100 Days of Gratitude

Don't often post but read every day

Grateful this AM for a warm sunny day here in Mass.   Only one small pile of snow left on my street!

I am grateful for beautiful people like you all:

4/19- grateful for a wonderful morning listening to music at a local neighborhood coffee spot. Just a great way to start a Sunday.

Jazzygirl, I love your music posts!! Thank you for sharing! I am a huge fan of traditional jazz, blues and roots music - it's all I listen to. My husband and I have run a concert series on and off for the last three years with local musicians playing in our living room and back yard (and a couple shows in a much bigger venue). Video is here. You might especially like the Steph Johnson Trio

Today I'm grateful for lunch with a good friend on a beautiful, relaxing day! Getting mentally prepared for surgery and treatment.... relieved and incredibly thankful that I'll have a loving husband, caring father and good friends nearby throughout.

I am grateful for my new home. It's smaller but at least I have one when so many of my friends are forced to relocate due to crazy rents in SF.

Your friend is smart, Jazzygirl. I would dissuade everyone from moving here. The Bay Area is so money centered and full of itself. My home is a smaller apartment, which I rent. My landlord basically wanted to increase our rent by $700. That's after raising it $150 last year. We told him we had been dealing with my illness and the stress and then asked if he could just raise it like last year. He didn't budge. His only concern was making as much money as possible. I am grateful that we live in an affordable place and can still be in the city. The new place is so much quieter too and rent controlled. The old apt had the thinnest walls, no water pressure, ugly 80's fixtures, and we heard the neighbors at all hours.

SueBe- I go up to the Stanford area periodically for training and conferences through a program I did there a few years ago. I always thought it would be cool to live in that area, but know it is out of sight to even consider. Only the rich start up CEOs that cashed out on their IPOs can live there. Met lots of younger workers who are directors and the like for big IT companies and have to live further away. Just riddick.

I hope that you enjoy your new space that is also rent control. Being away from that stress is the best for you.

Ruth- glad you are feeling better.

That is a great thing to be, OncoWarrior. I have made myself available for this kind of thing, but haven't heard back from the practice that puts newly diagnosed (God bless these women, and give them strength) and those like me. Hopefully, soon.

I am grateful for the rain we received here in N. Calif, and to be able to walk to the store for groceries instead of having to drive.

Very happy and grateful to have 'passed' my yearly oncology checkup today. Whew!

Grateful for my mother,

and all the things she taught me,

and all the laughs we shared.

Grateful for the good visit with the PS for post-op check yesterday.

Yea Meljo! Hearing that should make you feel less anxious already!

Grateful for a gorgeous spring day, and for my haircut/color appointment this afternoon.

Although it is rainy and gloomy in Wisconsin today, I am grateful to be heading out shortly for lunch with one of my besties to celebrate her 50th birthday and my clean bill of health .  Life is so good! 

5/1- grateful for the month of May and all the fun things planned and new possibilties on the horizon!

Grateful my Dad knows I like sunflowers just as much as my husband does