One lovely thing...

What's in your life you give thanks for? Enjoy doing? Are looking forward to? Someone you love, dearly? Choose to look on the positive every now and again.

We are going to an outdoor concert tonight. I bought the tickets for my partner's birthday a few months ago. It is a lovely day here in the mid-Atlantic. It is likely to be a lovely evening.

I just finished the prep for our meal. Prosecco, smoked salmon with horseradish creme, olives, some bits of cheeses, strawberries, pickled asparagus, carrot chips, a white bean dip, and a nutmeal bread. A picnic under the stars.

I am happy to be helping my elderly mother, who is more and more locked into her age. Next week, I am going to take her to get a mani-pedi. She enjoys them immensely.

I am so happy to be able to go up to the mountains this weekend,get out, and go hiking.

Remember: you control how you feel, and what you think about your life.

How lovely Myself!!!

I journal 5 things everyday I am grateful for....somedays it was a real chore but lately (dare I say Cymbalta) I am having FUN!! I am re-doing my bedroom on a shoestring budget, but it is so joyful for me. I spray painted 2 lamps and table robin egg's blue and framed a lovely poster. They make me happy.

My daughter just turned 17 and we have been working really hard on yard, tiki torches, lights on the dock (we live on the bayou) for her party fri nite. She is making terrific grades and recently qualified for a bunch of academic scholarships and got her license.

I have started whistling and humming again. I feel like I am high but this is what life is supposed to be-joy in all the wonderful little things God puts in our path...I am so grateful I have another chance and am so glad that you started this thread, Myself.

I hope you have a delightful evening and I hope we all find joy in the little wonderments around us

Love Mags

Thank you for this thread.

Mags, 5 things a day? I was proud of myself for doing 1 gratitude a day! Your awesome.

Well, currently, the best thing I like is going to the wooded dog park with our 3 mutts and my hubby and doing the curcuit 3-4 times, letting the hounds tire themselves and John and I get a nice walk in the woods. We go around twilight, it is soooo nice.

and Chobani and Stoney Fields yogurts, YUM!

Peace
Trina

Loverly, indeed. Lyle Lovett and his Large Band--thirteen in all. I love full brass sections and fiddles, and he had both, including a cello, a steel guitar, and a real bass. They played, without break, until 10:30ish.

I was very happy with the pickled asparagus. I have been flirting with pickling this summer. Horseradish creme made with yogurt is disappointment, utterly. Try making a picnic without carbs or unprocessed dairy. Argh!

I am currently waiting for my pain killers to take effect. After 5 hours sitting on the ground, and getting to bed late, I have some protesting body parts.

A positive post ....... yeah!!!!!

   Even during some stressful times like now ... I find all kinds of things to be thankful for or things to simply cherish.

   Big surprise - one of them is my 31-month old Samoyed slightly under-sized and at times slightly over-bearing male. He's just fun to be around, and I cherish his company and presence! Sometimes he wants to play at the worst times, but that's about his worst habit.

   A very recent dinner out with my youngest daughter and her boyfriend. I would like to think of him some day being a son-in-law ... but that's not my business. We did however have a wonderful dinner out last Sunday night, and it reminded me how much I love that girl. She is truly a wonderful person and human being.

   As I'm writing this, I can see how sunny it is thru the blinds behind my computer screen. My old office is in a loft with skylights above ... so it's such a happy place to be writing - bright and cheerful - one of the simpler things in my life that I cherish.

  

   And the original story by Myself 09 reminded me of an experience of mine of about twenty years ago ... shortly after my divorce was final. I asked a neighbor out on a date (first date in over 20-years since before my marriage). We met walking our dogs ... what else - maybe a year prior!!!! I had my stately 65-pound Standard Poodle and she had (yep) a Samoyed - a female!!!!!

   It was just a date - nothing romantic - but we both enjoyed music, and we did the (cool in this area) Ravinia Concert thing - complete with all kinds of food brought in an ice chest, a bottle of wine, two crystal glasses and a blanket for the outdoor concert. It was like a huge monkey was taken off of my back - first date since in my early 20's!!!!

   Good memories ... it's good that they stay with you!