Eyjafjallajökull

I know the volcanic ash from Iceland has caused a lot of problems, but
this video makes it so amazing and wonderful.

As a side note, Jonsi (the music) is Jay's favorite running music. I want him to go to a Jonsi/Sigur Ros concert to experience the unexplainable, amazingness that is a Sigur Ros concert, but they never seem to come here anymore. What does everyone have against Houston? Eh?

The Best Songs From My Running Playlist

Florence + The Machine - "Cosmic Love" Go Listen
Passion Pit - "Sleepyhead" Go Listen
The Age of Information - "Tell Her Something" Go Listen
Cinematic Orchestra - "To Build A Home" Go Listen
Moonbabies - "Take Me to the Ballroom" Go Listen
Relient K - "I Celebrate the Day" Go Listen

We Do Love Our Projects

I feel like we would have pictures to post of all the house projects we've been working on...but nothing is finished! I just don't know how it happens, but our projects never seem to wrap.

Current projects:

• Backyard: Jay was out of town one weekend, so I decided to clean off the patio, which led me to search for a use for all these random bricks, which led me to line and clean out a bed (or the remnants of an old bed). This apparently inspired Jay because he spent the next week ripping out EVERYTHING in the backyard. Days and days of ripping. And believe me, it needed ripping. So now it's at least cleaned out...I would put a picture of his handy-work up but can't figure out how to get pictures off my phone...Jay?
  
• Guest Bathroom: One of the most dated and icky parts left in our house is the guest bathroom. And people, do you know how expensive those things are to get redone? So my mom and I decided we would just start painting. Painting takes time. And coats. So currently, the walls are (mostly) bright white (because we literally paint everything in our house white or grey), the cabinets are peely yucky off-white, and the floor is ugly. Got a ways to go...but looking better...
  
• Furniture (or lack thereof): I finally got around to ordering a dining room table and patio table...back ordered. Thanks for nothing Crate & Barrel.
• Front Living Room: Here we're making some progress. Jay's parents gave us a piano (!) and record player (as in giant piece of furniture record player - which we painted white because that's what we do)...both dads gave Jay their records so that in a matter of a month Jay went from owning no vinyl to being the envy of his hipster, H&M-loving friends. And so for my birthday, I had Jay help me make display shelves for the records. And tomorrow (hopefully) we're going to get an amazing midcentury modern-ish couch I found on Craigslist (my first Craigslist experience-and I convinced the lady to throw in the matching chair she was selling for $150 for $50)! And hopefully redoing the floors soon...and see what I mean...things just can't reach a finishing point... Just so we all feel better, here is a picture of our finished display shelves (Jay has since swapped out the records so that the coolest are up there):

So pity us (especially Jay since he doesn't really like projects), and hopefully we'll have more finished projects and pictures soon.