friday i'm in love (on a rainy saturday)

I started to write
my friday-i’m-in-love post
yesterday
but got a little sidetracked
by the insane amount of rain
that fell (and found it’s way into my basement)…
Summerside had between 93 and 114 mms
of rain
IN 24 HOURS.

Needless to say,
last night was a broken sleep night
as I had to set an alarm
for every hour or so
so I could go see if I had to pump
water out of the basement.
Yes, this could be solved by a
real sub-pump
but for now, I have to make do
with my mcgyvered system. 🤭

BUT…the roof did NOT leak!!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
(no thanks at all to the original roofing company
who apparently caused the problem but
placed the blame on my chimney)
(plot twist: the chimney was innocent)

ANYWAY…I am soooo looking forward
to September!! I always love September
and not just because it’s my birthday month, heh…
but this September:

1. Four day weekend right now!

2. My birthday!!

3. Winners is opening in Summerside…ON MY BIRTHDAY!!

4. I thought I was going to miss seeing a bestie’s visit home but turns out that I will get to see her just before number 5….

5. WE ARE GOING TO NEWFOUNDLAND FOR A WEEK!!!!

6. The roof is done so I have someone lined up to replace all the water-damaged drywall in that bedroom (and the hallway) and THEN I can move forward with my plan to PAINT IT PINK!!🩷🌷😍

September is looking pretty fun!

AND NOW…THE LIST:

🫐 my sweet and so-talented bestie
(i know i say bestie a lot but
i can’t help it. accept it.) made me
like SIX of these adorable, absolutely delicious
blueberry pies!
she suggested i freeze some if i didn’t think
i could eat them all.

umm. i ate them all. 🤭

🎥 A friend recommended this and it was so much
better than I was expecting. It was funny and sweet
and I love Jennifer Lawrence.

🎥 HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS?????

OK…i have more but this post
is already wayyyyyy too long.
Happy LONGGGGG weekend
and welcome to September!!

friday i'm in love...

Nothing like knowing that the
annual website payment is coming up
to make you realize
you DON’T BLOG ENOUGH
to warrant paying for a website
and yet,
year after year, you pay for it
because you have 21 years of memories
and truths and stories
and photos wrapped up in here.

so suddenly, you feel the need
to blog TWICE in one week.

anyway…on to
THE LIST OF ALL THAT I LOVE RIGHT NOW:

🌷I watched the first episode of this
so far and I liked it…it’s not the same
and I guess that’s ok…it will never be
the original (I’m sorry, there will never be
another Pa Ingalls to match
the one in my memory)
but that’s ok. It was still good.

🌷heeheeheehee #guilty

🌷i was doing this wayyyy before
it was a trend…

🌷my current obsession

🌷and this

🌷oh…and i watched kung fu panda 4
AND IT WAS SOOOOO GOOD.
in a just-makes-me-happy-kinda-way :)

annnnnnd….we are planning a
newfoundland take 2 trip
since our first efforts were a bust
due to a broken ferry…
so STAY TUNED FOR THAT ADVENTURE!!!

friday i'm in love....

I love a long weekend.
I am not back to work until Tuesday
and I don’t even really care
(ok, I care a little bit)
that the weather sucks today.
I am warm and toasty
with a full tank of oil,
food in the fridge,
books to read,
shows to watch
and so many things to distract me
like planning my garden,
playing with my new phone,
and watching the birds that finally
found the feeder on my window.

Micro bits and pieces of joy.
There is happiness in noticing.

TO THE LIST…THINGS I AM LOVING: 😍

🐣I am obsessed with birds stopping by my little bird cafe. And the funny thing is that Finnegan the cat also loves to watch them. For an inside/outside cat, he is pretty laid back about them and will lay on the desk and watch them but never goes after them when we are outside.

🐣Last weekend, we went to a spring market
specifically so I could get this Tide and Tallow
hair mask and blush…I know I just posted about a
blush but this one is a different color
ANDINEEDEDIT, don’t judge me.
and hair mask? ohhhhh. You are speaking my love language. :)

🐣so excited about spring and gardens and plants…
I even ordered a ladder! I have plans. Big plans.
Possibly slightly dangerous plans.

🐣I am SUPER EXCITED about this movie coming out!
I laughed out loud watching the trailer.

🐣speaking of movies, I watched this for the first time
last night and it is such a beautifully animated movie.
I loved it. I was surprised to see it had some bad ratings
about the animation specifically, because I seriously loved it.
I don’t care a lot about critics anyway…
I like to form my own
twisted opinions.

🐣I don’t think I have to say this but I will.
I loveeeeee my new phone. (Galaxy S26 ultra, as usual)
I am sad I couldn’t get the same case I had on my S24
but I’ll adjust. I just don’t like change that much. Heh.
AND I AM FREE FROM THE REIGN OF CONTROL
BELL HAD ON ME. That change I am more than ok with.

Happy long Easter weekend to you….
I hope the bunny finds you and
brings you eggs and bubbles and maybe a
skipping rope.
(or wait…maybe that’s what I want.)
:)

friday i'm in love...(but also so tired of winter)....

It’s been a rough week
full of headaches
and being sick…
bad news and
broken toilets…
ice storm stress
and cancelled plans.

But its had some
little glimmers of goodness.
Like the pretty spring-inspiring tulips
my little brother brought me
as a Friday surprise. 🌷
How sweet is he?

Let’s get right to the list, shall we?
(before this Tylenol wears off….
yes, I am fighting another headache)

FRIDAY I AM LOVING:
🌷last weekend, I got out for a
stroll in the woods with a friend
for some much needed therapeutic
rambling and ranting
and the occasional “wait…but
like…where exactly are we? Here? There?”
and to my joy,
someone had created an Easter trail
(which didn’t stop us from getting slightly lost)
but made me so incredibly happy!
and then I stopped at Sunny’s Dairy Bar
(first stop of the season, but not the last!)
on the way home where I felt bad for
scaring some snowmobilers with my
exceptionally loud music…

🌷I know I mentioned this
before but I am absolutely
obsessed Tide and Tallow products…
I started with the body butters (mmmmm,
these smell soooo good)
then the face whip (I had vanilla, of course)
& facial oil (sweet orange)
but then had the chance to get a sweet orange
face whip (mine was almost gone)
and she surprised me with a blush…
and I am IN LOVE.
Like….seriously….so obsessed.
(and also she is incredibly sweet,
please go check her stuff out…
I can’t get enough. 😍)

🌷and after some panic about
a leak in my bathroom, I was
able to get it sorted out…if you know me,
you know that I panic when things go
wrong in the big orange house
BECAUSE IT JUST DRIVES HOME THE
FACT THAT I DON’T KNOW WHAT I AM DOING
and also
why am I
THE ONLY GROWN UP
IN THIS HOUSE.

So anyway, GB Island Contracting
fixed it all up for me and one more
crisis averted….on to the next! Sigh.
(But they were great & would definitely
use them again, just hopefully won’t need to…
water issues scare the bejeezus out of me.)

I guess that’s long enough for today…
but I can’t wait to tell you
about the books that I read so far in March!!!
🤭

not a friday but a love list anyway...with skates and strawberries 🍓

i had to work this
past friday…
i had wanted to do a
friday i’m in love
cause i had things that i loved
but i ran out of time.

so…here it is on a sunday instead.
a snowy, quiet sunday.

last friday,
my girl stopped by for a visit (which i love)
and also a sprinkle doughnut (which i also love!)
and then
my talented and super sweet bestie
brought me a spectacular surprise,
the SWEETEST red knit strawberry hat
that i have EVER seen.
THAT SHE MADE!!

i absolutely adore it.
and proceeded to wear it
the rest of the day
where we went skating
(no real photos but proof in the
doodle above),
then we went to Daisy-Mae’s used bookstore
and to auntea’s oddities

where i got big compliments
in both places about the sweet strawberry hat. 🍓

and also got new books and
beautiful set of oracle cards that i adore.

but first, can we just take a second
to ooooooh and ahhhhh
over the cover of this book?
AND IT’S ILLUSTRATED!
(there may have been a very
short lived tussle with said bestie
over this book but the rule is
she-who-found-it-may-buy-it
but-also-must-loan-it)
this is in sub-section 34, clause b, page 73
of the contract i signed with her when
we were 10. 🤭

and the oracle cards. sighhhhhh. 😍

do i know anything about oracle cards?
nope.
but they are just sooooo pretty and make me happy
and honestly, that’s really all I go by when
making life choices.

oh! and taking photos of the cats in their napping positions
has also been bringing me happiness.
And it’s March!! So close to spring now…yay!