it's been a while since....

i have felt like doing
a friday i’m in love post.

i hadn’t realized
exactly
how
much the roller coaster
of an illness in your family,
in your dad,
who is the stability and rock
in your foundation,
can shake you.

some days
it feels like my foundation
is crumbling
and i am scrambling
in a panic
with mortar and glue,
hammer and nails,
duct tape and hope
to hold it all together…

and some days…
it sticks.
it holds.
and i feel like the breath
i have been holding
hard and rigid in my chest
can release.
my heart
tightly wound and all tied up in a knot
can expand.
my feet back on somewhat solid ground

this is one of those days.
a good day.
a series of good days
after a series of
not so good days
but we won’t focus on those.

so it’s a friday i’m in love kinda day.

♥ 28 (i know i could call them by their real names now but….this is funner) and I watched the crowded room on apple TV (which is an annoying set up, just saying) and it was SO GOOD! I kind of wish I had known it was a book first but still….so good!

♥ oh. this. i loved everything about this.

♥ my new to me egg chair that, yes, went into my living room instead of on my deck which will lead to my next new love….

♥ i have fallen into the “cozy girl” side of tiktok
and i have got to say….i love it. it might bankrupt me…
but i love it. Right now, I am all about candles, low lighting,
blankets, comfort foods (like the homemade tomato soup
i just made), big shlumpy socks (yes, I made that word up),
simmer pots, pillows and pillows and pillows. i am even making
a “cozy girl” playlist. oh….and this simple egg on toast in
the air fryer is making me sooooo happy.

i hope you
are having a
happy, cozy friday….
the sun is shining
and i have a big surprise
to pick up later….
it feels like a damn good day.
♥♥♥♥♥

friday i'm in love...the big city edition

♥ i had to be on course this week in Charlottetown...
while i was there, i had the opportunity to eat at Leonhard's
which i have walked by many times,
but have never gone in.
the food was delicious and the decor
made me drool as much
as the smell of the fantastic food...

♥ speaking of the decor of Leonhard's,
there was a painting across from where i was sitting
that literally took my breath away...
and it's been popping up in my mind ever since.
it was done by an island artist that i was familiar with
and have liked her work all along
but this...
this one really got a grip on me.
i had to google search it when i got home...
it's called "3 trees & we are home"
i just want to melt into it.

the bookmark is an independent bookstore
that i have always loved...i have always missed the
"paper station" that they used to have but was
so happy to see that they have added a great
section of art supplies & board games & puzzles
as well as books! 
so many things i wanted to buy but in the end
i settled for this

yay!  i got a new pen!!  and a journal!

♥ trying out this intense vitamin e moisturizer from body shop
for my ridiculously dry forehead...so i stop clawing at it...
it's so itchy!
 

the strawberry body butter was just an extra :)

♥ and this has nothing to do with Charlottetown...
but...i love it...along with this intro
(& i just realized they are the guys that did the
treadmill video too!)


friday i'm in love...

with looking back at
old grade school yearbook photos...
who were those littles...
and where are they now?

that's me...the pale ghost-y looking kid in the corner with the puffy sleeves and the striped socks...

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with this video...the reactions...
oh.
the reactions melt/break your heart.

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this adele carpool video kills me...
i think i would like her
in real life...
she has such a great laugh!
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i totally want these socks!
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Watched this movie last night....
i had loved the book
and the movie
did not disappoint...
the little boy was perfect for the part.
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snow-stormy fridays
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judge judy marathons
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making plans with S
on deciding which movie we
will go to the IMAX for the FIRST TIME EVER
to see...right now,
we are leaning towards this
{WONDER WOMAN IS IN IT!}

friday i'm in love... #nablopomo

with the new cookies from tim hortons...filled in the middle with flavor...i had the lemon shortbread stuffed with raspberry...3 of them actually.

the new song from adele

it's called how to age gracefully... (my favorite piece of advice in it...STAY WEIRD.)  :)

this girl with the blue green hair and the pretty green eyes....

so much in this that i loved and plan to try!  makes me want to grab my notebook and a pen!

i know winter is coming but i am still in summer/fall mode...or denial maybe...but i can just picture this in my yard.

this video killed me....heeheehee...

this little rotten apple series from a day at what-was-once-rainbow-valley.
it has an official new name I think...but I will always refer to it as the above...
in bitter nostalgia...