1) This week in my morning pages I explored what it meant for me to be jealous.  I found that jealousy doesn’t present as covetous in me, but as my superiority complex.  The people I try to make my self feel better than and those are the people I perceive as being secure.  I’m jealous of people who have two weeks paid vacation, who come home to ( Read more... )

Today I am grateful for cream sauce

Today I am grateful for dream analyzation guides

Today I am grateful for not getting pulled over

Today I am grateful for it being cold enough outside to refrigerate my leftovers

Today I am grateful for a fellow spouse to understand what I am talking about

Today I acknowledge my self for applying for that ( Read more... )

Today I am very grateful to have had a kick ass artist date in seeing the band viva voce live, and the fact that they played m 2 favorite songs was the icing on the cake.  More artist date insight later...

Today I am grateful for the way streams of water tickle my fingertips and the feeling of water warming up

Today I am grateful to be sure I ( Read more... )

Today I am grateful that B tells me he loves me at the weirdest (but welcome) times.
Today I am grateful for the Keep Writing email I received.
Today I am grateful for free recycling
Today I am grateful for reruns of the cosby show that make me connect to how I felt when I was ten years old.
Today I am grateful for credit cards.

Today I acknowledge ( Read more... )

Today I am grateful for the support and smiles on-line communities have given me, and how the insights of others causes me to see things in new ways.
Today I am grateful for the smell of fresh ground coffee
Today I am grateful for the meals B and I share together
Today I am grateful for much needed sleep
Today I am grateful for not being cold
Today I am ( Read more... )

Today has just been a bad day.  The worst part?  When I gave myself over to the fact that I was having a bad day that horrible Had A Bad Day song got stuck in my head.  I feel like there is a giant sized version of one of those things the dentist uses to scrape tarter off your teeth scraping the tarter off my soul.  OK that might be a little ( Read more... )

Today I am grateful that someone was leaving the coffee shop right when I got there and opened a table where I could plug in my laptop and work.

Today I am grateful for the temperature being cool enough where my husband and I can sleep cuddled together all night and not get too hot.

Today I am grateful that I never made any really bad decisions ( Read more... )

Today I went to a bazaar at my old grade school.

There was a boy in the yard across from where I parked who was playing in a pile of leaves.  He was having a lot of fun and it made me smile.  I don’t enjoy playing in leaves (it always seems like more fun than it actually is) and his was a good reminder that external validation is not the key to ( Read more... )

I’ve been very productive this week.  Productivity leaves me with a weird mixture of satisfaction and exhaustion.  Lest I not ring my self dry I strung together several of this weeks tasks and turned the whole thing into something of an artist date.  Yes it was a run errands and rent a movie date, but I find sharing the mundane with others special ( Read more... )

Today I am grateful for how warm and soft flannel sheets are.
Today I am grateful for toast with strawberry jam and good strong coffee that together reminded me of breakfasts served in the pensione in Rome.
Today I am grateful for the smell of clean trash, hot coffee grounds thrown on top of old newspapers, and the way it reminds me of Elizabeth’s ( Read more... )