. Brynne college grad/business woman.

5. Emily  newlywed in nebraska.

6. Emma baking away.

7. Stacy the musician. 

8. Jill the U of U Pi Phi President.

9. Marine Wife/Hawaiian Photographer  

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community pool.

so there is a community pool a couple blocks away from our house. 

its actually only sometimes a community pool. 

the other times, its where the marines do their water training. 

they have the tall platforms where they have to jump off in full gear and qualify?

...or something.

but they also have diving boards for regular people!

its a really nice pool, its big and its deep in some places and shallow in others. there's a lap section as well.

jon and i went on friday when he (thank goodness!) got off early. 

as much fun as we were having, its still a pool on a marine base.

"Sir, please don't run on the diving board."

"Sir, please no throwing each other in the pool."

etc...

it was so funny... 

and the pool was NOT busy. 

it was during working hours, and for some reason, there were no kids?

but i kept looking around and thinking umm are we in the 50's..??

NOTHING about that place told me it was 2010.

in the middle/rightish of this picture, you can see that tent of camo. 

the fences were draped in camo, and there were chairs in there.

don't know what that is for.

on the very right you can barely see one of the diving boards.

in between the low dive and high dive are the platforms. they were blocked off.

this is the section of the pool you can just swim around in. 

there are bleachers there with a tin roof. the entire pool was surrounded by that cinderblock wall.

a minute clock. didn't show the time, just the amount of minutes going by.

more tin roofing over picnic chairs. 

and what's a marine training center without pull up bars?

swoon.

his military haircut wasn't helping either. 

besides peoples outfits, i really felt like i had stepped back 55 years, it was so weird!

new blog title.

Okay, so i've never really had an official blog name.

december 2007. 
i was moving to nyc. 

a couple nights before i moved, my dear sister lizzie said i needed to start a blog to document.

so i did.

 it was titled "New York, Not so good to me."

rough couple months there. 

a couple months into it, i thought "hey i kind of like it here."

so i changed it to "new york, pretty good to me."

a few months later, i made a very sad but obviously life changing decision to move home.

then came the title "Home again, home again, jiggity jig."

after i'd been home for about a year, i realized that "home again home again" didn't really apply.

so, not knowing what else to do, i changed my blog title to my name.

"alexandra robinson."

that lasted for a good while.

until mr lucky proposed to miss luckier, and i knew 'robinson' wouldn't stay for long. 

knowing this, i changed it to "Alexandra Robinson-Hagerman." 
(identity crisis)

my own name for a blog title is so silly.

so i decided on a new name, that will last for at least three years.

i don't want to make my blog seem like i'm living through jon, but the military is a huge part of both our lives.

so the name will be

Letters From Base.

because-HELLO!

i live on base!

i'm so excited to actually have a real title!

and the amazing Amanda Marie fixed my blog up a bit and made my fabulous header.

comment on her blog if you're interested in her making one for your blog.
if you get her while she's hot, she MAY do yours for free,
so get on it!

and to go along with the new name, i'm going to write an entry every now and then writing about different things on base, mostly for my family.