i’m such joiner!
three buttons is running another meme. each week, someone will choose a way to finish the sentence, “this is…” and everyone will post a photo about the theme. (three buttons is in another time zone, so it will probably always seem to her like i’m a day late in posting. but it’s still sunday to me!)

the first one is “…my favorite cup”

i love mugs. at one point i had more mugs than i had cabinet space and have since cut my collection waaay back.
this big mug is one of 6 that i picked up at target, and there isn’t anything particularly unique about it, but it is super comfy. in fact all of the mugs from the set are cozy, but i seem drawn over and over to the purple and blue ones.

the blue one i am also fond of was in the dishwasher and so missed the photo shoot.

these mugs have relaxingly delivered me both coffee and tea. but never a cold drink. you see, i have two quirks about mugs and beverage temperature:
1. i don’t, at all, like drinking cold beverages from pottery mugs. ick. glass, see-through, mugs may get a slight pass on this rule. because, really, aren’t glass “mugs” really just drinking glasses after all?
2. i don’t like drinking coffee from a glass, see-through mug. again - ick. why not just serve coffee in a drinking glass? it would be just as strange.

(feel free to mock me…but i am pretty sure you have strange drinking/eating rules that you stick by, too! fess up!)

and since i have been pretty bad with the flashback fridays lately, here is a picture of a formerly-favorite cup:

how could you not love a bright yellow cup with feet?

look what santa brought me!

what did you find under the tree?

…gotta knit and knit and knit…

(i know i missed a flashback friday this week, and next friday i will probably be nowhere near a computer for most of the day. so hows about we just say that flashback friday will resume after christmas?)

ok, ok. between the comments on the last post, the emails and the phone calls, i now understand that it is acceptable to:
take a break from blogging.

however it is not acceptable to:
take a a week off from blogging.

lesson learned.

so, i’m coming back with a flashback friday!
since today feels like the coldest day of the year, if not the coldest day ever, why not think warm thoughts:

ahhhh…the jersey shore. there is just nothing like it.

just peeking in to say:

i’ve got nothing for this week’s flashback friday theme!

it was supposed to be “hippie” but i don’t have any pictures that are hippie-ish. instead you’re getting me arriving at aunt thelm and uncle bud’s house. they were my great-aunt and great-uncle and they were so much fun to visit. uncle bud cracked my little self up! he was the funniest guy i knew. and he could remove his thumb… it was a.maz.ing.

don’t read the “method” section of the wiki link if you don’t want the illusion spoiled. ;-)

this week’s theme is about how you got around when you were little.
and for me, that was often on a bike:

i wish i still had those stripey knee socks! check them out:

and then when my sister was ready, i was nice enough to pass along a few pointers:

oh, and thanks everyone for the concern over my doctor-imposed fake flu. i am feeling much much better today after a good night’s sleep.