friday i'm in love {nablopomo day 20}

November 20, 2015 Arlene Giddings

Have you see this poem
floating around facebook
in recent days:

“later that night
i held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered
where does it hurt?

it answered
everywhere
everywhere
everywhere.”

Warsan Shire wrote that...and if that isn't enough for you...
go and watch this...

--and, on a lighter but WOW! side...all the socks. Look at all the socks.
--and this song...cause really...it's sound of silence...by disturbed...sigh

--this...the big monster coloring book...I WANT IT.
--candy cane doughnuts and hot chocolate
--kittens and pugs finally able to sit on the same couch together for close to 30 minutes
and in case you didn't notice...it's FRIDAY....the weekend is full of life and promise...
and that is an exciting thing...
have fun!!!

friday i'm in love... #nablopomo

November 6, 2015 Arlene Giddings

with the new cookies from tim hortons...filled in the middle with flavor...i had the lemon shortbread stuffed with raspberry...3 of them actually.

the new song from adele

it's called how to age gracefully... (my favorite piece of advice in it...STAY WEIRD.) :)

this girl with the blue green hair and the pretty green eyes....

so much in this that i loved and plan to try! makes me want to grab my notebook and a pen!

i know winter is coming but i am still in summer/fall mode...or denial maybe...but i can just picture this in my yard.

this video killed me ....heeheehee...

this little rotten apple series from a day at what-was-once-rainbow-valley.
it has an official new name I think...but I will always refer to it as the above...
in bitter nostalgia...

friday i'm in love...the summer edition...

July 10, 2015 Arlene Giddings

with hanging out on the deck in pjs on an early friday morning, listening to the cheeseburger bird and watching the pug roll in the grass
going to see this tonight!! :) and knowing that this trip to the drive in will be much better than my last drive in experience...and i'm sure my kids would agree.
have been having so much with engagement sessions and weddings! Editing last weekend's wedding (CEREMONY WAS IN AN APPLE ORCHARD! did i tell you that?) and today will be uploading last night's fun nautical themed engagement session...while finishing up (heh...up) the incredibly fun UP! themed engagement session from a couple of weeks ago..balloons! there were balloons!
not to mention (cause I'm not supposed to mention) but i have a SECRET session today...shhhhh...i am not supposed to tell anyone!
checking our little garden everyday to see if there are any new developments
sneaking in a little teeny tiny bit of reading
having lunch with one of my childhood best friends...a lot...cause now we work in the same building! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy! (and yes, that was a true kermit flail...) :)
might be meeting up with another childhood best friend this afternoon to take in a bit of a ball game and catch up!
campbell landed a kick flip!
absolutely in love with this series...mind is blown. wow!
this little girl's giggles. that is all. well...and i'm jealous. i wanna do that! :)
it's no secret i am a bit of a sesame street fan. i had Maria & Luis's wedding recorded on a VHS tape. so i am sad that maria is retiring...happy for her...but sad. i don't like change. and i'm slightly selfish that way. :)
no weddings tomorrow, no commitments of any kind...other than editing...and maybe some laundry...this may require a trip to the beach...and a bbq...and some fresh island strawberries...they are out now, right? please say yes.

happy weekend!!

i never get tired of fridays!! :)

May 29, 2015 Arlene Giddings

friday i'm in love!

today's friday i'm in love could also be called
friday-i-wants...
cause...i want.
and when you have no money,
you may as well dream big
and PRETEND you have money....
(it only hurts when the realization sits in...)
(but just for a minute)
(as long you go right back to pretending again heeheehee)

so...friday i'm love brings you friday i want::::

to eat this. for dessert. for breakfast. for supper.
to contain my life in this...i would love it and hug it and fill it will promises and minion stickers and glittery hearts and little robot sketches.
to live this, make it my mantra...write it on my hand, tattoo it on arm...remember it...live it.
to own a talent like this...i might have swooned a little....so beautiful!
to add this to my collection...along with this...and this....
to make pugsley into a pugosaur....what could be better than that. I challenge you to think of one this that would be better than a pugosaur.
to fill my house with the scent of these...
to own one of these which would inspire me to use my 3 boxes of 64 crayola crayons! and the artist lives here in PEI...we're twitter-friends! i can say that, right, Nadine? we're twitter-friends, right? and instagram-buddies! :)
to put at least one (or 5...or 10) of these in my driveway...soooooo cute it hurts my heart.
to be able to pick up my pen and write like this...sigh.
to go on a road trip....in one of these....i have not been a traveling kinda girl...but since our camping trip last summer, I find myself thinking about it more and more...like a longing for something I didn't know that I missed.
sheep. i want sheep. and goats. and maybe a chicken or two. and a whole pug family. and a house in the country where 15 can have dirt bikes and half pipes and I can have a tire swing with polka dots or a skateboard swing and a treehouse!! and S can have a garage and 19 can sing until her heart's content....the one stipulation we ALL agree on? there HAS to be high speed internet. sad but true.

happy weekend!!

it's friday!!

May 23, 2015 Arlene Giddings

FRIDAY I'M IN LOVE

with the fact that my girl is home from Hamilton...she's full of stories and thinks her ability to attract weird situations (inherited from me) was in overdrive, but she had a great time. And now, I am just incredibly happy to have both my littles (heh. not so little but...still...) home under the same roof. :)

warm melty friday night chocolate chip cookies
getting a couple of things started today that will feel like weights lifted of our backs when done
watched this movie finally and oh. my. gawd. it made me want to go and pick up my camera right. that. second. It couldn't have come at a better time as I was feeling kind of down and uncertain about myself and this movie made me feel like it's all right to be a little odd...it's all right to be me. :)
the face that skate 3 and gta 5 have such interesting song playlists. 15 plays both and tonight, I said something I never thought I would say..."are you listening to neil diamond?" and then he went on to play (and sing) celine dion at the top of his lungs. i love that he is that comfortable with himself. :)
liz lamoureux...30 ways to invite more joy...i love a good list. And this. This is a good list.
MollyCoddle (Molly Balint) is one of my most favorite bloggers. Seriously, I never thought that I would be envious of a woman on a farm...but I read her blog and I am all kinds of shades of green. She just documents it all so beautifully. And imagine my surprise today when I read that she would like to make the trek to PEI! Come! Come to PEI! You will not regret it! :)

chatbooks and journals and early morning revelations

happy happy friday from here to there...wherever your there is! :)