Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 265

Today's Daily 5:

1. 1 year, 265 days of making these lists
2. a very lazy Sunday
3. Harvey's Burger's for lunch with dad
4. wearing a very pretty new scarf
5. watching the finale of The Amazing Race with a bunch of extended family and laughing at the jokes my cousin was making

Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 264

Today's Daily 5:

1. the start of something new
2. tea and walking all over downtown with a friend
3. a beautiful new scarf that I purchased using a groupon bought months ago
4. the friend I was with today was recently in the US, and brought me several Almond Joy bars.  I'd been quite looking forward to having one, and it didn't disappoint
5. watching the movie Sabrina (the Harrison Ford version) with my parents - it's one my dad and I have always loved and it was fun to watch it together over dinner and laugh at the great lines in it.  "I found myself in Paris." Love it.

Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 263

Today's Daily 5:

1. I love that anyplace there is a selection of books for sale, there is immediately the opportunity to pleasantly pass a chunk of time browsing
2. my first paid massage in probably 9 months
3. an appointment I'd been dreading that went as well as it possibly could, and was the opposite of my expectations
4. getting my grades for the semester back and having them be really good and feeling like I can actually hope that the nursing thing might actually happen this fall
5. the smell of rainy air
6. freebies - samples in the mail and via other routes today
7. a moment when I felt God whispering and reminding me to keep pursuing healing
8. lots of time to read as I rode buses to and from three separate appointments and waited for those appointments today - I started and finished a perfectly enjoyable brainless novel - just nice light reading - and it was lovely
9. food at mom and dad's
10. the promise of my favorite Almond Joy bars from a friend arriving tomorrow (Today was a day that needed chocolate and didn't have any, so this is a very sweet thing to anticipate.)
    

Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 262

Today's Daily 5:

1. An email from a newish friend tonight that made me smile with the timing of it all
2. An afternoon spent preparing for house church tonight, and thinking and praying about some things coming up in the next few days
3. reading in the bath tub
4. an email from another friend that didn't have a subject line or introduction, just a list of dates that The Bachelorette will be airing, and what country's they'll be visiting.  Now officially counting down to a summer of Monday nights filled with totally brainless entertainment and trading snarky emails with a dear friend in another country as we watch.
5. the convenience of having an iphone - I really do love my phone!

Thursday

I'm still finding myself at a loss for words.

This has been an odd sort of week as I've wrestled with some decisions.

And there are things going on in the world.

Things I have opinions about. The response to Bin Laden's death.  The Canadian election.  Thoughts about some of the reading I've been doing.

All things I've been mentally pondering and wanting to have conversations over.

But they're the kinds of things that just don't seem right for discussion in writing in a public forum.  They're the kinds of things that require a cup of tea and being able to see facial expressions and hear vocal tones.

Tomorrow is a rather pivotal day for me.  The center of some decisions and wrestling.  I'm hoping that after tomorrow the distractions will be less prevalent, and there will be things to share again.  Things to write about and rant about and laugh at and muse on over a cup of tea.

In the meantime, I could definitely use your prayers again over the next couple of days.