Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 3

Today's Daily 5:

1. A job offer from my temp agency that will provide financial and personal stability for the next several months
2. laughing over a ridiculous purchase I made today with friends on twitter (and in person with one as well)
3. sunshine
4. a zoo trip
5. watching a child laugh and experience the joys of simple things
6. visiting the gorillas
7. a friend who shares my sarcastic sense of humor
8. reading in a bubble bath
9. potatoes cooked on the BBQ
10. laughing at my dad's distaste when he discovered that a chocolate bar he'd been given and was looking forward to contained dried fruit.  He was so disgusted and wanted to know why anyone would wreck good milk chocolate with dried fruit!  I believe his actual words were, "It's like biting into chocolate flavored rubber!"  He found a way to add it to every conversation all evening and it totally cracked me up!

Friday Jumble

It's Friday, and in the midst of a week where I'm still mostly embracing quiet, I'm not quite sure what to say.  My thoughts are jumbled, and bullet pointed today, going in every which direction...

• I'm making a bookstore stop today... there are a couple of books I've been asked to read that I need to pick up and get started on this weekend
• I'm spending the afternoon at the zoo with a friend and her daughter... looking forward to the exercise of walking and wandering, and the time talking and chatting
• I'm also looking forward to seeing the gorillas.  I spent a long time talking with someone yesterday about the things I love about the gorillas, and then we talked about how those things reflect in my life.  After that conversation, I'm ready to see "my" gorillas again
• I'm pondering work thoughts and life thoughts
• It was one of those nights where my dreams stayed with me - I dreamt a lot about my feelings about being a pastor's kid, an odd thing, since it's not one I think about regularly these days.  Feelings and expectations that surprised me deeply surfaced in the midst of this particular dream...
• I'm feeling tired today... drained by some intense conversations from yesterday, by their ramifications, by the night of dreaming...
• Besides the gorillas, I look forward to peacocks, and anteaters, and watching children in the play park, laughing
• more and more, I find the laughter of children to be a sort of therapy for my soul... a salve on achy places...

and with that, it's probably time for me to think about crawling out of my reclined and comfy position and start tackling the things I need to do before the bookstore and the zoo... see you tonight for the daily 5!