I'm grateful Wednesday

Every Wednesday (well, almost every Wednesday!) I try to do a post on things I'm grateful for over the past week. This helps keep my mood up...especially in the winter. Give it a try, it helps!

This week I am grateful for Netflix Instant! I have spent far too much time this last week watching Wildfire, a drama-filled TV series from ABC Family several years ago. It is dramatic and silly, and I love it. Don't judge.

I'm grateful that the squirrels have, for the most part, started to leave our bird feeders alone. We decided, rather than try to stop the squirrels, to feed them...far away from the feeders! It isn't fool-proof, but it works at least part of the time!

I'm grateful that spring is coming, and I'm eagerly watching to see what comes up this year in our garden! More on that later.

I'm very very grateful that in just over a week my best friend is coming to visit! I will take a few much needed days off, and we will spend a few much needed days together.


What are you grateful for this week?

I'm Grateful Wednesday

 
Every Wednesday (well, almost every Wednesday!) I try to do a post on things I'm grateful for over the past week. This helps keep my mood up...especially in the winter. Give it a try, it helps!

This week I'm very grateful that it is Wednesday. Geoff and I are going away this weekend which means I asked for Saturday off...which means that I had to work Monday, after only 1 day off. At first I wasn't very happy about this until I remembered that I often worked 7 days a week when I was in school. Even so, it's been a long week so far, though I will have a 3 day weekend this week which makes it all worth it.

I'm also grateful for Swagbucks! This week I earned my 8th Amazon.com gift card...which means by doing almost nothing I have earned $40 in Amazon cards (and you can buy so many things from Amazon!) I will take that!

I'm grateful that every day my job seems to get easier and easier, and my manager and I are getting along very well, especially since she doesn't have to train me anymore. I am feeling more competent every day, and have less anxiety around losing my job (yes, I was anxious about that!)

I'm SUPER grateful that in less than a month my best friend, Kristin is coming to visit! We will be going to Vancouver for a few days and I can't wait to relax and spend time with her. Plus, neither of us has ever been to Vancouver so that will definitely be fun.

What are YOU grateful for, today?

I'm Grateful Wednesday

Every Wednesday (well, almost every Wednesday!) I try to do a post on things I'm grateful for over the past week. This helps keep my mood up...especially in the winter. Give it a try, it helps!


Oh, friends. I feel as if I have failed you in the blogging sense. I looked back at my blog and I have had nothing exciting or unusual to say in far too long. I have allowed the business of life get in the way of what I love to do...write! I will try to be better this week.

Anyway, this week I'm grateful for my job. There are so many out there without one, or with jobs they hate or had to settle on (even me, sometimes) but the fact that I have a job, any job, is important and refreshing.

I'm grateful for the gas station attendant next door to work who knows me and gives me the occasional free coffee! Hey, it's the little things.

I'm grateful for my brand new iPhone, which I have been waiting a long time for. Loyal to Verizon, I had to wait until it came to my phone company, and this month it did!

I'm grateful for the light dusting of snow that made everything pretty, but not a nuisance this morning.

I would have more to be grateful for, but remember that job? Well, I must go do it!

I'm Grateful Wednesday

Every Wednesday (well, almost every Wednesday!) I try to do a post on things I'm grateful for over the past week. This helps keep my mood up...especially in the winter. Give it a try, it helps!

 
I have to be honest with you all; I'm having a very hard time being grateful today and lately. I'm just feeling run-down, tired, ungrateful and having a pity party for myself. This winter has been unusually hard for both Geoff and I. It has been a winter of sickness for us, and we normally have a very strong immune system! I don't think there has been a time when either one or both of us hasn't been sick since the end of October. So that, combined with several other small factors has served to make me ungrateful lately. So I suppose this week's I'm grateful Wednesday is even more important.

• I'm grateful for my wonderful husband, who went along with my idea of 14 small gifts leading up to Valentine's Day. While I actually gave him small gifts, my wonderful husband gave me numerous small gifts along with flowers delivered to my work and a board game that I love to play! I'm so lucky.
• I'm grateful that I will be seeing my best friend, Kristin in April! We have just finalized the details and I can't wait to see her. It's been way too long.
• I'm grateful that I will also see my family at my sister's graduation in May! It's also been too long since I've seen them, and I look forward to spending time, even if it's only a few days, with my parents and sister.
• As always, I'm grateful that I have a job. Geoff and I have established financial goals for ourselves recently, and we are working diligently towards those goals. Well, we are working towards them. Silly temptations keep getting in our way.
• I'm grateful that this week we are going to be ordering iPhones! I've waited a long time for Verizon to come out with the iPhone and I am so glad they finally did, and that we are able to get them too.

OK, that wasn't so hard...now it's your turn! What are you grateful for this week?

I'm Grateful Wednesday

Every Wednesday (well, almost every Wednesday!) I try to do a post on things I'm grateful for over the past week. This helps keep my mood up...especially in the winter. Give it a try, it helps!

This week I am grateful for every one of my readers. There may not be many, and I may not get a lot of comments (or any...) but I'm grateful for you all. Anyone who puts up with reading my small space on the internet deserves recognition!

I'm grateful for the sun today. It's been rainy and generally gloomy recently, but I just looked out the window and saw sun! This makes me happy.

I'm grateful that my job is going well, my manager seems happy (for the most part) with my work and the drivers enjoy me.

I'm grateful that my 52 Letter Challenge is going well and I'm pleased to say that I have yet to miss a week! It's early yet, though, so don't get too excited. I'm sure a missed week (or more!) is in the cards.
As an aside, this week's letter was written to an old friend who I don't talk to nearly often enough. She is recently pregnant, and though we had a long conversation when she told me, we haven't talked since, or much before. I feel bad so...a letter was due. I think next week's is going to my grandmother though, since I got a letter from her in the mail!

But I digress. I am also grateful for Mint.com which I have recently fallen in love with. A whole post on Mint is coming, though I'm sure a lot of you have heard of it and use it already. It's changed my life already and we've only just begun.

On a related note, I'm grateful for the bank! We opened up another checking and savings account so we can filter money into different accounts for different goals. Very exciting. Once we get credit card debt paid off we are going to start saving for things like a vacation to Hawaii next year and a replacement car that is (hopefully) still 4-5 years away.

And finally, I'm grateful for Swagbucks! (yes, that is a referral link, but if you don't want to help me, just go to the site yourself. It's so worth it). I've earned about $20 in Amazon gift cards ($10 of which went to a Christmas gift in December) and I'm loving it. It takes me about a month to earn a $5 card which seems like forever, but it does add up! And I love that Amazon will hold onto your gift cards and accumulate a balance. I'm not sure what I'm saving for yet, but I do know that I love free Amazon.com money! (Who doesn't?) There are plenty of other things to earn on Swagbucks, but Amazon cards are my favorite.

And with that, I'm back to work! I'm grateful that I only have about 4 hours left of work...the afternoon always seems to go faster than the morning!

What are you grateful for today?

I'm grateful Wednesday

This week I'm very grateful for my new work schedule! I am now working Tuesday-Saturday, 7 am-3 pm. Sure, I'm giving up most of my Saturdays but since Saturdays are slow and I get off at 3-3:30 every day, I am willing to make this sacrifice!

I'm grateful for the fact that my new schedule is allowing me to go back to helping out at my church youth group on Wednesday nights and our local cat shelter on Thursday nights! I've missed my kitties!!

I'm grateful that this week Geoff's flat tire happened in the parking lot of his work, not on the road.

I'm also grateful that the flat tire pushed us to do what we have really needed to do for some time...get new tires on his car.

I'm grateful for a job that allows us to be able to afford things like four new tires!

I'm grateful for our local thrift store. What a haven of exciting finds that place is! Yesterday I got a very exciting, much coveted item for a huge bargain, and on Saturday I scored 5 books and a springform pan for under $4! Now I need to practice making cheesecake!

Finally, I'm grateful for my wonderful, amazing husband with whom I am planning on working out at the gym we joined this weekend.

What are you grateful for this week?

I'm grateful Wednesday

I have to be honest with you all. I'm not feeling very grateful this week. However, instead of listing the things I'm stressed about, I will do my best to list what I am grateful for.

I'm honestly grateful for the fact that it is Wednesday, (though I'd be a little more grateful if it was, oh, Friday).

I'm grateful that an easy petsitting job brought in a little extra money last week (it was after last week's grateful Wednesday!)

I'm very, very grateful for my wonderful husband, with whom I celebrated our wonderful first year of marriage on Sunday!

I'm grateful for Who's the Boss, which brings back my childhood. I used to love that show!

I'm grateful Wednesday

This week I am again grateful that it is Wednesday! It came quickly this week because I had Monday off (I was traveling home from Christmas). So I guess I'm also grateful that it is a short week for me!

I'm grateful that my husband is home this week so I can give him a list of things that need to be done, like taking down the tree and laundry.

I'm grateful for the snow that isn't enough to be a nuisance, but enough to be pretty! I woke up to it this morning and it was a delight! Whenever I wake up to snow I feel like a little kid again.

I'm slightly grateful that Christmas is over because now I can finally get into a routine that isn't interrupted by a holiday every few weeks!

I'm grateful for the movie tickets I was given for Christmas because it means a fun (free!) date!

I'm grateful that my first anniversary with my wonderful husband is less than a week away!

What are you grateful for this week?

I'm grateful Wednesday!

This week I'm so so grateful that it is already Wednesday, and that I have a half day tomorrow!

Even better, the first part of tomorrow's half day is going to be taken up with training for a new program we are using at my job. That means 2 hours out of the office! The change of scenery is going to be nice.

I'm grateful for my grandmother's ornaments that she sent us this year! I love having special ornaments on our tree not just a "theme" tree like we have had in the past. I'm excited to put up ornaments from both our childhoods on our tree!

I'm grateful that I'm finally being trusted to stay alone at work. Granted, it's a very very slow week, but still! I am being left alone to do my work and I am improving (I think!)

I'm grateful that tomorrow night Geoff and I will exchange our presents for each other! I'll admit it, I'm very excited to see what he got me, but also excited to see him open MY gift for him!

I was reminded again this past weekend how lucky Geoff and I were this year, so I am very grateful that we have a house, that we own it (or at least a small portion of it!) and that we can make our payments on it without worrying too much every month. Right now, there are so many people who will not be able to say that, this Christmas. I want to remember that when we're having bacon and eggs for dinner because it's cheap. We have so much, compared to many around us.

Finally, I am grateful for two kitties who curl up with us in bed and while we are watching TV. They are so soft and cuddly and they make our evenings fun!