thinking out loud...

how are you getting along?
i mean, really?
are you ok?
i hope that you are….that you have someone to talk to
and someone to hug you tight…
and someone who makes you laugh really hard
and that you have lots of food to eat…
and that you are taking a break from
the bad stuff on the tv and social media.

here's how it’s been in the big orange house:

• trying to keep my regular bedtime/morning routines

• a lot of “hair jammed into a messy bun” & leggings/pjs

• i don’t normally take baths because i can’t justify the cost of
  filling that giant tub…but i have been making an exception…
  while using epsom salts, playing music and
  drinking ginger ale out of a fancy glass.

• spending at least half an hour on yoga every day…have been
  doing yoga with adriene - Home (30 days)

• reading my stockpile of books (I can’t wait to tell you about 2 of them!!)

• writing a little bit in a journal every morning

• getting outside every day, even if just for 15 minutes

• snuggling the cat

• watching/listening to a LOT of damien rice…i am not going to lie
  I may have developed a small obsession here….this is on the
  daily playlist

• NOT tracking my eating

• daydreaming about planting a giant garden

• working on new paintings (coming soon!)

• watching star wars, marvel series & movies (on agent carter now), renting the
  occasional movie as a treat (thinking this might be up next)

• eating a lot of peanut butter…and drinking a lot of diet coke…

• making plans to do things, but then losing whole days to
  music, books and movies….and not really feeling that bad about it.

• feeding the birds & getting very excited when I see one…

this guy makes it very hard to work…but also, gives me lots of cuddles…

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friday i'm in love...

♥ April is national poetry month…

♥ i watched this last night…rented it for 2.99 on Google Play…
and it was the perfect way to decompress…and de-stress…

♥ when i grow up, i want to be agent carter

♥ speaking of people you wanna be when you grow up…wow…

♥ this girl and her little snippets

♥ i had no idea dave matthews was so amusing and…slightly bizarre…in a good way.

and…i bake banana bread today…
and it LOOKS like banana bread!
I can’t eat it yet because apparently
it still too hot
and there is a chance
it may be yucky since I over did some ingredients
and under did others…
plus…I have to turn on the oven
with pliers
so it’s kinda hard to tell if
i got the right temperature or not…

Heh.

Adventures in the big orange house.
:)

happy long weekend (whatever that means…haha)

friday i'm in love...day whateverteen...

i don’t feel like doing anything
right now
except losing myself in the rabbit hole
world of internet
researching new rubber boots,
making garden plans,
looking at pretty dresses,
and googling why my nose is twitching
on one side…
(i am hoping it’s actually the beginning
of a super power that i am secretly developing
and not the symptom of some new virus)…

♥ I need to learn how to do embroidery.

♥ I have seriously fallen in love with peter pan collars.

♥ I know I have said this before but I love this blog.

♥ such a sweet story…

Happy friday…do something fun! :)

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whatcha readin'? 2020 {book 7::goal 30}

I absolutely loved this book.

It was the perfect escape.
It made me laugh…and think…and cry just a little bit
both sad & happy tears.

I fell in love with all the characters.
I felt like I could only describe it using words like
lovely and
delightful
which are not my usual words…haha.

I did not want it to end…I want to go to Guernsey…
I want to meet everyone…
I just don’t really want to try potato peel pie…
:)

Note: I was excited to watch the movie which I have seen
floating by on Netflix but I am not sure it
will make me as happy as the book did….

5 ♥’s out of 5 ♥♥♥♥♥’s
NEXT UP:: FAIRY TALES FROM THE BROTHERS GRIMM - PHILLIP PULLMAN

sweet sundays...

I always love Sundays…
especially slow, quiet, sunny sundays.
Blue sky.
No wind.
Birds singing, snow melting..
sounds of spring.

It is a little hard to stay positive right now.
People are stressed out, people are scared.
It’s hard to avoid the news, the fear,
the negativity…
and every time I turn around there is a Facebook post
shaming people for this, judging people for that,
jumping to assumptions, snapping photos of people to shame online
without even knowing their story,
spreading anger, fear, outrage, panic, and hurtful, possibly harmful misinformation.

It’s hard to stay positive right now.

But I went for an hour long walk today
and yes, as I met people, we moved away from each other,
giving a wide berth to pass
but we also called out things like
”Beautiful day, eh?” and “Nice to see that sun!”

and then I came home and saw little purple flowers
growing in the front yard.

There was a bbq happening on the front deck
and the kids across the street played badminton
in the middle of the road. Our neighbors
washed their cars, people waved as they walked by
with their dogs and chickadees landed
right outside my window.

And I reminded myself that I have to stop letting
the manic-panic parts of the pandemic
get to me.
I can’t control how other people respond,
but I can control what I allow in,
what I allow myself to absorb
and I am choosing right now to find
stillness and sweetness in silence,
to sit in the sunny spot on the deck with a book…
to write in a journal, watch a good movie,
start seeds for my garden, check in with friends & family,
to not only find calm for myself but to try to be
a bright spot in someone else’s day if I can…
share a funny story,
talk about books i am loving,
post photos of pugs with snaggletooth smiles…

This is not at all what I meant to write here today.
But, honestly, I feel a little bit better now that I did.
I hope you do, too.
big virtual hugs, you. ♥
we got this.