Take a moment each day to notice that I love my life

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I am grateful for a warm home to come home to and lovely new boots for my tootsies

For being able to not have to worry where the money is going to come for for christmas

I am grateful for being able to get qualifications and get myself on the housing ladder

But I am not complacent. Interest rates are always rising, petrol is now nearly a £1 a litre and food prices are set to go up too.

We will be able to afford it. But with what’s left over at the end of the month, my hubby and I have reaffirmed our need to pull in our belts and pay as much as we can into the mortgage
as possible.

Good feel better now

evening breeze, smell of night scented stock, last rays of the warm sun, I love it

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thankyou to my sister for reminding me to have some fun

i think the universe is trying tell me something…

hubby was taking a large table top upstairs, I then heard the loudest crash i have ever heard and hubby swearing….

drop what i am doing and rush to sound of tremendous noise…first reason to be grateful, hubby didnt fall down the stairs

2nd reason to be grateful hubby has not dropped new table

3rd reason to be grateful…my large, 4ft square, balinese mirror has cartwheeled down the stairs and landed on the telephone… but neither mirror or telephone are totalled

hubby explained thus… must have caught mirror’s edge, pulling it off one of its nails (the right hand one) it hangs onto the left hand one but too heavy… as it falls it hits the skirting board (half inch dent to show its passage down stairs) then bounces like a square wheel, bounce 1, bounce 2, bounce wheeeeee flies into the air over the chair at bottom of stairs, knicking it slightly (but preventing it smashing into the very hard ceramic tiles… and then into the bags of recycling waiting to go out

reasons 4 and 5 to be grateful, it managed to miss the flooring, neither shattering the glass nor denting the floor
(previous owners, kindly restored it to its origional victorian splendour)

and its force was taken by a garbage bag (full of bean tins) and the telephone… that was attached to the antique vestible with antique glass in it

all things being equal, the mirror should have bought it, as well as the floor and it reached the glass door, so that should have been totalled too

but in the end it just loosened the joins in the mirror’s frame and hubby was able to tap that gingerly back into place and put the mirror back on the wall

as i said i love my life, i am still very grateful, and i am touching wood (reaches back and taps bedpost) oh yes i am very grateful!!

(so ok universe, you can stop now)

i am so thankful that no major struts of my life are missing today…

why so glad?

I thought my laptop had been stolen for about 10hours….it has my life and work on this gadget, and it has all my 43things on it too!!

it turned up at work

I have been picking it up and kissing it like a long lost child periodically today, i had a fragmented nights sleep just worrying…..i am more glad than words can say that my laptop is safely on my lap and nothing major is out of place in my life, ie nobody is ill, nobody is dying, and those closest to me are safe, my house is generally sound and the world hasnt self destructed

(bloody hell, i havent been able to say that for over 3 years)

thankyou world, gaia, god, whoever! i am happy and i am grateful

and i spent quality time with my man and my doggie

i was able to make some plans and talk them over with him indoors and he actually went with my ideas and made suggestions how we could work together on stuff

i also love my home

so i am thankful for my lot

its important to notice when things are good

and today, everything looked fine to me

and had a cup of coffee and a slice of orange and ground almond cake (yummy) and then went with my Nlp-er in crime, down to the sea to paddle in the surf

it was bloomin freezing and very well worth the trip out in our lunch hour

i dont usually take a break, but i went to work early today and i knew i was going to finish late so i made a promise to myself to have a nice lunch hour

i got out of the office and into my car,
stepping out of the gloom into the bright winter sunshine

and i drove 15 minutes up the road to a beautiful beach

and i felt truly blessed walking on a large expanse of beach, jumping over streams and looking into rock pools and the mussels clinging to the weathered granite

today i realised how good my life is and how fortunate i am in the big scheme of things