Progress

Hey look!  An office!

Now my crap is actually semi-organized.

Kyle was getting really tired of seeing FODMAPs research articles and GI studies piled up all over our old apartment, so he gifted me some file cabinets in the “office” of our new place.  Such a romantic, that one.

As you can see, the casa is coming along quite nicely.

Our extra bedroom is big enough to double as an office and workout room.  And guest bedroom, of course.

While unpacking we found a box of electronics that would make Steve Jobs roll over in his grave.  Seriously, there were flip phones from the 90s, iPods from 2002, and cameras that didn’t even show a digital image on the back.  The best discovery of all, though, was a cd with a free AOL demo.  Kyle teases me a lot because I’m a bit of a packrat, but I was pretty embarrassed that certain things had evaded the trash for so long.  I had cords for appliances that haven’t seen the light of day since college.  Even Salvation Army would have rejected most of the things we found!  Much to Kyle’s delight, we managed to reduce 3 boxes of electronics down to one ziplock bag.

And when it came to the closets…

Purging can be so therapeutic.  I finally enforced the if-you-haven’t-worn-it-in-a-year rule (which actually extended to if-you-haven’t-worn-it-since-moving-from-New-York).  Let’s just say, I’m barely left with anything but scrubs and running gear.  Note to self: get a life [so you have a reason to get a real wardrobe].

Our bedroom is nearly done (the above photo is from a couple days ago so it’s actually even more put together now).

And then there’s the kitchen.

I’m pretty proud of how it came together.  The pantry still needs a bit of work, but at least everything is put away somewhere.

Not so sure about this oven…

Outside is pretty bare, but once we have a few months to financially recover we have our sights set on a fire pit.

And since this post is already all kinds of random, here’s another new purchase.

They aren’t pink, but my new Toms are still the cutest damn things ever.  I smile every time I look down at my feet. 

If you weren’t jealous of the free AOL demo or the Toms, maybe this will bring on the envy.  We are now within a few blocks of the Santa Monica Co-op.  Hallelujah!

The salad bar has avocado!  Have you ever seen a salad bar with avocado?  Golly green beauty!  I was so excited I made Kyle blush bury his head in shame as I leapt up and down with joy.

Then I proceeded to add the equivalent of 3/4 of an avo to my salad.  I showed amazing restraint in not adding more, too.

They also had teriyaki tofu, so I made a nice little monster for dinner with kale, spinach, shredded carrots, red bell pepper, quinoa, and nutritional yeast.

This epic creation blew my mind in such a phenomenal way that I had the same thing the next night.  But that was the end of it.  Yup, my kitchen is back.  So now I’m back.

Hopefully I remember how to cook.

Yeahhhh…I think I’m gonna be okay. 

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