Spring Sprang Sprung

Spring is here! Finally! I didn't even sit through a whole winter, but its been quite a shock to go from California where it was 70-80 degrees, to Pittsburgh where it was 12 degrees, and then suddenly, out of nowhere, the weather here shot up to the 70s, even the 80s! Its been great though...we've had a few 'hot' days...they weren't so much hot as they were humid. I think coming from such a dry area I'll need some time to get used to that, but I'm excited about spending a summer where 100 degree days are the exception rather than the rule. No more 120+ days! Hooray!

Me and Yannis are making a lot of progress on our apartment. We've managed to begin furnishing the 'office', probably now my favorite room in the house. We had a field day at Ikea. I love that place. Yannis, not so much. He's always excited when we first get there, but halfway through, usually in the desk section, he starts to get antsy and cranky and I have to threaten throwing meatballs and lignonberry soda at him if he doesn't snap out of it. We managed to get a really cool desk though, and we finally have an actual 'office.' I'm not sure how much work will get done here, but at least we have a place to keep our computers and books. I finally have a sewing area set up (kinda) and we've got the easel propped up and the paints out. We have a lot of big ideas for the house, and this room specifically. We plan on painting but need to decide on colors, and we want to install a cork wall to hang up photos, 'inspiration', reminders, whatever. We've got a lovely view of our neighbors brick wall, so some non-hideous curtains are in order too. I think this room might become our favorite place to be. Its a lot warmer than the living room, which might be nice when winter comes roaring back.

Winter. Eugh.

Here's some pics of our place!



































There it is, folks! We'll post more as we do and re-do the different parts of the house. We're pretty excited about the cork wall, though.