Bananas. Brevity. Bedtime. 😀
(And alliteration!)
Month: December 2015
Appreciations 4.112
More fun with drawing. What a nice way to relax!
Planning more fun plans, looking forward to fun plans, executing fun plans. All the plans!
Decorating the house and trees with the kids. And Toby. 😛 
Appreciations 4.111
The wonder of both an appreciation practice and spreadsheets. It’s an amazing thing to sit down to write the day’s appreciations and to be treated to whatever was wonderful about the same day last year. 
Listening to my kids sing and make music. One of the sweetest sounds on the planet.
The fascinating way that life is sprinkled with challenges, opportunities for growth, beauty, fun, and love all at the same time. It really is all there, all the time. Hmmm.
Appreciations 4.110
The strange feeling of a run of days during which my sunny feels funny. 😉 I used to get pretty fussed about things pretty often and don’t so much these days. And to be clear, I’m not really fussed about things – or even about these moody days – just noticing it and feeling curious.
Two thoughts spring immediately to mind. One, I am more prone to my sparkle going darkle when I am tired and feeling unwell. Sleep is a bigger deal mood-wise than it was when my health was excellent. That is a good thing to know because I do have some means of adjusting that. The second thing I notice is how lovely it is that having a couple down days in a row is now a noteworthy event. There was a time when it would have been somewhat unremarkable. No more. I call that lucky! 😀
A rare encounter with an audibly purring Toby. Cuddle cats are good!
This sweet holiday check list, sent to me a while back by one of my beautiful clients. I love it!
Appreciations 4.109 – change
Woke up this morning having not slept very well, and found that as Pam says, “my cheery was weary” — meaning I was feeling a little more cranky/anxious/depressed than usual. So I did my day, noticing this, but not being overly concerned. So what do I appreciate about that? It gave me the chance to super appreciate my brain! I knew it would find some good stuff at some point.
Mckenzie and I went out to pick up just a couple things at Kowalski’s and while we were there, I found my favorite, most delicious seasonal gluten-free cookies! I hadn’t been able to find them at the co-op where I got them last year, nor online, and had been feeling sad. 😦 But there they were!
And yes, my little brain went to work and got all happy about it. And then it kept on working and decided that really the whole rest of the day leading up to that moment had been pretty good, and it pointed out to me that life really is, in most ways, pretty spectacular. Thanks, brain! 😀
I am further buoyed by the thrill of having lights up on the fence and around the windows. Pretty pretty pretty lights!
Topping off this very good day was a wonderfully fun rehearsal with women I love. Singing with them fills me up in so many ways!
Hahaha – the fun continues. Thank you, Pam, for your good ideas about wordplay!!….Now I’m thinking of other fun ways to describe my mood this morning…
My sunny felt funny?
My delight took flight?
My jolly’s AWOL-ly?
My sparkle went darkle?
My perky is murky?
My bright’s very slight?
My bubble’s in trouble?
My view’s in a stew?
My elation’s on vacation?
My glee is wee?
My grinning is thinning?
My mood’s got a ‘tude?
Other ideas? I’d love to hear them!!
Appreciations 4.108
Coffee date with Katie and Cina! The coffee gave me just enough energy to withstand Katie’s bout of pun-itis. It was a shockingly persistent case. 😛
Getting some of our holiday decorating done… it is always best to start with an adorable little tree. 🙂 Though I will say it was strange to go to the tree place when it wasn’t freezing cold, 15 minutes before they close for the night, and a only few days before Christmas. 😉 #breakingtraditions
All the dishes done and kitchen cleaned up in time for me to crash before 9 pm. Busy weekend=tired mama!
Appreciations 4.107 – spectacular and sparkly
What a sparkly day! One of those days when I am truly astounded by how lucky I am. First, I got to witness the most AMAZING thing as I was driving around looking for a parking spot before the concert today. Synchonized Parallel Parking!! Three cars backed into three parking spots, each separated by a parked car (I made a diagram so you can see what I mean. And yes, I am just that big of a geek.) at EXACTLY the same time. Same angle, same timing. Unbelievable! I can’t even begin to tell you how lucky I feel to have seen this happen. It was miraculous! 😀
Then the day got even better. We had the most wonderful show at ASI! The space was a gorgeous place to sing and we sounded (if I do say so myself) fantastic. The audience was smiling and dancing in their seats, clearly enjoying it and it was utterly, soul-fillingly, brilliantly blissful to sing with these wonderful women. It was all I could do to keep from weeping during Star of Wonder. So so so good.
And after all this amazing goodness, I got to round out my day with a great visit with my mom and dad (I hope you get better soon, Mom!) and a really fun conversation with my brother Jeff… who is moving here in a few weeks! All in all, one of the very best days. I am incredibly grateful for my shining life. ✨ 🌟 ✨
Appreciations 4.106
Super fun coffee date with Laura yesterday! It’s so great to have her living in the same town! 🙂
Really busy work week. Busy doing work I love for clients I love who are each doing something I really believe in. Pretty awesome!
Driving home around the lakes. I was feeling pretty beat from a long day, but then looked across Lake Calhoun and saw my beloved city. It took my breath away. My phone camera doesn’t do it justice, but you get the idea. 😉
Looking forward to singing with the Earthtones at ASI tomorrow! Come see us! 😀
Appreciations 4.105 – So. Much. Fun.
My appreciation buddy, Pam. She coined and often uses the word “taskies” — which I now use and love! Today she wrote this, which made me giggle and will probably make me giggle a few more times today: “Did a thousand little taskies last night, and then my head fell off and I couldn’t find it. I think it went under the couch.” Hahahaha!
You can see why I love her, right?! Besides being genuine and warmhearted, and generous and wacky, and genius and warbling (see what I did with gen- and wa- words there!?), she is an absolutely beautiful, caring, delightful, energetic, fascinating, gorgeous, helpful, inspiring, joyful kaleidoscope of love. Magic! Nothing outshines Pam’s quirky, rakish style, her tasty, uplifting verbiage, or her wonderful xylophonic “Yes!”es. Zowie! 😀
Wordplay. (In case you were wondering…) 😉
Sunshine, a comfortable night’s sleep, feeling better, planning fun plans, good work.
Appreciations 4.104
How interesting things are when they change. Sleep is, for the moment, a strange and unpredictable creature, some days nuzzling up beside me throughout the day, requesting more and more of my time, and on other days, disappearing at 4 am, off to play with someone else for the entire day. How odd and surreal things seem when “normal” isn’t normal any more!
Talking to myself! So helpful on these surreal, hazy days, for keeping me on task. More or less. 😉 I spoke a lot of the steps of my tasks out loud today. Funny!
Micro-tasks! That’s what I decided to call the little things I get done while I’m waiting for something else. Today while I was waiting for my toast to get toasty, I took all the silverware from its drawer and removed all the little crumblies from the drawer. Only took a few minutes and now my silverware drawer looks purdy. 🙂
Going to be absurdly early!
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