POSITIVITY: post some here :)

Dd dancing to positoovity from The Little Mermaid.

 

I get in a funk about approaching winter as well. I also love leaf rain (what we call it). I have a tree in my back yard with bazillions of little tiny leaves and on windy days in the fall we can just stand under it while it rains around us. I love that.

I have to figure out how to post a photo to go with my positive story. I'll be back.

Well, I can't post my photo. I took it because it was such a simple thing that made me smile and touched my heart. It was a stack of Post-it flags on my desk when I got to work one morning this week. I work for a nonprofit where we measure the cost of feeding children in orphanages and refugee camps around the world in quarters. Yet we are a small staff who all wear a ton of hats, so it can be easy to lose focus on small ways to not be wasteful as we rush through our tasks. 

I've become the annoying office person making sure people recycle, and we use what we have so we can save money, and we don't order what we don't need, etc. it means a lot to me, but really only me. The other five of us don't take it very seriously. 

But I showed up on Friday and there was a stack of post-it flags I had used to flag some copies on a check deposit for our finance director. She saved them all so I could reuse them and stuck them on my desk for me. Such a small guesture, but I still smile when I think of it! 

Walking my dog through my neighborhood just now, on a lovely crips Fall day. What should have been maybe a 20-minute walk (distance-wise I mean) took me an hour because of everyone who was also outside enjoying the weather. Of course I had to stop and talk to everyone, and my dog had to stop and talk to her friends too.   I love my neighborhood. 

It is a gorgeous day in southern California also. Our leaves don't fall until later, but it's coming one of these days. I sure can't complain about our winters most of the time either--other than I'd LOVE to have some snow sometime.

My great niece is expecting a baby boy in 3 weeks.  She works at the front desk of a hotel so she sees quite a few people each day. Many often comment on her belly and ask when she is due etc. But what is amazing is how generous a couple of the guests have been. One came in the next day with a diaper bouquet.  Diaper Bouquet  (link until I can figure out how to post pics)  It is soooooo pretty.  A few days later, a gentleman handed her a $100 bill and told her to promise him she would spend it on the baby.  Amazing generosity from complete strangers!  Makes my heart happy.

I'm halfway through chemo.
They reduced my last dose and they've reduced my steroids a bit.
I feel really good.
I've been out for meals/coffee four times this week and sat outside in the sunshine.
Today we went to an alpaca farm and my sister came too.
I am 35 next week. Occasionally I'm surprised I've made it this far!

I usually do my grocery shopping by myself, today my husband decided to tag along. We made a whole day of it. Got lunch, stopped by the mall, and finally made our way to Trader Joe’s. It wasn’t anything spectacular or mind blowing, but we had so much fun just the two of us.

Tmw w/any luck I'm going to buy the new mixer I really want. It's baking season and I'm super excited. That's my positive. Anytime I can fatten up the neighborhood it's a good day indeed.

I haven't experienced it yet, but hot cocoa season is almost here. 
Looking forward to my first cup of hot cocoa, topped with whipped cream, drizzled with caramel sauce.

I'm favorite yarn company based in Michigan was in NYC for a trunk show. I figured I wouldn't be able to go; the yarn is pricey and I've been trying to restrain myself from buying non necessities. I mentioned this to DH. Who proceeded to put money in my bank account. And then he was so excited for me and my yarn. And he paid a speeding ticket I didn't know I even had.

Oh and I had a friend over (something I never do) to show her some scrapbooking tips.

No walks at 11:00 pm here, winter or summer! Usually I do the morning walk and my dh does the evening walk. He takes her out at 8:00 right after "Jeopardy" is over, unless it's in the middle of summer and blazing hot...then he might wait till later. When he travels though I have to do both walks. He's in Kazakhstan at the moment which means I do the evening walk by 5:00. Then we do a quick potty break around 10:00, which my dog is just as happy to do quickly also because she wants to go to bed. lol. I don't walk late because I watch "Criminal Minds" and I know what happens to people out there.    

I spent part of the morning with one of my closest friends who was in from Florida and her daughter who is here working as a travel nurse and my dd. Then, tonight we went to a party that my brother in law and his girlfriend had and my dd and her boyfriend and both of my sons and one of their girlfriends ds were there. Love when we are all together. It was a great day.