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fidgiegirl
5-1-11, 8:03pm
Quite overflowing with gratitude today. It is so nice to have that feeling, especially since the outdoors isn't cooperating in any way!

I am happy to be in the home I'm in. We put an offer on another house, and if we could get it at the right price, I'd be ecstatic, but if we have to let it go, we are happy here, too. Actually I was a little sad thinking that if we do go to the new place our living room isn't right off of the kitchen enabling us to "be" together even if we're doing different things. It obviously would have a lot for us to gain, but anyway, I'm glad we're not imminently homeless like so many people in the real estate market right now.

I am happy for my running buddy and all my friends who are runners. I never saw myself as a runner though in the last 9 months I have started and have even participated in a few events. It is quite enjoyable and though I'm not fast and likely will never be, it is such a meditative exercise. I even went in the wind today, and I was able to think about all my friends who run, from the marathoners and triathletes to the people who are slower than me but get out there anyway. My exercise funk lasted longer than I wanted it to so I am grateful that I am kind of over that (and that I lost 3 pounds).

Thankful to have had a weekend with no obligations, except band practice tonight which brings me a lot of joy to attend. Everything is ready to go for the week except for folding some clothes so I should get up and do that before I go.

Lastly thankful to DH for de-boning the chicken! I hate doing that! !thumbsup!

Kat
5-1-11, 8:25pm
I love these threads. I am thankful for the lovely weather we have had the past few days. I am thankful, too, for my wonderful family, including my two little furbabies. My little Charlie sat with me while I rested this afternoon. I wasn't feeling well, but he provided warmth and lots of comforting purrs. I sure do love that little guy.

lhamo
5-1-11, 8:32pm
Long weekend here so I have today off. Kids are off this week and DH has taken them to his parents, so I have the whole house to myself for a whole week! I am grateful for the alone time as it will allow me to get a ton of stuff done, but also because it helps me be more conscious of how much I love and miss my family.

lhamo

danna
5-1-11, 10:26pm
Grateful for my great country with free elections and how hopefully if when we disagree we can get past it.
Also, that my party is making amazing strides...

Also, grateful to see buds on the trees, bulbs blooming and as someone mentioned in another thread my pansies survired this horrible winter and are the nicest I have seen.
Even grateful for the beautiful green grass that already needs cut.

Grateful that my niece delivered a beautiful, healthy boy today....making me a Great Aunt for the first time

redfox
5-2-11, 12:48am
Today is my 56th birthday, and it has been fantastic. THE SUN CAME OUT IN SEATTLE!!!!! I spent the day in the garden and going out to lunch & dinner, all with my fabulous husband. Congrats, Danna, on the birth of your grand-nephew!

Bugeah
5-2-11, 2:09am
I am thankful that I was able to sing in the church choir today despite having a sore jaw from my wisdom teeth removal this last week. And thankful for having the energy to get my house cleaner than it's been in over a month. And also, for having a little relaxation party with my mother-in-law. Oh, and lets not forget the beautiful sunshine we had here. It was actually warm enough that I opened all the doors and windows and wasn't chilly at all.

Wildflower
5-2-11, 4:47am
Funny, I was feeling very grateful and thankful today, then I saw this thread. Nice that others are feeling the same way too. So many things in mine and my family's life has worked out for the best lately, when things were looking very bleak not too long ago.

leslieann
5-2-11, 1:54pm
Grateful is a good thing. I can't always do frugal, or cook-at-home, or no-sugar, but I can always do gratitude. I am grateful for the sunshine today, for sure, especially looking at a forecast of 6 days of rain coming up. I am grateful for my little home; I do love this house no matter how much I complain about it! I am grateful for an open afternoon to get some writing done (but then I am busy lurking here and not actually DOING the work). I am feeling it, though, and that is the part that counts.

Congrats on the lovely new grandbaby, danna, and good luck to your party in the election. Oh, that's another gratitude...that after today, the election will be OVER! No more ads!

Stella
5-2-11, 2:09pm
Happy birthday red fox!

It is quiet here right now. I can hear my litlle tabletop fountain and that is it. Quiet is a rare and valuable thing at my house and I am immensely grateful for it.

I am grateful that I found a salad dressing that has made Bella a salad lover. Thank you Trader Joe's Sweet Poppy Seed!

Bugeah
5-2-11, 2:12pm
Today I am thankful that my little upcycle business will be at the local Farmer's Market next month! I just got the invite this morning and I'm beyond excited! Now for getting the day off from my regular job...

I am also thankful that I got all my cleaning done yesterday so I have all day today and tomorrow to sew more stuff in preparation of the market.

fidgiegirl
5-12-11, 11:08pm
So thankful for a sound mind. I just had coffee with a friend who has struggled with crippling anxiety and depression and it has colored all her activities, even her successful ones. She has recently finally found meds that are working out for her. My soon-to-be-ex-SiL has battled severe mental illness for many years. My coworker needs a leave "because of all the things going on in her life," and I hope mental illness isn't one of those things. A few years ago another coworker just kind of quit coming to work - well, why do we think that was? We think she had a breakdown.

I have teetered on the edge of depression at several times during my life and it is not a good place to be, and I wasn't even deep down in the abyss - I managed to come back on my own without medication or counseling, so it wasn't as serious as what other people face. I admire anyone who is facing mental illness issues and gets up to carry on. I am so grateful that at this time in my life, I am feeling good in my own mind. I send hugs to any and all people dealing with mental illness - their own, their children's, their spouse's, etc. BIG HUGS TO YOU.

fidgiegirl
5-17-11, 1:17pm
Really thankful today that we have an emergency fund and also that we have jobs that will allow us to have time to deal with the little crises in life.

puglogic
5-17-11, 1:21pm
Grateful today for so many things. Grateful for the flexibility of my work hours, which let me take a long walk through the woods with my dogs every morning. Grateful that we have enough, and that we need so little to be happy. Grateful to be in a positive place mentally, and to be aware that my thoughts (negative, positive, whatever) will become reality. Viva la good thought!!! :)

fidgiegirl
5-17-11, 1:32pm
Grateful to be in a positive place mentally, and to be aware that my thoughts (negative, positive, whatever) will become reality. Viva la good thought!!! :)

You said it, pug! Viva!

I am finding this to be so true as I work into testing out some little businesses. The book you recommended ("Making a Living Without a Job") has really inspired me, and this is really what she talks about - if you think you can't, you won't. If you think you can, you will!

And with that, off to call my new SCORE mentor. Thanks to the other board poster who recommended this service!!!

THANKFUL for the wonderful people on these boards. cow-hi

puglogic
5-17-11, 3:31pm
Yay, fidgiegirl!!!!!! I'm smiling from ear to ear. :D

larknm
5-20-11, 10:46am
I'm thankful to be able to walk and hike. For the beauty and mystery of the world. For DH, and the dogs and parrot in our family.
For friends. For the mystery and magic of recovery. For the chance to teach anyone anything they want and need to know. For clean air in the mountains where we go and access to clean water. For having learned through the years to be a better partner to DH, and his learning to be a better partner to me. For DH being pleased he's cleaning up his eating--here's hoping he'll live longer this way. For every day of life where I can be outdoors. For the comfort of a warm bed and sleep. For Netflix. For the humor every day in our family, from two-leggeds and four-leggeds alike. For playfulness and the opportunity to play. For having made a deeper connection with my OA sponsor, that takes both our personalities into account. For enjoying frugality and organizing. For the songs our parrot sings and her love of climbing mountains on my head. For finding this past weekend a place in the creek shallow enough that all four dogs--each of which has a mobility disability--could splash and run in the water. For fidgigirl for starting this thread and all others who are answering it.

Kat
5-22-11, 7:26am
The weather forecast called for thunderstorms all day yesterday, which was the day of my dad's 70th bday party. We had planned to have it inside instead, and then...it cleared up! Sunny, 75 degree weather. It was PERFECT, and I am so thankful!

puglogic
5-22-11, 9:47pm
Grateful to be here today. Beautiful day, working in the garden planting potatoes. Sipping lemonade in the shade. Playing with the dogs. Life is good.

fidgiegirl
5-22-11, 11:10pm
Grateful to have been bypassed by tornadoes. Hoping our northern suburban neighbors are ok?!

puglogic
5-24-11, 8:48am
Today I'm giving myself the afternoon off to have lunch and go play with my oldest friend, who just lost her dad last week. I'm grateful I found the way to have the freedom to do that in my life.

treehugger
5-24-11, 12:36pm
Today is my 15th wedding anniversary and I am very conscious today of how grateful I am to have met and married the perfect man for me. There's a lot of luck involved in that and I am feeling very, very lucky.

Kara

iris lily
5-25-11, 12:37am
So thankful for a sound mind. I just had coffee with a friend who has struggled with crippling anxiety and depression and it has colored all her activities, even her successful ones. She has recently finally found meds that are working out for her. My soon-to-be-ex-SiL has battled severe mental illness for many years. My coworker needs a leave "because of all the things going on in her life," and I hope mental illness isn't one of those things. A few years ago another coworker just kind of quit coming to work - well, why do we think that was? We think she had a breakdown.

I have teetered on the edge of depression at several times during my life and it is not a good place to be, and I wasn't even deep down in the abyss - I managed to come back on my own without medication or counseling, so it wasn't as serious as what other people face. I admire anyone who is facing mental illness issues and gets up to carry on. I am so grateful that at this time in my life, I am feeling good in my own mind. I send hugs to any and all people dealing with mental illness - their own, their children's, their spouse's, etc. BIG HUGS TO YOU.

fidge, ditto. I know a few people with mondo mental illness and it looms huge in their lives. Am so grateful that neither I or DH have serious issues. DH has mild OCD and takes meds to sleep. Me--in post menopausal state I find it hard to find joy and I have to work at it but neither does mood swings come so ofter. There is a positive side of it all. I consider those entirely normal mental aging. It's not debilitating.

babr
5-26-11, 6:35am
i am sure grateful for the good samaratans; twice women have stopped and given me rides home when i have been sitting at the bus stop in the rain or walking in the rain and cold to appts.; i actually was perfectly fine with what i was doing when they offered but why turn a ride down! and i think of the pay it forward and will help someone as always in my own way

Kat
5-26-11, 11:54am
My MIL is here again, painting yet another room for us. I know a lot of people have horror stories about their in-laws, but I can't complain about mine at all. They are the nicest people in the world. I am so thankful for them!

Jemima
5-26-11, 12:28pm
I'm grateful for the three-day weekend coming up and that my manager just chewed out the project manager with whom I have to work. (He deserved it and then some, and my coworkers are equally uncomfortable with this weirdo.) I'm grateful that I had the money for the past few years to get a nice garden going with tilled and fertilized beds and lots of fruiting bushes and vegetables. I'm grateful for the beautiful and loving kitty who greets me at the door every night.

CathyA
5-26-11, 2:15pm
I'm grateful that my son is home from college for a few days. He's such a sweet person.
I'm also grateful that there's a hummingbird nest with a mama hummer sitting on it in a pine tree real close to the house, and the wind last night didn't knock her off. YAY!

cdttmm
5-26-11, 6:51pm
I am grateful that my partner is supporting my decision to turn down a job offer for a very well-paid, wonderfully benefited job, so that I can, instead, pursue my dream of becoming a professional speaker. Although I'm pretty comfortable with taking risks, the idea of not accepting a great job offer was hard for me to come to terms with, but I really want to chase my dream. I'm grateful he is so willing to support my crazy ideas!

redfox
5-26-11, 7:15pm
I am deeply grateful for the health insurance which has allowed me to get the cortisone injection I needed so that my left knee is working again; it has also allowed me to start a relationship with an awesome Naturopath who specializes in chronic conditions so that I can work on the weight and osteoarthritis, which is partially a result of being overweight most of my adult life; and the fact that my HMO hasn't yet blinked when I talk about using cannabis for pain. I even included it on a list of the current meds I am taking when I saw the Orthopedic specialist yesterday. Now all my practitioners know that I, a 56 year old Grandmother, am choosing an organic herbal medication that beats the pants off of anything else in terms of efficacy and lack of side effects over any other pain med I have ever used. I also ask each one to please let me know when they're doing clinical trials for cannabis, as I want in. Maybe some day we will progress!

JaneV2.0
5-26-11, 8:16pm
I'm happy to report that I (finally!) installed a cable modem successfully (the hardest part was crawling around under the table) and can now watch YouTube without waiting forty-five minutes for even the shortest clip to download. Yay me!http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-cool13.gif (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php)

And more seriously, I'm thankful for reasonably good health. I may not look--or be--particularly fit, but I'm still cruising along, sound in body and mind.

And--last but not least-I'm thankful my weed whacker broke.
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CathyA
5-26-11, 9:15pm
Happy Birthday Redfox!

fidgiegirl
5-26-11, 9:37pm
Grateful to have lots of energy and positive vibes lately. I have been feeling kind of negative for a while so it is a nice change. Maybe it's just the sunshine, but I'll take it!

Lainey
5-26-11, 11:30pm
Grateful for a successful financial transaction that kind of fell into our lap this week. It will be very helpful for certain family members especially.

puglogic
5-27-11, 7:21pm
Grateful to have been able to afford a massage today, and grateful to have found a local (as in a block away) massage therapist that I can afford! Grateful too for my strong little body, which tries so hard to do right by me, even when I mistreat it :(

Tenngal
5-27-11, 11:57pm
grateful for the garden photos posted by Iris Lily in the gardening forum......so uplifting.

fidgiegirl
5-28-11, 9:51pm
Grateful once again for my DH, who will work so hard to keep our home beautiful and will also support me and visit my parents at their very difficult-to-visit house. He will even give my crazy Grandma a hard time and make her giggle. :) She's like a little kid sometimes (well, a lot of the time . . . ) and so if she gets teased, just like a little kid, she thinks that's the greatest.

Love him so much.

Zoebird
5-29-11, 10:56pm
I'm also thankful for my amazing kiddo, my wonderful husband, and this really lovely life we have created. We are so grateful that we have moved to NZ, that we have met the amazing people here whom we have, and that we found our new home on the beach. It's just a lovely little life. And i'm so thankful for it.

puglogic
5-31-11, 11:48pm
One last post for May!

I'm so grateful today for nature, and all her strange powers. Watching things sprout out of the earth is just the most amazing thing.

Knowing that the seed I planted in March which was barely the size of a freckle, its cost and weight infinitesimally small, now it is become a green branching thing two feet tall, with stems as thick as my little finger. Giving it nothing more than light, dirt, and water, it will alchemically transform those things to begin to bear pounds and pounds of nutritious fruit for my family, which will power our bodies with vitamins and minerals. in a few weeks it will grow a million-fold from that tiny seed. Somehow it knows how. From one of those fruit I will save the tiny seeds for next year, and the cycle will start over again.

Amazing. You can't MAKE this stuff up. Love this nature, grateful for all of its crazy magic.