Memory 4

Grandmas. 

They're like your mom, but with whiter hair and more cookies right?

I had a different relationship with my grandma. 

But she died yesterday and I'm trying to come to grips with the reality that I don't get more time to repair some of the ties that were severed in our later years. 

But I do get to make peace by remembering. 

So...

...getting up at 9 am to go get biscuits and gravy at McDs cause they were the only ones that competed with my moms

...playing Monopoly but stopping halfway through cause I got bored.

...beating her at 1500 rummy and her not talking to me for 15 minutes.

...wearing her old silk nightgown and pretending I was Cinderella. 

...watching Wheel of Fortune and eating TV dinners

...playing bank. 

...getting Wendy's Frosties

...taking the recycling up to the lot every Saturday. 

And just so it goes on record. I loved my grandma. 

30 day music challenge:

Day 20: a song you listen to when you're angry

I'll admit it. I'm a closet Avril lover. 

The Best Damn Thing - Avril Lavigne

Week 5

1) This amazing bag I discovered this week from Amani Ya Juu. In their own words, "Amani ya Juu (meaning “higher peace” in Swahili) or Amahoro ava Hejuru (in Kinyarwanda) is a sewing-marketing-training project for marginalized women in Africa." 

2) This giveaway by Bethany Grace. Make sure to enter and tell her it was me that sent you over! 

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3) Gabe Bondoc. Plain and simple. 

4) Oh Em Gee! This amazing blog post by the magical hippie. Who feels special? This girl!

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5) Roadtrips! So simple...but oh so true this week. 

30 day music challenge:

(shhh...I didn't already do this today)

Day 13 – A song that is a guilty pleasure:

Don't you dare judge. I'll admit it. I dance around my room with a hairbrush and this song blasting. It was a favorite on the roadtrip this weekend. Thank God the hippie supports my guilty pleasures. Extra points that Evan Taubenfeld was still with Avril at this point and is therefore in the music video. 

For those of you that don't know...I'm kinda obsessed with him. He wrote a song called Pumpkin Pie. It was love at first...sound.

Girlfriend - Avril Lavigne