100 Days of Gratitude

Grateful that I could see the dentist today & hopefully what she did will solve the problem!

Sweet's more like a bad skin rash. Wish it was caused by too many cookies. Found out that people who have certain types of cancer can get it.  Been dealing with this for about a month while they had me on a steroid to kill it, which it didn't.

Greatful that I don't have to tear a strip off the doc's staff about the referrals I need for upcoming appointments. They finally called a bit ago to get the information for the referrals!

I have a hobby of collecting presidential trivia (yes, I am strange), a friend of mine teaches a couple sections of advanced English and her students have been doing research papers on the presidents & I am grateful that I got the chance to go in and visit with them this morning. It was really fun to be with such engaged, enthusiastic kids.

* my dental woes stem from a wisdom tooth extraction about 15 years ago......I had lots of problems with it at the time, including a dry socket (the worst pain in the world), and has led to bone loss in that area as I age. There was nothing I did wrong & nothing I can do right about it either, just patchwork. Very frustrating! GRRRR....but, I guess I better be grateful that they CAN do patchwork!

Happily (remember, kids like the kind of off-beat information):

* When he was a boy, Jimmy Carter shot his sister, Gloria, in the rear end with a BB gun after she threw a wrench at him!

* His high school wouldn't let him be class Valedictorian because he had played hooky and went to a movie (he was a little more naughty than the image we have of him now would indicate...which I think is cool).

* Rosalynn was a good friend of his sister, Ruth. Ruth had a picture of Jimmy in his Annapolis uniform on her bedroom wall & when Rosalynn saw it, she immediately developed a crush on him! After their first date, he told his mom that she was the girl he wanted to marry. They wed the next year when he was 21 and she was just 18. It seems to have worked out....

Onco I have had shingles and I know how painful they are and my doctor told me that once you've had the shingle the vaccine is useless, the horse is out if the barn so to speak. Ruth you'd be a great partner in Trivial Pursuit.

Today I am grateful that I was able to have my car repair work completed in one day.

Cheryl, I would be a great partner IF I could hand-pick the topics (I know nothing in quite a few areas!!). And I'd re-check about the shingles shot, my sister had a terrible case of them & her doctor still wants her to get the shot because the virus is always in you & you can get shingles again (that is how it was explained to her anyway).

I am posting in advance because in a few hours we take off to attend the wedding of a kid (okay he is 25 years old) whom we have been friends with since he & DS went to the same babysitter when they were 3. Super guy, super family....almost like relatives to us. It should be a really fun time & I am grateful for the gift of dear friends & grateful to be around to help celebrate the milestone days.

10/3- grateful to have completed my first month of personal training and receiving good news on my progress today. Lost 3 inches around my waist in four weeks, and also decreased my internal body fat around my organs by 2%. We continue on for another month, may sign up for longer too. It is working!

10/4- grateful for balloon fiesta which began this morning. Always lots of fun in town during this time of the year (but terrible traffic!)

Youch, but a bone spur doesn't sound like very much fun either; so if they can get rid of it, that will be a step in the right direction (pun intended ).

Grateful for the really, really fun time we had at the wedding yesterday. It had such nice 'homey' touches (as opposed to the 'over the top ' feeling many weddings have nowdays).

Yes Ruth - bone spur be gone!   Hate the fact that excercising and walking are a bit uncomfortable right now.  If I am surviving cancer, I need to be able to get out and live my life fully!

Grateful for an enjoyable evening with friends last night. Invited a friend and her husband for dinner.  I don't do this nearly often enough.  And it really doesn't make a difference to anyone about how pulled together my condo is.  Been here almost a year and getting it to look like mine bit by bit.  

Grateful that a friend's mom is back home and doing better after a scary stint in the hospital.

Grateful that after my car broke down I had AAA and got to ride to work in a tow truck.

Grateful my mechanic was able to rectify the problem

Grateful that I got a call from a friend asking me to mind her dogs for two weeks so car repair paid for without me having to resort to dipping in to savings

And finally grateful that I received two tickets to the San Diego Chargers football game for today and I was able to share with a friend who is a football fanatic even though they are not her team we had a really fun day together.

Red I have a friend who is a party 'Princess' she said this year 95% of her parties she is Elsa.