Holiday Weekend, pets and such

It's a long weekend, so everyone I know (with the exception of us) is out doing fun things. Camping for the weekend, flights across the country, rafting the grand canyon... and I'm on the couch, writing my first blog post this month and trying not to make ANY. SUDDEN. MOVEMENTS. 


See, our house has turned into the family doggy daycare center for the vacationers, and I have learned if you sit very still they don't expect much out of you and they too, sit still for brief periods of time. If I were to get up and refill my coffee cup, one of the three dogs would assume I'm getting up to feed/entertain/take them on the greatest adventure of their life. Then, incidentally all hell breaks lose. They get all excited, which leads to one of them wanting a pet and the other one feeling like they should be the one getting a pet instead (this would be our dog, drake, he's got only child issues), which leads to a drooling mess of doggy wrestling, which leads to fighting over a toy they didn't want 12 seconds ago before I made my move. With that being said, I'm going to get some serious couch action this weekend. I'd take a photo of our kennel arrangements, but that would require me to move, and I just can't allow that to happen. 


Happy Memorial Day weekend to all of you adventurers out there. 

Dog Humor

If you are a dog and we adopt you, you are going to be spoiled as shit and get daily park visits and an endless amount of pets, but we will also make fun of you and find ways to entertain ourselves at your expense. 

ME: "LOOK! LOOK! I put a piece of bread on the dog's face!
He looks so stupid." 

BOYFRIEND: "Lookie der, we done got ourselves some sort
of "in-bread" dog.

It's blurry, because dogs don't exactly like to sit still when they have a piece of bread mounted on their snot.
They also go cross eyed which is hilarious.

Paint it Black

I have been sick for 18 days now. 18 days!?! I've had every cold symptom imaginable come and go and come back again. The cashiers at Walgreen's are stating to look at me with a raised eyebrow when I go back for more cold meds. Don't worry surrogate momma readers, I'm finally on antibiotics. If I'm not better in T-6 days, I was told to return to the doctor for the 4th time, presumably to be diagnosed with the plague.


But, the reason I'm telling you all of this is because I've spent a lot of time on the couch lately. We're talking the entire series of The United States of Tara and nearly finished with the second book in the Hunger Games. The couch and I have had this undeniable bond lately.


While spending my nonworking hours curled up in a ball on the couch, I've spent a lot of time staring at our walls and thinking up a drastic change.


Black.


I'm craving some serious black wall drama. We already have the chalkboard wall in the kitchen, which happens to be my favorite wall in the house, but I want more. Not more chalboard walls, because let's face it, there's only so much chalk fun for one house.



For those of you who assume I'm sniffing cold meds, take a look at these beauties:

1, 2, 3, 4

So, the question is, what area in the house could handle a little splash of black?

New Kid in Town

I have been obsessed with the idea of Bollywood lately. I'm not exactly sure why. I've never seen a full Bollywood movie and I can't name one Bollywood actor, but I've been wanting to learn Bollywood dance moves, have Bollywood themed parties and eat Bollywood food- whatever bollywooders eat. 

Earlier in the week, boyfriend and I walked to our favorite icecream shop and right next door is the answer to how I'm going to fulfill all my Bollywood dreams.

How cool is this place!?!

photos: Portland Monthly

Real life Up House Update

A few months ago, I blogged about the real life UP house in Portland. I was wondering what happened to the cute Victorian house amidst the downtown construction and did a little digging. It looks like the house won the battle and is staying put. Construction is continuing around the house. If you look closely at the rendering, you'll see a little tiny house nestled among the modern architecture. 

In other places it probably wouldn't fly, but somehow this just fits the Portland style. 

Speaking of Portland style, we just got invited to a mobile art show to take place in a van at a street fair, and of course they will be serving up some home brewed kombucha. It doesn't get any weirder than that. 

Keep Portland Weird. 

I branded us

I haven't been this excited about a stamp since the second grade. 

Our wedding planing has gone like this:

1) book the venue

2) create a logo

3) make a stamp 

when you work in Marketing/ Advertising, your priorities aren't always in check, but seriously, who needs a cake when you have a sweet logo! 

Hey Stranger

It's been too long since I've written a post, I know that. But, I'm blaming pinterest. Pinterest sucks up nearly every minute of my internet free time and whatever time I have left goes into wedding stuff and thinking about things I saw on pinterest. It's pure pinsanity (yes, i just made that up), feel free to use this word in your daily vocabulary. 


I also admit, that between the pinning and the nonstop wedding talk, I'm afraid of turning into this: