Friday, November 20, 2009

Daily 5 - Day 100

Day 100! Crazy.

Today's Daily 5 (or so):
  1. Friday!
  2. Jeans at work
  3. lunch with a coworker
  4. freshly washed sheets and pajamas
  5. soaking in a bathtub and watching Grey's on the internet (love having a decadent Friday evening)
  6. Chinese food for dinner
  7. wading through joy and sorrow amidst memories and yet being peaceful
  8. pampering myself tonight (clay face mask, newly painted fingernails and toenails)
  9. the smell of a freshly washed towel when I climbed out of the shower
  10. hope - hope is precious, especially in a week that has been filled with deep, hard, odd moments.

Praying...

Praying tonight, for this family.

Friday

I am VERY glad it's Friday.

I had to laugh last night. After years and years of sleep challenges, I forget what it sounds like to a "normal" person when I comment that I typically only sleep 3-5 hours a night (though I try to be horizontal for a whole lot more hours than that.) I mentioned that fact rather off-handedly to a new aquaintance, explaining my need to head home for bed, and had to smile (internally anyway) at the shock and instant concern. Yes, I'm working on solutions to the problem, but it's been a long term problem, and I'm sort of used to functioning on minimal sleep, with low energy. In any case, the response made me chuckle.

A full weekend away from the schizophrenic moods of the office is rather needed at the moment. Not that it's been a particularly bad week (or at least no worse than usual...), but just that my own week has felt intense, and dealing with my own intensity, less than usual sleep, and the schizophrenic office moods all at once can get a little wearing by the time Friday rolls around.

I am wearing jeans today, and my favorite ballet flats, and a sweater I bought in Kensington Market on my recent holiday in Toronto. The sweater is a new favorite, so cosy, and cute besides!

The list of stuff that needs to be done tonight after work is long, but mostly enjoyable. It includes things like painting my fingernails and toenails, putting a clay mask on my skin (it really does help keep me from breaking out if I do it at least weekly), and putting freshly washed sheets back on my bed. I'm going to stop by my parent's house and pick up my mail, and stop by the mall and pick up a pair of pants I left at the tailor's to be shortened. I'm going to find (or make - not sure yet) a birthday card for a friend, and I'm going to hang out and catch up on Grey's Anatomy online. And I'm going to enjoy an empty house.

Have I mentioned that I'm incredibly thankful it's Friday?

A Bit More on Waiting

Another thought on waiting arrived from Henri Nouwen in my inbox this morning...

Waiting with Patience

How do we wait for God? We wait with patience. But patience does not mean passivity. Waiting patiently is not like waiting for the bus to come, the rain to stop, or the sun to rise. It is an active waiting in which we live the present moment to the full in order to find there the signs of the One we are waiting for.

The word patience comes from the Latin verb patior which means "to suffer." Waiting patiently is suffering through the present moment, tasting it to the full, and letting the seeds that are sown in the ground on which we stand grow into strong plants. Waiting patiently always means paying attention to what is happening right before our eyes and seeing there the first rays of God's glorious coming.