for flexible schedules

for friends who are easy to get along with, and friends of friends who include you in their favors.

that we got rejected from that first dinner place so we could end up having the perfect dinner (and martinis) at the second

for a safe flight and arrival, and that even though i thought i might have been abandoned i wasn't and i got found.

push the pause button

i'll be picking things to be thankful for but not posting them for a little while. i'll be back in 7-10 days.

that my office is the perfect temperature this morning.
it makes a huge difference.

for a cloudy, grey day. i feel relieved.

for evidence that there are people who actually do want to spend time with me.

that the paperwork fiasco is almost over and responsibility is now out of my hands.

that i have skills. they may not be mad skills nor even slightly perturbed ones, but they are skills and they help me get by.

that what i had been procrastinating for weeks took only 15-20 minutes to do. makes me feel foolish, but i'm thankful it was easy nonetheless.

for the renewal of a Kingdom mind; for the revelation of ever-deepening knowledge of steadfast spiritual truths.

(like when you think you already know something but for no apparent reason it hits you like a thunderclap the significance of what that thing means, and how much more it means what it means than you originally thought.)

for a little more time, just a little more time...

for the luxuriously soft cosy slippers that await my feet every morning by the side of my bed.

for how helpful it is to have a friend share her perspective of things.

the long night is over, everybody's okay, and i only have to do those for another few months.

that i didn't oversleep despite forgetting to set my alarm, and that i haven't developed any mrsa abscesses. eww!

that there are co-workers and friends who will stick up for me even when i am not around.

"that's dr. [bunny]. she doctored me and now i'm all better."

... even cuter than the whistling baby.

that sometimes it's okay that i didn't finish my tasks for the day.

that once you do it, it's not as bad as you thought it would be. then you feel silly for procrastinating.

ummm. uhhhh...

that despite how old i feel inside, there's no mistaking that i still have my youth.

that i have an appetite that can nearly always accommodate any good-food situation i may encounter, at any time.

and that i have the ability to turn down food at any time as well.

that i never went through an adolescent phase of angst and bitterness featuring observations about the world that i think are novel and clever but are actually rather spiteful and trite.

wait, i take that back.

that i'm not in a phase like that now.

argh. it's time. it's close to time. i don't want to get up. any time now. (peek) it's 5:38. why hasn't my alarm gone off yet? oh yeah, because i don't work until 9:00 this morning. i can sleep for two more hours...!

... for two more hours of sleep, since i really had trouble sleeping last night.

that rain + day off = stay in bed.

for no trips!

that even though they are a major source of discontent, pressure, and tension in my life, my perfectionism and intense fear of failure make me good at what i do, which, in turn, benefits others.

that the twelve hour shifts are so much easier than the sixteen hour ones.

for various personal freedoms.

that my brother is safe and unharmed, and his true valuables weren't stolen.

that i just happened to be sitting next to the woman i'd chosen to be my cardiologist at dinner tonight.

for a happy ending instead of what could have been a disastrous one.