"why can't we have a pause button"

It's been so long since I have been able to sit down at our computer and blog. The last few post have been half attempts at blogging on my blackberry. The last few months have just flown by. I honestly don't know where the time has gone. I blame this mostly on my job. Things are always so busy the days just fly by. I have been working just a few hours of overtime each week and the nights go as quickly as the days. I feel like everything is in fast forward and I am desperately needing it to slow down! The great thing is with Joe not working right now I have had the luxury to slack on my house work because he pretty much does almost everything. I have such a good husband who does not mind to pitch in when he needs to. I haven't done a load of laundry in almost a year.
Things are going pretty well for us right now. Joe starts his new job at Duke on the 26th so he is down to his last two weeks at home. This past week he has been working on moving the apartment around. We got rid of our dining room table back in November and our Christmas tree filled up the space in our dining room. Since the weekend after Christmas we have had a pretty much empty dining room. Joe took me to IKEA for my birthday which is easily my favorite store right now. I got 2 floating shelves which were tricky to hang (at least for us) but I love them!





This is how the dining room looks now. I would still like to find a better way to hide the cords for the internet but the table will work for now. The far right is a little piece of our TV. Which has to sit slightly into the dining room because our apartment is a bit of a odd shape, especially with a couch and love seat. If I could afford it I would like to get a new sofa from IKEA one that is somewhat of a sectional but a bit smaller than our current one. My next goal to to replace the computer desk and TV stand to match the dark brown tables and shelves. We also have a deep freezer which is in the other corner of the dining room and I think I might store it until we move into a house. It's nice to have but we really don't need that much freezer room right now. One day I hope to get it all finished but until then...at least I have IKEA. :)