What Are You Grateful For Today?

[intothelight]

For family visiting this weekend
A great team at work
No rain for a few days

 

[Teasel]

☆ For this site
☆ For new tentative connections in the world
☆ For a new direction I wanna head in
☆ For Eccles cakes
☆ And Harry the cat. Really didn't think I wanted a cat again. And we'll he's not ours he's the neighbours cat but he really has melted my heart and made me realise having another cat sometime in the future would be lovely.

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

For my thrift store whisperer moments when my gut tells me it's time to visit one.

I rarely go anymore unless I'm seeking a specific item, and only after I've taken more out than I'm bringing in to avoid cluttering non-needed/wanted stuff up again.

Today, I was looking for an old wooden spice rack of some sort to use for essential oils storage.

First place I went, didn't find a spice rack, but, did find a dvd about hula hooping techniques that had never been opened ($1), a pack of never opened wild life post cards ($1), and a Yonanas nice cream machine ($3-retails for like 30 or more) to gift to one of my favorite lil' buddies who just turned 11 yesterday and raved about how much he liked mine, that was also a thrift store score.

Then went to another one and found the perfect rack for my oils ($7) that I can easily modify with a few wooden dowels, a pair of jeans ($2) that fit perfectly, a dvd on yoga for inflexible people ($1), a book on healing with Chinese herbs ($1), and a big fuzzy robe ($3) that I'd been seeking for a while since I gave my old one to mom.

Grateful for the folks who kindly share their no longer wanted stuff for other peeps to find exactly what they're seeking, and often things they never realized they needed, lol, at a much more reasonable price.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

Grateful that I am embracing long neglected crafts and hobbies and interests.
For good friends in my life.
For learning how to become more flexible and changing what I can in me.

 

[The Albatross]

A buck that will dress out at about 150-180 pounds of venison and a second refrigerator that my mister brought home for free to keep it chilled in til we can make the sausage and ground packaged servings. My cave man does his best to bring home the "meat" so we won't starve or have budget issues and I like it that way.

 

[Lionheart]

I am grateful that I can say no when I need to and that I am finally extending love and compassion to myself in the form of radical acceptance.

 

[Kopykat]

Making it through all my doctor appointments today. Met w a new psychiatrist and a need SE therapist on top of my regular therapist. If I hear someone else say “tell me about your trauma” today I might scream.

 

[The Albatross]

Grateful to be invited to a fall festival tonight with a live band and a good spread/meal.

 

[One step at a time]

Grateful for beautiful weather. The good world is here for me each time I return.
Grateful for respect. And self-respect.
Grateful to know what I need. Some days that feels impossible, today it feels like I have a superpower.

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

As I start to hear of more folks "catching" things in almost every real life conversation I've had as of late, I'm so incredibly grateful to not be suffering from colds/flu/other respiratory/sinus/digestive/inflammation/pain issues as often or as severely as I used to. (knock on wood) Hmmm....do we actually "catch" it, or do we eat/drink/consume it?

I'm a former frequent flyer in the ongoing "pop-up" and chronic illness arena and stayed sick/"under the weather"/out of commission more than I ever stayed well. Going on my third year of much less suffering since ditching meat, dairy, eggs, gluten, artificial sweeteners/flavors/colors/products, caffeine, and alcohol.

Do I feel like I'm missing out on stuff by not consuming all of those things? Ummm....sometimes, especially the social aspects of it...but missing the flavor and texture of things that were truly hurting me the most from the inside out, yet were still passed off to be quite necessary and especially safe, doesn't feel like missing out at all, especially once I learned how to create more user friendly similar flavors and textures, and of course there's never a dull learning moment...still.

There seems to be something to the whole getting back what we dish out scene, literally, and on a much deeper level than I ever realized was possible. I remain endlessly fascinated in this twisted game called life.

 

[Tinyflame]

Grateful for @Anarchy 's help, kindness, and generosity.:inlove: :hug::hug::hug::hug:
Beautiful sun.
Ability to read.
Wonderful friends. :inlove::notworthy:
One more day.

 

[Anrish]

Grateful for nine hours of sleep.