day the 12th

I am thankful 2009 is now over and look forward to 2010.

day the eleventh

I am deeply grateful for the readers who follow my on line story. Your readership and comments have helped to keep me going more times than I care to count. There are no words to really sum up how I feel about that so I will just say thank you.

day the tenth

On the subject of things to be grateful for I woke up early this morning from yet another peculiar dream to a nice fresh cup of coffee a15 minutes before the furnace fix-it dude showed up. He's come to put a new regulator on the furnace because the old one didn't really take well to being saunafied when we had the hot water pipe burst.

While waiting and drinking my coffee I realised that we have an abundance. Of what? you might ask, of everything I reply.

I don't tend to set my expectations high but when I want and or need something it is there for me. It is a nice safe feeling. I enjoy this place in my life now very much because I had a space in my life where I had very little ( relatively speaking) and financial security was not something I knew. Now we are in this space where we can go shopping without having to count each and every penny tho the urge is still there. We can get what we need materialistically speaking but more than that there is a sense of fulfillment and love.

I have an abundance in my life of everything. Love, friendship, trust, respect, material goods and financial security. I am grateful for this abundance.

day the ninth

I am grateful for tolerance. My problem is that I have a hard time with intolerance in fact you could say I don't tolerate it at all. I am also grateful that I don't mistake faith with religion.

the motto for the day is live and let live as well as who is this god person anyway?

day the eigth.

I am so thankful for my husband especially today.

day the seventh

This is kind of a two fold thankfulness post because I missed yesterday due to being with my husband's family for Christmas. I am deeply grateful for my families on both sides of the pond. Both are utterly different in nature but both are supportive and generous. I got truly lucky with my family in law and we spend Christmas with them every year instead of going to Canada. ( for anyone who has tried to fly home to Canada at this time of year will understand that)

Every year, despite my grumblings, I appreciate it more and more because every year as the parents get older the possibility of one of them not being around draws closer. We lost Marcus's grandmother on Christmas day 2 years ago and with my own father dying of cancer at 54 I understand that people you love vanish suddenly from your lives and you need to cherish the time you have with them while you have them.

So I am thankful for both my families.

Day the sixth

It's Christmas Eve, traditionally the day when most Europeans do that whole present opening thing in the evening. I woke up this morning to a world all gone white, not only do we have snow but we have hoar frost everywhere as well. It's stunningly beautiful.

We, that is my husband and I have not gotten each other gifts this year, the reason being is we are wealthy enough that we can get what we need and mostly want when ever we please. Our wants and needs are not huge, so jet planes and diamonds are not on our wish lists and we don't tend to spend tons on things most of the time and we are careful but when we see something with our price range that we like, want, need we can usually afford to get it. We are comfortable and therefore extremely lucky. I am grateful for this level of being. Having seen both extremes in life ( poor and wealthy) I like the middle ground somewhat. Some days I think it would be nice to be able to just buy a house or what ever else we wish for but on the other hand being in this zone gives us something to work for. It's a nice feeling to have to save up for something, to have something to look forward to.

I am very thankful for our wealth in every aspect of that word. We are by, many standards, well off financially, we are unbelievably rich in friends and acquaintances, we are also wealthy in knowledge and understanding of many things in a broad spectrum, and we are rich in abundance with all this world has to offer from the smallest joy of watching birds feed outside our window to the largest joy of having our health and being able to be with family and do all the things we like to do.

thankful-day 5

I have discovered that it's not so easy to come up with something thankful to write about every single day. It's not that I am not grateful or thankful but really some days it's hard to pin exact thankfulnesses down.

We are a day away from Christmas eve and I am one of those Grinch people's who don't like this time of year very much, it's stressful and full of unfulfilled expectations and as an adult I have come to dislike it to the point of wanting to hibernate. Yet it's also one of the few times of the year where most people get out of their selfish box and share a little bit.

One of the things I really do like about this time of year is the freedom to give without having to come up with a reason ( as if you actually need a reason...) I like to give thanks to the people around me who do stuff for me paid or not.

So this is me being grateful for the people around me. The posties, the garbage men, the staff in my doctor's office, the really friendly cashiers at Lidl, my co workers at ACER, the strangers who actually smile at me when I smile at them and so on.

The world is full of people most of whom we never get to meet or know but occasionally we break through that stranger barrier and sometimes we connect even for a few seconds and I am grateful for that.

thankful day 4

I am thankful for the beauty I see each and ever yday in the world around me. It's sometimes something really small or something show stoppingly amazing. I treasure these little or big moments. These moments which remind me I am a small spot in a big universe and that universe is astonishing.

solstace thankfulness

I have to say on this the darkest, longest day of the year I am thankful for the people who light up my life. I am thankful for my friends. I count myself lucky to have some pretty amazing people in my life. Some have been in my life for a long time now and some are still newer friends, some are very far away and a few are closer, though there is no one within walking distance any more. On New Year's one of these amazing people is flying over ( to hang out). I am blessed with such friends.

thankful day 2.

I am thankful for the internet. I don't think I need to explain why.

thankful - day 1

So my friend Bend_Gules on LJ started a thankful journal and for some reason at this time of my life it stuck a chord so I figure I will try it out as well.


day1: I am thankful for my free time. I do not have to work full time which means I have a lot of time for myself and I am unbelievably grateful for this luxury.

on another note, we got snow today. The lake is sporadically frozen so it looks like a spotted cow all black and white patches. The winter geese are back and early this morning the local owl was wide awake at 7am.