What a busy day today was! It was a slow, ice covered start, but once the ice melted off my truck I was off!!

Today I Am Grateful:

1) For my Dad – once again I went to his gym with him and walked. I know it’s helping make a difference in how my body is handling the weather now that it’s finally turning colder here in Chi-Town. I’m also grateful for my Dad because he not only took the boys to school this AM (while my truck was still thawing out) but he picked up both of them after school too. This gave me time to do some things I needed to do and it also gave my hubby time to come home, take some cold medicine and get some much-needed sleep to try to get better.

2) That I went out and did some job hunting today since my Dad took care of the boys. Silly me went to one place that I forgot was closed on Mondays and it reminded me that another place I wanted to go is also closed on Mondays. The final place I stopped at today resulted in an interview set up for Wednesday at 3 PM!!

3) For the interview I already have set up for tomorrow at 1 PM!

4)That I still have a few places to drop off my resume most likely Thursday or Friday at this point. I want to focus on the interviews the next two days first.

5) For coming so close to having 10,000 steps today!! As of right now, Zip (my awesome little pedometer from fitbit – http://www.fitbit.com/home) reads 9,234 steps – the most I’ve had in a very long time! I’m proud of myself for it too – I’ve walked 4 miles in all today!!

6) For pampering my feet – a hand massage rubbing on/in my China-Gel (think similar to Icy Hot), slip into my favorite fluffy fuzzy socks, and then another massage with my mini-massage ball to top it all off. Have to treat them good after all they did for me today!

7) That I will be pampering my hands the same way very soon too – as soon as I’m done on the laptop :-)

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