Girl Crushes

Sometimes in life we are swept off our feet by the tall, dark, handsome stranger. Sometimes we are wooed by the baby blues of a swedish vampire. Sometimes the rescuer is a science geek who can get out of scrape using a little ingenuity and the things nearby. Sometimes life leads our emotions in very different directions.

Sometimes women are drawn in by other women. In a totally platonic way. Girl Crushes, defined by Urban Dictionary as “feelings of admiration and adoration which a girl has for another girl, without wanting to shag said girl. a nonsexual attraction, usually based on veneration at some level.”, are completely platonic. Similar to the standard “crush”, a Girl Crush, tends to be on someone beyond your social stratosphere. Think the popular girl, who is actually a sweetheart and you want to hate on her but can’t because she gave you a heads up about the toilet paper on your shoe.

Unlike a bromance (think Hamish and Andy or Joey and Chandler or Turk and JD), the girl crush rarely involves meeting the object of your affection. She could be the super cool check-out-chick with the pimped out pushbike, the awesome girl with the fashion blog, the girl who’s a lot like you because she loves knitting and cycling but lives in a different season. And I think it’s time that we celebrated these crushes. Women deserve our adoration and respect. We should be praising them to the high heavens. Perhaps don’t approach the check-out-chick by yelling across the store that you adore her though. Leave a note on the bike. Write a comment on a blog. Send a letter. I’m going to be sharing my fan love with two women this month.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The wonderfully sexy, funny, smart Miranda Hart. Writer and star of the hit show Miranda. If you haven’t seen it what the hell are you waiting for?

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Adele. Gorgeous voice, excellent sense of humour, great laugh. Plus she writes her own music. I’m in awe of this gal!

Who are your girl crushes?

Thanks for…

Last Monday I was asked to share a prayer during morning briefing for our staff. I shared with them this:

  Leah Dieterich’s website thx thx thx shares with it’s readership a thank you note a day to different things.

It occurred to me last Monday morning that I spend a good proportion of my life whinging. Surely I could benefit from being more grateful, like Leah. Surely my life would be more fulfilled if I simply searched for the good in it, instead of focussing on the bad.

This of course I promptly forgot the minute my day actually began.

But gratitude has been a bit of a theme lately in my world. It’s sort of showed its face in many a different place. Most recently today, while I was reading Yen magazine in the library.

So here are the things that I am thankful for today:

Dear Adele,

Thank you for singing lovely songs that I can sing along to in my car.

Love, Judy-May.

Dear Baristas at my local coffee haunt,

Thank you for drawing cool pictures on the lid of my drink. They make going to work a lot easier. Also thanks for filling up my thermos with lovely, yummy chai goodness for my excursion today. It was nice to have that as a comfort.

See you in the morning, Judy-May.

Dear Angus, my Electra Cruiser Bicycle,

Thank you for being so cool. It was a great ride today, I can’t wait for Friday’s. Damn rain.

Until then, Judy-May.

I’m also including some pictures I took today on my excursion using the camera+ app on my iPhone.

my shoes

park lands

fenced in

winter flowers

little daisies