Today I am grateful:
- for not having anything important on my schedule today. I woke up with low blood sugar and then crashed again around 12:00. Sometimes it just doesn’t work out, so I am grateful for being able to take it easy.
- for making a dinner that my child would eat.
- for my previous job at the yarn store taking me back once my current job cuts back my hours. It will be great to go back one day a week. My branch is going to close on Sundays, so instead I’ll go to the yarn store, which will insure that I get out of bed and get going.
- for games that involve marbles
- for Encyclopedia Brown
Jan 06, 06:53PM PST | 1 cheer | 0 comments
Today I am grateful for:
- spending the morning in bed finishing a book: Native Son
- most likely avoiding the layoff I really thought was going to happen. I can’t even imagine the number of people and amount of time behind the scenes that went on to minimize the layoffs with the 2010 budget. Library administration, the union reps, the Friends of the Library, and lots of other government types have been working on this for what seems like forever. Unfortunately, there were some cuts and I’m holding all those people in my heart. I hope we can hire them back soon.
- finishing my ‘Best of 2009’ storytime book handout for my next storytime. If I do say so myself, it’s pretty good. I’m going to give them out to the parents and all the books will be there for check-out. We’ll read a few of the books and have a vote for the best one. I think it will be fun.
- not injuring myself when I fell on the ice today
- good blood sugars today
- my boy comes back home tomorrow from Papa’s
Jan 04, 08:51PM PST | 5 cheers | 0 comments
Today I am grateful for:
- Another lovely procrastinators meeting at a new-to-me coffeeshop that serves tamales. I will return.
- A pleasant afternoon at work: a nice day to ease back into post-holiday work.
- Hot blueberry tea while the world outside is very, very cold.
- Good blood sugars this a.m.
- Self-respect.
Jan 03, 05:23PM PST | 5 cheers | 0 comments
Today I am grateful:
- that I did not have to go to the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie today with the boy and Grandma
- Slings and Arrows: what I watched instead. Highly recommended Canadian show about a Shakespearian Company
- Frozen potstickers from Trader Joes. That’s just how I roll on a Saturday night.
- I get to see Bib tomorrow
- Hamlet – it’s a darn good play
Jan 02, 05:12PM PST | 1 cheer | 1 comment
Today I am grateful:
-for a quiet day at home; reading, playing board games, cleaning the kitchen, etc. Nothing particularly memorable, but just a really comfortable cozy day. Room to breathe and think.
-for the look on my boy’s face when we were attempting to make cookies and he cracked an egg and nothing came out. So that’s where the other two hard-boiled eggs ended up on Christmas.
-for my boy laughing when it turned out we had no eggs with which to make cookies.
- for finishing cleaning my kitchen today while listening to NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me. Not only is my tupperware organized and matched up, but I laughed while doing it. I know that it’s not healthy how happy it makes me to have my spices alphabetized.
- Paula Poundstone’s humor
Jan 01, 04:38PM PST | 6 cheers | 1 comment
Today I am thankful:
- for my boy reading ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas’ on Christmas Eve to the whole family.
- for my boy’s concern that his wiggly teeth would fall on on Christmas Eve and there would be a traffic jam between the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.**
- for snowplows (big ones).
- for neighbors with snowblowers (little ones).
- for the impending silence once my family leaves tomorrow.
- I explained that the Tooth Fairy didn’t use the chimney, so it would be fine. Luckily I didn’t get the obvious follow-up question. How does the Tooth Fairy get inside? I think she just ‘poofs-in’, but maybe she uses the front door….
Dec 28, 06:08PM PST | 4 cheers | 1 comment
Today (and for the past few days) I have been grateful:
- for a really lovely Christmas with my family. One of the very best parts was that my sibling’s family decided to sleep on cots in my basement and that was the only area of my house that I cleaned in its entirety. Fantasically satisfing.
- for Papa (my ex) making it over to my house Christmas morning even though we were having a mammoth snowstorm and it took him 2 hours for a 5 minute drive. He called to tell me how much trouble he was having and I thought there wasn’t a chance in heck he’d make it over. The squeal of delight as he came through the door from my boy was perhaps the best moment of the whole holiday. It reminded me of the part in The Long Winter (I think it’s that one) when Mr. Edwards arrives at the door during the Christmas blizzard with maple sugar and dolls for Mary and Laura.
- for leftovers. I’ve now had a full Christmas dinner three times. Reading that over makes me feel a bit ill.
- for my brother-in-law fixing three different doorknobs in my house.
- for garden gnomes.
Dec 27, 08:15PM PST | 2 cheers | 0 comments
Today I am grateful:
- for being mostly over my cold and able to reenter society.
- for a quiet night at home with my boy. Do corndogs for dinner take me out of contention for mother of the year? Oh well. I’m looking forward to some chapters of Danny the Champion of the World tonight. He is also practicing ‘The Night Before Christmas’ so he can read it to the whole family tomorrow night before bed.
- for three!!!!! Netflix discs arriving today.
- for getting the food shopping done before the snow started falling.
- for knitting which can make the unbearable bearable.
Dec 23, 05:17PM PST | 4 cheers | 1 comment
Today I am grateful
- for an understanding family who is, at this very moment, hosting a big party at my mother’s apartment. I am home with a sore throat that feels as if it is going to explode out my neck. I can’t believe that I’m not there. I am praying that a day off and a good night’s sleep will clear things up.
- hot tea
- hot showers
- cable television
- the smell of the Christmas tree
Dec 22, 04:40PM PST | 2 cheers | 1 comment
Today I am grateful for:
- the Kevin Henkes picture book: Birds. Get it from your local library. I’m planning a Kevin Henkes storytime for mid-January and I think he’s the bees knees.
- Spending time with my sister sans children this morning
- Cupcakes. I don’t think it’s possible to eat a cupcake without smiling. There’s a place in Minneapolis, called appropriately “Cupcake” that makes tiny ones, which are perfect for me. I went there during lunch and picked up a dozen to take to work for my co-workers. The only way to immprove upon cupcakes is ‘surprise cupcakes’. (Reading that over again, it sounds like some kind of stripper move)
- Wonderfully fun dreams last night. I love that time right after you wake up when you are trying not to let go of your dream and it starts to get all whispy and finally you are left replaying the highlights in your mind.
- that the parts of my house I cleaned recently, are staying clean (so far) (more or less)
Dec 21, 08:30PM PST | 5 cheers | 0 comments
