whatcha readin'? {goal 45 - books 4-6}

Here are 3 books that I finished…
Also, I am not just at 6 books so far,
but didn’t want to overwhelm myself
writing about so many books at once.
My brain can’t take it.

OUTLIVE - Peter Attia
👩🏻‍⚕️👩🏻‍⚕️👩🏻‍⚕️👩🏻‍⚕️👩🏻‍⚕️ this gets a 5 star rating.
It took me a while to read as it was very heavy
in technical/health details
but I kind of love that sort of thing.
I feel like I may need to reread it
in order to really grasp it
and am very interested now in his podcasts
and newsletters, etc.
If you are interested in longevity,
and especially in making sure the quality of your years
matches the number of years you live,
then you might like this one too!

I LET YOU GO - Clare MacIntosh
❤️❤️❤️❤️
The best part of this book is that
I really wasn’t expected to love it.
It kept me drawn in and caught me
by surprise a number of times.
Good quick page turner!

THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE - VE Schwab
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I really loved this book.
The idea just kept staying with me for days…
the concept, I just kept mulling it over
and trying to imagine it,
trying to make sense of how it would work.
I will say (& this is not a spoiler)
but I didn’t love the ending and woke
up in the middle of the night after reading it
thinking no…wait…I HATE that ending.
It wasn’t mere dislike.
😆

friday i'm in love

An extra long Easter weekend
for me as I had yesterday off, too….
a nice long drive, a dirt road even though
the timing felt sketchy and dangerously
possibly muddy but it ended ok! :)
an amazing lunch at Bogside
with a bestie,
and an appointment with a new
osteopath and big hopes
that maybe THIS will fix my headaches!
(I am ever the optimist…haha)

FRIDAY I’M IN LOVE:

🐰um…i might like to have this kitchen please…

🐰ummm. i might like to have this latte please…and I don’t even know if i like lattes but this one? this one is screaming my name.

🐰DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME. I played it and I CAN’T STOP!!! I warned you…..and I even warned you in all caps.

🐰 it’s “just barely” warm enough for deck reading (and this book is sooo good)

🐰 the photo at the very top was a leaf that fell off one of my plants and it was so frigging pretty that I had to try to draw it…I just couldn’t capture the color…

Happy easter to you and i hope
the easter bunny finds you and that he is
not as terrifying as he seems to be in all the
old photos I keep seeing online with traumatized
little screaming children.
:)

a spring like snowy sunday....

I would be lying if I said
I was happy to wake up to
snow and freezing rain again…
yeah, ok, it was kind of pretty
but still
it’s spring!
I don’t want this anymore.

I want bare feet and dirt roads,
jumping in mud puddles,
sitting on the deck til the sun goes down,
sticky fingers and sand in my hair
and sun on my face.

Before the freezing rain came,
I did have a chance to take the calico kids
out to the back yard
to try out their new umbrellas and rain boots.
(and also trying to start using the big camera again)

and one random chickadee.
Who was also annoyed that
spring is being a jerk.

friday and i'm in love with spring....😍

It’s been a little weird
over here in the
big orange house.
my boy is in Yellowknife
and now my girl has been
out of the house most of the time
as well (not officially moved out
but definitely hasn’t been home 😆).

It’s good but it’s also
strange…in my 55 years on this planet,
I have only lived alone
once
and that was for a very short
period of time…like…maybe a month…
or less…

It’s been weird. Not awful.
But weird.
(and I mean really…
how alone can I actually be
with 1 dog and 3 cats…)

I took the Christmas tree down.
This led to a very big purge and
decluttering of the big orange house
which was way overdue.
It’s not even close to being done yet
but I feel good about the progress.
Like, really good.

But what I didn’t expect
were the emotions that came with it…
I get emotionally attached to objects
either because of memory/sentiment
OR because I also assign feelings to
inanimate objects…I don’t know why.
I just do.

To be sorting through at least 20 years
of stuff…photos, invoices, scorecards from board games,
cards from ex, cards to my ex,
the kid’s artwork and schoolwork and that
little pair of shorts that my boy loved,
the adorable coat my girl hated but was so cute in…
photos and write ups that I did for my dad’s 60th birthday,
letters and journals and poems written on
napkins and lyrics scribbled on bills…
you get the idea.

It was hard.
Like gut wrenching punched me in the heart hard
at times…

But I’m coming on to the other side of it now.
And yesterday was the first glorious day of spring.
And there were purple & yellow teeny tiny flowers
in my front yard…and it was nice enough out
to read on the deck…and…

I feel lighter.

I feel like fresh air and good sleep,
ruddy cheeks and messy hair.
I feel like it was a hell of storm
but I’m still standing on the other side of it
and I am ready for whatever comes next.

*not what I came here to write but you must
be used to that by now.

FRIDAY I’M IN LOVE

🌼i was obsessed with this when it came out…and have new renewed my obsession….so perfect.

🌼how perfectly timed was this!

🌼while i have been patiently watching this one episode a bloody week (and i’m telling you know, it better all make sense in the end or i am going to be SOUR), on the other nights, i have been watching this and it’s actually surprised me and has me hooked…i am sad to see there will be no season 3 though. Boo.

🌼got a last second sweet offer to go to Halifax to see Our Lady Peace & Collective Soul last week!! Sooooo fun. Great company, good food and the concert was fantastic! Yay to live music and road trips!

this was the UH-MAZ-ING breakfast from Pur & Simple!!!

Happy spring to you! I hope you have
flowers in your yard and not too much mud
in your driveway! 🌞

thinking out loud

Every time my website renews
I suddenly want to blog more in
order to warrant the cost of keeping this space…

so here I am on a Sunday night
writing messages from my bed
and cursing why it is so damn hard
to single space in here when on my tablet and
waiting for the melatonin to kick in…

if you have been here for a bit
you might remember my “creativity jar" idea
where i put a bunch of random ideas on slips of paper
in a jar and then some timeframes & rewards
in other jars
and used this as my theme or idea for the time period listed…
well, i picked a new one today…
popcorn.
i got popcorn as a theme….
FOR A MONTH
this is going to be hard. 😄

but once i started thinking about it,
i was able to come up with a bit of a list of ideas
including some recipes to try
so this could be fun!

and i love that the days are getting longer now.
the sun was still shining at 6:30 pm
so i stopped for an ice cream sundae
on my way home from my mom's…
and i spent time knitting and listening to loud music,
started a new book
and feel like i am going into this week in a good mindset.

happy daylight savings day to you! 🌞