K is for Kismet: A place for all the things I love and love to share!
There's a new little love in my life! She's a sweet little West Highland Terrier girl named Abigail (Abby for short) and she has a lot of energy and a lot to learn!
My big sis is also in town for a few days visiting from Houston with her sweet friend Suzette so I see some Disney in our future too. :)
So between the puppy sweetness, moving into my new home this week (finally!), my lack of internets (sad face here), and my big sister visiting (yay!) my blogging will be a bit sporadic for a little bit...
Lo siento, internet friends! I will be trying to blog from my phone a bit to make up for it but the formatting is always off with that so.... :/ bear with me please!
Hope you're week is as joyful as wonderful little stinky puppy breath kisses!
Kisses,
K
(Photo by Krista Carson. Adorable Westie pup by God.)
Jiggity Jig! Today the Husband and I sign the lease on our new home for the next couple of years!
Beyond excited!
It's a lovely Mediterranean/ Tuscan hybrid of a house with 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, a great kitchen for cooking, and a pool! It's perfect for us right now and the lady managing the property is lovely to boot. Win. Win.
More to come once we move in but I have butterflies in my belly just waiting to get the keys. Hooray for new homes!
Kisses,
K
(Photo via Hotpads.)
Today I find myself really missing my beautiful friend who made me this beautiful basket of succulents.
We've both been going through some hard times lately and I miss how our laughter would fill the room. It always cheered me up.
I'm always on the hunt for cool, quirky, and fun furniture and accessories to get for our (currently nonexistent*) house.
Plus I always lurve anything science-y. Rocks, barometers, Da Vinci thermometers... They just look awesome and are functionally cool to boot. J'adore!
So when I came across this radiometer on the Canoe website (a cool store in Portland, OR) I knew it was one for my dream home archives. Yes, please!
" The radiometer is an instructive object which demonstrates the scientific theory of converting natural light into energy. Powered only by light itself, it will spin slowly in low light conditions, furiously in direct sunlight or well-lit rooms up to 2,000 revolutions per minute. It remains unresponsive to fluorescent light. Science lesson aside, this blown glass radiometer functions as an engaging and sculptural object in its own right. Made in Germany."
Just think of the fun we could have watching it spin and spin while maniacally laughing about the wealth of natural sunlight in the state of Florida after living with a dearth of it in Seattle for so long!
Aaaah, good times people, good times...
Crazy aside though, it's just a super cool objet d'art that I'd really enjoy having around. Do you like incorporating a little science into your home?
Kisses,
K
*The Husband and I are still on the hunt for a house to rent near his new job in the tiny Florida town we'll be calling home for a while. Nothing right or with the right timing has materialized yet... don't ask... sigh...
(Photo and radiometer via Canoe.)
So I'm pretty sure I fell off the edge of the internets... Beware there be dragons here...
My electronic paraphernalia has been prone to fits of disfunctionality on the regular making it über hard to post and life has been nuts.
Amongst the many changes:
My cousin who should have turned 30 first, died this year right before his birthday.
I flew to FL for my youngest brother's wedding to both participate and assist in its execution. He is only 24 ya'll. Crazy love, crazy stress, crazy fun!
Flew back to Seattle for my hubs graduation. My husband finally finished his Anesthesia residency program after four years!
I turned 30! on July 2! (Eeep!)
We said goodbye to all our friends and moved from Seattle back to... FL! For my husbands new job in.... da da da dA! Tiny Tavares, FL. Culture shock much? I think yes.
We are currently still homeless (i.e. crashing with my parents an hour away in Orlando) while trying to find suitable living up in the middle of nowhere. Are we fussy? But of course. Where's my Staples easy button?
My parents then moved right after we moved to FL, while we're crashing with them. Their new house is awesome but totally in a stressful state of moving disarray. (Plus, didn't we just do the moving truck and boxes thing a couple weeks ago? Yes, yes we did...)
Also, my parents household currently consists of: my parents, my ill elderly Grandmother, my youngest brother, his wife, my husband, me,and their dog. I'm pretty sure at this point in their life that list should be significantly shorter. But it's not and they're super awesome for allowing all the crazy!
(Suitcase life is grand and all but I want all my sh** back out of storage!)
Also, being car-less in Chicago and Seattle was easy. In FL? Not so much...
Positive stuff, they rented out our old place for August so we got August rent $ back!
We're going to be insured and making dolla dolla bills again (we had nada for the month of July b/c no one worked for the month of July. There was just oodles of medical boards studying going on.)
And... We have a three day weekend coming up so we're heading down to the Vinoy in St. Pete to kick off our shoes and relax couple style. So I did my nails in an attempt to pretty it up again and hold on to the last bit o' summer.
So... That's the gist. Got it all? It's been one heck of a crazy, crappy, and sometimes awesome year... I'm looking forward to things settling again. I'll be posting re-cap stuff with photos as able and hopefully some new new stuff soon too.
In the meantime, here's a pic of my awesomely silver fingertips on my Mom's summery nautical pillow. I'm wearing Essie's "There's No Place Like Chrome."
Sometimes it's the little things, right?
Kisses,
K
(Photos still by me b/c no one else would want to take a pic of my nails, duh... Ha! Pillow from a previous season by Pottery Barn, Nail-polish Essie's "There's No Place Like Chrome.")
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