Love Thursday: gratitude

Today is the big "layoffs" here at work. The clouds gloomed over our 6 buildings as I drove up around 9 am. I walked in the building and into my area to find everyone staring at their monitors and clicking quietly, pretending to work, while they sit and wonder if they are next to be called in the doomed conference room, stocked with kleenex!

Shortly after I got settled in, my boss calls me in his office. I saw a smile on his face, a sincere one, so I knew that he was about to tell me something good. "You're safe", he said. ... as I plopped with relief into the chair in front of his desk.

More details were discussed... then I thanked him, and I told him that i really, trully, love my job!

I've been here over 8 years now. This is so far the second round of RIFs. First one was around the dot com crash in the early 2000s.

Leaving your house to drive to work and not knowing whether you are coming back home jobless is probably one of the worst feelings in the world... for anyone. Especially now, during this hard economic time.

So today, for love thursday, I am loving my job. Most of all, I am thankful.

Love Thursday: I love this season

I love the hot weather, the tank tops, and the flip flops.

And although I hate driving in the rain, I love this season just as well. I love the cold crisp air, the holidays, snowboarding, christmas shopping, and dessert baking.

Honestly, I am feeling quite festive already.

A little bit overwhelmed, but festive.

The fall and winter seasons' a big event in our family. Just in the next three and half months we will be celebrating Halloween, Thanksgiving, Wedding Anniversary, Christmas, New Year's, wonder baby's 1st Birthday, and wonder boy's 4th Birthday!

So yeah, just a little bit overwhelmed.

But festive.

And I love this season!

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Love Thursday: my bff

Rochelle, who turned 34 yesterday. Who became my friend when she was 14, twenty years ago! Lost her somewhere in between, and found her again in 2002. According to Meredith from Grey's Anatomy, we all need "a person". Lucky for me, she IS "my person". The one who I can talk to about anything and everything. The one who I HAVE to talk to about anything and everything. I only wish that she wasn't all the way in Maryland, because life would probably be so much different if she were down the street.

But anyhow, near or far, she's always just a phone call away, and near my heart.

Happy love thursday to all, and Happy Birthday to you my bff!

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Love Thursday: love for art therapy

After completing wonder boy's manila folder homework, a sudden urge to scrap is slowly creeping up to me. But I keep shoving it, and blocking it, and denying it... like, who's got time for that? I don't even have money to go shopping for crafts anymore! homework or scrapbook?

But clearly, I need to just open my arms and embrace it, because it is something that I love. And maybe, just maybe, art therapy is what I need to get to my place of zen once again.

So, maybe I'm not a scrapbooking drop-out after all, just on hiatus.


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Love Thursday

In the spirit of Shutter Sisters' love thursdays, today is going to be my love post.

The other day, hubby surprised me with a movie rental - - "Sex in the City" (loved it!)

Not only did he (surprise) rent it for me (the first week it came out on dvd), but he also watched it with me. Although he called it the "ultimate chick-flick", he liked the movie too (i think!)

Now, how many husbands out there will do such a thing?

Probably not that many!

Sometimes in the midst of our hectic lives filled with poopie diapers and challenging schedules, we can easily take for granted the small things in life that matters most. But it's the little stuff like this that constantly reminds me of why I fall in love with him over and over and over again♥

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