Life Appreciation/Gratitude Thread

[HisMunchkin]

We often forget the "little things" in life since our brain is wired for survival, not to make us happy.  So we, as humans, have a tendency to take thing for granted.  In the effort to balance things out, let's name at least one thing you're grateful for each day. 

Today I'm grateful for beans in tomato sauce.  It's yummy, and for me, nostalgic.  I'm grateful for whomever came up with the recipe.  I grateful for the bean plant, the tomato plant, and whatever other plants put into this recipe, including the very important ingredient - water!  I'm grateful for all the farmers who put their hard work into growing and harvesting these plants, and for all the nutrients the earth and sun, etc., has provided, allowing for such plants to grow.  I'm grateful for the people involved in transporting the ingredients, and those involved in making and canning the food then delivering them to the local grocery store.  I'm grateful for the workers who took my order and delivered the items.  I'm grateful that I have enough strength to open the can.  I am grateful for the person who invented the can opener.  I am grateful for my ability to taste....  Wow, lots to be grateful for from one can of beans in tomato sauce, huh? 😄  Your turn. 

[KayC]

I can't eat the beans but appreciate your ability for gratefulness!

[Cath61]

I am grateful for almost 35 years with the love of my life.  I do think it makes his passing so much harder, sadder. I am lucky to have had the love of my life for that long as many people never get that even once. Unfortunately - it doesn't make this process any easier.  One minute at a time......the rest of my life without him is a horrible thought.

[KayC]

Don't dwell on that, just do today, today is enough to handle.

[Boggled]

I'm grateful for my husband deciding to replace the plastic blinds in the bay window, with METAL blinds.  That window gets a lot of sun in summer, and if we hadn't replaced them when he decided to, if I had to replace them now, they'd undoubtedly cost a lot more!  They still work great.  Like you said, HisMunchkin, well I'm thankful for his decision to replace them, and for the store that carried them, and for the manufacturer that made them, and for the company that created the metal (whatever it is!) and for the mining company or whatever, that dug the metal out of the ground, and not to forget, the twine manufacturer (or string?) that made the string that moves them up and down, and for whoever invented blinds! a-way back when!  

And I found a new-ish (at least to me) kind of window insulation on Amazon ... of course, thanks for the company that made it available and figured out to let people leave reviews!  as well as whoever figured out how to make this kind of insulation!  and grateful that I can cut it with a pair of scissors, and it's stiff enough I can just cut it a bit bigger than the window and press it into place and it stays put!  and for the people who deliver!   

[HisMunchkin]

Today, I am grateful that it's a holiday.  I'm also grateful for the peanut butter and banana sandwich I had for lunch.  I am grateful for my dog, whom I bathed recently and smells great, and her coat is oh so soft!

[Staying Sane]

I am grateful for my best friend, visited with her today, we laughed, I cried a little, always do when talking about Ron. The day was sunny, 80 degrees, slight breeze, a perfect day in my opinion. Also grateful I am still on this earth, and will celebrate my 78th birthday soon.

[HisMunchkin]

I am grateful for my aunt who took me to Home Depot today (I don't drive).  I was able to get a couple of Hostas and Coleus.  My husband used to fuss over putting something into these two planters at the front of our house each spring.  He likes to decorate the front so it's presentable (doesn't care much about the back).  In the fall, he would replace the wilted plants from the summer with some winter/Christmas decorations.  Last fall, we had no decorations because that was when his health declined rather quickly.  So there was just a couple of dead plants from the summer, black and slumped over.  Matched how I was feeling inside.  I wasn't going to bother planting anything this year, but then I saw Coleus.  We settled for Coleus cause they grow fast and remain colourful through spring and summer and even part of fall.  They also did well in those planters.  So I thought of him, and thought I'd plant them again this year in his honor.  I hope he'll be able to see them.....  I am grateful for those memories of him, fussing over those planters.  I am also grateful that I still have the strength to dig holes in the flowerbed and plant those Hostas.  Also split an old one into three.  Now I have five Hostas, and they look nice where I put them.  ☺️

[Boggled]

13 hours ago, HisMunchkin said:

I am grateful for my aunt who took me to Home Depot today (I don't drive). 

well in a much smaller way, I'M grateful to your aunt, too, HisMunchkin, and for all the people who help, in whatever way, and at least can recognize that in some way they (maybe or maybe not,) can't relate to, at least they can recognize, we are wounded!  and care, in whatever small way they may show it, or big way. 

My Mother-in-Law, who I talk with every night, doesn't drive anymore (macular degeneration) and fairly seldom, but at least some times, people give her rides.  I was talking with her last night about my buying "toys" that make me feel more alive, and she mentioned she needs a new wallet, and the lady who gives her rides most suggested she could just go pick up a wallet and bring it to her;  and my MIL said "but that won't meet my need, I WANT to go look at wallets for myself."  ... and I HOPE she is able to get that across;  she wants to STILL BE ALIVE, still be able to shop!  ... still be able to do little ( maybe silly!  (but they're NOT silly!) ) things ... that make a human being feel alive, a form of PLAY, which I'm realizing, is a form of ALIVENESS/BEING.

I'm GRATEFUL for ONLINE SHOPPING.  I think that shopping is very much about "being alive."   Not even necessarily about actually buying anything;  just the shopping part, just looking and choosing and thinking and maybe wishing or maybe rejecting, staying alive!    

[HisMunchkin]

16 minutes ago, Boggled said:

My Mother-in-Law, who I talk with every night, doesn't drive anymore (macular degeneration) and fairly seldom, but at least some times, people give her rides.  I was talking with her last night about my buying "toys" that make me feel more alive, and she mentioned she needs a new wallet, and the lady who gives her rides most suggested she could just go pick up a wallet and bring it to her;  and my MIL said "but that won't meet my need, I WANT to go look at wallets for myself."  ... and I HOPE she is able to get that across;  she wants to STILL BE ALIVE, still be able to shop!  ... still be able to do little ( maybe silly!  (but they're NOT silly!) ) things ... that make a human being feel alive, a form of PLAY, which I'm realizing, is a form of ALIVENESS/BEING.

I am grateful that both you and your mother-in-law still wants to be alive and feel alive - living, and not merely existing.  And play is highly under appreciated in adulthood, imho.  So it's great that you're able to find joy in these toys!  I am grateful for these toys and for the pleasure they're bringing you! ☺️  💝  And for your creativity too - e.g. unboxing ritual. 

[Boggled]

I'm grateful for rechargeable batteries!   Of course, also for electricity!  and grateful to Tesla for figuring out how to transform direct current into alternating current.  Man, and for the entrepreneurs and developers who made it available to ... me!   And for the repairmen who know how to look for and fix problems with the electricity supply.  For light at night, especially!

[Roxeanne]

I'm very grateful for my vision improved!

After my cataract surgery and reduction of my myopia, suddenly i see as i have never seen  in my life without glasses!

And today my eye specialist confirmed it again to me, with renewed surprise...he said : it was a miracle !

I would just like to share  my joy with Giorgio...

[HisMunchkin]

I am grateful for birds chirping outside.  The sound gives me a sense of serenity and makes me feel less lonely.

 

6 hours ago, Boggled said:

I'm grateful for rechargeable batteries!

Me too!

 

1 hour ago, Roxeanne said:

I'm very grateful for my vision improved!

Hey, congrats!!  That is so awesome!!

[KayC]

Roxeanne,

That is great news!  If/when I get cataract surgery, think of all the $ I'll save on glasses!

I wish you could share this with your Giorgio!

[Boggled]

On 5/23/2024 at 12:37 PM, Roxeanne said:

After my cataract surgery and reduction of my myopia, suddenly i see as i have never seen  in my life without glasses!

Absolutely wonderful, Roxeanne!    

Well today I'm thinking about seed companies that have selected and saved some really good seeds!  Little starts of Stewart's Zeebest Okra are popping up in my garden, and I've grown it before, and it's very productive!  and grateful for the Stewarts in Texas who saved the seeds from their most branching okra for years to create the strain!  For the people who worked for excellence for many many years.   There's a pic of the Stewarts on this link:

‘Stewart’s Zeebest’ Okra by Patty G. Leander | (masterofhort.com)

[HisMunchkin]

2 hours ago, Boggled said:

Absolutely wonderful, Roxeanne!    

Well today I'm thinking about seed companies that have selected and saved some really good seeds!  Little starts of Stewart's Zeebest Okra are popping up in my garden, and I've grown it before, and it's very productive!  and grateful for the Stewarts in Texas who saved the seeds from their most branching okra for years to create the strain!  For the people who worked for excellence for many many years.   There's a pic of the Stewarts on this link:

‘Stewart’s Zeebest’ Okra by Patty G. Leander | (masterofhort.com)

That sounds exciting!  I don't like the work of growing edibles, but I'm always gitty when I see them grow.  What will you do with the Okra?  I've never eaten Okra.

Today, I'm grateful for the cooler air, even though it's dark and raining out.  I'm grateful for the currants that I'm currently eating.  Oh, and yesterday, I'm grateful for my best friend who paid me a visit.  She's in the country for a few days for work. 

[Boggled]

22 hours ago, HisMunchkin said:

What will you do with the Okra?  I've never eaten Okra.

It's mostly a southern vegetable, but it's a tasty fairly easy-to-grow, large-ish green vegetable, with a mild but pleasant taste, and it's got some "benefits,"  9 Okra Health Benefits and How to Eat It (greatist.com)

I like it cooked with tomatoes and Cajun spices, just by itself or over rice.  I've sliced it up and used it in deep fried fritters, gumbo;  shoot, even omelets.   It's CLASSIC in gumbo.  Chicken and okra gumbo, chicken-sausage and okra gumbo, probably even that green kind of gumbo with only greens (no meat) in it.  What I keep remembering, back when I lived in southern Louisiana, is going into a little country store and smelling this DELICIOUS smell of okra and tomatoes (probably a little onion and garlic too) ... asked the clerk "what's that smell"  ... "oh, I'm cooking down okra" ... and it must've been a LOT of okra ... you can use a little roux to cook it in (with tomatoes) (or celery, or whatever) too.   I love okra!   

Today I'm just grateful for "home."   Went with my friend to the cemetery where she's got 10 graves she puts flowers on;  weirdest thing was after I finally got home, I fell right asleep (exhausted!) and though I never remember dreams, I was having these visual-imaginary flashes of wet rotting trees!   (We'd seen some of those in an area near where her "old homestead" had been.)    When I woke this morning, flashing lights on stove and microwave timers showed we must've had a brief power outage in the night;  outside, multiple plants on the back deck were tipped over (could've been the cats?) (could've been high wind) ... easy to put back though, easy to reset the timers, so glad to have this place that feels protective, that my husband and I set up over many good years.

[HisMunchkin]

Now you've got me wanting to try okra. 😄

Today, I'm grateful for the diatomaceous earth and BT pesticide that I already have readily available for me to tackle Boxwood Moth that's killing my Boxwoods.

[KayC]

Two things I can't abide: hominy and okra, guess I wouldn't make a very good southern gal!

Hominy is way too high in carbs and okra higher than I care for, so I feel somewhat vindicated.

[widower2]

I've lived in the South for a long time....sorry but pass on okra (what I call "green glue").    To each their own and all that!  On the other hand, I did find that I like grits.

[KayC]

To each their own, I consider myself open minded when it comes to food (you can't say you don't like it if you haven't tried it), I've fixed different kinds of fish, frog legs, cow tongue, venison, elk, bear, would try snake, ate a bug, pigeon (can't after raising them but don't feel the same about turkey and chickens), clams, shrimp, lobster...

[widower2]

I think comedian Elaine Boozler described for me the unappeal of cow tongue: "I don't like the idea of tasting something that could taste me back"    

I guess the most "exotic" things I've ever had were wild boar (kind of beefy, very good) and alligator (I know it's an old joke but kind of "tastes like chicken" but gamier and also good IMO). 

[KayC]

Tongue is very good once you get the goosebumpy skin off. I think I had moose once too. It's hard for me to eat lamb now that I see them here.

[widower2]

I've lamb a few times; it was OKish to me. I wouldn't turn it down but won't make a point of buying it. 

[Boggled]

Welp, I forgot the other classic use for okra;  cut it into 3/4" sections, dunk in egg wash, bread with mixture of flour, corn meal, spices, deep fry.  

Today I'm grateful for PEACE.   Seems like that's what I want right now.  Glad it can be had here and now.

[Bob1948]

Today I'm grateful that each day has become a day of discovery. After being married for 54 years, I realized that I don't really know who I am. It has always been "we" rather than "I".  For example going food shopping, I didn't have to buy something we both liked but something I liked. 

[HisMunchkin]

22 hours ago, KayC said:

To each their own, I consider myself open minded when it comes to food (you can't say you don't like it if you haven't tried it), I've fixed different kinds of fish, frog legs, cow tongue, venison, elk, bear, would try snake, ate a bug, pigeon (can't after raising them but don't feel the same about turkey and chickens), clams, shrimp, lobster...

I've had frog legs and pigeon and loved them both when I used to eat meat.  I've had a fly fly in my mouth once, but didn't eat him.  He flew back out after cause pain to my mouth and I started to cry (was a kid then).

 

Today I'm feeling mostly gloomy so it's hard for me to find something I'm grateful for............................................................  O.k., I'm grateful for the rain that's watering my lawn and plants! 

[widower2]

I don't have any huge plans but grateful to have the week off. Weather should cool down too, finally!

[Rey Dominguez Jr]

Feeling grateful that our son reached out to me yesterday to ask if I wanted company.  Last year, Sunday of the Memorial Day weekend, was the last time Veronica and I and the kids, and some close friends, were together.  So I told our son, yes, come over, that I would be home after visiting my bride.  Called our our close friends and invited them over.  They were free and able to come by.  Nothing special for food, just the standard burgers and salads, munchies.  We were all together except for Veronica.  We all missed her.  I guess I needed their company and it was much appreciated.  Was hard after everyone left for the night.  The quiet just came on strong.  

[Boggled]

18 hours ago, Bob1948 said:

Today I'm grateful that each day has become a day of discovery. After being married for 54 years, I realized that I don't really know who I am. It has always been "we" rather than "I".  For example going food shopping, I didn't have to buy something we both liked but something I liked. 

It's true.  It's like we have to recreate our identities, though I'm not usually GRATEFUL for it!   But ... figuring out what I like at the grocery store really is part of BEING ... being me ... just me ... it's sad and hard, for the longest time I haven't explored but just stuck with homemade pinto beans and homemade tortillas for burritos ... with vegetables though, and did that for month after month.  But I'm finally doing a bit of branching out, re-discovered fake crab, shrimp, and sour cream and onion potato chips!   And bought myself a very SMALL crockpot.    If you can get past the sorrow.  I'm finding sorrow just hitting me lately at totally unexpected moments ... like my emotional self has its own tune of logic.

17 hours ago, HisMunchkin said:

Today I'm feeling mostly gloomy so it's hard for me to find something I'm grateful for............................................................  O.k., I'm grateful for the rain that's watering my lawn and plants! 

yeah, it's like you struggle to get around the gloominess!   okay ... today I'm grateful for the cool of the mornings, that I can let into the house for fresh cool air that I can live with the rest of the day and night till next morning.  And I'm grateful I asked my MIL in our phone conversation last night, to TELL ME TO MOW THE LAWN ... so she did, "mow the lawn tomorrow," and it's INCENTIVE.  Seems to work for me, even for me to ask another person to TELL ME to do something.   

[HisMunchkin]

9 hours ago, Rey Dominguez Jr said:

Was hard after everyone left for the night.  The quiet just came on strong.  

I know what you mean.  These days, going home to an empty house after spending time with other people makes me feel even more lonely...  Actually, I shouldn't say "empty", cause my dog happily greets me, and I'm ever grateful for that.  But the house still feels much more empty than when my husband was alive. 

 

3 hours ago, Boggled said:

I'm finding sorrow just hitting me lately at totally unexpected moments ... like my emotional self has its own tune of logic.

Sometimes one needs to cry, and that's o.k.  I try to be kind to the pain and sorrow.  Soothe it like it were a child.  Seems to help a bit.

 

Today I'm grateful for my home - keeping me dry and cool.   

[widower2]

10 hours ago, HisMunchkin said:

Sometimes one needs to cry, and that's o.k.  I try to be kind to the pain and sorrow.  Soothe it like it were a child.  Seems to help a bit.

That's an interesting description. Of course we all perceive and deal with it in our own way...I think I get what you're saying, but I never viewed the pain and sorrow like a child to soothe. It was a mortal enemy to combat and hate, just as her sickness was. Sometimes it wins, sometimes I do. 

[Boggled]

Yesterday, I mowed the lawn.  Here, that's quite a big deal with acres of grass.  Riding lawnmower started right up, had the usual half-deflated tire, which I'd forgotten was a problem;  went and got the rechargeable-battery-operated inflator, couldn't remember or even read (shadowy in the shed) the pounds-per-square-inch the tire was supposed to be inflated to, so just felt the tire as it got stiffer and quit inflating a bit early ... so the tire is maybe a little softer than it should be ... is that a problem for some reason??  It felt firm to me.  

Early on when we had moved here, I'd put some thought into HOW MUCH grass needs to be mowed and how often?  Yes, power is expensive in many many ways, also to the ecology, so "natural" and "less often" seem to be the right way to go ... but also there are ticks and chiggers that are exacerbated by tall grass ... and the neighbors seem to have no problem with mowing huge acreages (???)  but personally I think it's okay to let blocks of grass in more out of the way parts just grow(???)  dunno if I'm right ... also in fall as the grass dies down, and becomes weaker, THEN to get rid of invading plants mostly, then seems to be the best time to mow and clear the whole thing.  

Then I weed-whacked with rechargeable-battery-operated weedwhacker.  Then I blew the decks and patio blocks off with the rechargeable-battery-operated blower.   Then that evening, I used the corded massager on sore muscles.    And today, for gratitude, I'm grateful for power tools!  of all sorts!  With power tools I can do far more than with my little ol' body.   THANKS for power tools.   

[Boggled]

21 hours ago, HisMunchkin said:

Sometimes one needs to cry, and that's o.k.  I try to be kind to the pain and sorrow.  Soothe it like it were a child.  Seems to help a bit.

 

Today I'm grateful for my home - keeping me dry and cool.  

How to soothe the pain and sorrow?  It is an interesting description!   I know in the early months, for me, I was being very very easy on myself ... denial is a kind of thing your mind does, sort of like "just don't think about it!" and also the, well ... stuff we can talk about in the spiritual section.  I get being grateful for HOME.  Man I've become a major homebody.     

[KayC]

I am grateful for my dog, Kodie, am going to sit down with him and love on him.

[RichS]

This morning I received an e-mail from the wife of an old friend. I know him for over 55 years. He's currently at home in hospice, which I knew about. He's got about a week before he leaves this world. It kind of puts things in perspective. All of us here carry our own grief; but there's always someone out there whose grief at the present moment is much more harder to bear than how we're feeling at the present moment.

[KayC]

I am so sorry, Rich, for them and for you.  I've lost many friends over the years, part of getting old.

[HisMunchkin]

On 5/29/2024 at 9:26 AM, Boggled said:

I'm grateful for power tools!  of all sorts!  With power tools I can do far more than with my little ol' body.   THANKS for power tools.   

I'm with you there!  And rechargeable batteries, and power delivered to our homes! 💌

 

1 hour ago, RichS said:

This morning I received an e-mail from the wife of an old friend. I know him for over 55 years. He's currently at home in hospice, which I knew about. He's got about a week before he leaves this world.

I'm so sorry. 😔 

 

Today, I'm grateful that it seems like the treatment on the boxwoods might be working.  I haven't seen anymore live caterpillars, and the plants seem to be producing new shoots. 

[Boggled]

I'm having a moderately bad day today, but for gratitude, hunh.   ... Today I'm grateful for numbness.  I WAS planning on opening a box today, got out the box and thought, nah, not today.   Our bodies and psyches have these built-in protective mechanisms ... yep, glad for peace where I can retreat, and for precious, precious numbness.  

[Boggled]

Yesterday thinking about "I'm glad I've had some time, and at least have become accustomed to grief," I searched"   ... accustomed to grief ...    and came across Seneca and his words to his mother after he was exiled, and really, it  helped:

"All your sorrows have been wasted on you if you have not yet learned how to be wretched."

Well I've been learning "how to be wretched" bit by bit, here and there, now and then, throughout my life.  This loss, this loss of the greatest love I will ever find, has been like and unlike anything I've experienced before;  but at least, parts of it are LIKE things I've been in before, loneliness and solitude particularly.   ... anyhoo, if it were to happen, that wretchedness increases in future, at least the PRESENT wretchedness is preparing me!   

So.  I'm grateful.  For this idea, sort of similar to the one about "that which does not destroy me can only make me stronger."  (When I get on this page I have to click on reading a poem before I can read the page! ... btw.   After that the page is readable)

Seneca on Grief and the Key to Resilience in the Face of Loss: An Extraordinary Letter to His Mother – The Marginalian

[Roxeanne]

8 hours ago, Boggled said:

and came across Seneca and his words to his mother after he was exiled, and really, it  helped:

"All your sorrows have been wasted on you if you have not yet learned how to be wretched."

Seneca was a tough guy, a Stoic philosopher...i don't know anyone who can bear life better than Stoics!

I like him and his letters, his words...i have in my bag, always with me, one of his letter to his student Lucilio where he reiterated the need to be strong in front of adversities...that they are in our fate and we have to pay the price and free us from them!

It's comforting for me read the words of a great man who lived before Christ...thank for share his words!

[Boggled]

Roxeanne, it is comforting to read the words of a great man who lived before Christ, long long ago, with a free mind, or at least, a mind formed by a society far distant in time from ours!   

Looking up    ... Seneca letters Lucilio   ... , I found the entire set of letters here:  Moral letters to Lucilius - Wikisource, the free online library

I was born BEFORE the internet, before even computers became used by society.  I can remember a time of the slide rule, before calculators.    How distant those days seem, now, when I can compare the ways of our lives today, to the ways of our lives back then (but of course, I was a CHILD back then, so can't really compare exactly.)  And NOW, as I can look back with memory, to a time when (for instance) ladders were wooden, when there was not much if any plastic, when we didn't even realize as plastic became more and more of our world, it is quite interesting to compare the times.   And in the case of Seneca, the THOUGHT of one person who existed in a far different time.  I think I will take some of my time, and read some more of his letters.  Thanks for the reference to Lucilio!

16 hours ago, Roxeanne said:

I like him and his letters, his words...i have in my bag, always with me, one of his letter to his student Lucilio where he reiterated the need to be strong in front of adversities...that they are in our fate and we have to pay the price and free us from them!

adversities are in our fate, the need to be strong.  Well we can TRY.  

so today, I am grateful for the internet!  for the ability to communicate through it, and to research through it!  

[RichS]

19 minutes ago, Boggled said:

And NOW, as I can look back with memory, to a time when (for instance) ladders were wooden, when there was not much if any plastic, when we didn't even realize as plastic became more and more of our world, it is quite interesting to compare the times.

And TV's were contained in wooden cabinets.............. 

[Boggled]

I've just been REMEMBERING the internet, as it WAS, in my memory it started out with (shoot, can't remember the word!) BLACKBOARDS?  BULLETIN BOARDS!  Little sites with DOS games you could play by connecting to them.  Then in my case, as the internet became more of a "thing," what I was looking at at the time were herbals, sites where some kind person put up indexes of herbs where you could read the qualities of different herbs.  And for the good people, the kind people, the innocent people, who started off with generosity, providing information!  for free!  so for all those good persons who started off the original nature of the internet, I'm GRATEFUL!  ... and you can consider ... whoever came up with the IDEA of encyclopedias in the first place  (hahaha!) you'd have to go way way back ... 

[RichS]

16 minutes ago, Boggled said:

whoever came up with the IDEA of encyclopedias in the first place  (hahaha!) you'd have to go way way back ... 

Encyclopedia salesmen, of course....................... 

[KayC]

34 minutes ago, RichS said:

And TV's were contained in wooden cabinets.............. 

Mine still is!  Got it used about 13-14 years ago.

1 minute ago, RichS said:

Encyclopedia salesmen, of course....................... 

We had one when I was growing up, my parents paid about $1500 for it new, JFK was still serving as president, that's a LONG time ago! I think I was in 5th or 6th grade.

[Roxeanne]

2 hours ago, Boggled said:

Seneca letters Lucilio   ... , I found the entire set of letters here:  Moral letters to Lucilius - Wikisource, the free online library

Thanks Boggled!..the letter i was talking about is the number 96 and it's title is "Facing the hardship"..

The letters were written in latin the language of Ancient Romans...i studied it in school and i hated it 'cos the teaching was boring!

But now i love it...and before Covid i did a course to learn it...and i'm sorry that the young teacher is now too busy...it's a fascinating language...!

2 hours ago, Boggled said:

I am grateful for the internet!  f

Thanks God internet exist... ! When you want to find something....when i was in school i had to search on Encyclopedias😉

[HisMunchkin]

On 6/1/2024 at 12:30 PM, Boggled said:

I WAS planning on opening a box today, got out the box and thought, nah, not today. 

Ya, wait for the right time when you feel like doing the ritual before opening!! 

 

10 hours ago, KayC said:

Mine still is!  Got it used about 13-14 years ago.

We had one when I was growing up, my parents paid about $1500 for it new, JFK was still serving as president, that's a LONG time ago! I think I was in 5th or 6th grade.

Whoa, that's expensive!!!??!! 😲

 

Today I'm grateful that there was a mix up on my grocery order.  I ordered sunscreen (yes, they sold sunscreen too), and they gave me the wrong type.  I called the nice lady who did the pick up.  She got the right one and had it delivered.  She said I can keep the wrong one as well for free!  She even gave me a free sample of goldfish crackers.  It was a pretty big bag for a sample.  Since I don't eat them, I gave them to the delivery man.  He was happy to have them. 😊

[KayC]

That is so nice!

[Boggled]

21 hours ago, Roxeanne said:

the letter i was talking about is the number 96 and it's title is "Facing the hardship"..

The letters were written in latin the language of Ancient Romans...i studied it in school and i hated it 'cos the teaching was boring!

But now i love it...and before Covid i did a course to learn it...and i'm sorry that the young teacher is now too busy...it's a fascinating language...!

Well I just read Seneca's letter #96, wow, he was a tough Stoic!   I'm glad you are able to speak more than one language, Roxeanne!   (I can't!)

well what am I grateful for today?  I'm grateful that I still have this box to open!  It's a hand-held pressure washer, just have to connect the hose to it and a rechargeable battery!  Maybe I can use it to water the garden from the back deck!??  and wash the windows right through the screens?  and get the constant dust from our dirt road off the car?!   and squirt the bad cat if I ever see him again?!!  (though he's disappeared, yay!)  It's nice to have something to be sort of excited about, still ahead.