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friday im in love....

January 31, 2025 Arlene Giddings

I am hitting the point
where winter no longer
feels like a fun challenge,
I go from
THIS YEAR I’LL BE DIFFERENT,
I’LL BE A WINTER PERSON!! :)
to a cold, shivering, sleepy
messy mass of a person
who just wants blankets and
naps and books
and who said I was going to
cut out diet coke again
I AM A GROWN UP
I CAN CHANGE MY MIND.

Sigh.

So anywaysssss….
in light of that, here is what I am
currently loving:

♥ READING - the invisible life of addie larue….
i was in a bit of a slump but this is helping to
push me out of it…and I catch myself still
thinking about it when I am not reading it…
like…but…how…could that really…
how would it work or feel…(and yes, I know it’s fiction). :)

♥ BINGEWATCHING - severance
although I will be honest,
i spend most of the time
lamenting to Pugsley
that i HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS HAPPENING.
this all better make sense at the end.
but I am hooked.
(and another one that I catch myself
pondering when not watching it…)

♥ EATING - potatoes.
specifically little baby potatoes
that take 5 minutes in the microwave
and then I just mix in whatever else
i have cooked on hand…could be chicken,
could be a pork chop…could also have
a salad thrown in there….and if I
don’t eat it all, i just reheat it
and add more random things to it
for then next meal.

♥ LISTENING - so I listen to this
at least once a day….and have been
for a long time now.
Which seems odd, I know. 🤷‍♀️

♥ DREAMING ABOUT -
summer, camper vans, building a home sauna,
Newfoundland, bird feeders, gardens,
knitting projects, treehouses,
blackberry jam, sunshine on my skin…

♥ new baby plants make me so happy!

In friday i'm in love Tags plants, friday i'm in love, sauna, winter blues
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friday i'm in love....

May 26, 2023 Arlene Giddings

It’s Friday again
which,
I am not sure if you know
or not,
but it most definitely
my most favorite-ist day
of the week.

Even when I have to work.

I still love Friday.

Even when it’s a cool, kinda rainy day.

I still love Friday.

It just makes me happy,
it makes me feel excited
and full of bubbles and ideas and
oh-the-possibilities-that-lie-in-the-weekend-ahead!!!

Even if I have no plans…
sometimes,
ESPECIALLY
if i have no plans….
someone called me an extroverted introvert recently
and that
made a lot
of sense to me.

It felt like i came home. ♥

FRIDAY and I’M LOVING:

♥ this little cartoon which brought me to this which, honestly, brought me to tears. real tears. a good hard cry if i was telling the truth. and i generally always tell the truth.

♥ i might have a small travel bug…

♥ this. 100% this. i got in trouble once for taking “too many selfies”…that i was embarrassing myself. this came at a period in my life when i was probably the lowest i have ever been (except once before, a long time ago) and was really struggling behind closed doors…my outside persona was bright and shiny and selfie-happy but really, i was bit of a broken, sad, turning 50, not-sure-of-who-i-was-anymore on so many levels and trying to piece together the shards of my shattered self confidence after being cheated on at the end of a 20 year marriage…and i was navigating this the only way i knew how. not saying it was the right way. but it was my way. {all this is to say that words sting. even the well-intentioned ones.} the truth is no matter how well we think we know someone, we don’t really know what is going on for them…and honestly…i like selfies. i like to see where i was, who i was, i am ok with my lines and wrinkles and sun spots. they remind me that i laughed a lot and that i lived & loved my life. and that makes me happy.

i want you to take selfies, if you wanna. I want to celebrate your happiness and your good days and help you find your way through the rough patches. i want be your biggest fangirl and your loudest cheerleader. :) no matter how annoying i may be while doing that. Heehee. & if you don’t wanna take them, that’s a-ok, too!

♥ i am not gonna lie (i know, i already covered that above, haha) but i have a super sweet soft spot for Ryan Gosling and i adore Margot Robbie so i kinda can’t wait for this!

♥ my new plants…is it weird that i just want to hang out in here…ALL the time?

♥ finally feeling like i am starting to get the hang of crochet after SO many years of attempts

now i’m off to maybe
paint a random hallway
and turn a bedroom into a
master closet
or a secret reading hideway
or a FORT…
or all of the above.
(did i mention endless possibilities?)

In friday i'm in love Tags crochet, friday i'm in love, plants, bathroom reno
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