Thankful Thursday 2-5-15

February is here already, 2015 is cruising along. I’m feeling a bit scattered at the moment, so while I did start my list early this week so that part is well-developed, I don’t really have a neat opening paragraph. It’s been a rather variable week – from bored to over-busy, from very cold to warm-ish, from by myself to having visitors, from happy to sad, and back again for all of them. I suppose it’s just life, but not all weeks contain such a range (especially in the case of visitors, at least for me.)

To spare you from my ramblings, and my brain from more pummeling, here is the list of things I have found to be thankful for this week:

• left turn arrows – well, protected cross-traffic turns in general, they are much less nerve-wracking for me than the non-protected sort
• the calming power of deep breaths
  

  Winterbare trees, Maine
  12/24/11

• an extended weekend visit from my parents – so good to see them again after nearly seven months, even if the visit was on short enough notice that I didn’t manage to clean my apartment as much as I may have liked. Thankfully, there were some clean bits left from when I cleaned for the window repairmen and my parents are gracious. 🙂
• finally finding a workaround for my broken feedreader that helps me keep updated on all the blogs I enjoy. It had been down for a month. Now for the catching up…
• Reese’s peanut butter cups, especially the miniature ones, as I feel they have a better chocolate-to-peanut-butter ratio (there are currently some set out in a little bowl on the desk of my department’s administrative assistant, though less than there were.)
• bumping into a high school friend on the internet I’d lost touch with years ago – having gone to high school where I did, my friends wound up scattered far and wide. I am very grateful for those I’ve managed to keep in contact with, but I lost some along the way. It was quite a moment when it clicked in my head who this blogger who’d liked my About page was. 😀

And there are more, I’m sure, but I’m stopping there for now. Here’s to working traffic signals, renewed contact with family and old friends, and tiny chocolate peanut-buttery nuggets of goodness. Have you had any of the above in your week? Or anything else you’re thankful for? Please do share!

[Edit: apparently I forgot to put a title on this post when I published it – so much for proofreading 😛 If you follow me by email, that’s the reason for the funny title on what you received. Corrected now.]