Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 233

Today's Daily 5:

1. Sunrise colors
2. sympathetic and funny nursing school friends
3. finishing the first of two presentations this week
4. A new bus route (I have this secret desire to ride at least part of every bus route in the city, so a chance to take a new one is fun)
5. a super short school day, with an afternoon that was productive as I worked on the last paper of the semester
6. podcasts and audiobooks (finished a new audiobook again today - listed in the reading list tab, and loving Ian Morgan Cron's podcast lately)
7. a funky, not so urban, downtown (ish) neighborhood (Inglewood)
8. using a groupon for a fabulous deal on a truly awesome three course dinner
9. sharing a meal with my good friend E. and enjoying good conversation over food, and then the chance to pray together in her car afterwards (I came away feeling refreshed and encouraged)
10. chatting with another friend from nursing school, encouraging her as she works on a paper and laughing as she reminded me that a semester or two from now when we hit some heavy biology and pharmacology, she'll be the one reminding ME to breathe and calm down while she explains it.  The give and take of friends is an awesome thing to rest in.

Tuesday Anticipations - April 10, 2012

This week I'm anticipating:

• dinner with a good friend at a slightly fancy restaurant
• finishing up the final class requirements for the semester - two presentations and one paper to go (then one final next week)
• my friends K & G visiting our house church to share their ministry with us
• a quiet weekend at home

What are you looking forward to this week?

Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 232

Today's Daily 5:

1. Sleeping in
2. a few flowers daring to bloom
3. the first day I left the house without boots and a parka (hello ballet flats and light weight jackets!)
4. listening to an audiobook on the bus
5. a hot stone massage
6. getting a good start on my last paper of the semester
7. cuddles with two boys - two years old and two weeks old
8. sharing good food with friends
9. cake in a mug
10. curling up to head to bed nice and early

Monday Luxuries

It's 10:20 am on Monday, and I've only been awake, really awake anyway, for 20 minutes.  This is not one of those days when I managed to figure out what I would say in this space ahead of time, and wrote it, scheduled it, and then fell asleep.

Today is Monday, a day with a few little luxuries, and I've only just woken up.

A day off, and sleeping in.  Those are luxuries.

A scheduled massage appointment - finally, and much needed.  That's a luxury too.

A free afternoon, with plans to tackle homework in a leisurely sort of way.  Another luxury.

A plan to share an evening with some friends.  To bring them a meal.  To play with their two year old, and cuddle their two-week old.  To laugh and share a meal - there is something that is wonderful and holy in sharing a meal.  These are all luxuries.

Today is Monday, and it is a day full fo little luxuries, and I am thankful.

Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 231

Today's Daily 5:

1. Easter!
2. hearing the choir my brother and sister-in-law conduct sing
3. a relatively quiet afternoon puttering, doing errands, and watching The Masters on television
4. the food that always accompanies one of our extended family dinners
5. inheriting a second-hand microwave
6. really good whipped cream
7. laughing hysterically over some plans my brother has for his upcoming wedding
8. sinking into my own bed at the end of a weekend away
9. knowing that I don't have to get up in the morning
10. my neck pillow