friday i'm in love...

May 10, 2019 Arlene Giddings

♥ with getting back outside again…sometimes with a pug on a leash,
sometimes in polka dot rain boots and a winter hat
but almost always with a camera of some kind…
this is where I am always happy.

♥ this trailer just gave me goosebumps. :)

♥ and this one….

♥ i am trying to put my phone down more often
so this article on binge reading struck me….

♥ i get a lot of headaches…and no, that is not my friday i’m in love…
but i started thinking that it was related to my neck and maybe
either how i am sleeping (or not sleeping as the case often is)
and the amount of time i spend on a computer…so i tried some yoga
for neck and shoulders and i honestly cannot believe the difference
it has made. i had no idea that the trapezius muscle could actually
be the root cause of my headaches…

♥ if you know me, you know i love ice cream…almost as much as i love fridays!

spring-sunday...

March 31, 2019 Arlene Giddings

i made a list
of all the things
that i needed to get done today…
not wanted…
needed.

things like
laundry
and kitty litter,
dishes
and the sweeping up never ending
furballs…

and had thought that if
i crossed everything off
my need-to-do
list, i would reward myself
with a drive with the camera
and maybe (most definitely)
a stop at the dairy bar.

well…i crossed everything off the stupid list
and i did get out for a drive
and the sun even made a few short appearances
while i was out so that was a nice surprise.

i ended up at this wharf/lighthouse
(as i often do)….
spring always brings me through st nicholas
where i grew up,
where all my best memories are still vivid
and driving through there
always stirs up
strong emotion…
happy and bittersweet/sad

and then to our beach…
(yes, yes, I know…it’s a public beach…)

where the sun started to set

and i remembered I hadn’t gotten my ice cream yet!
but as i got close to the dairy bar,
i realized there were 682 cars and 3 trucks and possibly a snowmobile
ahead of me so
i settled for the next best thing…
a happy meal with a new robot toy!

my “i kinda wanted ice cream but i’ll settle for a new member of the robot army” face.

all in all
a very good spring-sunday!
:)
(well, it would have been better with a sundae.)
sigh.

robots! weird looking pugs! distorted faces!

February 24, 2018 Arlene Giddings

I have been using this sketchpad for a while and
knew I wanted to do something
with the cover
but didn't know what...
so yesterday i thought
what about ROBOTS!
you can't go wrong with
ROBOTS!

and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.
:)

and also this week:

(and...that is supposed to be a pug...I have some work to do there...)
and when I showed this to my 18 year old son
he said, "oh look! one of your girls is actually smiling!"
which I hadn't noticed was a thing I had been doing...

And still...faces are so hard. I have one...
you'd think that would make it easier.

Heh.

I haven't been leaving the house much this week...
my car is being weird.
it's cold out.
i'm tired and slightly PMS-y (too much info, I know)...
but the bright side is
instead of moping on the couch
building a blanket fortress
and eating ice cream,
I did mess around with pen and paper a lot instead.

hmmmm.
Did someone say ice cream?
:)

oh...and I have also been catching up on This is Us...
♥♥♥