100 Days of Gratitude

8/22: I am grateful today for money to pay bills and food in the freezer and the pantry to make an easy dinner so I didn't have to go to the store (and it's DH's favorite dinner besides)

8/23- grateful for a beautiful day and fun riding around in my convertible! Also grateful my swelling is gone, I slept well and really feel good today. Getting around the corner on this recent skin surgery.

Grateful for a wonderful night out with friends for my best friend since forever, to celebrate her 60th!

This will be a little long, but it was something that I was grateful to be able to do for someone else:

I have a 92 year old friend (whom I met when my dad was in the nursing home here.) Even though my dad has been gone two years now, she is so 'with it' and interesting that I try to have coffee with her every week just because it is fun. Yesterday when I was there, we were talking about food. She had me get out one of her recipe books to look for a recipe that I thought sounded good. After finding that recipe, (and me copying it down), I was paging through the book and we came to a well worn recipe for 'Onions Au Gratin'.  I asked her about it and she said, "Oh my, that was the most wonderful dish! Copy it down too, and if you ever make it, bring me a little tiny bowl so that I can taste it again." After I left, I went to the store, got the ingredients, made it, and brought her a big bowl today. She was so happy & gobbled it right down! It made her day, and mine too!

Ruth, what an angel you are both for maintaining the friendship and taking time to make the dish for her. I'll bet you made her day, week, month... Is it a recipe worth sharing? 

Ruth, how wonderful that you have maintained this friendship.  I know it blesses both of you.

Grateful for cooler weather and a wonderful sermon at church today written and presented by a friend in our pastor's absence.

Ruthbru- I hear you on too much onions. I worked at a univ. back east for about a year and a half and someone made a vadalia onion pie there once. Don't get me wrong, I like onions but agree a dish of them is often too much (never mind a desert made from them)!

I bet your friend would love more if you can get over to see her again soon too! 

8/23 - grateful I got to spend time with my friend from Tennessee as she came through on her way to Fiji and Vanuatu, we celebrated her 70th birthday with a traditional Sunday roast dinner on a Saturday with roast lamb, and roast vegetables followed by a pavlova for dessert.

8/24 - grateful to celebrate the joy of a soon to be bride at her bridal shower

Grateful I live in a place with clean, good tasting water.

8/25: grateful for a busy couple of days. Finally completed a total  re-vamp of resume and cover letter, completed my online traffic school (over 7 hours for the on-line course, less than 5 minutes to take the test, with a 96%, no less) and had very interesting soul-searching conversations with friends the last couple of days. I knew I haven't been in the "best" of spots, my friends helped me put many things into perspective. Also grateful that being a little "sneaky" was a good thing, a very good thing. 

Grateful that the work on my kitchen has begun, refacing the cabinets, and it will all look new by the weekend

yes, we're a bit strange in Cali! Yep, all my 40+ years of driving meaningless compared to Internet. Lol!

8/26: grateful I got thru a very difficult day. First, learned a very valuable lesson. Yesterday I dropped a coin purse (which contained 2 flash drives) on the floor of a store, contents rolled over shelf. Embarrassed, retrieved the items. Needed the drives last night, no where to be found, called store, not turned in. Didn't know exactly what was on either except some photos, college transcripts (like back in the day when they used SSN), jobs apps - and whatever else. Realized I probably should have an OWNER INFO on all flash drives just so someone could contact me if anything ever happened to them. Very grateful I found them this afternoon.

Second, went with Dad to a local cemetery earlier in the day to transfer pre-need funeral arrangements for both mom and him. Grateful that's out of the way.