"grown-up casual"

~matt's description of how we want our house to look, particularly on the middle floor

thanks so much everyone for your comments on the last post. It's hard because I know all those things, it's just that once you get going with the worry thing it begins to snowball. I have decided that I am going to ask my church about the living with matt affecting my ability to be a youth leader. mostly because I DON'T want to deal with some type of a "situation" with an upset parent later. it's not necessarily any of their business but I also don't want to have to deal with it or worry about it in the future, y'know? (update: I called and asked, and as long as I don't advertise it, it should be fine. I did tell her that I didn't want to lie about it but I didn't mind avoiding the subject. :) )

so, I bought patio furniture last night. and a blue and white towel. my mom has requested that I paint our powder room powder blue. with all of the other crazy colors on that floor I figure a calm one might not be so bad. :) I also found a neat thing on benjamin moore where for ten bucks you can download a program that will take your own pictures and let you "paint" the walls. it will help a lot for us to see what it looks like. especially matt. I believe he thinks I'm a leetle overzealous with the colors. we shall see.

oh, I also bought a bath mat. I'm not positive about it but it's REALLY soft and I like the design. and the colors are better in person than in that picture--way less washed out and less brownish. They have this pattern in many colors (that blue and white towel matches their blue rug)--I may just have this pattern in all three of the bathrooms. I already have a khaki shower curtain and there's a brown and khaki and white version of the rug, too. I could paint the walls a really rich red or purple or blue or something and that might look awesome. we'll see...

this weekend I became quite possibly the coolest girlfriend ever. (no offense to you other girlfriends out there) matt had to do a slideshow for school. it turned into three slideshows. we used animoto which is SUPER cool. due to his schedule I ended up helping him A LOT--resizing most of the pictures and ultimately re-making the slideshows when we realized that a lot of pictures were left out. he HAD to have them saturday night so I actually drove to outback to get them to him. I think I spent, oh, seven or eight hours helping him/getting it to him. He needed them for the dance and they were a HIT! But yeah, coolest girlfriend ever.

and on sunday we grilled steaks and baked taters and corn-on-the-cob and played bocce while drinking beer. and talked about house plans. we might've even drawn diagrams. I am SO excited about moving in with him. I just kind of wish it were, oh, july 12th so we'd be on our trip to OK instead of thinking about house stuff. :)