I'm dyiiiing...

....of anticipation!


Friday morning I am flying to Baltimore to see Eric after a whole month apart! Wowza! That was tough considering we'd been flying back and forth on an average of every 2 weeks. We will spend roughly over 24 hours at home just being together and then Sunday morning we head out on vacation!! :D

We are heading to Asheville, NC to see.... 311! *shocking, I know! ;)





We got a cabin in the woods and we are gonna share with a few friends. Grill, have a few drinks, tell a few stories, relax in the hot tub (!!!) and enjoy two nights of shows. I am so excited I cannot stand it! Work is slow right now too, so Eric is going to come home with me and enjoy some LA time :) I am very very excited and very very impatient!

TWITTER!

so, last year at the beginning of april i moved back to CAlifornia from COlorado. while i was living in the wild i worked for a start-up social networking site (www.iggli.com) and i met some fabulous friends but i was also exposed to ALL KINDS of crazy social networks. one of those [which seemed completely worthless at the time] was www.twitter.com

we all did it! ...but we were only "tweeting" to each other and other tech-nerds. keep in mind, this was more than a YEAR ago! so now, it is hilarious that twitter has completely blown up! it is insane! everrrryone is on twitter now! wts?

it's cool if you use it how @theellenshow does. she always has silly contests and show ticket giveaways. it's hilarious. but ellen is mostly awesome anyway, so it's always funny. @jimmyeatworld do similar give-aways and tweet live songs, pictures from shows, etc. they did a giveaway that i loved once... they left 2 tickets at will-call for one of their shows under the name "Twitter"!!! unfortch, no one picked them up and they said they're not going to do that again :(

of couuuurse one of my all-time favorite twitter-ers is @311_nick. it's awesome to see him on there right now, because 311 is currently on tour and he is always twittering. it's really awesome to be SO up to speed on everything they are doing! off days, tour dates, setlists, announcements, pictures, gossip... we get it all on there! he announced that he and his wife are expecting their first child there and even that one of the bands' tour buses had broken down! sooo exciting to be in the loop like that! they have a new album coming out on JUNE2 called Uplifter and all of the news is popping out there. it's awesome.

anyway, enough twitter-chat. if you're on there, follow me if you like @rosiita
:)

family

I have a great family. A great big family. They are the big part of what makes it hard when I think of picking up and moving away from here. (again...) But distance only makes the heart grow fonder, right?

My grandma is a cutie pie. I adore her. She is so sweet and innocent. My mom always says she is like a little girl, because she is easily excitable and she talks too much. (which I don't really mind...) But I just love her so much, I love being around her and listening to her tell stories and saying "Hi" to her over and over (which is something annoying Eric and I also do).

Well, my precious grandma is spending the night at the hospital tonight :( I am hoping/praying it is nothing serious. I went to see her at the ER and she was just herself... chatting up a storm and joking as usual. They made her drink this huge jug of water and she joked with the nurse (which was lost in translation but my mom and I still grinned.) For example, she had 4 hours to drink this huge jug and she asked if she could drink 4 cups instead. And then she asked me and my mom to help her finish it... I would do any of those things to help her if it would make her feel better. I really wish I'd stayed with her tonight. I just know going to work early and hopefully leaving early was a wiser choice. I can't say better, because what is better than being there for my loving beautiful lady? I hope she knows she is all I am thinking about.

These are the moments I need my man the most. I just want to lay here and be comforted and loved and held... it hurt so terribly to see my gma in pain when we left. I am praying that tonight is not too awful for her. I am going to try to sleep so I can head in early, finish my work and hopefully head back to her as soon as I can. No pictures, maybe I'll edit and share one later but I don't want to start crying again. Send your positivity and loving thoughts to my lady, plz.

I would love to be his nanny...

....just sayin! ;)

New music day!

This all stemmed from the Twilight soundtrack and my slight obsession with the song "Flightless Bird, American Mouth" but holy hell... this ONE MAN band is blowing my mind. (P-nut approved!) His voice is so beautiful and haunting... it's overwhelming. I just downloaded a few of his albums and am really loving it. I got (so far) "Our Endless Numbered Days" and "The Creek Drank the Cradle" and am listening over and over! I also DL'd the Garden State soundtrack for this gem :)



I never liked the movie but the soundtrack is great. Yes, I am a little late! Shins, Frou Frou...loveit! Speaking of soundtracks, here is the clip from Twilight that caught my eye (ear) from the start! Who knew? I am now obsessed with the entire series... I am on the final book, Breaking Dawn, currently listening to the book in my car (I am on cd 7 of 16!) something about the eternal, passionate love between Bella and Edward makes my heart beat a little faster. Maybe it's because my man is so far away from me and I need the extra romance in my life! :)




I also recently downloaded the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Silversun Pickups albums. Any other suggestions? They are greatly appreciated :)

proud to be...

I've never been super patriotic or anything. In fact, my aunt is a marine and she always pushed my dad to have us come up and visit her for the marine balls every year. My sister and I were never interested. I just never wanted that lifestyle of falling for someone, getting married young then having kids and having them be gone for months and years at a time. Not for me, no thanks!


So, tell me why, now, I am totally in love with my man... who is a crazy navy boy! dammit! But you know what? I am damn proud :)



I still kind of find all those graphics cheesy but hey, maybe they are growing on me. It's hard not to appreciate. Eric is disciplined. He is very smart. He is determined. He believes in service. He has really big dreams. He set his mind to this and he's not just doing it halfway. He volunteers, he's learning every day. He shares his dreams with me and more and more, including me in those plans for the future. It's really sexy... it's really inspiring. I do feel pride, extreme pride, every day. And it makes that time that is quickly approaching almost bearable. Because I know it will make him even more amazing and it'll also make me, and us, stronger for going through it all together.

soon he has to go live on a sub without me :(


@ the navy memorial in dc

I love him with so much of my heart

"Any man who may be ask what he did to make his life worthwhile
can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction,
'I served in the United States Navy.'"

june 2; uplifter

I am so excited for the new album! Look at how great my boys look :)

I can't wait to see my 50th show in a month!!! yes, FIVE-ZERO!! in-freaking-sane. I love this band. I am so very excited for some spring shows and summer tour. April is going to be rough but I am going to stay positive and May is going to be amazing and June will be even better. Here's to looking forward to the good times!