Speaking, Texting, Chatting, Thermometer in My Mouth...Winter goodbye? 

Happiness...what is that exactly? Fame, money, friendship, a bar of chocolate? There are many faces of happiness. But what really unites all the kinds of "happiness" is its being a single moment one wishes would last forever...

Today I've been enjoying a thermometer in my mouth...yeah. I'm ill. And the funny thing is I do not have the faintest idea what is exactly wrong with me. I am feeling almost as usual. The only difference is my body is in fever. I'm just glad it doesn't affect my work activity so much. Well, I had to cancel some meetings but that is not the end of the world, isn't it? 

This afternoon and evening was filled with different conversations and different languages. I'm too far away from being fluent in any of these languages, but I'm lucky to get around with them somehow. I was endlessly happy to talk to some of my good friends who are so many km away from me. God only knows if I can ever meet some of them face to face, shake their hands, catch their smiles without looking at them through the computer screen. 

I was excited to practise a foreign language I've been recently learning. I felt myself a kid but I'm slowly coming to understand it more and more. It's like the sunrise hour...at first it's so dark one can hardly see anything...then slowly, then faster and faster a little sunray appears behind the horizon...
I also had the time of my life at the online language conference room. Well, if I am lucky, I'll try to join it again next week...I need to think some things over. And this alone makes me smile. ;) I mean I hope I'll be visited by my devoted muse. ;)

I'm grateful for my happy day. I'm not perfect. Nothing is. But I felt perfectly happy. Really. I mean it. Very and truly seriously. Happiness is not connected with anything perfect. But when you make imperfect things  perfect. Just for you. And nothing else matters. Just you and your happiness that makes your heart jump outside your chest. ;)

And...I have said goodbye to winter...This winter was warm, freezing cold and painful. I loved it and I hated it. I met some new friends and lost some dear people...Spring is here now. I just hope it'll bring me what I really look forward to - tulips, my dear ones around and their happy smiles. And...I also have some secret dreams. ;) Let's see if spring has anything happy for me. :) 

                                       Strong 

It is so difficult to stay strong every day or when you have to face some sorrows or when you lose someone that meant everything to you. This morning I met my friends who lost their mother and wife last week...I was expecting everything - but no smiles. But they did manage to smile...I can just imagine what it really costs them now. Their eyes are full of unspoken pain but they are determined to go on. They have to. No other way out.  

I now see how weak I am. And how lucky I am to have my family with me. How fortunate I am to have strong people around me, such a weak person.

I'm grateful for my friends who try to keep on smiling. I'm so happy to see my dear ones around. I'm under the weather today. Let's say there were better days in my life. But it still makes me feel happy to feel myself cared for when I am ill! :) 

                         The Sunray

A little sunray can make you feel better. Especially when it is the first thing you see when you open your eyes. A laughter of my student makes me forget my problems. A little piece of chocolate is also a nice reason of my joy.

I'm grateful for my sunny morning. I have admired the sky through my window, sitting in my warm room. Thinking of people I miss so much.  I'm thankful. Even for the things that do not make me feel happy. They  are still parts of my future joy.
Contra spem spero. :) 

                   A Little Pile of Joys

Today I have climbed up a real pile of joys! ;) First: I tried to do some more exercices in hope to slowly lose some weight (well, not just for beauty but my health as well!). I also enjoyed being outside, listening to the birds who are feeling the spring. I even gave the frost a chance to bite my cheeks and nose! ;)

And...today my friends finally told me that they are expecting a girl!!!! A lovely baby-girl! ;) I am so happy. ;) Well, it should not be my joy, maybe...but I feel it as mine. :)

I was also teaching today what made me feel happy. My student and I were reading and translating a text about disabled athletes and I couldn't agree more with the statement that all people, regardless of their body or mental abilities, have some talents. :) The problem is only to discover your talent. :)
That is that. :)

I'm happy to be a bit more active today.  I'm thankful for some time outiside. For the February  sky and its blue colour. And for feeling myself somehow useful. ;)

                  Peace, Frost and ABC

My Sunday was really special today. First - I woke up with the first sunrays and after turning myself into an enormous cabbage went to church with my mama. This Sunday service was really wonderful. It really filled me with life and real joy. No rush or worries. No fears. Just pure joy. 

The morning was frosty and the freezing wind was biting my cheeks and fingers but it did not spoil my holiday mood. I was even glad to feel it. The last winter jokes. ;) The last attempts to turn Daria into a cold stone...;)

This afternoon I received something I didn't expect at all today (usually our post service does not work on Sundays!) - a colourful ABC book for my little students! It seems to me that I am not fully big and serious. ;) I still have lots of fun to turn the pages of children's books...I love it!!!

I'm grateful for my special day. This day when I somehow felt myself free. I'm grateful for this miracle of today- God's kindess I feel in people around me. 

                         Calling You

I've been using my mobile phone since 2005. I still remember the joy of the first phone call. I believe most of new users do not even understand this joy. Many people nowadays take this great invention for granted. Me too, recently. :( Well, I can't boast of any iPod or iPhone ore even Smart Phone. The reason is too simple - money flies away from me into unknown directions as soon it gets into my hands! :D Well, it could be my hands are too slippery or whatever. :P However, I do not suffer from my little simple mobile phone that connects me with my dear people.

Today I somehow again thought of this connection joy...how really wonderful it is to hear the voice of someone dear to your heart...especially when this dear one is miles away from you...The telephone cannot always convey your smiles or any other emotions but it can surely transmit some little pieces of your care about someone. 

I'm thankful for my little mobile friend who makes me feel mobile and fast. ;) I'm happy to be in touch with people  I love. If Alexander Graham Bell were still around us, I'd surely call him and or send him my SMS message with "Thanks a lot!!!"

                 Warm Bed Joy

Yesterday evening we had some problems with the heating system. Today it was finally fixed and...it was really nice to get warm again after freezing yesterday evening. It was really great to be in my warm cozy bed, thinking of spring and summer.

I have heard some birds singing this evening and I was amazed at how they feel the spring. It is really cold outside but they do feel the light steps of the spring...

I'm grateful for having a big warm bed where I feel myself a queen.:P I have many objects there: several books, a thermometer (since my coughing times! Haha), and even some medicine I don't use but keep for the case of emergency. :D  I'm happy I have such a lively nest. :)