Art I've Seen Lately That I Love

I've seen some awesome inspiration lately. I saw this at the Anacortes art festival and voted for it in the Popular Poll. Octopuses either are very in right now or I'm just obsessed with them lately because I keep seeing them everywhere.

And then I was looking at a magazine and there was a picture of a room with an awesome piece of art. I then instantly looked him up. The artist's name is James Lecce. I dont know if I would want to hang it up in my living room (unlike the octopus, which I would hang up in an instant), but it's still really interesting. 

Advertising in America

Standing while waiting for the elevator

me: I have to pee

Jeff: as usual...because you have such a tiny...pee holder

me: [stare]

Jeff: Bladder! that's the word

me: [stare]

Jeff: Actually you want to know what your problem is. You have that thing on the commercial with the people made out of pipes bc you go instantly from not having to pee to having to pee really really bad.

Neither of us could figure out what that commercial was actually selling.

Rug on Carpet = Awesome

Story:

Me, while casually looking at IKEA's website: Hey check this rug out. I'm thinking bedroom.

Jeff: I love it

Me: We both love it??? We have to buy it.

Jeff: But it's at IKEA

Me: Well we're going to Seattle bc of Ben's wedding next weekend anyway.

Jeff: Good point

10 days later:

So we get to IKEA 2 amazing things happen: we find a new shortcut and we save 60 bucks. When we found the rug in the rug section, the tag said is was $450, 50 bucks cheaper than what the website said. Score! So we hightailed it to the register, only to have it ring up as $500. So we asked a sales lady and she looked it up and it was $500 in the computer, but she said if we got a manager to verify, then they would honor it. So then we hightailed it back (bypassing the furniture warehouse through the newly told-about shortcut), flagged down another sales lady (who was really nice and awesome) and WHAM! $60 OFF!!!

So we are now the new owner of an awesome IKEA rug. And it lives in the bedroom, even though the bedroom already has carpet. But that's how much we like it. And now Jeff is determined to not put furniture on top of the rug so it "doesn't get those furniture indents"So, us being nerds, we added it to the apartment app (jeffquery.com/apt) and figured out a way. I took it to the next nerd level by actually using a screenshot from the IKEA site.

Rug link (because I don't have any pictures yet).

New Apartment!!!

Here it is. In all its empty glory.

We've started moving stuff in but can't "officially" move until the 18th because that's when the internet/tv is getting hooked and Jeff can't live with internet and I refuse to mess up our tv service until the Olympics are over.

So for now we're just moving the stuff we can live without for two weeks and then we'll do a big push on that weekend we get internet and then be moved into our new place!!!

Also, Jeff built a website to layout furniture: http://jeffquery.com/apt/

Drifting!

This weekend Jeff and I spent one muggy day and one hot day at the Evergreen Fairgrounds in Monroe WA watching cars drive sideways in clouds of burning rubber. It was really fun. We got neat hats.

Things that made this weekend exciting:

1. Getting stuck on the pass due to the construction crew doing blasting. I took this picture by standing in the middle of the road. We were stuck there for an hour and that guy with the Corvette left it running the whole time, which I decided was a large waste of gas.

2. The guy sitting 6 people down from us at drifting with a KOMODO DRAGON!!!! It was massive. And the real question is why did the guy even have it at the fairgrounds?!?!? Today at work I spent a lot of time reading the wikipedia article about komodo dragons and learned that they are not nice (and they eat goats whole and get them down their throat by ramming into trees so the goat gets forced down their throat....this sometimes results in trees getting knocked over because the ramming is so forceful).

3. Jeff randomly selected a car out of the pack based on paint job. I selected my car from my actual knowledge of drifting. They ended up going head-to-head in the battle to see who was first and who was second. My guy won. But we were both screaming encouragement to our respective guys and then debating hotly between the two rounds.

4. Jeff had never been to IKEA, so we had to go. So we went and spent $8!!! Awesome IKEA trip. We also learned that when it comes to big pieces of furniture, Jeff and I agree, but when it comes to accessories and fabric we're on opposite sides of the spectrum.

5. On the way home, we tried to seize the engine of the car. It started being weird and the check engine light came on and the cruise light was blinking. So I called Poppy, who calmly told me the limp it home because that's about all he could do since he was about 150 miles away. But since I'm a smart person (and it seemed like a good place to start) I pulled the oil stick out and discovered that it was bone dry. So we then limped it to the next town (luckily we were only 10 miles away from George, WA) and put some oil in it and magically all the lights went off and it ran fine. Now the new adventure: why was there no oil in my car??

6. While we were sitting in George letting the engine cool, an Audi R8 pulled up!!! This is exciting because that a quarter of a million dollar car in the middle of no-where WA.

So all in all a fun trip!!

As Mamoo used to say "Spending is Saving"

So for the 4th of July, Jeff decided that we couldn't just sit around and do nothing all day. And since we would have a lovely view of the fireworks from our roof, we didn't feel the need to make an adventrue out of it and go to the lake or anything. So options: minigolf or go to the mall and wander around. Minigolf lost because it was too far away. So on our way to said mall we decided to stop by Furniture Row because it was next to it and we nothing better to do. And as we pull into their lot, we found out they were having a TENT SALE!!!

So we were looking and came upon a bedroom set. Now first off, I hate matching furniture. I didn't grow up in a house with it and my need for things to be awesome usually pushes me away from it. So when we find a set that I actually dont really even mind that it matches, that should have been reason enough to buy it. But then on top of that we both liked it!! AND on top of that it was about 56% off!!!! SOLD!!!

Now new problem: getting it home. Luckily Jeffrey (my brother) just finished his welding program (he's now a certified welder!) and is big and strong. Without him we would have been hopeless. So it took three trips and two different vehicles, but we did it!

So now video!! All these videos you'll have to look at the screen sideways to watch (apparently I'm not that awesome at the video taking). There's also a headboard and footboard, but those are still in the box because they are queen size and the bed we currently have is only a full size.





**Mamoo is my great-grandmother (Nani's mom)

Picking out Spices is Hard

Last night Jeff and I went to the grocery store, but we only had about 30 minutes. So Jeff suggested we divide and conquer. I agreed and we split up. I blaze through my half (because I'm awesome) and go to meet him in the produce, where we had designated to meet back up. But he wasn't there. So I started backtracking, only to find him with three things in his basket, standing in front of the spices because they were 'buy 2 get 1 free' and he couldn't decide on a third one.