sunshine

DianaK

Appreciations 4.172 – fuzzy

fuzzyYesterday was a fuzzy day after my late night, but I was left with enough energy to get so many taskies done. Got the house tidied up, laundry and dishes done, groceries bought. All before the chilly chilliness came back. Today I only have to leave the house to take TobyCat to the vet. The rest of the day will be cozy at-home working. I like it!

Working for clients who are beautiful, bright people, making the world a friendlier, more fun, more interesting, more loving place with the work they do. How wonderful that I get to look forward to my Monday mornings. 🙂

A peek of sunshine to brighten the afternoon.

DianaK

Appreciations 4.171 – the concert

WheeIt’s a little hard to find words to adequately describe Ellis‘ CD release concert last night. 💗💗💗 The open-hearted joy passing back and forth between Ellis and the audience was palpable. Her unbelievably beautiful music, with her strong, clear, gorgeous voice, perfectly balanced accompaniment, and soul-stirring lyrics bewitched us and transported us to some new level of joyful in-the-moment living. What a treat to watch her and Rad playing together and having so much fun as they created a new kind of magic. Every song was amazing in its own way and Ellis’ stories made us laugh and cry and whoop and holler with glee. And OMG the Desdemona-Ellis-Nina Simone folk rap mashup! O. M. G. No words – you just had to be there. 😀 The night was made even better for me, by getting to share it with people I adore! So many fun moments of shared joy and love. 💗 It was an incredible night and I am profoundly grateful for having been part of it.

Sunshiny Sundays.

Naps. 😉

DianaK

Appreciations 4.167 – the snow!

A lovely visit with Jeff & Maura last night. So great to have fun neighbors just a few steps away. A few really, really snowy steps. 😉 It was great to catch up and I got excellent tips on fun fruit, cabins in a box, and silent sneezing. 😀

IMG_3949The pretty view of snow on the fence when I walked home.

Fluffy light snow that makes shoveling doable. Sunshine that makes it necessary to stop shoveling long enough to take photos of the gorgeous shadows on the pristine snow. 🙂

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DianaK

Appreciations 4.165

zingZing! Fun to say, fun to write, fun to color. 😉

More sunny sunshine and balmy weather. Yay!

Fun work evening, sitting in the living room, listening to all of Ellis’ CDs in order… just revving up for Saturday’s concert. I’m so excited! It’s going to be an awesome show! 😀

DianaK

Appreciations 4.152 – YES

Yes!

Quick coloring time this morning. Sometimes one word is enough. 🙂

Sunny sunny sunshine. What a beautiful thing to look out and see snow crystals bathed in the bright light.

Hearing from my Mom this morning that folks are still talking about how much fun laughter yoga was! They even did a little during exercise class this morning. Fun!

Discovering some possible simple solutions to the big, big tiredness I’ve had lately.

Feeling hopeful!

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 4.105 – 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 4.80

Sunshine and mild weather. I will take it as long as we can get it!

2015-11-08 09.31.56 pm 2015-11-08 09.37.50 pm Working on fun little projects and taskies. I decided not to work on work today (what!?!) and instead did entertaining and satisfying things like adding new themes to firefox, gmail, and chrome. I also did more clean-up work on files – this time it was my google drive files (have hundreds of them). It’s so fun to get rid of unneeded stuff. Plus, I got winter stuff out and sorted through that and did a few more little cleaning projects, too. Things feel lighter and lighter. I love it. ❤

Getting to spend time with Katie again this morning. That’s 3 or 4 times this week. What a treat!

lyrics ETFinally getting time to write out the lyrics for some Earthtones songs. It’s an important step for me in memorizing songs in other languages. With our first show coming up in a few weeks, it was high time I got to this!

DianaK

Appreciations 4.63

fall tree and sun 4Um, guys…have you seen this weather?! Love love love the colors, the warmth, the sunshine!

Amazing day for a walk up to the coffee shop with Alison. Thanks for the coffee and the super fun conversation, Alison. It was so great to reconnect! 😀

The wonderful people at the UMP Heart Clinic. Appointments are always so easy and fun. Amy always seems to remember my whole story (not just the medical stuff!) and is so supportive and accommodating, and does such a good job listening. I love having excellent care providers like her!

I appreciate the fact that I am running out of new adjectives to describe the beautiful parts of my life. How many times have I used these words this year: amazing, fun, beautiful, wonderful, delightful, fantastic, great, awesome, marvelous, magnificent, splendid, breathtaking, excellent, superb, stunning. It is a wonder to me how very bright and shiny my life is. ❤

DianaK

Appreciations 4.50

The first sip of coffee in the morning. It is always a welcome thing, but some mornings it is simply exquisite. Today was one such day. 🙂

The quality of light at this time of year. Driving around the lakes the sky went from dull gray to vivid blue with golden streaks of sunshine lighting up the trees. During the hour or so I was out doing errands, it shifted back and forth several times. What fun to watch the light alter the landscape like that!

Super fun evening catching up with David and watching Spy. I love watching Melissa McCarthy do her thing!