Sunday, August 28, 2011
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 11
Today's Daily 5:
- Farmer's market
- huge fresh blackberries
- the last Wisconsin string cheese from this year's stash
- sitting quietly and getting a bunch of tasks completed
- Vietnamese for dinner with dad and my brother and his wife.
Busy Weekend
Y'all, I go back to work full-time on Monday (assuming, of course, that this time everyone involved has the correct date!) That means that I'm spending this weekend tackling a whole variety of "must be dones" and "should be dones" and "would be nice to have dones" that I simply won't have as much time for once nine hours of my day, five days a week, plus commuting time are being spent working. The days will start earlier than they ever have, and that means I'll need to hit bed earlier than I have in a while. It means personal discipline, fitting in the big and most important things first, and then prioritizing on downwards. So, I made a list.
Not everything on this list is going to be accomplished, but I'm hoping to take a significant chunk out of it. It includes everything from picking up a few groceries and buying a September transit pass to compiling a Bible study for our home church for the next ten weeks, tackling some reading that I have on my plate, and getting ahead on blog posts.
It's the kind of list I mostly enjoy working through. Wish me luck as I tackle it over the next days and into the week!
(What are your weekend plans? Are you a list maker, or more of a take it as it comes kind of person?)
Not everything on this list is going to be accomplished, but I'm hoping to take a significant chunk out of it. It includes everything from picking up a few groceries and buying a September transit pass to compiling a Bible study for our home church for the next ten weeks, tackling some reading that I have on my plate, and getting ahead on blog posts.
It's the kind of list I mostly enjoy working through. Wish me luck as I tackle it over the next days and into the week!
(What are your weekend plans? Are you a list maker, or more of a take it as it comes kind of person?)
Friday, August 26, 2011
Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 10
Today's Daily 5:
- Doing a crossword puzzle
- the satisfaction of settling in and beginning to mark things off of a list for the weekend
- curled up and reading
- movie theatre popcorn, and a cute movie
- being treated to tasty ice cream by dad on the way home from the movie
Reverb 11 - August
The Reverb prompt for August is:
Describe an unexpected moment, activity, sighting or conversation that touched you during July.
Hmm... July seems far away already, since August is now more than half-way through.
In July I unexpectedly connected with a newcomer to my city, while taking the bus. We chatted for a length of time, and exchanged phone numbers. In the couple weeks since, we haven't been in touch, but maybe that will change.
What caught me off guard was that we connected at all. I'm not usually all that willing to engage strangers in conversation (especially on transit, after a whole collection of crazy experiences), but we'd boarded the bus together, from the place we were both working (she was a permanent employee at the place I was temping) and courtesy dictated at least a bit of conversation. Oddly, I took it farther, asking all about her, her background and family, where she is from, how long she'd been in my city, and in Canada in general.
I don't know if we'll ever connect again. Maybe we will, maybe we won't. But it's a moment that stands out. One where a different part of me than usual took over, listening to an inner prompting to engage where I would normally retreat, and listening to that prompting voice led to a fascinating conversation, and many prayerful thoughts. It was definitely a moment that touched my soul in new ways.
Describe an unexpected moment, activity, sighting or conversation that touched you during July.
Hmm... July seems far away already, since August is now more than half-way through.
In July I unexpectedly connected with a newcomer to my city, while taking the bus. We chatted for a length of time, and exchanged phone numbers. In the couple weeks since, we haven't been in touch, but maybe that will change.
What caught me off guard was that we connected at all. I'm not usually all that willing to engage strangers in conversation (especially on transit, after a whole collection of crazy experiences), but we'd boarded the bus together, from the place we were both working (she was a permanent employee at the place I was temping) and courtesy dictated at least a bit of conversation. Oddly, I took it farther, asking all about her, her background and family, where she is from, how long she'd been in my city, and in Canada in general.
I don't know if we'll ever connect again. Maybe we will, maybe we won't. But it's a moment that stands out. One where a different part of me than usual took over, listening to an inner prompting to engage where I would normally retreat, and listening to that prompting voice led to a fascinating conversation, and many prayerful thoughts. It was definitely a moment that touched my soul in new ways.
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