Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 34

Today's Daily 5:

1. Watching a few friends and some strangers count their own daily 5's on Facebook late last night
2. trading a few very humorous emails with L. this afternoon
3. a hot bath for a few minutes, in between work and a semi-awkward social commitment
4. steak for supper
5. a few moments of laughter with family

Monday, Monday...

I've never been one of those girls who hates Mondays.

If you've been reading here for a while, you know that when I was still working at the company that my roommates christened "the soap opera", I had Wednesdays, not Mondays.  For weeks at a time, it would seem like Wednesday was just the day when everything went wrong, and I was stressed, or feeling miserable, or people would be rude or out of sorts with me.

Because of that, I don't really dread Mondays the way some people do.

That said, last week I went into Monday feeling positive, and it ended up being a terribly hard day at work.  The worst day in the entire week.

So, as I write this on Sunday night, I just don't quite know what to expect from Monday.

I know it will end with a birthday party for my brother.  And that it will start at 5:30 am.  I know that I will have a frozen meal for lunch, and do some reading.

I know that it will be a Monday, and like every other day of the week, I will need to pray and trust, and choose joy and life.

Here goes...

Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 33

Today's Daily 5:

1. popping in some TV on DVD and spending a couple of hours baking (tried another new chocolate chip cookie recipe today!)
2. sleeping in
3. homemade, hot, buttered popcorn
4. leftover vietnamese food
5. having fun prepping the posts that will go live for most of this week
6. finally finishing off a BIG "to do" that has been on my list for weeks
7. that my infected thumb seems to be on the road to healing
8. still enjoying laughter over the conversation I had on skype with L yesterday
9. looking forward to new seasons of some of my favorite television shows kicking off this week
10. planning and preparing for the week ahead

Sunday, Mid Afternoon

I'm half-way through my Sunday, and some of the things that are done are becoming Sunday habits.

I baked muffins.

And cookies (a new recipe courtesy of pinterest.)

I've even showered and done some work in the garden.

In a little while, I'll head back to grandma's.

The rest of Sunday is also habit - prepping blog posts for the coming week, cleaning and organizing, making lists, reading, tackling various tasks from my list from the past week, and others from the list for the coming week.

It's how I spend my weekends now.  Catching up, and trying to catch some rest.

Not so bad, though not the freedom that I once had.  It's all about adjusting.

I'm getting there.

Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 32

Today's Daily 5:

1. Not having to wake up at 5:30 am
2. library and groceries, two main objectives for the weekend, finished before 1:00 p.m.
3. a two hour skype date with L, laughing and catching up on all the stuff that people who are super close friends care about.  We talked about everything from boys, to school, to traveling.
4. A couple of great one liners from L, particularly "I felt very small on that beach!"
5. having my google reader list sit at zero
6. a new feature on skype that lets you share your screen with the person you're talking to.  It let L see some pictures and websites I was looking about, that we were talking about today
7. managing to rest a bit this weekend
8. Vietnamese food for dinner
9. time to hang out on pinterest and get inspired a bit
10. reading time