Guess who decided to be born today?

I can totally see Jessica in her. Mikey... not so much yet.

Lucy Best

7.5lbs, 19.5 in, born at 1:51 pm on September 18, 2008

Can you believe this beautiful kid was still swimming around Jessica's tummy just twelve hours ago? It amazes me how perfect she is!

Yay for Jessica and Mikey!

Ovrit: an adjective

The state of being completely tired of and wishing one did not have to accomplish a certain task set before one; derived from the root words over and it.

Example: Jenna is so ovrit when it comes to graduate school. She does not see how it is possible to get back into the swing of things when all summer has been so gloriously homework-free.

Solution: Make up words with roommate on a Friday night.

They grow up so fast

I sent the kid off to school tonight. Look how adorable she is with her little coffee mug and backpack.

Bye, Jenn-ay! Have fun in class!

Such a brave kid.

Edited Out

Today was my first day that I actually felt like an editor. Not only did I go through two proposed manuscripts today, but I was even wearing my Express editor pants, and I had to destroy some poor soul with my first rejection letter. 

And then I treated myself to a foot long Subway turkey sandwich at 3pm. I figured I deserved it after all that trauma. 

It still amazes me that we have the POWER to take someone's words and turn them into a book. Fast. Our first book that wasn't written by my boss was sent off last week, and we got the proof in the mail yesterday. I started working on that thing about three weeks ago and now...

Voila! Insta-book!

We tag-teamed this one real good. Justin did the cover, I did the inside design. We're a good team.

Speaking of that kid, he and Jen are moved into their new awesome apartment. And when I say moved in, I mean it looks like they've been living their comfortably for months already. I don't know how they did it, but they started moving in on Saturday, spent only a few hours actually moving things that day, and spent Sunday afternoon unpacking boxes, and were done by 4pm. And that includes a trip to Lowe's where Justin hauled 19-20 bags of rocks onto a cart while I poorly kept count.

Heather and Neil also moved this weekend, into their new condo exactly one block from our office. It's been quite a home improvement weekend all around.

Temperature: 91 degrees

Dear September,

We can be friends again!

Love, Jordan

What a day

So basically we spent ALL DAY making our apartment look livable again.
First we destroyed it by moving everything into the kitchen.
This is Jenna on the couch, in the kitchen:

This is Brittany, on the armchair, in the kitchen:

This is me, not in the kitchen, but in the now empty living room:

This was necessary to do, you see, because you see that big vacuum? That thing was our $50 dirt sucker upper that required a clean slate to work with. In the background are my two lvoely roommates taking advantage of said clean slate to clean the windows. At this point, I was banished to the tiled kitchen floor to throw whatever cleaning supplies they needed across the damp, healing carpet. And take pictures.

I love it; it's like we just moved in:

Fast forward seven hours and trips to Ikea, Costco, Michaels, and Target. Jenna says don't mess with her when she's power drilling:

Our latest decor, compliments of Ikea:

In the midst of our fixing things up all nice, Katelyn arrived, with Brian in tow. We all watched We Are Marshall (good movie) and then everyone went to bed. Except me.

It has been a very long day.

We're off to Ikea

Major spring cleaning going on over here. Like, to the extent that our entire living room is in the kitchen while the carpet dries from the major cleaning we gave it. The $50 carpet cleaner rental didn't pull out the stains quite as well as we'd hoped, so we're off to Ikea to see if we can find a rug to hide the problem. 

And pick up some frames for a wall collage we want to try. 

And look for hooks to hang curtains. 

And get a $1 hot dog

We try to get the most out of our Ikea trips.