keeping cool

Our apartment is above another apartment in this fourplex made of an old, 1929 house. It is beautiful and we love it, and love making it beautiful. We have a problem, however. In the apartment below, there is a pothead who I have asked nicely not to smoke in the house - we share air vents. In Utah it has been raining a lot in the past few weeks - which is really strange, so it's been cool. But NOW, now it is finally hot in Salt Lake, and we want to use our much-needed and covetable air-conditioning.
The switch for the air conditioner lies within the pothead's apartment, and lately, his new thing is to tell me that it's on, and then turn it off so he can smoke and it doesn't come up through the vents. Jared realized this last night, as he had to rig up some sort of air ventilation circuit with our fans... we both smelled the smoke, even without the fan running from downstairs and quickly realized this must have been his plan. Is it time for me to take actions into my own hands? I don't want to be the bad guy - I didn't want to tattle to the landlord....but shouldn't I call him?
Why must we dwell in the skunkweed smelling putrescence of this guy with a long goatee?
In other news, I was thinking of fans when I found this beauty - too bad it's like 150€ just to get it sent here. Too pricey for my pocketbook. but if you want it - go here.

hmmm.

I Start to actually blog.

I dive in today -
So i found this photo and it's killing me Event Design by The Parsonage - best use of chinese lanterns that I've ever seen. I have been obsessing about wedding design and event design since my own wedding last August which was featured in Real weddings on projectwedding.com.

Lots of things I don't blog about

1. marriage
2. work
3. emotional issues
4. my lack of general health
5. gaining weight
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6. moving
7. absence of ability to make new friends
8. cleaning my house
9. wanting babies
10. bikram yoga

I wish that I could talk about these, but there's just to much to say. I guess the most important strides I'm making are realizing that I am actually a very capable person - worker, wife and member of the church. I am feeling valuable these days - which is a welcome change from recent past years/months.

I can't really talk about it, but I have been very sad some days. I want to stop being sad and remember that part of patience is learning to love and be happy in a sad moment. Pain is part of forgiving, and loving.

Jared and I have been married for 9 months since the 14th. I count this as a miracle because we are both still in love.

This was cool

I love this, and felt like printing something.

I love...

Shoes.

I love these

I'm looking at learning how to design useful icons that can go cross-culture for the project I'm working on at work, and I ran across this guy on informationisbeautiful.com.

His name is Gerd Arntz and I LOVE looking through these. Check out his site to browse his icon set.

who knew your period could be beautiful?

This is an awesome, cooky representation (a FLOW chart...haha) of the womanly cycle we women know so well.
By I Heart Guts, this is my fav tshirt on her site