Month: March 2015

DianaK

Appreciations Year Three: Day 223

Bright sunshine, mild weather, time to go for walks and soak it in.

Looking forward to plans with friends. I love having my future scattered with so much fun and love. ❤

Helpful people who do stuff I don’t know how (and don’t want to learn how) to do. Hooray!

March desktop Changing my desktop background image to something fresh and new and pretty.

Coffee that is exactly the right temperature.

All the different birds in my neighborhood. I love listening to all the different chirpy chirps and twitterings.

March appreciationsThis month’s rainbow appreciation spreadsheet. Maybe April will be all blues and purples and greens. So much fun to be had! 

Shoulder rubs, thunderstorms, ukes, violets, waterfalls.

DianaK

Appreciations Year Three: Day 222

Day 222. Hahaha! I love that.

My strangely relaxing ride with Alison yesterday. 😉

Super fun rehearsal for musical improv. Oh yeah — the marriage of my two loves. Geek heaven.

Running errands today – so super fast and efficient. Crazy!

Alison, who just cracks me up and brightens up my life. How’s your hammy, friend? Bwahahaha!

Glitter markers, hugs, real smiles that go all the way to the eyes, good news, computer sounds, buds on my lilac, bacon, my glasses, the smell and feel of a freshly laundered pillow case at the end of a long day.

DianaK

Appreciations Year Three: Day 221

Cloudy, it-might-rain mornings. How different these clouds feel from I’m-not-gonna-rain-just-gonna-hang-out clouds.

Weekend mornings with so many fun choices.

Feeling like most of my choices are pretty fun, including housework, projects, work, cuddling up with the cats, daydreaming.

Looking forward to more improv today!

Finding things: finding time, finding energy, finding money, finding space, finding happiness, and, of course, Finding Nemo.

DianaK

Appreciations Year Three: Day 220

Sunshine that sticks around all day. How sunny my mood is on days like this! happy-happy-frog

Working on projects I enjoy. Did I mention how much I like my job?! 😉

Hang out time with Sarah and Ida. Oooooh all the smiles and giggles and squeals and happy sounds… some from me, some from Ida. 🙂

Things getting better and easier the more I expect them to be better and easier.

Slip-on shoes, kangaroos, happy news, thoughts I choose, a restful snooze, good tattoos, Choses qui m’amuse. Accidental-then-on-purpose rhyming… in 2 languages.

DianaK

Appreciations Year Three: Day 219

Waking up just as the sun crested the horizon and filled my office with a blaze of light. Gorgeous!

wild rice chicken cashew spinachLast night’s dinner. For you “normal” people who actually cook, this would probably be underwhelming, but for someone like me (who never, ever cooks anything more complex than eggs or toast), a spinach-onion-chicken-cashew-wild rice thingy is pretty freaking awesome. 🙂

Finding this funny little video in my inbox from Katie. (https://youtu.be/8hqdnP5r8JU) My kids take such good care of me. 😉

Looking forward to a little Ruby time today. Hooray!

The smell of sawdust and the memory of being so excited by the possibilities presented by all the tools in my dad’s workshop, the sound of waves washing over the shore and pulling all the little pebbles back with them, word games, puns, penguins, salt, double rainbows.

DianaK

Appreciations Year Three: Day 218

Little game of peekaboo with the sun today. peekaboo-sun  There it is! Wait – no. Yes. No! Doh!

The sun settling on being out at last. Hooray!

finished slipperOne completed slipper. Time to start on the next one!

Sticky notes in rainbow colors.

Liking my clients and my work so so so much. How lucky I am.

Looking forward to weekend social plans. Friend time. Hooray!

Cheetahs, trees, gluten-free pasta that doesn’t fall apart, rows and rows of tulips, the smell of freshly ground coffee, laughing so hard my eyes water, the fact that my todo list says resume work, meaning work on my résumé, but looks like it is just time to go back to work.

DianaK

Appreciations Year Three: Day 217

Meetings that go really, really well.

More fun with license plate words (pry guy net new hum due hat hug eve). Suddenly doing errands is so much more fun.

The word “cloudy” starting at 1:34 of this video (https://youtu.be/oGB1VYqxPEM). It makes me giggle and say the word over and over trying to get it just right. It will probably not affect you the same way….

A forecast that includes 66º. Woohoo!

David, for lending me his tablet to read the awesome awesome kindle book Pam gave me. What nice friends I have. ❤

Winnie the Pooh, neatly stacked books, petrichor (both the scent and the word — and the fact that there IS a word for it!), fingernail clippers, paper, tasty rice.

DianaK

Appreciations Year Three: Day 216

I am ready for some good news. What is good in your life right now??

Here’s some stuff I appreciate…

The sun! Hello beautiful. What a gorgeous start to the day.

Perfectly ripe pears.

My excellent variety of writing instruments, since I never know if it’s gonna be a green pilot ultra-fine point or a crayola glitter marker kinda day. 😉

Lavender, beaches, new books, old books, sunglasses, toe rings, tree frogs, tire swings.

Gray-Tree-Frogwww

DianaK

Appreciations Year Three: Day 215

The recent spate of car license plates I’ve seen that have words on them – it’s been about a dozen in the last 2 days. And I haven’t been out and about that much! I can’t remember all of them, but words included elm, ply, dad, due, pup, key, rev, mud. I find it hilarious that I’ve taught my brain to get so happy about such mundane things. Good work, brain. 😉

The fact that I almost never have insomnia.

IMG_2786My cuddly kitty neck wrap warmer thingy. Perfect for those “huh, I guess I slept in the same weirdly uncomfortable position all last night” mornings. 😛

The north woods, my neighborhood, sidewalk chalk drawings, pretty white (soon to melt) snow, word games, maple syrup, traditions.

What is something surprising that has delighted you recently?

DianaK

Appreciations Year Three: Day 214

Finally getting some work done on a project that’s been hard to dig in to.

A wonderful rehearsal with the funny and fabulous Alison. So. Fun!

Avoiding one project by doing another. Hahaha! Hello newly organized desk drawers. 🙂

Okay, I can’t actually believe I am including this….but that snow sure is pretty. ❄ ❄ ❄ ❄ ❄

Rose quartz, striped socks, clean towels, raspberries, the sound of laughter, lilies of the valley, snark.