Quick non listy update...

Normal service will be resumed when I, my little notebook, and my laptop are all united in the same place!

It's been interesting doing this for a fortnight now. Sometimes I almost forget, but most nights I setle down with my notebook just before brushing my hair in bed if i've not managed to do it during the day.

I do feel quite cheery today. We had some awesome news today, which I think might of made top of all the lists so far - cautiously. I want to see proof of it first... I think today is 15/365, but I'll hopefully catch up tomorrow!

Grace in Small Things: 8 of 365

Election day! I woke this morning with a sense of optimism that we were standing on the brink of history. Watching the first results in now, I'm a little alarmed by the exit poll figures. I guess we won't know till tomorrow morning though!

1. Feeling optimistic and excited about todays election - for the first time since I've been able to vote, the outcome is not certain. I felt like we might get something better...
   
2. I'm incredibly thankful that I can vote. Both as an individual in a country, and also as a woman - I was bought up learning about the suffragist movement, and am proud and excited to cast my vote - every single time!
   
3. I've finally got my outfit almost sorted for my cousins wedding at the weekend. The releif is massive and quite palpable. Just bits of accessorising to do now!
   
4. The lovely lady in my WW class who made me feel so much better about things, and
   gave me some very good advice!
   
5. Dave is looking so much less grey, and so much happier. It's so nice to see, and I feel like I'm getting my husband back. :o)

Grace in Small Things: 7 of 365

Another day where this is tricky. I’ve not really moved or done much else but work today, which is, I suppose, in itself a blessing under the circumstances, but it makes this harder to list along with the glums that are besetting me again. I’ve been very grateful for this already over the last few days, it’s making me less inclined to wallow!

1. Bertie is just the cutest thing ever when he washes himself – his big long pink tongue running along the side of his paw and then round the back of his ear with his eyes screwed up tight – just the cutest thing in the world. Never fails to make me smile.
   
2. I am grateful for the fact that I can work at home on Wednesdays. Not going in has made a world of difference to me today, and I feel in less pain today – no tablets so far, quite the achievement at the moment!
   
3. There is a lovely smell that I keep catching in our house, and I don’t quite know what it is. It’s flowery, and sweet, and pretty and I’ve no idea where it is coming from but it’s very nice.
   
4. Dave is coming home a bit early today, so all four of us will have tea together for the first time in ages. I’m looking forward to that.
   
5. I had two very lovely, caring comments on the WW forum I post in today, both of which made me smile at how lucky I am to have found friendship in some slightly odd places!

Grace in Small Things: 6 of 365

Today is the sort of day where this is going to come in handy, I feel. I am not having a great day, and I am prickly with not-quite-insults, stupidity of work situations and health stuff. I shall now attempt to think positive for a bit to try and turn my head around.

1. There is a front garden that I walk past, and its border is filled with bluebells and tulips and the beginnings of rosemary (or lavender? Some lovely smelling green thing) is just beginning to start coming through. It’s the most lovely smiley burst of sunshine of a border.
   
2. Tomorrow, I do not need to go into the office, and I can sit out the silly emails and move things from one box to another in my pyjamas. In bed. I bloody love Wednesdays.
   
3. I had the foresight this morning to wear thermal long johns under my trousers, and I have been enjoying their snugly warmth all day.
   
4. Dave resigned. Thank goodness that’s over with. Now we just need to sort out details and firm up a contract... I know it will be fine but Dave is fretting. A lot. But the really scary awful bit is over and done with!

Argh, this is hard today. Harder than it should be.

1. Dave is on his way home, in daylight, and will arrive in daylight. When he arrives, I’ll get the hug that I’ve been longing for all day, and I’m looking forward to that more than I can say!

Grace in Small Things: 5 of 365

So, here I am, up to date. I’m quite pleased and surprised with my performance so far, but it’s early days!

1. I’m looking forward to my bath in a moment – it will be all warm and relaxing, then into my jamas and bed, I think!
   
2. Fry’s Turkish delight. I had a sneaky bar and it was delicious – it always reminds me of my childhood. Sucking the chocolate off the outside before eating the soft, sweet Turkish delight inside. Yum.
   
3. The smell of the kitchen whilst cooking lunch – I made a cranberry glazed gammon and it smelled of cloves, cranberries and bitter sweetness - somehow just like church when I used to sing in the choir.
   
4. Another Bertie moment – playing with him and curling up on the floor with him, him reaching out his paw to check if I’m still alive as I’ve stopped moving. I’m sure he knows when I’m feeling in desperate need of a bit of loving and calming!
   
5. Catching up here, and the satisfaction of five days done.

Grace in Small Things: 4 of 365

I’ve had a couple of not being webby days, but I did write down my 5 things on a bit of paper. So here they are, retrospectively!

1. Finding that the closed down cheap shop has been replaces by a poundland – more bargains! Hurrah!
   
2. Seeing the look of pure joy on Lottie’s face at discovering what poundland is actually about, particularly the 300 waterbombs for £1...
   
3. Coming home and seeing the pretty much finished wardrobe that Dave has built now with the strategic help from my dad – I’m so excited I’ve almost got somewhere to be able to store my bed linen that isn’t all scrunched up in drawers! I’ll be able to find things! Ooh!
   
4. The feeling of Dave’s head when he’s not shaved it in a little while, and it’s all soft and fuzzy and lovely, like a cross between a peach and a small furry thing, like a hamster!
   
5. Sitting still and having Bertie jump up on my lap, purring, only to fall asleep with him for about 20 minutes. Warm contented cat napping from both of us!

Grace in Small Things: 3 of 365

I’ve had a couple of not being webby days, but I did write down my 5 things on a bit of paper. So here they are, retrospectively!

1. Mum and Dad – they are just so generous, not only with their time and money, but love. They came over today and helped us out in a huge way by doing littlethings that I can’t manage which brings us to number two:
   
2. Clean carpet. I never thought I would feel so pleased to have a bit of carpet cat hair and wool bobble free. Mum put the hoover over for me and I can’t say how much more relaxed it has made me – silly, I know!
   
3. Lottie decorated some gingerbread men biscuits with smarties and jelly tot sweets, and some icing. Mine had these HUGE sticky out googly eyes and were utterly brilliant!
   
4. Sitting still, quietly with my magazine. It’s nice to have some peace for five minutes.
   
5. Catching sight of the scar on Dave’s shin that he’s got from rubbing on the saddle without adjusting his chaps on honeymoon. It made me think of the lovely time we had and how lucky I am to have him. Insert large daft cheesey grin here!