a thousand words

Music reminds me that I am not the first person to have had their heart broken (or for that matter: to fall in love, break a heart, get angry, be sad, etc.). Which is a good thing in a morbid, schaudenfreude kind of way... but it's also empowering. These artists had their hearts broken & lived to tell the tale.

& The tale is the important part, right?

So for WEEKS I've been searching for my camera cord so I could upload the steadily growing multitude of pictures of past events. Today, I found it. BUT! Lo and behold, my camera is now MIA. Ohhh me oh my, life can be so puzzling.

My unemployed status has left me with countless financial stressors... however! It's also presented me with the opportunity to do so many of the things on my "when I have the time..." list. Huzzah! A silver lining.

I just finished The Help by Kathryn Stockett, and absolutely adored it.

I was honestly quite sad to finish it, it was like saying goodbye to friends I knew I might never see again. But I'd honestly recommend it to anyone, it's light hearted enough to be a beach read, but it's beautifully written and has a heart to keep the reader from feeling as though she's slipping into a fluffy mush of useless literature.

It is birthday season! My brother, cousin and my friend Nina all have birthdays this week & Ekat's is on Monday. Tina and Leme both had birthdays last week, so I've had lots of fun baking. Tina's birthday involved a trip to a family friend's house where we enjoyed cake and ice cream in a room filled with kids running around and adults laughing and smashing cake in each other's faces. My house is going to be that house.

I've been able to sit on sooo many babies lately. Getting paid to do something I love so much-whether it's in the church nursery, teaching sunday school, babysitting or whatever-feels like a crime. My secret: Thanks for the money, I really need it.. but I'd do this for free <3.

I've also been pet-sitting a lot, which I know is God's little way of telling me to cheer up and walk dogs. It's also an expert-level crash course in poop-scooping. But, now that I think about it... so is babysitting.

Additionally, I've spent many a blissful hour on the beach this week. I'm getting pretty tan, too... so I suppose there are definitely upsides to unemployment. Er, rather just quite sporadic employment.

It's been a blessing to be so busy without really doing anything at all. & On that note, I'm off to the Funny Bone.

Good Evening.