Daily 5 - Day 219

Today's Daily 5:

1. Safe driving - 6 hours of it on my own - to and from my meeting
2. The meeting was really great - I love the girl who is my counterpart at the hotel, and it'll be great to work closely with her in the next few weeks to pull this thing off.
3. Mom picked me up from the rental car place, so I didn't have to haul my meeting stuff through a half hour walk, and then an hour on the train.
4. Evening with L., her baby sister in from out of town to visit, and her maid of honor, talking bridesmaidy stuff.  I really wasn't sure what to expect, especially after a long and very tiring day, but it was lots of fun to laugh with them tonight.
5. Something so great about just collapsing into your own comfortable bed after a very long day.  I've been laying here so comfortably, just catching up on all the blogs I follow, and tonight it feels so good to do that.

Daily 5 - Day 172

Today's Daily 5:

1. Making it through the night.  This morning, as dawn came, and I managed to drift off to catch a couple hours of sleep, it felt like a remarkable blessing to have made it through the night.
2. Mini bananas for breakfast - have you ever eaten these things - they're tasty!
3. Hanging out with my grandma, aunt, mom, and sister-in-law to be while shopping for dresses for the upcoming wedding.
4. This afternoon while we were shopping, L. quietly drew me aside, and told me that she and T. had wanted to ask me together, but he is out of town this weekend and my aunt's planned dress shopping trip had tipped their hand, and that they would like me to be a bridesmaid for their wedding, and I wouldn't need to shop for a dress today.  That was a really special moment for me - very healing and affirming in lots of ways I can't quite explain.  It was fun, too, to trade a few texts with T. later in the day, just thanking him for including me as well.
5. Talking for just a little while this afternoon, a few stolen minutes alone in a car, with my mom, who understands what it is to battle fear and anxiety, and blessed me by simply understanding, without making me feel bad for what I was experiencing, or trying to "fix" me.