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Appreciations 4.154 – choose

ChooseChoosing to color! 😀

Productive work day – two more taskies done that I’d been putting off!

Big projects done around the house, too. Got all the books moved up from the basement and organized up here! Only I don’t know what happened to my complete works of Shakespeare. Did I really give it away during the last round of eliminations?!? Fascinating. Also finally got the guest bedroom set up.

The best part of the day, of course, was dinner and a fun visit with Debb! How nice (for me!) that she sometimes has to come up to the city to work. 😉

DianaK

Appreciations 4.149

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Morning coloring – a new No Soliciting sign to replace the holiday themed one. Katie made our first one a couple years ago – might as well be friendly! We’ve had a sign like this up for ages and nobody’s really said anything, but for some reason, in the past week several people coming to the door have chuckled and commented on it. 😀

Having my dictionary/thesaurus app right on my toolbar. I use it all the time! 🙂

Wonderful visit with Terri, Ellis, Ruby, and Katie today. We talked about love languages and coloring and gifts and soup and played with LunaKitty and it was just the best thing ever. So many Ruby snuggles. Mmmmmm.

DianaK

Appreciations 4.146

Our little heat wave. It felt positively balmy out there today. 🙂

Another excellent DDP coworking day with Amy and Allison, both of whom know how to spell their names. 😀

Another fabulous pre-9 pm bedtime. Sleeping is fun!

DianaK

Appreciations 4.145

I love when things line up and flow so easily! I’m thrilled that since I decided to do Skynote full time and stop looking for some additional job, perfect opportunities and connections are showing up. How lovely!

Remember how I said I’m so excited that Jeff & Laura live here now? Yeah, well that just keeps getting reinforced. What a fun time tonight with them and Melanie and Andy at the wine tasting! 😀 Plus, how awesome that I got to be chauffeured there. If you’ve ever gone anywhere with me, you know how much I love being driven around like a princess. 🙂

Embracing my wimpy wine tastes. Yes, my faves from the night were (unsurprisingly) the Riesling, the Pinot Noir, and the Cab. (Yes, Andy, I know you liked the Shiraz, but since you also like beets, your opinion is null and void.) 😛

DianaK

Appreciations 4.142 – ten million dollars

10,000,000Woohoo! I got $10,000,000 in the mail today! I love the companies I do business with. When my book order arrived…as an empty envelope(!), I emailed to let them know. They responded right away, and re-sent the order by priority mail…along with a handwritten note of apology, a bumper sticker, and ten million dollars. Now THAT is what I call excellent customer service! 🙂

New washing machine coming next week. Hooray!! Thanks for the help, Mom & Dad! Sooooo happy about the prospect of doing laundry at home again. 😀 Srsly.

Nice chat with David tonight. Oh, how fun it was to catch up! Plus, it’d been ages since I’d heard a truly good David rant (this one about how nothing is all bad or all good and the way we tend to cast things that way sometimes). Nothing like it, I tell ya. 💗

DianaK

Appreciations 4.139 – DAY 1234!

Oooooh – it’s day 139 of my 4th year of appreciations….but that makes it day 1234 since I started. Yay for number fun! 😀

Lewis Carroll for the joy of his Alice stories.

Pam, for using Frabjous Day! in her appreciations today which reminded me of all that fun and inspired this morning’s coloring meditation. Callooh! Callay!

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Rose quartz. So pretty and calming. I like that I have lots of it in the house. 🙂

DianaK

Appreciations 4.137 – things with exclamation points and MMMM

Sleep! I’m not really sure why I need SO much of it these past few days, but I was very glad to sleep in this morning and catch up a little bit.

Decluttering! Mckenzie and I made significant progress on the downsize/declutter project in the basement today – in just an hour. Three more bags of stuff to donate, one bag of things moved back into their rightful places, another couple bags out to the trash/recycling. Pretty exciting. 😀

Phones! I started the day with a quick little conversation with Terri and closed out the day catching up with David. So great to be able to keep in touch, at least a little, and hear my dear friends’ voices.💗

Hahaha! My MMMM: morning marker meditation mistake… You can tell I did this before coffee. I accidentally made another 4.136 sign. Haha!

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DianaK

Appreciations 4.135

Year 4.135

Hanging out with the kids and playing cards last night. I like these bonus visits!!

Blue skies and sunshine for my drive out to Ivan’s new place today. I even had to wear sunglasses! 😀

So great to see Ivan, Debb, and Tim and meet some of Ivan’s friends while helping unpack at the new house. Congrats on the new place, cuz!

DianaK

Appreciations 4.134 – Hello 2016!

hello-2016-v3.1YOU. Yes, you! If you are reading this, you are one of the people that make my life sparkle and shine. As I continue to adjust to changes and challenges presented in the past couple years, the one thing I am grateful for every day is the people in my life. You are one of those bright lights — whether we interact in person or online, whether you’ve been a shoulder to cry on, a pal to goof around with, or someone who every once in awhile likes my posts on Facebook or follows my blog, you have made my days easier, brighter, and more fun. I am so grateful for the brilliance, humor, gentleness, love, and patience you have shown me. Thank you for being exactly who you are — and for being part of my life. ♥

New Year Happy JarME. Past Diana, especially, for having the experiences and thoughts that have led me to where I am today. I also appreciate her for recording the wonderful things that happened in 2015 both in spreadsheets and on bright bits of paper as part of my New Year Happy Jar. So fun to go through the past year’s highlights as I begin 2016!

THEM. The folks in the world who I don’t know, but who make this world brighter, better, and more beautiful in their own ways. All those people who work on things I don’t want to – or don’t know how to – but without which life would be a little less easy, a little less fun. All those people painting the world in big, broad stokes of color and love and patience and gentleness. There are so many folks like that whose presence and whose work makes this world brighter. I appreciate them, too!

DianaK

Appreciations 4.130 – holidays continued…

It was lovely to take almost 4 days off from work (I worked a tiny bit on 2 of the days…almost like not working at all!) and funny to notice how quickly NOT working started to feel like the norm. Haha. How quickly we adapt!!

I super appreciate that the predicted snow waited until after I was done with errands to start falling. Thank you, snow! (I also appreciate that I found this snow effect I can use on my blog. Neat!!)

A wonderful visit with Sarah and Ida to exchange gifties. I love her thoughtful and funny gifts – including the ingredients and recipe for the amazing dinner she made me a few months ago, a box of hard-to-find seasonal gluten-free cookies, and a new game! What fun! It was also super fun to watch Ida open her gift… a purse of her own (that looks like mine, which she recently took a great liking to) filled with toddler treasures… you know, like a package of kleenex, toddler-sized sunglasses, and some crinkly cat toys. Hahaha! What a sweet end to the day.