Susanne at Living to Tell the Story hosts a “Friday Fave Five” in which we share our five favorite things from the past week. Click on the button to read more of the details, and you can visit Susanne to see the list of others’ favorites or to join in.
1. It hasn’t been quite so swelteringly hot this week (at least it didn’t feel as hot to me) and what rain we did get wasn’t a bad storm. But we did have to call the AC guy out to service our AC because it hadn’t been quite keeping up, and now it’s running beautifully. Thank God for AC and AC guys.
2. More details are coming together for Jason’s wedding next month: dates decided on to travel, flights scheduled for a couple of people, hotel booked for us and wedding party and my family coming in from TX.
3. A friend of a friend gave them a free dryer and they found a table and chairs on sale.
4. A new monitor for my PC. Mine had been getting harder and harder to get to come on and stay on, and finally last Saturday it just died completely. I’m thankful that if it had to happen it did so on a day when my husband was home and had time to deal with it, so I was only without access to my computer for most of Saturday. I’m thankful to Jim and Jeremy for buying and installing it for me!!
5. Last Saturday I got a ton of stuff done (and I am trying not to think about the fact that being without access to the computer had something to do with it…) It felt great to get so many things crossed off my to-do list and to start this week with a clean house.
Bonus #6. I almost can’t do one of these without a food reference. 
For a long time I didn’t care for Sbarro’s pizza — I always thought it looked wonderful but didn’t taste all that great. Then they came up with a stuffed pizza — two layers of crust with sausage, pepperoni, and cheese in between and bacon on top. Wonderful. I had a slice today. Gave in and had a piece of their chocolate cake, too. And last Sunday Jim grilled some scrumptious pork chops — he just sprays them with Pam and sprinkles garlic seasoning salt on them.
You know, I really had to think about it this week. It hasn’t been a bad week in any way — it just seemed like a normal week in which nothing outstanding happened. But I know sometimes in crisis situations I’ve longed for just an ordinary day, and so I am thankful for an everyday ordinary week and all God’s everyday blessings.
18 Comments
July 17, 2009 at 1:43 am
Oh I know that longing for an ordinary day! I think it’s great that you took time to realize you were having one at the same time you were realizing what a blessing they are. Often the two realizations don’t come at the same time.
July 17, 2009 at 6:39 am
Yeah…I didn’t realize you had a son named Jason…what a wonderful name!
July 17, 2009 at 8:26 am
#5, Its amazing what I can get done when I don’t have computer access.. . .but I miss it a lot!
Sounds like things are coming together well for the soon to be married
July 17, 2009 at 10:03 am
Nice things to be thankful for
July 17, 2009 at 10:10 am
It’s great that you got your PC fixed right away. I virtually freak out when there’s no internet. There’s a wedding in your family, how nice! It’s such a happy time when family members start arriving and then gathered for the big day. All the best on the wedding preparations!
July 17, 2009 at 10:21 am
AMEN for ordinary days and every day blessings!
Have a wonderful weekend!
July 17, 2009 at 11:38 am
Ordinary days are a blessing. A week of ordinary days is a blessing. But it is hard, sometimes, to pick individual blessings out of the ordinary-ness. You’ve done a good job of that.
Wedding plans are always fun, I think. Sounds like they are going well….
Have a great ordinary next week!
July 17, 2009 at 12:12 pm
I smiled broadly at your #5. What a great way to recover some “misplace” time! Happy weekend to you!
July 17, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Ordinary weeks are good :0)
I’m glad your AC is working great now and that you have a new monitor. I can’t get through a fave 5 without referencing food either LOL!
Have a great weekend…
July 17, 2009 at 12:34 pm
I love the bonus one. I kept reading and said no food items? LOL. I must be hungry or I just always love reading them. Great week. Congrats on the new monitor. Wedding coming up I bet your gonna be busy. Have a great weekend. Aloha my friend
July 17, 2009 at 4:47 pm
God has blessed you (and me, too!). You have a wedding in a month. How exciting. I loved it when my children married. First our daughter, and then six months to the day, our son married. What a whirlwind.
July 17, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Sometimes our ordinary days are easily forgettable. Thanks for the reminder to be watchful and aware every day.
July 18, 2009 at 10:01 am
I love the ordinary days.
Number 5 made me laugh out loud. Yes, don’t even let that thought enter your head. One had nothing to do with the other. It’s all coincidence, I say. LOL.
July 18, 2009 at 4:19 pm
AC is definitely a favorite on a hot summer day!
Wedding plans with the date only a month away keeps you busy I’ll bet! And how fun that they are getting things given to them and finding sales to start off their new place together.
Thanks for your visit to My Quiet Corner! I enjoyed it. Please know you are welcome anytime!
July 18, 2009 at 7:22 pm
I agree that A/C is great!
July 18, 2009 at 8:23 pm
We’re debating whether to put in our window air conditioners or just hope the breeze keeps up! Summer is very short here in Rhode Island. Great list, and I’ll be on the lookout for the stuffed pizza – it sounds delicious!
July 20, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Ordinary days are good…
July 22, 2009 at 10:21 am
Sorry, I’m late getting by your blog for FFF (it’s almost time for another one!) but I didn’t want the week to go by without visiting.
Ordinary days are great – and like you said when crisis is going on you long for them. Also, if you’re sick or in pain, you just want to feel ordinary again. Or at least I do. I’m always saying that when I have an eczema flare up – “I just want my skin to feel normal.”
I’ve been thinking about grilling some pork chops, thanks for the tip on how to cook them.