I have 5 minutes!

I was exhausted last night, so much so I couldn't even string a thought together but Deanna inspired me with her 5-minute post so I thought, "okay, I have a quick 5 minutes before I have to leave" and so here we are.

I had the most wonderful weekend of connecting. 3 socials and 15 hours, to be exact! Friday night with a dear friend and then two sets of 3 am friends on Sat and Sun. It's not my preference to be so busy but we see the one set only once a year (unless we get down to Cape Town) so it's a gift!

When I asked the ladies at work how their weekends were, it seems everybody had a very social weekend. I'm sure it's the weather :)

Speaking of weather, today it's rainy and even though the weather app says it's still 27, it feels cooler. A lovely respite from the heat, nevertheless.

All the socialising does mean that my Sunday night ritual didn't happen - no extra cooking, no menu plan, no photos, no blogging for the week for the one blog.

A lot of that happened last night.

Hmmm, so what do I need to catch you up on?

1. I'm doing another 3 Santa Shoeboxes on Mandy's behalf. Paypal is a wonderful thing :) because now we get to impact some more kids. I was raving about this development at work and someone else caved and said, "fine already, I'll also do 3" YESSSS, one step closer to world domination :)

2. I decided to have the photo shoot at my work. Who knows how much longer I'll be there because I'm trusting God to start a new position anywhere in the new year?! So yesterday after a meeting, I took my little iphone and walked around a bit taking pics of areas we don't have pics in. There are TONS of nooks and crannies, and TEXTURE!!!!

3. My first choice pre-school has two spots for next year. I haven't seen it - this is all from the website and someone whose kid goes there. It's Christian and quite a bit more expensive so I don't think we'll do it... but I feel like I owe it to us to at least go have a look. So that's what I'm doing this morning on my way to work. Of course, as these things go, because I have low expectations, I'll probably love it and we'll have a little challenge on our hands.

4. I've logged 1000 books on Goodreads! It's not accurate because many of the books I've read (at least about 5 every year for the first couple of years) don't even appear on GR. But 1000 books is still a milestone. And do you want to know what number 1000 was? From Here to Maternity - Sinead Moriarty. Cat told me she's reading Me and my sisters. I loved that one :)

5. I haven't been commenting on some of your blogs. It's that darn blue screen on the work computer. So all the tabs are open to comment and the thing shuts down and then when I reboot, everything is gone and it doesn't give me that "do you want to restore your previous session?" message. Grrrr. Basically, I only remember to go to one or two afterwards.

And now I really must go! It's been 20 minutes :)

Are you enjoying the weather? What's one thing on your list for today?
PS I loveeeeee the pic in this post - the colours are gorgeous and so is the blur.....