Sing Along

Dear Mr FedEx driver,

Do not laugh at me as I belt out Bon Jovi at the red light. I'm cooler than you think.

- Brittany

 

Doctor Who 50th

One of the greatest things I've ever seen on tv. I think it was how beautiful the graphics were, how cute Tennant and Smith were together, and how vulnerable the Doctor was. I just started blubbering throughout. Oh and Tom got the following texts:

"David Tennant is yelling at a rabbit"

And This unforgettable quote: "Great men are forged in fire. It is the job of the lesser men to light the flame"

Brilliant! Fantastic! Geronimo!

And a final: allons-y!

Current Obsessions

I've got a BIT of free time lately and here's how I've been spending it: Fraiser on Netflix, Sims FreePlay on my IPad, and The Truth About Style by Stacy London in book form. I've got to have a few things to wind down. Some may not be intellectual but a little bit of fluff makes us all a better person.

PS. The above photo has nothing to do with anything, but she just looks so darn cute relaxing on the couch.

Seven Month Ago I Went On Vacation

Whelp... Life gets busy. So my goal for life until the New Year is to blog the important moments of 2013. While it is still 2013.

In March I took of to Liverpool to visit my guy. Long distance relationships are tough, but Tom and I make sure we don't go too long without seeing each other. I had also never met his folks. It was awesome! There were some special places he really wanted to show me.

The Albert Dock in downtown Liverpool: I actually went here three years ago. Before Tom and I were together. It was interesting looking around with someone from the city, and not with my tourist friends. He told me some of the stories he knew and we strolled the cobblestone sidewalks.

Ormskirk: This is a teeny town that has a street market certain days of the week. We went early and had some breakfast in a cafe. Then we walked around the market, and up some of the streets to see the cathedral. This couple in front just fit in so well so I had to snap a picture of the back of them. I'm a creeper I know.

Crosby Beach: it was so flippin col, but we had to make two trips here. It's just lovely. There is a huge art instillation of these Iron Men that you can only see when the tide goes out. We went once to see them appear and another time to see them disappear. Oh and we got ice cream. We are hardcore like that!

It was so dear to me to see where my love came from. Liverpool now feels a bit like a hometown to me. I saw it through his eyes. Can't wait to go back!

 

Loss

It has been a hard two weeks.

I had my darling Grandfather pass away in Ontario last week. He had dimentia and failing health but it doesn't make it any less hard. I think one of the hardest things was seeing my stepmom in pain. It was her father, and she had to go out on a red eye flight in order to get there before he passed. It's been a long time since we've had a death in the family and it really has been thinking out what it means to die. I'm a Christian and so I have reassurance about where I'm going, so death is kind of a "it happens" thing in my mind. I know that Grandfather is in a place now where he feels no pain and gets to see his wonderful wife Pat who has been gone for a few years. I like to imagine his face when he sees her again.

Now I just want to remember him as he was. He had this hilarious Irish ballad that he liked to sing about a man marrying a woman and on their wedding night she takes her wig off and pulls out her teeth, and all sorts of horrible things until he realizes she's not the teenager he thought he married. Even in his dimentia he could sing this song or recite these hilarious poems that he had memorized so many years before. The last time I saw him was a year and a half ago and he told us stories as he enjoyed his Black Forest cake in the nursing home. He later showed us his medals and reminded us all that he was a lifetime member of the legion. He was an amazing man and he will be missed.

On top of all this we had to say goodbye to our darling family cat Mischief. We had her in our lives for 16 years. Now some say this is old for a cat, but it felt like she would live forever. Turns out God had a different plan. She passed away purring as my Dad and Tracey patted her on a veterinarians table. It's a particularly hard blow when I think that we got her a month or so before my brother was born, and she's the last cat we had where me and my siblings were all living under the same room. In that it seems like a chapter has closed. She was so beautiful and gave you the most painful sandpaper tongue baths a cat could give.

Despite all this I am grateful for the time that God gave me with them. Everyone that you meet and love adds something to your life. These two contributed to who I am today and I will be eternally grateful for that. I rest in Christ that they are happy now and with Him.

 

 

I'm Back!

Like the Doctor, I'm regenerating to a different type of blogger. I'm still nerdy and crafty and really the same ish type of person, but a lot of things have happened in the past 6 months. A lot of things that are making me feel older. Perhaps a bit more wiser. I'd like to be a bit DEEPER (if that's possible) in what I blog about. Don't get me wrong I'm still making things and celebrating made-up holidays, but I'm also going through some stuff that's a little more heavy. So I'd like to put it here on my corner of the Internet so I can look back and reminisce/reflect on what I had to go through.

Here's to being more intentional!

P.S. the above picture is a screen grab from Doctor Who: Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)

Musings: Pi Day

With all the crazy that is my life right now I do not get to give this tradition justice. McDonald assures me I can still celebrate!

 

Musings: People I Wish I Could Be As Cool As

Jessica Day on New Girl: She makes teaching and cuteness look easy! And why yes! I am a Zooey Deschanel fan girl!

 

Musings: I Wish It Was Still Christmas

That whole magical season went way too fast! It was off work Friday, plane Sunday, Christmas Monday and Tuesday and DONE! In the blink of an eye. I want family time and cutesy decorations back please! And a purpose to all the snow that's on the ground!

Milestones: Dad's Birthday

Happy 51st Dad-o!

 

Instagrams: Wrapping Up 2012

This year I think I will change the way I share my instagrams. So out with the old...