Slow slow start to the day, but finally got going and made progress on some big projects.
More drawing and coloring fun!
Staying inside on a this cold, cold day. Cozy!
My cell phone cover, for keeping my phone safe. My phone for coming back to life after pretending to die. 🙂
I finished making the soup! It is really good! Thanks for all the helpful tips. 😀
Woohoo! 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. 
Waking up feeling bedraggled after a crazy no-sleep night, only to remember that my first thing to do was to have an inspiring, productive, and fun meeting with the charming Johnny Linn! 😀 What an excellent way to start the day!
Knocking off some pesky little taskies that usually hang around for ages before I get to them. Feels great to get right to ’em!
9 pm bedtime. Yup. It’s a wild life I live. 😉
My fascinating, ever-changing, always interesting job. What wonderful meetings I’ve had this week. I love my clients so much.
Having a schedule that allows me to work a little, rest a little, work a little, rest a little. So grateful for that flexibility!
Scarves. Very nice for keeping some of the cold out. 😉
Playing with the design for this blog. Fun! 😀
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!
Rose quartz. So pretty and calming. I like that I have lots of it in the house. 🙂
Pandora. I can always find some new instrumental music to listen to while I work (if I listen to songs with words, I get too distracted!) What a nice service.
Ellis’ new album, The Guest House. It is her best album yet. What an amazing album. It is beautiful, fun, inviting and on all levels gorgeous! It goes on sale in Feb, but you can still pre-order it. I highly advise it. 😀
Kitty cuddles at the end of a long day. Thank you, my feline friends.
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!
Just refilled the ink and changed out a couple nibs on my pens. I just love love love these pens!! With refillable ink and replaceable nibs, I’m set for forever. Which is a good thing since I’ve decided to start out each day with a coloring meditation. 🙂 [You can learn more about and/or buy these pens here: Diana’s favorite pens. If you like to color, I highly recommend them!]
Marker meditation! I’ve never been good at traditional meditating, but if I get to just color, I can totally rock it! 😉
Gluten free chocolate cake. I think that kind of goes without saying, though…. 😀
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!
YOU. 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. ♥
ME. 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!
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