Counting My Blessings

So it’s been a bit of a crappy week - and then today to top it all off - I was so frustrated with something that happened at work - I left at 1pm.  Went by the church office to help with multimedia stuff - and had a bit of a frustrating time there also - so on my way home I was trying to think of my blessings this week and decided that maybe I could get myself out of this funk by counting my blessings and there are two that really stand out.

First was my dinner last Saturday night.  A very belated thanks and kudos to baker Holly for a wonderful devil’s food cake!  And even better fudge!  I have to come back soon for more fudge!  I traveled up to Thousand Oaks last weekend for dinner with the Newton clan.  And as Jan always says - a fun time was had by all - at least in my opinion.  Their church youth group was having a spaghetti dinner and dessert auction that night so we went to that - good food and lots of fun.  And what a treat to finally meet Jan’s husband, David - just a really nice guy - and to meet the pups, Scooby, Shadow and Daphne.  I look forward to dinner again sometime soon so I can hear about the trip to Paris!  So after dinner - Jan was heading over to Burbank to visit that Pinkberry (Jan - did you get the google alert?!).  There was someone in town that she wanted to meet - so since the night was still young (only 9pm!) I went on with her.  We got there and the place was hopping!  I tried the pom swirl with the new Belgian chocolate shaving toppings.  They were good - but I liked the milk chocolate better.  Dark chocolate would be good - that has become my new favorite chocolate - isn’t it considered a health food now?!  It was fun - we sat a chatted a bit - her friend Eric is the regional manager for that store and since he was working that evening - he sat for a moment and chatted as well.  It really was a fun night - thanks to Jan, David and Holly for such a good evening!

And then last night - I went and had dinner with my friend Tana, my old college roommate.  I have been a bit of a bad egg and haven’t kept up with her and her family - or any of my married with children friends the last year or two - am trying to change that - I’m having dinner with another college roommate on Monday.  So last night I had dinner with Tana and her family - and we had a good time - we had really good conversation and then the kids wanted to play this game - I think it’s called Werewolf - or something like that - it is a fascinating game of observation and human behavior.  We only played two rounds since it was getting late - and although the kids were off today - I wasn’t.

So there were definitely blessings this week - I had a really good group of students and Bible Study, as always, was good.   Those are the things I need to hang on to and try to forget the rest. 

Post Script:  So I wrote this when I first got home today - life improved quite a bit after that - Sadie and I laid on the couch for a while and then I got together with our prayer group and finally ended the evening at dinner with friends - Life is definitely looking up!