Mr & Mrs + Two Devilish Kittens

Here are some photos of our bedroom decorating progress.  I don’t think they are the best pictures in the world, mostly because I don’t have a good wide angle lens.  I used the kit lens from my Nikon D60 and the fish-eye adapter I got from my father-in-law for Christmas.  It’s getting dark outside as well.  Boo.

Finally got the headboard done and up.  We ended up putting legs on that sucker because we just couldn’t find it in ourselves to deal with measuring, drilling holes, putting in huge drywall anchors, measuring, screaming obscenities, and then crying. :)

As you can see, we have a huuuuuuge bed and a tiny 12′X12′ bedroom.  What’s a bedroom for if you aren’t gonna fill it up with a bed though.  That’s our philosophy!

(Brett’s Kindle on the bed!  Thank God he found it.  And my beloved sleep mask.  Whoops.)

The cute little chair we found at Cost Plus World Market on sale.  I made the pillow out of the headboard fabric, which was a sheet set we lucked up on finding at Ross.

It’s coming along nicely.  I want to get a little capiz chandelier and some art up on the walls.  Before taking pictures of the room, it didn’t bother me that much that there was really nothing on the walls.  Now it feels like the room is definitely lacking on pizazz.

Not pictured is our skanky hand-me-down dresser that has been in my family for more than ten years.  It needs to be repainted because it is currently an ivory color that doesn’t jazz well with the excessive white.

I guess I should write up a post about putting the headboard together.  Without pictures of the entire process, it seems kind of a moot point unless someone is really interested in step by step directions.

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Not for those who get nauseated from shaky video. I don’t have a steady hand, nor a tripod worth a hoot!  The song is “Lay Me Down” by The Frames, btw.

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Sorry for the lack of posts.  I fail at new year resolutions, obviously.

I’m attempting to do a lot of DIY projects right now and I’m so frustrated!  I’m photo-documenting them, of course, but man.  I’m not getting much done.

I’ve slacked in my studies as well, especially French.  I even skipped class yesterday.  Yikes!  I think I’m doing decently in the attendance area this semester, as I’ve only missed one class meeting.  If you know me at all, this is a major deal.  When I was at UT, I routinely skipped at least one class a week.  Heh.  What a difference a few years can make.

So my post today is to celebrate being a resident of the Boro for an entire year.  Apparently this is the day we officially moved into our previous cesspool of an apartment.  I can’t believe how fast time flies, and definitely can’t believe how much has changed in the year we have been here.

We moved here.  Brett’s mom died.  We made some friends.  We both started school again.  We celebrated a year of marriage. Brett quit Cracker Hell and found a teaching related job (or two).  We got another cat.  We moved again after being here for six months.  Lost some friends.  I’m still a lazy and unemployed “house wife” (the one thing that DIDN’T change).  Weird.

I’m thinking that I might even want to live in this apartment we’re currently in for another year just for the sake of not moving.  It isn’t the best place in the world.  I severely dislike our upstairs neighbors, as well as some of the dog owners that let their dogs poop in front of our patio and don’t clean it up.  I also can’t forget the man that lets his yapper dogs run wild and chase after cats, including once sitting inside apartments (he lets them run up to the window and bark/scare the cats).  If they raise our rent come renewal time, which must be done at the end of May, then we’ll be moving.  I’ve found better deals on bigger and nicer apartments in the area.  The downside to those complexes is that they are farther from campus.  It’s not like I actually bike there though (sad face).  I hate moving, but we need a better value if our rent goes up.  We do have some leverage to negotiate price since there are nicer places and our complex is never totally full.  I guess we’ll see.  But like I said, for once I’m actually willing to stay in one place for longer than six months.

I guess I’m getting old, ha.

I hope your week is going well.  I’m counting down the days to the weekend so we can get our major DIY project finished: an upholstered, tufted headboard.

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I miss our honeymoon.  I would love to go back to Savannah, if not just to relive feeling awesome and rich even though we aren’t rich and, well, kinda not that awesome.

Last week was incredibly difficult for me.  I’ve never been so glad to see a weekend than I was last Friday.  Monday started out rough.  Tuesday wasn’t any better, especially since I attempted to rush for a music fraternity where I thought I would fit in a little better only to find that I am, in fact, too old for pretty much any typical college organization.

Age is just a number, and despite my immaturity at times, I’m not able to get into the swing of being a sociable, swingin’, partyin’ college kid.  I was that when I was, oh, 19, and was a “typical” college student for about two years.  Then I became an old person and have stayed that way.  Everyone seemed totally shocked that I was married and even got weird about it.

There was one day in there that I dissolved into a puddle of emotional wreck and cried hysterically for a while.

I don’t remember Wednesday very well.  I just know I put off studying for a French test to the point of missing Tennessee history on Thursday in order to finish studying for French.

It was all a blur of crappy week.  Bleh.

I’m hoping this week will bring something better, especially since I’m determined to really get down to doing a lot of my “home improvement” projects, as well as finishing my blog update.

The weekend was full of fun: shopping, attempting to thrift, sleeping way too late, and generally being disconnected from school and, in Brett’s case, work related things.  I got a little distracted from the blog, of course, but back to the grind stone tomorrow!

My to-do list keeps growing and growing with homework assignments, home improvement projects, photos I need to put on DVDs and mail to their respective homes, and a video of our snow day that needs to be pieced together, edited, and uploaded to Vimeo.  That’s only a small portion of what’s in queue that begs to be done.  On top of that, I need to find at least a part time job.

I really don’t know how I would survive in the “real” world, or in a world that consisted of balancing a 40+ hour workweek and life as a spouse, potentially a mother.  Wow.  Insanity.

I hope everyone has a great week.  It seems like many people I know were having such a rough week last week.  Don’t know what was in the atmosphere, but I definitely felt a lot of people struggling through the week.

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I’m finally revamping my blog! It always takes me a couple of days to get it right. Or I just give up, hah. Either way, I’ll make a nice update when I get it all done. Now that I’ve made the background and shifted some stuff around, on to make a new header and other fun things.

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A while back, while trying to figure out how to decorate our bedroom, I took a “find your style” quiz on homegoods.com.  The results were not surprising to me at all.  Here are the results:

I really love the colors that were chosen.  I’d also like to add white in there as well.  A lot of the colors decorating our apartment fall into that spectrum, minus the office.  The office, even though I use it more than Brett, was kind of my compromise with Brett to allow red into our home.  I don’t operate well with the color red, mostly because I feel too energized or something by it.  I definitely don’t want it in any place where we would sleep.

Yes, I am one of those freaks that believes that color can influence mood.  :)

I haven’t worked on any of my DIY projects that I had planned to do over Christmas break.  I need to prioritize my time and actually do something.  I would feel better if I got things accomplished.  Brett is also starting to nag at me about hanging things on the wall… which I don’t do without careful planning.  I’m a procrastinator, so I don’t want to even think about planning out where to hang things.

Brett grew up in a very santitary feeling home without pictures or decor on the wall (strange to me, someone who grew up with TOO much stuff decorating the house to the point of feeling cluttered), so he really values homey-things-on-the-wall decor while I would rather live in a white box with white linens and decorations, haha.  This is definitely a sticking point for us, and often times we get agitated toward each other about something silly like hanging crap on the walls!

Our bedroom has an overabundance of white, which makes me giddy and relaxed.  Brett says he likes it, but I don’t know if he’s being totally honest, haha.  When I suggest bringing in something white to hang on the walls, he gets a look on his face like, “Crap, more white?  How can you stand it?”  I do plan on making our headboard with grey-blue linen though, and perhaps sewing a few grey pillows.  I know it sounds boring to a lot of people, but since we live in a small space, I can’t make it feel smaller with dark colors.

What colors do you use to decorate your home?  Do you find you gravitate toward a certain color pallet like mine above (I truly would love to decorate our entire home in those colors, but I think Brett would die)?

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Like I promised, here’s a little update on my classes this semester.  I’m only taking two, so I’m hoping I can pick up a part-time job as well to help out with finances.  I want to save a few thousand dollars this year, but it just isn’t feasible unless I have a job too.  That’s for a different post  though!

I’m taking Tennessee history and French.  I think my homework load is definitely going to be minimal, especially in the Tenneessee history class.  So far it seems to be a little dry because of the lecture style of my professor.  I will give him the benefit of the doubt since he is currently recovering from bronchitis.

I only have four grades in the class, so I have to do well on exams.  It shouldn’t be a huge problem since my test anxiety has greatly reduced from its previous levels.  I’m a lot more confident than I used to be about taking exams.  Woot.

I love my French class, especially since I have the same teacher as I had last semester.  I don’t enjoy the people as much this time around.  There are a lot more people in this class (~25 versus the 11 of last semester).  There are two women in my class from last semester, so I sit with them now and feel a lot more comfortable with speaking.  It’s still difficult to really feel confident in a foreign language though.

You’ll notice the lack of a photography class.  I personally feel like this is a good thing, but I’m sure others will disagree.  I enjoy photography and I still want to spend my life doing it, but screw those classes.  I can be a self-learner!

Strangely, I’ve had an easier time with talking to people in general and might be on my way to making a couple of friends.  This is good news, haha.

It was quite a bit easier to return to school after a month-long break instead of a two year break.  I didn’t want to go the first day, but now that I’m getting back into that routine, I’m feeling less “uggggh, do I have to?” about it.

Hopefully finding a job, even one that doesn’t pay the best, won’t be too difficult.  I’m not looking to make a career out of whatever job I get. :)

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