Apartment!

I know I've let you guys down, I did a post a day for like a week and then NOTHING!

Well, for those of you who haven't been on Facebook, here are some pictures of our new apartment... just don't say anything about how they're all in the kitchen-- it's the only fully furnished room in the whole place!

The signatures from the wedding with Lauren's rendition of bride and groom remaining!

We know, it sticks out from the electrical box a bit, but we couldn't think of anything else we wanted to see every day more than our friends and family!

General stuff-- we put the junk food at the top to discourage ourselves/at least make us go up and down the step stool to get at it.

Canned goods, etc-- we have a pasta and rice cabinet! WHOO!

Dinnerware and an entire sushi related shelf! Oh, and GS Cookies, but there aren't many of those left... que triste!

STORAGE! Top-- silverware, kitchen gadets

Middle, Salad spinner, toaster, rice cooker, pitchers

Bottom-- Stuff for entertaining/nice stuff

Our China in its spiffy storage cases (we have so little that it all tucks in to the biggest one!) and a string of lights we're hoping to put on the porch. The nice stainless is in here, too, until we get a container for it to properly sit in.

All of our GLASSWARE! The water goblets from Nikki, the wine glasses from the Shannahans, and the cobalt glasses from Jonathan. There's also the nice set of champagne flutes from Ashley Barnish, and the sign from Kim and Nick-- "love is patient, love is kind" which was the reading at both of our weddings.

Baking stuff to the left, cooking to the right. Stainless steel mixing bowls from Susie and Richie, Pyrex storage set from AJ, Jeremy's stand mixer, my breakfast pitcher, our nice knife set from Adam and Erin, and all our spices, etc. from YDFM!

This is the worst stove we will ever have. There's not even a window on the door! At least we have some good cookware from Aunt Linda and Uncle Rube!

Storage underneath for baking stuff on the left (we will never run out of cake pans-- seven layer cake anyone? Let's not even get started on the cupcakes!) and cooking stuff on the left.

the fruit basket left by the last tenants

Good Monday?

Who knew!

A good friend of mine (I can't say who yet) found out she's pregnant and told us today, and my friends Emily and Daniel FINALLY got engaged, and I found out Jeremy and I got the apartment!!!

It's been a really great day and I hope the rest of the week doesn't bring it down-- we have SO MANY KIDS at camp because we're the only camp that runs up until school starts! We have 80-something kids this week, and we don't have as many counselors because half of them are on beach retreat with Youth along with our vans! We go to Lake Lanier on Wednesday, though it'll be kind of nice that we'll have to have the charter buses because I can just relax on the way out and relax on the way back!

I've also got an ok schedule this week-- even though I don't like 8a, it's not too bad working 8a-1p and then coming back from 4-6p. The break is helpful, I might actually get something done this week!

I have to talk to Jeremy about the apartment tonight-- he's hesitant to sign a lease because he doesn't have a job yet, but I feel like so much went right for us to get this place that it would be silly to let it go. There are also a lot of places around that are hiring; granted, for smaller jobs, but still hiring. I don't know that we'd have any more luck if he were in Southaven and as selfish as it sounds, I spent the last nine months without him and I'm not about to have him move back to Southaven while I'm still here!

Anyway, I'm gonna go pass off the rest of my milkshake to mom, and then look in to more graduate stuff. Sigh.

Ciao.

Oh Happy Day?

This weekend was a lot of fun even though I was a little under the weather-- Sophia came to visit! I miss her soooo much! Friday night we went to El Tesoro and then hung out with Meg and Michael for a while. Saturday we got up early and helped mom set up for her yard sale, which went pretty well, then Jonathan (who was back to pick his mother up) came over for breakfast, and Michael brought Julian and Violet and I made bacon, veggie sausage, biscuits, and waffles. I was going to make eggs, but mom boiled them all and I didn't realize until everyone was about to walk in the door! Anyway, breakfast was nice and it was very family-like to hang out and shoot the breeze and play with the baby and watch Julian be a goofball.

After everyone left, we thought about going to see an IMAX at Fernbank since it's cheaper with our membership, but then we started talking about other movies and I remembered that Northlake Movie Tavern does $5 Saturday movies before 6p, so we decided to go see The Hangover after going to Fernbank. We went up and walked around the rose garden, and then went in to see the dinosaurs. Afterwards, we came back and helped mom pack up and found out which stuff from the yard sale I get to keep for the apartment. Then we went to the Movie Tavern and had a blast. The food was yummy, they had Blue Moon on draft, and it was the best $14 we ever spent at a movie! Oh, and the movie was pretty darn funny, too. :) After the movie, we did something I don't remember and hung out with the K's for a while.

Sunday we went to Target, where Sophia found a waffle maker for $7 and I got a bunch of clearance groceries! Then we went to Lenox and wandered around for a while, and stopped by a Pier One that was going out of business-- talk about a smart move! I'm hoping that by the time Friday rolls around, the dining room table I want will still be there and down to $100! If it's down to $75, and the side table I want is down to $15 then I'll just have to get both of them ;) It's my impetus to clean out my car. The table is really nice, dark wood with red legs, and it's a drop leaf to fit six-- it was originally $300!

After a while, we came home (exhausted and hungry) and then ate some more at Palate, and went over to Iggy and Wade's to watch True Blood and Hung. We all remarked on the fact that Sookie is way more annoying this season than last.

Last night things took a turn for the worse... I woke up with a fever around 2a and have had one ever since :( My ears feel like someone's shoved a Q-Tip in too far (to which Jeremy remarks that he knows how that feels... Valerie!), and I coughed so much at work this morning I almost threw up! Thankfully, VBS doesn't require as much of my attention and so I was able to slip away and do most of that in private without getting it all over someone else.

VBS wasn't too bad, though the head lady is a little bit prickly and doesn't care much for the camp kids or the counselors, even though she doesn't want to seem to help us figure out what we're supposed to be doing! They also had some really boring music for a church that's known for having one of the best music programs in the area-- Jeremy said the second song we did this morning is a really really old one. The first one I don't even remember, which is a change from VBS when I was little-- all those songs would get stuck in my head for weeks! I always liked, "Oh Happy Day" since it was so upbeat and easy to sing. The package they have for this year is Paul and the Underground Church, which I was vaguely intrigued by, but so far it's been either half-hearted or historically (and apparently also biblically) incorrect. The Olympics started in Greece, not Rome, and Saul of Tarsus was from (get this) Tarsus, not Jerusalem. The guy who played Paul in the sketch was reading off a piece of paper, and the script for the visit to the Underground Church had high church Latin, not the traditional Latin that was spoken until post Constantine. Fran let me correct the Latin, though, so I had my happy little dork moment ;) All in all it was OK, and I think some of the church members weren't thrilled with the package either, so we'll see what the rest of the week brings. Maybe Paul will have learned his lines!

Now, to bed-- I still have a fever and I'm super exhausted!

PS- we put in our applications for the apartment this weekend and I'm really excited! If you want to see pictures, go check the place out. It's not our furniture, but I'm looking to do a similar style.