a picture to brighten up this place

so i know i am slacking a little but i felt like my blog needed a fabulous picture to brighten it up a little while i am running around tonight making healthy pasta for old people.... i know that doesn't make sense but it would if you had my job :0)

this picture reminds me of summer, why? because the fourth of july is by far one of my favorite holidays! For the past 6 or 7 years of my life my friends from high school and I have gathered on the 50 yard line of our high school football field to watch the fireworks. it is a beautiful thing for many reasons- mostly for me it's brings us all together- no matter where we are in our lives- this brings us together. it's amazing to see how we have all changed and at the same time remained the same in each others eyes.

i promise to write again later- right now the grocery store is calling my name!

random monday

hello all! sorry i have been a little absent- it was quite the weekend and it turned out to be quite the monday! lots of things due in my history of psych class and definitely not enough time to get them all done! so today will be kind of a random list.... tomorrow there will be more coherent things posted.....probably :0)

i went out this weekend to rascals for happy hour- $1 dollars taps from 3-9pm....yeah lets just say my night ended early- like 9:00 early but all in all it was very fun and we had a great time :0)

D and i have been practicing our swing dancing for our upcoming lesson at Carroll College this Friday- we are so psyched! this swing semester will be awesome! teaching is definitely a passion for us- and how couldn't it be when that is how we met and fell in love? :0)

i have two papers due by the middle of the semester (which is scarily right around the corner!) one is 5 pages long on cloned food (for my environmental science class) and one is for my history of psych class- 10 pages on Freud- :0( that is one long paper. these are the times i am glad i am good at bs :0)

in about another 4 months D and i should be almost completely paid up with our bills- that my friends is the best feeling in the world! after that we can move on to more important things in life- a house, kids, and of course just enjoying each other- not like we don't do that everyday <3 onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipIKigCVTtEVX8qLPdwNd5hgTSj-YZ4adRiUt40kvhESlx7ffGTjZtCC2-wascVG3q5BrCJ7zy9lYCYziJWMjNo1VJsy2_RTsbKDddC4BOdnc5OPyU3M89eElTk85Yx1Hfy6P1tH28ECY/s1600-h/P1010969.JPG">this is me and hubby's unbelievably talented and slightly big boned kitty dexter dressed up in a space suit- yea he was mad :0)













i love this picture- i really think it captures dexter's love for the costume- peta doesn't have this blog site do they?











this is dexter trying oh so desperately to escape this suit- doesn't he just look defeated?

















this is how wonderful my husband is- he got us into the penguin exhibit at the zoo so i could pet the penguins! this is what he likes to call my duck face- why duck face i have no idea- don't i look awesome with penguins?









enjoying myself in all that is penguin :0)


















my fabulous dance moves julia! :0) what were we doing?
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and finally my one and only shot of the night- this is the face i make- very elegant! :0)www.mthreestudio.com
happy monday everyone! <3

Dear Mr Valentine, Please Bring Me Some Good News

so this Valentines Day has not been like most- in fact i'm not really much in the Valentines Day mood. I don't say this to sound like a debbie downer- in fact i don't want to be- not at all. I love Valentines Day- i love the little conversation hearts that i eat waaaaaaaaaaay to many of, i love the fact i don't need an excuse to eat a ton of chocolate, and most of all i love being with hubby because i feel that without him days like this would mean nothing- no day in my life would be the same without him.

i just wish that things would start going our way- i mean, we have had A LOT of bad news in the past couple of days- things i cannot blog about now probably will when it is all said and done. i want to feel like our life is going forward- i hate the phrase " one step forward, two steps back"- why is that fair? sometimes i just don't get how life works- or how the things that happen to us could possibly happen- isn't their a limit as to how much two people can handle and take on?

well i am trying my best to put myself in good spirits- tonight D and i are going out to Benihana's- I LOVE BENIHANA'S!!!! We are actually celebrating our 6 month anniversary- we have been married 6 months! can you believe that? i can't - it seriously feels like i just walked down the aisle a month ago! i look overall at my life and realize that even though i probably don't have everything i have always wanted (who does) does not mean that hubby and i won't get there- we will build a great life together- we have already started! i look at our small apartment, ever mounting pile of bills, and of course our hectic work schedules and i realize that it won't be like this forever- something is bound to change. If there is a Valentine Fairy could you just do one thing for me? Bring us some luck- some positive change,- show us a sign in the right direction, please? this is really all i can ask for- and i sometimes even feel selfish asking for things- but i feel like what we need right now more than anything is support- support to get through all of this crap so we can move on to better things. i know it will happen somedays i just get really tired of sitting and waiting, ya know?

well girls i am off to work- then off for some fabulous hibachi- leave me kind words- D and i could both use them right about now!

Have a wonderful Valentines Day with your significant others- i leave you with a picture of me and my love- i encourage you all to do the same- look at the happy times because life can't always be what you want it to be- it is important to remember what brought you here and what will bring you through- trust me it helps! :0)
photo by www.mthreestudio.com