1. Last night, I had a really vivid and somewhat bizarre dream. I don't like the kind of dreams that mess with your head.
2. This evening, I drove by a light that shut off when I was under it. It reminded me of my Senegal days and the infamous light that always shut off when Cori and I walked under it!
3. I started seriously working on my downstairs bathroom today. Filled in the two huge holes the girl who lived here before me left. I love this kind of stuff.
4. It is really cold here. I never thought I'd say it - but today was a rare day when I asked myself why I ever moved back here from SC.
   
5. Last year after working with kids for a semester I ended up with walking pneumonia and pleurisy...I have been sick for the last week and am just praying that pleurisy is not in my near future.
6. Today I looked up information about the Grand Canyon. A first step in reaching my dream of going there before Feb. 10, 2009.
   
7. NyQuil is good stuff. One of those drugs that I am very thankful for.
8. It has been 6 months since I have been to a beach. That is far too long. I miss the ocean so very much.
9. Even though my job is not one that I want to continue with for long, it is nice to be greeted in the morning with children running at me and hugging my legs (they are only 2 and 3...so very short - even compared to me!).
10. Sometimes I call my friends across the US for no reason but to hear a friendly voice and to let them know I love them. This isn't the Iowa I left 4.5 years ago.