Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 218

Today's Daily 5:

1. awareness of my body
2. lunch with a friend
3. feeling like I finally made progress on a long school project
4. walking outside (even in the snowy rain we had today)
5. Big mugs of Moroccan Pomegranate Rooibos tea
6. Watching an episode of The Amazing Race, seeing other cultures, and laughing at some of the culture shock
7. sweat pants and a hoodie
8. fresh veggies for supper
9. hot crossed buns
10. word games on my iphone

Homework and tea

It's 2:00 or so, and I'm curled up with a mug of tea, and about to tackle the seemingly never ending task of creating a concept map of the risk factors of child abuse.

I'd have written a nice long post (I had one brewing all weekend) for this morning, but my evening was swallowed up by this concept map project last night, until I finally threw in the towel around midnight.  And so today you can listen to me tell you that I was over lunch of the value of good conversation and friends.

I've been thinking a lot about life stages since school started and I suddenly found myself in a fishbowl of groupwork with a random assortment of mostly quite a bit younger students.  And so lunch today with a friend my age, in similar stage of life, was lovely.

And now I'm home, and I've tackled a couple of quick and necessary emails, found a big bottle of water, and huge mug of Morrocan pomegranate rooibos tea, and I'm going to let myself once again be swallowed whole by the demands of homework.  But it will be a swallowing in which I'm fortified by a hug, and an hour or so of wonderful conversation over Vietnamese sub sandwiches.  And, once the swallowing has ended for the day, I have some lovely posts for this week brewing, and intend to write them down!

Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 217

Today's Daily 5:

1. Rest
2. a long shower and processing then releasing the tensions that circled my thoughts as I stood under the hot water (am I the only one who does some of my best thinking and praying in the shower?)
3. reminding myself why I'm studying what I am
4. a quiet Sunday morning
5. an artful checkout clerk at the grocery store - her ability to pack bags so that nothing gets squashed, but a ton gets in one bag was incredible
6. seeing a project finally begin to come together
7. a little bit of laughter courtesy of Jerry Seinfeld
8. interspersed little breaks throughout an afternoon of heavy schoolwork
9. taking the time to care for myself by preparing healthy meals for the week to come
10. ice cream

Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 216

Today's Daily 5:

1. "Six inch boots in a nine inch puddle, you're kind of in a muddle in the middle of a puddle with your six inch boots in a nine inch puddle, two feet of trouble when you get home..."
2. time with family
3. mom's peanut butter bars
4. learning a bit about the process of laying laminate flooring
5. laughing at a comment my sister in law made surrounding driving a truck, being a woman, and buying lumber.  you kind of had to be there in that moment, but it was pretty hilarious!

Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 215

Today's Daily 5:

1. sleeping late
2. a spot in the library with a view of the foothills while I studied
3. new earrings
4. leftover Indian food, and ice wine
5. iphone word games