is it Monday yet?

jeremy's outside doing lawn work. i refuse to mow the lawn unless it is an absolute emergency. i have bad memories from my childhood of spending many hot summers mowing our vast lawn. i told jeremy that i would concrete the whole back yard if i ever had to touch the stupid lawn mower again. however, they have these self-propelled lawn mowers now. we got one for my dad on father's day last year. he donated the "hard-labor-push-it-yourself" mower to us when we got the new house.

i made tuna sandwiches today. i don't normally cook (if you can call tuna sandwiches cooking) so it was quite a feat. i like to make mine with minimal mayo and more mustard. i also like to add apples to the tuna with a good helping of salt and pepper. i served it on slightly toasted bread with thinly sliced onions. i added some chips and apple slices to the side and walla... i made lunch.

yesterday, i set out to hobby lobby to find some decorating ideas for the kitchen. i spent nearly an hour and a half trying to decide if i should keep my kitchen sparse or add some color to it. after much debate, i bought several tin can vases and fake dried flowers. i also got some really realistic fake fruit as well. i know, writing this down, i can see how you'd say.. "oh my gawd, how cheesy" but i thought the same thing when it was in my cart. but hey, i had a vision and i was sure i could work it out. jeremy called me from work and i told him that i had been pacing the aisles for the past hour deciding if i could pull it off. he said to go for it and so i did.

80 bucks later, i have a very northern country kitchen look. it's not even country so much as "Sunday brunch in autumn"... it's hard to describe. i need to get one of those nifty cameras that and have. i actually have a digital camera, a nice one, but i haven't figured out how to use it with proper indoor lighting.. it either comes out too dark or way too bright.

maybe i'll get off my lazy bum and go take pictures. you can see the before and after.

well, i think jeremy's done fertilizing the lawn now. i'm mid-laundry right now. i just took the whites out and the darks are doing there thing. i'm going to get back to my architecture project. my partner's gonna be pissed if i don't produce something soon...