Happy Birthday, husband! I know you don't like making a big a deal about your birthday but you're a big deal to me. I can't help but want to make today special for you because you make every day special for me. Here's to celebrating you!
Besides celebrating Ebert's birthday and Mother's Day here are a couple more reasons why today is awesome!
I've had a post from sho and tell called 'Writers on Writing' opened on my tab list for over a week. Whenever I'd look at my browser all I thought was I'll read this another day, I just don't have time right now. Well, tonight I finally decided to read it because I needed to take a break from writing. It was the perfect "little nudge" to remind me that I'm not alone on this path that I've chosen. I especially love that the Shared Worlds photos just encourage you to write and to finish what you're writing. They're not telling you to be a great and talented writer or to write the next bestseller but just to write, write, write. Below are my two favorite photos.
Hope this post helps nudge you to create whatever your happy is!
I don't know about you but I'm going to create my happy today. It's a perfect spring day in Chicago- the sun is shining and the weather is relatively warm, or at least it's getting warmer. There are so many possibilities for fun and adventure this weekend. I hope you can get outside and enjoy!
I admit I wasn't too excited about a remake of this classic even with the imaginatively talented Baz Luhrmann writing and directing it, but then I saw this trailer. Wow! I think they've cast this perfectly. However, I'm going to try not to compare this Gatsby to this Gatsby (or to this one or this one or this one).
"He smiled understandingly – much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced – or seemed to face – the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey." ~ The Great Gatsby
Chicago has a new modern food magazine called Middlewest Magazine. The magazine arrives in an envelope as recipe cards- genius idea! The recipe pictures are so pretty. It makes me want to spend an afternoon in the kitchen and make this! Seriously, can summer get here already.
Refinery 29 has a list of foods that can help put you in a good mood. Good thing I eat most of these foods on a daily basis. But I don't care how much happy food you eat when the weather is s%*!, like it is in Chicago today, you just need summer to get here already.
I want to know what happy list wine, french fries, and cheesecake are on because those foods can definitely make me happy!
