I hung up my template for the F.I.G. collective next to my work desk, because I figured that way I will not forget about it. F.I.G. stands for finding joy in gratitude. If you want to know more about how this works, head over to Elisabeth’s blog where she explains it all.
We are already half way through week 2 for this week 1 recap, but later late than never I say. So here we go.
February 1 – I re-potted most of my indoor plants and now they have space to grow again. Everything about the process made me happy: having sunny weather to do it outside, smelling the fresh dirt, choosing new pots where necessary, watering the plants after, finding them new spots in the living room.
February 2 – I got a surprise gift today. My colleague cam back from visiting her family in Egypt and she gave me this really awesome canvas bag with a palm applique on it. She has a similar bag I kept admiring so she got one for me. I do have the best colleagues.
February 3 – I was taking the bus home today and it arrived at the stop just as I arrived, too. This usually never happens. Either the bus is late, or it’s early and then I am too late, or it is already full and it does not take any new passengers. So this was really nice.
February 4 – My son fell asleep during German class. So you would think that is nothing to be grateful for, right? It’s not, but I am grateful that he told me even though he knew I would not be happy about it. German class starts at 6:30pm in the evening and he does not like it much anyway so I can kind of understand. But that he was so honest about it really made my day.
February 5 – The feeling of my body being all tired out after gym class.
February 6 – I took my bike to get to work today and the weather was lovely and the breeze on my face was the best. There were birds singing and it smelled like spring.
February 7 – I planted some new plants in my front yard. First I got to pick them out at the nursery and then I got to plant them. I am not a big planner when it comes to gardening. I often just go see what they have, research on the fly and see what works.
I am not really sure how it is now but when we left Germany Halloween was not a very big deal there. Sure there were pumpkins and fall stuff but not related to Halloween but more to the harvest celebrations. By the way, how is that now? I seem to pick up more and more Jack-o-lantern pictures in my social media feed over the last couple of years. I am still not sure about the whole Halloween dressing up thing. Dressing up always makes me uncomfortable but I prefer Halloween to carnival (coming from someone who only wore black for a while in her youth). We still have two weeks left to decide what to do on the day and how to dress up. How about you? Do you carve a pumpkin or dress up for the day?
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