Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 221

Today's Daily 5:

1. The comfort of my own pillow.  I sleep in a fabulously comfortable bed the nights I stay at mom and dad's, but there is just something so great about having your own pillow.
2. A new system with the university library catalogue where you can hit a button and have the call number for the book you need texted to your phone.  You can even include which floor of the library it is that you'll have to hunt on to find that call number (essential since the building has 9 floors.)
3. A cancelled class in the midst of a very full day.  The second day in a row where I've had about an hour or so of much needed, very unexpected breathing space
4. the satisfaction of marking even just a few very small things off of lists
5. I hate the cold, but we had a hoar frost overnight that turned trees and bushes and chainlink fences into beautiful white lacy things.
6. those moments when tears are cathartic instead of just painful
7. a steak sandwich
8. spending the evening with my friend J, from high school.
9. laughing as we read goofy quotes outloud to each other from these fabulous journals we discovered in Chapters tonight
10. a funny and timely fortune in a fortune cookie.

Cuddling a Baby

My dear friends A and B welcomed their daughter (Baby N) to the world early in January, and yesterday I finally managed to spend some time with A and get to meet N.

She's adorable!  She has her momma's latina head of lots of dark hair, and olive complexion, and her daddy's blue eyes, which make for a surprising and striking combination.  I think this little one is going to be a knock-out when she gets older!

A and I spent several hours visiting, catching up and chatting about how the last time I saw her, mommy-hood hadn't arrived and now, now she's a mommy!  We talked about everything and anything, and interspersed it with cuddling N, and cooking (A is Colombian and taught me how to make a sort of corn cake called arepas that's a traditional Colombian dish).

So, this is me, cuddling N.