Involves my tiny little things for the week.

What I am thankful for this week:

• Rearranged closets.  All my shirts are now color coded, and arranged by type. I also realized I have 25 cardigans that really serve no purpose besides covering my arms (they don’t keep me that warm).  In addition, I have 6 black cardigans. Even I admit… that’s ridiculous.  However, not ridiculous enough that I didn’t buy another one for $6.25 at Old Navy!
• Criminal Minds Marathons. That leave me scared out of my mind. Scared enough that, after hearing a noise at 2:30am outside my window, I grabbed and a bat and texted my best friend for help. WHO NEVER TEXTED ME BACK. AHEM!!! Granted she lives in a different state.  But still!
• Lunch from my favorite place ever: Noodles and Co.
• Cleaned Out Cars! Apparently I have issues keeping my car clutter free
• Freshly Mowed Lawns. Nothing better than seeing the fresh lines in your grass
• The Help. Movie afternoon with my Grandma. I ate a lot of popcorn.

So spill. What are your tiny little things of the weekend?

yesterday was not a very good day.

feeling like an island, floating by myself.

it’s a weird feeling.

like everybody is going in fast forward and you are just standing there, like a cliché romantic comedy.

but i have faith that it will all work out the way it supposed to.

here is hoping to a better end of the week….

A conversation over text:

discountchica:  “You don’t have to settle.  You can ride off in the sunset and you will find whatever it is that makes you happy.”

Friend: “Do I find a prince on a white horse?”

discountchica: “No. You become the Prince AND the horse. Eventually somebody will come along to ride beside you.”

Friend: “Jeez. You’re good”

discountchica: “I know, right?! Sometimes, I impress myself. Other times I order a whole pizza and watch Hoarder marathons. Crying.”

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It’s a delicate balance

Happy Tuesday!

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Someday I will become Suzie Homemaker…

(I have great ideas about cooking and baking… who know’s if I can ever put that into practice?)

Maybe if I win this wonderful kitchen appliance, I can actually learn to cook!

Who has four paws and is glad to be home??

This kitty!

 

After 35 days on a Rumspringa Millie has returned!

And her owners, Mr. Doctor and Mrs. Soon-To-Be Librarian couldn’t be happier.

And her best friend Franny? She is meowing a happy song!

 

I used to believe…

love is not enough.

It takes hard work and grit and luck and timing and the ability to move mountains.

And maybe that’s all true.

Maybe love alone can not occur in a vacuum.

Circumstance and life can create a journey that can become too difficult to navigate while preserving sanity

The journey is, at once, wonderful and hurtful. A journey that, at times, is pure blind faith.

The random chances that lead us to this place.

Because even though, I believe(d) that love is not enough.

I also believe that
And even if it doesn’t work the way you hoped, it did work…

because

for one brief, glorious, hopeful moment you weren’t in the trenches alone.

Life is scary and hard and difficult and lonely.

However

once in a while you get little reminders that you are not in this alone.

And that is why my new motto is

“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”

And it may not be the path that you like. Or how you like it. Or when you like it.

But love creates the path that is best for you.

Love will move the mountains.

Somebody will move mountains for you.

And if it/they/life/love can’t

(for whatever reason)

you have to move the mountains yourself.

And somehow, they will find you.

And if they don’t or can’t or won’t

love will still find you

(even if it’s in the form of cat…)

I am coming out and admitting things that I love that I probably shouldn’t.

Things that are dorky, bad for me, embarrassing…

plain and simple awful.

things that when my best friend hears that I love them exclaims “DiscountChica! I can’t be friends with you!”

(actually she uses my real name and probably swears. But you get the drift…)

Hopefully- I am not the only one that has secret shames. PLEASE! Delurk. Say your secret shame. Blog about it… comment… tweet.. email!

And don’t judge. Because he who throws the first stone… has their DVR set to Bad Girls Club.

Don’t lie.

1.  Bad and unfunny TV shows. I only have basic cable so I tend to watch awful TV shows. A LOT. And it turns out… I kinda of like them. Especially Reba.

2. I love Gummi Hamburgers that I can usually only find at random gas stations. It’s literally the grossest looking type of candy in the world but they are my favorite. Although, most of the time I’m too embarrassed to buy them because, you know, I’m almost 30.

3.

4. I have never seen Dirty Dancing, Star Wars, or Mystery Science Theater 3000.       

I will keep adding my shames as I think about them (or am trying to find way to hide them).

In the meantime… your turn!

Comment or send me an email (discountchica @ gmail dot com) and I will feature them in my next Secret Shame post…

Turns out I am actually creeped out by Cats in Hats.