Hi Sunflowerkru!It’s tuesday again and… Here I am ;-) !
Here is a surreal picture from last weekend: my cherry tree in bloom under big snowflakes. You can hear my husband playing three notes on his guitar in the background too <3.
I hope everyone is well and my thoughts go straight to those who kindly picked up the torch last week @ninappon,@roguetwelve when I wasn’t in the best of spirits. And your messages made me feel so good, girls. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH !! You were absolutely right. The world can be a scary place sometimes, but we should always look ahead and think of the positives. As long as there is life there is hope.
So I won’t talk about Covid. (My husband is better.) I won’t talk about climate change. (My cherry tree is fine.) I won’t talk about the presidential elections in France. (let’s think about something else.) And although I won’t talk about war in Ukraine, I am thinking very hard about all those who are suffering and need help. Let us continue to support all those who need to be supported.
I have been limiting my social media recently, so it’s been a while since I participated. Thank you to everyone who continued to tag me despite my absence. Special thanks to @togetherkru for keeping BFSN going week after week.
My friend has some new baby goats at her farm that I got to cuddle with last week. This is Hermione and she has two brothers who are, of course, named Harry and Ron. I hope seeing her will brighten someone’s day!
If you’ve ever wondered what happens on stage after the curtain drops, my photo is pretty much your answer haha. We made it through the week of shows without a massive Covid outbreak! And now we have a couple of weeks to recover (and re-set… the guy on my back in the photo broke his foot mid show the next day ) before we start travelling. Time to take these fundraising efforts and our show of Ukrainian pride across Canada!
The outpouring of support that we received at these shows was so so heartwarming. There have been so many tears over the last few days - both in the audience and on stage. Our hearts are absolutely with the people of Ukraine, shown by the absolute roar each time the Ukrainian flag was brought on stage, giving us the boost we needed to get through the encore at the end of a very hard 2 hour show.
And another fun bonus photo to hopefully make you smile… Here’s what Charlie thought of me being gone all week. He stole my shoe pretty much the second I got home from the post show reception on Friday.
Stef - it’s bitterly cold and snowing here too, although that’s normal here for this time of year. And it’s supposed to warm up by the weekend. But I have total confidence that your cherry tree will persevere!
Kim - I’m pretty sure that goat just melted my heart. And the names are incredible
I hope everyone’s doing well. I’m a little low in the spirits and very tired from work as things are quite busy now but I am trying to write my fic and I hopefully will get to make some gifs too this week as I’ve been meaning to! I’m very glad for our fandom and the people here, yall are a bunch of amazing, kind human beings!
Hi Sunflowerkru! It’s already well into June, and summer is just around the corner. I had the chance to go to a friend’s house this weekend, and to visit Lyon with them (the 2nd largest city in France), and I was delighted. I didn’t know the city, we went around and I discovered it with happiness.
The picture is a very good summary of my feeling: I am in admiration in front of the ancient theater of Lyon, at one of the windows of the museum of Antiquity.
A little sun and history are enough for my happiness ;-D.
This week our city’s football team had its first home game of the season and they turned it into a charity game called “Stand with Ukraine” night. For halftime over 200 students from the city’s Ukrainian bilingual programs sang Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, then we performed Ukraine’s national dance Hopak. It was a really cool experience and nice to visit with the kids after.
Now we get a couple of weeks off from performing and I’m immensely grateful .
Thank you @togetherkru for the tag! I’m glad that you got to enjoy a little trip and that you got to explore some really cool ancient architecture. I’m always floored by just how much history there is to see in Europe!
Summer has arrived in Sweden at last, and yet it kinda caught me by surprise. The first day of our trip to the archipelago started off rainy, but as we were there to enjoy the hotel’s spa (and supsequently get wet) it didn’t matter much. It was a beautiful location, and it was wonderful to be able to enjoy the pool and sauna and to truly relax for a while. Even though it’s bittersweet that it was our last get-together as colleagues, I’m still glad we got the opportunity go to away like this. The rest of the weekend was spent doing another meditative activity: garden work and planting potatoes
Thanks for the tag @togetherkruand@roguetwelve. At first glance it seemed as if you were at an excavation site, Stef! The theater looks incredibly cool, and will along with Lyon be added to my never-ending list of places I hope to see one day.
Laurie, I’m always in awe by your city’s involvement in showing support for Ukraine (and probably any worthy cause). It’s such a beautiful thing to see
@togetherkru@roguetwelve@ninappon, thank you for tagging me again, my dearies. Hello sunflowerkru! I thought I should give a sign of life again, although my mood hasn’t improved throughout the last weeks. For some reason I can’t put my finger on I’m very depressive for quite a while now, can’t find real joy in anything or the enthusiasm to do anything - besides going to work of course. My holidays in september are still so far away… And the hormone pills I have to take (new ones since last week bc my body refused the first ones) are really taking a toll on me… The slightest cause and I start crying for no big reason. Sometimes… I feel very alone and lost these days. Is that what they call the midlife crisis? I don’t know… Anyway.. one babystep after the other… Seeing your posts every week really lightens my mood. And that counts for something, or not?
Steph, I love history and especially historical architecture too, so I totally get what you mean. Looks awesome there in Lyon.
Laurie, I think I would’ve started crying if I had been there, hearing all these people in the stadium singing THIS song. It’s such a beautiful idea!
Nina, wow… Your photos are holidays for my eyes. Could look at that view forever. How absolutely beautiful sweden is! I’m glad you enjoy your time there and had the chance to relax. And yes, even gardening and planting can be such a relaxing experience.
And now… I proudly present to you my little (and now finally FINALLY complete) The100-Funko!Pop-family! (Including Lexa with and without warpaint and Lincoln “normal” and as reaper, which was a limited edition once at SDCC). It was a long wish of mine to finally have all my fave characters (and characters that mattered to me in a way) together. I only wished that there’d be figures of Monty, Jasper and Murphy too. THAT would have been SO amazing. But these are all that had been produced back then. And now… sniff… they’re reunited. At least in my home.
