Daily 5 - Day 192

Today's Daily 5:

1. Got a big load of stuff (including all my books) moved to Grandma's house this morning thanks to help from my dad.
2. Choosing to be a bit honest as I continue to explore how I'm feeling about this transition of moving
3. Cooked dinner for mom, dad, T & L, and my aunt tonight.  It's fun to cook for others, and it's nice when the meal wins rave reviews.
4. Got a treatment from mom and my aunt - hopefully that'll help with the soreness a bit.
5. First iced passion tea lemonade from starbucks since they switched to whole leaf tea.  I tried the new version of hot passion tea a while back and definitely didn't like it - plus the price went up quite a bit.  But, I was very pleasantly surprised today to discover that the iced passion tea lemonade still tastes the same!
6. Laughed with my dad as I discovered the the starbucks abbreviation for my aforementioned drink of choice, scribbled on the cup in sharpie is "PTL" - that made me laugh.  Such a bad, inside, "christiany" joke, but it did make me smile.
7. Watched the end of the Canadian men's curling match with Great Britain tonight - love that Canada is still undefeated.  Plus, I really like watching curling.
8. Also saw the medal ceremony for the Canadian who won gold last night in the skeleton.  I'm so not very patriotic at all, but every time I see a Canadian athlete on that podium, excited to receive that medal, and hear our anthem play, I totally want to cry.
9. Enjoyed an Almond Joy bar tonight.  I've been savoring some that were sent to me as a gift, and tonight it hit the spot just perfectly.  Thanks LP/CA!
10. Got caught up on the Lenten reading I'd fallen a bit behind on.

Late Afternoon

It's late afternoon and I'm sitting at my parent's house.

Turns out I really didn't do much of the work I'd hoped to do this afternoon.  Mostly I lounged, feeling slightly grumpy about the fact that my whole body hurts at the moment.

Also feeling a little sorry for myself.

I really need to write a post here about the upcoming move.  It would make my current mess of emotions so much clearer.

Instead of that, though, I'm sitting here feeling sorry for myself.

Berating myself just slightly because I just realized that only a few days into Lent I'm already behind on the Lenten readings I'm doing this year, because I'm so out of the habit of making that daily quiet that last night, after packing all those books, I simply forgot to do the readings.  And it's not like I'm doing much for Lent.  Maybe I'm even feeling sorry for the loss of the self that could fast.  Is it possible that I miss that starvation diet I existed on for so long?

Time to snap out of it.  I need to start cooking.  (I'm making a recipe for mom and dad and company that was the fourth new recipe I've tried so far this year - couscous stuffed peppers.)

So, I'm mentally formulating the beginnings of today's "daily 5" and getting up off the couch, ignoring my achy muscles, and going to make food for people who I know will appreciate it. 

Moving Again

I managed to pack almost all of my books last night.  The only ones left unpacked are the ones I'll be using in the next week or so.

My dad is coming in about 45 minutes to help me move another large load to Grandma's house.

Then I'll be taking my laptop to my parent's house, and working on a bunch of stuff that needs to be accomplished there, while watching olympics today on their big screen television.

And then they're cashing in on part of their Christmas gift, and I'm making dinner there tonight.

So today is about moving again, and all the sundry details of life.

I'll be glad for a day spent crashed on the couch working quietly (post moving of course).  My body is still really sore.  It'll be nice to sit and rest a little.