Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 227

Today's Daily 5:

1. kicking my day off by having a fabulous conversation over tea with a friend
2. friends who are walking out and learning some of the same lessons that my heart is learning
3. a job interview that was actually almost fun (when was the last time you had a job interview where one of the questions was "what is the best compliment you've ever received?")
4. Getting the job!
5. I invited a long time friend to come and be our guest teacher at house church tonight on "hearing God's voice."  he did a great job, and the results and exercises were fabulous.

So...today...

So today:

• I'm feeling slightly revived after one of the better sleeps I've had in several weeks
• I'm spending the morning with a friend, having coffee and catching up
• I need to study Greek and Latin word bases in preparation for a quiz tomorrow
• I have a job interview
• I'm wearing a necklace that I really like
• I'm praying for house church tonight, and for the friend who I asked to come as a guest speaker/teacher for the evening.
• I'm thinking about some laughable moments that may ensue
• I'll be applying for several more jobs
• I'm hoping the sun is out (I live in a basement, and I haven't seen outside yet)
• I'm scraping through my closet, trying to find job interview appropriate clothing.  My student wardrobe consists of a lot of jeans and hoodies.  I haven't exactly used a lot of my office employee wardrobe in the last year.
• I'm thinking about how every time I do eagle pose (the arm part, more than the leg part) in a yoga class, I end up sore the next day, because it stretches and pulls the parts of my shoulders and upper back that remain tight and sensitive, over a year after the car accident that injured them.
• For the moment anyway, I'm mostly smiling

Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 226

Today's Daily 5:

1. I woke up this morning to discover that sometime in the middle of the night, my modem had decided it didn't want to support my wireless internet.  NOT good for someone who relies on internet to keep in touch with most of her closest friends.  I made an early morning call to tech support from my internet provider, and was pleasantly surprised when I got through almost immediately, was able to work with (and understand the English of!) the guy on the other end, and get it fixed, without an onsite visit (which would be, umm, challenging given the crazy living situation at Grandma's).  Hooray for good tech support!
2. Brightly colored toe nails - just a goofy thing, but catching a glimpse of my brightly painted toes did make me smile
3. I was in a drugstore to pick up dental floss before going to my yoga class tonight, and spotted Almond Joy pieces.  Almond Joy is my favorite chocolate bar, and unavailable in Canada, so the "pieces" were a shock, which I promptly purchased to go with that dental floss.  They're nowhere near as good as the actual chocolate bars, but were tasty, and did make me smile
4. I totally dragged myself to yoga tonight.  It hadn't been the easiest day, and I wasn't feeling great.  BUT, that feeling after yoga, the relaxed, I could melt and fall asleep right here on my mat on the hard floor feeling?  Totally worth it.
5. Aiming for an earlyish bedtime tonight - basically I'm shooting for lights out before midnight for the second night in a row!  That's a big deal for me!

Wednesday Randoms

I spent 40 minutes on the line with internet tech support at home this morning.  Thankfully, they were able to solve the problem.  Here's hoping it stays solved, since it definitely wasn't how I'd planned to start my day.

And now? now I'm sitting in a hallway at school, surfing job websites, catching up on some blog reading, and writing this post in which I really have very little to say.


I'm pretty tired, and I woke up with a bad headache this morning.  The drugs are kicking in and making this morning of history lectures a doable feat.  Some night soon, I imagine, I have to be able to sleep better than I have been lately.  At least I hope so.


I'm planning to go to a yoga class tonight, and looking forward to it.  But, if I don't feel a bit better by then, I'll probably go home instead.


It's been that kind of week.  A weird mixture of stuff.  Of not sleeping, and consequently not feeling all that great.  Of carving out time for rest, and ending up restless.


At least I'm getting some reading done as I sit on the bus every day.  I have rather a lot of books to get through in a short amount of time at the moment, so time on the bus to read is a very good thing.


And with that, it's almost time for class, so I'll sign off!  See you tonight for the daily 5!

Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 225

Today's Daily 5:

1. a much needed lazy morning.  sleep has been "interesting" and filled with dreams again lately, so it was nice to not have to go right from that place up and into the day, but to rest in bed a bit instead.
2. leftovers for lunch - some of my favorite pasta, a dish I hadn't made since L. left the country, until I made it for mom and dad last week
3. I finished listening to an audiobook today.  such a good way to just be in ten or twenty minute increments while I'm doing something else that doesn't require my brain.
4. sliding my feet into the cozy suede and sheepskin slippers L brought for me from New Zealand
5. bright pink toe nails (I painted them last night!)