Gratitude List (June 30, 2024) #TToT

Posted on by Astrid

Hi everyone. Today, I’m doing a gratitude post. As usual, I’m linking it up with Ten Things of Thankful. I’m not in a good mood, but, as I usually say, that’s the best time to do gratitude posts, as it usually surprises me with how many things I can come up. Let’s go!

1. I am grateful for the weather. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, it was a little hot for my liking, but the temperatures setteld down eventually and today the daytime high was 23°C.

2. I am grateful I tolerate the heat pretty well. On those hotter days, when the daytime high was 30°C, everyone was complaining about being hot, but I handled it okay.

3. I am grateful the institution “townhouse” was finally opened last Tuesday. If I’m correct, construction finished over a year ago and I was half-joking that they’d built the thing without realizing budget cuts would mean there was no use for it. It will be used for leisure activities. I do wonder what will happen to the building these activities used to take place in, since that building too had extensive roof work done recently so I’m hoping they won’t just let that building rot.

4. I am grateful for cheesecake. I made it as a birthday treat for the entire home (both sides, so 20 clients plus staff) on Thursday. The staff I made it with, had never made a cake or pie before, but it was a definite success.

5. I am also grateful my order for buns at the local bakery went well. I was going to treat the entire home to hamburgers, but when I tried to order the buns online to be collected on Thursday, something on the payment website caused me to go paranoid and I canceled. My spouse calmed me down and I retried and was successful this time.

6. I am grateful the hamburgers were delicious! I had two of them.

7. Speaking of my birthday, I am grateful many of my fellow clients came by my room in the morning to wish me a happy birthday and to sing for me.

8. I am grateful for two cards from a former fellow client from the intensive support home. I by chance walked by there today and she called out to me and went inside to fetch the cards.

9. I am grateful for the gift voucher for one of my favorite clay stores I got from my sister. I am full of ideas of what to buy with it.

10. I am grateful for the music pillow I got from my spouse as a birthday present yesterday. It is connected to my iPhone via Bluetooth. After a bit of trial and error figuring out how it works, I slept like a log last night listening to one of my favorite calming music albums on Spotify.

What are you grateful for?

22 thoughts on “Gratitude List (June 30, 2024) #TToT”

    1. So true indeed. In fact, I stopped at ten because the meme is called Ten Things of Thankful and I was eager to publish my post, but I probably could’ve gone on.

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  4. I liked the things you are grateful for me am grateful for blog pals like you, and heaters on these cold mornings.

    I am grateful for a near by bakery that sells caramel tarts and a sister who will drive me to get some.

    I am grateful for my amazing family and lastly I am thankful my husband being back at work driving for another bus company

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    1. Thank you. A music pillow is basically a pillow with speakers inside of it that allows you to play music from your phone/tablet/PC on it. Most unfortunately still connect to your device via an audio cable but mine connects via Bluetooth (though it can connect via a cable too). In the case of the one I got from my spouse, it also has a built-in SD card with music on it.

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  8. I am grateful for 14 wonderful years with my therapist and wish him a happy retirement.
    I am grateful for a boyfriend who stands by me when I am troubled.
    I am grateful for a new week and a new month today to start fresh and look forward.

    Loved your list Astrid! We should always be grateful for cheesecake – YUM!

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    1. Wow, fourteen years! I’m honestly a bit envious, since I’ve never been with any support professional longer than four years and that was many years ago. I loved your gratefuls though.

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  9. I don’t do well in the heat but I love seeing the sunshine! It’s cooled down here from last week which I am grateful for.
    It sounds like the cheesecake and the hamburgers went down well.
    Happy belated birthday, it sounds like you had a lovely celebration. The music pillow sounds fantastic!!

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  10. Belated Happy Birthday!

    (the idea of hamburgers on fresh buns does sound enticing)

    I am, for what it’s worth, one of those people who never say ‘Yes’ to the question of ‘Hot enough for you?’

    I am enjoying the next month and a half of not being cold all the time

    have a good week

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  11. Happy belated birthday! It sounds like you had a lovely time celebrating.

    How thoughtful of you to buy your fellow residents hamburgers. I bet they were delicious.

    Lovely to have you pop over to #MMBC. Have an awesome week Astrid. 😊

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