Fresh Thyme Tuesday

To piggyback off my thoughts yesterday:

Please... if you are reading this for whatever reason, realize that our national headlines are going to have a permanent impact, regardless of who, where or what you are. This has created a ripple that will not soon dissipate; our generation is in the thick of it, but please don't believe that we'll be the last to acknowledge it on a very personal level.

In my opinion, social media platforms provide more of a curse than a blessing when it comes to reflection on national headlines - especially the controversial ones. I passively scrolled through bold statements, blame, opinions, questions, confusion and mixed emotions in my newsfeed throughout last night and the early part of today. There are people clearly marked on one side or the other, people in the middle who seem to be in a more neutral zone, and then people like me, who think the entire situation and following actions are the product of the depravity that's taking over the world these days.

Here is, if you're that interested, my penny's worth of contribution to the conversation:

Call me naive.. call me lost in a place where unicorns and fairies live in peace.. call me whatever you want. My heart is broken for this world... for those people directly involved. For the families of people directly involved. For a community being crushed to bits by the anger, fear and frustration of people clashing against each other.

Please... pray... for Ferguson.

**** 

In lighter, local news, I finally made it out to Fresh Thyme today with Elisa for lunch!

yesyesyesyesyes! 

This was the perfect way to escape the drudgery of the weather outside and the depressing headlines that are all I've seen all morning. Fresh Thyme is the newest neighbor in the Oakley area, and I vote YES to going back.

The night rounded out with an outing to Village Pizza in Newtown, where Becky, Rob and I were able to hang out and enjoy each other's company.

We take a lot for granted every single day... I hope someone out there will keep me accountable to remember what I've got in this little life of mine is an undeserved gift. ♥

Love & Blessings to you & yours!

xo | cmd

Hello, Fall Session!

IT'S FALL...............SESSION!
Here's a stock photo of some volleyballs chillin' in the sand, because I totally forgot to take pictures of our team tonight!

yay! 

I'm the worst, I know. Anyway, Jessica couldn't make the early game, so Paul stepped in for her. We didn't pull off a win, but it was great to see Paul and have him back on the court with us for a night. [Thanks again, Paul!]

Jessica eventually showed up, but by coincidence we were all pulled onto different courts to sub in for different teams, and didn't see much of each other until it was time to go.

Go to eat, that is. We're getting better and better at this every week, it seems. Haha. I say that because not only did we graduate from Hahana's menu tonight, but when Becky, Rob and I settled in at Village Pizza, I realized they serve fried green beans... and well, game over at that point.

yesyesyesyesyesyes.

^ That's the snapchat I sent to Dillon, to which he replied that I was going to turn into a green bean.

Would that really be so bad? ;) 

Hahah. Oh, and if you're wondering what "CUPINE" is, watch this clip. We did over the weekend, and it became a running joke for the entire time. CUPIIIIIINE!


You really can't say much after that, so I'll leave this be, and wish you and yours a gooooood night!

xo | cmd

Subie Snafu

My poor Subie.

First it was the two tires that needed to be replaced. Then it was the rock chip in my windshield on the trip to Illinois for Ali's birthday bash. The perpetually recurring splotches of bird poo won't stop until I either shave down the tree that hovers over our driveway, or find somewhere else to park.

Tonight, it was sheerly an accident, but Subie happened to land in the wrong spot at the wrong time. Someone backed up out of a parking spot right into her. In his defense, she's fine aside from some cosmetic damage, and the driver did everything he was supposed to do post-collision.

ouchie :(

Fortunately for me, Becky & Mike just happened to be standing by Becky's car, which was parked right behind mine, and witnessed the entire thing. Rob was just a few hundred yards away and was able to break down the cost of repair to the kid as an itemized list for parts, paint and labor. The kid was more than compliant to get it all taken care of, and from what it looks like now, we'll be settling this outside of his insurance. All is well.

After settling details over the Subie, we all decided we were hungry, so off to VT it was.

yummmm!

I. FORGOT... that they had fried green beans here. Folks, if there's one food vice-slash-maaaajor-weakness that I have, it's fried green beans. It's become a tradition whenever we visit Illinois to stop at Bindy's for no other reason than the fried green beans. It was the only place I'd found so far that has gotten them right. How I forgot VT serves them too is beyond me, but I'm definitely remembering now. Haha.

this. this half-eaten pile of fried gb's..

It really is the small things in life that keep me entertained. (:
Here's a candid shot then of my friends trying to define the difference between Bindy's gb's and VT's gb's. They weren't exactly the same, so off they were on an internet quest to figure it out. Who knows if they ever did..

sleuths!

Tomorrow's a new day.
I hope you and yours have a great rest of the week!

xo | cmd

Falleyball Season!

It's gettin' chilly here in Cinci...

But that won't stop us ;)
It was volleyball night, again, and now that we're playing on a 6's league, we're getting a taste of how that works.... as a 4's team. Haha. Apparently, at Hahana, the 4's teams traditionally opt out of playing fall sessions; we didn't know that, so we renewed for the fall only to find ourselves as the only team on the 4's roster.

So they moved us to 6's.
... We still play as 4's.
..... & we won tonight. SCOOOOORE.


fall volleying at hahana!

It's our style typically to hang around Hahana until nearly 11pm some weeks, but with a private event tonight at Hahana and the fact that it was getting a bit brisk, we chose to call it an early end around 9, grab some grub from Village Tavern in Newtown, and rendezvous at Kalyn & Keif's new place for a couple of hours. Volleyball, pizza & brew - that's a no-brainer....

village tavern | newtown, oh

Just a couple more days and I'm off to see le boyfriend.....
Happy hump day, ya'll (:

xo | cmd

I ♡ Perfect Weather

True story.

We had our 2nd week of league tonight at Hahana, and I have to say... I haven't been in much of a mood to extensively compliment the weather recently, but today .. was .. perfect!

myself. keifer. kalyn. beth | backseat sets

We all agreed that the team we played last week was way more fun about it [considering this is a rec league], so we weren't too sad when our opponents today headed out afterwards. We landed ourselves for a post-game dinner at Village Pizza in Newtown. I'm a little peeved that I've never been there before; it's delicious, cheap, aaaaand they serve fried green beans. No, I didn't order them, but they also have fried zucchini, and we did get an order of that. It was a good call. (:

Tomorrow's Thursday... it's almost Friday and that means we're a few days closer to meeting up with my parents to drop Sydni off for her swim lessons that start next week. I'm pretty excited for her, and can't wait to hear all about it.

And dangit! As I sit here settled in for the night, I just remembered the pictures I was supposed to pick up from Walgreens this evening. Woops. I'll get them tomorrow I suppose. Pretty excited for those, too.

.. Enough thinking for now. Lights out!

xo | cmd