Kitchens

I appreciate a beautiful home just as much as the next aesthetics lover; but while photos of great rooms make me happy, photos of great kitchens make my jaw drop. Literally. I'm not even sure why. But, I can tell you this; one day, if I can find people to hire me, I will become a professional kitchen design specialist designing beautiful kitchens that will make you beyond happy just to look at, let alone cook in.

Also one day, I will have a kitchen large enough for an island and oodles of money so I can equip said kitchen with shelves rather than cupboards, a tile backsplash and a farmhouse sink.

Kitchen 1, Kitchen 2, Kitchen 3, Kitchen 4

Ty turns 26

Today was my handsome boyfriend's (aka Ty's) birthday. To celebrate we ate sushi, wrote/received mooshy birthday cards, did a little shopping, and rounded out the day watching Ty's best friend Christian play a basketball game. As an aside, I wish in the picture above I was wearing pink and yellow and Ty was wearing black and white rather than the clothes we actually are wearing; that would make the picture juxtaposition with the sushi so much better. But, wardrobe-food coordination or not, it was a great day.

Side note: Just in case you're wondering, Ty has matching steps on the other side of his head and his mustache definitely pulls a 10 on the manly scale.

the muscle of appreciation

I enjoy how this man thinks.

Ikea has a blog

That's fun. I think I'll be adding it to my reader. Unlike the store displays, I feel like the site shows IKEA products in a much better-looking, inside-an-actual-house kind of way, so I dig it. I can't read Sweedish(?) so, google translate to the rescue/I don't really need the words anyway.

horses for lunch

I work in the outskirts of a once-rural city, so awesomely there is a series of pastures within walking distance of my office. In the summer I like to walk around their perimeters on my lunch hour, just to enjoy the sun and nice weather and animals the farmer puts out in his fields. But our early warm weather this year has the animals out early and has let me start making my walks equally early too; so totally tight. Seeing as I was ridiculously late to work today, I thought I'd spend my 20-minute lunch visiting the horses. They were very friendly, let me pet their faces and necks as much as I wanted, and snotted on my coat more than once.

puppy sitting

Me and Ty puppy sat tonight for his best friend, Christian. I think I might need to get one.

persistence

This little video made my weekend. Well, this, along with relaxing, shopping, making food, watching basketball and finishing up a documentary series with Ty. Sometimes lazy weekend plans are my favorite weekend plans. Hope yours was great too.

PS -- Happy first day of Spring! So excited to welcome warmer weather and blooming plants.