Rewriting the middle

If you understand the title reference, I’m confident we can be friends! For those that don’t, I’ll forgive you, but please watch Gilmore Girls as soon as you possibly can.

This week I took a little online quiz to establish what my colour palette is. This is what it served me…

I’m inclined to agree, but I’m not sure I’m happy about it! I don’t naturally reach for a lot of these autumnal colours. I historically have leaned towards dusky pinks, camels and lilacs. I’m not sure I’ve ever owned anything moss green or dragonfly blue. However, I’m going to consciously look out for these colours now and see whether they ‘light me up’, because I mean, who doesn’t want that?

I’ve had a lovely weekend, starting yesterday with a BOGOF day at my new favourite chazza shop. It’s easy to get trapped in the notion that its so cheap you can buy loads, but I’m really trying not to do that. I am purchasing intentionally. I INTENTIALLY purchased a shiny neon pink and blue 80’s shell suit. Yep, that actually happened. Myself and my husband have an 80’s themed roller skating party in March and it just seemed like fate! ***Pray for my spine***

Then, after a glorious afternoon of bargain hunting, I headed out for dinner with my two best friends. I sent them this photo the other day on our group chat and feel I need to share it with you all. Never has a photo summed up a small group of women so accurately!

I know you don’t know my friends, but can you guess which one I am?

Anyway, we had beautiful Thai food and put the world to rights in a way that you can only do with your best friends. These two women are so important to me, because no matter whether we are going through ups or downs, we champion one another. We want to see the other winning and support their goals, whatever they may be. This dinner was a judgement free zone and it was just what my soul needed. Friendships in your thirties/forties are a strange phenomenon. Unless you’ve had a life long friendship, it’s hard to strike up meaningful bonds with people who you don’t share that history with. But I struck gold in the adult friendship department and don’t know what I’d do without them.

Today has been more serene, filled with boring Sunday tasks like food shopping and now the not boring blog writing. It will be shortly followed by homework from my copy writing course and a nice family dinner of pie and mash. Oh, and a soggy dog walk in the middle there somewhere.

My take away for this week is about putting yourself out there and being open to new female friendships. It’s not something that has a time limit, I hope to make new friends into my retirement. Once you find one; nurture it. And most importantly – send them silly photos and GIFs just because you know it will make them smile. Myself and my friends are all ‘rewriting our middles’ in different ways, but fun and laughter will always be a vital part of the process. Speak soon 🙂