friday i'm in love....

♥ with dashing out the door at the end of the day, camera in hand,
to catch the last rays of light on a pretty dirt road

♥ with how people send me messages telling me “you need to try this dirt road”
or tag me in things related to smurfs, sesame street, toys for sale, happy meals…

♥ with this song….i am officially obsessed

♥ blog posts like this

♥ second season of this show

♥ a lunch-on-the-deck visit with a best friend

♥ my new fitbit clockface…his spidey-sense tingles less as the battery dies!

♥ winding dirt roads that lead to sunlit surprises…

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♥ with knowing that my kid will always check my car for me…
while also accenting it with stickers and plates… :)

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the 50 before 50 shift....

So.
A long time ago,
I talked about the 50 before 50 list.

And I did a few things off of it…
some of them on purpose,
some totally by happy accident.

And then I woke up one morning
and realized
I turn 50
NEXT WEEK.

Like.
NEXT week.
Like.
TUESDAY.

So
unless
I get a tattoo
and go skydiving
over the weekend
while camping
alone
and with someone else
in Cabot trail
and stop off to give blood
on my way to
play badminton
and somehow
get someone to drive me
in a racecar or on the back of
motorcycle
to paintball after we have done
the zipline
that must be right next
to the rollercoaster…
then maybe I will have hit
my goal weight
from all that activity
and i can celebrate
by baking an effing apple pie
SERIOUSLY WHO MADE THIS LIST.

Heeheehee.

So I have decided to switch it to
the 50 - IN - 50 list.
(I’m old. I can change things to suit myself….
it’s my prerogative, Bobby)

And I am all fired up again
to get things DONE this time.

Feel free to join in the fun…
:)

I am going to see if I can pin the list
to the top of my page…you know,
for accountability…
and my frazzled memory.

wordless wednesday

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tuesday truths...(the one where i use big words...)

there is
something
about online learning
or learning
new things
in general
that just makes me
so excited…
like…
weirdly so.

words like
stochastic components,
parameters,
velocity,
resistance,
randomness,
parity…..

quantitative,
synapses,
axon, neuron,
dendrites…
tessellation….

just give me
this strange little
adrenaline rush

like sugar
for my
brain.

whatcha readin'? 2020 {book 15::goal 30}

We are at the halfway mark of the goal!

i think that deserves a cupcake!!
(and seriously, these are my most favorite little things…)

anyway…heehee…back to the book.

I loved this book…
and it’s funny that I did because
I don’t like short stories
and while this wasn’t a short story
it felt like an amalgamation of
short stories
shared as anecdotes
to make up an entire story.

Her writing was beautiful.
There was a lot happening in a book
where
nothing seemed to really be
happening.

There was a lot said about the
main character
in a book that didn’t seem to
describe the main character.

You should totally give this book a try.

4.5 ♥’s out of 5 ♥♥♥♥♥’s
NEXT UP:: ONE DAY - DAVID NICHOLLS