Adventures In Napping

Isn't it nice sometimes when your roommates take a nap? All of the sudden, especially with accidental naps, it's quiet and you have this free time and get to do whatever you want? My roommate is napping right now and so I am playing with our camera and blogging. I still feel completely overwhelmed by this camera of ours because I still don't know how to do much more than turn it on, focus, and look at pictures (all of my pictures are taken on auto).


Our garden has proven itself over these past few months. I am proud! Although we did not get any cucumbers or spicy peppers, we got a lot of the other stuff. The lettuce and onions have been stripped and we are now enjoying handfuls of tomatoes. Correction, I am enjoying handfuls of tomatoes (elliott can't stand them...that's too bad....). This past week our garden has pooped out a few surprises too! We thought our squash and honeydew mellon plants were only going to grow leaves, but we have one squash and two melons coming in. They better do their growing fast.

And I found more pictures from the Baltimore Aquarium. Yes....more pictures. They just keep popping up. Check out the turtle with the wicked long next and the shark with all those teeth.

Tonight I'm visiting the 80's as my dad is taking us to the Erasure concert. 80's music is his one true love and so we're going to support him...and watch him play his air guitar.

We Did Something Right

Three weeks in and look what we have here:

We did something right because everything is growing, and pretty fast! Check out the one red strawberry we have and the other ones on the way.

Elliott's 25th birthday was yesterday. We started with breakfast: ebelskiver with raspberry sauce and fresh cream. The middle of the day was boring because it was totally normal and we both had to work and go to school. Then we went to our probably favorite restaurant Chanon Thai. We had cake and ice cream over at my parent's house and opened presents! 

It's strange to thing that Elliott is already 25 and I met him when he was 21. We've both done some changing, but I still love the things that haven't:

1. Elliott's smile (and smile lines that accompany)

2. Listening to new music albums together

3. Making dinner and breakfast together

4. Taking road trips together and listening to This American Life

5. Planning

6. Being completely ridiculous together (which would be totally embarrassing if anyone else was around).

7. Elliott's artistic side

There are also new things I love too:

1. Elliott's found love for watching and playing soccer 

2. Long bike rides together

3. Climbing

4. New recipes

5. Backpacking/Camping

6. Finding new shows to watch and become addicted to (Dexter, Mad Men, The Walking Dead, Friday             Night Lights, Man vs. Food, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia).

7. Planting gardens

Happy Birthday Elliott. I love you more than Nick loves to say random things that don't make sense, and more than my mom loves HGTV, and more than my dad loves to lay on beaches. I even love you more than Mollie loves walks/treats/belly rubs.

Vegetable Garden

Yesterday, spontaneously, we planted a vegetable garden in our weed-ridden backyard (weeds including our xmas tree of two years ago). We went to Lowe's to pile up on supplies and get started. We came back with a vegetable garden kit for the actual box, 6 bags of soil, cucumbers, three types of tomatoes, cilantro, sweet basil, strawberries, honeydew, sweet onions, and sweet and spicy bell peppers.

We'll see in about 3 months if we did anything right.

Flowers

As Elliott and I were at the gym last night, I knew that I had the day of today. I was stretching on a mat and my thoughts were split between finding something to do today and finding something to work my weak little legs. We went to the gym without a real plan of what we wanted to do so I was trying to figure out a good leg exercise on the spot. I tried to think of something that I could draw out from my exercise bank from all my years of soccer. Lunges immediately came to mind. I haven't done them in a while and was afraid of embarrassing myself in front of all the people on the machines but at that very moment, I looked up and saw a guy on the elliptical to my right passionately mouthing the lyrics to the music on his iPod. Well, nothing I'm going to do can be as embarrassing at that right? So I gave the lunges a shot. Now that that decision was made, I began to think of something to do today.

Planting. This is what I came up with. Our porch is screaming for some color. We have been meaning to get some flowers for our porch for the longest time and today, we did it. We were given a big blue pot filled with greenery and flowers last year (thanks mom) but ever since it's sad death in the winter, it has been sitting on our porch brown and shriveled up. So today we went and got a few things just to get started. Our porch/stair situation may not be very easy on the eyes, but the flowers definitely help.

Elliott's brother Graham bought a a money tree last year and it has been stuck in the tiny plastic pot it came in ever since. We bought a larger pot a while ago but have neglected to buy some soil to fill it, so this also happened today:

Three ceramic pots (yellow, purple, green)= $22.00
Flowers to fill them= $17.00
Much needed potting soil= $7.00

It's amazing what $46 can do to a porch, especially one that's as small as ours. It's already looking a lot better (and more welcoming). It finally looks like someone actually lives in our apartment. Beth has the gardening fever now. Too bad our backyard is filled with weeds.