Random Thursday Thoughts

I’m sitting at my desk and sipping tea, contemplating eating the blueberry yogurt granola bar that’s sitting on my desk.

My boss took the opportunity yesterday to declare today a “casual day.” The chance to wear jeans to work today was quite literally the motivator to get me out of bed this morning!

I love taking the train with my brother, T. on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. We’re close, and this time is ours, to chat, to catch up on life, to enjoy for twenty minutes or so, each others company. This morning we talked about the fact that we would both like to get away from Calgary for a bit this summer. We’ve been batting around the idea of taking a week and going someplace together, but agreed this morning that even if that doesn’t work out, we’d at least go somewhere, pretty much anywhere, really, for a few weekends here and there. That made me happy. It made me think about warmth, and summer, which has been a hard thought to summon over this last, nasty, cold and snowy week.

I’ve been thinking about lament lately… I’ll have to write a longer post on that sometime soon.

Been thinking, too, about the sense of quietness within me, how new that still feels… but that, too, is the subject of a much longer post.

I’m off for the next four days after today. Good Friday and Easter Monday are stat holidays for my company, and I’m glad. I can really use the long weekend after working for a chunk of last weekend, and all the stress that lead up to getting ready for last weekend’s conference.

I’m kicking off the weekend by having dinner and seeing a movie with Megs tonight. Can’t wait!

And then, tomorrow, I’ve got the Tenebrae service in the morning, and plans to head for the mountains for a few hours at least in the afternoon. I do love the relaxing quality of time in the mountains, out of reach of the city.