Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 25

Today's Daily 5:

1. Sleeping in
2. a library trip that resulted in picking up some books I'd been waiting for for quite a while
3. a day that was both productive and restful
4. watching episodes of Frasier on DVD and laughing, hard.
5. a long catch-up by phone with a good friend.  such a good way to wrap up a day.

Saturday Stuff

It's late on Saturday morning, and I'm pondering the things that need to be done in the day ahead...

• I have a bunch of correspondence to catch up on
• I need to hunt down some information on tickets to a show I'm hoping to catch with a friend
• I'm playing with this website that I recently discovered - fun and easy way to create some abstract art.
• I'm heading out to the library shortly.  Some books I requested have arrived, and I have a bunch to return as well.
• I'm pondering some reading that I absolutely have to get done
• and some writing
• And I'm thinking about doing a bit of baking or cooking.  Maybe muffins for my breakfasts for the week ahead, or some meals to freeze for lunches for the same reason.
• I'm laughing over the fact that yesterday I bought my first pack of cigarettes.  No, not for me.  For my boss.  It was a calculated thing.  She asked if I would be willing to run out and get them for her, and where normally I would have said no, because of my rather strong objections to smoking and tobacco, I said yes, because she was clearly in need of a smoke, was super busy and stressed, I didn't really have anything else to do, and I knew my experience of the day was going to go better if she had cigarettes.  Crazy huh?  (I also only agreed because she told me it absolutely wasn't mandatory, and after making it clear that this was not something I'd do on any kind of regular basis for her.)  The whole thing still kind of makes me laugh and roll my eyes and wonder just a little about how I handled it, but, given the day that we were having at the office, I feel like it was a decision that I'm okay with.
• I'm considering the fact that I need to run to my favorite clothing store tomorrow, because they're having a customer appreciation sale, and I could really use a couple new tops for work.
• Mostly, I'm sitting here, aware of all the things that need to be done, but thankful that it's the weekend, and I can do them at a much less hurried pace than weekdays demand.

Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 24

Today's Daily 5:

1. spotting a statue, normally nude, (one of the rather well known giant ones by the CBE building), that someone had dressed.  I noticed from the bus, and it totally made me laugh out loud.  It looked like it was wearing a rasta wig!
2. Friday!
3. a mango smoothie for breakfast
4. wearing jeans at the office
5. that moment on Friday when you turn off your alarm clock, and know it's off for the whole weekend
6. a compliment from a tiny, elderly cleaning lady who I shared an elevator with for two floors.  She told me I was very beautiful.  (At the time I was sweaty from running an errand on foot in the heat, midway through a busy and stressful afternoon, and feeling totally discombobulated.)  It made me smile, because she looked me in the eyes, pausing as she disembarked the elevator, and stopped to tell me.
7. good bus connections to get home
8. hanging out with a friend I've known since high school, for dinner and drinks, and then a bit of book shopping
9. sharing a sarcastic sense of humor with her, especially as we commented about the obviously quite new, and fairly incompetent server who waited on us tonight
10. bookstore browsing while continuing a never-ending conversation. (and hello - got the special edition Peanuts Moleskins, which I've been eyeing, for 50% off!)
11. Just now as I was writing this list my dad knocked on my door and asked if I wanted to see the Northern Lights.  Seeing them is incredible, even when you're in the middle of a city with all it's ambient light.

In between...

In between a thousand and one little things and commitments this week, I'm:

• thankful for some tiny answers to prayer
• offering up prayers for some acquaintances whose newly adopted 2.5 year old daughter was diagnosed with leukemia this week
• recognizing that working means I don't have the time I used to have, and sorting out what will be a priority, and what might be scrapped all together
• trying to take more time for private journaling
• fitting in reading in fits and starts, mostly while commuting from place to place
• paring down the blogs in my google reader, and setting up a folder system there - no more subscribing just because you had one good post, I don't have time to read through it all anymore... and some are going into a folder for consumption on weekends, when I have time, only...
• trying to sort out times and spaces for stealing just a bit of quiet

Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 23

Today's Daily 5:

1. tiny answers to prayer
2. the joy of sharing food
3. taking time to sit on the floor and really play with a puppy
4. a challenging appointment
5. sharing communion, lives, laughter, and the study of scripture with dear friends at house church