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irisblue

(34,155 posts) Fri Sep 6, 2024, 12:49 PM Sep 6

Things I am grateful for on 6 September 2024, in no particular order

Safe to drink cold & hot running water & flush toilets.

Cats are well, they got enough food & litter for a few weeks at least.

I got food in the fridge. The fridge & water tank are running b/c I had enough money & was clear enough to remember to pay the bills. The cell phone bill is paid as well.

My dear friend did well after her salvage lung cancer surgery.
Another friends' post knee surgery is going well, we are in that age group where "organ recitals" of health are becoming part of our life as very old friends.

My vacuum cleaner is working really well today.

Todays non gratitude statement is that I am sugar craving, I realize it is a transfer of obsession/addiction, bur boy is it annoying.

Another gratitude is that DU exists, that Earl, Elad and you all here on this journey.

I am clean and sober woman today
I am a richly blessed woman

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Things I am grateful for on 6 September 2024, in no particular order (Original Post) irisblue Sep 6 OP

Not sure about that vacuum cleaner part😁 surfered Sep 6 #1

My sister is coming over this weekend, I got to. irisblue Sep 6 #4

I love your approach, irisblue RainCaster Sep 6 #2

I lived in a yurt type tent ina commune for a short time, a long long time ago. irisblue Sep 6 #6

I and many of us are truly grateful that irisblue is among us, elleng Sep 6 #3

How kind of you ellen, how kind irisblue Sep 6 #5

I am grateful for you and your post of gratitude, irisblue Clouds Passing Sep 7 #7

surfered

(2,761 posts)

1. Not sure about that vacuum cleaner part😁

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Fri Sep 6, 2024, 12:51 PM

Sep 6

irisblue

(34,155 posts)

4. My sister is coming over this weekend, I got to.

Reply to surfered (Reply #1)

Fri Sep 6, 2024, 01:02 PM

Sep 6

She & I cleaned out the apartments in the complex where we lived in HS years, she went on to build a business. As a sister, she has 'opinions'.

I will leave the fingerprints on the door jambs to 'give' her something to do & fuss over.

This is a soft form of sister battle tactics in real life.
😉

RainCaster

(11,503 posts)

2. I love your approach, irisblue

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Fri Sep 6, 2024, 12:55 PM

Sep 6

To this I will add:
Dogs are healthy
Internet is working well
Truck is in working order
Fridge is full of great leftovers

irisblue

(34,155 posts)

6. I lived in a yurt type tent ina commune for a short time, a long long time ago.

Reply to RainCaster (Reply #2)

Fri Sep 6, 2024, 01:04 PM

Sep 6

I am very very very urban it seems

elleng

(135,774 posts)

3. I and many of us are truly grateful that irisblue is among us,

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Fri Sep 6, 2024, 12:59 PM

Sep 6

and doing well.

irisblue

(34,155 posts)

5. How kind of you ellen, how kind

Reply to elleng (Reply #3)

Fri Sep 6, 2024, 01:03 PM

Sep 6

🫂

Clouds Passing

(2,050 posts)

7. I am grateful for you and your post of gratitude, irisblue

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Sat Sep 7, 2024, 09:49 AM

Sep 7

I am grateful for my sobriety. I am grateful for my family, my pets are happy and healthy. I have a home, cool in the summer warm in the winter. I’m grateful my refrigerator works and there’s food in it. I am grateful that I can walk. I am grateful that I am not too much pain.

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