today i’ve been up normal early thus i got a lot done and chill on the couch now
cats!!! never ending fun & laughter (and flat salad, not leaf salad)
my big dog, he is so lovely
our typical rural grocery store where you get everything from pencils over toilet paper to pans. of course groceries too. and newspapers, compost and lighter fuel.
Free opportunities for hanging out around a campfire, cooking food over an open flame, and live music in a community that embraces art and folky crafts. Simple joys.
A great morning walk with the dog and the grouse drumming while my son rode his bike alongside us.
The cool opportunities for networking I have coming up in about a week.
Feeling secure enough in myself to look forward to things I used to write off as lame or a waste of time because I was too busy chasing a high.
Beginning to see each day as a wonder instead of being wrapped up in fear, worry and dread. At least most days….
Grateful I spent time with my Mom yesterday. It was a better way for her to walk into a diagnosis of retinapothy. I went galivanting around the internet to find her healthiest ways to keep it at bay.
Grateful that I had more stress-free moments driving around and waiting for our breakfast time.
Grateful I know that missing my former life doesn’t help me to get anywhere.
Grateful for my thrift store mugs. I am pretty sure they find me, not the other way around.
Grateful for all the alcohol-free people here and elsewhere that build a community and help in a huge way.
Grateful for you and this thread.
Just going to add, my dogs cowered into the wall when I yelled. Grateful they are not used to me ever doing that. Nine years of their lives and I have currently yelled at them ONCE. (Will not ever again - poor puppers).
my partner showing me how much he supports me today and letting me have a rest day while he takes care of the house chores and brings me snacks and drinks and I watch TV in my pjs
Surviving a trip to Rural King where I was made very aware that “my kind” are not welcome there anymore… (I got a free hat though!)
Having the luxury and privilege to say: I’ve eaten too much!
Peel-off masks
My cats, one of which who actually likes me and acts like an ESA…and the other one who is a bully for wet food but is a precious snugglebug so it’s tolerated.
Memes that make me burst out laughing, and then giggle throughout the day when I think of them.
Beautiful weather that makes me say: O Lord, thank you for such a gift as this.
Today I’m grateful for:
~Being asked unexpectedly to share my experience, strength and hope, and always saying yes
~Loving my life today
~Knowing it doesn’t have to be “perfect” to be enjoyed
~Weekends
~Making time to paint a little
~Glasses to see
~Getting to participate in his sons prom prep
~Electric toothbrushes
~Doing what’s best for me sometimes, even if it’s not “convenient”
~Learning how to advocate for myself more
~Going to a greenhouse today
~This life
Literally every single family hide their children from me.
I’m not joking
One little girl said: he died his hair red, over and over.
I thought… it’s actually magenta but I’ll forgive you.
The horrifying thing was the parents literally stepped in front of the cart (buggy) to block her view and hushed her up like I was a roaming lion! I’m not joking!
One old guy was like: hey pink hair!
And I thought: it’s actually magenta and that’s unforgivable that your grown ass doesn’t know that, you fucking rube.
I wish it was only one!
The best part?
I recognized 3 of these upstanding, married, Christian men from Grindr.
I guess we all need a scapegoat and I’m sparkling enough to be the obvious choice.
A wonderful night of recovery
My sponsee getting acknowledged for her efforts in sober living
Meeting a grand sponsee…how cool
Eating cookies instead of smoking
Boscoe time
Hubby hugs and kisses
I dont have to drive drunk with one eye closed ever again
No hangovers
Fresh food
Hot coffee
Recovery
People who share their experience, strength, and hope
Love
Laughter
Sunshine
Weekends
I am grateful to be sober.
I am grateful for our health care system. I was overwhelmed by my emotions listening to stories about people in the US dieing because they cannot afford their insulin. It’s a shame.
I am grateful I went out on this wonderful hike today. I really enjoyed it.
I am glad I was out of podcasts and ended up listening to: nothing but the forest.
I am grateful for a warm shower.
I am grateful I have enough.
Need to take a moment to be grateful today.
I am grateful I know that gratitude is important, regardless if a day is tougher than you thought, acknowledging these things help you and others recognize the good things in life.
Today I am breathing and as far as I know, physically healthy-ish. No sense of smell doesn’t take all the rest.
Grateful for the sun that was shining all day and will tomorrow too.
Grateful that my puppers are healthy. They need a lot when they pick up my stress and anxiety, they usually do and today was one of those. Aside from their maniacal moodiness - healthy, healthy babies.
Eating and a roof over my head. I acknowledge that many people have way worse and I am grateful that for most of my life I barely even personally thought about it. Though I try not to extend gratitude to the past, I am grateful that I believed in spreading help all over the place to people in need - financially, emotionally, and physically.
Grateful for you and super grateful I stopped by this thread today.
Today I’m grateful for a rest day yesterday, I needed it.
I’m grateful for catlove and dogsnuggles.
I’m grateful for busy mornings.
I’m grateful for modern ways of communication
I’m grateful for tea
I’m grateful for living at my pace
I’m grateful for freedom and peace, my reclusive life, feeling safe & secure, reliable people & things, a good life in the slow lane.
I’m grateful that my life is filled with love, joy, happiness and abundance. It makes feeling lonely bearable in an ok-ish way.
I’m grateful I can do as I please, I give my best every day, I try to find a balance daily and accept my limits.
I’m grateful I keep going.
ODAAT
Today I’m grateful for:
~My dog throwing up on the welcome mat while I was in the shower and not on the carpet
~Greenhouses
~Life
~The sun after the rain
~Not being a miserable cow most days anymore like my old life
~Bare feet in the garden
~Getting my hands into the soil
~Hardy perrenial plants
~Being able to talk to the kids on a more adult level
~Burts bees vanilla chapstick
~Date nights
~Marlow falling asleep on my chest
~How much the Mr. loves the animals
~The air in my lungs & beating heart for another blessed day
I am grateful for day 8 waking up sober
For my clean apartment
Nice fruits with ice cream
Fresh bad sheets
Watching a tv show
Having a training with my fav coach
Peace in my mind
No hungover
No feeling of guilt
my partner showing me how much he supports me today and letting me have a rest day while he takes care of the house chores and brings me snacks and drinks and I watch TV in my pjs
(I got a free hat though!)
I’ve eaten too much! 
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and petrichor smell!
