I didn't manage to write a Things I Love Thursday list this week, due to spontaneous going to movies, so I thought I'd do a wee gratitude update here on Sunday instead.
I am trying to make this a regular thing, because listening to Gala Darling's Being Happy podcast on my MP3 player has convinced me to do so. I know Suraya said that she thought there should be a 'Things that rip my shorts' Wednesday to balance it out, but to be honest, I'd rather focus on the happy things.
I am considering defining 'rip my shorts' as 'make me excited' though, and starting that up as a list. 'Rip my shorts' sounds vaguely sexual to me for whatever reason. Maybe that's not such a great weekly list to start up. Heh.
This Sunday I am feeling vaguely anxious and grumpy because I woke up at 4am and couldn't get back to sleep because I kept thinking all sorts of things. I must've been awake an hour or so before I dropped back off and then Lee woke me up at 9am, so I feel tired and ratty. I absolutely refuse to get up and do things at 4am though.
So, in my grumpy-ish state, what things am I grateful for today?
Lee and I sat in the sun on our balcony today and read books. It got so hot out there that I started to feel like I would get a sunburn, but I am so so grateful to have a sunny balcony to go out on. It was one of my favourite things about our hotel in Mooloolaba, so I can pretend like I'm on a fancy holiday in some amazing city and sit out on my balcony now.
I am grateful for my mother and father. We visited them for lunch yesterday, ostensibly for my father's birthday but I didn't actually get him anything yet. I just love to hang out with them and talk. My mother taught me sewing and baking and she gave me some quilt fabric with teddy bears on it from her stash so I can put it into a quilt for Dominic. My dad has a whole pile of little oil and watercolour landscapes half painted. The one pegged to the easel right now is a gorgeous snowy mountain.
I am loving my own ability to get things done. I have all the blocks completed now for one baby quilt and a bunch done for the second one. Now it's assembling and bordering.
I am also happy and grateful to have such awesome friends. Yesterday's visiting was awesome cool, bonding with babies and catching up with people we haven't seen in quite some time. I got the cutest photos too!
I wish I could spend all my time in the presence of such positive people. I don't know that the people I see day to day are necessarily negative, just maybe not quite as positive as I need right now.
I know I've been saying this over and over but I really am happy in our new apartment. I found myself thinking yesterday that I don't know how I could ever move out!
Chocolate is another thing to be thankful for. I shall go and have some now to remind myself of this.
Please do feel free to comment and let me know what you are appreciating right now. Even better, write your own blog post (if that's your thing) about positive things, or just write in your private journal. It really does help to put things into perspective.
PoF: Emo bear and sunshine
CO: how can I ever move out of this shaft of sunlight?