EvY at HomE

So remember in the last house we had three dining surfaces? Well in the Burbank House we have one and to tell you the truth, it hasn't affected us in the slightest.  I love the concept of the living and dining space being together of course I just wish it were bigger so I would not worry about where I'm gonna squeeze 12 people for the Christmas party. This is what it looks like from the kitchen with both spaces. Now when Matt makes jokes from the couch I can actually hear them in the kitchen. It feels like eating by a little cafe restaurant.  The built-ins are still the same, still love them, still want to trim that curvy thing. Did I ever show you guys the flatware drawer? Hurt me so pretty.  And that's the dining space in the summertime. Tomorrow, the little kitchen that can and does.

Ah the living room, the land where we spend many hours watching well, you know what we watch.  This is the "entry" area I carved out. I like the concept it's just gonna take some fine tuning before it's functional and cohesive with the rest of the room. A design will come together eventually. Eventually I'd love to make this a big art wall. It's interesting when something functional just looks crazy cluttered for photos. It looks crazy busy. And here's the rest of the area. Not much to it. We are still wild about our coffee table. Not wild about this corner. Though it is Matt's pride and joy. Nerd-ville. I had planned on taking the legs off to make the TV lower this weekend but we had to go see Wolverine and that took precedence  So that's the living room as it is now. To the right of it is the "dining area", we can visit that tomorrow.

Yay. I was actually able to fit in taking photos of the house in between watching episodes of "House of Cards". That show is amazing. Anyhow, I'll work on it tonight and then start bombarding you with brain dumps as the week goes on.

House tour photos. Yup, we've been living here for about 5 months and I still haven't properly photographed the house in its current state. I need to have something to compare for the future. So that's the big goals for this weekend: take photos of our house. Have a great weekend everybody.

I usually write all of my activities on my phone but during vacation I liked to write it on my office calendar just to see everything in ink. Oh, all the little stars are days when I worked out. It was a pretty pretty good month.

Sorry gang. I been a crappy blogger. Gimme a few days. - mobile blog post. spelling irrelevant.

If I am ever asked what's the best thing a girl can buy herself with $100 I am gonna say: a great pair of running shoes. The scale hasn't told me what I want to hear but my clothes and overall well being tell me I am doing something right. After obsessing over working out for the past 5 years and not doing jack about it I can now say that exercise is officially, a habit. - mobile blog post. spelling irrelevant.

Well well, I guess I'm starting to influence my family. My sister Mari decided to have a little summer event of her own and got a few of her gal pals and us sisters together and told us to dress up like 50s greaser chicks and head to where else but the drive-in.  Sisters that greaser together, stay together. We had some fun posing with the pack of Lucky Strikes I purchased. I take cinematic costuming seriously and the outfit needed props dang it. I could easily have worn a pencil skirt but since it was gonna be chilly I decided to go as Sandy at the end of Grease since the elements of the outfit were easily located in my closet. I was really excited watching the clips of "You are the One I Want" because her leather jacket has a red lining and so does mine. I'm a sucker for movie homage-ery. I'm happy I'm rubbing off on my family in the thematic party throwing.

Yup. July 10 I started a small job. That's taking up a lot of my time at the moment since it shoots on Tuesday, eep. I am managing it so that's fun, trying to get as much experience as I can with that, should be a goal of mine to start managing full time but it isn't. Too scary! This was my back to school blues photo. I'm like George Michael when Egg broke his heart. It's actually nice to be working again despite my not really wanting to go back to work after 5 weeks off but I heard that houses have to be paid monthly. Imagine that!

Here comes a super long recap of our Chicago trip. I'm realizing that I should always try to promptly recap these trips because I forget all the details and while I'm writing these things for my readers, I'm also writing this up for myself so I can remember later what we did. An online diary if you will. Unfortunately I'm using the iphone photos a lot because I would forget my good camera (like an idiot) and the iphone I just snap snap so I can remember what we did. As we know, Matt doesn't like to fly so I tried to make it as pleasant a trip as possible so we flew Virgin America, the pimpest of pimpy airlines. He did well on the flight and I was able to enjoy a wine and cheese pairing on the way there (and the way back) which helped chill me out even though I didn't need it. Lookit this cute situation. A TINY WINE BOTTLE AH! So now we've landed I'm calling it "Day 1" since it was July 1 to keep it simple. We got there late and after we...