V-Day Music Day 3.

What's a Valentine's celebration without a little boy band vocal?

A friend of mine shared this link with me last night, and after listening to it for the 4,398,789th time this morning, I figured it needed to be officially added to the V-Day playlist.

"What Makes You Beautiful" by One Direction

Speaking of boy bands, I'll just go ahead and share with you my favorite boy band love songs.

"As Long As You Love Me" by Backstreet Boys

"Shape of My Heart" by Backstreet Boys

and even though I totes loved BSB waay more than Nsync, I'll go ahead and post one of my favorites from the ramen noodle-haired JT and his buddies.

"God Must Have Spent" by Nsync

Now go grab those boy-band CD's you so dearly loved once, and download them onto your iPhone. These *belong* on your V-Day playlist!

Hey, Febs!

On the outside I'm not your average girly-girl. I prefer sneakers over high heels. I play video games and watch sporting events. I have more sports bras than I have jewelry, and the list just goes one, people.

But as tough a girl as I am, I'm a pretty big sucker for the lovey-dovey month of February. I think it's one of the things my husband still can't figure out about me.

"Honey, I know we watch ESPN every night before bed, and that I sit through your 2-hour playing time of HALO without complaining, but can we get some flowers, chocolates, and The Notebook in here every now and then???"

I can't exaggerate, though. He does a great job of "keeping the romance alive" in our relationship, but now that it's February, I plan on pulling out the "V-DAY" excuse on him once or twice this month when he grabs the TV remote, or turns on the XBOX.

But for serious.... I'm a typical romantic woman, and I am not ashamed of it!

I bawl over stories of people in love, young and old. Two elderly couples holding hands while walking gives me chills.

or even chick-flicks (and not just rom-com's) like Titanic, The Time Traveler's Wife, and Pride & Prejudice can make me tear up and give the hubs an extra amount of lovin'

and now that my Christmas music has been put back into the external hard drive until mid-November, I've got those love ballads and Whitney Wanna-Be's playing non-stop for the month of February.

Ahh.... love songs. Aren't they just wonderful. Hey, check out this song I ran across yesterday:

"Oh, Darling" by Plug in Stereo

*tear*

Rachel

Requests

I can successfully pull out 18 pushups in 50 seconds. We're talking nose to ground push-ups, people. Not but 5 months ago I could barely do 4 of these.... and now I've doubled, no, tripled, no... I've more than quadrupled my upper body strength!

That deserves a smiley face: :)

In other news: Art and I haven't been eating so great since the new year. We're making adjustments in our life right now, and cooking has been put on my back-burner (Art's dropped the ball on his exercise, but a good wife probably shouldn't nag on him about it). With cooking being the last thing on my mind, we've managed to rack up a decent bill on our eating-out fund. Nothing too bad since I do work for Sonic, but still.... fast food doesn't look great on your body, and especially not Sonic fast food.

Anyways, I'd really like to try out some new recipe's for February. Since it is the famous "love month" I guess I should re-open the kitchen to win some extra wife-points. I've been using Pinterest for some delish-looking plates, but I just can't seem to find something that looks good.

Please... any ideas??

Pik-chaas

No laptop means no uploading of our pictures. I've been horrible at taking pictures since our honeymoon, anyway, so there aren't a lot of post-wedding photos to be shared, but I figured it would be nice to share with you all the happenings of our, currently, 4-month marriage:

BBQ with Art and his work buddies

Boy, these guys can be a hoot when they get together!

Sarai, my dear friend, got married, and I was a bridesmaid

(excuse the messy photo, Art took this one.)

Our first Holiday together

Doesn't Art look soooo happy to be taking this picture???

One of my personal favorites since our wedding photos.

A date night out together New Years Eve.

So, I hope you guys had a great Fall and a wonderful holiday season. Now it looks like our next big event will be when I finally get a call about the border job.

Raquel

Aaaaaaannnnndddd....

I'm back!!

Boy, has it been a long while since I've been on this blog. **taps mouse several times** "Is this thing on? Can anyone see this?"

So why the long hiatus?? Well, the screen on my old, yet dearly loved, laptop went out on me a few months ago. With our financial situation, it took me this long to finally save up some money to buy a used, but new-to-me, laptop. Since then, I've used my handy iPhone - which, I believe, is the reason why I didn't lose my mind completely during this laptop-less time.

So, now that I'm back... What's new? Considering we've turned the corner of 2011 and are now heading down 2012, I find it appropriate to give you some of my favorite #hashtags of other people's 2012 resoultions:

@mijastreets -- "Being a better Christian, a better example, and an overall better person"

@shaycarl -- "Don't gain 100 pounds!!!"

@talda -- "Less stripes in my wardrobe. Guess I'll have to start shopping somewhere else besides Old Navy."

@I_amCat -- "This year in #2012 I would love to find that lil sock troll that steals all my matching socks!"

@BrittanyMarie88 -- "I wanna be in the center of a flash mob this year."

@Theirlittlerose -- "READ THE WHOLE BIBLE"

@victoriaannv -- "Clean my car"

@andrewhawk242 -- "BBQ more often!"

@salazardanielle -- "Learn how to boil an egg and make a grilled cheese sandwich."

@hotbars_TMK -- "Not shave at all this year"

@tierralynn -- "Better wife, better mother, better me: which means a healthier and more active me.

And with that, I will stop writing this blog and begin to fall in love all over again with my (new) laptop. *smiles*

Raquel