Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 335

Today's Daily 5:

1. Time at home alone
2. making lists
3. banana chocolate chip muffins
4. finding some new music
5. news from far away
6. wearing my M*A*S*H* t-shirt and capri jeans
7. a new screensaver with beach and palm tree scenes
8. Macdonalds for dinner
9. banana cream pie
10. 1 year, 335 days of making these lists

Sunday Thoughts

It's Sunday morning and I have the house to myself and am loving it.

I'm curled up in the big recliner in mom and dad's living room.

I watched a little bit of food network and now I'm tackling the task of catching up on blog reading from this last week.  I had more social things than usual, plus the addition of suddenly spending eight hours a day (plus transit time) employed again.

Normally I stay at mom and dad's on Sunday nights, but I think I'm going to go home to my own bed tonight.

That means that this afternoon I have a number of things to accomplish, and as I'm sitting here I'm making lists.

Listing the things to be accomplished.

Listing the groceries I need to go out and pick up so that I can eat for the coming week.

Listing thoughts and plans.

It's not a bad way to spend a morning, really.  Resting and listing.

With a little bit of food network, and a little bit of music thrown in.

Lovely.

(which, by the way, is one of my favorite words.  I don't know where I picked it up, but that's what I'll often say as a positive answer. I like it. I think the whole world should have more lovely things in it.)

Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 334

Today's Daily 5:

1. Birds singing
2. sunshine
3. surprising a rabbit in the garden
4. lazy mornings
5. dark basements
6. ice cream
7. time with good friends
8. children's antics
9. creatively designed creatures like anteaters
10. an evening spent comfortably with family

Saturday

It's Saturday, and almost noon, and I'm still curled up in bed, enjoying the darkness of living in a basement, the cozyness and comfort of still being ensconced in pajamas, under blankets.

I'm going to the zoo this afternoon with a long-time friend and her daughter.  I'm looking forward to an afternoon of sunshine, child's laughter, and visiting my favorite animals.  Gorillas, giraffes, anteaters, here I come!

And then, a quiet evening.  Dinner with my folks, and maybe watching a movie together.

I spent last evening with one of my longest term friends.  We've known each other since early in high school, and make a point of having dinner and hanging out and catching up once a month or so, even more than ten years later.  In the last year, our relationship has taken a particular turn, as our lives have also taken a turn, and we've gone from discussing the shallower every day stuff to talking about the deeper and more intense stuff going on in each of our lives.  Our conversations range from faith, life, psychology, relationships and everything in between.  We've both gotten hooked on buying groupons, and once a month or so we get great dinners on the cheap, and spend hours hanging out and eating and conversing.  Last night it was a new Italian restaurant, and the food was really good.  We talked for a couple of hours, wandered in a park for a while, and then wandered through a bookstore for another hour, conversing all the while.

It's a good way to spend the weekend, with friends, and doing favorite things.

Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 333

Today's Daily 5:

1. a caller at work who flirted with me and sang me pop songs in a great British accent while I worked for several minutes to locate the name of the correct person for him to talk to
2. wearing a pretty new scarf bought at a discount
3. weekend!
4. really good italian food, dinner via groupon with a friend
5. spending the evening with a friend whose friendship has spanned more than a decade, talking about anything and everything, eating, walking in a park, and even book shopping together.