Happy New Year!

Christmas break is over and reality is back! It was amazing to spend two whole weeks at home. All we did was eat food, watch movies, and play Rook. I regret nothing. However, our kitty's trip was not as enjoyable. The car trip wasn't too bad. He basically just cuddled with whoever was in the passenger seat, which was adorable and fun. My cats from home were not too excited to see another cat though, and were extremely territorial. Our poor kitty was also too stupid to realize that he should probably just stay away from them. So all week he continued to try and play with them and followed them around and got in multiple cat fights. I think its safe to say he is happy to be home.

As long as he was being held he was a happy camper!

Dallas and his parents and my parents got me a DSLR camera for Christmas!! It is amazing. I have no idea what I am doing but I am excited to learn. My Dad, who is really into photography, took me on a little excursion the day after Christmas and we went around Old Shasta and took some shots and I learned some of the basics. Now Dallas and I will have to go do things so I can use it! I will only be able to take so many pictures of my cat at home.

Also, just got some new tires on my car last month and it is amazing how much more fun driving in snow is! I can actually break and accelerate on the snow! Life changing guys.

School starts next week! I am so not ready... BUT! I PASSED ALL MY CLASSES! I was flabbergasted when I saw my grades. I have absolutely no idea how I managed to pass calculus. But I did! And I don't have any more math classes! Except statistics... but that doesn't count. Anyways hopefully this next semester isn't as brutal as last. We will see!

California Here We Come!

Of course a snow storm comes on the night we decided to leave. Why weather!? WHY!? Luckily we just bought new tires that handle very well in the snow. So I get to drive at night, in the snow, with a wailing cat in the back who is going to sound like a dying cow. I think I am trying to imagine the absolute worse so that I won't be overwhelmed. Just set the bar super low so that I can be relieved when the trip goes well. Dallas did take the cat to pick me up at the airport once. And that was a two hour trip with no carrier, no nothin'. It'll be fine guys. I'm sure the cat won't throw up, or poop all over the carrier... or pee on my lap... Oh gosh, so many different awful situations. I will keep you all posted.

Yesterday was our first year anniversary! We left work a few hours early and got our tires realigned (romantic) and then went to a matinee showing of Skyfall then got all dressed up and went out to Outback. After dinner we came home and cleaned the house and got all packed up! It was a great day.

My handsome husband

Is it time to go home yet!? All I want to do is get the car and cat ready to go! I got the pretrip jitters. Merry Christmas everyone! I will let you all know how the trip went and will try to document it as much as possible!

The Semester is Over!

I am finally finished with the worst semester of my life! Did I pass Calculus 2? Probably not! But it's over for now guys. Until next summer, then I will complain some more about it. I'm not really sure why I thought I could take discrete mathematics and calculus 2 in the same semester... but I don't have to worry about it anymore! Yay! I feel severely sleep deprived. And then I decided to go to the midnight showing of the Hobbit last night and be even more sleep deprived!

In a couple of days we will be on our way to Redding. So excited to spend 2 weeks at home relaxing with my family. However the car trip should be interesting. We are taking our kitty home with us because we don't want to leave him alone for 2 weeks. I am pretty sure Oreo is going to destroy our poor innocent kitty who I am pretty sure doesn't even know how to hiss. But we bought him a carrier for the trip and I think he likes it! Probably because I filled it with catnip and kitty treats... I'm sure he will love being stuck in it for 12 hours...

We went to Long Beach for Thanksgiving last month and it was spectacular. My sister hosted the most beautiful dinner.

 

 The pictures don't even do it justice. We also went to Disneyland! The first amusement park Dallas and I have been to together. It was magical. I can't wait until we go again in 2 years with my whole family and I can share the magic with my nieces and nephews. We are lame and didn't take many pictures but we do have this lovely one. As you can see my parents did not enjoy space mountain.

My Dad Rules

It's days like these that make me appreciate my Dad even more. I had a long day of classes and didn't leave campus until 9 o'clock at night and spent 7 hours studying for my calculus test tomorrow! I usually like to complain but then I just think of how hard my Dad works, and all the crazy hours he has worked in his lifetime and I realize I am being a big whimp! So buck up Kirsti. And thank you Dad for showing what its like to really work your butt off!

Side note. I came home for lunch and let the kitty outside. He dragged down a poor helpless little grasshopper and was whacking it around. After much debate I decided to rescue it from the kitty and tried to relocate it. It. Was. Terrifying. I don't understand how I was capable of sticking my hand in a cage of 20 crickets and grabbing one by the tail to feed to our lizards when I was 9. I could barely move the grasshopper that I trapped under a cup. It's little hairy legs were poking out the bottom and I got scared and dropped it once I got to the top of the stairs. Good enough! Poor grasshopper...

I love my Dad!

Oh I have a Blog?

Well it has been quite some time since my last post! I foresaw this happening... Well glorious summer is over and school has begun. It is only week one and I already feel overwhelmed. And this is going to be a tough semester, but I can do it!

I'm taking Calculus 2 from a man with the thickest Chinese accent I have ever heard. I could listen to him say the word "derivative" all day long. And my Ethics teacher has a really thick British accent, which becomes incredibly annoying when I realize that I am reading with a British accent in my head...

I have finally stared to do some programming at my work! It is pretty exciting to get do to what I love! And good to know that I actually still enjoy doing it. I feel like I have learned more in these few last weeks of work then I have in a whole semester. Crazy.

So you know how I had all these ambitious crafting goals? I have done 0. I am currently trying to muster up the confidence to re-stain the table we have. It is Dallas' greatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreat grandma's table. Maybe not that many greats... but it is very old and is a family heirloom! So I don't want to screw this up guys. I have the sander, the stain... and all the other things... but have not done it yet. It is hard too because we don't really have a good working space. I mean the sanding will be fine and I can do that outside, but I want to spray paint the legs and chairs black which I can't do in our tiny apartment, and I can't do it outside because the paint will bubble in the sun! So I am not really sure what to do...

Anyways, Dallas I had a wonderful summer and I will fill you all in later on some of the fun stuff we did!

And I promised you a picture of the adorable sleepy kitty when he steals my pillow. This is why I can't kick him off. 

He is too cute.

Summer Is Just Around The Corner

Three more weeks until school is out! This is about the time were I stop caring about homework and assignments and just want it to be over. Heh...

The best surprise was when I signed up for my summer class I saw that it doesn't start until June 22! Two months of glorious free time. The game I have been anticipating for the past 10 years comes out next months and my brother is moving into town for the summer and its just going to be great! Can't wait to play D3 with him. It will be like the old days, the two of us playing with my Dad until we realize that its now morning time and we have to get in bed before our Mom finds out we stayed up all night ;)

Dallas and I have decided to make a habit of working out with our new free time. So I am excited to have a work out buddy. I started going on runs everyday but that lasted about a week in a half... It was fun until I realized I had to keep doing it. So we will see how these next few months go. Oh how I wish I has one of the people addicted to working out. Instead I am addicted to being lazy, just like my cat. He sleeps so much! Cats sleep about 13-18 hours a day. How amazing does that sound? I wish I could be a cat for a day... lounging around sleeping where ever I wanted...

Anywho. Can't wait for these next two months! Just need this semester to be oooover.

Cleaning Machine

So it has been my spring break this week and I decided to do some major deep cleaning. I'm pretty sure this apartment has never really been cleaned, maybe swept here and there... It's just so gross and old. And in a basement... Anywho. I wasn't messin' around. I scrubbed the tile grout with a tooth brush, and a whole lotta bleach. But the floors looks amazing now! And I even painted the baseboards. This is a big deal for me. I felt like I was on HGTV or something. They were this nasty tan color and were so scraped up and dirty. But now look at them!

Before...

After!!

This was the kinda cleaning that would make my momma proud. So great! I feel so productive and so much happier being in a clean home!

Oh man I gotta tell you what I made for dinner tonight. I made baked southwest egg rolls with creamy chipotle dipping sauce. They were so yummy. Here is the link. It did involve a lot of chopping of veggies. Which takes quite a bit of time when you are using a $20 knife! I will show you the picture to tempt you even further :)