Thursday
Oct112007
five really good things
1. the grey's anatomy i know and love is back. finally. as of tonight.
2. when millie lays her head on my knee and sighs i actually feel my heart grow just a bit more.
3. slowly, at a turtle's pace slowly, beginning to like my much shorter hair. (and resting in the frivilous yet true knowledge that it is already growing.)
4. lighting candles throughout the house as evening begins. then whispering blessings into the world as i blow them out before i go to sleep.
5. playing with patchwork makes my soul jump up and down with glee.
i dare you to name five really good things of your own.
right now.
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i'll list my five
cause you dared me to
of course...
heehee
and i had to say
i so agree about greys!
this one was the greys
i fell in love with...
it didn't seem as though
it was trying too hard to be
good....
it was just good.
1. Last night Daisy snuggled in with me and her litle chest was right against the inside of my arm so I could feel her heart beating.
2. Rainy morning, in my bathrobe, both of us home on a Friday morning and getting ready to go to the Cape for Oysterfest!
3. Not liking my new short hair but loving how I just "let it go" and don't even stress about it-- so unlike "me" years past.
4. Clean jeans right out of the dryer.
5. Venturing deeper and deeper into the creative life.
Here is my five for Thursday:
1) I had a lovely rainy day
2) I found a new way to transfer pictures to scotch tape
3) I got released from jury duty!!
4) Supernatural came on.
5) I got a file of pictures I took two weeks ago that I love the way I look in.
1. You
2. Love
3. Coffee (and tea!)
4. A downy woodpecker at my feeder this morning.
5. Fall has finally arrived
Ok, I don't have a five for you, although there are certainly quite a few good things around me. But the Greys? You really think its good this year? I'm struggling with it a bit. I am having such a hard time with Meredith's immaturity. Like can she just go to therapy already? I don't know... OH! But one good thing there is that in my fourplex, the entire house gets together in one apartment to watch it every week, and last night was the first night that I instituted an official thursday night drink. Mexican Hot Chocolate. That makes everything soooo goood!
Blessings to you!
1. Learning something new, like how to put a widget on my blog site.
2. Cooler tempts. 78 degrees feels like heaven after 112 degrees.
3. Going out to dinner with my hubby.
4. Dancing with my hubby.
5. Singing Karoke with my hubby (no, I am not a newyly wed...we have been married 40 years but have only started really liking him the last 12 or so..lol.)
lunarmusings -
this is the first week where i have enjoyed watching the show since before those ferry episodes last year. last week i was "so over" meredith and all of it. but this week i loved how they are showing mcsteamy's character a bit more and how he and derek are talking and bailey's storyline and how we got to see callie soften when bailey offered to help (i really haven't like how they were making callie seem a bit pathetic)...and with that last bit with meredith going over the file with lexie - maybe we are seeing her grow up a bit...
phew. there you have it. my thoughts about greys... (i could go on and on about how i haven't liked it since the ferry episodes and how they almost lost me at the end of last season...it was the ritual of thursday nights with mcdreamy that brought me back)
1. loving my long hair and happy it has finally grown back into itself.
2. warm morning snuggles as the cool frosty air swirled outside my bedroom window.
3. the smell of orange peel on my fingers and the stain of juice still on my tongue.
3. cherry flavoured organic green tea curling scent up my nose.
4. my new beautiful maude bag that swung jaunily off my shoulder this morning :) smooches!! its beautiful!!
5. a weekend of creative joy ahead of me.
1. skin and bones by foo fighters---love, love, love that cd
2. i've been keeping a happiness journal and you know what? it's helped realize I AM HAPPY
3. i've been writing a lot lately and that's always exciting
4. trey's out of town and although that's not so good i do love that it means one on one mama & bdog time
5. did you think you were going to get by without me mentioning johnny depp? i think not. yep, he's my #5.
and i do have to add really good phone conversations with sweet friends that help me refocus...and i definitely agree with you about grey's...i had that very same thought last night.
1. looking forward to watching grey's tonight - so glad to hear it's back, i've been missing it.
2. my girl
3. pumpkin spice lattes
4. the cup of hot black tea i've just brewed
5. catching a whiff of my new favorite perfume as i type this list
oh my god...and how could i forget al gore winning the nobel peace prize (i love him!)...okay i know that's 6 but the johnny depp thing was a given so maybe we won't count that one...
i love the things you listed. i love candles burning all over the house, gives it a homey feel. xoxo nita
1.) the steaming hot cup of vanilla red tea that I just poured myself
2.) the fact that today is Friday
3.) the fact that I created a whole lot of lovely (I hope!) earrings this week
4.) the way the sunlight was hitting everything this morning...gorgeous
5.) the gorgeous green color of the moss growing in various spots in my backyard
Lots of joy and love and creativity to you this weekend.
xoxoxo
Ooooh who can pass up a Friday afternoon dare?!
1.) Connecting to you by coming here
2.) A Friday night home alone with two Netflix movies ("Monsoon Wedding" and "The Piano Teacher")
3.) Leftover fried chicken
4.) Leftover birthday cheesecake
5.) The new season of Dexter (warped but I really love it!)
...pressed Autumn leaves and a lovely poem from my husband...my children's laughter...a cup of hot tea just like mom used to make...early Christmas shopping...and being on your special list of people to have tea with...thanks Liz, I'd really love that.
I'm so glad that you had a soul-filling experience in Portland - yeah!! Five things:
1) Grey's Anatomy (for the same reason!)
2) Cuddles with Darling Daughter
3) A wickedly wonderful new pair of shoes from Nordstrom
4) My husband for listening to what I need & delivering
5) A circle of great friends!
your patchwork is SO pretty!!!
really good things:
sunshine
crisp autumn weather = sweaters!
finishing my friend's babette blanket
goat's milk
warming my feet on my boyfriend (i'm evil sometimes!)
five really good things in the here and now:
1. seeing "Delicate Balance" with my eldest daughter last night in Ventura
2. 8 a.m. soccer game nearby--Megan's team won! Finally.
3. Purchased an important (to me) mixed media work. Whew. Very brave
4. funky polish on nails and toes: "Natasha and somebody" reddish black! The devil made me do it.
5. I'm alive and well, living the good life in Southern California.
Wish I had seen more of you at Art & Soul. Next time... Love to you, dear Liz. Simply the Best...You are just Simply the Best
1. Losing my job that I have been doing for 18 years and hating it for at least the last 8...(hoping it's a really good thing anyway)
2. A great bottle of wine to share with friends.
3. Autumn - A season I used to feel totally disconnected with but as I have aged I am loving the cooler temps, colors and smells.
4. Having my daughter home for a few months as she figures out what to do with her life.
5. My animals. I have always been animal crazy and always dreamed as a child of having lots of animals...well I do. 5 horses, 5 dogs, 6 (8 counting daughters 2) cats and all the wild pheasant and quail that run around our place.
thanks for this.
That patchwork is so snuggly and pretty looking. I have to take a leap and pick a purse from you. I just have to, because I think of them every day:)
1. Greys is back. I am thrilled.
2. watching my son tilt the bowl that held frozen blueberries as far back as he could tonight to drink the last gem of juice from the bottom.
3. The knowledge that I will be going to artfest.
4. all of the orange and red leaves gracing the place where the sky and trees meet.
5. hot coffee
Love and kisses
I think I may have met you in Nina's class at Art and Soul but needless to say I stumbled upon your fabulous blog and just wanted to say hello - love your point of view, thoughts, and visions - best gina
This is a great meme...it definitely engenders gratitude when you begin thinking about it.
1) letting my husband sleep in, so that I can have the condo to myself in the morning
2) my cat purring next to me in the middle of the night
3) watching any movie in the movie theater
4) being surprised by the quality of a book (right now Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart)
5) decorating the cover of a new journal and then breaking it in
1. connecting with amazing, inspiring, creative people that without the internet we would never have the chance to
2. Brett Dennen esp. ain't no reason
3. moleskines - make me happy every time I open one of them
4. the journal I made myself - the first
5. the way my cat sleeps more deeply if he sleeps next to me
I found your blog through Kelly's and I'm hooked. I gotta get me some of those prayer flags sometime, too.
Wishes and good things...
1. the laughter of children, especially mine
2. couldy days and sunny thoughts
3. snuggling in with my kids to watch a movie
4. tucking a special note into a suitcase/lunchbox or under a pillow
5. strangers who smile
6. soup with sour dough bread after raking leaves.
oh...five? sorry...i LOVE this game! :)
My five really good things:
1) Memories of stars in swaziland
2) Listening to 'Footloose' at full volume with the car windows down
3) The wave of my mothers hair
4)Watching the yellow heart of the frangipani opening to the morning
5) Talking to friends across the seas, about dreams of returning, of helping, of loving the world into change.