weekend projects

after officially living with the seav for 2.5 months, i've finally started to make some headway with our apartment. i say I and not WE because seaver was totally fine with the apartment as it was, why wouldn't he be? he'd been there for 6 years alone and it had worked for him all that time. he knew exactly where to find important papers and documents and exactly how to locate the missing pieces of a remote control. the concept of disorganized organization in full force.

until i came around.

the merging of our lives was not hard, we have lots of the same friends, we enjoy the same things and we're generally easy going people. i emphasized generally because recently when it's come to dealing with the apartment i am not quite so easy going. i've got all sorts of visions that i want to impart on the apartment, they range from the big: moving furniture around and repainting the walls; to the small: hanging up hooks for our pot holders, and curtains (which actually turned into a big project, still not done....).

but my biggest vision of all is to be able to have a place for everything; and to be able to put everything in it's place. basically i want to live in a design blog like these: coco+kelly, Design*Sponge, and Apartment Therapy

so this weekend i will venture to ikea for more small steps towards that apartment utopia i seek.

don't get me wrong, i'm not downplaying the greatness of our place. it's got tons of potential and loads of great space to store those little knick knacks. it just turns out it's a lot more work then i expected, but i sure am glad i've got someone to do the work with.

what a lovely weekend...

coming up that is.

it will be the first in 4 that i'm in town, seaver is in town and we have no visitors.

tell me if you think this is unrealistic: i'm expecting magical fairies to appear saturday morning to help clean the apartment, run all my errands, inspire me to exercise and help me cook my very first fish dish.

i'm also planning on riding my bike around town (UWS to be exact) and bothering seaver to put together our new table and move his old desk out of our room. once we can tackle that desk issue

i have no doubt that i'll settle down a bit.

i just love it when things come together so nicely. i really really do.

below i've put together a visual representation of everything i've described above, just so you are all clear.

Thursday Eve

Spotted: Thursday evening dinner party down on the patio below. Summer in NYC is really fab. Plus I can eavesdrop perfectly while sitting in my Texas chair, sipping rose and finishing up this month's Real Simple.

Can't wait to hear what their discussions entail!

90 Cal cans of dp! How cool!!!

july already?

it's july already. and this morning while preparing my breakfast smoothie i decided that i should set some sort of goal for myself for july. after all, it's 1/2 way through the year so this is really just a new years resolution refresh.

my original new years resolution was to start cooking more and to make a better effort at exploring recipes. i was doing a fairly good job at keeping up this resolution for Q1.

then we finally got around to pulling the trigger on the kitchen remodel...and it was a process... (see below)

so what better time to start back up with the cooking and baking? with a slight twist. i'm going to make an effort to cook and prepare foods that are in season.

it's always easy to cook with frozen veggies, and food that's always in season (ex. my staple baked potatoes) but there's a slight challenge that comes when you force yourself to cook with in season ingredients.

to kick off this new year's resolution pt. 2, i'll be making chicken strips, veggies and pasta salad tonight. i'm also dying to make the best blueberry crumble known to man (a recipe from drami), and something with rhubarb. and i may just visit the greenmarket this weekend to further inspire.

any other suggestions?

gleeful

i didn't jump on the Glee bandwagon at first, not because I didn't want to, but because i couldn't remember what time/day it came on. i would go into work on Wednesday mornings and realize I'd missed it again. i even downloaded the soundtrack from the first season and bopped along to it to and from work just so i would be a little in the loop.

it was a never ending and very frustrating cycle that i couldn't escape from.

until the past few weeks. i just finished watching my 3rd episode and it was fantastic! i think it was the season 1 finale? whichever episode it was, the best part was that my mom and i texted through the whole thing!!

i won't recount the entire convo, but my favorite was absolutely the first:

mom: is the pregnant girl on stage?

there's just something about being able to connect with your mom on the most basic things that is so fulfilling. especially when she's so so far away.

salutations

this morning i started something new:

i ran to yoga.

did yoga.

was going to run back from yoga, but i couldn't feel my legs.

i discovered that yoga to the people has a 7am class on tuesdays and thursdays at their 38th street location. it's awesome and only $5/class. there were only 8 people as opposed to the 55 expected for the 6pm class. plus, i was done with my workout by 8am, and it was a true sun salutation. how cool!

at the end of yoga classes, the instructors read a quote for you to reflect on. today's quote was really great:

"Wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure"

- Paulo Coelho Author of The Alchemist