Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 245

Today's Daily 5:

1. sleeping late
2. yoga pants
3. a Jack Johnson soundtrack as I cleaned
4. going through boxes and finding the kitchen implements and appliances that will let me live a bit more "normally" in the midst of the crazy
5. picking out a couple new recipes to try out
6. exercising body, soul, and mind all at once while walking to do a couple of errands (including groceries) and listening to a great sermon from Shawn Bolz.  "Chocolate is the single person's sex!" Bet that's the first time that's ever been said in a sermon! Love it! 
7. Tackling several tasks that have been nagging for the last few months
8. sitting and spending a bit of time in creative pursuits
9. the thrill of a clean living space
10. simple, healthy food today
11. Sun!  It was 25 C today - summer weather!  Hooray! I might just break out the flip flops if it's like that again tomorrow!

Luxuriating

I am luxuriating in the time off from school that I'm currently enjoying.

Yes, I'm tackling to do lists and projects, but I'm doing them in stillness, and at a pace that really works for me. (Yes, stillness, my word for the year is Still, so it's nice to embrace it in this way, instead of hunting for it amidst busy chaos.)

I stayed up way too late last night, puttering and reading online.

I slept in way too long this morning, making up for the staying up late.

But it's lovely.

And today I'm tackling little things - resume updating, menu planning, blog post writing.

I'm going to read and respond to comments on last week's post about the body and food.

I'm going to go through some boxes to see if I can locate the vegetable steamer and crockpot that have been in storage for two years, to make my living situation more flexible, and allow me to have a bit more creativity in meal planning.

I'm going to clean off my desk which has been the dumping spot for the detritus of the last couple weeks.

I'm going to knit.

I'm going to watch last night's episode of The Amazing Race (even though it makes the travel bug within me ache painfully) and vicariously enjoy the travels of other people.

I'm might go for a walk, or do a yoga video.

Basically, I'm going to luxuriate, and I think it's going to be amazing.

Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 244

Today's Daily 5:

1. A super slow morning
2. lunch with my family
3. fresh blackberries
4. string cheese
5. hanging out at home in a low key way

Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 243

Today's Daily 5:

1. 7 years of blogging
2. sitting in a sun drenched car, reading a book while I waited for someone
3. breakfast at a great local place, with a good friend, and talking nursing and nursing school
4. the news that a friend had given birth to her second daughter
5. getting voting in the provincial election out of the way by going to the advance polls, effectively giving me a day off on Monday.

7 Years Old

Today marks my 7th anniversary of blogging.

I still can't quite believe that something I signed up for as a whim has become an integral part of my life.

A friend was doing tsunami relief overseas, and I wanted to comment on his posts, but couldn't without an account of my own.  On a whim I decided that blogging might be fun, and I've been writing in this space ever since.

Crazy.

I've flown to a different country to meet someone because of my blog.  I've hugged the necks of several different people that I had never met in person before they showed up to meet me in a coffee shop.  I've skyped with others, and facebooked or emailed with still others.  I've made friends.

There has been a little community of friends and readers all over the world that has collected in this space, and it still astonishes me that anyone at all cares what I have to say in this space, much less wants to talk back!

This has been an outlet for healing, and sometimes it's been a place I hid from.  But mostly it's been the space that's mine.  One of the spaces where I can be the most "me" of anywhere in my life.  And that's what I love about it.

7 years.

Crazy.

I've been hearing that blogging is dead, but I'm pretty sure I'm just getting started!