Thankful #4

Okay, I get two today.  I am thankful that I got taken out to dinner by my best friend and her daughter.  It was fun.

Thankful #3

Tonight I am thankful that I am tired enough to go to bed early.  Tomorrow is an early day.  Granted early for me is before midnight.  I am pooped and it is a good feeling.  Goodnight moon.

Thankful #2

I am thankful for the Eta Sigma email list.  Those men make me laugh every day, often out loud.  They make me smile and they cause me to think.  When I am around them I simultaneously feel like a princess and one of the guys (and thinking of what they would do with that statement makes me smile). I feel so very lucky to be included in their conversations and their lives.

Thankful #1

I am thankful for that moment just after you have explained something to a student and you ask "does that make sense?"  And they light up and say "yeah."  Even, "yeah, I think so."  It is when something that I have said resonates with them and they get it on some level.  And having that, that resonance, is what takes them farther on their journey.
So on a broader level, I am thankful for my students.  They truly amaze and delight me.  They make me proud.  They push me to be better and expand myself.

Thankful Posts

Please note that my Thankful posts aren't in any particular order.  If I were to put them in order, friends and family would come first.  They are coming up in the order which my scattered brain percolates them up.  Please don't take umbrage at my percolating brain, just be glad it is percolating.

Funny...odd and random.

Funny...

I wrote about the first day of my last trip to NYC and then nothing.  hmmm...

I wrote nothing of my travels since and there have been plenty.  Most for work, one fabulous one for fun.  And always a little fun thrown into the work trips (don't tell work, they think I am horribly serious ;) ).

Just noting that.  Perhaps I will post something of my trips this last 12 months.  We shall see.

Right now.  I just figured writing about something I am thankful about each day, might just help. 

Help what you ask?  Life in general.  I feel a bit mired down.  And that seems like a good way to get up out of the muck.

Let's see how this goes.

the Birthday Beer, Books and the Bronx Tour Begins

I woke up this morning at 7a to church bells. They were beautiful. Then I rolled back over and went to sleep. I slept 8-9 hours last night. I was asleep by 10:30 EST, which means it was 7:30p at home. I so wanted to venture out and run an errand or see a friend or two that bartend, but I was pooped.

I am staying in a room in a wonderful apartment in the East Village. Granted it looked a lot more together in the pictures on line, but its is nice and clean and feels safe. I am off now to meet a friend at Sotheby's and see the end of an auction and have lunch. Then I am going to the main branch of the NYC Public Library for a tour. I may take an audio tour through the park after that. hmmmm.... then perhaps a beer. I do need to buy my book club book while I am here as I need to finish it (and start it for that matter) before 10/30.

(I don't think this is very interesting writing, more of note to myself) I do hope to take pictures and post them as well as write of adventures.

I suppose my biggest adventure so far was having my friend pick me up at the airport. That was an easy adventure, I was just nervous about it - more nervous about how I would feel. And all went well. :)