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a normal working day over here
Nov. 24th, 2011 06:36 pmMany of my friends are enjoying the Thanksgiving holiday today. If it were not for LJ and FB, where people are posting about it, I might have forgotten--is it *really* late November already?? Where is my snow? Why are the temps not only hovering around freezing, but spending more time above than below? If not for the number of hours of daylight (not many) I would have guessed that it is only mid October from the weather we are having.
However, even if I am not cooking a huge feast to share with family and friends, there is no reason to miss out on listing some things I am thankful for.
*a charmed life--as always this is one of the things for which I am ever grateful--the way that timing just seems to work out for me time and time again whatever I need is provided me right when I need it. One very early example I can think of was when I was very young and living in Arizona--we were students on a tight budget and one month we were wondering how it would be possible to pay all of the bills. Much to our surprise we got a check in the mail from the Electric company, returning our deposit along with a letter explaining that since we had been such good customers and always paid our bills on time they no longer needed to keep the deposit. So we used that money to pay the other bills that month and maintained our good name as on-time bill payers with everyone.
The current symptoms of my charmed life include landing a job a 10 minute walk from my home that happened to have a start date that was not only after my visa was approved to live and work in Sweden, but also after another time commitment ended so that I would be totally free to focus my energy on work. Not to mention my good fortune in falling in love with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lord_kjar not long before the last job ended, so that we could move in together pretty much straight away after realizing we wanted to.
*good friends--I have been blessed throughout my life with knowing many wonderful people, starting with my parents and expending out from there. In some ways it is kind of embarrassing to look at FB and realize that there are (as of this moment) 778 people I know there. Yet who would I give up to make it a smaller number? I love my family, my friends from Steller, from the SCA. I am quite impressed by the folk I have met through work, and I am delighting in getting to know all of the people I have met since moving to Sweden. I don't have time to spend quality time with all of them, but every time I notice a post that one of them types it makes me smile to think of them.
*good health--my health has been pretty darn good. I have managed to come down with minor sniffles more often this year than normal (including this week!)--I can think of three different occasions where I had symptoms of a slightly drippy nose that cleared up within a couple of days and was minorly inconvenient this year. Yes, that is way up from the previous five years (where I came down with a cold more like once every other year), but I have been *so* much more socially active this year I am not terribly surprised, and it doesn't seem to slow me down the way many others complain about being slowed down when they catch something. I have an appointment to get new hearing aids next month, and I am really looking forward to that--imagine being able to hear my phone through the hearing aids, rather than having to constantly asking the person on the other end to repeat themselves.
However, even if I am not cooking a huge feast to share with family and friends, there is no reason to miss out on listing some things I am thankful for.
*a charmed life--as always this is one of the things for which I am ever grateful--the way that timing just seems to work out for me time and time again whatever I need is provided me right when I need it. One very early example I can think of was when I was very young and living in Arizona--we were students on a tight budget and one month we were wondering how it would be possible to pay all of the bills. Much to our surprise we got a check in the mail from the Electric company, returning our deposit along with a letter explaining that since we had been such good customers and always paid our bills on time they no longer needed to keep the deposit. So we used that money to pay the other bills that month and maintained our good name as on-time bill payers with everyone.
The current symptoms of my charmed life include landing a job a 10 minute walk from my home that happened to have a start date that was not only after my visa was approved to live and work in Sweden, but also after another time commitment ended so that I would be totally free to focus my energy on work. Not to mention my good fortune in falling in love with
lord_kjar not long before the last job ended, so that we could move in together pretty much straight away after realizing we wanted to.*good friends--I have been blessed throughout my life with knowing many wonderful people, starting with my parents and expending out from there. In some ways it is kind of embarrassing to look at FB and realize that there are (as of this moment) 778 people I know there. Yet who would I give up to make it a smaller number? I love my family, my friends from Steller, from the SCA. I am quite impressed by the folk I have met through work, and I am delighting in getting to know all of the people I have met since moving to Sweden. I don't have time to spend quality time with all of them, but every time I notice a post that one of them types it makes me smile to think of them.
*good health--my health has been pretty darn good. I have managed to come down with minor sniffles more often this year than normal (including this week!)--I can think of three different occasions where I had symptoms of a slightly drippy nose that cleared up within a couple of days and was minorly inconvenient this year. Yes, that is way up from the previous five years (where I came down with a cold more like once every other year), but I have been *so* much more socially active this year I am not terribly surprised, and it doesn't seem to slow me down the way many others complain about being slowed down when they catch something. I have an appointment to get new hearing aids next month, and I am really looking forward to that--imagine being able to hear my phone through the hearing aids, rather than having to constantly asking the person on the other end to repeat themselves.
