A Married Valentines Day

Last year we just had a low key valentines day since we were saving for the wedding. Just stayed in and I made an extravagant dinner for Tony. So this year we decided to go out and do something for our first valentines day as a married couple. Tony took on this task himself. I think he did a pretty good job. For our first activity we got dressed up and headed downtown to The Ohio Theatre. I had never been and it was gorgeous! Unfortunantely I didn't take anypics my self but here are a couple pictures of inside of the theatre. We saw Romeo & Juliet Opera. It was in french but luckily it had english subtitles which helped! Tony and I really enjoyed it.

Afterwards we went to a restaurant that was also downtown, called Deep Wood. Haha kind of a funny name.  

It was a little fancier then any places we usually eat at. But it was v-day, so we splurged. Tony had Duck and I had lamb. I had never had either. Drank some good wine and exchaged cards. It was a good time for our first Valentines day. We got to do stuff together that neither of us had ever done before. Which I think is what being a newlywed is all about! So it was a great day :)

Everyday Life

There is nothing really new going on in our lives. It seems like I go to work come home and go to sleep. It gets somewhat monotonous. We spoke with a loan officer at chase, and have finally started into the "home buying" process. That is exciting, there are just a few things we need to get in order and hopefully we will start looking soon. I am really looking forward to owning our own place. That is about it, this post was pretty lame ... sorry :( I'm hoping summer will get here soon so I can get out of the house! Starting to get cabin fever! That is all ... Jen

My first attempt at Polyvore

Black & Yellow by JenEfromthablock featuring Old Navy

First Try by JenEfromthablock featuring Falke socks

Changes

As humans nobody is perfect, some people are nicer or prettier or just plain "better". Everyone still has their personality flaws. I have always been very aware of my flaws. Whethere they are true or not. How can I fix all of these flaws? I want to lose weight, and I want to learn to save my money, and I want to dress nicer, and have nicer skin, and be a nicer person, not gossip, go back to school, get a better job. Where do you even begin? It becomes overwhelming. This is who I have been my whole life, all I can do is apoligize for what I've done wrong, and try to do better next time. How do you change "major" characteristics of your personality?

My New Years Resolution

My resolution or better yet my goal for this year, is to get out of debt. Last year it was hard to get out of debt when every penny had to go torwards the wedding. There wasn't a whole lot left over. Even when we were "saving" for the wedding we were still pretty bad about being frugal. It is hard for me to just sit in the house all day every weekend. It doesn't give much to look forward to. So we still went out and spent money and had fun. So far this year the past couple weekends I think we have done better to stay in. It's hard because I get restless but it's also so cold outside I don't really want to leave the house. So instead of ordering pizza's (a staple of ours) and watching movies we just stocked up on $3 pizza's at kroger. Saves us atleast $20. Also I have been being better at staying home and cooking and packing my lunches for work. I've added up the money we have previously spent on eating out and it is staggering! I think it is nice to do maybe once or twice a week, but it is definantely not condusive to saving. Also I have been trying to learn to talk myself out of certain purchases. When I think I have nothing to buy I always seem to come up with something I need.  There will always be something that we "need" nobody has everything. I guess I just need to prioritize. I am organizing all of our bills and have figured out our balances on all of the credit cards so we can stop paying thouse off. If we got all of those paid off that would save us a few hundred a month on monthly bills.
   Tony's resolution this year is to buy a house. Who knows when this will happen or if it will happen, but I think our goals pretty much go hand in hand. There is a bit of debt to get out of but not as much as some have aquired. We are still young, and hopefully we will learn from our revolving credit mistakes. Hoping to be first time home buyers soon!

Enjoying a long weekend

We had a great long new years weekend. I was afraid I would be at work all night long on new years eve, but we actually got out at a decent time. So we got to go out and celebrate a little. We went downtown to a little irish bar in the arena district and met up with Liz, Dave, Ashley & Jesse. It was nice to get to hang out. We didn't stay out too late, we werer probably home around 1 or a little after. The next morning tony ran to the store and stocked up on snack for new years day. We had a lazy sit on the couch kind of day. We made pigs in a blanket together, and then hung out and ate breakfast and played with our new christmas presents (still). Around 4'o clock the OSU Rosebowl game came on and we made frozen pizza and watched the game. and then watched some movies. So basically all day was spent on the couch. Just a nice relaxing day!

Saturday we went out to my dads house, and hung out ate snacks and played catch phrase for a couple of hours. It started to get heated after a few rounds so we gave up eventually.  Then just visited for a little bit longer and then headed home. I was exhauseted for some reason and was in bed by 10.

We woke up sunday and had a bunch of plans to run around. Went to target (love it) and walked around for a while. Exchanged a sweater at old navy. And then had lunch at El Vaquero ( my fave). After lunch we decided to go to a movie and saw Avatar. I was a little skeptical, didn't think it would be my kind of movie and it was suppose to be 3 freaking hours! I ended up loving it though, I would even go see it again! All the hype was definantely right. it was in 3D, so we had to wear the 3D glasses the whole movie.  This has all gotten kind of rambling ... but it was a great weekend! I was so sad to see it over. That is all for now
PEACE OUT!!

These boots were made for walking.

I am seriously loving these boots. I saw a couple girls at work with them and loved them on. Yes I am guilty of being a follower in this instance. Oh well, they're cute and they're only $45 from Alloy! SERIOUSLY!

They also come in a chestnut brown and in leather whereas these are suede.

That is all, I had to get that off of my chest! :)