M3-- WEEK TWENTY SEVEN

Want to see my redesigned office?!

Last year, I painted it a bold blue with hopes to make it a fun-uplifting space. Well, it just kept collecting furniture until it held 3 desks, a filing cabinet, 2 bookshelves, 2 office chairs, 2 floor lamps.. etc. It was way too much. So we went for the total-overhaul approach!

Over the past little while, the office furntiure was downsized and rearranged, a new chair and rug were purchased, new storage was bought/assembeled/installed (thanks T!), and the room was painted. We bought the chair from Restore, the rug from Garden Ridge, the cabinets were on clearnace at Lowes, and my mom found the art on clearance at BBB -- so the room was redesigned for very little $$! I had plans to construct built-in cabinets but happened to search for pre-made cabinets since we already had one (and because the price of building cabinets was going to be outside our budget for a while..). These pre-mades miraculously still fit the room nearly perfect! It was meant to be :) I ended up buying every cabinet in Omaha because after I installed the base row, I decided we needed more! Poor T.. he never knows what I'll come home with..

Distraction-free zone!

I will still probably recover the chair and paint it white. Otherwise, I'll eventually switch out the bifold door knobs and find cute pillows for the chair.. but it's finished! I don't know that I ever said that about a room in this house.. or had so little left on the to-do list!

As fun much as I love my "new" office.. I should probably document a little about our busy/fun week! Here is a quick run-down (my pictures are uniformly terrible from the past week. I don't think my phone is focusing as quick as it used to - I am ending up with loads of blurry pictures!)

+ We started Sunday night with a wedding between two of our friends from my medical school class. It was fun to be back at our wedding venue! We ate good food, had good company, and I enjoyed time on the dance floor while T watched some football with the men!

+ NYE we went downtown to Blue for sushi with 8 other awesome people. The only downside? We got a speeding ticket on the way (Farnam St is only 30mph! You can thank me later..) and Blue was so booked with reservations that they wouldn't let us order additional food after round one. Lame! After sushi, we crashed at our friends' house, watched Creighton basketball, ate more food (quesedillas and Jacobo's salsa), and played games. Bonus points for you if you noticed that S and I wore the same dress!

+ We watched the Husker game with a lot of the same group from NYE. It was the perfect setup - a huge sectional, a huge projector, and lots of delicious food (protein and carbs only! our favorite!). It was totally worth waking up early on Jan 1 for the Husker win!

+ Thursday night we were treated to dinner by one of my favorite people from my medical school class. He is incredible! It was supposed to be a group thing but ended up being a perfect night with 5 of us trading stories from (the forever-ago) college days. (fail! I took zero pictures!)

+ Finally, T and I planned nothing this weekend so we would have time to do whatever we pleased! We made buffalo chicken egg rolls for dinner.. worked to input Gma's family history work online.. watched sports.. and enjoyed a few quiet minutes before school gets busy again!

Tomorrow I start with labor and delivery.. bring on the babies!! I'm hoping this rotation will solidify my decision between pediatrics and family medicine :) Keep warm this week!

xo,

Krista