Nothing to complain about

Yup, tonight, I'm feeling pretty good about life. I'm pretty blessed, you know? I have a job I love - where else do I get to stand up in front of a group of people and teach them about Common Underlying Language Proficiency and about top down and bottom up reading theories and about different models of multilingual education?! And the best part about our current workshop is that these guys are getting it! They're smart, they know something about education, they have good English... it's really been good to work with them.

And I have some good friends to laugh and talk with. We've started a Tuesday evening prayer time with some of the women who are based in this town, and it's been so good to get to know people a bit better, and to know that some of them might actually stick around for longer than a few weeks (though there is still quite a high turnover!). But at least some folks have stuck around, and there are some really wonderful people around here to get to know. I'm blessed. There's even a family with some little children and a baby, so nearly every week, I get to hold a little baby for a while! There's just something so therapeutic and relaxing about snuggling with a tiny little person for a while.

And I also have some fun restaurants to go to - tonight, before our prayer meeting, I met a few folks for dinner at a new restaurant, and my oh my, I was impressed! I had a chicken quesadilla (I don't know how to spell it, but the waiter didn't know how to say it - he pronounced all the "l"s. He also pronounced the "j" in Rita's chicken fajita :) ). My quesadilla had cheese and salsa in it, but they didn't have the avocados to make any guacamole :( Oh well, maybe next time! But the place was really nice, the food was good, and it was nice and cool inside.

And I have a comfortable house with electricity (it came back on tonight, yahoo!) and internet and running water.

I mean, really, what more does a girl need? I am very blessed indeed... and of course, all of this is in addition to the every day blessings of air to breath and healthy lungs with which to breath it, grace and mercy and compassion and redemption for all the stupid things I do and say every day, and all those other blessings that I take for granted all the time! Yup, blessed indeed.