gratitude journal

• driving home for chrsitmas to my mum packed with really nice presents
• spent a wonderful evening with a friend, watching the Rat Pack Las Vegas Show in Vienna (loved it!)and we had free tickets!
• just had vegan apple pancakes, which were very good!
• am having a cold but am thinking I am over the worst part, already.
• got the key for the January work apartment, already, and am happy that I have an affordable place to stay.
• I like my tax-man so much more than the lady I used to hire to help me: I am not so much dreading doing the taxes, anymore!
• came closer to my nephew and his girlfriend, they are moving close to me, which is great!
• a bit of snow outside, today!
• will have a vegan shepherds pie for christmas with my mum (I like it a lot that the joins me!)

• I finished almost everything I wanted to do (unloved tasks) for this year
• even got myself a new drivers license (had to get up really early and get in a loong line with hundred other people, which sucked)
• start to feel myself more again
• got all my christmas cards ready and they are really beautiful this year, with a removable postcard from my hometown.
• the gingerbread house I bulit with my friend an her little son is still standing and smelling wonderful!
• I have a wonderful job offer for autumn, again (touring a little) and if I am lucky it will be Australia and Japan, this time. (keep fingers crossed!)
• I will be spending xhristmas with my mom (she got a divorce from a man I disliked, this year)
• will cook vegan for mom and me at x-mas
• snowing in Salzburg, meaning we can do all the fun stuff (riding the sledge,...)
• feels good to know that I have enough work in the new year (I am my own small company – freelancer_ so that is always an issue for me)
• had a weird dream (dropped my iPad by accident on someones head) and waking up and knowing it is not true!
• found a beautiful calender and got one for me and my friend

• my new friend, everytime we meet: warm and joyful!
• I have just one more week to work, this year and then I am on holidays until Jan.7th!
• a “friend” who got on my nervs for months proposed that we don´t see each other any more (I have trouble giving up on people I like, and would have listened to her crap for a much longer time)
• I turn out to be a knitting machine, that fills me with joy and pride
• doing Katie Byrons work more often and feel fine.
• my little operation went well
• my official tax letter came back: no changes necessary
• got a videobeam pretty cheap and can have film evenings with friends!
• will spend christmas with mommy again!
• so much looking forward to all my time off!

• I have everything I need and more
• I got a special friend who is preparing Nikolo bags (filled with sweets and goodies) for homeless people or people in need.and I help him and will send a box of six goodie bags out today.
• I am having a new tv series I really like
• met my new friend (since summer) this sunday, we went to the biggest cemetary in vienna and had wonderful talks- we made plans: will bake a gingerbread house with her little son!
• I have a little boy in my life now who loves to receive postcards and I am traveling a lot and will keep his mailbox happy
• my collleague and friend came back from the burnout clinic and seems to feel better
• I started to knit a scarf (I am soo bad at knitting! always was) but I am trying anyway!
• almost looking forward to christmas! yay!

i finally over.
It was a very good week. I got so many things done that I dreaded for a long time.
yesterday I had a cervical polyp removed and now I feel like all I needed to do is done.
I am waiting for my tax to be done by my new taxman nad then I am all set for the winter!

• my plants: always a pleasure to look at
• new bike saddle (old one got stolen: new one much more comfy!
• finally finished all my tax work for 2011 (and sorted most of 2012, too!)
• met my coach and had some wonderful ideas
• going to Sweden and Berlin, next year!
• mom is healthy and happy and enjoying herself in a spa with her best friend!
• my brother has re-connected with his girlfriend (she is adorable)
• my former apt. sub-renters cleared out their garbage from my storage in the cellar (finally: after two years!)

• so much work, I can choose from
• an apartment in the middle of the old part of the city in a walking distance to most of the beautiful spots in my city
• a new friend
• getting done a lot of things in this week that have been sitting on my chest forever
• having got a family gift that will grant my financial well being for a lifetime
• my cactus collection is growing and prospering
• living mostly vegan
• a nice guy who I met half a year ago called and asked me out
• my swedish stove
• having everything I need

I am thankful for

• the invitation to a garden party in upper Austria (I will see friends I havent seen in a long time)
• my quiet summer
• I am having enough of everythng
• meeting quite many people on the street when I go shopping or ride my bike, that makes me feel good
• box of new clothes arrived yesterday incl. a new fav.pullover finely knitted
• made apricot jam yesterday (I love doing that and having a treasure like that for the winter

tadaaa:
Traffic yellow (I love it!)
looks so much fresher and cleaner!
yay!

looked very 70ies in a not so cool way: