Showing posts with label Friday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Friday. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Ordinary in the daily routine

During this Covid-19, stay at home, not out of Phase 0, life feeling a touch mundane, finding the Joy. Here is what it looks like:

  • seeing my neighbors more frequently.  We meet, on our joined driveway, from a safe distance, for an hour every Friday. This week will be #11.  We've talked about continuing even when the crisis is over.
  • Simon has been working at a grocery store for a long while now.  It seemed like he was only getting one 4 hour shift a week.  When busy with college and other activities, that was ok.  He looked for another job, but those were few and far between.  With this pandemic, he has been getting a lot more hours.  Now we happy he didn't find a new job, he might have been laid off. 
  • With some birthday money, I bought some journalling stencils.  Been using them in my store bought planner, to make bullet marks; helpful to me for checking things off or highlighting if I didn't get it done.  I have added washi tape, in the back, to designate certain pages as different pages.  Added ribbons, just today, to paper clips, to make it easier to find certain pages, other than the tabbed month.  Yeah, I am a bit geeked out and getting more organized.
  • the end of 2019/2020 school year is just days away.  Several subjects have been completed already.  Managed to finalize those grades, package up the work, and get it into long term storage.  Excited by this, because I have been trying to stay on top of the grading all year and it has paid off.
  • in our neck of the woods, it is starting to warm up.  Think I have figured out the strategic placing of fans, so that we can keep the A/C off.  Have no firm facts, but seems like a few fans running, certain curtains closed, unnecessary lights off, would be cheaper than running A/C, curtains open and random lights on (a habit I am trying to break).  There is a touch of joy in this for  me.
  • last but not least, guys who are content with simple meals and ones they can fix on their own.
What brings you Joy?

Friday, September 8, 2017

Friday Already?

This week has been slow and fast.  A very real struggle between both kinds of moments.  Thank goodness for clocks, lists, and calendars.  Something might have gotten dropped.

It comes down to this for the day:
  • happy teenager
  • call back auditions going well
  • a husband who likes to cook
  • being hyper focused, yet flexible
  • friendships, yes again, it's been that kinda week
  • understanding that life happens
  • patience

Friday, September 1, 2017

Hello September!


Do you decorate for fall?  Is September 1 the day you start bring all things Fall out?  Or do you wait until September 20?

I haven't fully started decorating for fall.  Made a trip to the Dollar Tree the other day, as their artificial flowers and such are fairly descent sized and inexpensive.  Swapped out my light blue and lavender hydrangea for a fall orange color.  That is as far as I've gotten.  More on another day.

The fun and good for the day:
  • Kevin came home early, to beat Friday of Labor Day Weekend traffic
  • new fitbit came in the mail
  • temps hovered around 65 degrees today
  • bought a Take & Bake for dinner (easy Friday Pizza)
  • lots of vegging on a dreary day
  • fall colored hydrangea

Friday, August 25, 2017

Sunshine, Breezes, & Hobbit

photo from Trip Advisor
No ground breaking statements to open up today's list.  Just the beauty of the day, it being Friday, a good night sleep.  Know I should be moving and getting things accomplished.  Sitting and pondering sure has been nice though.  Nothing deep, just being; savoring the moment.

Do you count your joyful things?  Any you want to share?
  • sunshine
  • sound of crickets
  • chapter in "The Hobbit"
  • joy of Friday
  • Faith Hill station on Pandora
  • windows open for hours
  • pizza 
It's still early afternoon here.  May publish and come back if I think of more!  Either way, have a great afternoon.

:)

Friday, November 18, 2016

Finally Friday

yup'ers!  Thankful for Friday!  Now have boat loads of things running through my head of things to get done, fun to be had, etc.  not sure what all we be accomplished and I am ok with that!

Thankfulness, thus far today:

  • Trip to Nall's for inexpensive apples
  • Finding soy candles at Nall's
  • Pizza for lunch
  • Warm sun while outside
  • Opportunity to kick back for a bit
What's great about your Friday?