These are a few of my favorite things..

I walked across an empty land

I knew the pathway like the back of my hand

I felt the earth beneath my feet

Sat by the river and it made me complete 

Oh simple thing where have you gone

I'm getting old and I need something to rely on

So tell me when you're gonna let me in

I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin 

I came across a fallen tree

I felt the branches of it looking at me

Is this the place we used to love?

Is this the place that I've been dreaming of? 

Oh simple thing where have you gone

I'm getting old and I need something to rely on

So tell me when you're gonna let me in

I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin 

And if you have a minute why don't we go

Talk about it somewhere only we know?

This could be the end of everything

So why don't we go

Somewhere only we know? 

(Somewhere Only We Know)

Keane

Lolee

Another productive Saturday

Things I should be doing today:

1. Working on my resume

2. Cleaning

3. Prepping an amazing Easter dinner

4. Checking in with my clients

Things I am doing today:

1. Watching Harry Potter...again

2. Laying on the floor

3. Eating jelly beans

4. Calling my sisters to entertain me

Well, have to go. The jelly beans aren't going to eat themselves.  (that would be really cool though, wouldn't it? If they all turned on each other in the bag.) 

Another holiday in the trenches!

Lolee

Sometimes it hurts instead...

I am so lucky to have the family that I have. 

Thanks, Danielle. You are always the voice of support and encouragement.

Thanks, Eri. You are always the first to volunteer to slash some one's tires.

Thanks, Dad. You are the only person who can make me feel 100% better. 

I would be lost without you. 

Lori Ann

(the baby)


p.s.- More new music that is helping me achieve hipster status: Sara Bareillis "Gravity", Adele "Someone like you",  and "Take the Long Way Home" by Shane Mack 

I don't mind spending every day, out on your corner in the pouring rain...

I didn't intend for my last post to elicit sympathy. I guess it did, though!

I'll take sympathy any chance I can get..it's like crack to me :)  

Anyway, one of my all time favorite bloggers asked me to blog about my love life. 

This is the "Spinster Chronicles" after all, so I guess I should comment on my non married life style. 

I am not dating.

The South is not a treasure trove of hot, metrosexual, wealthy, Mormon men. Which are just a few of my qualifications for a future husband. Other qualifications include: good dancer, have an accent, willing to cry on command, harry potter fan, employed, have a twin, be able to fix my car, and the ability to make me laugh- which is actually harder than it seems. Most of my laughter is polite and meaningless

I could both see myself and not see myself getting married in the next 10 years or so. I have a plan for both of these contingencies. 

Who doesn't want to find the love of their life? Who doesn't want to swept away in romance and then have a long and content life with someone? Have children and a home and someone to support them? 

I would love all of these things. 

However, I am kinda at peace with possibly not having them. 

I have been in love once. Not like "in a five year relationship then he broke my heart" kind of love. I guess 'intense infatuation" would probably be a better description. 

Songs and poems and life seemed to have so much more meaning and there were moments when I felt like I couldn't breathe. 

Anyway, I hope this update on my love life (or lack thereof) is all you could have wanted, Mrs. B Roth:) 

Lolee

Someone Like You

I am not lacking in self awareness.

I know when I am boring someone, or when someone doesn't get me, or whatever.

That being said, I get that I probably put too many videos on this blog.

To be honest, I rarely watch other people's videos.

However, someone sent me this link tonight and watching this video made me cry.

Maybe that's more testament to my mental illness than the power of the video.

Who knows?

But..if you get a chance watch it. It's Adele singing "Someone like you"

                                                                                Lolee

I could see Daniel waving goodbye...

This is a time lapse series of photos from the tallest mountain in Spain. I have almost never seen anything as beautiful..

The Mountain from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.

Lolee

She's been gone since that summer...

# 11- Learn the art of cat napping. (aka stealing my dad's cats)

There's been a lot of people that tell me that they can't get enough of my "list" blog posts.

You know, the ones where I list all the crap...awesome stuff I have planned. 

Well, back by popular demand..another list:

STUFF I FULLY PLAN TO DO THIS SUMMER WITH MY DEVIL NIECES AND NEPHEWS!

1. See every corner of Philadelphia. It's sad that I've lived both near it all my life, as well as living IN downtown Philly for a year, and I've never really seen more than the basics. 

2. Camp out in the backyard. Or at least the screened in porch

3. Convince one or more of them to take a chance on Harry Potter

4. Have SEVERAL camp fires

5. Go swimming in a real lake...or the pool at Nockamixon..either one

6. Buy Elly's kindergarten wardrobe. 

7. Go strawberry picking

8. Go to Music Fest

9. Go to a carnival

10. Have the BEST summer of our lives!!

Jealous, much? 

Lolee