Good Things: 1.12.18

Each week, I try to end on a high note: with a list of good things that happened over the course of the week. My life is fairly busy and often I tend to focus on the bad, stressful or distressing things that happened. To help myself see, appreciate and be grateful for the blessings in my life, I’m choosing to set aside time each week to list out a few of them.

I highly recommend it and suggest you do the same. With no further ado, here are a few good things from the week that was:

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A fun dinner with sweet friends. Once a month, I get together with a few of the coworkers who became like family to me during my decade (plus) at LifeWay. My friend Mike and his wife, Tricia, set the menu and open up their house to us, and the rest of us brings sides and desserts. It’s always a good time of conversation and laughter—and suggestions of what to watch next on Netflix. I’m grateful for these people and the sweet ways they continue to pour into my life even though we don’t see each other every day anymore.

1. Making progress on a goal, even if it hurts. I don’t really do resolutions. But I do like to go into a new year with some goals. One of my goals for 2018 is to get back into a routine of exercising regularly. So this week, I went back to a class I have loved in the past at the YMCA, Les Mills Body Pump. The Downtown Y started offering a course on Tuesdays, and that’s fairly easy to get to from work (not as easy with the demolished LifeWay building in the way) and I could take a class while Nashville traffic died down then head home and eat dinner. Let’s just say it wasn’t pretty getting back into the routine of regular exercise. I thought I might die somewhere around the bicep track. But I persevered and am glad I went. Even if I’m really, really sore.

2. Chocolate, coffee and great coworkers. There have been some stressful days in the office this week, to say the least. In the midst of it, some of the moments of sanity have been brought to you by Ghiradelli squares, a lot of coffee and wonderful coworkers who were some of my biggest cheerleaders (and bringers of coffee).

3. Inclement weather. I don’t often wish for snow days since I am involved in communications for a university and canceling class often means early mornings filled with emails, cancelation posts and calls to TV stations to announce the closure. But with impending ice apparently on the way, classes are canceled and administrative offices are closed. It’s nice to not have to worry about driving anywhere!