Thursday, June 9, 2011

Update on the garden

I will be starting our food blog shortly, as soon as I get a new camera from costco, because the other one just broke one day - but until then, I have to just say the BEANS!! They are growing so fast and so tall! I am very VERY excited to cook and to harvest.

More to come!

In other news.... I told the landlord about our pothead downstairs, he said he would talk to him, but he's moving out at the end of the month! Anyone want to live downstairs!!! It's only 600 dollars including utilities!!!!

Because I have to be an information Design Junkie

Here is the sweetest, easiest and most fun way I can think of being on a diet/obsessing about my food. What I eat, how much, how bad it is for me, etc.

MAKE A CHART!














Also, please check out these 40 visualizations of food eaten, via datavisualization.ch

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

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.

Monday, May 23, 2011

Lots of things I don't blog about

1. marriage
2. work
3. emotional issues
4. my lack of general health
5. gaining weight
rft5dfreasrd5czvfcDZsetr5dfsrZ - JARED
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.

Friday, May 20, 2011

This was cool


I love this, and felt like printing something.

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