Hello Again!

I haven't updated in forever, whoops! Well, here's the rundown of what's been going on...

-Zach and I have not painted a thing, but I di manage to get my clothes off the floor and into the closet. Yes!

-I got a new job at 5th avenue theatre and I start tomorrow. I am so excited. They took me into the theatre on my interview and it is amazingly beautiful, aah! And I get two tickets to all the shows which is total gravy.

-I am obsessed with this pair of boots and am going to buy them the second I get my first paycheck. They are basically everything I ever wanted in a pair of winter shoes. Sigh.

- I made delicious shortbread a la Ina Garten tonight for my lunch tomorrow, as well as corn and cherry tomato salad. I can't wait to eat my delicious lunch tomorrow. Yay!!


Now I have to figure out what to wear to work tomorrow. It's going to rain (surprise), so I have to find a decent pair of tights to wear under my rainboots.

Nerds?

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I feel kind of lame. I don't have any friends to go to Target with on Sundays or see girly movies with here. I'm occupying my time with baking but I can't eat all these brownies and pumpkin bread by myself! I would like to find some edible pizza and maybe make a friend or two. I also *really* need to join a gym. Zach and I carpool to work or else I take the bus, so I have walk maybe 30 feet a day. I wish my bike hadn't gotten stolen; trying to bike these crazy hills would certainly whip me into shape.

Z and I have made some progress getting settled. We have officially furnished our apartment and painted three walls. I got a betta fish and named her Janet. I have unpacked about 80% of my stuff.

OK well I'm going to hang out with Janet and my boyfriend, have a good weekend!

Zach and I got to Seattle a month ago. It was surprisingly sunny for the first, oh, three weeks we were here and then last week we got a torrential downpour. Basically, the weather is not at all what I expected. I thought it was supposed to be DRIZZLY.

By Sunday the typhoon had stopped and Zach and I went to the extremely muddy pumpkin patch. I got a little sugar pumpkin I am going to chop and puree into some pumpkin bread (and some roasted pumpkin seeds, yay) and a big old guy thats adding some Autumn cheer to the hall outside our door. I can't wait to carve him and stick him in the window, but I can't decide what design I want to do! Scary? Silly? Pretty?

These are a couple of my top choices from around the web -- please help me choose!


the drippy face from BHG


creepy skull from myhomeideas.com



I love this HGTV tree (I have a thing about trees)


Or this mischevious guy like the one I found here?

Have a great weekend

Zach and I are painting our new apartment and tomorrow I am making him take me to a pumpkin patch! Yay.

You guys all recognize the room above I'm sure, it belongs to no other than Carrie Bradshaw. I convinced Zach to get a similar greenish color for our bedroom and so far it looks great! Fun fact, I met the production designer for SATC in college bc he is a theatre alum at my school. He came to my stage management class and I asked him a gazillion questions about everything from the color of Carrie's sheets to who picks out what goes in her desk drawers.

Gasp

We finally have the internet in our apartment. Rejoice! There are still tubs of crap everywhere, and Zach is sitting on the floor using his desktop computer. At what age are you allowed to register for housewarming gifts?

But little by little, we are getting our new house together. We have picked out the paint colors and that beast is getting tackled this weekend (so is going to a pumpkin patch - YAY!!) We got a really comfortable couch and a cute coffee table at a thrift shop for $120. From craigslist we scored a big, cheap microwave and a great TV that is currently resting on an overturned tupperware container. Yeah. It's like something right of Domino.

I mean, I bought some fabric for the kitchen curtains but there isn't really a lot of designing going on. All I know for now is that I really really want this shower curtain...

and these sheets for our soon-to-be lblue bedroom.

(hopefully those will distract from our rigid new mattress)

This week after work I need to tidy up the house and get it paint-ready, and buy a tea kettle. My goal for an unpacked apartment is Thanksgiving (it has to be ready by then so I can decorate for Christmas!)

If I could go back in time....

This is my mom's facebook photo. You gotta hand it to her, she knows how to look cool.

I would travel back several months before my mom learned how to use facebook.

"Get a job!" is not something I want written on my facebook wall. Neither is "omg, are you using mobile internet? Do you know how expensive that is?"

Then there is the issue of her writing on OTHER people's walls...my boyfriend, my sisters' boyfriends, people I went to high school with and haven't talked to in seven years....

On top of this embarrassment (to be fair, I think my little sis who is still in college has it worse than me), everything about my mom's profile makes her seem like she only goes on facebook when she is really drunk. I have posted some examples below for evidence.
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[There are no words to describe how uncomfortable this makes me.]

About Me:

I hate doing laundry. I am still waiting for my real parents to show up. I love my daughters and all their men.

[Something about this little blurb is just creepy. I don't want my mom to talk about my boyfriend EVER, especially not in a way that makes me seem like some weird harlot. To clarify, we only have one boyfriend each.]

Interests:

Inventing a robot to clean the house. Becoming the queen of some country (but not one that has a weird smell).

[I don't even know what that means!]

..........

I can live with the random text messages highlighting the pros and cons of Starbucks oatmeal, but I think there should be a limit on what parents can access in the digital age.

Hey from Seattle!

Zach and I drove across the country and then I immediately got strep throat. The lease for our new apartment doesn't start until the first, and right now we are camping out in a hotel with crappy wifi. I hate that I have disappeared, but I'll be back once I've settled. Everytime I pop into a coffee shop (like right now) I catch up on all of your beatiful blogs. Thanks for the constant inspiration. I'll be back all the time once we move in and get settled. I really want to paint our bathroom light grey and make it super-girly. What do you think?

I'm rambling. See you guys soon!

(Meanwhile, here is a photo of a cool girl!)




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