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...

☻ this cracked me up.

☻ it's 7 pm and still bright out... :)

☻ i love when you really aren't expecting a movie to be that great
and then it ends up being THAT great...this was one of those movies...
darkly funny and sad all at once. 

i need one of these...

seriously...I WANT EVERYTHING!

☻  don't mess with Canada...

☻  i loved everything about this blog post...

☻ this.  this was brilliant. and sad.  and scary. 

this blows my mind.  i could watch it again and again.
 

Special video "Valentine's Day". From an artistic point of view, the flowers are represented in the 4 seasons. The fire for the fall, ice for the winter, fast hatching (timelapses) for the spring and color inks for the summer. Music : Velvet coffee ( Leonardo Villiger and Christophe Dugne Esquevin) https://soundcloud.com/velvetcoffee https://www.facebook.com/velvetcoffeemusic/ Director : Thomas Blanchard http://www.thomas-blanchard.com/ https://www.facebook.com/thomasblanchardgraphiste/

friday i'm in love...

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i have finally seen the movie Wonder
and i will tell you right now,
it did not disappoint.
i am not going to lie
i sobbed my way through most of it
but...a good kind of sobbing...
if you know what i mean...

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week 2 of 52 drawing labs book project...
check in on Sunday to see how it went

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yoga with adriene youtube videos...
for those days when i just can't make myself leave the house.
(cause, you know...winter.)

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neil gaiman.
i am seriously crushing on neil gaiman.
i want to be neil gaiman.
really.
my obsession with him right now
could qualify
as unhealthy.
(and if, by some cosmic twist in a bizarre but benevolent universe
he happens to read this blog post
or comment on the associated tweet,
i will most likely self combust from happiness...)

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i feel like a lot of us should read this...
more than once.
or ok...i feel like i should be reading this...
like once a day...as a reminder....
because i do all of these things.
i try to balance but
it's so easy to slip back into old habits.

♥♥♥
maggie's getting married!  are you going?  you should!
(and sidenote...i really miss not being involved in a play this year...
i was surprised by how much i missed it.)
 

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friday i'm in love...

♥  I haven't posted a photo of this little guy in a while

♥  ok...I don't think it would be a big surprise to anyone
to find out that I would totally support the idea of
"wednesday cake" ... (or Monday or Tuesday or...you get the picture)
just cake in general...♥ ♥

♥  this adorable website....i want one of everything.

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♥  I don't know if I have ever written about my
little baby bullet journal.  I bought this at HMS Office
Supplies on my birthday last year and I absolutely love it.
I use my big bullet journal for all the pretty stuff.  But this
baby bullet just gets the brainstorming, the quick notes,
the quotes pulled out of books and blogs I want to read.
I absolutely love it and want to buy all of the colors...
although...I am partial to orange.  And it's the perfect size!

♥  I love this story.  It resonates deeply with me even though
cooking is obviously not my thing & I suspect that is apparent to anyone
that knows me.  But I think because of his age...and because it gives me
hope that I can still find my way.  They say change is the only constant,
the only thing you can really rely on...and I can see the truth in that as
my kids get older, as I consider that things I still want to do.  It gives me
hope that it's not too late or inconceivable to think that I might write a
book someday...or go to Cabot Trail...or meet Billy Idol.

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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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