congrats, bf!!

today is a big day for my little fiance...

he's getting promoted!!

i attached a picture for those of us who don't understand unless a picture or graph is shown.

so at boot camp, the recruits have to do the crucible.

when/if they finish the crucible, they are announced marines!

usually when they graduate from boot camp, they graduate as Privates.

since jon has a certain amount of college credits and is an eagle scout, he graduated as a Private First Class.

well, tomorrow he is getting promoted to Lance Corporal!

aka E-3.

if they do the regular promotion ceremony, they pin the new chevron and cross rifle pin onto his shirt without a back to the pin. they pat it down twice into his skin.

(he said that he will have layers on, so it won't penetrate his flesh...we'll see.)

i just wanted to tell the world because i am SO proud of him!!

and i love him so much!

so maybe you can congratulate him in your free time.

love you baybay.

ps. jon is asleep so he couldn't proof read this for me. 
all my marine facts are probably all wrong. sorry!:)

keep calm.

"This poster was initially produced by the Ministry of Information in 1939 during the beginning of World War II and was intended as a "last case scenario" to be used only should the Nazis succeed in invading Great Britain, in order to stiffen resolve. Two and a half million copies were printed, although the poster was distributed only in limited numbers. The designer of the poster is unknown.

"Its message has also been felt relevant to the late-2000s recession. Merchandise with the image has been ordered in bulk by American financial firms, advertising agencies, and by Germans. It has appeared on the walls of places as diverse as the prime minister's strategy unit at 10 Downing Street, the Lord Chamberlain's office and Buckingham's palace and the United States Embassy in Belgium."

I've seen this poster a million times, but I just found out the history behind it, and I love.

today i...

woke up late again. wondered when that trend was going to stop.

became very upset about having a head ache AND stomach ache.
i then realized that i could just not HAVE a head. OR a stomach.
then i felt bad for being upset and apologized to God.
but i'm still wondering what blessing is going to come out of me being sick 24/7.

went on a house call for a client with my internship.

i am so excited about this whole interior design thing.

more on that later.

more and more and more.

remembered while i was working how my alarm woke robbie up at 4 a.m. and when i looked at him on the floor, he was sitting with his feet on the floor and his bum on the 'mattress' looking so tired and confused. laughed hard. didn't tell anyone about it so they wondered why i was laughing...

surfed the web for hours and day dreamed about our wedding.

i'm so excited for it to be poorly planned.

the cd might be scratched and not have enough songs on it,

my hair might be flat and my lipstick smudged,

and only 3 people might come.

but it will be the happiest day of my life,

and i don't care if the flowers don't match my shoes

and the sign in book isn't creative enough.

i'll be there with my husband, oblivious to everything around me.

and thats all i can ask for.

i just want a photographer there to catch the magic.

what a day.

5:23 a.m.

woke up and looked at my phone. JUMPED out of bed and said/yelled to the cat-

"It's 5:30. YIKES!"

brushed my teeth, grabbed my makeup, put on clothes, left the house.

5:40 a.m.

walked into work happy that there is a 5 a.m. class next door with a teacher that unlocks my door for me. so that there is never anyone waiting for me to get there, no matter how late i am.

9:30 a.m.

blushed when the hot old guy came in for the first time in over a week. he threw me a wink, pointed a gun made out of his hand at me and said "Mornin' Alex."

swoooon.

10 a.m.

made my manager laugh long enough that he waved my sweeping and mopping chore,
yesssssss.

12 p.m.

got off work. came home to find the CUTEST design blogs!

such as this.

it makes me so excited for our house/condo/apartment!!

we're going to have the fetchest little antique/Scandinavian home EVAR!

example a.-

notice the little yellow kids ghost chair by philippe starck on the left.

and no i didn't need to look up what kind of chair that is, i learned it in school.

i love my degree.

example b.-

currently loving white floors.

and antique pieces, hello.

example c.-

who would have thought?

2 p.m.

gym.
stair master will. eventually kill me.

5 p.m.

went to sisters to get a have dinner, get a hair cut, reregister at target

(jon and i registered over christmas break while he was here.
the shelves were. EMPTY. so we just registered for whatever was there.
katie and i went yesterday to fix our mistakes,
it was so nice having a woman with experience there!
christmas 2010, her and sam will be registered at target as well, haha.),
and finally

10 p.m.

sleeeeeep.

january 21.

today was a really fun, busy day.

i started my internship at Marilyn Lewis Interior Design.

i love it already, even though it really reminds me of working for my boss in new york.

she was really excited to hear that i was engaged, very intrigued at the fact that i dont have my ears pierced and looked me up and down right when i met her for like 15 obvious seconds.

it was so great, old frazzled ladies are so much fun. this is going to be interesting.

picture of the day:

little robbie in the morning.

i slept at katie's last night, and robbie slept next to my bed on the floor.

he didnt even budge when jon called me, and my 12 alarms went off in the morning at 4 am. he is so cute.

its terrible quality because the lights were off.

his hand is behind his head.

a picture a day.

or just enough pictures to describe my day.

promotion at work.

i wont be working there very long if we get married in may,

but i can't imagine Front Desk Manager looking bad on my resume.

:)

hilarious granny in the shirt jon gave her for christmas.

proud grandma of a united states marine.

www.alexandrahagerman.blogspot.com

i'm changing my blog name/URL.

i don't know what this means for your google reader and side bar on blogspot, so i'm letting you know before hand so that you can change it.

i'm going to change it on saturday.

i don't know if it'll redirect you.

if you try going to my blog and it says there is no such thing, my new blog is

www.alexandrahagerman.blogspot.com

(alexandrarobinson.blogspot.com was taken even though she DOESNT use it....makes me very mad...)

i know its a bit premature, but i figure its better to change it to hagerman now so that i wont have to change it again later.

and i want to change it FROM new york now.

even though it makes me sad.

but new beginnings! and i will have a cute blog soon.

(right amanda?????)

thank you for your cooperation:)