- spinning tops
- the season premiere of ANTM
- being so stubborn that I refused to give up on eating diary even though it made me sick, and my perseverance means I can finally eat ice cream.
- red shoes
- High Fidelity (both the book and the movie)
i spy.
– an old man in a track suit, doing chin ups on a tree.
– a four hundred pound man with a tiny dog peeking out of his jacket.
– a woman with Tammy Faye Baker eyes, whose drawn-on eyebrows are the same fire-engine red as her lips.
straight out of a horror film…
grace in small things. 8 of 365.
- cornbread
- oatmeal cookies
- roasted yam salad
- ham and cheese croissants
- mini eggs
board games and discussions about life make for a lovely afternoon.
grace in small things. 7 of 365.
- ex-boyfriends who have provided great material for anecdotes.
- bunny shaped gummy candy.
- board games.
- weekly art meetings.
- the glorious moment when you realize that it’s too warm to wear a jacket.
it’s not me, it’s you.
During a conversation about relationships:
‘Are there any deal-breakers for you?’
‘I could never date a smoker.’
‘What about if someone grew a mullet while you were dating?’
‘Well, I’ve never had to navigate something like that because I’ve never been with anyone long enough for them to grow a mullet.’
My gut is telling me that I would be out the door faster than you could say ‘business in the front and a party in the back.’
It’s not quite the same as wandering through a pasture in the prairies and stumbling across the first crocuses of the year, but it’ll do.
grace in small things. 6 of 365
- not having to pay library fines even though your books were a day late.
- the smell of lilacs that catches you while you walk down the street.
- cuddling with someone on the couch while the sun pours through the windows.
- getting homemade soup from a friend when you are feeling sick.
- friends who check up on you to make sure you aren’t dead, because when they left you four hours ago you weren’t looking so good.
My lucky bamboo.
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