Sharing my random life is what I do best
Is it just me or does it feel like the blog world has exploded in recent years? I feel like I’m running into more and more bloggers these days, which honestly, is amazing. I’ve met and become friends with some incredible people because of blogging. And while it’s tempting for many to want to be apart of this inspiring online community, there are some very important questions to ask yourself before you make the decision to start your own blog.
Today’s blog challenge actually took me a while…there are so many quotes that I have identified with at different points in my life. Quotes are like song lyrics and musical notes to me, I connect to them depending on what’s happening in my life and my moods. So I did what any other millennial would do, and checked my facebook About page for quotes that I had forgotten about until now….yup that happened….
This is what I found,
“Before anyone can fight for you, you must learn to fight for yourself.”
Live your life knowing that the best is yet to come 🙂
“If this is not what you expected, please alter your expectations.”
“The very things that hold you down are going to lift you up!” ~ Dumbo
“In Germany, they first came for the Communists; I did not speak because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Jews; I did not speak because I was not a Jew. Then they came to fetch the workers, members of trade unions; I was not a trade unionist. Afterward, they came for the Catholics; I did not say anything because I was a Protestant. Eventually, they came for me, and there was no one left to speak.”
-Pastor Martin Niemoller, a Protestant minister imprisoned during Germany’s Third Reich
“Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.”
– Holocaust Museum, Washington, D.C.
So today’s question was ‘what do you collect?’ The simple answer to that question is a lot. I do collect a number of different things, probably because I enjoy a number of different things. But I’ll only focus on one thing in this blog, just to keep it on the shorter side. I collect Disney pins. Funny enough, the other day I actually pulled out most of my pins. I’m stumped as to how I should display them. So alas I set them down on the kitchen table….
Like I said before, this isn’t all of my pins, I have even more now since we got back from Florida. Not pictured are my 100+ trader pins….okay okay maybe I have a problem…maybe….maybe not. I was first made aware of my potential addiction back in 2005 while I was shopping at my local Disney store. That’s when I saw it, the one pin that started it all.
Anyone that knows me, knows that I love Eeyore. He is everything. Anyways, I bought this medium sized pin and after that, I had a problem. I read up everything I could about Disney pins. I was introduced to the wonderful world of pin trading and pin purchasing. It’s been glorious. While I haven’t traded a pin in the last two trips, I do enjoy trading with Cast Members. I haven’t traded with another collector, ever. I’m always afraid of trading a scrapper (fake pin) by accident and I’m notoriously shy so yeah. Cast members don’t turn me away and I can always find something I want on their trading boards.
So over the years, I have come to look for certain pins. I don’t collect all pins, I collect holiday pins, Eeyore pins, Star Wars pins, and special or limited edition pins. Oh and any pin I think is cute or appeals to me. I’m guessing by now you want to see some of these pins, well here they are.
There it is, part of my pin collection. I’m still trying to figure out how to display, do you have any ideas?
Let me know in the comments below if you collect anything? I would love to hear from you.
Happy Thursday!
Life is short, we all know that. We all have goals, aspirations, adventures that we want to accomplish before we die. I’m no different. There are tons of things I want to do and see in my lifetime. I know that I won’t do all of them, maybe I won’t even get to do the majority of these things, but it gives me hope. My life list serves as a focus point for me when it feels like I’m not going anywhere in life. It gives me hope and gives me a sense of accountability. Maybe by writing them down and sharing it with you, I will be more likely to seek out these adventures rather than retreat to the introvert that I am.
So here it is, my Life List. It’s not a list set in stone, it has changed so many times but here it is now. I think I’ll actually attach this to my About page and come back to it every now and then to cross things off or add to it.
So there it is, my Life List or as some might call it my Bucket List. Whatever you want to call it’s mine and it’s filled with hope and adventure.
Do you have a Life List? What’s on it?
I have loved a good book for as long as I can remember. Hours spent getting lost in adventures, getting to know parts of myself, and riding emotional roller coasters with every turn of a crisp page. Reading might be my favourite way to escape and find adventures without ever leaving the comfort of home. I honestly don’t know what started my love of reading but I do remember my favourite childhood book and how much it influenced me and the path I chose to go.Read More
Hi Friends!
How have you been doing? I’ve been doing good. Just got back from vacation in Florida. It was beautifully hot and sunny, plus all the smiles Wendy shared with us was just, awesome. Anyways, here I am back to reality, mean you my reality isn’t all that bad. But what I have noticed if that I haven’t been a very good blogger, nor a good resolution keeper. Oie. So then I sat down in front of my computer ready to write and found myself stuck. Yup stuck. How is that even possible, my mind is always racing with new ideas and then the minute I want to put those ideas to paper, poof, gone. So I figured maybe I needed some structure to actually motivate my mind for a bit. Enter, Pinterest. Yes, it can be such a time waster but I came across a graphic that inspired me, it was called the 30 day blogging challenge, well there were a few but same concept. So that’s what I’ll do.
For the next 30 days, I will be publishing a blog post a day about random topics that will, at the very least, get me use to writing posts every day. So to start this challenge off here is the first topic:
This is a recent photo from our latest Disney World trip. I’m the one with the glitter ears and the one in the stroller is my beautiful daughter, Wendy. enjoying a morning walk around Disney’s Boardwalk.
1. Disney is a large part of my life
I am a self-proclaimed Disney fanatic. I have a large Disney pin collection, my daughter is named after Wendy Darling (Peter Pan), my dog is named after Lady (Lady & the Tramp), Chris was actually named after Christopher Robin (I didn’t find that out until later in our relationship), I’m an annual passholder at Walt Disney World, I enjoy reading anything I can on Disney, my number one go-to vacation destination is a Disney Park, yes Disney is a big part of my life. You can read all about why our family loves Disney
2. My favourite season is the Fall. I can’t get enough of those coloured leaves and cooling temperatures….plus pumpkin lattes. By the way, I love those lattes so much I actually make my own Pumpkin Spice Lattes
3. I lick my chips before I eat them. Is that weird? Yeah, that’s probably weird.
4. I binge watch tv shows, like Friends. I had never watched an entire episode of Friends before my maternity leave….then we got Netflix and boom the entire series in a less than a week….partially ashamed yet proud of that
5. I left half-drunken bottles of water around the house and in our cars, this drives Chris crazy. I can be very forgetful.
So there you have it, 5 random things about me. I could truly go on but maybe that’s for another post for another day. I would love to hear 5 random things about you! Comment below and let me know. Stay tuned for more of the 30 day challenge!
Happy Sunday
