Nov. 5: A favorite place

When you think of your favorite place, is that place an actual location or is it more like a state of mind? For me, it’s either or both. My favorite locations—where I’m happiest, I think—are an (uncrowded) beach, Sunriver, Disneyland Resort, San Francisco, and Maui. I’d add Paris, France to the list but-cept being in a country where people pretend they don’t understand English stresses me out.

State of mind-wise, I’d say my favorite place is wherever I’m around people with which I’m able to be myself… the ones who “get” me… who aren’t competitive… who can relax too… who make even boring stuff fun. Here’s art I found on Pinterest that sums up this state of mind pretty well:

  

I’m fortunate to have a lot of friends who bring love and laughter wherever they go, which means I spend time in my favorite place frequently. How lucky am I?

So no, I don’t have to leave home to be in my favorite place, but I’ll be honest: an opportunity to leave home is almost never refused. I say this just in case you were planning to give me a vacation for Christmas but are now thinking it’s not what I want. IT IS TOTALLY WHAT I WANT, OK?

Yep, I’m doing another blog challenge. This one is photo-riffic!

Jan. 29: Funny

Lots going on right now and too busy to blog. I’m only posting today to clear off my desktop, which is where I store images until I share them with y’all. Here you go:

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I’ve been pointing this out for years.
Close-ups of this jackass on the big screen are just one of the reasons I hate his movies.

 

 

 

 

 

Worst. Insult. Ever.

 

 

 

 

 

 

January is sadly lacking in posts; it’s already time for my month in summary. I know no one cares, but I’m pointing it out anyway.

Oct. 26: A totally legitimate post

On nights like these, I miss Sabbath. There’s not much I regret about leaving my SDA upbringing, but having an excuse to take a day off and relax was pretty handy. All of the naps, none of the guilt!

Last night was the school’s multicultural fair that Shannon and I created pretty much from scratch. We should have just stolen an idea from the Internet, but instead we re-invented the wheel. Not the brightest idea, we repeatedly realized, but OH EM GEE, it turned out to be such a fun event! About a million people showed up—approximately 999,994 more than we expected—and families really seemed to have a great time. It’s so nice to start something new and then hear good chatter about it.

But it all wore me plum out. I’m absolutely exhausted and OH! What I wouldn’t give to spend a few days in bed, ignoring emails and texts and phone calls. But nooo, tomorrow I have to go to Jack’s football game at 1pm. After that I have to go to a pumpkin patch to buy 100 mini pumpkins for Family Night at 6:30pm. And at some point, I have to figure out a costume I can wear to Family Night that won’t get melted by the popcorn machine.

Since I have nothing interesting to say, here are funny things I’ve been collecting:

Enjoy your weekend, friends! If you have time, please nap the hell out of an afternoon for me.

Oct. 7: Read the funnies

Time to share the silly pictures I’ve been collecting.

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For my dear, punkin-crazy friends, Sherilee and Kim F’n-W:

And for Sherilee, who has been writing one blog post after another about how fab this season is…
some of us find it not so fab.
Dur.

(It’s OK; I still love you bunches.)

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Because there’s no way Jesus would have been a Republican.

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Let’s see, have I sufficiently alienated everyone I know? Yay! My work here is done.