The weekend approacheth

1) I'm so grateful I have a grant for grad school. It was not as much as I was told it would be (about half the amount), but it still means that I don't have to worry about one semester. 
2) My students decorated me up with henna. It looks pretty great!
3) I wrote one message on my arm (with henna). I have some old scars from some traumas I went through many years ago. The old scars say "I'm not worth it." I wrote over them in henna, "Ma vie est belle." I did that for two reasons: 1) I am trying to get through another rough patch. 2) I don't want those old traumatic messages to control my current hardships. So I am telling myself and believing that my life is beautiful. I don't know that I can make it such, but I believe in an all-powerful God who can.
4) I have a new friend who is really kind and supportive. 
5) One of my grad school professors is radically behind in her grading so she threw out one of our papers (we have one due every week). Wahoo!!! She also cancelled class over Thanksgiving. HUZZAH!!!

happiness quote: “We're all pieces of the same ever-changing puzzle;
some connected for mere seconds, some connected for life,
some connected through knowledge, some through belief,
some connected through wisdom, some through Love, and some connected with no explanation at all. Yet, as spiritual beings having a human experience, we're all here for the sensations this reality or illusion has to offer. The best anyone can hope for is the right to be able to Live, Learn, Love then Leave. After that, reap the benefits of their own chosen existence in the hereafter by virtue of simply believing in what they believe. As for here, it took me a while but this progression helped me with my life: "I like myself. I Love myself. I am myself.” ― Stanley Victor Paskavich