friday i'm in love....

it's a cold gray friday...
i have the day off but
don't really feel like "adventuring".

instead
i think i am going to hunker down
with blogs and books,
paintbrushes and markers,
paper and pen
for most of the day
and meet a friend for coffee & treats
at samuel's this afternoon.

i heard a rumor that the sun might come out tomorrow.
so...maybe a saturday adventure instead?
are lilacs even out yet?  I was sure I saw some in Charlottetown
but I haven't seen any here yet!

there's no rule that it HAS to be a friday adventure.
(and, even if there was...I make the rules soooooooo...)
heh.

here are some things that have caught my eye this week though :)

♥  look at these doughnuts! 

♥  someday i will have a greenhouse...

♥  i want to write like this....

♥  i like this idea.....

♥  i didn't watch mr rogers...he must have been on cable...and i was
totally a mr dressup and sesame street kinda girl but i really do want to
watch this....

♥  and ok.  i know i have already bugged you about this on my blog & facebook
and if you are lucky/unlucky enough to know me in real life,
i have likely bugged you about it there, too.
BUT THIS SHOW IS SO GOOD.
will someone else PLEASE watch it so that i have someone
to say "i KNOOOOOOOW!" when i say "that show is SO GOOD!"
AND i love the soundtrack.

"you should never tell a psychopath they are a pyschopath.
it upsets them."

friday i'm in love....

I know I haven't been here a lot
lately but with the sudden and sweet onset of spring
I am feeling like my batteries have been recharged
and I am ready to get back to the things that I love...

Speaking of things that I love
here is a bit of a list of what I am currently crushing on:

♥  It was Administrative Professional Day on Wednesday...
I know I don't talk about my "real" job a lot here (or any
social media...I like a firm line between home and work),
but I have to say that the people that I work with
were incredibly sweet this whole week...and the
countless cans of diet coke and enormous supply of jujubes
made me smile.  I love my job.

♥  I love that a real life ongoing game of tag was the inspiration
for this movie which looks like it is going to be hilarious!

♥  sunshine

♥  an evening ritual of taking the dog for a walk through the park

♥  an evening of Caesars and salty french fries, old friends and new ones,
loud jazz and lots of giggling...

♥  i still love this show. 

friday i'm in love...

♥  with the way the sun shone through
the ice covered branches
early this morning...
it was like walking through a fairy land
all teeny tiny lights
and the only sound
was the crunch of snow
under my boots

♥  got home yesterday to find that my brakes
and my car stereo
have been fixed...
i missed my car stereo so much!
oh.  and the brakes were important, too!  :)

♥  this kid's sculptures...i am IN LOVE...
if you only click on one link in this post...make it this one.

♥  oh but wait...this is really cool, too! 
are you sure you don't have time to open 2 links?
because this is so neat...video that shows how
everyone takes the same instagram travel photos... :)

♥  i got to spend an evening with an old friend the other night...
it has been far too long. 
and it makes me so happy that,
even after being apart so long,
the conversation picked up
just like we saw each other yesterday.

♥  i think that next year, instead of celebrating New Years
and creating all the resolutions that I have already failed miserably at
because, let's face it...it's JANUARY, people...it's DEAD CENTER WINTER...
and you are exhausted from the holidays...
i am completely lying to myself when i say i am going to
go to the gym after work.
what i am going to do is come home, put on my pjs and hibernate
until the days get a little longer.
so...the thought of celebrating this instead seems far more plausible. :)

♥  someday.  someday i am going to do this.

♥  i tried a new yoga class last night....
and i am SO happy that i did. 
i am a little picky about my yoga classes...i tend to find
one instructor and then stick with them for a long time.
this instructor was new to me and so was the venue
but as soon as he said "are we all ok if we turn the lights down?"
i was sold.
today i have that almost pleasant muscle ache...
the one that reminds you that you actually did something good for your body.
i cannot wait to go back.

♥  have you seen this movie?  you should.
(winter is the best time for settling in with a blanket and a pug,
some diet coke, buttery popcorn and letting yourself get lost
in a good movie...)

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friday i'm in love...

i have been on an editing binge since last weekend...
it's felt a little like tunnel vision.
and i've been avoiding social media a little
cause it's best to avoid anything that makes you
sad
instead of
happy...

things that have made me smile:

• beautiful editions of anne of green gables and i cannot wait for the new series coming out!
• what do when your partner (or someone you love) is having a panic attack
• the pep talk generator...cause sometimes...the world needs a small pep talk
• i am addicted to this tim hortons chicken bacon ranch wrap
• that coles bookstore has leuchtturm1917s for only 24.00!
• and speaking of addictions...please take this bag of sweet & salty popcorn away from me
• but...i am totally going to try this!
• i kind of can't wait for this...i will never like it more than the cartoon...but that still leaves room for me to love it
• IT'S ALMOST CHRISTMAS CARTOON/MOVIE SPECIAL TIME!!!!

this year....i am watching them ALL...all of them i say...
while eating bags and bags
of sweet & salty popcorn...
i have to make a list...and poll people for their favorites...
i don't want to miss anything!  :)
feel free to share your favorites
(i always feel funny asking that...like...
maybe nobody's even reading this...)
(maybe i'm talking to myself)
(not that this would be that odd coming
from the girl whose mother took her to the dr
because of her strong ties to her imaginary friends).

heh.

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friday i'm in love (it's been a long time...)

i am late posting about last weekend
but it was such a great weekend
i feel it definitely qualifies for
friday i'm in love status...
even a week late.

friday we took our girl to the big city
apartment hunting which was, of course,
scary and sad and stressful while also
exciting and happy and fun...
which is how this whole
our-girl-is-moving-away-going-to-school
adventure has been so far.  ♥

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saturday was a wedding in a beautiful area of PEI...
sweet young couple...lots of laughs and tender moments
and handstands....
yes...handstands...handstands on TOP of other people....
which i can honestly say i have not had at a wedding before
but am glad that i had the opportunity to add them to the list.  :)

i was a little bummed though to be
at the other end of the island
knowing that at my end of the island
friends were going to be meeting up at green shore
to watch the tragically hip
give their final concert in kingston
and CBC was streaming it...for free...& summerside
was showing it on the big screens...
and i was going to miss it.

i put a hip playlist on my phone
and played it on the drive home
but...
it just wasn't the same thing.

i decided i would go anyway...
whatever time i got into town.
i stopped for gas and my friend messaged me and said
"second encore...
new orleans is sinking"
and there were many eff words and the pounding
of the steering wheel.

but i made it in time for the third encore...
the last encore...the last 3 songs.
and it was so totally worth it.

sunday was family fun day for whoever could make it to mill river...
with so many of us now and jobs, kids, commitments, life...
it's hard to get us all together in one place,
but we keep trying.  :)

and i swear...my father has got to have
the fountain of youth in his
backyard because i have never met a 70+ year old
so full of life and fun and mischief.

as evidenced by this video:

and what's friday i'm in love without some
evidence that the internet is both
the best and worst thing in the world
(especially if your plan was to be productive today
because, if you are me, it just didn't happen.)

♥  this letter..."also please say something that will make everybody calm"  i hear ya, kid. 
♥  caught reading - a pinterest board that i love
♥  tallulah...if you have not yet seen this movie, go watch it.  i ♥ ellen page.
♥  women having a terrible time at parties (in art form) this made me laugh out loud
♥  Blue Rivers of Bioluminescent Shrimp

happy weekend!