Gratitude Journal

A beautiful Friday.

A Scrumptious lunch .


Beautiful clothes .


Caring .


Love.



Maturity in friendships


Online Shopping


The Adventure of creating my new normal .


I am grateful for the smell of my new deodorant


Incense burners .



Live concerts.



Suits .



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Tutoring reading this morning in fourth grade!
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I love the book we are reading:

“The Spiderwick Chronicles”

I read the first one and got two more at the library today.

And today I got a much awaited book at the library:

“In the Form of a Question” by Amy Schneider

I came home and read for the afternoon!

She’s my favorite Jeopardy contestant and she’s a great writer!

Got a speaker to play music on my cell phone today – hooray!

Dear God – thank you for the privilege of this day.

Haven’t felt good nice to feel better.

Is it a cold? Is it something I ate? Is it stress? Questions that don’t seem important as I get my strength back.

Attacking each symptom with an over the counter counter spell.

Writing class won’t come in on Zoom but they will send a recording.

Indian Summer nice to have a warm day.

Good that its a quiet week so I can focus on recovery.

The leaves in Ohio are splendid this year.

Enjoying a lollipop the bank teller gave me.

Looking forward to tomorrow when I will be even better.

Writing group this morning!

We rock and roll!

Prayers with Jane right after that

Trip to Tiffany’s Bakery for goodies for Cathy’s birthday celebration

Preparing Zentangle pumpkin for retreat this weekend

So grateful to have such an interesting and fun life!

Thank you to Mucinex and Delsym cough syrup
for pulling me out of this cold faster than I thought possible!

Thank you to Lawson’s Chip Dip and Ruffles Potato Chips,
a traditional family solution to any illness!

I took a wonderful Zentangle gourd ornament class tonight
which was fun and engaging!

It was at the Akron Art Museum which made it even more fun!

So grateful not to be sleeping my life away!

Woke up early and got a lot done.

I am trying to train myself to get up earlier.

I’ve got up 8ish 4 days in a row!

I am totally a night person – a reading night person.

Saw Taylor Swift’s The Era’s Concert tour movie with my daughter.

It was stupendous! So much energy! Amazing! 3 hours!

Now I am a Swiftie sure!

Yippee yo yo YO!

• Back to work and grateful for a great team. 
• I made 20, 000 steps a couple times this week.
• Good conversations with people whom I regularly ride the bus with in the mornings. 
• Getting to work early because of the bus schedule change.  Nice to not having to rush through skywalks.
• My hip held up well.  Knee was a bit stiff and back still a tad sore, but grateful I could have help or it might have been worse. 
• Early mornings.  I forgot, I actually enjoyed them, even though it took a minute to get used to getting up early. 
• Nice welcome back from my managers and coworkers. 
• Not dreading walking to and from bus stops or walking further to get the bus downtown.  
• God was with me each day. )  
• My 32nd wedding anniversary coming and going and it was less painful.  May hubby RIP.
• My mother-in-law turned 90 years old.  God bless her!
• I was exhausted and people were so kind and told me to give myself some grace.  It is the first week back. 

Good news from the oral surgeon!

Thank heavens!

Lunch with Tom – always fun!

Afternoon with my friend David.

Pad Thai from one of my favorite restaurants – Mango Salad

Jeopardy with Tom as usual.

Watching the “Golden Bachelor” – fascinating.

Writing Haiku for my friend Mary Ellen.

We’ve been exchanging poems for over 1 1/2 years!

Grateful we are making progress on moving bedroom.

Even though we both have been sick we are reaching the final steps.

Grateful for over the counter remedies and tissues.

The many blankets that have kept us warm while we are in temporary bedquarters.

Trusting that things will work out OK.

Envisioning the end result. (The curtains look great)

Little by little Inch by Inch Life’s a Cinch!

• New week to work, grow and advance.
• God is with me each step.
• Seeing my coworkers.
• Having a heart to heart with my manager, expectations, etc.
•  Being kind to myself.  I won’t be 100% coming out of the gate and that is okay. 
• Getting a set routine daily routine again.
• Getting my sleep back on schedule.  This will be good!
• More exercise.
• Losing weight as my job is physically demanding. 
• I am alive.  :)