Author: Annie

TOP 5 FRIDAY: That’s fun.

TOP 5 FRIDAY is when we each list five of our favorite things, depending on the topic. Feel free to join in via the comments or by posting on your own blog and linking back here. Play along. It’s Friday. . . . . . This is going to surprise absolutely no one, but I

My home: Scotland style

Since I am severely jet-lagged still and my face would scare children, I think I’ll just show you a few pics of my living sitch. [That’s an abbrev for “situation” — I don’t love it, but it makes me laugh. So. There’s that.] Because my friend Molly really hates when I tell the internet my

My eyes are open.

But they are burning. It’s midnight in Scotland. I’m pretty good about tricking you guys into thinking I post every day (ish?) at 5am when really, as you sleuths out there know, I usually actually write it the night before and autopost it. But how shall I do that when I am 6 (ish?) hours

Feathers.

Y’all know I’m usually on the front line back line of fashion trends and that may be the case today as well. But I am now the proud owner of feathers in my hair. Also. Let me just go ahead and say. I’m sure these are not real feathers from real birds. No way. The

TOP 5 FRIDAY: Bathtub books

TOP 5 FRIDAY is when we each list five of our favorite things, depending on the topic. Feel free to join in via the comments or by posting on your own blog and linking back here. Play along. It’s Friday. . . . . . When I was a kid, I loved to read in

1000.

I could give you 1000 reasons that I keep blogging. There is only one reason I started. I started because my sister blogged. And being that we are only 15 months apart, we pretty much lived with an “if she can do it, so can I” attitude. [Not super great for our relationship, but we

Be lifted high.

Sunday at church, we sang this chorus over and over again. In my life, be lifted high. In my world, be lifted high. In my love, be lifted high. And I cried. [I know you are shocked. Because hello I cry like other people breathe.] Two weeks from today I land in Scotland and I’ll

TOP 5 FRIDAY: Carry on.

TOP 5 FRIDAY is when we each list five of our favorite things, depending on the topic. Feel free to join in via the comments or by posting on your own blog and linking back here. Play along. It’s Friday. When I went to Scotland in January, I was super-dee-duper prepared to lose my luggage.

Taking a little off the top.

Of New York state that is! We’ve driven approximately 300 miles in 26 hours and we could have given New York a buzz cut with our straight line across the state. Here are the highlights so far: 1. I was sitting in the hallway of an office in Rochester when I hear one woman say

The weekend.

Oh man. What a great weekend. You may remember last November when I spent a weekend with Emily and her sister, Nester. It was fun. Like whoa fun. Like soul-touching fun. So a few months ago when Nester and I were chatting, the conversation went like this: Annie: Hey Nester, remember how much fun we