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. Life is really what I make of it, with few exceptions. God always has a plan.

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. 

TODAY

  • Today it is raining but it is all good.
  • Listening to sound of the rain hit my roof over my porch is calming.
  • Doing my Bible plans and prayer and meditation to start the day. 
  • Skipping church as I don’t feel like getting soaked the first time I walk there by myself after my hip surgery.  I love my church family but God is everywhere I go and I am grateful for that. 
  • Chatting with my son for awhile this morning.
  • Football at my brother’s house with my son and family later.
  • Good comedy to start my morning.
  • My hip and knee feeling pretty good.
  • God. 

Not to be taken for granted.

  • Grateful for my favorite season to come around. 
  • Even though it is dreary out, it is now snowing LOL!
  • The fresh smell in the air.
  • Later sunrises and earlier sunsets, but still beautiful,
  • A good book or television show. 
  • God. Always on my list.
  • Good comfort food.
  • Talking with three of my friends on the phone this past few days.
  • I am upright, breathing, walking and talking.  Life is GOOD!
  • I could not get on this site for a short time.  Grateful it is back. :)

Wednesday, September 20, 2023 & Thursday, September 21, 2023

  • I enjoy the peace.
  • My prayer and Meditation keeps me centered.
  • God is my savior.
  • Good Christian Music.
  • Praising our creator.
  • I can get out of myself and think more about others. 
  • Good phone conversations with friends. 
  • A dependable phone.
  • A manager that is understanding of my nervousness of going back to work in October.
  • A.A.  There is not only face to face meetings but Zoom meetings.  I need to get back. 
  • Love, in every form. 
  • The beautiful lake and sunshine today. 

TUESDAY, 9/19/23 – FAMILY

  • Family of origin or family that are friends are both awesome.
  • Birthday parties, holidays, football with family is wonderful.
  • My sisters and brothers in Christ who have become family.
  • I am a child of God.  He is definitely family to me. 
  • I know people who do not have family and I am grateful for mine.
  • My parents and husband are gone, but I am grateful for the time I had them.
  • My siblings are still alive.  Grateful for them.
  • My son.  is the best thing his dad and I ever did.