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Nice customer service.

I'm so grateful for good customer service. So P's bike was stolen and we had a bike basket attached. Well, the day the bike was stolen, the basket was in our home. But the thief got the part where you can attach the basket to the bike. I contacted Amazon to see if I could buy just that part. They instead are replacing the whole thing. Wow. Unexpected. Thank you. That's like costco level of customer service!

71. Fresh Flowers. Laundry Machine.

The winters I grew up in were cold. The kind that you had to bundle up, put on snow boots, and still the wind would find it's way into your jacket. So today I am thankful for the 71 degree sunshine... in January. My porch door is open and I'm loving this. My mind is still trying to wrap itself around this... what? 70 degree weather and it's "winter"? Run that by me again? I'm wearing shorts?

I've gotten into the habit of buying fresh flowers while at the store. My dad (parents were visiting this past week) mentioned that it made our home feel like a hotel or restaurant. Why save the little things for "out there" versus have the special things here too? I love the way it brightens up our dark apartment.

Oh how I am thankful for our laundry machine! I've done 11 loads already this month (that's higher than usual as we've had guests coming in and out and I was catching up with holiday and travel laundry). Anyhow I am so grateful that I didn't have to haul all the laundry up and down stairs, across the complex buildings, and then carefully time everything so no one else touched the laundry (I'm particular). Thanks P for this present. It makes chores less... chore-some.

Bribes. Flowers. Sunshine!

I am grateful that I can still bribe myself... sometimes. I'm suppose to be working, like most days, but have trouble focusing. I've brought out the big guns to bribe myself to work (does this mean that I am officially going nuts?)... candy. Although I think I am eating more candy than output of work. Sigh, I can't trick myself enough.

I don't know what it is about having fresh flowers around the house, but they make everything so bright. I've been sick and haven't been able to get out of the house. I'm grateful for pretty vases and pretty flowers in them.

Speaking of bright things... I heart sunshine. So one thing I don't miss about the midwest, especially from when I lived in Michigan is the dreary winter days. Here in the south, we keep pretending it's summer... all year round. Except when it snows... then we don't pretend it's summer. Anyhow I look out this window and I'd believe it if you told me it was August.

My "job." Free medicine. Working emails.

I've been under the weather the past few days. My nasal passages are congested which brings me to the place of miserable. However, I am still thankful. I'm thankful that my "job" as a student allows me to stay home-- on days I feel great and on days I feel bad. Today, I haven't done much work but my job allows fluctuation like today.

So one of the perks of being student is student insurance. And yea, although not ... free per se, it still feels pretty awesome to walk up to a desk and swipe your ID card and walk away with cough syrup, cough drops, bandages, etc. We loaded up before we left town and I am chowing down my way through our lozenges collection. Time to get more when I go back to defend!

My adviser got my paper and is looking at it now. She'll be in town this week and we'll meet and figure out next steps. I'm grateful when email messages work. Okay, now to go write a bunch since I've been kind of a slacker today.

The digital age. Pen & Paper. Gummy Vitamins.

I'm grateful that my class notes and reading notes are all digital. There was a moment of inspiration earlier today and I knew it was from one of my classes... and a simply search turned up the source and bam! suddenly the manuscript is three page longer. Hooray. It was also interesting reading through my class notes again, I wonder how much of that information has retained.

At the same time that I am thankful for the digital age, I do like having pen and paper. Writing down things just helps me organize. My desk is a mess of little notes I've written myself, reminding me to go back to page this and that to add that tidbit and clarify that point. Having notes on my desktop isn't quite the same. But maybe that's how I'm wired. I do like my notebook documenting this journey, where I've written passing thoughts and little insights. Now that would not be the same if it were digital. Right?

And finally, gummy vitamins! I've always been pretty inconsistent in eating my vitamins but when they taste like yummy gummies in shapes of cars? No problem here consuming it. Now my problem is remembering if I've already had some today.

Filtered water. Funny kid quotes. Rest.

Two things thankful from Sunday and one from today. It's been a full year 2013 for me. Adviser wants a draft by Friday which means I've been writing a lot. I wanted to send it out yesterday so I pushed myself hard, maybe a bit too much-- by the end of the day I was exhausted-- physically, mentally, and emotionally. I didn't realize that writing could have such an impact on me. Anyhow taking things a little easier today.

I'm thankful for filtered water. Moving to this city, where water from the tap is... kind of gross tasting, I'm so grateful for water filters. I'm also grateful for my big water bottles, that yes, are quite heavy when thrown in my purse, but quenches my thirst when doing my errands. I remember when we first moved here, because the summer heat was so much, if I forgot my water bottle, I would have to go buy something to drink. Fresh, clean water rocks.

What else did I jot down from Sunday? Oh, right funny kid quotes. Kids are just funny sometimes. I suppose it balances things out from when they're naughty. Anyhow, at church P was explaining to our friend's kid why we do communion. And so he asked the kid, do you have anything to confess? The kid say, Oh, yes, I have a lot. And turns and walks away. I cracked up.

Today I am thankful for rest. And not feeling guilty that I haven't opened Word to write anything. I'll do a bit of work before heading to bed but letting my body and brain rest, was definitely a good plan. Thank you God for making Sabbath and being an example of what it means to rest.