life is like a pair of houndstooth tights...

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg48WaHe9t2TyaVQsiVtyV1cVYwnhnek075upbVvXaoj2uXb0Whj78Y2WFcKDM41MbIV6JnsNF5rz4Iy_LOUlsGPeExRdtAeYaiq92efU4xEdCtg90ykTI1BPV519IlGkPuPL9fuy5MGvKE/s1600/W1britt3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="340" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg48WaHe9t2TyaVQsiVtyV1cVYwnhnek075upbVvXaoj2uXb0Whj78Y2WFcKDM41MbIV6JnsNF5rz4Iy_LOUlsGPeExRdtAeYaiq92efU4xEdCtg90ykTI1BPV519IlGkPuPL9fuy5MGvKE/s400/W1britt3.jpg" width="400" /></a>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">shoes: don't recall. tights & belt: forever21. skirt & cardigan: j.crew. shirt: eddie bauer. necklace: downeast basics.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij7mK8l6ca41ZVhpNqTx7iDKFScUSp_n5XjzaIyGZnQ-NuvydzvoOg_MAx7LSw2-uEiYAsPLneZdPthrU5Mn7auk8u2Inb7gu7EwAHKBsucRGGkBcbNIwSnz7AzA3OzOrXqnEFo3hCN36G/s1600/W1britt1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij7mK8l6ca41ZVhpNqTx7iDKFScUSp_n5XjzaIyGZnQ-NuvydzvoOg_MAx7LSw2-uEiYAsPLneZdPthrU5Mn7auk8u2Inb7gu7EwAHKBsucRGGkBcbNIwSnz7AzA3OzOrXqnEFo3hCN36G/s400/W1britt1.jpg" width="340" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi814JBINqTyxEa7caQ2T9a7VcJ6CL8LopTy6uwLHDW1xO2EIpXr2fUeHorpSf3GeV6ywdNRiEj0nioeuoUCIzzpUSo0mpth5mE3v3hbzB74U3Dzf8XphIwPI_0qyXGU-nHAAQNfCRMgDIX/s1600/W1britt2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="340" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi814JBINqTyxEa7caQ2T9a7VcJ6CL8LopTy6uwLHDW1xO2EIpXr2fUeHorpSf3GeV6ywdNRiEj0nioeuoUCIzzpUSo0mpth5mE3v3hbzB74U3Dzf8XphIwPI_0qyXGU-nHAAQNfCRMgDIX/s400/W1britt2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I went to my children's great-grampa's funeral yesterday. It was a bittersweet day. He was a good man who leaves behind millions of good memories. Forgive me that I'm not feeling particularly funny today.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But I'll say this: I've thought a lot about life and how I use my time and what's really --no seriously, <em>really</em> -- important. A much-needed introspection. Timely, because guess what's pretty much at the bottom of the Important barrel? The fact that my tights got some snags in them and I forgot to reapply lipstick for these photos.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So. I'm happy and grateful to be clothed and alive. Now I'm off to use today's precious life-hours well.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Happy Tuesday.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Want this look? I like it. 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life is like a pair of houndstooth tights...

.   shoes: don't recall. tights & belt: forever21. skirt & cardigan: j.crew. shirt: eddie bauer. necklace: downeast basics. I we...

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here comes the sun (doo doo doo doo...)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Frame 1: <em>First shot of the day. Whatevs.</em> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Frame 2: <em>Whooooooaaahh! There's SUN here!</em> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Frame 3: <em>Charlie! Look! That's called "sunlight"...</em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge810ekphyphenhyphen0AfPKc71CStzaeVE7F1ATTBgfUYE9uOOLbMkbusjkUFzOVx5VcrHsloaSGi8W_kYyhe5w26wMWQO9A3qbx-avNd_G_hcsg8KqZMeWCN3VReu5gLnJw25Q_f5EV55Wec-JcoJ/s1600/O1britt2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="340" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge810ekphyphenhyphen0AfPKc71CStzaeVE7F1ATTBgfUYE9uOOLbMkbusjkUFzOVx5VcrHsloaSGi8W_kYyhe5w26wMWQO9A3qbx-avNd_G_hcsg8KqZMeWCN3VReu5gLnJw25Q_f5EV55Wec-JcoJ/s400/O1britt2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">shoes: don't recall. dress: gift/hand-me-down. cardigan: j.crew. belt: kohl's (skirt/belt combo). bracelet: forever21. flower: downeast basics. necklace: gift.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4znwXIS3mFLDeU-ij4cQ3qsd5MQ3b_tdgtL-A5-C_y_H8lckikYNW6Mmq4zEjTm4lym6eKi8v4EklgLrkgpiKKBNjLcE0UGyc4sFIc4ASMd9oGZZ4Db44cst7IVdQORxke02klk7heBNX/s1600/O1britt3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4znwXIS3mFLDeU-ij4cQ3qsd5MQ3b_tdgtL-A5-C_y_H8lckikYNW6Mmq4zEjTm4lym6eKi8v4EklgLrkgpiKKBNjLcE0UGyc4sFIc4ASMd9oGZZ4Db44cst7IVdQORxke02klk7heBNX/s400/O1britt3.jpg" width="340" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzQyW7tZ2kzp6xXqkcEBz_vP2P1AS9S2YFwR5EV4y7r5fe8vEcttlGZ2b5EVbG3ThTzar3oDUJM_HS4Ij7nbryWg74RJJ_Ct3oDQemI_wg6vfaOquR7WXWJ4BV22uKC48B5JWdsG2Mwnvs/s1600/O1britt1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="340" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzQyW7tZ2kzp6xXqkcEBz_vP2P1AS9S2YFwR5EV4y7r5fe8vEcttlGZ2b5EVbG3ThTzar3oDUJM_HS4Ij7nbryWg74RJJ_Ct3oDQemI_wg6vfaOquR7WXWJ4BV22uKC48B5JWdsG2Mwnvs/s400/O1britt1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div align="center">This week I'm grateful for (in no particular order):</div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center">- Optional leg-shaving because it's winter...won't be the case too much longer, and I'm sure I'll miss it.</div><div align="center">- Reassurance.</div><div align="center">- Sunshine...on my shoulder...makes me hap-pyyyyy. (John Denver)</div><div align="center">- John Denver. No, seriously. Who doesn't love "Annie's Song" and "Rocky Mtn High" and others? And if you say you don't, I probably won't believe you.</div><div align="center">- 75 MPH speed limits. And an unspoken Utah 5-MPH buffer. Although I've been trying to not take advantage of that, so I set the cruise control for just 3 MPH over the speed limit. Just look at my almost-law-abiding self.</div><div align="center">- Ikea. Especially the frozen yogurt ice cream cones. Is it just me, or are those, like, super unexpectedly delicious? Just me? Fine. I'll eat yours...</div><div align="center">- Hand-me-downs. </div><div align="center">- My husband. Adorable and adored. Same goes for the kiddos.</div><div align="center">- Evidences of mankind's goodness and humanity. Makes me tear up sometimes. People are so, well, <em>good</em>.</div><div align="center">- God. I just really felt His love for me--plain, average, insignificant me--in some pretty special, specific ways this week. So beautiful. So humbling. </div><div align="center">- Jogging again after a long winter's hiatus.</div><div align="center">- <em>Not</em> having blisters.</div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center">Happy Sunday.</div>

here comes the sun (doo doo doo doo...)

Frame 1: First shot of the day. Whatevs.   Frame 2: Whooooooaaahh! There's SUN here! Frame 3: Charlie! Look! That's called "su...

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