Things I'm thankful for

Tonight as I was washing dishes, I found myself being particularly grateful for somethings:

• Long-overdue skype chats with your best friend
• Living in the 21st century so I can video chat Darrell while we're long distance...and even play some silly games while we're at it, too! Thank you, Google hangout!
• Despite my occasional complaints when I am tired of being independent and having to shop, cook, and clean for myself, I am really, really grateful that I can cook good food. I feel like it would really suck to not be able to look forward to eating a meal you are cooking. Or to only be able to eat good food when you buy it from somewhere else.
• Slow paced days where you can finish all the sewing/mending projects you've put off for three months. Vacation mode ends today, but it has been so good to do things at a inconsequentially slow rate!
• Seeing Darrell in next week instead of next month!

Also, I think I'm getting too excited for Chinese New Year. I decided to go on an impromptu hunt for my wok after church today, so I drove all the way to the Asian supermarket centers. I got so excited by the giant lanterns, the hanging red decorations, and the whiny flute and rhythmic drums of new year songs that I perused through their little New Year's goodies section. I picked up a small pack of the sweet colorful coconut strips and a package of lightly seasoned sunflower seeds. I really don't have anyone to feed with these, but it was just too festive to resist in the store...