Monday, March 25, 2024

February 2024 Randoms

Cute things I saw at Target:


I loved Strawberry Shortcake, Care Bears, and Winnie the Pooh as a child (I still do as an adult!).



It's fun watching John wrestle live on YouTube. I like to stream it to the TV and watch it there.


This was a really good WSJ article about two BYU long-distance runners who went on missions and got better at running when they returned. They both qualified for the Olympics last month. I cut this article out and sent it to John (because I'm old-school like that).


I'm excited for John to experience some (or all) of these benefits on his mission. His call should be coming in the next week or two!

I read an interview with Andre Agassi and who knew, he and I are a lot alike in some ways!
This is how I do my editing and writing work. I usually do around three hours in the morning (sometimes more, sometimes less), and the rest of my day fits in around that.

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Of course, he has a much bigger budget from which to spend on these splurges, but still, same thing. Well, kind of. 😄

One of my least favorite amendments. Ha ha. 

I read a good book, The Pilgrim Hypothesis, that had a lot of inspiring stories and connections between the founding of the United States and the restoration of the gospel.

Beth had this drink in her car and I snapped a picture to remind myself to get it and try it sometime. I don't drink a lot of soda because it's bad for you, but when I do, why not make it probiotic so that it feels healthier?

Here's my picture and bio for Cape Cod Moms! It's on their website, and these two pictures are from an Instagram post they did.
I love this job and am so thankful I was hired for it!

I'm itching to make a couple of edits to my bio! It's literally the editor in me. 😄

I have fond memories of these markers.


 In my opinion, this is one of America's most beautiful places. 😍

I went for a nature walk on a cool new (to me) trail near my house and saw these funny Suess-like trees that were dead on the bottom and green at the top. 

The culprit? Deer!

Another match on the big screen for my boy J. He lost but he put up a good fight (literally 😉).


I NEED to go here!

This is from Sam's wrestling banquet (in my old high school cafeteria, which is now the middle school cafeteria). It was a rough season for him, so I'm proud of him for finishing and not quitting. He and John are very different in their approaches to competition--hopefully in high school, Sam's approach will align more with John's (which is to be nervous, but also excited, and to get out there and do your best. Sam's approach? Skip the meet. 😑).

Angela Lansbury is one of my favorite actresses of all time, and Murder, She Wrote is one of my favorite shows of all time (yes, I have been a 65-year-old in many ways for most of my life 😆). I enjoyed this webinar about her.

Jessica Fletcher is one of my models of a happy, successful, single lady.


She was great as Mrs. Potts, too!

If you have to die, this is the way to do it. She was a class act from beginning to end.

Retirement research, trying to figure out what I need. It's still at least a couple of decades away, but the time to prepare is now (unless of course, life has changed dramatically before then, and my guess is that it will!).
Maybe this is a little TMI but it's my blog and I'll share if I want to (do you get my reference to the old song? "It's my party and I'll cry if I want to..."). Anyway. I already have this amount saved for retirement (the literal benefits of having been married to a retirement actuary for 21 years). So I think I'm in pretty good shape for now, provided the stock market doesn't crash or anything crazy like that. And you know my feelings about the likelihood of that happening. (In case you don't: very likely.) In any case, I do my best to be prepared and take care of what I can control, and then I don't worry about the rest (too much). 

 This sunset is "fire," as John would say. 🔥😍

I love this movie. I've been trying to get a copy of it for awhile and I finally got one. This is one of my favorite stories from the scriptures. I think it's very applicable to our day and that it will become even more so in the future. Moses is one of my favorite prophets of all time. And not just because Charlton Heston plays him! Although that definitely helps. 😉

We usually take a walk on this boardwalk out over the water every summer. It's not too far from my Cape house. We have a personalized plank on the boardwalk. It's such a lovely spot!


I had these two Rainbow Brite and Strawberry Shortcake dolls!

I'm just going to copy what I said on Facebook about this picture because I think it's funny: 
A few weeks ago I worked on some research for a writing job I’m doing for a Boston-area magazine that’s launching this spring. I forgot about what I’d written in the first line under the town name as my takeaway about that town and have been giggling about it ever since I saw it. I crack myself up! 😁

Poirot is one of my favorite characters. I love how fastidious and intelligent and funny he is. As you can see, I have a thing for detectives!

I had a great collection of Poirots stored in my DVR and I lost them all when I moved. 😢

Another pretty place in New England that I've been to.


I'm happy to report that I got a Shamrock Shake this season!
I'm not happy to report that this is all too accurate and we are currently experiencing "Second Winter." 😭

Thursday, March 21, 2024

Wisdom, Humor, and Inspiration in February

 This time, they're in the order I took them. There's a lot from The Babylon Bee and Instagram. I hope you find at least some of these as enjoyable as I did!



This one cracked me up for days...


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(This one is from another of my employers, Cape Cod Moms.)


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And ironically, there's a grammatical error in this meme! Can you spot it? (I put it at the end of this post in case you can't!)

Tucker Carlson, my TV husband 😍😄






:Cough::Ex-husband::Cough:
(I don't talk about the whole situation very much, especially not on my blog, but this ignited something in me. For the last few years of our marriage, he was a nightmare and treated me very poorly, to the point that it was emotionally and psychologically abusive. So in the end, sadly, it wasn't a loss. I'm a lot happier and better off without him.)

And in that vein...

And also in that vein...
This is so true! I love this quote. (The picture is lovely, too.) 

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I don't!




Chinese culture is weird! 😆
I found this couple's story and attitude inspiring, and I related to it so much. Managing storms has become a big theme in my life. It's such a beautiful and powerful metaphor.


The next two pictures are from the above article, which I very much agreed with and appreciated. 

This is the type of man I didn't get but would like to have...



I hadn't seen this painting before. I love it!




I like this logic. 😆






This question in Come, Follow Me was a good one and has had me reflecting for weeks about it. I think my life and who I am as a person would be very different without the Restoration of the gospel.
I love temples. I can't wait to find out more someday about what ancient temples were like, especially in comparison to ours today.



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The location of this "story" is Draper, Utah. 😆


I love this guy's attitude!





This is the best dating advice I've seen since becoming single. I intend to use it whenever I start dating again. This approach seems like it would take so much of the pressure off and allow it to be more fun!







 I bet you got it, but in case you didn't, the grammatical error in the "adorable" meme was that there was no period at the end of the final sentence! ←Or exclamation point, for that matter. 😉