Great Full

1. I am grateful that I only have a little head cold.
2. I’m grateful that a coworker invited me to a knitting circle (even though I don’t knit – yet). It’ll be nice to get out and meet some other women; I don’t have nearly enough female friends.
3. I’m grateful for tea. I can make a travel mug full before I leave home and it doesn’t make me tired like coffee (even decaf!) does.
4. I’m grateful that my friend J went to see TMNT with me. It wasn’t great, but it was fun and reminded me of being ten. Also I haven’t spent nearly enough time with him recently.
5. I’m grateful that I don’t have a high-stress job. I can have a head cold and just work a little more slowly than usual, and it’s not a huge deal.
6. I’m grateful to have seen some family members this weekend who I haven’t seen in years, and I’m grateful that they had a chance to meet my husband (even if he wasn’t being particularly social).
7. I’m grateful for friends who don’t mind watching our cat while we’re away.
8. I’m grateful that I had a chance to spend a small amount of time at the ocean while I was in Maine. The shore is one of the few places that I feel truly renewed, and while the time this weekend was much too short to do lots of good, it did a little bit. If nothing else I have fresher memories to visit in my daydreams.