Ah, I can’t believe we’re already halfway through the September Blogging Challenge! I’m loving how many of you jumped on it along with me. I’ve already gotten a few requests for a October Blogging Challenge – would any of you be into that…?
Anyway, I missed a few days, so here’s a bit of a catch up.
(FYI I noticed I screwed up tomorrow’s #16 by referring to it as Monday when it’s a Tuesday. DUH, me. Just disregard that ;))
#12: my favorite quotes
Oh gosh, where to even begin?! My name is Gracie, and I’m a quote-aholic. There’s my Word document list of favorite quotes/Bible verses, my “words” Pinterest board, and there may or may not be secret “love quotes” Pinterest board too, hahaha.
But here are some of my top favorites right now…
“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.” Robert Bresson
“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” CS Lewis
“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.” Vladimir Nabokov
“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” Alan Keightley
“It is not the strength of your faith that saves you, but the strength of Him upon whom you rely.” Charles Spurgeon
“She could never go back and make some of the details pretty, all she could do was move forward and make the whole beautiful.” Terri St. Cloud
“I’m not sure what I’ll do, but – well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
“There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people find their walls. So never apologize for your enthusiasm. Never. Ever. Never.” Ryan Adams
#13: top guilty pleasures
I don’t know how much these can be considered “guilty” pleasures because I OWN these things 😉 But let’s go with…
The Bachelor/Bachelorette
cabs/car service
laundry pick up/delivery
grocery delivery
basically every romantic comedy of all time
Diet Coke and Splenda (probably the guiltiest because HELLO chemicals)
#14: favorite things about blogging
* first of all - it’s my creative outlet. I love writing and having a platform to share my voice/story.
* interacting with my readers. I seriously care about you all more than you realize!
* the “perks” – free stuff, events, making money from doing something I love. That might not be a very PC answer but whatever – I’m pretty sure most bloggers agree.
#15: favorite TV shows
This is always changing, but some of my recent favorites have been…
Mad Men
30 Rock
Breaking Bad
Modern Family
New Girl
How I Met Your Mother
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Your turn! Top guilty pleasure? TV show(s)? Quote(s)?
I have two entire journals filled with my favorite quotes and I typically wake up each morning, open to a random page, close my eyes and place a finger on a quote to read. The universe always seems to guide me to the exact words I need to hear. They’re so powerful! Thanks for sharing yours — I’ll def. be adding them to my list
love that you own your shit, girlfriend! no shame in your game.
for tv shows, def HIMYM and bachelor/bachelorette.
I’m loving the SBC and I would definitely be interested in one for October!
That Ryan Adams quote, a adore it!! I’m not sure I have a favourite quote, and it changes all the time, but 2 things I live by are “it’s the little things” and “love.lust.faith.dreams”; it’s the most recent 30 seconds to mars album/tour title and “breathe it all in, love it all out”.
How did we already get halfway through September? Whoa.
The Bachelor/Bachelorette is hands down my guilty pleasure and fave tv show all wrapped into one.
Ohh I absolutely love all you quotes, especially the one by Charles Spurgeon! We were just discussing that at church, how we need the Guide and not the guidebook! And haha at this point I’m not sure I’d even consider Bach to be a guilty pleasure, but their recent Bachelor in Paradise definitely was! I couldn’t help it, I was hooked!