Whoa...look what I just stumbled upon. Peanut butter puff pastry s'mores. These need to be made. Sometime soon. Found the recipe here.
26 February 2011
25 February 2011
Terrifying!
So this evening I was casually thinking about what I should blog about today, tomorrow or sometime soon. When randomly (i have no clue why...) I remembered that the most terrifying thing happened last night and I totally forgot until JUST now. Don't you love how our brains do that? Looking back now...it's completely hysterical.
I've been sleeping a lot lately. For example, Sunday evening I slept from about 5:30pm until 8am-9am the next morning! Also, at night I've been quickly falling into a deep sleep, which is a bit unusual for me. As such, last night I quickly fell asleep while reading in bed with the light on around 9:30pm.
Well, at around 11:00pm or so (if i remember right...) I literally skyrocketed out of bed! I have never gone from such a peaceful, deep sleep to utter and completely chaos.
Now, I love our new house, but something seriously needs to be done about our smoke alarms. Some genius engineer had the bright idea to connect all the smoke alarms in our house, so that when one alarm goes off - ALL OF THE FREAKING ALARMS IN OUR TINY 1200 SQFT HOUSE BELT OUT THE HIGHEST PITCHED SCREAMING NOISE IN THE UNIVERSE!! I'm pretty sure we have enough blasted alarms to cover the square footage of our whole block!
So as I was happily dreaming away, Dan decided to do a little late night cooking and set off our extremely sensitive smoke alarm system.The alarm in our room is right over my head. I'm pretty sure that as it went off, I felt the earth shake. I was so startled from sleep that I literally thought the world was ending. I can't even describe how fast my heart was racing because I was so disoriented! I stumbled down the stairs to make sure there wasn't a real fire. And of course not....Dan was just cooking (fake smile). For a good minute I was shaking because I was so scared out of sleep and then....within a few minutes I made it back upstairs and I fell back asleep! HAHA! Looking back now, I have no idea how I slept after having so much adrenaline going through me because I was so terrified.
This isn't the first time something like this has happened. Around Thanksgiving, Dan set the alarm off while I was in the shower (like 3 times in a row!) and I thought I was going to have to run out of my brand new burning house in my just my towel. When we have friends over and cook, it goes off with just the faintest amount of smoke. It wouldn't be so bad if only ONE ALARM went off....but instead we have 20 SCREECHING ALARMS. UGH!
Something has to be done about this....
I've been sleeping a lot lately. For example, Sunday evening I slept from about 5:30pm until 8am-9am the next morning! Also, at night I've been quickly falling into a deep sleep, which is a bit unusual for me. As such, last night I quickly fell asleep while reading in bed with the light on around 9:30pm.
Well, at around 11:00pm or so (if i remember right...) I literally skyrocketed out of bed! I have never gone from such a peaceful, deep sleep to utter and completely chaos.
Now, I love our new house, but something seriously needs to be done about our smoke alarms. Some genius engineer had the bright idea to connect all the smoke alarms in our house, so that when one alarm goes off - ALL OF THE FREAKING ALARMS IN OUR TINY 1200 SQFT HOUSE BELT OUT THE HIGHEST PITCHED SCREAMING NOISE IN THE UNIVERSE!! I'm pretty sure we have enough blasted alarms to cover the square footage of our whole block!
So as I was happily dreaming away, Dan decided to do a little late night cooking and set off our extremely sensitive smoke alarm system.The alarm in our room is right over my head. I'm pretty sure that as it went off, I felt the earth shake. I was so startled from sleep that I literally thought the world was ending. I can't even describe how fast my heart was racing because I was so disoriented! I stumbled down the stairs to make sure there wasn't a real fire. And of course not....Dan was just cooking (fake smile). For a good minute I was shaking because I was so scared out of sleep and then....within a few minutes I made it back upstairs and I fell back asleep! HAHA! Looking back now, I have no idea how I slept after having so much adrenaline going through me because I was so terrified.
This isn't the first time something like this has happened. Around Thanksgiving, Dan set the alarm off while I was in the shower (like 3 times in a row!) and I thought I was going to have to run out of my brand new burning house in my just my towel. When we have friends over and cook, it goes off with just the faintest amount of smoke. It wouldn't be so bad if only ONE ALARM went off....but instead we have 20 SCREECHING ALARMS. UGH!
Something has to be done about this....
16 February 2011
Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs are my favorite thing.
My childhood memories are filled with imaginative stories of these giant beasts.
Seeing 'real' dinosaurs at the American Museum of Natural History was one of the coolest experiences I've ever had.
I could live at AMNH...for realz.
As silly as it is -Jurassic Park is one of my most favorite flicks.
People who say that dinosaurs didn't exist are dumb. Straight dumb.
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| I enjoy making story boards. It's a good way to show a lot of pictures at once...especially my travel photos. |
14 February 2011
Ellis Island
Some of the best moments of my NYC vacation were in the Ellis Island museum. I am a total family history nerd. I've personally researched both sides of my dad's family, the majority of which came through Ellis Island. On his side we originate from Vimpeli, Finland and Bellosguardo, Italy. I'm also lucky to have a lot of research done already from my mom's side (Irish and English).
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| The Lund girls above would not have the freedoms we have today, without our ancestors hard work and determination to have a better life in America (Registry Room, Ellis Island). I love this quote that I saw at the museum, "America's a big deal in Italy those times...Because when they sent the letter or a picture...it was a big deal....Everybody thought everybody was rich in America....The Italian people, they thought that America was gold." - Victor Tartarini, an Italian immigrant in 1921. |
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| The Registry room back in the day. |
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| Looking at all the old documents was amazing. I wish I had old passports of my ancestors, like this one. I have only an image of one. |
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| Love this propaganda. |
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| Great light and angles... |
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| View of Manhatten from the window. A few of my Italian ancestors (my nana's grandma) were held for a time at Ellis Island because another member aboard their boat had a disease similar to pink eye. I wonder if they found themselves looking through the same window during their stay there. |
10 February 2011
quilt?
Add this to my weekend list. Maybe my spring/summer project? Making a beautiful bright quilt.
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| From Amy Butler |
PS- I'm becoming such a "blogger" lately. Trying to get all my posts in before track season starts!
Crafty weekend(plural)...
Maybe if I make a virtual commitment to doing something productive on weekends...I will ACTUALLY do something productive?!? Last weekend I finally got my act together and made curtains for our bedroom and kitchen sink window. It was about time I stopped walking in front of my bedroom window completely naked...I mean...we have neighbors now!!! :) Geesh.
Last weekend:
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| Dan dyed his coat a darker shade of blue/black, so we experimented by throwing in a bunch of old shirts we don't really enjoy. Now we have a few new shades in our wardrobe! This definitely needs to be continued with new colors/new fabrics on future weekends. |
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| Just a new little flowery spring piece I added by the window. |
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| Fabric for the kitchen. |
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| crappy lighting, but bright, colorful kitchen curtains! |
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| fabric for closet window |
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| the lighting is pretty bad in this shot, but we have smaller sized windows in the hallway of our bedroom, so we needed little curtains to give us some privacy (=no more window nakedness). |
sewing in a straight line = easy
The major time-consumer was ironing to perfection. :)
Sewing< 10minutes.
So here is my list for this weekend and the weekends to come:
- Make matching curtains for other kitchen window.
- Buy roman shade for living room window.
- Shop for and prep these delicious desserts from Martha Stewart for Valentine's day yummy!
- decide what photos need to be enlarged for bedroom/living room walls. pick out frames. choose a fun design from a pinterest pin.
- try planting my flower bulbs (yes. i know. they are supposed to be planted in the fall. i get it. but it doesn't hurt to try. they will be useless next fall anyways. dang.)
- paint wall shelves antique white. put shelves up in guest bedroom.
- decorate shelves.
- figure out the bookcase situation upstairs. current state = disaster.
- organize outside closet boxes (HAHAHA...okay I won't actually do this...EVER. even though i really need to. i'll save it for an absolutely boring summer day when there is literally nothing better to do.)
- make more lists of things to do. i'm pretty sure this is a small portion of what really needs to be done.
07 February 2011
6 pack?
Did the "Get Focused" Nike Track Club shoulder workout today with the above drill. Like. New goal: to have this girl's abs...and shoulders. :) So jealous.
06 February 2011
Hair + long bangs?
Totally miss this long hair.
If I could ever find a decent hairstylist in the area, I am going for the long blunt bangs per Katy Perry.
