Hello friends and readers!!! Welcome to the most fabulous day of the week!! Isn’t it wonderful?! On Fridays, we try to keep things light and fun here at Adulting – Second Half. On Fridays, also called Favorite Things Friday, I typically list three favorite things, whether they be products, or songs, or TV shows, or books, etc. Please add your favorites to my Comments section. Reality is, we live in a material world, and we should enjoy our things and experiences!!! Tonight, despite the mixed reviews that it is getting, I am very excited to watch the movie, Coming to America 2. Eddie Murphy finally made a sequel to his iconic Coming to America, which first came out in 1988! You can view the sequel starting today on Amazon Prime Video. Also, please note that the above meme was created by my favorite (and only) daughter, featuring one of our favorite dogs, our Boykin spaniel, Trip, whose look lives up to his name.
Today’s favorites:
Nonpareils candy – I bought a bag of nonpareils at The Fresh Market the other day and I got transported to Heaven. I bought them for nostalgia’s sake, and plus, they were beautiful pastel Easter colors, so I decided that I had to have them, thinking that the nonpareils would look lovely in a candy dish, for the upcoming spring season. Ha! I practically ate the whole bag of them on the way home from the store. I looked up the meaning of the French word “nonpareil”, and not surprisingly, it means “having no equal.” What are the nonpareils in your life besides your beloved family, friends and pets? Are you on the list of your nonpareils? You should be.
Word Genius emails – Speaking of word meanings, you probably have figured out by now that I love the written word. I also love things that make me feel smart. Every day I get a Word Genius email with a word and a multiple choice question, as to the word’s meaning. More often than not, I get the word’s meaning correct and even if I don’t get the answer right, I learn a new word, or I am reminded of a wonderful word that I had forgotten about and need to bring back into my vernacular. The other day, the Word Genius word was “Hinterland” which means unchartered territory. I thought to myself, “There is a blog post related to this word. Being an almost empty-nester is certainly entering into Hinterland.”
Reclaimed Wood furniture – My husband is reclaiming one of our bedrooms as a home office. By the time we are done setting the home office up, it will be time for him to return to his real office downtown, but still . . . . . . My husband has always fallen in love with reclaimed wood pieces which we have seen in various local, funky bars and eateries, so we went on a search to find him the perfect reclaimed wood desk. And we found it!! Friends, there is a whole other blog post story (which I will save for a later date), fully explaining how we found this gorgeous, one of kind piece. I am completely and totally in love with this piece of furniture. Sometimes, I just wander in and gaze at it. Nothing is more beautiful than nature, and nothing is more impressive than a devoted, passionate craftsman/artist who can coax out the natural beauty of the deepest center of a piece of wood, forcing you to pay awestruck attention to its divine, ravishing, unique qualities. Each layer of a tree trunk tells, a story right?? This desk tells an intimate story without using any words. Here it is:
Enjoy your weekend, my dear friends!! See you tomorrow!!
Are you passing on love, or are you passing on pain? Heal your pain and pass on love.
The desk…OMG
The slats on the left side – amazing, clever, genius!
You can’t let your husband cover the desk with computers and paperwork; that would be a crime!
And the photo of Trip – I literally laughed out loud before I even read the caption. Kudos to your daughter for a meme well done.
I am attending a very small bridal shower on Saturday, my first social function in a year! The bride-to-be is a lovely young lady (who will become my niece through marriage) and I fully expect that nonpareils will be part of the celebration. Bridal showers are the only place that I’ve ever encountered those particular sweets and now you’ve got me all excited about them!
Have a lovely weekend, Kelly!
Oh that sounds wonderful! Enjoy some much needed, light-hearted social time, Kelly! Congrats and best wishes to the bride and your family!
Kelly,
I love your comment about loving the ‘written word’. My grandmother passed on her love of the ‘written word’ to me. Your message brought back a flood of memories about my grandmother and her gift to me.
Here are two: 1. When I was little I had a library, something very uncommon for a child in the 60’s, at least in the area that I grew up. It was not big, but full of books that my grandmother bought me. I still have some, and long for the ones that were lent out and never returned (my mom told me that would happen as I generously gave them out to my friends.)
2. I remembered when I was little and I stayed with her, we would lay on her bed, (because she thought I needed a rest…) and we would sing old songs, (‘There was an old many named, Mr. Finnegan’ comes to mind.). She would recite poems to me, and have me try saying the words back to her. She would tell me stories of her life growing up, we would pray and hold hands as we laid there. She had a picture of her mother on top of her dresser and we would talk about her (it was the only picture of her mother that she owned). It was quite special!!!
Sorry as I think I went on to long, but it did bring back such loving, lovely memories. She gave me so much more than her love of the written word….and I treasure it all!
Oh Joan, that’s beautiful! You didn’t go on too long at all. I could visualize everything you wrote about . . . such warm, beautiful, comforting memories!!!