Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 240

Today's Daily 5:

1. moving through some much needed tasks on my to do list
2. finding a few good deals
3. quiet and alone time for the vast majority of the day, and space for creativity
4. having a borrowed car for errands
5. grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup

Tuesday Anticipations - April 17, 2012

This week I'm anticipating:

• The official end of the semester with the writing of my final exam on Wednesday
• cooking for a friend
• going shopping with another friend to help keep an eye on her two boys
• the house church gathering
• a meeting with a trusted advisor
• lots and lots and lots of nothingness!

What are you looking forward to this week?

Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 239

Today's Daily 5:

1. A quiet, creative, lazy sort of day
2. Time to sit in the sun
3. old episodes of The West Wing on dvd
4. making three different recipes from scratch (finger jello, pancakes, banana muffins)
5. getting to watch TV live instead of delayed a day online

Lazy Day

For those of you who missed it, last Thursday was my last day of classes for my first semester of nursing school.  I have an exam this coming Wednesday, but it's not too bad, and so I've been luxuriating in quiet and space.  I slowly feel myself re-emerging from the haze of school.

And now, now it's Monday.  I'm house-sitting for my folks for a couple of days, and it's lovely to have a slight break from my usual more challenging living situation.  It's also lovely to have hours on end of alone time.

And so I'm propped in bed, knowing that in a little while I'll be propped in a sunny chair, and I'm making plans for today.

My day today will include:

• just a bit of studying, to get things going for Wednesday's exam
• cooking or baking of some sort
• a short trip to the university, to wrap up my clinical placement in a 15 minute meeting with the instructor (trying not to think about the hour each way I'm going to spend on transit for that 15 minute meeting)
• maybe some bus reading (you know, since I have that time on transit, and it's sunny outside)
• a bit of creative time
• a bit of television time
• sending a few emails I've been waiting to dedicate some time to
• curling up to do some writing that has also been on hold

It pretty much sounds like an ideal day as far as I'm concerned.  Nothing too strenuous.  A lot of time for creating, resting, being still in a different way than what I've been learning about since school began.  This sort of stillness is preferable if you ask me. It doesn't teach or challenge in the same way, but it's preferable.

And so I'm off to engage this day.  And I'm smiling, because days of rest are far too rare to waste!

Daily 5 - Year 3, Days 236-238

The weekend got away from me, and so tonight I present the Daily 5 lists from the last 3 days!

Friday's Daily 5 (Day 236):

1. Sleeping in
2. A whole day without anything school related to think about
3. The feeling of knowing all school work was done
4. a last minute invitation to join a friend for an evening of music
5. an awesome grilled chicken, apple and brie sandwich, with fig compote.

Saturday's Daily 5 (Day 237):

1. Sleeping in
2. catching up on some television watching
3. two really productive hours of cleaning and prepping to be away housesitting for a couple of days
4. a long hot bath
5. an ice cream (pineapple) sundae from Dairy Queen

Today's Daily 5 (Day 238):

1. Sleeping in (do you see a weekend theme?)
2. A long hot shower (such a lovely thing since they're a bit challenging at my normal place of residence)
3. my usual Sunday morning quiet time
4. celebrating my sister-in-law to be at the first of her wedding showers
5. hanging out with my other sister-in-law to watch The Amazing Race