• who am i
  • Contact
  • New Products
  • 50-in-50
  • geek girl blog
  • weddings
  • Time Machine
  • Blog-love
Menu

the big orange house
Summerside, PE
902-439-4562

Your Custom Text Here

  • who am i
  • Contact
  • New Products
  • 50-in-50
  • geek girl blog
  • weddings
  • Time Machine
  • Blog-love

friday i'm in love....and also a bit of a ramble...heh...

June 7, 2024 Arlene Giddings

Do you ever feel like you are
struggling to find yourself?

Like…you know you are still in there
because you keep seeing glimmers
and shimmers of your old excitement,
your usual joy and creativity and happiness…
but it feels like it is buried down deep
and you have to keep shifting the sands
in your brain to let the light back in?

That’s kind of where I have been.
And it’s weird, it’s so up and down and
in and out and topsy turvy…
one second it all makes sense
and the next second, I have lost the thread
that holds it all together
and pieces fall on the floor.

I try to give myself space
and grace,
I know the loss of my dad is still very much
driving my actions and reactions…
and a recent health stress is kind of
freaking me out but I tell myself
that worrying will not change anything,
I just have to wait and see.

BUT….
this is a friday i’m in love post
so let’s get to the good stuff! 😎

💕 I have been loving the new jar of challenges challenge -
30 days of fairy tales (reward of new stickers!)

💕This stuff. I am currently on my 3rd bottle of this. When I start running
low, I literally panic-order it because my sleep has been SO good.

💕Speaking of good sleep, it’s possible it plays a role in the fact that this
is day TWENTY SIX of NO headaches. And I mean NONE. Not a threat,
not an echo, nothing. Nada. I will post more about this later…I kinda don’t
want to jinx it. (Hopefully I haven’t already!)

💕Look at my lilacs!!! Every time I see it, I think “I did that.
I bought that. I planted that. I did that.” And I have had fresh lilacs
in my house for weeks. So happy!

💕This post on aging. I feel this deep in my 55 year old heart.

💕And this adorable artist…but much along the same theme as above.

💕And finally, I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE THIS MOVIE!!!!!

Happy, happy Friday to you!
I hope it was a stupendous one and that you got to
celebrate donut day which I actually didn’t do…
but definitely intend to rectify that tomorrow.
😘 🍩

In friday i'm in love Tags friday i'm in love, friday!, national doughtnut day, lilacs, my dad
2 Comments

friday i'm in love....

April 27, 2018 Arlene Giddings

I know I haven't been here a lot
lately but with the sudden and sweet onset of spring
I am feeling like my batteries have been recharged
and I am ready to get back to the things that I love...

Speaking of things that I love
here is a bit of a list of what I am currently crushing on:

♥  It was Administrative Professional Day on Wednesday...
I know I don't talk about my "real" job a lot here (or any
social media...I like a firm line between home and work),
but I have to say that the people that I work with
were incredibly sweet this whole week...and the
countless cans of diet coke and enormous supply of jujubes
made me smile.  I love my job.

♥  I love that a real life ongoing game of tag was the inspiration
for this movie which looks like it is going to be hilarious!

♥  sunshine

♥  an evening ritual of taking the dog for a walk through the park

♥  an evening of Caesars and salty french fries, old friends and new ones,
loud jazz and lots of giggling...

♥  i still love this show. 

In friday i'm in love Tags lots of links, she loves to link, friday!
Comment

friday i'm in love...

February 23, 2018 Arlene Giddings

♥♥♥
i have finally seen the movie Wonder
and i will tell you right now,
it did not disappoint.
i am not going to lie
i sobbed my way through most of it
but...a good kind of sobbing...
if you know what i mean...

♥♥♥
week 2 of 52 drawing labs book project...
check in on Sunday to see how it went

♥♥♥
yoga with adriene youtube videos...
for those days when i just can't make myself leave the house.
(cause, you know...winter.)

♥♥♥
neil gaiman.
i am seriously crushing on neil gaiman.
i want to be neil gaiman.
really.
my obsession with him right now
could qualify
as unhealthy.
(and if, by some cosmic twist in a bizarre but benevolent universe
he happens to read this blog post
or comment on the associated tweet,
i will most likely self combust from happiness...)

♥♥♥
i feel like a lot of us should read this...
more than once.
or ok...i feel like i should be reading this...
like once a day...as a reminder....
because i do all of these things.
i try to balance but
it's so easy to slip back into old habits.

♥♥♥
maggie's getting married!  are you going?  you should!
(and sidenote...i really miss not being involved in a play this year...
i was surprised by how much i missed it.)
 

In #project52drawinglab, 2018, friday i'm in love Tags neil gaiman master of words, a girl obsessed, friday!, 52 drawing labs, #project52drawinglab, wonder, movies, maggie's getting married
1 Comment

friday i'm in love (it's been a long time...)

August 26, 2016 Arlene Giddings

i am late posting about last weekend
but it was such a great weekend
i feel it definitely qualifies for
friday i'm in love status...
even a week late.

friday we took our girl to the big city
apartment hunting which was, of course,
scary and sad and stressful while also
exciting and happy and fun...
which is how this whole
our-girl-is-moving-away-going-to-school
adventure has been so far.  ♥

saturday was a wedding in a beautiful area of PEI...
sweet young couple...lots of laughs and tender moments
and handstands....
yes...handstands...handstands on TOP of other people....
which i can honestly say i have not had at a wedding before
but am glad that i had the opportunity to add them to the list.  :)

i was a little bummed though to be
at the other end of the island
knowing that at my end of the island
friends were going to be meeting up at green shore
to watch the tragically hip
give their final concert in kingston
and CBC was streaming it...for free...& summerside
was showing it on the big screens...
and i was going to miss it.

i put a hip playlist on my phone
and played it on the drive home
but...
it just wasn't the same thing.

i decided i would go anyway...
whatever time i got into town.
i stopped for gas and my friend messaged me and said
"second encore...
new orleans is sinking"
and there were many eff words and the pounding
of the steering wheel.

but i made it in time for the third encore...
the last encore...the last 3 songs.
and it was so totally worth it.

sunday was family fun day for whoever could make it to mill river...
with so many of us now and jobs, kids, commitments, life...
it's hard to get us all together in one place,
but we keep trying.  :)

and i swear...my father has got to have
the fountain of youth in his
backyard because i have never met a 70+ year old
so full of life and fun and mischief.

as evidenced by this video:

and what's friday i'm in love without some
evidence that the internet is both
the best and worst thing in the world
(especially if your plan was to be productive today
because, if you are me, it just didn't happen.)

 

♥  this letter..."also please say something that will make everybody calm"  i hear ya, kid. 
♥  caught reading - a pinterest board that i love
♥  tallulah...if you have not yet seen this movie, go watch it.  i ♥ ellen page.
♥  women having a terrible time at parties (in art form) this made me laugh out loud
♥  Blue Rivers of Bioluminescent Shrimp

happy weekend!

In friday i'm in love, my girl, we are family Tags the hip, friday!, my dad, you tube, she loves to link, my girl
1 Comment

friday i'm in love

May 13, 2016 Arlene Giddings

☺ with my robot shoes...I know I have had these for a while
but I never really had the chance to share them here...
because I only had phone-photos and I felt they needed
big-camera pictures...not needed...deserved :)  I would suggest
that you check out their site, but...if you are like me,
you will want EVERY shoe there.

View fullsize 080.jpg
View fullsize 081.jpg
View fullsize 084.jpg
View fullsize 086.jpg

♥ this is so cool...

♥ oh...these photos...these words...sheep!  and goats!  and toasted bread!

♥ i want a macro lens too (whine, pout, whine)

♥ heeheehee...the mixer...the atrocity...heeheehee...

♥ i love #5's glasses, #2's hair, #13's attitude, #24's bravery, #45's boots, #46's hats

happy happy happy friday!  :)

In friday i'm in love Tags friday i'm in love, friday!, robots, robot shoes, pink, hot chocolate, macro
Comment
Older Posts →

Powered by Squarespace