FIGS!!!
It’s Tuesday, which means it’s time for Tuesday Topics, which I host with Jenn from Runs With Pugs. This week is a free topic, so I’m talking about FIGS (Elisabeth’s Finding Joy in Gratitude Collective). I don’t want FIGS to end with February! Can’t we keep it going? We won’t ask Elisabeth to keep doing the FIG roundups, because that’s a lot of work for her. But we can keep looking for and posting about FIGS, right??? This week, I had an unusually large amount of FIG-ish moments. Little things, like looking up at the moon and noticing that it looked like a smile, feeling a light breeze on my skin, or appreciating the whiff of bergamot in my tea. It was like I was hyper-aware of small pleasures. Of course there were bigger FIGS as well, like… THE WEATHER. I’m sorry. I’m very sorry to anyone experiencing yet another winter storm or cold temperatures. I was sitting in Starbucks yesterday and the man next to me was talking on the phone- I heard him say “I’m in Florida- people are happy here.” It reminded me to appreciate our great weather while we have it! We’re having a few days of lovely cool mornings and beautiful afternoons: NICOLE’S BOOK. I’m almost done! Here’s the funny thing- if I didn’t know who wrote it, but you told me it was someone I knew, I would immediately guess Nicole. There are Nicole-isms on every page, and I love it! Yes, it’s a romance, which I don’t normally read (wouldn’t it be EVEN BETTER if Michelle’s ex-husband were found with a knife in his back, and she had to solve the crime… no, stop it, Jenny! It’s a ROMANCE!) I love that the main character is my age (ahem, almost) and has a teenage daughter. AND, the story takes place around Christmas! It’s fun, and relatable, and a page-turner. Here’s the other thing I love. In this post, Nicole talked about how turning 50 gave a certain amount of urgency to her life, as in, don’t put off those big dreams because we don’t know how much time we have left. I love the fact that when I’m holding Inhale Exhale, I’m holding Nicole’s “big dream” in my hand. Writing and publishing a book is a huge, daunting task, and SHE DID IT. THE CATS. Muffin is doing so well. Here she is… so close to cuddling on the couch with Foxy and Sylvie. SLEEP. On Sunday, while the Olympics were coming to a close, I had my own personal Olympics of sleep. I slept until 9 am, and THEN, I fell asleep on the couch in the afternoon and slept for two more hours. This, my friends, is how Sundays should always be. Join us next week —> What does “springing forward” mean for your mindset this year? Link Up With Tuesday Topics Welcome back to Tuesday Topics, as Jenny, from Runners Fly joins Jenn at Runs With Pugs to co-host this link-up! Please join us every week for a new topic! Write on our weekly prompt or choose your own topic! Make sure to add your post to the link up, link back to your hosts, and comment on the other shared posts! You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter Top photo by Heather Barnes on Unsplash