Today’s list of things to be grateful for or appreciate:

1. Getting a good night’s sleep.
2. Realising that when I wake up, I need to move immediately if I want to get out of bed.
3. The mealworms are doing fine. They don’t like courgette, apparently, but the lettuce and brassica greens seem to have all been eaten, and they always seem to nom their way through the wheat bran I put in. I’m seeing a lot of fresh pupae so I should be getting more adults soon.
4. Breakfast cereals.
5. Realising that I need Beech. I was doing Fregair last night about people, and how I deal with them. This cropped up, along with a comment Providence made once - everyone is doing the best they can with what they have. If someone hurts me, it’s either accidental, in which case “why worry”, or malicious, in which case they’re really hurting, and deserve compassion more. The next step, of course, is to learn how to become more tolerant. I keep having the Dalai Lama pop up as an example. Do you have any thoughts on tolerance that you’d like to share?
6. I’m not in work until 1PM.
7. Having time to myself before work.
8. I have no dependants. This gives me an enormous amount of freedom, for which I am very grateful.
9. Impromptu Fregair. Yikes.
10. Finding a method that I think will allow me to automatically create database backups of my blog. My host doesn’t really play well with the setup I have on that particular blog, but I think I can use the RSS feed to trigger the creation of a backup.
11. I have my car to drive me to work.
12. I have food in the fridge to take to work with me so I don’t need to waste money buying junk food.
13. Having time to make my sandwiches to take to work with me.
14. I’m going to earn some money this afternoon. That’s what it’s all about.
15. Getting everything ready in time for work.
16. Some parcels I ordered have arrived.
17. I generally feel good.

Things I’ve laughed at today:

1. This loldog.
2. This lolcat (am I alone in thinking that the Roomba is incredibly inefficient?).
3. This lolsquirrel.

Things I want to manifest:

1. A quick, simple, pleasant day at work.
2. Lots of TPC sales.

Things I’ve done for others:

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Today’s list of things to be grateful for or appreciate:

1. Getting a good night’s sleep.
2. I’m meeting Lush today.
3. Dry weather.
4. I got up early enough not to have to run round trying to get ready.
5. My money has been transferred back to me.
6. Breakfast cereals.
7. I’m off work all day.
8. I can drive. I am physically able to drive myself about.
9. I have some more stuff to get done today, like the jobs I’ve been wanting to do for the past week.
10. Having two duvets on the bed.
11. The intellectual exercise that the distraction is providing me with.
12. A nice hot shower.
13. Having a cash machine close by, so I can get some cash quickly before I go to see Lush.
14. Safe driving.
15. Having a good time with Lush.
16. Tasty fish and chips.
17. Dry weather.
18. I made a Gift Aid donation while I was out.
19. A couple of items I ordered from ebay have arrived.
20. Watching Supernatural.
21. Playing with Wenna.
22. Hot coffee.
23. Making a start on tidying up.
24. Ice cream. Of course.
25. My keyboard continues to work.
26. Being reminded today of how lucky I am to have everything I do.
27. Evening cereals.
28. Listening to the Carpenters. One of my OGT’s.
29. Tidying my desk.
30. Clearing the clothes pile. nearlyripe:
31. Sorting out a problem with my phone by restarting it.

Things I’ve laughed at today:

1. This lolcat. And this one. And this one too. And also this one.
2. This, this and this from Not Always Right.
3. Laughing with Lush.
4. “Like you don’t have enough.”

Things I want to manifest:

1. A fun day with Lush. MANIFESTED.
2. More work on the distraction.

Things I’ve done for others:

1. Made a donation to charity.
2. Drove Lush to the museum.

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Today’s list of things to be grateful for or appreciate:

1. Getting a good night’s sleep.
2. Weird dreams that I can’t recall. Lots of driving around roundabouts, in what appeared to be the countryside.
3. Awareness of how thoughts work. As I thought about the dream I had, just, a very similar situation appeared in my head. I haven’t thought about that situation for years, yet there it was. The brain does make some very interesting connections.
4. Breakfast cereals. I’m back to Weetos again now.
5. I’m off work all day.
6. Smodging on Wenna for a few seconds this morning. It literally was a few seconds, because she was waiting to go on her walk.
7. I have some stuff to get done today. Read: I get to play with my distraction more.
8. Dry weather. Not that I’m going anywhere but it’s always nice to have the sun shining in through the window.
9. Listening to Amanda Marshall.
10. Cold milk.
11. Getting up at 9AM. I feel less like I’ve wasted the day when I do this.
12. A book light I ordered from Grabitnow has arrived. It was only a few quid, and will do as a present for mom for Xmas.
13. Playing about with the distraction. I have another version of it now.
14. Bacon, potato cakes and beetroot for lunch. Very nice.
15. Playing with Wenna.
16. A nice hot shower. Very pleasant.
17. Finding out how to set a default font type and size in OpenOffice. This is going to save me a lot of hassle and fiddling.
18. Working on the distraction a lot more.
19. Watching Spooks.
20. Hot coffee.
21. A tasty evening meal.

Things I’ve laughed at today:

1. This loldog. And this one. And this one too. And also this one.
2. This lolfox.
3. This lollemur.
4. This fail.

Things I want to manifest:

1. A tidy desk.
2. A cleared clothes pile.
3. More time spent on the distraction. MANIFESTED.

Things I’ve done for others:

1. .

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Today’s list of things to be grateful for or appreciate:

1. Getting to sleep early enough last night.
2. Getting a good enough night’s sleep.
3. Getting up OK despite the early hour. I got up just fine this morning, at 6AM, where I’d normally be a bit groggy. I was in bed before 10PM last night, and doing that really seems to help me next morning.
4. Hot coffee, from the coffee maker. Instant is more of a guilty pleasure.
5. Listening to Lani Nash in the morning. “If you’re leavin’… take me with you!”
6. Having enough milk for a drink.
7. Having enough change to grab a snack or something at work.
8. I have extra hours at work on Saturday.
9. I’m off tomorrow and Wednesday.
10. I get to wear my civvies today, which will be a big bonus as I go up and down a ladder. My work trousers hang way too low around the crotch, so I have to hike them up every time I go upstairs or climb a ladder (which I’m going to be doing today). I’m going to wear my oldest, scrubbiest clothing so hopefully people wont hassle me.
11. Safe driving.
12. Dry weather, mostly. I only had drizzly rain all day.
13. Laughing with L, J, J² and Dinky.
14. Work itself was OK. It took longer than planned, but that’s all to the good. It means I get extra hours, which, combined with Saturday, will make 24 this week. Double my contract.
15. Being able to have fairly frequent breaks.
16. Having young knees. There’s no way I could do this if I was 60.
17. There wasn’t a lot of waste, but I did find some. My new plan is to be put on news every day or whatever.
18. Having enough money to grab some food.
19. Free chocolate.
20. Scoring some free stuff for mom and Nat.
21. Being OK despite the early hour. It definitely seems to be a lack of sleep
22. A tasty evening meal.
23. Eating a whole tray of chocolate fingers.
24. Playing games on Facebook.
25. Working some more on yesterday’s distraction.

Things I’ve laughed at today:

1. This lolcat. And this one. And also this one. And this one, that I had to look at for a few seconds until I got it.
2. This loldog. And this one. And also this one.
3. This lolturtle.
4. This fail.
5. This, this and this from Not Always Right.

Things I want to manifest:

1. A quick, quiet, pleasant day at work. MANIFESTED. Well, sort of. I did an extra 2.5 hours, but that’s all extra money I’ll get paid.
2. A completed news scanning. MANIFESTED.

Things I’ve done for others:

1. Fetched milk.
2. Let people out in traffic.
3. Covered breaks.
4. Made tea.
5. Served customers.
6. Found free items for Dinky.
7. Entertained my colleagues.

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Today’s list of things to be grateful for or appreciate:

1. Getting a good night’s sleep.
2. My glasses. C at work has broken hers. I’d be going into a flat spin right about now. But mine are fine.
3. My lovely warm comfortable bed.
4. Dreams about Supernatural.
5. Playing with Wenna this morning.
6. Hot coffee.
7. Watching bacon cook in the new grill. I find it fascinating.
8. Hot sweet tea and a bacon sandwich.
9. Finding some more presents.
10. Watching Countryfile.
11. Not having to go out today. It’s cold and damp out there.
12. Playing games on Facebook.
13. Finding a fun new thing to do - work out which item profits best in a game I’m playing.
14. Working on the fun thing for about 3 hours.
15. Tasty food.
16. Only having to go out in the cold once.
17. Mom has been shopping and brought lots of goodies back.
18. A nice hot shower.
19. I can wear my civvies to work tomorrow, and tell people to buzz off when they hassle me.
20. GAFarmWoman has posted a lovely set of photographs today. I love the look on BoDog’s face.

Things I’ve laughed at today:

1. This lolcat. And this one. And this one too.
2. Mom reciting a funny story about the time I left the steam valve open on the espresso maker.
3. This loldog.
4. This fail.

Things I want to manifest:

1. A tidy desk.
2. A removed clothes pile.

Things I’ve done for others:

1. .

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