Today's Guest: The Self Life
/Ahh the office. So functional, so lovely. So orange. Originally the office looked like this. (Whomp whomp.)


But now, it looks like this!


And yep, many people ask, and I swear my mood raises a point or two every time I walk in. Because you guys. Orange makes you HAPPY. Psychiatrists say so! But there are a ton of reasons why I love this room. Although I helped, Ryan essentially built me this desk. He planned it out, bought materials, and executed it. Hello, husband with power tool.

There are lots of tangible things in this room that I love. The pullout couch, my I-promise-I'll-paint-it-canvas, the crazy deal I got on the West Elm curtains.


But I really love it because there are these particular creatures that fill up the room... The second I get comfortable in the office I hear the padding of feet and turn around to this.


Met our Brittany, Olive (namesake Olive Oyl - forever a damsel in distress although sweet as punch),

Our 'Petite Lady Hound' June (named after June Carter Cash, a lovely woman),

And lastly but certainly not least-ly, Lily Bear. (No namesake, just cuteness.)

To say they keep this house alive is quite the understatement. Quite. Because if I decide to sit on the ol' couch, this happens 97% of the time.

Although sometimes they keep themselves entertained.

Other times they do not.

But anyone with a four-legged roommate knows I'd have it no other way. I love my girls, and I love the house that we all share. Corniest Person of All Time, Elisa