Good Morning, Monday

It's Monday and as I think on my past week, both good and bad events, I'm happy with the ways things happened. I won't discount the bad because I tried to respond with a positive action. Here's a list of the beautifully simple things I was left with. 

~Eating a pint of Butter Pecan ice cream more than once this week  (it's getting hotter :p Yum!)

~Finishing up some work in the light of a giant window at my local library  (I used to visit libraries all the time, I remembered that there's such a peace there)

~Hand washing my car early Sunday morning because my dad was coming to church with me

~Enjoying long conversations on the phone with my grandma more than twice this week

~Receiving mail that isn't a bill or a check

~Going out to a bar with a friend only to leave an hour later to go home and talk at the kitchen table

~Reading for fun! Being enveloped by the story.

~Watching the morning news.  (1 being up that early and not having to go to work. 2 not having to go to work!)

~And no rush to do any of it. I almost feel like I don't want to grind this Monday morning. Can't we stay in bed a little longer? ;)


Enjoy today.

This is where I want to be... I so badly want to cuddle with Under The Tuscan Sun. I'm preparing for Italy :)

Since I've started this job, all I've wanted to do is read. Sit under the Tuscan sun and read, lay in bed and r e a d. I have the urge to just enjoy a good, written story. And eventually, I want a room in my house designated for reading, like a library. Nothing too grand, but it's gotta be a comfortable place that has lots of books, magazines, movies, and CDs.. with a big, comfy couch. I imagine this is it, with a modern twist:

(source: fritzhansen)