100 Days of Gratitude

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.

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.

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

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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.

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!

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

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

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.

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).

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.

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

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

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

Grateful I was able to get some gardening done today

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).