this picture is from December.  i just thought of it today when the sky pushed out its last little pook of snow for the season.  It is still fairly cold outside but the wind is picking up, which means spring in central Washington.  And the hundreds of robins pecking around are a nice hint, too.  This quarter of school is over and my finals are this week.  I'll be registering for classes tomorrow for the coming quarter, which starts on the 30th. 

I need to set up that sewing machine.  it stares at me from under the rocking chair and begs to be set up and plugged in.  I bought three yards of fabric today to make a top and dont have a pattern yet, but i'm getting very excited about getting there, you know? 

We're looking at buying a house!  ...probably in Yakima and I will commute the thirty minutes to school.  It will be easier on Jared, too, so that he will not have to drive that half hour to work at 5 in the morning.  He falls asleep so easily and it worries me when he has to leave that early.  Poor guy gets up at 4:30 and gets home twelve hours later.  My husband is such a hard worker and I am immensely proud of him .  I can't wait to take less hours of class so that I can clean up and cook for him like I want to. 

I can't wait for SPRING!

My cycles are finally back to normal.  after years of added-hormonal onslaught, my uterus is now allowed to fully fill and cleanse itself every 28 days, no longer every 35. 

Hopefully this means it'll be easier to produce a little sea monkey zygote!

School is keeping me incredibly busy, but the study time is surely paying off with good grades and that elusive feeling of satisfaction and self-esteem.  Having twenty hours of school paired with 10 hours of studying and 20 hours of work each week is quite the day-filler, but I sleep so much better at night now.  I smile, too, thinking of finally being done with college soon and moving on to my career. 

Keeping with my 'expected' personality quips, I couldn't go very long without getting some new body modification.  Less than six months after getting my fifth tattoo I was becoming anxious without feeling some sort of pain, and my husband was aprehensive, but we decided on something reversible; a piercing.  I have always wanted a cute little nose piercing but my husband is so stacked against it that I decided to stick to the ear region.  So, and Industrial it is.  Now, adorning the entire upper portion of my left ear is this large bar spanning from the outer part of my ear to the bridge between the ear and hair.  it's really cute and I cannot wait until it heals so I can put a smaller bar in.    Funny thing is, my sister has been begging me to get a 'sister' tattoo with her.  haha.  We shall see.

I texted fifteen of my friends and asked them if I should go back to having blonde hair, and all but one, to my surprise, said "No, stay brunette we love it!"  Hmm.  If I would have known I looked this good with brown hair I would have done it a long time ago.  Nice!  and I just got a trim last week so I feel very clean and purty. :)  yays