Six things I was grateful for today.
1. The smell of crushed leaves after the kids have been through. (I am pretty sure that for worms, this is the smell of pizza.)
2. The sound of dried fallen leaves as you walk or skip through them.
3. The softness as my daughter jumps into a berm of leaves piled over grass near the curb.
4. The crooked dance of the leaves as they fall in our way.
5. The stubborn brown of the leaves that stay late on oaks.
6. The clear blue you see after the yellows, reds, an…
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Added by Supa Dupa Fresh on November 6, 2009 at 9:44pm —
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1. I'm grateful I'm not one of those people with a phobia about the number 13.
2. I'm envious that someone I went to school with is the head honcha at Lucky magazine. No wait, I'm grateful... that I'm not her? No. Scratch that.
3. I'm grateful someone put me on a Twitter list as "funny" along with The Bloggess! I'm sure I wasn't right next to her.
4. I'm grateful that the Bloggess is actually a really nice real person with a serious anxiety issue because I can be grateful I'm not her even though…
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Added by Supa Dupa Fresh on November 5, 2009 at 9:30pm —
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1. I'm grateful for online people.
2. I'm grateful that I'm not on Second Life (is that still around?).
3. I'm really grateful I'm not still on Match.com.
4. I'm super grateful I'm not still on Plentyoffish.com.
5. I'm grateful for meeting online people and finding them more complex, real, and wonderful than they seem. Which means we're all crappy writers. Or perhaps, that we're just not ready to have direct microchip implants. Yet.
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Added by Supa Dupa Fresh on November 5, 2009 at 11:01am —
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1. I'm grateful I'm no longer in junior high school pretending I cared about baseball cards.
2. I'm grateful for the many times I've gotten a second chance, especially from an adult.
3. I'm grateful my daughter still says "I love you" easily.
4. I'm grateful my daughter's school is not the one I went to, and that she is not me, and that I am not my mother.
5. I'm grateful for the lessons I learn as I age and as I parent. I'm grateful I am learning to forgive. I'm grateful that I'm next in line f…
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Added by Supa Dupa Fresh on November 4, 2009 at 8:30pm —
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1. I'm grateful that I receive an occasional comment on my blog.
2. I'm grateful that I get an occasional mindblowing compliment on my blog.
3. I'm grateful to be making a difference, even though I don't know what I'm doing.
4. I'm grateful to be finding a place.
5. I'm so so so grateful to have friends, new and old, silver and gold.
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Added by Supa Dupa Fresh on November 3, 2009 at 8:30pm —
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1. I'm grateful that I've had five things each day to be grateful for, even if not enough time to write them down.
2. I'm grateful that my daughter loves tofu.
3. I'm grateful that my husband will basically eat anything as long as he doesn't have to cook it.
4. I'm still grateful that he made meatloaf the other night, even though he thinks he does it better than I do.
5. I'm grateful that we found a playdate on this unexpected holiday.
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Added by Supa Dupa Fresh on November 2, 2009 at 8:55pm —
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1. I'm grateful I'm no longer a train wreck, like some of the widow/er/s whose blogs I follow. Especially those who are 3 years out, like me.
2. I'm grateful, believe it or not, that I was widowed the way I was. I'm grateful he was much older than I and I can take some responsibility, that I had some choice. I know that makes it morbid for you, but it made it easier to understand for me.
3. I'm grateful Gavin didn't die suddenly. I'm grateful he wasn't young and fit and blind to the possibility.…
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Added by Supa Dupa Fresh on September 19, 2009 at 8:38pm —
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1. I'm grateful for my church and community.
2. I'm glad it's a place where you can lend out a video camera and get it back. Even if it was obsolete and $400 too expensive way back when.
3. I'm grateful there are still a few peaches.
4. I'm grateful it's pear season, too, my actual, though less sexy favorite. No one ever called me sexy, but they did call me sex.
5. I'm grateful that I can bore folks with my trivia and unfulfilled promises and still be accepted back again and again.
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Added by Supa Dupa Fresh on September 19, 2009 at 8:16pm —
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1. I am grateful that I have time to think about my past, my patterns, my future. What an opportunity! I feel it's the first time I've had room to breathe. Thanks, darling!
2. I am grateful that I can still call "Adult ADD" and possibly "Bipolar," partly because I'm clever enough to evade diagnosis until now... er, I mean, later.
3. I'm grateful that I have this time.
4. I'm grateful that meatloaf with my 5-year-old recalls Friday nights during my childhood, and helps me remember, and recover fr…
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Added by Supa Dupa Fresh on September 19, 2009 at 8:13pm —
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1. Even though I am a bad user, I am grateful that GiST is here for me.
2. Even though I have to write endless letters to get and keep appropriate coverage for my family, I am grateful that I do have health insurance.
3. I'm grateful that I have a blog to post my ideas, even if I haven't quite figured out how to talk about my present life or get anyone to read it yet.
4. Even though the dryer is making funny noises now, too, I'm grateful both appliances have exceeded their 8 year life expectanci…
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Added by Supa Dupa Fresh on September 4, 2009 at 12:30pm —
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1. I was able to post twice today.
2. I actually believe that we are going to MOVE!
3. I was able to reconnect with old friend Andrea, also widowed, who I haven't seen for a while.
4. There is a huge, wide, beautiful world of sex toys ready for me whenever I want them.
5. I started packing the first boxes for the move!
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Added by Supa Dupa Fresh on August 14, 2009 at 11:52am —
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1. Hamish's Mom told me that I've been a good friend to her and she's happy for me.
2. A stranger complimented my hydrangeas and asked to take some, cutting them evenly. Probably will sell them for drugs. Still nice.
3. Mr. Fresh expressed his happiness to come home to me from his first day working outside the home.
4. Short Stack still cracks me up, saying that in addition to the food groups, "Water is the King, and sugar is Queen of them all."
5. I got the vibe that I'm still hot from a friend…
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Added by Supa Dupa Fresh on August 11, 2009 at 8:39am —
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1. I'm grateful that Mr. Fresh made dinner tonight.
2. I'm grateful I got the computer backed up before its impending crash. Sort of.
3. I'm grateful that old negligee still fit. Sort of.
4. I'm grateful that I am not a heroin addict like the one I just saw on a commercial for "Intervention." I made jokes that I didn't deserve credit for surviving widowhood, what was I going to do, become a crack whore? But I shouldn't. These things do happen to people, or they make those choices, or whatever. T…
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Added by Supa Dupa Fresh on August 8, 2009 at 7:53pm —
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1. I'm grateful that my back is feeling much, much better over the past week. I pray that it continues to improve.
2. I'm grateful that I was able to attend BlogHer and get such a burst of energy and ideas.
3. I'm grateful that my therapist isn't retiring for another 5 years, although I do work better on deadline.
4. I'm grateful that my husband is marketable and able to find work that challenges him.
5. I'm grateful that I have the space to reflect on being widowed and that I have managed to us…
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Added by Supa Dupa Fresh on August 7, 2009 at 9:28am —
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