Choosing for Myself

Today I am Grateful for ~

• Enjoying myself last night at a fun wedding.
• Feeling sophisticated and sultry in a hot red dress...Thanks again Shanan, apparently it's the birthday gift that keeps on giving!
• Red nail polish and how lovely it looks on toes (okay, my toes).
• Remembering that my bedroom is supposed to be a sanctuary and taking time to straighten it up, light a candle in there and just enjoy it, letting it soothe my spirit.
• Getting yard work done in anticipation of Labor Day festivities.
• Reading that the most helpful journaling (for healing) is writing about negative feelings or difficult situations. And to think that I stopped journaling regularly because I judged myself for continually writing about problems! I just assumed that I was stuck in an endless negative cycle. I think I'll pick it up again.
• Getting my table/desk all ready to be painted.
• Getting a ready made deck from the guy across the street. And all of the work Richard and the neighbors did to put it behind our garage. After power washing it and staining it, it makes a great additional patio area for socializing in the back yard.
• Continuing to work today on a couple of ongoing projects instead of starting a new one. So tempting for an ADD brain to start the new and exciting stuff instead of finish up the old and boring.
• Rearranging our existing resources to make things more functional and attractive.
• Clearing out the junk (literally and figuratively).
• Following the flow. After being inspired by Jimmy Buffet's 'Cheeseburger in Paradise' playing on the radio we decided to go grab a burger. After a couple of dead ends we found out that a bar just three blocks from us serves food. This place has the most incredible burgers and fries. It was just like Jimmy described (minus the paradise part)! We'd never been to there before, but we'll certainly go back. It was a cool mini-adventure.
• Giving myself weekends off from my diet. It really minimizes my feelings of being deprived.
• Sipping chamomile tea as I type this list.
• You.