House Update

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Daily Life, Home Decor, House Restoration, Life, vintage

Hello! I just wanted to share a brief update on the house! The walls are almost prepared for paint. This makes me very excited, since I’ve had paint colors picked out for some time now. And after all the ceilings are painted, all the pretty light fixtures can be hung up! Yay!

Here’s the view from the middle of the formal living looking into the dining room and office. Can’t wait to fill those shelves with all my books…I’m pretty sure I have enough. Maybe.

Looking up from the bottom of the stairs. That ugly hole in the ceiling will have a pretty light soon. I think the other one is going to be a vent. The top of a door you see is the laundry room.

Here’s the view looking out from the balcony. There’s a big dumpster in the front yard and our grass is dead.

Original 1939 honeycomb tile in the master bath that will be resurfaced in a glossy white. I love it!

This pretty tile (with white grout) will be used in the downstairs bathroom to keep with the era of the house. It’ll match the master bath, although it’s a much smaller pattern.

Well, that’s it! I’ll post better pictures of the progress next week. Ones that I’ll take with my camera and not my stupid phone.

The Weekend…

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Austin, Baby, Daily Life, Ikea, Shopping, West Elm

Happy Monday everyone!

This weekend, we spent some time in Austin for a bit of relaxation and shopping. A headstrong toddler by the name of Daphne Elle did an excellent job of preventing any sort of relaxation, and even managed to thwart some of my shopping attempts. Oh the joys of parenthood!

My mini-me had a blast at the Austin Children’s Museum, running around with all the hippie kids and going down the slide all by herself. She’s such a big girl!

Her little baby legs looked so cute walking up the ramp.

Twinsies! Well the same colored bottoms, anyway.

After the Children’s Museum, we walked around downtown and did some window-shopping. I love exploring downtown Austin, but it was just so freaking hot. I really hate Texas summers (springs, whatever). Seriously, what need do 95+ degree temperatures serve? None.

Anyway, we stopped by West Elm and I picked up some really cute boxes to organize the loose jewelry in my closet.

The bigger one is perfect for storing a bunch of long necklaces and chunky bangles that had been taking up a lot of space on the shelves.

On Sunday, we made the obligatory stop at Ikea. I absolutely love the place, but in small doses. The best part of Ikea is the visit itself. It’s like a compact Swedish adventure!

  We picked up two of these chairs for the balcony of our new house:

They’re kind of vintage-y looking for being from Ikea, which is pretty cool.

This runner:

Still not sure where it’s going, but it was cheap and it looks good.

And…Jason got a new desk:

I’m jealous. It’s a really nice desk, a definite upgrade from the fugly monstrosity (no offense babe) he uses now. We’ll be sharing an office in the new house, so the merging of our two “workspaces” is going to be interesting.

I’ll be posting updates on the house tomorrow!

Goodnight!

Grad School Thoughts

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Books, Daily Life, Grad School, Life

As I write this, I am in the middle of two final projects for school. One is a research paper in linguistics about Politeness Theory in Jane Eyre, and the other is a interview essay for my Composition Theory and Pedagogy class.

Neither assignment is any fun, but thankfully I’m thisclose to being finished. It’s going to be nice to wake up every morning without that nagging feeling of dread in the back of my head.

I’ll be honest, this semester was tough. Tougher than the 15-hour undergrad semester I took while I was 9 months pregnant. But I guess this kind of hard work comes with the territory. I’ve asked myself over and over “why am I doing this to myself?”, but I know it’s because as much as I hate it, I love it. I love Academia.

I have spent the vast majority of my life in learning institutions. From the age of 6 to 18 in public school. I finished my bachelor’s degree in under 4 years, from the age of 21 to 24. And now at 25, I find myself back in school getting a Master’s Degree. I hope to be done by 28.

After this, I want to go on to get my PhD. Right now, I know this is just the Hope talking, it’s the end of the semester and things are looking bright. If you would have talked to me 2 weeks ago, I would be telling you how bad I want to quit. But I’ve never quit school, and I’m not going to start now.

Now back to work, before I lose my train of thought and my argument slips away from me…