Author: DianaK

DianaK

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!

DianaK

Appreciations 4.107 – spectacular and sparkly

synchronized-parallel-parkingWhat 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. ✨ 🌟 ✨

DianaK

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! 💗

IMG_3683Driving 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! 😀

DianaK

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.

DianaK

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!

DianaK

Appreciations 4.103

Enjoying a few quiet moments this morning when both cats were sleeping on the bed with me. Maybe pretty soon they’ll be back to sharing that space without fighting. (They used to both sleep with me, but some weird territory thing happened when I was in the hospital last year and since then they’ve only fought on the bed.)

Peppermint tea.

Wonderful meetings with clients. I know I say this all the time, but I really do work with the most delightful, inspiring, funny, sweet, adorable, brilliant people on the planet. I’m so lucky to know them!

DianaK

Appreciations 4.102

Snow! I know it snarled up the traffic, but it sure is pretty. 🙂

Holiday lights. Makes driving around at night more fun. (And by night, I mean any time after 4:30…..)

Singing! Another performance coming up this weekend. Fun!

DianaK

Appreciations 4.101

Another day of resting. Curious how much I’ve needed the past week. Hmmm.

Netflix. Makes a day of resting more fun. 🙂

scratching postOne little project done: Mckenzie and I managed to get the scratching post re-wrapped! Happy kitties, happy couch. 😉

DianaK

Appreciations 4.100 – the first hundred days of the 4th year

100! I remember thinking when I started this fourth year of daily appreciations that maybe it was time to take a break… and then thinking how strange it would be to stop. Even though there are days when finding that silver lining is more challenging than others, there is something very comforting about making the effort, and about knowing that even when the good things are hard to see, there are always, always at least 3 things to appreciate about any given day. That is a truly wonderful thing to know. ♥

A quiet day for lots of resting and sleeping. I don’t know why I’ve been so much more fatigued than usual the past week, but it sure is nice to have the opportunity to rest as much as I seem to need.

Managing to get a few little taskies done that have been waiting and waiting and WAITING for me to pay attention to them. How much lighter it feels to have tended to them! 🙂

Another early night. So strange for this little night-owl to fall asleep before 10 pm! I sure am glad I am able to when the need arises.

DianaK

Appreciations 4.99

Terrific meeting with Jerilyn this morning. How exciting to have support, encouragement, and a plan for my new project!

Wonderful dinner with the whole family at Jeff & Laura’s. So great to see everyone. (And to get some of Laura’s amazingly delicious gluten-free pulla. Yum!) It was so so so much fun hanging out after dinner and playing silly games. I appreciate and like my family so much!!

Gluten-free stuffing that tastes like stuffing. Yay! And since I’m the only one here who’ll eat it I have enough for the whole next week! 😀