Night blogging, ooooh yeah. Night blogging always feels different from day blogging. More relaxed. Less hurried. Less harried!

I still have the taste of tonight’s dinner in my teeth: beef and lamb gyros. Mmmmm.

“We have to make some changes,” Josh announced to me during our 60 minute phone conversation as he drove home from work.

“Oh yeah?” I said suspiciously. He had just finished telling me how “stressed” he was about hiring a housekeeper. Seriously.

“Yeah like…more brown rice and vegetables.” For a man who hates “Showgirls”, he sure can quote it!

“I knoooooow.” We’ve been eating horribly lately, and it’s showing up in the form of puffy bellies and zits galore. We need to make a LOT of changes.

But sometimes change is hard! Like hiring someone to clean your house. Sure, it’s weird and foreign and new and INCREDIBLY privileged. But will it be worth it in the end? Yes, yes it WILL, JOSH (he doesn’t read this blog, I’m yelling into the void).

Maggie won’t mind it a bit.

My mother was sure that she had lost these beautiful tiles that she purchased at a nursery years ago, but I found them at the bottom of a drawer filled with wrapping paper, old greeting cards and random photographs. She let me have them. I’ve always loved these tiles, loved them enough as a child to draw them, and they look beautiful in our kitchen. Thanks Mom.

Hmmm, where to put the Richard Jarvis painting? She coordinates so well with the papasan.

Er…seemed like a good idea at the time? Thanks, “60’s” filter, for giving my pasty January flesh some cuh-luh. I love that sweater, but it’s wool and it doesn’t love me back. Shaaaaame.

Purple curtains temporary held in place by Christmas ribbon. So many projects, bay-bees, so little time.

Current arrangement of portraits in the parlor, thanks to Josh.

Speaking of failed New Year’s Resolutions (that’s why I usually don’t bother making them), I lasted 6 whole days with my resolution to stop reading Websites that Shall Not be Named. I’m gonna try again though.

Beautiful Mucha and Erte notebooks from Josh. I’m using the Erte one to do a drawing a day.

We had a hard time figuring out where to put this print. It’s currently over some stairs, but I don’t think that’s the best place for it.

Ever-changing random selections on the bookshelves.

Dreamy blues and swirls.

I felt like I had been neglecting the Sony camera lately so I made up for it binging on New House photos the last two days.

Today I picked up a July 1994 “Vogue” and started thumbing through it and the nostalgia made me want to cry! Baby Kate, Shalom, Claudia, Galliano and Versace! And what about NADJA! Ooohhhhhhh “Vogue” you were sooooo good in the 90’s, it hurts.

Bear Cub is quite the snuggle Cub now. It makes me happy.

The weather has been extremely decent this past week–mid 50’s, even. Today we went for a walk and I just had on a fleece jacket! Thank YOU Pacific Northwest winter! You’re so moderate.

This weekend I have an eyelash date and a Broad date. I’m working on a new painting, and it’s working for me! Life is good.