a week...

yes, i have officially been on hcg for a week! go me!! to be honest after the two loading days, the next two days i very much considered quitting because this diet is so much harder than i thought it would be! luckily, i stuck with it and now i am down to 163!! from my starting weight of 169.8.. i am almost seven pounds lighter! if you count from after my two loading days of getting up to 173, i have lost ten!! pretty crazy if you ask me! although, i am definitely loving the way i look and feel! this is the weight i got to shortly after rey and i got married and i was at this weight for like a month! oh, and on top of the weight lost i have also lost inches!! i have lost 3 inches off my waist, an inch of my thigh, about half an inch on my upper arm, and an inch of my bust. the only place that i haven't lost any weight is hips.. so kind of sad! i guess i am just destined to always have the huge womanly hips! as of right now my only complaint would be my bust! i would seriously like to lose more inches there.. to be honest, with my waist shrinking and my bust staying the same i am starting to look a little unproportionate! i tried on the shirt that my friend melissa and i are going to wear to our guy's homecoming, and it's a formfitting t-shirt and it kind of looks like i got a boob job or something with my small waist and big boobs! so hopefully we get some changes there.. haha!

soooo, the other thing i wanted to mention in my bloggy blog today is something that i was thinking about before i went to sleep. you know how sometimes right before you fall asleep you start thinking of something.. well this is what i was thinking of! for those of you that actually keep up with my blog you will remember a blog where i vented about so many girls complaining about being away from their man and one of them was complaining about being away from him for one night.. looking back on that i feel pretty lame! i mean, i remember the days when rey was training and had to be away for a week or two, and no matter what.. that always stunk! yeah, maybe the one night thing i still find a little pathetic, but once i start realizing that she probably isn't used to him being away that was probably really tough on her! i guess what got me thinking about all this is, i read this one marine wife's blog where she lost her husband due to the war in afghanistan not too long ago, and on top of that she gave birth to a little girl while he was deployed as well. how lucky am i to know that rey is going to come home safe and sound to me.. yes, seven months sucks super hardcore, and sure, i may not get to hear from him very much, but at least it is something! i think we all just need to realize no matter how long they are going to be away, that somebody will always have it worse than us, and as much as it sucks and as hard as it is to be away from our men, we just need to realize that we are so lucky that they are safe, and if you can call or text them feel blessed for that because so many people don't have that luxury! yes, i'm sure i'll find myself getting annoyed when i see girls posting posts like that on facebook, but i am definitely going to try and remember, that at least rey is safe and i will get to see him! the last time i checked i think my donut of misery was to 39% left.. so in less than three months rey and i will be back together and it will never ever be this hard again!!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

HAPPY!!

yay!! this week continues to be a good week!! first off i am chugging along on the whole hcg thing! honestly, i have no idea how people do this multiple times.. this will definitely be a one time thing for me, but so far it seems to be working!! my start off weight was 169, and in my two loading days i got up to 173 since i was told that you wanted to gain some weight since that would help you! well the first day i actually started the diet i went down to 168, and today i weighed in at 166, so i'm down three pounds from my starting weight! so yeah, good times!! hopefully i continue to lose like a pound a day! i would definitely be happy with that! anywayssss.. on to the super happy news! so the past few days when i have talked to rey at night he mentioned how he could possibly be picking up on october 1st, but he didn't seem all that sure! well, today i got an e-mail from some higher up and he talked about all the dudes that have picked up rank so far, and said how rey will be picking up on october 1st, which makes me think it is for sure going to happen! not only that, but they attatched some pictures and guess who was featured in his very own picture!! yep!! NALDO!! to top it all off.. next to the picture the person wrote "this warrior should be a cpl.. just saying".. and that was by some high up dude in charge.. which is pretty awesome!



yep, that up there is the first picture i have seen of rey since he deployed.. which means OVER FOUR MONTHS! he has told me before that he shaved his head.. and i can't say i'm a fan.. but the fact alone that i got to see him makes it totally okay!! hopefully he grows it back out before he gets back... haha! anyways.. i think that is all!! tata!!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

a good week..

can i just tell you how much i am loving this week?! i know that it has only just begun.. but already it's just been a good week and i forsee the rest of the week going just as good! yesterday was awesome because when i went to work i found out that there was some david archuleta private concert going on and we had to make food for it, so instead of it being a boring monday where i just clean stuff to keep busy, i was kept busy the entire shift making pizzas! then, the managers came around asking if anybody actually wanted to go to the little concert, and i of course said yes! to be honest i hadn't heard much of david's music, but i loved him on idol and he truly seems like a good sweet kid, and that alone made me want to go and see him! i think people are crazy since only me and two other chicks in the entire theatre decided to go! i was only five freaking rows away from david!! how cool is that? i think he ended up singing four songs and all of them were awesome!! one of my favorite moments of the whole entire thing happened before he sang one of his songs and i actually found the video on youtube!! woot!



basically that whole first minute before he sings he kills me! it just shows how adorable he is! seriously, i wish this kid was my little brother! annnnyways! after he finished performing they said we could go and take a picture with him! of i course jumped on it! the picture turned out horrible! but it was still awesome to say hi and meet him!



once again, i have no idea what happened to my face.. but i think i was just so excited!! so anyways!! that was that... and then today franny and i finished our glee marathon of the whole first season and got to watch the season two premiere! man i love that show!! soooo awesome! also, tomorrow is my second favorite show, survivor.. and yeah! isn't it sad how shows make me happy? oh wells! also, i have officially started my hcg diet thing, although i definitely don't feel like i have started since i've been cramming my face with food all day! everyone that has done it has told me i need to eat as much as i can because it will make me feel better, but seriously.. ugh!! i think all this food eating has made me excited to not eat much! so yeah! those have been my few good days and i'm looking forward to continuing this trend! i figure it should go pretty well since tomorrow will be the official four month mark of rey being gone! i seriously can't believe it has been that long, but i am so thankful that i have less than three months left! i think the last time i checked my donut of misery i only had 42% left of this deployment!! LOVE it!! so yeah, i think that's it!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

i gave in..

yes folks! i gave in! i am going to go and try the whole hcg craze! the funny thing is, like a year ago i was dead set against it.. and actually, to this day i'm still not sure it's the safest thing in the world, but my sister-in-law has talked me into it! in about a year's amount of time my sis-in-law has lost close to eighty pounds and has kept it off and she has read all the books on it and why it works and blah blah blah and has convinced me to give it a try. the one thing that freaks me out at this point is generally down the road with things like this you see things about how people get cancer and heart problems and blah blah blah, but my sis-in-law has done a pretty good job of convincing me it's safe, which to some point kind of makes sense since hcg is what is in pregnant chicks.. anyways.. i'm kind of freaking myself out so i shall just stop now! haha!

okay, so i should be getting my hcg stuff in the mail either today or tomorrow and i think i'm going to start on tuesday! i haven't decided yet if this is good or bad yet.. but this will mean i will be on the maitenance part this thing on halloween, which means no halloween candy! as of right now that seems good since i tend to eat waaaaay too much halloween candy, but i have a feeling when halloween time actually comes i will be a bit sad.. although at this point i'm pretty set on losing the weight! i had originally planned on losing the weight by going to the gym, but honestly, a pass was far too expensive and after work i was just too tired. right now i'm hoping that once i lose some weight i will feel more motivated to eat healthy and exercise to mantain the weight i will have lost. rey has lost over 30 pounds on the ship and personally i don't want him to come home to a tubby wife! i know he wouldn't care, but for me i would just rather him come home to a healthy wife.. basically i think it would be more for me! since rey has been gone i know i have gained five or more pounds, and i hate it! pretty much after my freshman year of snow college i lost some weight! i got a gym pass and had a personal trainer for awhile and for me i felt i was looking pretty good and generally stayed at an average of 165. when rey and i got married the stress of everything put me up to 168, which kind of sucked, since who wants to be at their heaviest in quite a while for their wedding?! anyways! after i moved to california.. i'm not exactly sure how it happened but i just dropped all the weight and went down to 162! i pretty much stayed that weight for quite awhile.. basically until rey's deployment work-up really went into effect and once again i think i gained stress weight since i tend to be a stress eater! so basically.. i think i am up to 172 right now.. so basically i'm not a happy camper and i can feel myself going up in dress sizes and i just don't like it! i think i'm actually getting to the weight i was at in high school! not cool! so basically i'm really hoping this hcg thing works and i can get down to a decent size.. heck.. i'd be fine with only getting down to 160, since when in cali and i got down to that size i felt pretty comfortable with it! either way.. i hope this works!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

have you forgotten?!

i will never ever forget the people that lost their lives that day, and the families that lost their love ones and had to carry on without them.. i will never forget those that have lost their lives due to this war, nor will i forget their friends and families. i could never even imagine what any of them have have ever had to go through and i pray every day that i never will have to. when i think back to how ignorant i was before i married rey it almost makes me sick. yes, whenever i heard about a military member's death i'd be like 'oh that's sad.. that sucks,' but now, my heart absolutely breaks and i feel so indebted to them for making the ultimate sacrifice and my heart also breaks for the friends and family who now have to go on every single day with the knowledge that they wont ever get to see, hear, or talk to that person until the next life. yes, sometimes i too feel like this war is unnecessary, but it makes me sick to see all those people that don't support our soldiers and our troops and have rallys and all that horrible stuff. these are men and women who have families that miss and think about them every single day yet they go so unappreciated! my challenge is to think more about those men and women who serve our country, and remember them in your prayers each and every night because they could definitely use them, as well as your support no matter what your opinions on the war may be! also, next time you see a man or woman in uniform to go up and thank them for their service..

peace in the middle east,
kristen

oh one tree hill...

for those that know me really well they know i LOVE the show one tree hill. back in the day i was pretty obsessed and it was my all time favorite show that i got quite a few people addicted to, such as some of my sis in laws, my snow college roomies which in the end got the whole entire snow college girls basketball team addicted! yep, i love the show.. yes, slowly i have found other shows that i like more, but i think i will always have a special place for that show in my heart! well, the past few days i have been watching reruns on soap net and that is where i got the quote that is on my banner on top.. well i was just barely watching an episode and at the end this was said.. and i absolutely loved it!

"At this moment there are 6,470,818,671 people in the world. Some are running scared. Some are coming home. Some tell lies to make it through the day. Others are just not facing the truth. Some are evil men, at war with good. And some are good, struggling with evil. Six billion people in the world, six billion souls. And sometimes... all you need is one."

i love the end of that quote, because i find that so true right now! i can be in a room full of people yet without rey i just feel so alone. sometimes i just need my naldo!! i love him so much and just the littliest bit of contact can make my day so amazing! i seriously cannot wait for rey to get home! i can't wait to just do the little things like cuddle on the couch and watch tv, or hold hands, or go to the movies together.. heck, i just can't wait to have a real phone call with him where i can talk to him for as long as i want and not have to worry about when we will have to say goodbye! i am so ready for this deployment to be over.. but luckily it's all downhill from here.. so i think i can do it!!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

day thirty

day thirty: whatever tickles my fancy

first off, new layout!! woot woot! i actually heard the quote on my banner on one tree hill today and i thought it was an awesome line and i totally feel the same way, so it is now the new tagline of my blog, woot! secondly, i seriously can't believe that this is day thirty! actually, i should have been done a few days ago, but since work got kind of crazy for a little while there i didn't have time to blog, so i guess this shows even more that time is moving at a decent pace for me. yes, i would be happy if it decided to go by a little bit faster, but i'll take it! last time i checked my donut of misery (a little countdown thingy that shows how much you have gone through and how much you have left in percentages,) it was at 49% left but i'm thinking it has to be around 47-48% now, which of course means everything from this point is downhill! i'm getting so so so close to being with my husband and i couldn't be more excited! almost to the four month mark which means i'll only have three months left! yay!!

okay, so in my last post i talked about an awesome story so here goes.. here is the story of how larry h miller tried to screw me out of 5,000 dollars! well, there was this larry h miller 500 used car sale so me and my dad went since i was in the market for a car! well, we get introduced to our sales guy who has this charming and adorable southern accent, but of course the longer amount of time we spent with him it slowly disappeared.. anyways, that is besides the point, but i think this is a good way to show that this guy is already one big shiesty liar! anyways, as we are walking around my dad mentions that my husband is military and he's like 'oh awesome, you'll get a military discount, and then my dad is like actually she works for a larry h miller company as well, and then he's all 'oh then you'll get the larry h miller discount that is a lot better.' so yeah, at that point i was pretty stoked. at first i was planning on paying the whole car off but the dealer and my dad convinced me to do the whole payment thing since when you buy a house they want to see a long term monthly payment on something big.. so i gave in and decided to go a little higher than i was originally planning! well, i saw my car and immediately fell in love! it was super purdy and a perfect first car for us! on the windshield it was advertised as 11,991.. and then on the side said that normally it's 13,900.. so it was a good sale! so this of course made me want the car even more! i actually have amazing credit, a 780, but since i only make 8.50 an hour at the moment i needed a co-signer so my dad decided he'd co-sign! oh, and real quick, my dad noticed a couple of scratches on the front and back and the guy is all 'well fix that for you' okay, so we start signing all the paperwork and we ask about the larry h miller discount and he's all 'we are actually selling these cars for as low as they go so we can't give you a discount but we'll give you some things for free,' so at the moment i was pretty satisfied with that!

okay, so at that point in time i was happy, but then rey asked me about registration for the car so i went and started looking through the paperwork and realized that they did not charge me the 11,991 that they said, they charged me the 13,900.. so basically over 14,000 at this point and almost 15,000 with all the taxes and crap! yeah, not cool!! so pretty much for two days we kept being told we needed to talk to somebody else.. and finally yesterday my dad got a hold of the right guy and my dad told him the whole story about how this guy said we could get a larry h miller discount but then told us we couldn't and blah blah blah! well, obviously they felt bad! oh real quick.. i realized i forgot to finish the scratches story.. when i was signing paperwork he tried to get me to sign this paper that nothing was promised and i was like what about the scratches, and then he was like 'oh yeah, i forgot,'... which i know he didn't.. he was just trying to get out of it. anyways.. okay, so the guy felt bad and gave me the actual larry h miller discount price which on a used car is $500 more than they bought it for, so i got it for 10,800.. which is 1,100 less than what i was originally told that i was going to pay.. so pretty excited about that.. but we also came to find out that he charged us for all of the things he said he would give for free for 'my larry h miller discount'. in the end they are giving my dad some free mp3 player thing for his car and they are doing my scratches for free.. so now i am very happy with it all since i love my car.. but honestly that was soooooo unbelievably stressful!

so yeah! i hope that all made sense.. if not.. oh well!!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

day twenty-nine

day twenty-nine: hopes, dreams, and plays for the next 365 days!

hmm.. i guess my number one thing is rey's homecoming! i honestly can't wait to be back with my husband and finally feel whole and complete again. i really truly just want to be with him and live like a normal married couple! i know it seems kind of crazy to want to have a kid when our life seems fairly uncertain due to rey getting out of the marine corps in october 2011, but rey and i really can't wait to start our little family so possibly getting preggo would be welcomed as well. i remember my mom once saying that if you put your trust in God everything will work out, so if we are blessed to have a baby then that would be amazing. honestly, i don't care if rey and i have just enough to get by, as long as we have our family and are happy that is all that matters... so i guess the number one thing that i want above all else is just to be happy.. and as long as i have rey in my life i think that will all come true! i would like to add rey getting out of the marine corps and him going to school and us getting decent paying jobs, but since that is over a year away that will just have to wait! so yeah, the end! tomorrow is my last day and it is whatever tickles my fancy and boy do i have a story for you..i could easily just type it out now, but i will let you wait in anticipation.. ahahahaha!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

day twenty-eight

day twenty-eight: my year in great detail

okay, so i'm not gonna lie.. earlier i was super pumped and all ready to blog and then my blogger thing wouldn't work.. but now that it's working i'm sleepy and just not in the mood to blog.. but since i have already fallen behind i feel as though i should.. so here goes!

September 2010: well, i already blogged about this month so you should already know about my new car! woot! i can't remember if i blogged this or not but rey got marine of the week on his ship which i am super proud of him for! i wish i could say that he was promoted to corporal but since the marine corps has screwed him once again that didn't happen.

August 2010: um.. after rey left all the months have sort of blended together and august was mostly spent working.. so yeah!

July 2010: pretty much the same as August.. my brother's family from Idaho did come down for the 4th and that was pretty fun.. other than that.. just work!

June 2010: i started work during the middle of this month and i have to say that just about saved me! from my experience with these two deployments i have learned that the first month is always the hardest and this made everything a lot easier to deal with since it somewhat took my mind off of rey being gone.

May 2010: this month was both an amazing month and a sad month all at the same time! rey got his pre-deployment leave from may 1st-11th and that was by far some of the best times we have had since being married. for once we got to act like a real couple and didn't have to worry about him going to work and it was just me and him the whole time. yes, we did slowly pack up our apartment little by little, but we got to do things like the price is right, and celebrate our one year anniversary, ( a month early might i add). sadly, he did have to go back to work and we prepared even more for rey's deployment! he ended up leaving may 22nd and i have to say that definitely tops my list of saddest days ever.. there is nothing more horrible than saying goodbye to your husband for seven long months not really knowing when you will hear from them next.

April 2010: this month was pretty much spent getting ready for deployment.. the worst part of it was rey spent two weeks on the ship practicing and training for the real thing.. so pretty darn sad!! oh, also both rey's mom and his dad's family came to visit, each for a couple of days! it was fun for him to have his family there... but of course when rey finally gets a day off it's the day that the dad is there.. so we didn't even really get to enjoy it the way we would have liked

March 2010: same thing as april.. just trying to spend as much time with each other as possible in between all of rey's ship training and weekend training!

February 2010: so let's see.. rey and i finally got to spend a valentines day together!! yay!!! even though we had been together since 2008 the first one rey was in cali and i was in utah, and the second one rey was deployed so we were pretty excited! we both picked out a box of chocolates for each other and rey surprised me on valentines day with some flowers, some perfume and lotion, and a pair of usmc sweat pants! i know we went out to dinner that night but i can't remember where.. somewhere awesome i am sure, and then went and saw the movie valentines day! best v-day ever!!

Janurary 2010: not gonna lie, this month sucked! we had just spent two weeks together in utah with family and then we had to come home and get thrust into rey's deployment training.. pretty much as soon as they got back they started working longer hours, more weekends, and started going out on the ship every two weeks for two weeks at a time! not fun!!

Decemeber 2009: so, to start this month out rey was in twentynine palms doing training so i was back in utah with my family! since my b-day is december 4th i went to dinner with two of my bestest friends, vanessa and laura, and then afterwords we met up with more of my friends at my house for games and cake! to top it all off i got a phone call from rey.. definitely not my ideal birthday.. but pretty good considering the circumstances! also, i went to the forgotten carols with my friends vanessa and katie, one of my favorite holiday traditions! i seriously can't wait until i can some day take rey! finally rey's training ended and i flew to california for a week, and then we drove to utah together for rey's christmas leave! it was super fun and we got to do both christmas parties with both mine and rey's side of the family, and of course got to spend our very first christmas together! it was actually pretty funny too because rey and i must have gotten a little excited about it being our first christmas since we bought each other a ton of presents and were still opening ours long after every one else finished! we also got to spend our first new years together as well! we went to a little party at his dad's house but they celebrated it at 10:00 so we left a little after ten and celebrated our new years snuggling in bed watching a movie! not too exciting, but a super perfect way to spend ones new years!

November 2009: Um.. well, rey hasn't celebrated a thanksgiving in the 3 years he has been in and will miss it again this year, but since he knew he was going to be in twentynine palms during thanksgiving we had our own celebration and made one huge turkey with all the trimmings such as potatos, stuffing, yams, rolls, pie.. the whole shebang! it was awesome, but of course i had to go to utah.. this time however i had chloe which made things a tad bit more difficult since rey and i didn't trust me driving the truck alone. luckily i have this awesome friend named miksexy aka mikaele.. she came with her boyfriend (now fiance) and picked me up and drove me home! woot!

October 2009: Rey has known pretty much since he first met me that i have always wanted a pug and since he knew he was going to miss my birthday yet again he decided to get me a little puppy as an early birthday present and so this is the month in which i recieved my cute little chloe! also, rey and i got to spend our first halloween together and it was pretty exciting! we decorated our door and bought tons of candy hoping that kids would stop by! sadly we only got like 3 groups of trick or treaters.. but i will never forget how excited rey looked when some kids knocked on our door! i can still remember being all snuggled up on the couch watching ice age and waiting.. such an awesome halloween!

okay.. so that's my year in as much detail as i can remember!! enjoy!!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

day twenty-seven

day twenty seven: my past month in great detail

first off to my faithful readers, (all 4-9 of you haha) sorry for being mia, but work has just been crazy! i just finished working a week straight with sunday finally being my day off, but with church and my nephew's birthday party it was a hardly a day off! so yeah, basically i have had no time because when i wasn't working i had stuff i needed to get done or i was just too tired!

actually, right now i am pretty tired, but i shall try my best to remember what all happened to me this past month! so let's see.. most recently i got a car! yep, a shexy new red kia.. i'm stuck between the names of sally and candy... i think i need to drive her a tad bit more before i can finally decide which name suits her best! so far she is already sporting my deployment flag and i ordered an "i love my marine" sticker. in california that tends to be lame and puts you into the "boot" category, or just super moto, but since i'm in utah for the time being i figure it will work just fine! plus, rey is only going to have ten months left in after he gets back from this deployment so i really just don't care!! okay, let's see.. what else.. obviously rey's whole not getting promoted thing.. lots and lots of work and sleep.. and to be honest i think that's it! with rey not being here i swear my days just blend together! um.. i guess i ordered my homecoming shirt and homecoming banner.. yes, a tad bit early considering i'm just barely past the halfway mark, but i'm just far too excited!

anyways.. i am sleepy and have a stupid headache that wont go away.. so for now that is all!

peace in the middle east,
kristen

day twenty-six

day twenty six: my week in great detail

okay, first off.. the old noggin just aint what it used to be.. i actually think april rhodes said that quote on an episode of glee, but still it rings true to me.. especially since these days i just work, sleep, eat, and get on the computer so most of my days all blend together.. so bear with me as i try to remember.. i think the easiest way to do this is go back day by day.. so that's the way i'm going to do this.. oh and its probably not going to be that detailed.. sorry kids!

today thursday 9/2: i of course woke up and then made my way to work where i worked from 10:30-4:15. after work i came home to find a letter from my favorite missionary ever, vanessa riggs! can i just tell you how happy that made me?! super happy i tell ya! then dave and i made our way to the larry h miller 500 used car sale thing.. where we got a very suave gentleman named andy! i told him that i wanted to pay it all up front so i wouldn't have to worry about payments and then he went on to explain how it's going to look better on my credit score when i try to buy a house to have an auto loan, which actually i have heard of before.. he then explained a smart way to do it.. actually.. a lot of it went over my head, but my dad was there who happens to be a very smart finacial guy who agreed with andy and said it was the smartest way.. sadly i did go over what rey and i had planned.. but with the way he explained it it just made sense.. so hopefully rey isn't mad at me tonight! haha! actually when i explain it to him i think he'll be cool with it! so i guess i am now the proud owner of a 2008 kia spectra! she's very adorable and has all the features i wanted! after buying my new baby i came home, ate me some grub and then here i am!!

yesterday wednesday 9/1: basically i wrote most of it all out yesterday, but last night i also got the BESTEST news ever!! rey got marine of the week on his ship, which means he gets to go to all the front of the lines among other things, and my all time favorite.. tonight he gets to get on the computer for an hour, which will be sooo nice so we can chat about the car! plus, he told me that his gunny told him that no matter when he gets promoted and they get it all worked out it will be backdated to sept. 1st so basically he's a cpl now without all the goodies that come along with it, including the title!

tuesday 8/31: basically.. i worked 10:30-4:15.. came home.. probably did some facebook.. watched me some teen mom and then got online and waited to talk to rey.. of course facebook chat that night had to be ridiculous and it wouldn't work for him.. so basically all in all a pretty lame day!

monday 8/30: basically like tuesday, but i did get to talk to rey and thats where he told me about him not getting promoted and i'm not gonna lie, that really depressed me.. so a very very sucky day!

sunday 8/29: woke up, showered and then went to church! not gonna lie! i love me some church! it always makes you feel so good, plus i love counting down sundays so i can be closer to being home with rey! sadly, this was my one sunday a month that i had to go in and work so i worked 4-close! after work i came home.. facebooked and honestly i can't remember if i talked to rey or not!

saturday 8/28: i surprisingly had this saturday off and basically i used it to be super lazy! woke up late and then watched stupid lifetime movies! around six my parents got out of the temple and i went with them to dinner at golden corral. normally i mainly just hit up the salad bar there since they have this amazing ranch and i'm not a fan of their meat section but it was shrimp night.. so yeah, i was pretty stoked! after that i came home for awhile and then ended up going over to my friend laura's house for an hour or so and scrapbooked! gotta love some scrapbook!

friday 8/27: okay so my days are all mixed up and i realized i may have done the scrapbooking on friday.. hmmm! oh well i'm too lazy to fix it! either way it was just a laaaazy day as well! anyways.. i'm sick of remembering so this is the end! haha!

day twenty-five

day twenty-five: my day in great detail

okay, so let's see! i work up, took chloe outside for her morning duties, and then came back inside and got ready for work! since i was running a little late since chloe took a little longer to do her duties i grabbed a breakfast drink, and to be honest i may do that more often! it was super filling and super easy! i then headed to work, and i'm not going to lie! suuuuuuper boring! today was a super slow day and i worked in the ice cream and gelato place and only made $35! yeah, i didn't even make what they paid me... so sucks to be jordan commons! oh, on my break i got a grilled cheese crepe! those things are yummy and decently priced! the crepe is only 3.50 and you can go next door to pizza hut and get a thing of marinara for free to dip it in.. it's kind of like a weird version of grilled cheese and tomato soup! so besides my crepe the only good thing that came out of work was that two people asked me to take their shifts so in all i will be working five shifts this week.. and one of those days i will be getting time and a half.. so i'm pretty stoked for that paycheck already! so let's see.. after work i came home and found a letter from rey! first off, can i just say how much i loved getting a letter at the exact time i needed it! the past two days have been quite depressing since first i got the bad news and then facebook chat wouldn't work so i didn't get to talk to him, and then to have a letter sitting there waiting for me when i came home feeling like crap just brightened and made my day awesome! i love when stuff like that happens! anyways, the letter was so adorable! pretty much the whole thing was about how he couldn't wait to start a family with me and talked about how he wrote our future kids a letter about how much he loves them already and how he can't wait to be their dad in his journal! i mean is that not the cutest thing ever?! he also talked about some of his favorite moments with me and blah blah blah! i just love this man sooo much! plus, to top it all off he made a secret puzzle which i honestly have no idea what it means or how to do it, but the fact that he did it just cracks me up! what a silly husband i have!! so, i mentioned in my last post how i bought a ton of stuff for rey's package and last night i packed it all up, but for some reason i was just too lazy to take it to the post office.. we'll just call it pure laziness i guess.. but i'm definitely going to send it tomorrow. so after deciding to be lazy i played solitaire on my iphone for awhile while franny made hawaiin haystacks! super tasty! i am seriously going to make that when rey gets back because they are super easy to make and tasty as well! after dinner i felt super tired and so chloe and i came up to my room, but instead of sleeping i ended up buying (oops) the monopoly iphone app and played that for awhile! totally worth the dollar it cost! i won by the way! after that franny, dave, chloe, and i went outside and let chloe play around in the yard and just talked! also, can i just say how nice it felt to not be in super hot sweating weather, i was almost to the point where i needed to go grab a hoodie.. man i love hoodie weather! anyways.. after that i came in and decided to write this.. so that's my day! super exciting right?!

peace in the middle east,
kristen