No. 26

A Monday off...

Yesterday I had the day off! Now I groaned and complained that I had to work Friday, Saturday and Sunday this past weekend. It really wasn't that bad, but I managed to bemoan it all weekend long. Even working every day I still got to have breakfast with a friend, get my oil changed, go to another friend's birthday party, see my best friend from growing up and her family, sleep in and have a lazy evening at home. So for all general purposes it was a pretty nice weekend and at the end of it I didn't have to go to work the next day!

Normally, I do get up on Mondays and go to work and they are usually very stressful/full days. But this Monday was a real treat! I woke up, watched a little Regis and Kelly (haven't done that in ages), and then I started on a task I have been trying to start for months now: cleaning out my closet. Boy did it feel good to get started! Then I had a nice little break when my girlfriend and her sweet little almost four month old son came to pick me up and we went out to lunch. Now that was fun and such a blessing to see them! Then it was back to work on my room... and I actually made some really good progress! And the best part about the whole day might have been arriving at Bible Study on time and not exhausted. It was wonderful!!

So, I admit I complained way to much and honestly am so guilty of complaining way too often about stuff that really isn't a big deal. And working on Sunday was really a blessing because Lord knew I needed the extra hours! But I am very thankful for a glorious day off yesterday!

No. 25

[I'm not feeling very chatty today so you'll have to excuse the short post!]

Falling Back, aka the end of Daylight Savings

I am not much of a morning person, so trying to wake up before 8 AM in the pitch black is VERY difficult! So I can't tell you how excited I was for Daylight savings to come to an end this year... VERY excited. Now, I am like everyone else out there who hates for it to get dark so early in the evening, but I can barely keep my eyes open much pass 10:30 PM any more so really I don't think it is going to be so bad this year.

Or maybe I am just choosing to go with it this year. AND maybe I am starting to make that shift in adulthood where you would just rather go to bed early and get up earlier. I don't know yet, this is a first for me! But I do know I am SO thankful when my alarm goes off at 7:15 AM I am happy to see the sunshine!!

A run through of October

No. 20
Got to spend three days at the Cloister with my aunt and one of her best (and most fun) friends! Pure luxury!

No. 21
Followed by five days on St. Simons Island with my parents and best friends and aunt!
October is the best month ever to be down there!!!

No. 22
Standing up with one of my best friends as she married the man of her dreams!
Such an answer to years of prayers!

No. 23
Getting to go away with my mom for a weekend!
A sweet time together!

No. 24
Borrowed dogs!
They might be the best kind... only when you have to return them it is sad.

No. 17, 18 & 19...

My favorite Italian Coffee showing up unexpectedly!

After being away for a week and arriving home very tired from a fun-filled weekend of wedding festivities I found this can of coffee sitting on the kitchen counter!

Now, you may ask yourself, what is so special about this coffee? And I would like to answer you! I have never been able to find this coffee in the US. So, the one and only can I brought home from Rome last year is the only can I have ever had of this delicious, perfectly roasted coffee. I love coffee and for me this is the most perfect cup of coffee in the world!

Now, you may ask yourself how in the world did you get this coffee? Surely if you had gone to Italy you would have listed it as something to be thankful for no matter how big of a pity party you were having!

You are right about that!

This coffee was brought to me by perfect strangers. If I passed them on the street I wouldn't even know to thank them. But my Aunt Sharon would. Her co-worker's parents were going to Italy and when she found out about their trip and asked her co-worker if he would ask his parents to pick me up a can. Crazy and kind, right?!

So, pretty much I can count this one as 17 and 18...and 19! Thankful for the coffee (which sadly is already gone!) and thankful for my aunt's thoughtfulness and the kindness of strangers!

Can I make it to 100 by Thanksgiving?

I haven't been feeling very thankful since my last post. Honestly, I've pretty much been having a pity party. Sorry I forgot to send you an invitation! But I'm making last call and about to lock the door, so it would be sort of a waste to invite you now...

You can be thankful I didn't invite you! [can I count that one toward my 100 days?!]

The stupidest thing about this whole pity party is that I have actually had a lot of cool stuff going on. So... in an attempt to make up for lost days I am going to try and be REALLY, REALLY Thankful today and in the days to come! I will end with a verse that I love:

"Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet, I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior. The sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of the deer, he enables me to go on the heights."

Habakkuk 3:17-19