Daily 5 - Day 164

Today's Daily 5:

1. Had a treatment this morning - hopeful that means I'll start feeling more like myself again in the next day or two.
2. Appreciated the love in my mom's eyes as I admitted some lingering irrational fears while we were doing errands together.  The love and the knowledge that she knows what it is like to have to face those fears.
3. Appreciated a conversation with a dear friend this morning too.  The words stung, but they will resonate, and help to shape my heart, and that is something that these days I find a blessing, albeit a painful one.
4. Thankful to have gotten the grocery shopping for next week done today - means I can simply be at home most evenings next week.
5. Spent a few hours clipping from magazines and listening to some podcasted radio interviews that I had a backlog of - still amazed at which things are catching my eye to clip.
6. Took a garbage bag of clothes I no longer wear to the thrift store today
7. Hamburgers and a really great Asian salad for lunch
8. Lavender in my oil burner
9. Holing up in my bedroom for the last 6 hours or so, and simply being
10. Got the budget updated - it's tight this month, but I'm going to manage to stay within it.
    

Alive, After 11 Days

Rescuers pulled a man, alive, from the rubble in Haiti today, 11 days after the earthquake.

The Call of Christ - Danita Estrella

I saw this on a friend's blog, and found the words of it stunning, and decided I really needed to share it here as well.

Saturday

At about 4:00 I curled up in my bedroom.

The plan is to be here for the rest of the day.

To deal with some budgeting and paperwork.

To read.

To write.

To pray.

To rest.

The day was full. 

A health appointment this morning with my natural health practioner.

Then errands for a while with my mom.

Then home, a quick lunch, and the spur of the moment decision to grocery shop for the week to come with my roommate.  That decision was made because I'm trying to jealously guard my free evenings in the coming week, to guard the margin space, the time for rest that I've created.  I didn't want to give up one of those evenings to a task so odious as grocery shopping at the soul-sucking mega store.

So I'm sitting here, curled up, sipping a lemon-mango fruit infusion tea, and smelling lavender burning in my oil burner.

And this is where I plan to stay, emerging only very occasionally, until bedtime.

And tonight I'm hoping for sleep, because tomorrow will also be full.

I'll be back later with the daily 5, and maybe one or two other posts as well.  See ya then!

Daily 5 - Day 163

Today's Daily 5:

1. Friday. 
2. Jeans at work.
3. Clean pajamas and sheets to crawl into at the end of the day
4. Did my hair curly for going out tonight.  Even got a compliment from my brother.  Was nice to feel like I looked pretty, even though what I was really feeling was complete emotional and physical exhaustion.
5. Got a great text message today.
6. Have an alternative living plan sort of in place (needs some refining) if I end up not finding a roommate and needing to move.
7. Enjoyed being with my family tonight
8. Collected lots of hugs.
9. Big family milestone moment
10. loving the glass water bottle I purchased this week.
11. (Bonus!) Hamburger for supper - but homemade.