Oooh are these cute!
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Small Cool from Apartment Therapy
So…here are my favorites from Apartment Therapy’s Small Cool competition. People are really creative!
Random
Need to do this for my toilet. I have this boxy drawer thing right now, but it’s really rather ugly. The tray is really fancy looking!
Also loving this black and white picnic blanket skirt…I need a brown belt like that.
Also forgot to post this bed, not from Humble Abode, can’t remember where I saw it. Reminds me a lot of grandma and poppa’s bed at the lakehouse. Pretty artwork and quilt too!!!
Color Scheme
Love these calming but bright colors…
Update
Hey hey!
Well it’s been a bit since I last wrote, so I thought I’d do a little update. Had my interview with Direct Supply on Tuesday, which was fun. It’s actually a really cool company…neat to see what a little innovative company actually looks like. I’ve been so indoctrinated by the Whirlpool model, which is more systems than really embodied by the culture, it was interesting to see it on the other side. I’ll be interested to see if Direct Supply starts putting in the systems to keep the innovative culture alive as they expand. Anyway, heard today that I didn’t get an offer. Turns out they really did want someone with 5-10 years of experience after all. This is what they had in their original posts which is why I didn’t apply in the first place, but oh well. Still was able to hang out with Matt for a bit (my cousin Becca’s boyfriend), and free delicious dinner and an amazing hotel room that is bigger than my apartment (although sadly I think lost my glasses somewhere in that room and the hotel can’t find them…sad. Have been wearing my “backup” glasses the past couple days that I found for like $5 online and they hurt like a too-tight headband).
On a brighter note, I had a great phone interview with Uncommon Schools for this operations fellowship. They have a dual leader model of a principal and operations director where the latter takes care of everything non-instructional. So that would be my job the year after the fellowship, which sounds kind of awesome. I just submitted my essay questions today so hopefully I will hear from the committee soon!!
Anyway back to dinner and The Office, so til later!
ps. Also said no to the Whirlpool internship. Still holding out hope for a full-time job…c’mon people!
Good news! And beds
Hi! So first off, I have a second-round interview next week with Direct Supply, an eldercare retail supplier based out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I’ll be there probably next Monday evening to Tuesday afternoon, so hopefully that’ll go well! I also heard from Uncommon Schools, a growing network of urban public charter schools in NY/NJ, to schedule a phone screen for next week. Hooray! I am super excited about this one so hopefully that goes well too! Glad to have some good news finally on the job front… Also heard from Nancy that there is a Whirlpool internship spot open for me, which is quite kind, but at this point I’m really hoping I can jump into a full-time job instead of an internship (though preferably I can start in the fall!!! we’ll see about that one though).
Also, I came across this fantastic website called Humble Abode whilst searching for a nickel bed frame. I really like the look to go in a pale blue bedroom with white bedding and white accessories. Anyway, here are the ones I particularly liked!
Fiat 500
Saw this while we were in Austria. Oh how I hope that Fiat starts producing this in the US!!! I saw pictures of the new version a while back and I didn’t really like it because it didn’t have any of the chrome detailing that this one does–what a difference!!! I will take that in bright apple red, please 
And just in case my bank account magically multiplies itself by 19030123523, I’ve found a slightly higher end option for my next car (Porsche Targa S) 
Doesn’t it look like something someone would park in the driveway of their stone castle drenched in night and storm and filled on the inside with dark mahogany wood and secret passageways??? I think yes.
Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Lichtenstein
Hello! I know, I know–it’s been a long time since my last post. I’m just now taking a breather from our trip to Germany, and then the crazed week after where I had to catch up on everything I missed. Today I have spent quite a lazy morning reading and catching up on facebook (okay, I may have snuck in some daydreaming about DC apartments as well…). I am almost done with Villette (so far NOT as good as Jane Eyre, as I was hoping it would be so I could be part of that small group of devoted Charlotte Bronte fans that knew that the much less known book was actually her best. What a snob I am! Luckily it didn’t come to that and Jane Eyre remains the rightful star). After Villette, I’m going to start Swann’s Way with Laura (anyone else want to join in?). I’ve only read snippets of Proust before, so I’m excited about my first whole novel. From the reviews on Amazon it seems like it’ll be a wading, dense cloud of poignant introspection which, you know, isn’t what I often read! But I’m excited about it and hopefully it’ll be good! I do like a book that makes me think.
But about my trip! We had a great time. It was much different than Todd’s and my trip to Europe two summers ago, in that it was much more relaxed in pace, saw a lot more smaller cities than larger ones. We rented a car, so traveled several hours each day amongst the mountains and valleys and beautiful countryside of Germany and Austria. Also, because we were so close, we decided to dip into Switzerland and Lichtenstein because I had never been and just so we could say we’d been hahaha! It was great fun. We started out in Tubingen where Todd is studying abroad, then went to nearby Stuttgart, Blauboingen, Ulm, and another one I forget the name of…visited the Porsche museum for Michael, which was really fun (we estimated they had over 10 million euros worth of cars in the shop), walked along the winding and steep city streets, climbed the tallest church steeple in the world, visited a natural spring with crazy blue water, hiked in the Alps, then headed over to Salzburg for the Sound of Music tour (awesome but I think Michael was about to throw himself in front of the tires when the whole bus burst out into song…hilarious!), then over to Munich to visit our favorite chocolate shop, bike through the Englischer Gardens, eat lots of delicious Bavarian food (at last! Bavaria! those other regions have nothing on you), and finally tour the Bayern Munchen soccer stadium which was great fun and Michael LOVED. All in all a very fun trip. I was sad we didn’t get to the art museum in Salzburg, but I guess I’ll just have to go back Will post pictures on Facebook soon, but here’s a taste!
