100 Days of Gratitude

ruthbru

Jazzy, call your friend. I had a friend who must have put me on her calendar because she called me every Sunday night when I was doing chemo, just to see how I was doing. And I was and am so grateful for her support during that time. She is a cancer survivor herself, which meant she totally got it....something that made be doubly grateful for those calls.

honeybair

Grateful to still see some of my high school friends on a regular basis after all these years. No mean girls or boys back in the day.

Jazzygirl

1/14- grateful to get out of the house for awhile today after being tied down here a few days with the painting job. I got a few things done and also a great workout at the gym.

Ruth- my friend went back to work, so I learned today, while she is doing chemo. So said she had a bad week with her first treatment and sounds overwhelmed and does not have much time right now. I am going to call her to see if I can over to see her later on Saturday. I went back to work after my surgery and worked through rads treatments and know how hard it is.

I like your recommendation to give her a call periodically.

OncoWarrior

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hbcheryl

Grateful for a good day at work filing all my 2014 paperwork

RedReading

Jan 15th - today I am grateful to be included in some of the training that other people got while I was involved in the new payroll implementation. Makes me feel like part of the team. 

Jazzy and Ruth, good for both of you. Keeping in touch with friends who are going thru what you have is very important I think.

OncoWarrior

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ruthbru

Ah.....

grateful for a MILD, sunny day!

honeybair

Grateful for all the wonderful snowbirds who come to my lovely coastal resort every winter, and grateful that they have found my little church. All of them are from the Midwest. What lovely people.

ruthbru

And the Midwest snowbirds are, for sure, grateful to be down there with you, honey!

Grateful to be finished writing a letter of recommendation for a young friend. Whew, that is a lot of work! I was glad to do it & do highly recommend him for the big East Coast schools he is applying to......but how to put it into words that would impress an admissions committee?

Jazzygirl

1/15- grateful for a good yoga class last night that pushed my limits, but also showed me how strong I have become once again after all the personal training.

1/16- grateful in advance for a massage I will have this afternoon!

OncoWarrior

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ruthbru

Grateful to a sitting at the salon getting my ' natural color' refreshed

PattyPeppermint

grateful it's Friday ! Family time without rushing to get ds's to bed by 9pm. Pizza , Maybe movie night at home .or board games .. Hmm something for sure.

Nel138281

Grateful for Saturday AM, sweats, coffee, laptop  no rushing out the door

ruthbru

Grateful for thinking of this quite brilliant idea: in the mail I had gotten a reminder to renew my driver's license. After my hair cut/color/highlights/styling session yesterday, I drove right from the salon to the license bureau. Sure, I still look like an escaped convict in their picture, but I look like an escaped convict with really nice hair!

honeybair

Ruth, you are too funny!

Grateful for new food products that have healthy ingredients. Today for lunch we had a wonderful tasting chicken sausage which contained nothing unhealthy.

OncoWarrior

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Jazzygirl

1/17- grateful for a day to slow down. Watched some movies I love on HBO today, including one of my all time favorite movies, Contact, with Jodi Foster and a very young Matthew McConaughey (Hottie McHotter).

hbcheryl

LOL Ruth. Today I am grateful I got to workout with my favourite instructor (the one who taught me that 'I can') don't get to see him too often so it is very special when I do, yes Ruth it was the wonderful Eduardo

ruthbru

Eduardo....sigh!

One of my friends is very involved with the Make a Wish Foundation and was one of the people who organized a big fund raising event this evening. Grateful that I went; because it was very fun, moving, and inspiring too.

Anonymous

been a very busy week...

1/12: grateful for patience

1/13: grateful that Dad and I met with hospice social worker and Mom is now in hospice (hopefully she will be pain free)

1/14: grateful when I lead a meeting today my thoughts were somewhat organized

1/15: grateful for friends who love me even when I don't always love myself

1/16: grateful Mom taught me to cook

1/17: grateful DH was in such a good mood today

Jazzygirl

2nd time- I hope your mom adjusts to hospice and remains comfortable. They were helpful to our mom as well.

ruthbru

Thanking of you 2nd during this difficult time.

Hey Jazzy, if you can make it to North Dakota by 7pm tonight, you could come to a fund raiser with me at the local art center. The theme is 'An Evening of Desserts and Jazz'......I like dessert and I like jazz so will grateful in advance.

honeybair

Grateful for fresh Mexican food and a day out of the kitchen

Jazzygirl

1/18- grateful for the opportunity to slow down some this weekend before the next and final round of reno work begins.

Ruth- I wish I could have gotten up there. That sounds like a good paring- desserts and jazz. Did you go? What kind of jazz did they play? I would have loved it!

hbcheryl

Maddy sending (((HUGS))) at this most difficult time.

Grateful I was able to get some gardening done today

Jazzygirl

1/19- I am grateful the call from the MO's office on Friday that I missed was about the approval for the Prolia shot for bone health, and nothing related to my recent visit and blood work. I knew they would be calling about the Prolia, but you never know what may come up in that blood draw, right?

I am also grateful insurance is going to pay for it now too, and I go in next Monday to get the first of 2 shots I will get annually to help mitigate the bone loss with the AIs. Co-pay is minimal too, only $30.

Whew!

ruthbru

Grateful for Martin Luther King & other heroes, sung and unsung, who dedicate their lives to making the world a better place for all of us.

(Jazz report ahead, skip if it isn't your thing ....Jazzy, our public school system has an outstanding music program & this was a fund raiser. There was a wide variety of jazz. The vocal jazz group, Jazz band, small groups of singers & instrumentalists, several alumni performed....two you especially would have found interesting. A very talented guy who is majoring in Performance Arts at the University of Minnesota composed a piece for his Jazz Band there & then reworked it so his electric guitar part was featured & the piano accompanist did all the parts that a band would do (wow), and another alumni performer had been a contestant on American Idol a couple years ago (and is now a music teacher herself). She did a number singing & playing the piano & then did Peggy Lee's Fever accompanied by the guy I was just talking about on the electric cello (super wow & by the way, Peggy Lee was from North Dakota). The high school band director did a couple pieces on the trumpet & the beloved middle school band director played the piano and sang James Taylor's Fire and Rain (he loves James Taylor; so it is kind of a joke, no matter what the venue, if he is asked to perform, you are going to get James!). Really a fun evening & so cool to see kids doing really good things (which can get lost in all the gloom and doom one hears & sees in the world).

Jazzygirl

Ruth- that sounds SO awesome. I was very involved in music growing up and still am. I love everything about what you shared above, and did not know Peggy Lee was from ND either. I love her song, FEVER too! And I love JT too, great that they include one of his songs in the performances. It is always good to honor the legends, many of those musicians inspired many others that have followed suit......

I think music can keep young people focused on something positive and out of trouble, it certainly did for me!

Thanks for sharing this.