Things are moving fast!

Yes Yes, it's been a minute since I've written, what can I say? It's been an interesting past few months.

I thought I got an amazing job, wrong! Damn staffing agencies. That's how I feel about that. It was pretty cool working at the UT Investment Mgmt Co. Nice office, boring people. And then checking out a few more companies.

I think God is telling me to focus on school...I'm leaving Torrid to work at Lane Bryant, yes another totally odd decision, but when you work 4 hours a week, it's not hard to leave...plus Lane Bryant gave me more. =) Yay to me. Then I found out I qualify for financial aid for the current year! Sweet, so I can definitely start school in the summer! Oh man, I'm excited and so is Greg! Volunteering is going well, although I'm worried what this Girl Scout service unit may try to give me...one gal I talked to seemed very excited about giving me quite a few tasks...but nonetheless, I'm excited. And hanging out with my "little sister" is getting better and better!

It's odd how slowly but surely things are picking up...and slowly too. I've had a few months to adjust to spending time with my little sister. Getting adjusted to a new job is not a problem. School will come this summer and in the fall, girl scouts will pick up.

And Greg and I are amazing! We've been doing more activies. We've seen Vampire Weekend, Easy Star All Stars, walked around Lady Bird Lake, gone to whole foods and cooked nice meals together. He was very sweet on our anniversary, we couldn't afford to do much, but he put so much thought into it, I could have fell in love all over again. He bought me organic roses that he hand picked, picked up some very cute cookies at a bakery, then went to Central Market to pick up dinner, we cooked shrimp, and I believe it was Red Snapper and had a salad with a fresh baguette and cheese. It was so sweet. I can't wait for the day when we celebrate 10 years, but we'll be married by then...

Life sure is different than it was a year ago. I miss my friends, but my life is moving forward. I'm finally putting education first and I'm able to, I'm making new friends and having a blast making memories. I'm actually working retail too! It's not an office job, but it's nice to have a break and not be worried about working 7 to 5. I feel this is where God wants me to be and I'm loving that. He knows best..

Valentines Day..or week was nice =)

We started Valentines day a little bit early. We took advantage of having Saturday off the weekend before and we started the day with lunch at Annies Cafe on Congress. Really good food. Not badly priced, from there...off to get some coffee, I think i'm turning Greg into a coffee addict!! And that's where I dragged Greg to the mall, Torrid was having underwear on sale, 5 pairs for $25!! Normally $8 a pair, that was a sale I didn't want to miss...especially when you factor in employee discount! But I also bought some lingerie and a cute shirt for going out that night. I was excited!!

We made our way to a bike shop in downtown. Austin is huge on Biking because of Lance Armstrong and when the weather gets warmer, Greg and I want to take that up as a hobby. So we went into this nice shop, holy cow. The cheapest bike was like $900!! ouch! but you get what you pay for. For now, I think being novices, we need to hit up walmart prices.

Since we were near SoCo, we decided to go to Stag, which is a mens clothing shop and I just picked up Greg's Vday gift there. He wants to start dressing up more, so I got him a few cute trendy shirts..$70..Its love and oh well. Since I was buying him his gift and not waiting, we went over to Target to get some things for the house and he bought me my wii active!!! (BTW,i love it!) oooh, the day didn't stop there! We went to Cannoli Joes..which is the most evil restaurant there is! Italian food..buffet style. But we were good and had our salad to start and didn't exceed one dinner plate. For an italian place, they had some good fish.

The night had to end at Trudys where we had a few drinks and glad we had such a beautiful day together...it still brings a smile to my face thinking about it.

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On Thursday I baked cupcakes for Greg. I wasn't sure if I would be able to get him a nice gift, so I bought the mix weeks ago and decided that thursday would be my only chance to bake them without him around..bad mistake. Officially no more treats in our house..or so we think...

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We decided to celebrate valentines day on Saturday night instead of Sunday. He had school the next day. I had to work that day from 1 - 5 (I was told I'm one of the best sellers and it was going to be busy. No joke! It did not quit the whole time I was at work and yay to me, I sold over $3000!!! Boo Yah! Hahahaha. Although it did make me tired...I still had to go home, change into my cute dress and we had tickets to the movies at 6:30!!

When I was on my way home, Greg called me and told me he had surprise for me. I get home, and he had purchased us a griddle, I always told that I would prefer gifts for our house, but the Dooney and Burke purse for christmas was great too!

We made it though and the movie "Valentines Day"...save your money. It is cute, but very predictable. I wasn't that impressed...But it was more of a time killer until we could make it to a seafood place called Perlas. Wow. great food, Expensive! Our bill was over 100 and we only had a drink a piece....

The night didn't end there, but lets keep this PG. It was a good day =)

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Happy St. Valentines Day!
We wake up together and decide to use our new griddle and cook breakfast...which afterwards he gave me my card for Vday...awww, yes it made me cry, and later I gave him his which in return he had to come up to me and give me a hug...

Although I hung out with Nancy later and I brought her a cupcake, Valentines day was the best it ever could be.

**Final Thoughts**
I've seen that finding love is not an easy thing at all. And finding TRUE love is even harder. I wasn't looking for him and he wasn't looking for me, but we found each other and fell from day one and we still haven't stopped falling. Loving each other isn't easy but I look at him and know it's meant to be.

I hope everyone enjoyed their day just as much as I did.

Toxic Friends

So I bought this book awhile ago and it's seriously like a girls Bible! My thought process when I was drawn to this book was,"I seem to attract or be drawn to, girls who have some issues and aren't good friends. My last 3 best friends have all have some huge issues and I don't want to place all the blame on broken homes."

Therefore, I decided before I embark on finding friends in Austin, I should educate myself on bad friends and the ways to find them. This book is soooo good! It talkes about the friends we tolerate such as the leader, the doormat, the sacrificer, and the misery lover. As I was reading these chapters, I could figure out friends who fit these descriptions and the sad part? None of them are still in my life....I'm intrigued.

It talks about the friends we need to ditch, the User, Intimate frenemy, and the trophy friend. I haven't yet hit these chapters, but already embarking on the "user friend" chapter and wow!! I hung around someone who was exactly this for a few years!!! It gets even better because some of these people can have symptons of all types of friends.

The last part is the part I'm itching to read. The friends you keep. The mirroring friend, the sharer and the authentic friend. I can read those titles and already know that the friends who have been around in my life for quite some time already fit those titles. I'm excited to get to those chapters.

I recall reading one time that finding new girlfriends is like dating, You have to do some digging and find out their past track record before you commit. I read one time and although I've ignored it, it holds true. If a girl doesn't have any long time friends, there is a damn good reason why....oooh how true that is.

I'll let you know how the rest of the chapters follow, but always remember if you meet a girl who can't seem to hold down friends..there is a reason why....

2010 is beautiful =)

New years are always so refreshing!!! Seriously, I got rid of that heinous day job and thank goodness!! It was truly ruining my relationship!! That's pretty sad when a job is SOOO Horrible that it ruins your personal life. Not even in a "I work 80 hours a week" type of way, but just such a negative environment. I hope no one ever experiences such negativity with Overton Enterprises (what a joke).

I still have the job at torrid, but in retail you can only have soooo many hours. The discount is just too good to give up!

Since then, Greg and I have been amazing! Spending time together, furnishing our apartment and making it like a real home. I love it. We just bought a couch and it's gorgeous!! I love how everything in our apartment we've done together and it's only going to get better!!

I flew to SD for my birthday and oh my, what a busy, sleepless trip it was!! Dinner with the family when I got in, Seeing Billy and the crew, Friday morning waking up to get my hair dyed, then going out that night for ladies night (which was totally amazing and a GREAT time) and then Saturday night with the rest of my friends...The best part? Greg is thinking about moving to La Jolla when he is done with school!!! I'm so excited about that!

Life is great, making friends in austin is coming, slowly but surely. Vicki rocks! we have so much fun getting coffee. She reminds me of Dana back home. Oh the day those two meet, it's gonna be awesome!! and Then Nancy, she reminds me of a combination of Nancy back home and Gina. She's small and has so much personality!! I love it!!

Valentines day is around the corner and who knows what'll come of it!! And then our one year. We've worked so hard to keep our relationship, but I think the bottom line is that Greg and I are so madly in love, breaking up is not an option...