On the weekends, we amuse ourselves by torturing the dog.
I bought these faux-chocolate dog biscuits for Sadie in the hopes that I would fool Kev and we’d have a repeat performance of last time. So close! I couldn’t let him do it, though.
Grace and Barron came into town on Saturday to buy tiles for their newly rebuilt back porch. We planned to meet for lunch. I waited for Grace’s call to tell me they were on their way, all the while thinking “It’s weird that Grace is coming to Atlanta and not going to Ikea.”
phone rings
“Hi, we’re on our way. Also, do you mind if we meet at Ikea for lunch?”
HURRR! Totally called it.
So while I was there, I decided to replace our dingy paper hanging lamp. Every time I bump the damn thing it ripped a little more. NO MORE PAPER! I had my eye on the FILLSTA lamp. Plastic! And when it gets dusty, just take it apart and hose it off! Perfect.
Except when I got it home, I realized the problem. The paper lamp plugged in and hung from the cord. FILLSTA is hardwired.
I gave Kev the sad puppy face.
He disassembled and unscrewed and respliced and in a few minutes…
My lamp!!!
I love it.
Saturday I decided it was past time to try my recent boozy experiment.
It’s a beautiful pinkish orange.
We tried it with lime juice, simple syrup, and some soda water. Refreshingly tart! I blended it with ice and some mangoes gone overripe. Tropical deliciousness!
We will be enjoying this bottle for a while .
What else, what else…
I started a lace project. Because I was getting twitchy not working on a shawl.
But don’t you already have a lace stole on the needles somewhere?
Who keeps letting you in here? Get out.
The pattern is Luiza and the yarn is NummaNumma Saucy, in the “Red Wine Reduction” colorway.
Totally channeling my friend Olivia on the color. PEEENK!!!
I possibly overindulged on the grapefruit vodka, because Sunday suuuucked. Really, I didn’t even drink that much! But Sunday I was tired and headachey alllll day. The only thing that salvaged it was that we finally went to see Harry Potter.
Tonight I tried to get a rare picture of Sadie playing with a toy, something she doesn’t do very often without a lot of encouragement. She saw me with the camera, though, and promptly dropped it. So instead you get this, which happened when I pushed the “take picture” button instead of the “off” button:
HOT LEGS!
I don’t take very many pictures of myself that I actually like, and there’s not much of my body that I feel is really show-off worthy. But I do like my legs :)
Sadie is very pleased with herself.
Hey, at least my predictability is AWESOME.