Well, I'm not dead. Thanks for asking! I know it's been a bajillion years since I last posted (sorry!) but I've been crazy busy in the best possible ways. Don't be mad, please. I promise this blog will be a good one.
Fine, fine. Here's some food porn. Does that help? Thought so.
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| Bronzed tuna with a lemon-shallot-butter relish, wild rice, and grilled eggplant. |
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| Those are all natural. Look at the size of those grains. |
Eh hem. Sorry to interrupt, but it's time to get back to the real thing. I've been at Splash now for 6 weeks, and I can tell you I am loving it. I'm not bored (first time ever), I love all the (99% of) the people I work with, and no one yells at me, or tries to get me fired every day. Other than a terrible head shot of me on the Splash web site -- DO NOT GO LOOK IT UP. Don't. This is a circle of trust, and if you go look that picture up, you aren't invited back. You're telling yourself, "Oh, she'll never know. I'll just pop open a new tab and check it out. I WILL KNOW. Mark my words. -- and a move to a new desk across the reef that I was pretty melodramatic about (moi? Non!), I've had a really great time. More details to come in a blog that isn't a month recap. I know you have a short attention span. It's ok.
In other news, we've done a lot of upgrading to the apartment. Sean is 1. adorable and 2. awesome at fixing things, so he bought new drawer pulls for our slightly tragic looking bedroom set - and presto! New life. For some reason, the original pulls were custom drilled, but Sean (used this as an excuse to buy a power tool) drilled new holes all by himself! That's what she said. We had to buy a pull that would cover up the other holes, so we choose brushed nickel cup pulls. Sean wasn't convinced that he liked them, but I sold them pretty hard. Once we got them on the drawers, no more selling needed. The new pulls look modern, match the original furniture, and handy-man did a great job so they are level and everything!
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| Nia really enjoyed this project. It was like having 2 extra migrant workers to help with all the heavy lifting. Don't let the pearls fool you. |
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| Just kidding. Nia checked it out and decided to nap instead. |
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| The finished product. The room looks so much brighter when compared to before! |
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| We switched TVs so Sean could video game in the guest room, and I could watch documentaries in the living room. Compromise is what gets it done and keeps it alive, y'all. |
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| Pretty! |
We got a great deal on the pulls at Seconds and Surplus, which is -- in my opinion -- the only place to go get renovation-ish things in Dallas. What would have cost $75 at Lowes cost $32 at Seconds and Surplus. They have 2 locations: Dallas off 114 (where we went) and Richardson. They even have decent service, which totally shocked me considering it was a surplus store.
Life is good, y'all. I'll do new posts on our upgraded party-time patio and some awesome things that have been cooking out there. Well, growing out there, but cooking inside. I think I gave the post away. I should just leave.
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