Whimsical Wednesday, March 28, 2012

As the semester drags on, group work is increasingly bringing out my reflex for sarcasm.  I'm trying actively to filter it, but sometimes it just slips through.  The impulse to find a way to laugh instead of cry, even if it's a bit dark and twisty (oh I love me some Meredith and Cristina dark and twistyness!) is a strong one.  Some of that shows today.  And some of today is about finding happy places to mentally retreat to, or embracing truths that bolster my heart when it's flagging.

As always, I'd love to hear your response to any (or all!) of these images!

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Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 219

Today's Daily 5:

1. Friends who sympathize
2. a really good salad for lunch (definitely going to be a repeat!)
3. the funny vision of my classmates standing in a room wearing gowns, hair coverings, masks and gloves
4. taking out a bit of frustration while painting a wall at my brother and sister in law's new house
5. a ranting session that was much needed and ended in laughter
6. finishing touches on a project I am super glad to have completed and out of my hair
7. picking out music to put on a CD for a friend
8. a pinterest success - 1-2-3 Cake in a Mug!  So tasty, and just what I needed after a fairly challenging day
9. supportive family
10. friends who check in when I'm sounding down

Tuesday Anticipations, March 27, 2012

This week I'm anticipating:

• New episodes of a couple of my favorite television shows (and having enough time to watch them!)
• A house church leader's meeting (and free supper!)
• the news that a new little guy has entered the world
• gathering with house church to study Romans chapter 4
• seeing the joy on the faces of my brother and sister-in-law when we move them into the house they purchased and have been doing major renovations on
• taking some time to write and journal and process the events of the last week
• my weekly dose of Friday evening and Sunday morning sabbath time

What are you anticipating this week?

Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 218

Today's Daily 5:

1. awareness of my body
2. lunch with a friend
3. feeling like I finally made progress on a long school project
4. walking outside (even in the snowy rain we had today)
5. Big mugs of Moroccan Pomegranate Rooibos tea
6. Watching an episode of The Amazing Race, seeing other cultures, and laughing at some of the culture shock
7. sweat pants and a hoodie
8. fresh veggies for supper
9. hot crossed buns
10. word games on my iphone

Homework and tea

It's 2:00 or so, and I'm curled up with a mug of tea, and about to tackle the seemingly never ending task of creating a concept map of the risk factors of child abuse.

I'd have written a nice long post (I had one brewing all weekend) for this morning, but my evening was swallowed up by this concept map project last night, until I finally threw in the towel around midnight.  And so today you can listen to me tell you that I was over lunch of the value of good conversation and friends.

I've been thinking a lot about life stages since school started and I suddenly found myself in a fishbowl of groupwork with a random assortment of mostly quite a bit younger students.  And so lunch today with a friend my age, in similar stage of life, was lovely.

And now I'm home, and I've tackled a couple of quick and necessary emails, found a big bottle of water, and huge mug of Morrocan pomegranate rooibos tea, and I'm going to let myself once again be swallowed whole by the demands of homework.  But it will be a swallowing in which I'm fortified by a hug, and an hour or so of wonderful conversation over Vietnamese sub sandwiches.  And, once the swallowing has ended for the day, I have some lovely posts for this week brewing, and intend to write them down!