Daily 5 - Year 4, Day 26

Today's Daily 5:

1. That my watch didn't die in the middle of the night, but waited until after the alarm woke me to finally kick the bucket
2. getting home safely from work after a crazy incident in which the bus I was taking was hit in a hit and run accident
3. doing all the necessary food prep and chopping to make healthy meals easy to prepare this week
4. a nice long walk outside as a study break
5. curling up into the softness of my new mattress to sleep for the night

Daily 5 - Year 4, Day 25

Today's Daily 5:

1. Breakfast at Diner Deluxe with some wonderful out of town friends that I don't get to see nearly enough
2. a quiet afternoon at home, spent curled up on my soft new bed, tackling a stack of homework
3. finishing up the last of my errands for the week, so that other than work, tomorrow can be devoted to home stuff, and homework, and rest
4. laughing with a random stranger in line behind me, and the cashier at the grocery store (a highlight since it was at the soul-sucking megastore that I only shop at because it has the cheapest prices)
5. texting back and forth with several dear friends, all of whom live entirely too far away for me to be happy about it!

Daily 5 - Year 4, Days 23 & 24

Yesterday's Daily 5:

1. discovering that for the first time in this program, the lecturers are really great (mostly anyway) this semester
2. an early morning moon
3. waking with a worship song playing in my mind
4. tropical green tea and a scone from Good Earth Cafe
5. Vietnamese take out for lunch
6. plug-ins for my laptop in all the lecture halls this semester
7. a lunch break yoga class
8. drunken pork chops for dinner (so thankful for the friend who made these)
9. little boy smiles, cuddles and hugs goodbye (even when they're dinosaur hugs!)
10. bread and cheese for house church snacks.  is there anything in the world quite so good?

Today's Daily 5:

1. skype date with H
2. getting a new mattress delivered
3. mom loaning me the car so I could accomplish a marathon length errand list more quickly
4. new phone!  iPhone 4S! super excited for a phone that runs much more quickly
5. crawling in between freshly washed sheets, wearing freshly washed pajamas, and enjoying the beauty of my new mattress and pillows!

Daily 5 - Year 4, Days 21 & 22

Yesterday's Daily 5:

1. A quiet morning to prepare for the beginning of clinical
2. a smooth commute and attempt at finding the unit I'm assigned to this semester
3. surviving my first ever shift in a hospital
4. a long hot shower at mom and dad's before coming home at the end of the night
5. raspberry and white chocolate scones, baked in my toaster oven

Today's Daily 5:

1. the tasty, simple and healthy lunch I prepared before I headed off to the hospital
2. first hospital shift paired with a nurse (this nursing thing finally feels kind of real)
3. a really great nurse to work with for my shift
4. mom and dad loaning me a car to get home easily at the end of a long day
5. that I don't have to make the transit commute through sketchy neighborhoods alone - hurrah for other students who get to the hospital on the train!

Daily 5 - Year 4, Day 20

Today's Daily 5:

1. flocks of starlings overhead, readying for migration
2. My TOMS for comfort
3. a pretty scarf
4. that it was at least daylight when I left for school
5. settling back into my commuting routine with one of Christianne's Sunday Cup of Quiet lectios
6. being greeted with a hug by a school friend
7. a welcome back pancake breakfast put on for free by the nursing faculty
8. surviving the first day of classes
9. the chance to attend a worship gathering hosted by a friend of mine on campus at lunch on Mondays
10. heading out for Ethiopian food for dinner with a friend and catching up on the month since our classes ended and we saw each other last.