Whimsical Wednesday, April 25, 2012

This week on Whimsical Wednesday, warm air and time off have inspired me to post some images from pinterest of clothing I'd absolutely love to wear, or styles that I love.  I hope it inspires you!  As always I'd love to hear if any of them stand out to you!

Source: theberry.com via Lisa on Pinterest

Source: polyvore.com via Lisa on Pinterest

Source: polyvore.com via Lisa on Pinterest

Source: tinyurl.ms via Lisa on Pinterest

Source: polyvore.com via Lisa on Pinterest

Source: polyvore.com via Lisa on Pinterest

Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 246

Today's Daily 5:

1. sunshine
2. lacy shoes
3. skirt weather
4. banana with peanut butter
5. wearing one of my favorite pairs of earrings
6. lunch with a long time friend
7. a salad with arugula, goat cheese, blackberries, candied pecans and blackberry vinaigrette
8. thai chicken pizza
9. hanging out with my two favorite little guys
10. good conversations at house church

Tuesday Anticipations, April 24, 2012

This week I'm anticipating:

• hugging and cuddling my two favorite little boys
• a house church leader's meeting
• lunch with a friend I've known since my first year of high school, at a gourmet pizza place
• learning to make pierogis from a Polish friend
• temporarily changing my hair color
• our house church gathering
• several more days of quiet, productivity, and rest
• enjoying the spring/summer weather we're having
• taking time for some creative projects

What things are you looking forward to this week?

Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 245

Today's Daily 5:

1. sleeping late
2. yoga pants
3. a Jack Johnson soundtrack as I cleaned
4. going through boxes and finding the kitchen implements and appliances that will let me live a bit more "normally" in the midst of the crazy
5. picking out a couple new recipes to try out
6. exercising body, soul, and mind all at once while walking to do a couple of errands (including groceries) and listening to a great sermon from Shawn Bolz.  "Chocolate is the single person's sex!" Bet that's the first time that's ever been said in a sermon! Love it! 
7. Tackling several tasks that have been nagging for the last few months
8. sitting and spending a bit of time in creative pursuits
9. the thrill of a clean living space
10. simple, healthy food today
11. Sun!  It was 25 C today - summer weather!  Hooray! I might just break out the flip flops if it's like that again tomorrow!

Luxuriating

I am luxuriating in the time off from school that I'm currently enjoying.

Yes, I'm tackling to do lists and projects, but I'm doing them in stillness, and at a pace that really works for me. (Yes, stillness, my word for the year is Still, so it's nice to embrace it in this way, instead of hunting for it amidst busy chaos.)

I stayed up way too late last night, puttering and reading online.

I slept in way too long this morning, making up for the staying up late.

But it's lovely.

And today I'm tackling little things - resume updating, menu planning, blog post writing.

I'm going to read and respond to comments on last week's post about the body and food.

I'm going to go through some boxes to see if I can locate the vegetable steamer and crockpot that have been in storage for two years, to make my living situation more flexible, and allow me to have a bit more creativity in meal planning.

I'm going to clean off my desk which has been the dumping spot for the detritus of the last couple weeks.

I'm going to knit.

I'm going to watch last night's episode of The Amazing Race (even though it makes the travel bug within me ache painfully) and vicariously enjoy the travels of other people.

I'm might go for a walk, or do a yoga video.

Basically, I'm going to luxuriate, and I think it's going to be amazing.