pillow face

i love bedding.

my flowered-everything was looking pretty out of place at this house, so a month ago maybe, i took a trip to west elm and mix and matched a bunch of gray, black and white prints. was kind of pricey, but well worth it. 

not so fast

too sad to take a picture/don't really want to remember it, but both of my orchid flower buds turned pink, shriveled up and fell off in the last two days. so close! at least all of his plants outside are still alive. for the most part. ..thank goodness i'm not responsible for feeding the dogs.

incredible india

countdowns:

22 days until my 27th birthday

85 days until the election

87ish days until the boy returns to texas

95 days until we go to india 

31 days is how long we'll be there

2 days is how long we plan to spend in nepal visiting the o'sullivans

can you even waittt?!

orchid chronicles

you can't fully appreciate this picture because you didn't know how many topless bottles of ranch dressing and moldy jars of jelly and random expired foods there were in here, but this fridge has been completely girlified. there's yogurt. there are vegetables. there's peach butter. i'm not really good at thoroughly cleaning anything, but i think i might take everything out and give it a good scrub one weekend.

tonight i made smitten kitchen's bacon corn hash. it wasn't super labor intensive except for all of the chopping, but it did take a while, and it heat up the whole house. it was delicious though, and it's going to make excellent quiche filling with a little swiss cheese added.

i think it would be perfect for the fall. it would also be yummy turned into chowder. what qualifies as chowder, i wonder?

and let's all take a moment to ooh and aah at the fact that the orchids two new buds are just growing happily along and looking more and more like possible flowers every day.

travel bug

did i tell you i was going to NM to visit the boy for a couple days? i'm back in austin now, but it was such a nice trip after not seeing him for a month. here are a few of the pictures.