Daily 5 - Day 197

Today's Daily 5:

1. With help from my roommate, the majority of our kitchen is now packed.  Just a few cupboards and a shelf with foodstuffs left to go.
2. My bedroom is also now 95% packed.
3. Reworked my budget (slight change in paycheque, plus changes in rent amounts) and am very happy with the numbers
4. Managed to pull off about an hour of quieter time tonight too.
5. Loved watching Joannie Rochette skate for a bronze medal tonight, especially knowing that her mom passed away very suddenly early this week.

Limbo

I feel like I'm running out of things to say.

This week is kind of like limbo.

Three more nights sleeping in my current apartment.  But most of the belongings that made it "home" are already gone.  The living room is now very nearly empty after the sale of my couch and loveseat the other night, and our voices echo as we stand near the door, talking in the mornings as we don layers of clothing for the morning commute.

The person I dreamt about who was sick yesterday, is still sick.

I think my friends have welcomed their baby to the world, though I have only the unofficial "facebook" confirmation of that.

Last night I chatted online for a while with a very dear friend.  Events in both of our lives mean that our formerly regular communications have been haphazard and spotty for the last several months.  Emails most days, but rarely the real-time conversations that we'd consistently shared online or by phone.  I don't think I'd realized how much I'd missed chatting with her about all of the stuff big and small, going on in both of our lives.  It was so good to talk with her that I very nearly cried.  And, we're planning to fit a phone conversation in, sometime in the near future.  That something to look forward to is a beautiful thing right now, in the midst of this odd week of limbo.

Tonight there is a bit more to pack.  And maybe a little bit of time catching up online with my favorite television shows.  I won't need to watch olympic coverage tonight.  It will be all about the hockey game.  I have a very strong dislike of hockey.  It's not the sort of dislike born of not understanding.  I was raised around hockey and have a fairly solid understanding of the game.  I simply don't like it.  (Though, to be fair, I tend to always prefer individual sports over team ones anyway.)

I read this blog post last night, just before sleeping.  I found her words to be profound, especially these: "In the midst of my pain and sadness in life, my sarcasm often brews. I usually don't mean what I say, but I say it because it feels good and the wit it takes to concoct something halfway funny and caustic distracts the part of my brain that feels pain. And because I'm sad, I usually don't feel guilty for biting satire."  Yes.  I am definitely that person too.


This morning I'm just grateful that our receptionist is back in the office.  I wasn't relishing the thought of another scattered day like yesterday.
 
And with that, I'm off to dive into a long list of "to do's".

Daily 5 - Day 192

Today's Daily 5:

1. Got a big load of stuff (including all my books) moved to Grandma's house this morning thanks to help from my dad.
2. Choosing to be a bit honest as I continue to explore how I'm feeling about this transition of moving
3. Cooked dinner for mom, dad, T & L, and my aunt tonight.  It's fun to cook for others, and it's nice when the meal wins rave reviews.
4. Got a treatment from mom and my aunt - hopefully that'll help with the soreness a bit.
5. First iced passion tea lemonade from starbucks since they switched to whole leaf tea.  I tried the new version of hot passion tea a while back and definitely didn't like it - plus the price went up quite a bit.  But, I was very pleasantly surprised today to discover that the iced passion tea lemonade still tastes the same!
6. Laughed with my dad as I discovered the the starbucks abbreviation for my aforementioned drink of choice, scribbled on the cup in sharpie is "PTL" - that made me laugh.  Such a bad, inside, "christiany" joke, but it did make me smile.
7. Watched the end of the Canadian men's curling match with Great Britain tonight - love that Canada is still undefeated.  Plus, I really like watching curling.
8. Also saw the medal ceremony for the Canadian who won gold last night in the skeleton.  I'm so not very patriotic at all, but every time I see a Canadian athlete on that podium, excited to receive that medal, and hear our anthem play, I totally want to cry.
9. Enjoyed an Almond Joy bar tonight.  I've been savoring some that were sent to me as a gift, and tonight it hit the spot just perfectly.  Thanks LP/CA!
10. Got caught up on the Lenten reading I'd fallen a bit behind on.

Daily 5 - Day 191

Today's Daily 5:

1. Jeans at work today
2. Subway for lunch with a coworker
3. Got pretty much all of my books boxed and ready to move tomorrow
4. Clean sheets and pajamas tonight
5. Feeling like I'm actually making headway with this move
6. Watching the Olympics while I packed and worked on my "to do" list for the evening
7. So nice after boxing the books to settle in to a bowl of left-over pasta
8. Had the house to myself tonight
9. 191 days of daily 5 lists
10. It's the weekend!

Daily 5 - Day 188

Today's Daily 5:

1. Passed the 300 day mark a couple days back for some food and health related goals.  300 days straight of eating three meals a day.  That's pretty significant considering it had almost never happened in the previous two years, and that many of those days, I was so ill from stress that one meal was a big accomplishment.
2. Mom and Dad took J., my aunt from Wisconsin who's in town right now, my roommate L, and I out for Mexican food tonight.  I really like Mexican food.  So much so that I ate 5 of the 6 little tacos on my plate.  And then I brought the leftovers home for lunch tomorrow.  Is it weird that I really enjoy refried beans?  We grew up eating homemade Mexican, and I've always enjoyed it, so it's a treat when we get to go to this particularly good, relatively authentic local Mexican restaurant and really enjoy a meal.
3. Laughing with J and L as J drove us home.   Though J and I are about as opposite as siblings could be, I'm growing to really appreciate a lot of things about him over the last while, and I consider that a blessing.
4. Mom and Dad brought me a bunch of flyers and newspaper that I can use for packing all the breakable stuff around my bedroom.  Grateful for family that helps with stuff like that.
5. In bed by a decent time.  Going to watch a little bit of olympic curling online, and then head for sleep.  (I may hate hockey, but I really enjoy watching curling - that must qualify me as truly Canadian, right???)

Daily 5 - Day 186

Today's Daily 5:

1. Seeing the story of Canada's first gold medallist's relationship with his older brother who has cerebral palsy.  A beautiful story.
2. Surprise engagement party for T & L tonight
3. Had a productive morning, cleaning the apartment (it was being shown tonight) and just generally doing some stuff that needed to be done.  It felt nice to do that at an unhurried pace.
4. Love that I still have one more day of weekend left.  Such a needed break at the moment.
5. Loving that I can watch the major Canadian olympic coverage via livestream over the internet - meaning I can watch it from bed :)

Daily 5 - Day 185

Today's Daily 5:

1. Moved another load to Grandma's.
2. Seeing the painting job in my new room.  Even after just the first coat, it's looking WAY better in there.
3. Got my errands done too.  Second time behind the wheel since the accident.  Still pretty stressful, but glad that I can do it without totally freaking out.
4. Hung out at mom and dad's watching olympic coverage for a good chunk of the day
5. Uploaded some new cd's to my ipod - can't wait to listen
6. Saw Canada win our first olympic medal live online, while resting in bed
7. Love that I can watch some of the olympic coverage live online - great since I don't have television service in my home
8. Enjoyed time with family
9. Curly hair
10. hummus on toast, with fresh raspberries and blackberries on the side for lunch.

Daily 5 - Day 159

Today's Daily 5:

1. totally random Olympic Torch experience.  Not sure yet if it's annoying or just funny, especially since I really wanted to avoid seeing it for a lot of reasons.  But I did have to laugh at the irony of trying to avoid it and then being right next to one of the transfers.
2. Made another new recipe tonight and it turned out fairly well.
3. Got a treatment from my mom.  Hoping that will help me sleep tonight, and balance out some of the other health stuff until I see my regular practitioner on Saturday.
4. Managed to fit a bit of reading in while trying to convince my computer that it wanted to stay connected to the internet, and not only stay connected (wireless is finicky tonight), but upload photos.  (Watch for some more photo posts in the days to come.)  Was really glad to at least get the reading in though.
   
5. Pleased to be at verse nineteen in my memorization.  Also pleased that the memorization is very much a forced meditation on the scripture, and I am getting the chance to consider Philippians verse by verse in a way I never would have.

Olypmic Torch

To be really honest, I knew the Torch relay was passing near where I lived today, and I knew it was going to be happening right around rush hour when I would be driving home, and I was desperately hoping to avoid the whole kit and kaboodle. 

Instead, I got totally stuck in traffic.  And not just stuck in traffic.  Basically parked.  About 10 feet from one of the spots where a Torch relay exchange was happening.  Since I had my camera in my purse, I took a few photos.

Waiting for her turn to carry the flame

almost there - see it coming?

the handoff

and she starts running too.

I'm Lovin' It

Does anyone else see the humor that I see in the fact that Macdonalds is the official restaurant of the Olympic Games?

I have this ridiculous mental image of a highly trained, toned athlete sitting down to his Big Mac and supersize french fries.

Does it seem oxymoronic to anyone else that one of the least healthy fast food restaurants is the official food venue for an event that celebrates health and has "faster, higher, stronger" as it's motto?

My dad visits a little old lady and occasionally takes her out to eat. She passed the 90 year mark a while back now. Her dieticians have given her permission to eat the occasional hamburger at any fast food place except Macdonalds - apparently there's something in the way they cook and store the burgers that makes them absolutely one of the worst things around.

I'm Lovin' It!