every weekend should be like this one.

 It's been a long and wonderful weekend. I've spent blissfully few hours in front of my computer screen-- an interesting change of pace for me, but nice! But now that The Bachelorette premiere is on, I've got two hours of couch-time ahead of me...so I may as do something productive during the commercial breaks, right?

This weekend has been the perfect balance of productivity and relaxation. On the productivity end, I did plenty of this:

And also a few miserable miles of running, which is not nearly as photo-worthy. In addition to several great workouts, I got some good work done in the gardens and flower beds. And some home decor mixing-upping...but I'll get to that later!

On the 'relaxation' side was plenty of lounging around the pool, porches, and couches with Matt's family. And eating. And playing with Timmy!

It's possible that he looks even better in my shades than I do. That's just wrong. The other thing that's wrong is that this is literally the only picture I got of him this weekend. Sad face.

Today I enjoyed my first official pool day of the season...and don't worry, I didn't ruin it by attempting to start swim training. That's for another day. Today was all about soaking in the rays with a good predictable book and frequent dips in the water. It was glorious and exactly what I've been dreaming of all the cold winter long. Hopefully my legs will look less scary in shorts now, too.

So! On Friday night, post-bike ride, Matt decided that we should rearrange the furniture in our bedroom. We've had it the exact same way ever since we moved in (four years ago), and we've played around with the idea of moving things, but never done it...until now!

Before:

View from the doorway (in the living room). Bed is directly in front of you as you walk in, with the (only) window directly behind it. I like how this looks from the living room, but hated having the only window completely blocked and basically useless, as it was too hard to open the curtains/blinds and therefore the room always felt dark.
 
Before:

View from right inside the door- that's the bathroom off to the right and the dresser (with paper on it) right next to you, opposite the bed.


After: 

New view from the doorway. Window is now completely open and exposed and LETS IN LIGHT!!! Bed faces the bathroom doorway now.

After:

View from the other side. Look! Now I have a big huge wall above the bed to decorate! What to do? Gallery wall? Cool...Pinterest...something...??? All ideas are welcome! I'm so excited to have such a prominent place to do something new with!

AND I LOVE THE WINDOW!! I swear we've spent all of our spare time in there since moving things around-- normally we NEVER go in there except to sleep. But now we want to hang out and lounge on the bed, where we can see the whole backyard and our pretty flowers...it's so nice! And Lola...sweet thing is in HEAVEN with a new window to stare out! She just can't figure out where this thing's been all her life. 

So that's that...sorry for the lameness of this post, but I've been slightly busy watching the strangest assortment of men on Earth try to make 'meaningful' introductions on Bachelorette and...wowwwww. Ladies, please raise your hand if at any point in your life the 'man of your dreams' was a part-time magician? A MAGICIAN? Ummm...I feel like that should be your deep, dark secret, bud, not your BEST SELLING POINT. 

So with that, I'll leave you to enjoy what's left of your Memorial Day. And your trashy TV-watching. Let's be honest. I know my audience.