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Gratitude journal
Today we went to a Civil War re-enactment fair with our new friends Tom and Beth and their daughter (whose name I have not seen spelled so I'm not going to try and fail). (Stick with me, this is going to arrive at gratitude.) The staged battle was a bit more realistic and darker-edged than I'm used to from Ren faires. It was kind of an odd ( Read more... ) -
Gratitude journal
I am grateful that sometime here soon, I will have a bike. La la la la la bike.
(Hey, take it for what it's worth. Otherwise it was "I'm grateful my back doesn't hurt quite as much as it's whispering that it could." I pushed hard on that last circuit and, um.) -
Gratitude journal
I have completed the entire three-month cycle of circuit training I've been doing. I am made of awesome.
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Gratitude journal
I am grateful that I never watched Starlight Express. I just found out today that all those people on roller skates were supposed to be trains. @_@
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Gratitude journal
I am grateful for the magical force of habit, which after a few months of work, causes one to do things like crawl into workout clothes and onto the treadmill even though one doesn't actively want to, because that is what one does on a Thursday morning.
Habit can be your friend. -
The de rigeur what-ends-up-where post
Because everyone's all worried about it right now.
My default setting on my livejournal is friends-only, and I have various filters that are even tighter. Nothing from locked posts goes anywhere, and that includes comments. However, there are some posts that I make public, like the gratitudes: those do end up on facebook (along with some fb-only ( Read more... ) -
Julie Park
Got the details on Grandma's military service, so I am putting them here so I can't lose them again.
She was Army, and volunteered early into WWII. Although she apparently always impressed the boys with how quickly she could assemble a rifle, what they mostly had her do was PR work, traveling and shaking hands and posing prettily in pictures. Late ( Read more... ) -
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I am grateful to know my baptism date: November 7, to coincide with All Souls. ...Yes, hilarious. Stop giggling back there ( Read more... ) -
Gratitude journal
I am grateful that my dad's legs came back online after their brief fritz 8/ and for busses that run reasonably close to where I need to go at reasonable times. -
Gratitude journal
I am grateful for the lovely friends who want to entertain and coddle me because I'm depressed. I'm grateful that Grandma died peacefully, in the city where she lived most of her married life, still and always secure in the love of her husband and her daughters, who always made sure she had proper physical care and plenty of company ( Read more... )