Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 330

Today's Daily 5:

1. Finding ways to laugh about some terrible dreams from last night
2. an interesting and challenging debrief conversation
3. a long shower
4. settling into my room to read and do some catching up for the evening
5. a very early bedtime

Tuesday Anticipations, July 17, 2012

This week I'm anticipating:

• several evenings with nothing scheduled
• hanging out with friends at house church
• baby cuddles
• a very low key weekend
• knocking another paper deadline off of my countdown to the end of the semester

What are you looking forward to this week?

Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 329

Today's Daily 5:

1. a day doing home visits with a really great nurse (and getting to hold two super cute babies)
2. trying out a new kind of rental car
3. having a vehicle with which to do grocery shopping
4. comfy summer pajamas
5. curling up for a quiet evening at home

Slowly Revived

Every time I start a new job, I forget that it takes a physical and mental toll on me.

In the case of my current job, it has exacted a pretty high emotional cost as well.

Like I said, I forget about the cost of adapting to something new.

I forget about it until I'm beginning to come out the other side.

Until I'm beginning to find myself feeling slowly revived.

I think I'm finally there.

Slowly, oh so slowly finding my footing again, and not feeling buried by life.

It's a pretty awesome feeling, to start emerging from that fog of stress again.

I'm so thankful I'm being slowly revived.

Daily 5 - Year 3, Days 325-328

Day 325:

1. grace through a challenging lab
2. sitting in the sun
3. understanding instructors
4. crepe lunch with a good friend
5. baby cuddles

Day 326:

1. sleeping in
2. a quiet, restful morning alone
3. laughing with a friend
4. witnessing childlike joy
5. an awesome fireworks show

Day 327:

1. not having a ton of things on my schedule and thus being able to sleep in and take a nap after a long work shift
2. herbal iced tea, made from scratch
3. fresh cherries
4. dinner with my former roommate, her hubby, and baby
5. a work shift that went incredibly smoothly

Day 328:

1. getting home safely by train in the wee hours of the morning through the end of the Stampede parties after a late night work shift
2. sleeping restfully
3. doing a school assignment with a great classmate and the help of a couple good friends
4. baby cuddles
5. settling into my own space after a couple days away, and enjoying the quiet and the beauty of normal routines