Appreciations 4.236

flowers april 2016

First EMDR session since the heart saga started up again. I am so glad I have a good therapist and can do EMDR with her to help me get past the PTSD!

A truly delicious lunch with Laura after she took me to my appointment. People’s Organic is awesome!

Flowers and sunshine in my yard! โค โค โค

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Super fun visit with the Delaneys today. I missed seeing them, so it was really great to catch up. The new house is amazing! It is just perfect. I’m so happy for them!!!

Delicious quiche during our visit. Terri is a really, really good cook! ๐Ÿ™‚

Thought provoking, insightful, and hilarious conversations. โค

Gorgeous, sunny warm weather.

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Heart sidewalkKatie and Cina, who brought me a Glam Doll donut this morning! I pretended it didn’t contain gluten! It was delicious!

Weather warm enough to have the windows open and listen to the day’s sunny sounds.

After a rough start to the day (dizzy and lots of feelings about the dizzies and the heart and the everything), managing to get out this evening and walk all the way around the block! And then sidewalk chalking my little heart out as the sun set.

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All the sweet cards, messages, rides , meals, and offers to help with driving. I appreciate it so much! It is a strange, strange thing to suddenly not be able to drive myself places. I guess in some states you’re not allowed to drive for a year after an ICD discharge. At least it’s only 3 months here! Yikes.

Sunny sunshine. Still haven’t had the energy to get out for a walk, but it is wonderful to have it streaming into the house.

Pillows.

Appreciations 4.203 – brilliant walks

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Glorious walks the past couple days! Made my first trek down to the lake this year yesterday…and on my way, saw my first butterfly and my first bud. Brilliant!

I was out at a different time of the day and took completely different routes the past two days, but on both days I was walking past a pair of dogs as they howled with sirens in the distance. In all my years of walking in this neighborhood, that’s never happened before. Now…. two days in a row!

I love how protean the city is. My walk a few days ago was punctuated by quietness. Today’s walk was filled with all the sounds of the city – airplanes, cars, sirens, dogs, people talking, kids playing. So much hustle and bustle.

Thesauri – both the word and the item. I didn’t actually know the word protean before today…and now I do. ๐Ÿ˜‰

Appreciations 4.196-4.198 – 3 days at once!

Friday
Fabulous meeting with John this morning. ๐Ÿ™‚

Having the foresight to make stock ahead of time so I can make a quick, delicious soup by throwing in a few veggies. Mmmm.

Surprise visit from Katie and Cina. What a great start to the weekend! ๐Ÿ˜€

Saturday
Cuddly cats suddenly sprinting around the room. Hahaha!

Computer miracles – like laptops (2 of them!) coming back to life after being dead for many months.

All the coffee. All the chocolate. All of it. ๐Ÿ˜‰

Sunday (today)
Finishing up tax stuff with plenty of time to celebrate Jeni’s birthday with my family AND go for a walk in the gorgeous weather before needing some rest.

My awesome neighborhood. Every time I go for a walk I find more wonderful and funny things like this awesome face and foot smiley guy and the sunburst in the sidewalk.

sunny-dayEverything about today’s walk. The sound of so many birds chattering, the smell of someone cooking outdoors (in March!), the feel of the sun and the wind on my face. Everything about it filled me with a deep sense ofย  happiness.

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IMG_4049Benadryl for those times when it’s 1:30 am and I’m dead tired….but somehow still awake!

Waking up to sunny skies. I know my appreciations include sunshine all the time, but it’s only because I appreciate sunshine all the time. ๐Ÿ˜€

Looking forward to an exciting day of tax prep before my meeting this afternoon. First time I have my ducks in a row before April in at least a decade. So exciting! ๐Ÿ˜‰

Starry doodles for no reason.

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Oh, what gorgeous sunshine this morning. How wonderful to sit at my desk and look out at the pale blue skies and enjoy the kinda-looks-like-spring-kinda-feels-like-winter weather. ๐Ÿ™‚

Hyphens.

Tom’s helpful explanations about partitions and volumes on my external hard drive…which now once again has a fully bootable backup of my laptop. Yay!!