Gratitude

Five things to be grateful for today:

1) Feeling rested and healthy after two weeks with the flu
2) Vibrantly blue and purple dyed hard boiled eggs for breakfast :)
3) Beautiful sunny weather this weekend
4) Friends to have fun and relax with
5) Mojitos

Gratitude

Five things I'm grateful for today:

1) Fresh rain pouring down on the world and my now clean car
2) Feeling of safety and health and it's all going to be ok
3) Warm puffy white Gap vest
4) Coconut chocolate breakfast bar, yum
5) The prospect of savory Japanese food for lunch with a good friend

Gratitude

Five things I'm grateful for today:

1) Warm salmon on a bed of greens and veggies
2) A beautiful day
3) Getting to walk around Lake Merrit on my lunch break
4) Access to clean drinking water
5) My independence and having my own mind

Gratitude

Five things I'm grateful for today:

1) A landscaper who knows what he's doing and takes initiative to fix things
2) Caprese frittata (mozzarella cheese, basil, and cherry tomatoes) and bacon for breakfast
3) Sparkling cocktail rings
4) Free Zumba class w/ a friend :)
5) Walking in the hills w/ another friend :)

Gratitude

Five things I'm grateful for today:

1) Dating :)
2) A good, secure, interesting job
3) My education
4) Meat & veggies
5) Life and health

Radio at 5:30pm

I've noticed this odd trend in the last few weeks. I'm sure it existed before but I just discovered it. Around 5:30pm everyday and lasting until 5:35pm or so, all radio stations play commercials. Not music. And not one station - ALL stations. It's like they all agreed to play music definitely at 5pm because that's when people get off work but 5:30? Eh, let's pause for a moment and play an ad. I understand some ads and the cycle of playing music vs commercials comes and goes but it's pretty universal. I have six preset stations and I cannot find ANY music during those five minutes or so. I will listen to any kind of music just to have music but there's nothing.

Next time you're in the car at 5:30pm, try the radio and see what happens. Funny, huh?

Gratitude

Five things I'm grateful for today:

1) Health insurance
2) A good job with interesting projects to work on
3) Sliced fresh jicama from Whole Foods
4) Sunshine!
5) My two adorable cats Mitch and Nora (best cats ever after my beloved childhood Frisky RIP)

Gratitude

Five things I'm grateful for today:

1) Bacon & eggs
2) My home
3) A job
4) Hot water
5) A beautiful sunny day :)

Gratitude

Five things I'm grateful for today:

1) Lovely friends who are catsitting Mitch and Nora
2) My trip to Guatemala to visit dear friends (leave this Sat!)
3) That I live in a safe and protected country with running water and no mobs killing seven UN workers, that I could do something as simple as choose what eyeshadow colors I wanted to wear this morning because war is not on our ground.
4) Feeling well-rested after crashing at the early early hour of 10:30pm last night
5) Dinner last night with a good friend and good food

God, I am grateful to you everyday for what you have given me and continue to give me. You are my everything. Thank you.

Figuring out things as a new homeowner

I took a break from my Veronica Mars marathon to venture out yesterday to buy groceries and buy branch clippers. I'm quite proud of myself for clipping almost all the branches from my purple flower tree (type??) yesterday. The branch was hanging on the ground but as I pruned, it slowly rose back to its natural height. I felt so proud. I was telling my coworker about this simple task and my happiness, and she said she also feels proud when her green bin of compost is full from her yardwork. Even though its OUR house and our chores, we feel very self-back-patting when we complete our house tasks. Yey me - I'm now the owner of branch clippers. I've also bought a long fruit picker and reachingly picked bags of lemons from my tree. Green thumb, here I come!

I love the pink flower tree in my front yard. It covers my driveway and car with flowers. I was proud of myself for sweeping up the flowers the best I could and sweeping my neighbor's driveway of the wind-fallen petals. I love lately driving to work with flowers covering my car. I feel like I'm in a parade as the flowers gently or ferociously fall off as I travel through streets and the freeway. I love my pink flowered-covered car.

House, I really love you.