August 5th, 2010
A fine day in history, the day of my birth.
that’s right, i’m 27 and proud.
i have come to find that growing older is grand.
i feel like my perspective on life has changed and developed so much these past few years that being older has a new appeal to it.
you see things through new eyes as you add another year to your life.
i understand and respect my parents more than ever.
i listen differently, more intently, to people and those around me than i ever did before.
i see god in a new light and am more in love with him than years past.
i am learning to love in a deeper way.
so many new things how can you not embrace age?
just over a week ago we had a party to celebrate of course, another thing that gets better, parties! we decided to have a Garden Party. my cousin Cassandra Monster (yes that’s really her last name =) myself and of course my mother, threw some fabulous yummies, decorations, and well thought out details together and a grand party it was!
thank you all who came, helped and celebrated, it was a great day!
*the pictures below will give you a bit of an idea of the fun we had! *
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July 20th, 2010
I love working in my home office & hearing our new / old clock click over, (I don’t here it everytime, that would drive me crazy) but i hear it some times & i just smile. We got in a op-shop in Wenatch.
Smile
*sjb
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July 15th, 2010
so going to bed last night i had pre-determined in my heart that i was going to accomplish something in my house the next day that would leave me patting myself on the back saying “well done amanda”. as i woke this morning and set my feet on the sexy chocolate brown shag carpet in our bedroom i decided the task for the day was going to be the ‘monster’ storage room!!
aren’t storage rooms wonderful? i am very thankful to have that space to keep things that either aren’t used on a regular basis or would just be in the way otherwise. the only fault of the storage room is that it has a tendency to call upon all it’s friends to come along and they all tend to gather in one giant MESS!
so today dear readers, i take on the storage room.
let’s see where my perseverance level’s currently at shall we?
wish me luck!
Tags: humor., inspiration., random thoughts.
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June 30th, 2010
being a newly married woman for almost a whole year now, means that with this new title come a few very key changes. my husband likes to remind me that it is no longer just little ol me, two have become one, which means more mouths to feed, another body to clothe, a bigger place to live, another mobile phone bill to pay, and on it goes. so needless to say i am on a tight budget. i’m sure many of you can relate…
i will be honest and tell you though, that there most certainly have been times when i’ve slipped up and splurged on that really cute green dress, or those impossible to ignore delightful dangly earrings, but for the most part i try. i don’t have an addiction to expensive things really, i don’t have a jewelry fetish, a get my hair done monthly fetish, or even a shoe fetish (not that there is anything wrong with any of those things, everyone’s different) but what i do have a fetish for are painted nails.
now painted nails, they make me feel pretty. i like my hands, i admire them, more than most people would i’m sure and so when i am having a down day, or feeling a little under the weather, or if i just want to look cute….the paint comes out, the nails get filed and VOILA, things are right in the world again.
okay, i put myself out there, it’s your turn….what are your secret indulgences ??
Tags: bliss., fashion., random thoughts.
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June 21st, 2010
stephen packed…
…himself up (with a little help from his lovely sidekick of course) and trotted down across the border to the US for a Bachelor’s weekend away. surrounded by 14 other guys he ventured to a lakeside resort for a weekend full of golf, sport, food and much more that will be left to the imagination ( so i’m told anyway).
meanwhile,
i was home soaking up the rays of the lovely summer sun that shone it’s pretty face, tried a little sport of my own. i hadn’t played badminton since i was a kid and boy did i feel like one with that little racket in hand attempting to send that even tinier birdie over the net, too much fun!
it wasn’t…
…our first time apart in our first year of marriage of course, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t some good ol’ fashioned ‘missing each other’ going on. it’s a strange feeling really, but of course the commonly used saying that your friends or family tell you while you’re apart from your loved one, “absence makes the heart grows fonder” was indeed proven true.
glad to have you home babe.
Tags: bliss., random thoughts., relationships.
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June 17th, 2010
For those who know me…
… they know that I’m a messy person, i manage to spill unleast one thing a day. I almost spill things more that i spell things wrong, it’s debatable. Anyway so the other day i was making a coffee in my Aeropress (thanks Amanda Bryde (my sister) ) and it is better to make it upside down, then put the lid on it & then flipped it over to press it. Usually it stops the flow and i have to push down the seringe like pump thingy for the coffee to come out. Well this time i guess it wasn’t on properly & the entire water mixed with coffee came out all at once straight on our beautiful counter top !! Luckily Amanda (my wife) wasn’t home so i could clean it up before she killed me !! it was a great opportunity for some photo’s i thought, & time to revel in my many flaws.
*sjb
Tags: coffee.
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June 16th, 2010
so it’s wednesday, half way through the week. that would be an important piece of information if i had one of those jobs that meant i worked from monday to friday and i could look forward to the weekend. but nope, not me. i work at a coffee shop, which of course i LOVE. but along with this job comes all different kinds of hours some of which obviously occur on the weekend. all of that to say it’s no matter to me really that it’s wednesday.
do you ever just have “one of those days” where you, for lack of a better word just feel BLAH ?! well for me that is today. what should one do on a day like that…what do you do ?
really i’m curious, what do you do when “it’s just one of those days ???”
Tags: random thoughts.
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June 2nd, 2010
as stephen and i were out galavanting as usual earlier this evening it slowly began to sprinkle. than of course as is true to the west coast fashion only minuets later it was pouring. what we realized though this random tuesday as we exited the ‘extra foods’ with our recently purchased groceries, was that as the rain came down the sun continued to shine casting a bright beautiful rainbow across the okanagan valley.
it was really quite breathtaking.
you gotta love the Okanagan baby, even when it rains, the sun’s shining.
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May 25th, 2010
i’m sad to say friends that as i sit here and type this there’s a little bird out on our patio that is literally singing it’s last song. he’s attempting to hop around while getting out his final notes. doesn’t that just break your heart?
we’ve tried feeding him, giving him water (i’ve taken to calling it a ‘him’), encouraging him to fly and nothing. he isn’t to our eye physically hurt and yet there he is singing his sad song and breaking my heart.
it’s reminding me how fragile life can be, we never know what each day holds, i feel as a little child might as i say a quick prayer for our little birdy friend, and hold onto hope for his tomorrow.
i hope this isn’t to heartbreaking, just honest. sleep well dear friends, until tomorrow…
Tags: random thoughts.
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May 20th, 2010
some mornings i wake and say to myself “okay here we go, you can do it amanda…” i strip off the sheets, turn to place my feet on the ground and push off. ”will today be just like yesterday?” maybe that’s a good thing, there are those of us who truly enjoy the ‘routine’ of each day…
i’m reminded of Harold Crick in the movie Stranger than Fiction, he most certainly enjoyed the routine, he loved doing things the same way it was safe, consistent he could rely on that…until it was thrown a bit. as the movie unfolds Harold learns that he’s the Main character, the leading role in his LIFE. he realizes that he wants to fight to stay alive, that each day holds something different, something new and he wanted to find out what happens.
we each play the leading role in our lives, will you let someone else write or dictate your character for you, or will you take part in the unfolding of your mystery? today is not just any other day…
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