Friday thoughts

A few recent thoughts:

"It's summer! It's summer! It's summer! It's summer!"

"Apartment Therapy, why can't I quit you?!"

"I should probably write a post here about how we're buying a house"

"I should also probably write a post here about how I (finally after months and months of passionate patience and tears and frustrations) got a job that I'm really, really excited about starting next week"

"Shall I clean the house today and take photos of our first apartment together"

"Shall I post those pictures here?"

"It's summer!"

"When will we lift the ban on 'dog adoption websites' so we can find our third member of the family?" 

"Really loved this piece on 'happiness' as shared by Cup of Jo. Happiness is not the end goal, and I'm over the pressure of trying to be happy all the time, wholeness is better."

"What will I find in my planned Goodwill shopping tomorrow morning"

"Because I should find more modest clothes"

"Because my new job will not appreciate skinny jeans"

"I love skinny jeans"

"Hoping I win Katie's Russian Treats giveaway. Hoping you don't enter so my chances are better, or hoping you win and will share your bounty with me" 

"Am I the only person in the world that thinks 'The Goldfinch' is overrated and boring?"

"It's time for some Jane Austen next"



What's been on your mind lately? Happy weekend.

The Friday Distraction

I say Friday even though I'm posting this Thursday. Bookmark me, and come waste your Friday afternoon hours with these links, I invite you.

Also, talking about Friday makes me feel like it's the weekend already, and I'm needing to feel that round about now. (this week is so OVER)

These things:

Making this lemon zest cake is a priority.

Lately I've fallen in love with the Marie Antionette soundtrack all over again. It's amazing, classic one minute, indie rock the next.

Really enjoyed this post by my friend Total TamNation, I think a few 20somethings will find this oh so very easy to relate to.

Love this quote on 'wonder'. 

Soooo, I'm kind of famous. As you'll see here on this website.  I'm so embarrassed, or I should just say that right? I'm actually really amused, my first paid gig in the USA.

Speaking of my fine accomplishments, here my first published article in a while. It's about a start up craft distillery in Delaware. (See page 20-21)

I want this dress!

I adore Rachel from Smile and Wave's home, see it here on Apartment Therapy (I wish I never discovered this website)

a Beautiful post on tree planting in Mozambique.

Lastly, prepare to waste an embarrassing amount of time on 'Man Men with things drawn on them', only cool if you're a Mad Men groupie.

We have dreams of another camping trip this weekend, if nothing else we hope to find a lake to go splash around in like the locals do. Rumor has it temperatures will reach into the triple digits.

friday and other such matters

happy because it's March, means Spring and my birthday.

weary from hearing so many negative news out of South Africa in a matter of a few short weeks.

excited for first friday tonight and a hike tomorrow.

a little discouraged with blogging and general green card patience.

proud of making these 'healthy' oats and peanut butter cookies yesterday. also proud for scrubbing the entire bathroom, things are little uneventful round here.

loving my new found interst in natural home made beauty products. and by that i mean coconut oil and sugar scrub. the best.

ready for something new and dreaming of traveling to Mexico in June.

mentally preparing for an afternoon run. yes! do it. go. 

self loathing for not having done my Washington drivers license yet. or taking one bus ride these past 5 months.

generally over this week, let's try again next week shall we?

i am however thankful for longer days, a hard working and humorous husband, my new desk lamp, plants that survive in our flat, viber, and having an unfailing optimistic hope that greater things are yet to come and some answers might be closer than i think.

Friday, around here, outside

here with proof that i do in fact leave my house:

how amazing is freezing fog right? so pretty.

Friday: impressive blog title here

excited for snow tubing this weekend, i have almost three decades of missing out on 'snow joy awesomeness' to make up for.

baking some more. these choc chip cookies and these shortbread cookies, apparently eating a serious diet of only cookies around Christmas doesn't make you fat. right?

thinking that i need to be physically outside of our apartment as much as possible this weekend.

avoiding most kinds of shopping till the day after Christmas, and when i return the merry music better be done, done i tell you.  there's only so many times 'i saw mommy kissing Santa' is cute... no more!

loving that there is a little bit of sunshine action going on out there, and that the snow is still pretty solid on the ground, watching the bad ass crows patrolling the neighbourhood, that most of the wrapping is done... and the smoothie maker i got delivered to me this week. dankie sussiekie xx!

hoping  for a Christmas miracle, where my green card magically appears with no more hassles, no talk of how many months it will still take to get it and... while i'm at it, a 90% off coupon for the whole deal. how about it bureaucratic America?

wanting Johannesburg South African beaches to not be so freaking far from Spokane...

remembering mannamemarak... if you are Afrikaans, between 26-28 follow that link!!! if you are not, then, uhm, don't.  While you're at it might as well listen to Mina Moo, and hopefully you too will be inspired to call someone a 'ramkat'... just me?
(this exactly the kind of random things you find when you go down the You Tube rabbit hole of your nostalgia)

singing, humming my favorite Christmas carrol despite being such a humbug about the whole festive season.

enjoying  the sunlight that has in fact broken through since. also discovering this blog afternoons and coffespoons.

needing to make time to watch love actually

thankful for; again with the sunshine, the time spent with my new in-laws, the entertaining squirrels outside my window (see why i need to get out more), a successful first attempt lasagne dish, finding affordable drinkable wine, the weekend, that my husband is so darn attractive.

have a happy weekend x