Whine Fest:

Well friends,

 

I generally avoid using my blog as a means to vent my frustration, but it's overflowing in my life right now. So, I guess you all are subject to hearing me whine here as well.

We originally were staying in Sacramento because it was our safety city. Colin had a secure job here, I had job leads here, and we had a place to live. We gave up Portland, because it didn't have those same stable opportunities. Well, now Sacramento has lost every stable point it had. So why are we here? I don't like this city most days. It's unbearably hot during summer, it lacks vegan options, and it doesn't have some of the same art/music advantages of other bigger cities (ie: Portland)

We sat around being bummed out for a week, lamenting over how we were going to be homeless and broke. Then yesterday, Colin came up with a flowchart for us, with the first step being whether or not he was offered a benefited position at his job (He is currently Per Diem)

I followed it up by making us a lovely dinner of roasted rosemary and garlic red potatoes and green beans, a basic salad, and some sourdough bread from a local bakery,

here's colin enjoying a bite:

Favorite Nook

I'm trying to enjoy the rest of my time off before working starts, so I've been doing some reorganizing/decorating. Most of the pieces I have are thrifted/criagslisted, so they all have little imperfections. But I love that, I feel like it gives a space character.

Right now, this is my current favorite new nook:

Summer Nights...

The recent warm summer evenings have me itching to fix up our backyard. We currently are in a rental, that we've been in for ~2 years. Unless something comes through with another property we were looking at, we're going to be here for the next three years. I've come up with a rough idea of what I'd like to do with our backyard. Excuse my plans (& their lack of size ratio), I'm by no means a landscape designer...



This gives a rough idea of what I was thinking. Most of the stuff will be somewhat mobile so that we can take it with us. It will be done slowly in phases. But I'm looking forward to it!