All posts by Karen Teig

About Karen Teig

I am a 58 year old Native Minnesotan. I work as a Storekeeper at a local hospital here in town. I have been sober since April 18, 1982 and have not smoked since September 8, 2005. I am a Born Again Christian who loves Jesus and am grateful for each day I wake up. I have found that even in the hard times, like after my husband's suicide that I can still find things to be grateful for, even if they are little things. God always has my back.

Good Day

  • I got my old phone account closed.
  • Spent time with my Bible Study friends.
  • Got some exercise walking around the Mall.
  • Bumped into two friends on the bus.
  • Good prayer and meditation.
  • Nice Autumn like evening.  Cooler.  I like it!
  • Last, but never LEAST, GOD!

Busy Day

  • Trying to cancel my old phone account. Grateful for patient people. I at one point wasn’t. ☹️
  • I got my dental bill paid off today. Hooray!
  • It is a beautiful day weather wise up in Duluth, Minnesota. Cooler temperatures are coming, but it’ll still be good.
  • Five more days to enjoy off before I go back to work on Monday.
  • I got up and did my prayer and meditation. God is so GOOD!
  • I  got to hug and give my neighbor, who had to put her dog to sleep, my condolences.  Grateful I could do that. 
  • Good books to read on the way to the Mall while riding the bus. 

October 2

  • My brother turns 83 today.
  • Good time with family and a friend watching football yesterday. 
  • Waking up early this morning. I have to get my body used to early mornings for work next Monday. 
  • Getting earlier news on t.v.
  • Getting my PT, Facebook posts, Bible plan and prayer and meditation finished early. 
  • Getting to see the sunrise, if there is one, this a.m.
  • Great church service yesterday. 

Sunday

  • Worshiping God. Although, nice I can worship God anytime everyday.
  • Another sober and nicotine free day.
  • My family. I love them so much.
  • Football.  Go Vikings!
  • Good sleep last night.
  • Weather still warm enough.
  • Another good Bible plan.
  • Good food today.

Nice

  • I am grateful to wake up today.  Thanks be to God.
  • I have 9 days, counting today before I have to go back to work.
  • I had enough Vacation, Sick time and Personal Holiday time to cover all my medical leave.
  • Great ortho doc who fixed me up and gave me a new hip.
  • Family and friends who supported me through all this.
  • Good Bible quotes each day to help me through.
  • YouVersion.  A great Bible app I highly recommend if you are into the Bible. 
  • Nice delivery guy who delivered my food yesterday.
  • My back is getting better day by day.

End of week

  • Patient lady at the A&T store yesterday.  
  • Back is feeling better.
  • Ate Gyro fries yesterday.  No bueno.  Grateful I learned lesson.  Will not eat them again.
  • Watching the local news this morning.  I do not always catch the full two hours, but grateful when I can catch some 
  • A beautiful sunrise that woke me up this morning.  Thank you God!
  • Although I also woke up from a bad dream, I am grateful it was as dream and not reality.
  • A found a new t.v. show to enjoy.  Something a little different than others. 
  • Laughter.  It truly is the best medicine. :)

Thursday

  • A choice of other places in my house to sleep when I have a sore back.
  • My Bible study friends, who are like sisters.
  • Good transportation for me to use to get around town and do my errands.
  • Good music and good books.
  • Easy of getting my back to work paperwork done.
  • Tylenol for my aches and pains LOL!
  • God and all his grace. :)
  • Good coffee.  I kind of need it this morning.
  • Ease of  resetting my password  online for my credit union as I got locked out.
  • Ten more days off before I go back go work. :

Technology

  • Easy of getting hold of my doctor.
  • Making new and lasting friends on sites.
  • Paying bills easier.
  • An assortment of information online.
  • Loads of music at your fingertips.
  • When COVID hit and we could not get together for Bible study, technology kept us together.
  • Being able to take our phones with us.  Couldn’t do that in the day.  You either missed the call, or if you had an answering machine, you found out later who called you. 
  • Grateful that although I love technology, I don’t forget that there is a life outside the computer and cell phones. ;)
  • God is everywhere, even in technology.

TODAY

  • I am grateful for still having time off as I woke up with a back ache.  It would be hard to start back to work with this.
  • Security and IT got me all back into what I need for work.
  • My new phone is such a blessing and so fast compared the the old one.  Happy to have it, since I haven’t had a land line for years.
  • God, thank you for just letting me awaken to see another day.
  • The beautiful lake and the waves, alone with the sunshine.
  • My son.  He is such a blessing.
  • I get to live live today, not to be taken for granted. 

GRATEFUL

  • I am grateful for today.  Thank you God.
  • I am grateful for IT techs at work who are trying to get me back into the system before I go back.  
  • I am grateful for the rain.  Although there was flooding in certain areas, we were so behind this summer, we needed precipitation
  • I am grateful for my family.  We get together more than we used to due to football. ;) 
  • I am grateful my new Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner came today and that I did not have to work so hard to put it together like past vacuum cleaners.
  • I am grateful for this site and other social media, although sometimes I think I spend too much time on Facebook, Instagram, X, etc.   That will change when I go back to work. 
  • I am grateful that they are fixing the leak in my son’s ceiling at his apartment.