Daily 5 - Day 195

Today's Daily 5:

1. Chatting online with a very dear friend tonight, on her birthday, the first time in a while that we've managed to connect for more than a very few minutes, or by email.
2. The transit connections were incredibly lucky running errands after work tonight, and it didn't take nearly as long as I thought it might.
3. One of my errands was a trip to the library.  I have three new audio books to start listening to on my work commutes (especially nice since next week after the move the round trip commute is going to be about 3 hours).   I loaded the first one onto my ipod tonight, and I'm excited to start listening to it.  It's about a father who connects with his autistic son through horseback riding, and some sort of crazy traveling adventure in Mongolia also involving horseback riding.  A true story, and so up my alley, involving mental health, family relationships, animals, and travel!
4. I made perogies for supper.  Because of my unexpected extra trip to a the grocery store last night, I was in the grocery store that carries the most genuine perogies I've had, so I bought a bag and cooked them for supper tonight and lunch tomorrow.  It's been ages since I've eaten them, and they were great!
5. Lots of times of deep prayer through what was a bit of an odd day.
6. Listened to an interview with Sara Miles on my ipod on the way home from work tonight.
7. Managed to do errands via transit and still get home before dark - that means the days are getting longer and spring must be on it's way.
8. Was dreaming of travel again this morning.  High on the might actually happen this year list - the BC coast, maybe Ontario again, and California.  (High on the I'm still dreaming and will make it happen sometime in the future list - New Zealand, Peru, Rome, and maybe even China and/or Africa.)
9. Contemplating getting an iphone.  The idea of being able to surf the web while on transit - especially with my commute about to get so long - is a very appealing one to me.
10. Dad stopped by the office this morning and picked up a few boxes I'd saved for packing and moving.  I can definitely use them, but there was no way I was carrying them home on the train.  Since he was in the area, I asked if he could stop by, and he was willing.  Grateful for family who are willing to help out with the smaller details.

Day Interrupted

There are several people out of the office sick today.  Including our receptionist.

That means the phone calls and client drop-ins, and deliveries are MY problem today.

Day interrupted.

I'm getting NOTHING done because I'm being interrupted by a phone call every other minute.

Plus, with several others out, it's hard to track down someone to actually put the calls through to. 

It hasn't been that long since I was the receptionist, but answering the phones and tracking down someone to take the calls was the part of my job that I liked the least then, too.

It is feeling like an incredibly unproductive day.

But hey, it's nearly lunch time, and someone else will answer for an hour or so while I eat, and then there's less than half of the day remaining!

Strange Days, Redux

The dream I wrote about yesterday morning is still having odd effects, as other bits and pieces of what I saw while I was sleeping play out in my waking reality.

Someone I saw in the dream, who seemed quite ill, leaving me concerned and praying as I woke, is in fact, quite ill today.

It's a bit strange, this playing out of my dreams in waking moments.

I'm waiting for news of the friend who was in labor yesterday, waiting with her husband, and working to welcome their first child into the world.

Another very dear friend is celebrating her birthday today, and I'm thinking of her and praying.

And so today I find myself again in that odd, deeply prayerful place.  Praying for Haiti, for the person who is ill, for my friends and their child, for my dear friend as she begins another year of life.  And for so many other things on my heart.

Strange days indeed.

Daily 5 - Day 194

Today's Daily 5:

1. Got WAY more than the prescribed 20 minutes of light excercise today.  This lack of a car is ensuring that I get the 20 minutes every week day traipsing to and from home and work via walking and various transit vehicles.  Today however, I got home from work, changed clothes, settled in to make dinner, and discovered that the chicken I'd planned to cook was rancid.  Since I'm not presently the owner of a car, that necessitated another 15 minute walk to the closest grocery store (a fairly expensive high-end, mostly organic shop that I love but never shop at because of price) and another 15 minute walk home after that.
2. Sold my couch and loveseat tonight.  That was it's own adventure!  The girl I expected to sell them to showed up and realized she couldn't fit both in the truck she'd brought.  She tried to bargain with me and convince me to sell her only 1 piece.  Umm.... No.  I phoned another person who had called me about them back, and within an hour, both pieces were gone.  Now just waiting and dreaming, and figuring out just exactly what I want, and collecting the money to afford it.  At the moment I think I'm leaning towards a double papasan chair/loveseat from Pier 1 Imports.  I have a thing for comfy furniture that you just sort of sink into and recline in.  I think it's because I'm so short that my feet have never reached the ground on any piece of furniture, so I'm always sitting curled up, or semi prone anyway.
3. The dinner I cooked, despite some hitches in ingredients (not only the chicken, but the cupboards are getting a little bare as we attempt to minimize what I have to move) turned out quite well.
4. Loved watching Virtue and Moir win the gold medal in the ice dance tonight.  I'm not excessively patriotic, but there's something about hearing that anthem play and seeing the smiles on the athletes faces that gets me every time.
5. Tomorrow will be exactly 4 months until the U2 concert I have tickets to!

Article on the Most Recent Haiti Quake

I mentioned this morning that I'd heard via email that there had been another earthquake in Haiti very early this morning.  News article on the quake, magnitude 4.7, here.