hello 2016!

and so long 2015...it's been fun!

i love going back & looking at the past year...
what worked, what didn't...what changed and
what i realize now that i want to change.

this year, instead of reading through journals
i re-read all of my facebook statuses and
went through my photos...
sign of the times.
(well, for someone like me anyway...
who posts probably more than anyone needs to, heh).

2015 RECAP

i read 8 books in 2015.  EIGHT books.
i mean seriously.  that is embarrassing.
i used to read 8 books in a WEEK.
 

LOVED the land of decoration...was a little disappointed by Adult Onset (but the bar was raised high with Fall on Your Knees & will likely never be met again).  LOVED the museum of extraordinary things.

STUFF I WAS PROUD OF:

  • started this squarespace website and imported my blog onto it...which was terrifying for me to do.  Almost as terrifying as the decision to allow people to know about the blog. :)
  • tried improv and it was fun!!
  • told a story at storytelling circle which made me feel ill but was glad that i did it.
  • VOTED FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER
  • did nablopomo for November and only missed one day!
  • auditioned for a part in a play...and got one!  (which...is also terrifying).
  • shot 3 weddings in 3 days (& i did not cry)
  • did school photos for the first time and it was so much fun! 
  • planted two little gardens
  • made a cucumber!

this guy graduated (& I couldn't have been prouder) <3

these were my most liked photos on facebook...hahahaha....from sock monkeys to middle fingers to burn outs and snails...this is the story of my life.

2015 was the year that I

  • made a firm commitment to take 2017 off from photography
  • saw the counting crows
  • waited with the world in anticipation of the muppet comeback
  • got really really lost on a dirt road
  • made a pugosaur for halloween
  • realized i loved blueberry bagels
  • had my lost fitbit replaced and then FOUND my lost fitbit a couple of months later
  • made my whole family into Peanuts
  • dyed my hair black again
  • followed geese
  • looked for F18's and snowbirds
  • took pugsley for his first dairy bar ice cream
  • tried to get photos of a flock of seagulls in a McDonald's parking lot
  • fell twice, for the SAME wedding
  • began a solar toy obsession
  • survived both emma and campbell going away on trips
  • did photo-a-day project until May this time!  Better each year!
  • complained on FB about my lilac shortage so long that someone made a sweet delivery of lilacs to my doorstep!

2015 you were a fairly good year
and 2016 is looking pretty damn promising already! :)
Moving forward with an open mind/heart and a
sense of humor...I'm a man with a plan, stan....bring it on.
I'm ready! 

Boo! Halloween Grinches & Pugosaurs! & itty bitty kittens...

it's Halloween here in the big orange house
where i am the world's worst procrastinator
and feel like the Halloween Grinch...
ran out at 4:35 to buy candy
then publicly complained about buying said candy
cause we don't usually get many kids...

but also stuffed poor pugsley into his dinosaur costume
and took him out into the front yard
armed with treats and the camera
for a mini pug-photo session...

isn't he the cutest happiest looking pug EVER?!?

and here we have the rarely seen pugosaurus...famous for bulgy eyes and adorable but extremely dangerous snaggletooth

i also tried to stuff the kittens into a knitted pumpkin hat
but they were having none of it.
 

and now it's almost 7:30 and just about done for another year...
where i'll vow that next year i will do better,
i will be better prepared and the house will be terrifying
and we will make candy apples and robotic spiders
that leap at you and cobwebs hanging from the trees..

but chances are
i'll be playing the procrastinator again
and trying to jam two cats into a pumpkin
and pugsley into a wonder woman costume.
:)

i never get tired of fridays!! :)

friday i'm in love!

today's friday i'm in love could also be called
friday-i-wants...
cause...i want. 
and when you have no money,
you may as well dream big
and PRETEND you have money....
(it only hurts when the realization sits in...)
(but just for a minute)
(as long you go right back to pretending again heeheehee)

so...friday i'm love brings you friday i want::::

  • to eat this.  for dessert.  for breakfast.  for supper. 
  • to contain my life in this...i would love it and hug it and fill it will promises and minion stickers and glittery hearts and little robot sketches.
  • to live this, make it my mantra...write it on my hand, tattoo it on arm...remember it...live it.
  • to own a talent like this...i might have swooned a little....so beautiful!
  • to add this to my collection...along with this...and this....
  • to make pugsley into a pugosaur....what could be better than that.  I challenge you to think of one this that would be better than a pugosaur.
  • to fill my house with the scent of these...
  • to own one of these which would inspire me to use my 3 boxes of 64 crayola crayons!  and the artist lives here in PEI...we're twitter-friends!  i can say that, right, Nadine?  we're twitter-friends, right?  and instagram-buddies!  :)
  • to put at least one (or 5...or 10) of these in my driveway...soooooo cute it hurts my heart.
  • to be able to pick up my pen and write like this...sigh.
  • to go on a road trip....in one of these....i have not been a traveling kinda girl...but since our camping trip last summer, I find myself thinking about it more and more...like a longing for something I didn't know that I missed.
  • sheep.  i want sheep.  and goats.  and maybe a chicken or two.  and a whole pug family.  and a house in the country where 15 can have dirt bikes and half pipes and I can have a tire swing with polka dots or a skateboard swing and a treehouse!! and S can have a garage and 19 can sing until her heart's content....the one stipulation we ALL agree on?  there HAS to be high speed internet.  sad but true.

happy weekend!!