Mckenzie made me some gluten-free apple fritters! Yum.
The lovely people in my household who tolerated my Day of Grumpiness and didn’t take it personally.
Rain.
friends
Appreciations 4.215 – Home, sweet home
Sleeping in my own bed – no IVs, no oxygen tubes, no BP cuff, nobody waking me up to draw blood at 3 am. Woohoo! I mean, I am totally grateful they had all those hoses and medications and that they did all the tests….I just don’t miss it. 😉
3 am snuggles with Luna kitty. She seems to be glad I’m home. ❤ I’m glad, too! 😀
Sweet little visit with Alison, who brought grilled veggies and fruit salad to round out the week’s meals. So nice to catch up with my funny friend!! 🙂
Appreciations 4.214
(today!) Waking up in my own bed. Such luxury!
Sitting on the couch watching birds flit from branch to branch on the tree outside the window. Listening to bird songs and looking out at a beautiful and sunny day.
Katie and Cina, for staying with me for a few days while I get back on my feet. Literally… 😛
Pretty flowers and plants and cards, oh my! Thank you Laura & Jeff, Sarah, Ruby, and my wonderful Cheezeball friends!
Nap nap nap nappity-naps. How funny to be waking and sleeping in this off-kilter way.
My mom & dad for dropping off a shower chair this morning.
Taking. A. Shower!!!!!!!!!!!!! Srsly. So good. 😀
Appreciations 4.212 – um, yeah. Being alive!
(from 3/20) Sunshine after the snow.
Coffee!!!!!!! (Couldn’t have any yesterday. Today I can.) 😉
This amazing card from Ruby. She didn’t color it in in case I wanted to!! :
Appreciations 4.211 – being alive!
(from 3/19) The diligent, delightful, and darling staff in the ER and cardiac unit at the hospital. Together we did important work, and somehow had so much fun. ❤❤❤
Terri & Ellis, Sarah, Jeff & Laura, Sara, and my mom and dad (who came to the hospital at 2 am!) for their unflagging love and support, and all the big and small acts of kindness. ❤❤❤
Katie, Cina, and Mckenzie for staying with me the whole night (they left the hospital at 6 am after I’d been admitted!), and for being so incredibly reassuring, funny, and supportive. ❤❤❤
Appreciations 4.210 – being alive!
(From 3/18) The awesome mood ring Katie and Cina bought for me. It even has my name so I will remember who I am. 🙂
Super fun day with the kids including delicious breakfast, fun shopping at IKEA and movie night.
Being alive! When my heart went into v-fib (which caused cardiac arrest), my ICD came to the rescue and shocked me back to life! And then when my heart decided to try out a-fib and my heart rate spiked at 230, the ICD sprang to the rescue again. I am so grateful for this device. I am also so grateful for the lightning-fast ambulance response and the amazing EMTs, doctors, lab techs and everyone else who helped us through that night.
Appreciations 4.209
Fabulous meeting with Sara at Shish yesterday – so productive and fun! Delicious food, great service, and the most hilarious music from long ago. Sara said we must’ve been listening to the Forgotten Music Station. I felt like I was 10 years old and had to keep reminding myself that we were having a meeting and it wasn’t time to dance. 😀
Another awesome meeting with John this morning – more good work peppered with sweetness and fun. I like my job!
Finishing the kitchen backsplash project. Yippee! It looked so fresh and pretty when it was done, but before all the stuff was back. Still looks pretty good, though. 😉
Appreciations 4.208
The fun of running errands in pouring rain last night. Our first really rainy day of the season. How lovely to be out in it for a bit!
Finally getting some work done on the kitchen backsplash project. Hooray! It’s been in its unfinished state for sooooo long. What a relief to finally be getting it spruced up!
Remembering more sweet details of my visit with Sarah last weekend: truly gorgeous wind chimes – beautifully deep and sonorous, but somehow soft and vibrant, too; the sweet golden retriever puppy trotting up to the fence to say hello, tail awag and nuzzling our hands for petting; Ida, happily sitting on the sidewalk, taking things out of my purse one by one and handing them to me or Sarah. 
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My newest “No Soliciting” sign. I do love to draw and color and make friendly signs. 🙂
Deeply delightful visit with Sarah and Ida this morning. What a gorgeous morning for a walk! So so so great to reconnect with kindred spirits. 😀
Truly entertaining evening with Terri seeing Legally Blond at Washburn HS. So much fun on so many levels!
Appreciations 4.202 – Fun
Waking up after a delightful dream in which Pam and I were shopping at someone’s moving sale (in their house) and finding all sorts hidden treasures in nooks and crannies like beautiful tapestries and clever and funny cat toys and books we’d always wanted to read but had never been able to find. SO much fun in the dream, and so like spending time with Pam – always seeking and finding hidden beauty, fun, and joy!
Qigong. It’s not yet a daily habit, but I’m getting better about remembering to do it and am still astonished by how profoundly even one session improves my sleep. Wowsers.
Looking forward to fun plans this weekend, planning new fun plans, and listening to all the fun new books I just reserved. 😀
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