In an effort to try and raise some of the energy people are feeling, I thought this might be a fun idea for a thread.
What are you grateful for?
I'll start:
I'm healthy.
I have my job.
I have an apartment with clean running water.
I have the necessities (food, clothing, shelter).
Family who loves me.
Good friends both online and off.
Taco Bell's .99 cents menu
What are you grateful for?
I'll start:
I'm healthy.
I have my job.
I have an apartment with clean running water.
I have the necessities (food, clothing, shelter).
Family who loves me.
Good friends both online and off.
Taco Bell's .99 cents menu
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I'm grateful for caffeine, carbonation, carbonated caffeine, climates where triple digits are unheard of except in the oven, and orgasms.
I'm also grateful, however selfish it may sound, that my mother waited to leave my dad until after I moved out.
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My Husband, He rocks and he IS my rock.
My fam and friends.
Dance.
A great job.
A new house.
A sense of humor.
Life.
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Good one!
my family and friends and cats
my home with a payment we somehow manage to keep making
my beautiful, wild garden that saves me from the world and lets me get my hands dirty
my healthy body that spent 5 hours dancing and teaching today! Fuck yeah!
my dance students and my dance teachers
every Tuesday I go to the farmer's market with my mom. we have so much fun and I get so much awesome food from local people - and it's so cheap!
I may not get *everything* I want but I have everything I really need... and then some.
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I'm grateful for:
My health.
The health of my wife and children.
My employment.
The health benefits my employment provides.
The education I've received... at times at the bequest of others.
My genius.
My wife's genius.
The abundance of food and shelter.
The many luxuries I have.
The gifts granted to me by society.
My right to vote.
My right to freely assemble.
My right to bare arms.
My right to own property without title.
My right to worship or not to worship.
My right to free speech and expression.
My right to protest.
My right to due process and fair trial.
My right to largely do as I please as a free citizen.
Those basic human rights I take for granted.
That my wife is not forced by law or public tradition to hide her beautiful face.
That my children are not slaughtered for their supposed "weakness".
That I am not slaughtered for my blasphemous, heretical beliefs.
Clean water.
Public safety.
Policemen.
Fire and forestry services.
Public schooling.
Relatively relaxed import laws (especially on wine!)
A BOOMING(!) music and movie industry.
The best commercially available technology on the planet.
The US Postal Service.
The brave men and women of the US military.
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Oh, great... I'm going after Cuin and HIS list. Damned..... that's a good list. Here goes:
I am grateful for:
1. My daughter, who will one day end up on Saturday Night Live. She's a comedian waiting to happen.
2. My BF, who is kind-hearted, loving, honest and just plain sweet beyond belief. And he fixes things!!!!
3. My job, and the crazy guys I work with. They ROCK.
4. My home, and the fact that I can afford it all on my own.
5. My muttigrees...even Mr. Curly who occasionally likes to remind me that this is a free country for HIM too.
6. The fact that I'm a female and I was BORN in the U.S.
7. The fact that I got to grow up in the most incredible city in the world: NYC!!!
8. My mother (R.I.P.), who was always my ROCK and who loved me more than anyone else in the universe.
9. For an ex-hubby that I actually like, is a GREAT father, and I get along with (and the fact that I dumped the other ex-hubby who is the antichrist).
10. Making it to a "certain age" and NOT LOOKING IT!!! ;o)
11. Knowing that after my foot surgery, I ***will*** dance again, and come back BETTER THAN EVER!
12. My bestest friend in the entire world... Dr. Debi up in Sparta, WI. She's my sister and I am hers, even if we came from different parents.
13. Some INCREDIBLE dancers and musicians I've met along my dance journey.
14. Knowing I can run my mouth off with whatever I happen to be thinking and (a) not get shot/stoned/hung for it and (b) still have my friends.
15. My mother (again) for teaching me the importance of being self-sufficient and independent.
16. Toys!!!! (Leggos.... what were you thinking??)
17. The internet!
18. Several retirement funds.
19. The fact that I live in a place where I'll **NEVER** need an ice scraper!!
20. My daughter. Everything I am grateful for starts and ends with her. I love my curly-haired munchkin more than she can ever fathom, yet I do my best to not let a day go by without trying.
OK..... next?
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I am greatful for the facts that..
I have a car that runs reliably, so much so that it got me to and from a gig that I vended successfully at...
I still have managed to support myself for more than a month being unemployed
I have good friends
my mother is always my support system
I am no longer dating and don't have boy drama
I can still dance
I have a pool at my complex to work off the weight I gained back while sitting and crafting during this month of unemployment
I found a few jobs I am qualified for and applied for them.
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Gotta say, I'm grateful for...
My husband of 39 years. This year he remembered and brought me flowers and chocolates.
Cats.
Ferrets.
Belly dancing and all the wonderful people I dance with.
Istanbul... the Grand Bazaar, Aya Sofia, raki, Efes beer
My job
Airplanes
Poetry
The asian lady who does my nails
Troy Boy who colors my hair (who knows there's grey under that bright red)
My son, the pilot (he needs a wife, anyone willing???)
Seattle
Spokane, my home
London... the West End, all those plays!
British Museum
Roses
Freedom from religion
The sea... Pacific, Atlantic, Mediterranian
Monet's paintings
Harry Potter and friends
Chocolate
Good wine
Curry
Turkish cooking
There's a bunch more... but let's just sum it up with, I'm grateful for the sunrise every day because I know I'm still here on the planet.
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family and friends
roof over my head,
food on the table and on my dogs/snakes bowl,
health,
reliable vehicle that gets me to and from my job that pays for it all.
Everything else, is a plus.
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Nice topic Petra!
My family and friends, of course. Just spent a weekend in Seattle and was able to connect with some friends I haven't seen in a while...it was wonderful!
My job and the fact that I travel somewhere different nearly every week.
Dancing and my wonderful teachers.
My house, that I apparently bought at a really good time (9 years ago this month!).
I'm finding that no matter what happens, in the long run, things eventually work themselves out for the best. :) -
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Very grateful that my daughter is currently talking to me again :)
Happy that I am married to a man who is very nice to me, as I stated one someone's blog, he "treats me the way I should be treated - like a princess to be spoiled, and a goddess to be revered." After too many abusive relationships followed by a 7 year break from it all to allow myself to learn who I was and allow myself to figure out who I wanted to be with, I finally feel like I am treated in a manner I deserve, and don't fear about being hurt physically or torn down emotionally. His is also the love of my life :)
I have a nice enough place to live, a house full of healthy animals that bring me a lot of smiles, a job where I am valued for my contributions and paid well, and am finally getting myself out of a huge amount of debt after 5 years of sticking to a pretty tight budget of payback.
I am about to finally escape this hot hell hole (Florida - where everything is sweaty!) that I have lived in for nearly 6 years, and once I get a job will be moving someplace I have wanted to go for about 13 years.
Things are looking up!
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I am grateful for ssssssoooooo much....much of whats been said here.
I am grateful especially for my beautiful, amazing, talented, smart, clever, witty, adorable, enigma of a creature that is my wonderful daughter. She truly is my life, my reason for everything, and I am reminded how grateful I am for her when she is away from me, and I would be happy to spend the rest of my life with her sat upon my lap snuggled in my arms as she did as a babe. I want her to grow up, and be better than me, (she is already just about smarter than me at eleven LOL), I know she is truly going to be a woman of power, of love, of strength, of hope and a shining light and beacon to all those around her. She is already a phenomenal woman child, and she will no doubt become a phenomenal woman. She is destined for greatness, and I, as her mother am so proud of the job I have done of raising her- I moulded that little being into the wonderful girl she is with my love for her, my devotion for her and my determination for her to have more, see more, be more than I ever was at the same age- she amazes me, and reduces me to tears more than I care to admit with her beautiful words, and her cheeky grin, and she loves people, the world around her- she's just purely amazing.
There are many other things I am grateful for, but I am mostly grateful for her. I am who I am because of her. And I am proud, every day to be her mum.
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