New Year Beginn(er)ing's luck

The warm words of gratitude this week go to the Universe for:

1. Missing the fire drill at Prometrics Test Center. In particular for:

a) Stepping out of the elevator literally a second before the alarm went off and both the elevator doors behind be and those leading to the corridor started to close. Last thing I needed today was to be late to the exam due to being stuck in an elevator :)

b) for deciding not to come to an earlier time and thus not being part of the earlier group who lost 5-7 minutes on leaving their testing rooms, and then being searched, scanned and signed in. I ended up needing every single minute of my  time. ( Damn, this exam was hard!..)

    2.  Successful return to skiing after having been out of practice for 3 consecutive years. By "successful" I mean being able to ski away on my own legs every time after a pretty bad fall :) You never know how much of a Pinoccio you've become until you try some activity you used to feel comfortable with, and apparently the next few weeks call for lots of yoga practice! :)