Friday
05Feb2010
From the New House
Friday, February 5, 2010 at 1:03PM 
Flower buds from the tree outside our bedroom window.
Friday, February 5, 2010 at 1:03PM Thursday
04Feb2010
BOX
Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 2:57PM Today C learned how to read that word.
Yay?
We are moving tomorrow. TOMORROW. As in the day that follows TODAY. GAH!
We have boxes (BOXes!) coming out of our wahzoos, whatever those are (I'm not sure, but I'm positive there are boxes coming out of them), and yet we are still not done. How far are we from being done? I have no idea? We pack and pack and pack and still it seems we make not a dent. It's totally irrational and yet...why is it that there is still so much stuff to be packed into boxes (BOXes!) when we have already packed SO MANY (BOXes!)?
Yes, I am a little loopy. Why do you ask?
I am also sick (OF COURSE!). Cough, congestion, even some pain in the lungs for extra good sicky measure. My cough kept me up half the night yesterday, but because I was trying to cough quietly (trying to quietly cough when you are already coughing involuntarily is not very easy I'll have you know), my back is now KILLING me. I know it's not from packing because packing pain is in my lower back and I've been very careful about using my legs and all such nonesense. But my upper back right between my shoulder blades? OMG!
Tuesday
02Feb2010
Happy Yellow Pendant Lamp
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 11:43AM 
I love this lamp. Don't you love this lamp? I think it would be perfect for our new house...maybe over the dining room table. Of course, this lamp is waaaaaay out of my budget, but I think maybe (just maybe!) I could DIY something close to this with a basic IKEA pendant lamp and some thick, bright yellow wool blend felt. Off the top of my head, I think I could do it for at least half, maybe 3/4 less than the price of the Anthro lamp. Maybe even less.
Monday
01Feb2010
Inspire Me Monday
Monday, February 1, 2010 at 2:16PM 
e are in full-swing moving mode here - our living room is piled high with brown boxes of every imaginable size, I've resorted to scrounging for meals (no meal plans of late, ahem) and last night I got a headache from the double whammy of cleaning supplies and paint. Fun!
But now that we've officially signed a lease on a cute, but very tiny house in Suburbia (the moving truck is coming on Friday!), I have given myself permission to move in our furniture in my head. The new place is 3 bedrooms and only 1100 square feet, but it's bright and well-kept and has a yard. In short, is it enough and then some. But since our place now is nearly 1400 square feet (one less bedroom and a much, much larger living/dining space), I have to figure out which pieces of furniture need to be donated/given away to friends and how to arrange the rest.
What I really want, however, is a way to make our living room look something like this:
Jan's Perfect Living Room via Apartment Therapy Los Angeles
I pretty much love every single thing about this room. Unforunately, none of our current furniture looks anything remotely like what's in this room. And that yellow couch from IKEA? Not even sold in the US. (Boo!) We have a heavy brown leather couch and matching armchair, a few antique Korean chests and way too many black Expedit shelves of different sizes. So far from the colorful, midcentury loveliness above.
So what to do?
Friday
29Jan2010
A Wonderful Day in the Neighborhood
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 2:55PM I'm on a Mister Rogers kick right now, if that isn't yet obvious to everybody yet.
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This morning I took the boys for a walk around our neighborhood. We are moving on Friday, away away away to the suburbs, away from the city and its comfortingly noisy buzz and beautifully unpredictable people. I brought my camera along hoping to capture some of the unexpected beauty of my urban neighborhood.
"Follow Blindly" reads the side of the desk, abandoned on the side of the curb like so much unwanted furniture in the neighborhood. It's been there for at least a couple of weeks.
The house on the corner that uses its front lawn as a flea market and found-item art sculpture garden. I quite like it, don't you?
in C, K, Los Angeles, Suburbia, Where the Heart Is
C, K, Los Angeles, Suburbia, Where the Heart Is