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

August 26, 2016 Arlene Giddings

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.  ♥

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!

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#tbt (remember...you were forewarned)

August 25, 2016 Arlene Giddings

i told you.
i told you all
already
that my little girl
is getting ready to leave
the nest
and
i
am going to be
nothing
if not a blubbering
messy
anxiety-ridden
meltdown of a mess.

so don't look at me now
like you didn't think i would
start already...
like you thought maybe i would
hold it together
at least until
the end of august...

cause the deposit was just paid on the apartment.

and that means
she's really going.

and that...
that is all it takes, my friends.
feel free to avert your eyes
until at least november...
mid november at best.
maybe christmas.
i'll be fine by christmas.

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the tail end of a weekend

August 14, 2016 Arlene Giddings

winding down on a sunday
and pretty happy with how the weekend went...
the house got cleaned,
a birthday was celebrated,
family and friends stopped by...

for 21 years, we have written some variation of happy birthday onion head on her cake... :)  #traditions

all in good fun, heeheehee


on Saturday, I had the house to myself for a bit.
got a little caught up on my bullet journal
(I am SO behind for august!)
and some editing done...
then campbell and I took a drive through
cavendish on our way out to another family get together...
played some arcade games,
bought some sugary apple fritters
and tootsie roll suckers.

today has been a sleepy quiet rainy sunday...
a purplish sky,
leggings and thick socks,
looking for new music to edit to...
and in denial
that tomorrow is monday already
and the weekend is all over.

 

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tbt...the early birthday edition

August 11, 2016 Arlene Giddings

tomorrow this little onionhead turns 21.

and in september,
she is moving away from home
for the first time.

so you should forgive me now
for the over emotional blubbering mess of a mother
i may become in the very near future.

she's only going to moncton.
i know that.
my head knows that...
my brain knows that....
but my heart....

oh my heart has been in denial
that this day would ever come...

i know she will be fine.
she's sassy and smart,
funny and sweet...
and i'm happy and excited for her,
i am...
but there's still that little
twinge-y squeaky broken side of my heart
that whispers
not yet....don't go...
not yet.

happy birthday baby-girl...
you stole our hearts right from the get-go.
 

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wordless wednesday

August 10, 2016 Arlene Giddings

because this is what a road trip would be like with us....

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