Daily 5 - Day 303

Today's daily 5:

1. fun with some friends today
2. farmer's market trip
3. pork and mango pitas for dinner
4. a brief chat with a dear friend
5. still very thankful for the role my family has been playing in my life lately.

Quieter

I know it's been quieter around here lately.

Good things are brewing.  Things I'm almost ready to share.  (I actually just need to find the time to sit down and write about them in a way that works for sharing.)

But, in the meantime, I find myself with less to share.

Without the job that I'm daily realizing was a way larger source of stress in my life than I ever thought or knew, I don't feel the need to gripe daily.  And without that job, I don't have to curb my social life quite so significantly, and have been seeing people I know and love, and sharing the things on my heart with them, verbally.

And I suppose the blog has suffered for that.

In the meantime, well, I'm coming back, and making plans to be here more regularly again, with more than just the daily 5 lists.

But I'm also enjoying the quiet.  I think I was pressuring myself to have something to say, or write, or gripe about.  To show up 2-3 times a day.  I'm not into having that pressure right now.

This is holding true in my email life, too.  I'm hitting delete way more often, instead of forcing myself to read or reply to things I'm not all that interested in.  I'm thinking about simpler, and quieter a lot.

So, I'm enjoying the quiet.  But I'll be back!

Daily 5 - Day 302

Today's daily 5:

1. Coffee and great conversation with two different friends, bookending my day.
2. Great leftover meals at mom and dad's
3. Accomplishing some stuff on my "to do" list
4. Great hugs
5. Laughter

Daily 5 - Day 301

Today's daily 5:
1. House church tonight
2. Got through a task I'd been procrastinating on for at least a week.
3. Made lasgna for supper at my parent's house tonight
4. Got a surprise in the mail today
5. Little steps towards following a dream

Procrastinating

I am procrastinating this morning.

The big "to do" item on my list for today is to fill out some government paperwork online.

A process that the website promises will likely take at least an hour.

So I'm procrastinating.

It's the first thing I'm going to do.

After I empty the dishwasher for my parents.

And make a cup of tea.

And eat a pumpkin cookie (I made another batch yesterday.)

After I read a few blog posts from around the world.

And after I stop in here, to mention that I'm procrastinating.

But it's the first thing I'm going to do.

Really.