Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 69

Today's Daily 5:

1. 3400 blog posts.  That's right.  Over the last five and a bit years, I've showed up here 3400 times.  Very cool.
2. Some reminders of truth late last night from a friend that I hung onto today as I walked some things out.
3. Laughing as I came out of an appointment this afternoon and discovered a text message with what is becoming a semi-daily random fact from a friend.
4. Laughing harder as the text message has been followed up with a number of ridiculous emails including more random facts
5. peanut m&m's
6. seeing God's hand in some little details I wouldn't have paused to consider, but found so very encouraging as I journey
7. my favorite country singer was the preacher at a local church tonight, and I had the chance to go hear him.  It was great to hear him share genuinely the things God has been sharing with him lately.  and very fun to get to hear him sing a relatively new song that he'd written in response to an overseas trip as well.
8. I loved this post from Allie Dearest today... I so know this place and it encouraged me to read the words of someone else describing it.
9. taking a brief break, and staying at mom and dad's tonight, in the midst of a busy weekend
10. finding reasons to laugh, and choosing joy, amidst exhaustion.

Too Funny

I came across this list of books that maybe shouldn't have been published today, and had to laugh.

Do you have any brilliant additions to the list?

On the bus

I seem to spend half my life these days on city transit, and today is no exception!

Given how much time I spend on the bus, I thought it was time to get an app for my iPhone that would let me blog easily while I'm traveling around the city.

This is it! The first post written on my phone! Hurrah for technology!


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Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 68

Today's Daily 5:

1. A smooth job interview again this morning
2. watching the latest episode of Grey's Anatomy
3. taking a short nap this afternoon
4. scrambled eggs with ham and cheese for lunch (heavy on the ham and cheese, light on the egg - I like my eggs better when you can't taste them or experience their texture)
5. meeting a good friend and her daughter for dinner at The Old Spaghetti Factory
6. Mizithra at Old Spaghetti Factory (and leftovers for lunch tomorrow!)
7. sales on some things I needed at the grocery store tonight
8. being at home, in my own bed
9. the continuation of semi-daily random facts by text message that make me laugh again at the interesting people I know and the places they love
10. curling up under thick blankets

Linking Up

It's been a while since I've done a post sending you elsewhere, but today I'm going to.  Check out some of these posts, and then come back and tell me what you think, or leave a link for something fabulous that you've read recently.

Olfactory Girl Cartoon at Doghouse Diaries


Rent Free Headspace at Dana's Blog

Boobies (Seriously, check out this guy's thoughts on a recent bracelet trend that's been popping up)

Where are the Miracles? at Mandy Thompson's blog.  I loved the questions Mandy asked.  Especially this week, when I've been asking quite a few questions myself.  In a week where I attended a funeral where we were invited to practice Jesus' command to "raise the dead", I'm wondering again about where the miracles are.

Living Proof Video - Good stuff from the One Campaign.

Okay, those are some of the ones I came across today.  What have you been reading and what would you recommend?