Five for Friday, Edition #25

Clematis, I think. It's bigger than my hand. 

I have been sort of absent from Bloggyland lately and I am both sorry for this and unable to do much about it. Life has taken a turn and in six months, this will likely be behind me, but for now, things are insane in all aspects of my life. I shall post when I can and comment on your posts when I can, but I'm going to be the first to say that something had to go in my life, and, sadly, blogging was the easiest thing to let go. 

But I'm here now and I have about half an hour before I need to walk the dog, so let's talk about all the great and wonderful.

1) Tomorrow I have a date with a blogging friend to go on a fun adventure. Yes, we will be doing all the time traveling and if I don't get to make my own handmade leather bracelet, I will be disappointed.

2) It's peony season! I mean, it's really just flower season, so I'm going to pepper this post with flower photos. 

3) It is THAT TIME OF YEAR. First year orientation at my job. Last year I shared my playlist of music that we blast for the first years and I'm at it again. I have a new co-worker who was able to give me a handful of songs her teenage son listens to. I have asked the first years themselves to recommend songs. 

(OKAY. I must have told this story on someone else's blog. It was! It was Nicole's post. But I'm going to tell it here anyway. We’re doing a software rollout for a software that doesn’t really work at work. But for reasons that escape me right now - this is a lie: I was practicing AVOIDANCE of the real problem - I was focused on getting different colored Post-It notes for an activity with our first years. We only had yellow ones in our office. I asked my husband if we could have some from his office (we work in the same college!!), but he said NO because it came out of his department’s budget. Well, I waited until a morning when no one was in his department and I STOLE FOUR PADS OF POST-ITS from his department. It was the best theft. 

I bring up the great Post-It Theft of 2025 because we have an activity where the first years answer questions on Post-It notes and that's one of the questions I ask. Long tangent.)

Do you have a recommendation for me to add to the list? Relatively clean, snappy, fun? 

4) My husband dislikes rock 'n' roll flutes. Think Jethro Tull, The Moody Blues, or the kickass flute solo in California Dreamin' by the Mamas and the Papas. As you can tell, I am on Team Rock Flute. What team are you on?

Not a flower. My adorable kitty in a window. Awwww...cute baby girl.

5) When you name duos, is there always a name that goes first? When people say my name with my husband's, they almost always say his name first because it sounds better. When people say my name with my sister's, they always say her name first because it sounds better. Does this come up in your life?

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I'll take recommendations for my playlist. Are you Team Rock Flute or not? (This post is absolutely nonsense, isn't it?)