Yesterday: Bought 5 new pins to add to my collection in honor of Pride month šŸ³ļøā€šŸŒˆ

Five Pride related enamel pins

Weekends are an interesting concept for me. By the time Sunday night rolls around, Iā€™m already counting down to Friday afternoon, which marks the start of of my weekend. I spend the whole week wishing for the weekend, but why exactly? Continue reading ā†’

I’ve been drawn to various combinations of blues and orange hues recently.

But my all-time favorite color is still, and always will be, purple (just in case you were wondering).

A blue and orange restaurant building that says Marty's Grill

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Our (over the range) microwave took its last spin this week. No one told me I needed to pause/stop it before opening the door. In hindsight, that probably would’ve been a smart thing to do. Alas, this is one of the things I am not smart about.

Read it here šŸ‘‰ WeekNotes008

Red and green contrasts šŸŒ¹

a photo of what appears to be a red type of rose with greenery in the background

šŸ“· Stumbled upon a tree with this fruit on my walk today.

Does anyone know what it is? It looks similar to a lychee, but I don’t think this is what it is (but I could be totally wrong).

Update: it is an Arbutus unedo or “Strawberry Tree”

some sort of rounded fruit on a tree

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A little bit of everything for last week’s recap from shopping for the perfect mattress to a visit from a former co-worker. Contemplating turning this into Weak Notes because I have no idea how often I can keep this up. We’ll see.

Read it here šŸ‘‰ WeekNotes007

šŸ¶ Does anyone else use their fur babies as test snaps after buying a new camera, or is it just me?

I’m still trying to understand the controls of the Ricoh GRIIIx, but here’s one SOOC. Still debatable if Cocoa likes it or not.

a dachshund on a ramp by a couch

šŸ“ø Just picked up the Ricoh GRIIIx that I put a down payment on to reserve earlier last month. Super stoked to create with this camera.

Wrapped up May’s WeblogPoMo challenge yesterday with 31/31 posts completed.

Last three posts below:

  • Days 29 and 30 were just housekeeping posts: part 1 and part 2. You’ll find an index of all my posts mentioned here.
  • Day 31 is my Challenge Retrospective, as well as what’s next for me.