Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 68

Today's Daily 5:

1. A smooth job interview again this morning
2. watching the latest episode of Grey's Anatomy
3. taking a short nap this afternoon
4. scrambled eggs with ham and cheese for lunch (heavy on the ham and cheese, light on the egg - I like my eggs better when you can't taste them or experience their texture)
5. meeting a good friend and her daughter for dinner at The Old Spaghetti Factory
6. Mizithra at Old Spaghetti Factory (and leftovers for lunch tomorrow!)
7. sales on some things I needed at the grocery store tonight
8. being at home, in my own bed
9. the continuation of semi-daily random facts by text message that make me laugh again at the interesting people I know and the places they love
10. curling up under thick blankets

Linking Up

It's been a while since I've done a post sending you elsewhere, but today I'm going to.  Check out some of these posts, and then come back and tell me what you think, or leave a link for something fabulous that you've read recently.

Olfactory Girl Cartoon at Doghouse Diaries


Rent Free Headspace at Dana's Blog

Boobies (Seriously, check out this guy's thoughts on a recent bracelet trend that's been popping up)

Where are the Miracles? at Mandy Thompson's blog.  I loved the questions Mandy asked.  Especially this week, when I've been asking quite a few questions myself.  In a week where I attended a funeral where we were invited to practice Jesus' command to "raise the dead", I'm wondering again about where the miracles are.

Living Proof Video - Good stuff from the One Campaign.

Okay, those are some of the ones I came across today.  What have you been reading and what would you recommend?

Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 67

Today's Daily 5:

1. A surprise skype call late last night that included video for the first time!
2. declaring a king of "people. are. weird"
3. being told that something I'd written was used by God at just the right time to encourage a friend
4. a job interview that went well
5. laughing and deliberately stomping on a leaf, just to hear it crunch
6. a really good evening at house church
7. seeing God at work in friends lives
8. nacho cheese
9. catching up with a friend I hadn't seen for a couple of weeks
10. laughing with baby M.

Slow Days

Life seems to move at a pace that is slow right now.

The waiting and limbo thing becomes intolerable at moments, and I am working to come up with ways to fill my days.

Today I'm waiting for a ride, so I'm puttering around my space in Grandma's basement.

I feel like words are coming slowly, too, as I wrestle my way through big issues.

Stuff that isn't formed for sharing, but more for pondering.

I make daily 5 lists throughout the day in my iphone, and add them to the blog at night.

I read blogs, and emails.  I write, though often not for public consumption.

And I move slowly, slowly, slowly forward.

Committed to that forward movement.

Maybe the slow days are okay right now, even when they're the brutally hard ones. 

Maybe I can live, and even thrive in this place.

Most days I'm not all that sure.  But today, on this particular slow day, I think it might be possible.

Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 66

Today's Daily 5:

1. Getting out of bed anyway (even when the day starts out hard)
2. A home-made hamburger
3. Finally printing up a "no escape" list of ideas for the days when escaping my weird living situation isn't as easy
4. a bit of understanding for a moment where God was catching my attention and the way it was rattling around inside of me
5. trading emails with a friend
6. several positive steps on the "looking for a job" front
7. frozen chocolate chip cookies - frozen cookies are SO good
8. finishing up the reading for house church tomorrow night
9. getting an unexpected ride home
10. candles lit around the room