Sofa

Today, I actually did something semi-difficult...



I put together our new sofa! All by myself. It came in a lot of pieces and without the cover on and I fastened it all together, somehow, without breaking it or myself. We haven't had a couch in 1.5 years (the crappy loveseat we had last year does not count) and it's amazing. And I'm officially Ikea-ed out now.

Here are some unrelated pictures from the weekend

New Computer!

Well, I finally have my computer back. I spent a long time yesterday getting everything set up again...downloading my stuff off the external hard drive, reinstalling Photoshop/Illustrator/etc. I'm still not totally done but it's a lot better than when I first got it.


I got this really cool program called iCalviewer that puts it on the desktop and it's awesommmee. I've wanted something like this for so long and looked but never found it!

I also bought a new vacuum for the first time ever (I've always gotten my parents' old ones) and it's so nice to have one again. We haven't owned one since we lived in Columbus and that was over a year ago. The rug is so clean!

Clean Apartment Tour!

New humidifier to cure our dry noses


Our couch will be delivered in the next two weeks!










LED lights! Like candles but better


My grandma made this


We're going to paint the wall with the paintings on it orange


I just got those lights from Ikea and I have to figure out where to hang them.

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I feel kind of guilty because I haven't exactly done anything in the past few days other than take my computer in to be fixed and drop off negatives for prints. I'm just going to blame it on the fact that I've felt pretty sick since Friday/Saturday and no matter what I do/how much Advil I take, my back is killing me. So even though I really want to go to the paint store and start working on the kitchen, the thought of standing (or even sitting) on the subway is really unappealing. Even sleeping hasn't really helped. So I'll leave you with a cute picture of Finny...he's a midget cat.




Hopefully I feel a little better tomorrow and I can get some things done!

Lost 4x5s

I just realized I don't know where any of my 4x5 negatives are and the last time I saw them was over a year ago. I'm really hoping they're somewhere at my mom's house because I want to scan some of them for my portfolio. Today I edited the ones I scanned in a long time ago - they're kind of bad, because my film scanner only goes up to medium format so I had to scan half and half and put them together and the colors were balanced differently even though I worked my Photoshop magic so you can sort of see a faint line down the middle. Click to enlarge (the details are pretty awesome even in these crappy scans).











Those last two are just the middle portions of the negative, which sucks because they're my favorite ones.