20/12/2012

Today is the 20th day of the 12th month in the year 2012 on Thursday...

Outside it is a perfectly calm and beautiful morning - not a cloud in the sky - at least from where I'm sitting there isn't! In fact, it looks like sunshine all day and I hope to make the most of it while I can...

The forecast for today is a high of 27 degrees celsius and 15 degrees celsius at the lowest - the weather looks like rain from Friday through to Monday Christmas Eve, all the more reason to make the most of such a gorgeous day today!!

I'm still at work at the moment, completing my night shift and right now it is 0615 in the morning and the sun is absolutely brilliant - shining its light throughout the region...

Today I will visit my daughter and grand-daughter - just over 5 weeks old today or one month and 9 days old...she's nearly 9lbs already! She was 7lbs 3oz at birth on the 11/11/12.

I need to tidy up at home too...house-cleaning has fallen by the wayside in the last few days due to my shiftwork and helping out my daughter and baby...xmas shopping? mainly online at this stage because we just haven't had much time to go shopping, although last Sunday we managed to do some grocery shopping...

I've been given a container of strawberries - unexpected but truly appreciated... anyway, I will try to update this blog later on today! Bye bye for now - the current time is 0642am...

The news today says the Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador is spewing lava... Samoa had been ravaged by Cyclone Evan last Thursday..

I bought a nappy bucket, pegs, flexi-tub and xmas wrap and a pack of 40 rolls of loo-paper at The Warehouse when I finished work this morning. Stopped at Paknsave for Just Juice (2x3litre bottles), cream, Dilmah tea bags and International Roast coffee for Pete. Went home, had strawberries, weetbix and cream for breakfast. Went to bed for a quick nap and got up again around 11.30am.  Me and my teenage son went to my daughter's place and spent the rest of the afternoon there with her and baby. The plunket lady came and checked and weighed baby - she was 4kg or 9lb 15oz and thriving. I hung up two loads of washing, it was still a gorgeous day and quite hot - my son took the labrador for a walk. We came back home around 6pm so I managed a couple of hrs nap before having to get ready for work at 9pm.


And now its the morning of the 21st December 2012....


Outside it is heavily overcast - lots of cloud and all that gorgeous blue sky hidden away, birds are still tweeting, still warm outside...

Joyful and triumphant...

o come ye o come ye to Bethlehem....

that song sings loudly in my mind along with other favorites...like "Joy to the World" and "Hallelujah" etc

Anyway, this blog is about things that bring me joy and happiness -

• being grateful to my friends and family for their kindnesses, for being there, for being available when I reach out...
• being called upon for my advice, presence, opinions...
• having time to myself to contemplate, reminisce, imagine, meditate, dream...
• sharing my joy with others
• sharing love and happiness
• finding solutions and solving problems
• being organized and knowing what to do when asked
• listening to favourite music
• shopping, browsing, observing...
• people watching...
• watching funny videos
• watching 'feel-good' movies