13.1

that's how many miles I'm gonna run this Sunday.

Wish me luck! (I'm hoping not to pass out or die)

Slumber Party!

You know what the awesome thing is about having a futon for a couch?
Turning it into a bed and piling all of the pillows you own on it to watch a movie!
Saturday night after the Guggenheim Dan and I tried out the futon as a bed and it was wonderfully comfortable. It was nice to be able to stretch out and get "bed" comfy but still be on the "couch" in the front room!

I think we'll be having lots of slumber parties this summer...

The Gugg

Saturday night last weekend, we met up with some friends to check out the Guggenheim museum. It was "donation" night meaning you could pay whatever you wanted instead of the $10-20 they normally charge. We decided to be nice and pay $5 and I'm reeeeeally glad we didn't do anything more. You see, I don't really understand modern art. Mostly it's just creepy. We started at the top of the big spiral...
And slowly made our way down through the terror.
There were a couple of pieces that were interesting, but only once we understood what it was about thanks to the also free! audio guide. I think a lot of the pieces were trying to challenge the traditional view on reality and how you perceive the world around you.

I mostly just thought they were weird or scary.

Shower Curtain...

I haven't been able to find a shower curtain that I like to put in our new bathroom. Our new shower is also ridiculously tall and wide making it difficult to find a ready made curtain that fits unless I want to buy 2 separate curtains. So I thought I might be super ambitious and maybe with the help of a sewing friend (Ashley S.... : ) I could make one. I found these two fabrics that I like and that match the color scheme (gray and yellow). Now I don't know how much more impossible it will make my task using fabrics that are so highly patterned, but they're so cute! and I want to add a little more pattern to the fairly plain bathroom.

What do you think?

Option 1:
(I love that this is a modern floral and has both the gray and the yellow in it)
Option 2:
(I am mildly obsessed with chevron patterns right now and this would give me that pattern without having to get angry at myself for spending hours and hours trying to paint a wall this way.)

Dishes...

What happens when you move from an apartment with a dishwasher to one without?



You struggle...


A lot : (

I think yesterday we had used every single pot and pan we own. I strongly dislike doing dishes. How about you?

My job is not a dream job...

Trying to find my happy place...dreaming of running (for which I have no time or energy) and being in beautiful central park...

My job is more of a "what in the world was I thinking when I got into this much debt to earn this little" kind of job. What makes it even more "wonderful" is the fact that I work in child welfare which is just about the worst area within social work one can go into. The pay is crappy, you have to put so much of yourself into it for incredibly low rewards, most of the time things don't turn out how you want, your own family life suffers because you have to be there to take care of everyone else's family, you have to be on call at the drop of a hat, you're told over and over again that "you're not meeting the basic requirements" BUT you also, "do so much!"

Since the first phone call on Monday morning at 7:45am, I have hated my job as not just one but two families of mine have gone out of control. And every single of of the three sessions I've had to have with other families has turned out crap-tastic, once again leaving me feeling completely inept and inadequate at my ridiculous job and thinking I should go hide under a rock and these people would probably be better off.

What is the point?

Social services sucks big time a lot of the time.

Lightning & Thunder

This commercial cracks me up every single time. I have no clue why and I feel like an idiot when it does, but I love it : )



Do you have a ridiculous commercial you love?