Hi all again. I am feeling in the mood for a gratitude post. It doesn’t mean I’m necessarily feeling upbeat – not too downcast either, thankfully. Oh wait, I hadn’t started my gratitude list yet. I’m just inspired to write one. As usual, I’m joining in with Ten Things of Thankful. Here goes.
1. I am grateful I’m negative for COVID so far. The virus finally reached my care home, as several clients tested positive yesterday. Thankfully though, my lateral flow test was negative yesterday and I’m not having symptoms suggestive of COVID at this point.
2. I am grateful for a great essential oil blend in my diffuser right now. I put lemon, tangerine, orange and spearmint in it and it smells truly delicious.
3. I am grateful for a good nurse practitioner’s appt yesterday. I was still allowed to leave the home yesterday to go to my appointment and it was really productive. My nurse practitioner validated my experience of dissociation and we were able to talk some about my anxiety too. We will discuss my flashbacks separately later.
4. I am grateful to be indoors. It’s storming outside and I’m so happy I don’t have to leave the home. Not that I’m allowed to now that the official positive PCR test results are in for my fellow clients, but oh well.
5. I am grateful for relatively cheap quark. I usually have that with my muesli for breakfast now, but yesterday used up the last few spoonfuls. However, a staff offered to buy new quark at her local supermarket. She got 1kg for €1,28. At the supermarket my care facility order from, they only have the 500g cans for €1,09. Not that I personally have to pay for my quark, but I don’t want the facility to have to pay €1,09 on a can I cannot even get three breakfasts out of.
6. I am grateful to have been able to be very crafty lately. I think I already mentioned creating the polymer clay narwhal last week. This week, I created another couple of things. Can you guess what this is supposed to be? About half my staff guessed it correctly and the others didn’t.
7. I am grateful for bananas, plums and grapes. Somehow, the staff had forgotten to order bananas last week, but thankfully, the care home next to mine was able to give us two on Wednesday. Yum! Then on my way home from my nurse practitioner’s appt yesterday, we stopped by the supermarket for some more fruit. We got plums and grapes. The plums were surprisingly sweet.
8. I am grateful for free audiobooks. Or one free audiobook, at least. I haven’t started listening to it yet, but the first book in one of Blake Pierce’s series is free even as an audiobook. I loved reading the first book in the Riley Paige Mystery series, even though I haven’t read any of his other books. This is the first installment in another series. Free stuff is always great and, now that iOS is giving me a headache working with my Braille display, I’d love to give audiobooks a try.
9. I am grateful for peach yogurt. It is the only type of fruit yogurt I really like and I’m so grateful we’ve been having it all week.
10. I am grateful to be alive. After writing my poem this afternoon, I’d just like to say this.
What are you grateful for?
A Multitude of Musings 
That is a really nice list and I hope you are able to add lots more to it by having. terrific weekend!
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I hope so too. Thank you for stopping by.
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I may be wrong, but the heart-shaped creature is a frog, isn’t it? Its heart-shaped nose and mouth are lovely.
The fruits and food you mentioned in the list sound really good.
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Thank you for stopping by and yes, you’re right, it’s a frog.
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It’s a joy to be able to celebrate the good things with you.
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Thank you. Yes, I agree 100%, I love to visit your gratitude post for that reason too.
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I think it may be a frog, Astrid.
The outline of the face and the sunken cheeks suggest “frog” to me.
[also I am thinking of something else amphibian – do they have otters in the Netherlands?].
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It’s a frog, yay! I don’t know whether we have otters or, if we do, whether I’ve ever seen one. I created this one from something I saw on YouTube and it was supposed to be a frog.
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I hope that you stay safe from Covid. A lovely list of gratitude Astrid. This looks like a face with red lips and a smile.
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Thanks so much! Haha, yes, it has a smile, but it wasn’t supposed to be just any face. It’s supposed to be a frog head.
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Oh yes, now I can see the googly eyes.
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Haha yes, the half of my staff who see this as a smiley, also recognize it as a frog after I point it out.
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Cool. Very well done Astrid
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I always love your straighforward list. I also read your poem and left a comment there. I think that is a frog. Am I right?
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Yes, you’re right! Thank you so much for stopping by.
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I like peach yogurt, too. Also, #10. 🤗💖
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Thank you so much! 🤗
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So sorry that COVID has affected some at the facility, but glad that you are COVID free.
I had to google Quark. I had not heard of it. I will have to see if any of the stores here carry it.
I guessed right that it was a frog! I saw the comments above just now, but that was my thought too.
Hope you have a good week ahead.
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I initially had to Google what to call the stuff I have with my muesli too. The dictionary said cottage cheese but that just didn’t feel quite right with me, so I went with Wikipedia.
Ah, most people here on my blog guess correctly what my polymer clay creation is supposed to be. Apparently my staff did a good job photographing it.
Thank you for stopping by. Have a nice week ahead.
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