Daily 5 - Day 321

Today's Daily 5:

1. A good conversation tonight with my brother J. while he worked on building a retaining wall at my parent's house.  The time was that we couldn't be in the same room with each other without fighting, and if I'm being honest, he's the one who's made the effort to patch things up between us.  In any case, conversations like the one we had tonight make me grateful for healing of relationships.
2. cookies I picked up at the grocery store the other night.  so good to have a sweet snack on a study break.
3. thankful for a mellow week
4. thankful that I kind of even understood the stats concepts I studied today (this is not always the case!)
5. loving that I'm eating at my parent's these days (and that they're letting me).  We're eating way better food than I generally cook for myself, simply because it's easier to shop and cook for three or more people than it is for one.  More variety, and nicer cuts of meat are making me a happy lady.  Tonight was grilled chicken salad for supper.  So good.

Mellow Week

I'm having a kind of mellow week, and it's a nice change.

Studying is slower.  I'm moving slowly forward in Stats, but anatomy is at a place where I'm simply reviewing, waiting for the official start date so that I can submit the first assignment, take the first quiz, and write the first midterm.

My evenings have been slow and mellow, too.  Full of time sprawled on my bed, reading or playing a game online.  And full of time spent listening to worship services and teaching from various churches online or by podcast.

It's a nice change of pace, since I know that next week things will kick into crazyness again.  But for this week, I'm loving the slower, more mellow pace.  Especially given the crazy internal stuff that went on last week in particular.  It's nice to simply feel quieter, inside and out.