friday i'm in love...

When your brain is
swirling around incomprehensible
current events and
the fear and panic and sadness
that the people must
be feeling right now,
when everything feels uncertain…
hazy, smudged,
like a fever dream.

And you wonder
what you can do,
what should you do,
can you do anything,
and you try to hold on to
that part of your heart that
is a little bit calm
and so you make yourself
steer away from the news
and you lose yourself in the
internet for a little bit…in the shiny happy places…
for a little bit…

FRIDAY I’M IN LOVE…THE DISTRACT ME EDITION

♥ i want to stay here JUST based on this video alone

♥ these words

♥ i love getting lost in beautiful animation.

♥ mr dress up always makes me feel better.

♥ daydreaming about sunny summer days

sundaze

It was a pretty good week
in the big orange house…mostly.

For some reason,
it was a pretty headache-y week…
but some good things
happened in spite of that.

My IPSY order came!

I didn’t take any photos this time
but this was from the website…
I totally love the lip gloss!

Got a pedicure!
New sparkly toes
all ready for summer
and flip flops
and beach sand!

#whatiwore

IN THE BIG ORANGE HOUSE::

WATCHING: finished The Act; Million Little Things; finished Inventing Anna - SOOO good!
We Need To Talk About Cosby - finished…SOOOO disturbing.

READING: Anxious People - Fredrik Backman

LISTENING TO: Broken - Jonah Kagen

EATING: bananas dipped in betty crocker chocolate icing

GRATEFUL: the headache went away, chicken fricot, cinnamon-y crescent rolls,
pretty red tulips in a glass vase, pedicure, lunch with the girls, a work lunch
earlier in the week, sparkly light eye shadow.

whatcha readin'? {goal 35 :: book 2}

It took me a little while to finish this
but I did enjoy reading it.
It was interesting to learn
about how she grew up,
how they met,
and reinforced my convictions
that I could never be involved in politics.

I can’t imagine how hard that must be…
that suddenly
your life is no longer your life…
dissected, examined, speculated, judged…
and not even always for
things that should be anyone’s business
or that the judgements/opinions being made
may not have anything to do with decisions
or choices being made,
but rather just a game of strategy and hidden agendas.

I couldn’t do it.

Definitely a good read though…

5♥♥♥♥♥’s out of 5
NEXT UP:: ANXIOUS PEOPLE - FREDRIK BACKMAN

sundaze....

It’s been a quiet week here
in the big orange house…
another possible COVID contact
(but all negative here),
a failed attempt at seeing
Spiderman in 3D
(it was sold out),
warm chocolate chip muffins,
pizza from Dino’s (so good)
while watching this movie
with my girl
which made us both laugh so hard…
definitely worth watching…
some painting,
some daydreaming
about garden planning and
building she sheds and playhouses
in the back yard…
two visits with BFFs,
and a failed sump pump attempt
that resulted in not a lot of water
going outside,
but onto me instead.

All in all, a good week.
The days are getting longer and brighter
and that is a very good thing.

#whatiwore

IN THE BIG ORANGE HOUSE:

WATCHING: The Act; Million Little Things; spiderman; Inventing Anna

READING: Anxious People - Fredrik Backman

LISTENING TO: Shoulda Known Better - Amos Lee

EATING: cinnamon hearts

GRATEFUL: the days are getting longer, the water was not
too bad in the basement, for soft, fleecy, warm leggings,
for Pugsley’s snoring, for teeny tiny pink flowers,
for longer days and more light in my life.

friday i'm in love...

it’s a quiet, cool
february friday
in the big orange house.

today has consisted
of work,
checking the basement for water,
getting taught by 22 on how
to use the macgyvered sump pump,
eating a chocolate bar
dipped in a jar of icing,
contemplating a big, big decision,
watching the snow melt away
(while worrying about water in the basement),
teasing 26 about “what’s for supper”
(she is gonna make me spaghetti),
daydreaming,
secretly smiling
when 26 tells me she is
making a list of movies
we can watch together…
feeling a mix of
happy, content, peaceful
which is nice because i have
been very fragile and full of sharp, jagged,
emotional edges recently….

february will do that to a person.

♥ FRIDAY I’M IN LOVE ♥

♥ finding out i was mentioned in a blog i love to read!
♥ this optical illusion was soooo neat!! :)
♥ this! solo travel! women! i want to do this!!
♥ this is miniature insanity but soooooo cool!
♥ this song makes me happy.