Show us your life: Livingroom!

Lets try something different tonight...Ill join in on my first ever blog hop, thanks to Kelly at Kelly's Korner, and show off our livingroom. Its nothing fancy, just live in an apartment, but it works for us. :)
Ill preface this by saying just about everything in our apartment is from IKEA.

First we have our entertainment center. We dont have cable so we have a LOT of dvd's.

Then we have our wall of photos. (This was before we put pictures in the frames.) We have a crib because my parents used to do infant foster care and my sister has two boys, 1 and 4 yrs old, who we help care for sometimes.

Last we have our couches. Oh and our ceiling fan! Big savior in Arizona. These couches are awesome because the covers can come of and be washed, and if we every choose to change colors we can easily do that too. That comes in very handy when we have a puppy and small children around.

This last picture just shows the true color of our walls. They are much more teal than they look in all of the previous pictures.

emptiness

i feel empty tonight.
like everything has been drained out of me.
im financially drained, emotionally drained, physically drained.
i have invested so much lately into everything around me, and i dont feel like i am getting anything back.
i need to get something back.
selfish as that may sound.
i need to take a minute for me.
to not worry about anything or anyone else but me.
but i feel like i have to play catch up all the time.
i worry that one morning i will wake up and everything will have moved on.
i will still be stuck working at the y, 20 years old, in college, and they will be gone.
off to their marriages or kids or new careers...
i just dont want to be left in the dust.
uuuuuugh.