He did it! For awhile now, I’ve been asking Josh if we can go to Paris and visit Tiffany. (I’m not that high maintenance, I was mostly kidding.)
Well, around 9:30 last night, I got a phonecall from Josh.
“Hey. We won.”

“Are you serious?!?!”

“We’re going to Paris.”

“Stop it. That’s not funny.”

“No, for real, we’re going.”

Way, way too calm for someone who just won A DESIGN COMPETITiON and will go on to COMPETE IN an INTERNATIONAL competition in PARIS!!!!!

My incredibly talented husband entered a 24 hour design competition with his friend Kevin and two other guys. They had from 8:30 in the morning until 8:30 the next morning to build a website up from scratch. And no, they had no idea what the theme would be until the night of. They had no preparation, ran on no sleep, but just brilliant design.
Their website won. On to Paris, and dare we hope, international acclaim?

I am so incredibly proud of you, Josh.

Josh’s Edit: You must have Flash 8 (don’t worry: It is a free, safe thing to download) to view the site we created. Not much really to the site, but boy was it ever a fun event! And here’s some photos from the event.

Bonus: Here’s the other competing sites. The only thing we had to design the site by was this: “To act or not to act. Our planet in 50 years time.” Thanks, Lauren. See you in February, Tiff!

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This weekend I stayed with Mom at the house while Josh was out of town. I know I’m still a newlywed when the strangest part about being back at the childhood home is that it didn’t seem that strange. Mom and I were about to watch one of our favorite girlie movies (Amelie) when Mom said, “It sure is weird not to have Josh around.”
I responded, “Really? To me, it feels kinda normal.”
Pause. “Yeah, I thought so too, but I thought that would be mean to say.”

Not that I have any desire to erase the last few months- which have been amazing and fun and I absolutely love being married to Josh. It’s just that I haven’t been married long enough that I feel out of place at home. Of course, maybe that’s part of having a wonderful mom who always makes you feel welcome.

Oh, and I got to experience one of the last milestones that mark my transition into married life today. I went to get some pants hemmed (six inches needed to be hacked off) and another customer said he recognized me. We figured out that we both had gone to Northpoint and to UGA. He remembered my first name was Lauren (and thought my last name was Pemali- is that Indian?) and I was able to say, “Yeah, I used to be Lauren Petrella, but it’s Teague now.”

Sup.

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Well, as much as we love using all of Tiffany’s furniture around here, we’re breaking down and realizing that we’re gonna need to buy some of this stuff at some point in time. So, first thing’s first: We could use a nice big, comfy couch. We’re in the preliminary stages, I guess, of looking . . . and then today I came across this one: Oh my goodness.

The designer simply went mad with this one. I have the feeling that whoever designed this couch saw that his/her career was shifting dramatically and must have wanted to make one final impact in the design community. So here’s to you: nasty couch designer.

The unfortunate thing is that this furniture blog sees this as a “beautiful sofa set.” Someone is definitely trying to pull a fast one.

Any good couch buying tips out there?

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