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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

So behind!

It has been such a busy couple weeks filled with illness, lots of work and holidays, but I said I would find 30 things to be thankful for and darn it I am determined to keep up, so I'll have two weeks worth of  things tonight that I am thankful for tonight!

#14 - I baby sat for Avery and Jordan for a while tonight and I'm thankful that I have the opportunity to hang out with two sweet girls and then give them back! :) The older I've gotten, the less sure I am about having kids of my own, soon I'll be wicked step mom and honestly, I'm not sure I need to have my own. I love spending time with Avery and Jordan though, and get to about every other week, sometimes more and we always have a good time. It's a nice reminder that you can be a part of a child's life even if you're not the parent.

#15 - I am so thankful for the rain we received on Tuesday. We needed it so badly and even though we are no where near out of the severe drought, it was nice while it lasted. There are only windows in the offices on the outside of our work area and when it rains you can usually find a couple extra people in each office with their noses pressed against the window, watching in awe. I found myself in an empty conference room several times just staring, mesmerized at the falling drops, seen so little here in the last year or so. Hopefully we will get more soon!

#16- Wednesday I was able to participate in the planning of the companys big Christmas charity event of the year. Every year the company adopts a Children's Home in the area and we raise money to buy them Christmas presents and then give extra money to the home to use for whatever they need throughout the year. We divide up into teams based on department, raise money and then shop for our kid. I've been lucky enough to be able to do the shopping for the HR kid in years past and I always have so much fun! The year we got two little girls was the best, so much pink! :) This year, I got to sit in on one of the planning meeting as well and I was impressed and thankful to see all the supervisors from the call center that came and all the ideas they had. Our budget has been drastically cut this year and we didn't think it would happen at all, but I'm thankful for the people who are taking over and making sure that it happens, I love being apart of helping a group of kids with so much sadness in their life have a special Christmas.

#17 - I'm thankful for my sweet fiancee/nurse when I'm sick. I woke up Thursday morning with a bit of a sore throat and a cough. By lunch I felt miserable and had a slight fever. Of course that was the day of endless meetings and calls and I was finally able to get home about 3:30. I am so thankful to have a fiance who responded to my text message that I would be home about 3:30 with "Good, come home so I can take care of you". Part of this was luck in that he was working from home that afternoon anyways, but he always jumps to be my caretaker when I'm sick without hesitating. I'm thankful that he has the flexibility to work from home and that even though I really didn't need too much, just to lay down and pop some cold meds he was here willing to get me whatever I needed.

#18 - I'm thankful that I have sick days available to me. Had to take Friday off as I was still feeling crummy, but I'm thankful that I don't have to worry about pay for that day, I have an ample stock of paid time off to use for those days and I know that not everyone has that luxury. I'm thankful that I don't have to worry about a few sick days here and being hurt financially by those days. It's a luxury far too few people have. I'm thankful it is one that I enjoy.

#19 - I'm thankful for hot tea and hot soup! It was a sick day at home for both Isaac and I on Saturday and it was hard to find the good, we had to cancel our Carolina weekend which is always a huge let down, but we couldn't let her get our colds so it was just the two of us curled up on the couch all day drinking hot tea and eating soup. I'm thankful I have someone to spend sick days lying on the couch with. I've been sick alone and it's one of the loneliest feelings, even when we're both down with something, it's so nice just to have someone else there, just be there with you, to snuggle with and share the covers and the tissues!

#20- I made it out of the house Sunday to a yoga class and I was thankful for that, I was going crazy with cabin fever and an hour in yoga was just what the doctor ordered, still had a persistent cough, but just looking at something other than the tv and walls of the house was nice.

#21 - I'm thankful for Monday's that feel like Wednesdays thanks to 3 day work weeks!!

#22 - I'm thankful for antibiotics! Woke up Tuesday with my cough worse and feeling bad again. I was running Thanksgiving day no matter what it took so I made a doctor appointment and was diagnosed with Bronchitis. Awesome. Given a z pack and mucinex and told to rest up but given the okay to run Thursday. I am so thankful for that! Up until I got sick I had trained so hard, I had to do the race and I was determined to see it through.

#23 - I'm thankful for dinner with friends. Night before Turkey trot time to carb up for the race! Kristina and her neighbor Margaret came over for pasta dinner and lots of laughs. Margaret brought an amazing salad of spinach, goat cheese, strawberries, walnuts and cherry tomatoes. I'm not always the biggest salad person, but that salad was awesome! Thankful for friends, food and fun!

#24 - So full of thankfulness after Thanksgiving day. Thankful that I made it through the 5 mile race alive and with a perfectly respectable time! Thankful that I did indeed have my running shorts with me and I didn't have to run the race in yoga pants. Thankful that the weather was perfect, cool not cold with a sunny sky. Thankful for the beautiful city I live in and thankful that while running I helped a good cause. The Turkey Trot benefits Caritas, a local organization that helps the homeless.  Thankful for the antibiotics that helped that happen, thankful for my mom and John for a tasty Thanksgiving dinner and Kristina and Avery for joining us.

# 25 - After being awake for 25 hours on Thanksgiving running, eating and later shopping I am thankful for the pajama pants my mom gave me for Christmas (early Christmas as we'll be in Spain for Christmas this year). I put those pants on Friday morning about 7am and they would remain on my person until Sunday morning. They are so freaking comfortable, if I could work in them I would!

#26 - Free premium movie channels over the long weekend made me very thankful! In two days we managed to watch both Game of Thrones and season 7 of Weeds! After the race Thursday my cough worsened a bit and I was exhausted so we took it easy over the weekend and rain on Saturday made it perfect couch cuddling, Game of Thrones watching weather. Thankful for my co couch cuddler, our DVR and U-verse for freeing up the premium channels for the weekend! Gave us our last relaxing weekend until 2012!!

#27 - I'm thankful for my yoga class I started attending on Sundays a few weeks ago. I resisted yoga for years, the relaxation stuff annoys me and my brain just does not shut down, but after several months of running I found myself experiencing some hip and back pain. Some research suggested yoga might be helpful in easing that pain and after one class I noticed a difference! I try to go Sunday and Thursday and I always feel so great afterwards. Limber and pain free in my hips. I thankful I got over my yoga hang ups, it's something I've really started to look forward to each week and I definitely feel better!

#28 - Tonight as I get caught up with all my thankfulness, I'm thankful for the fireplace roaring next to me as I type and Isaac watches a show he'd recorded. I'm thankful to be here with him, nice and warm and even though it's been a rough couple weeks and I've had a really hard time some days finding things to be thankful for some days, as I've typed them all out I've realized how lucky I am!




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