Quotable Friday and Weekend Links: Judi Dench and Mary Carol Garrity Edition

How do you feel about bucket lists?

I’ve started one a time or two, but it wasn’t fun to me. It felt like making an overwhelming to-do list.

I do love what (the fabulous) Judi Dench says here about new opportunities. The quote came from this article about Judi and fellow actor Bill Nighy (you’ll recognize him), which was written after the sequel to Best Exotic Marigold Hotel came out.

Here are some other links I’ve bookmarked lately:

• Mary Carol Garrity of Nell Hills shared pictures of her remodeled kitchen from the lake home she recently moved to. (Note: the pictures are a little squished, at least on my screen, but if you click on each one individually, they’re not distorted.) Here’s a sneak peak.

Here are other pictures of the house that I posted last summer.

• I shared this on the Creating This Life Facebook page this week: What would your name be if you were born today? You enter your first name, whether you’re male or female, and the year you were born, and it gives you your new name based on 2014 Social Security statistics. It’s fun to do for your spouse and/or kids too. I’m Ella, by the way.

• My daughter sent me these screenshots of parents out-texting their kids. These always make me laugh.

Have a wonderful weekend!