No blood (8/31/2018)

I was grateful earlier this morning when I got a small paper cut, and it did not bleed at all.

Ooops (8/31/2018)

I am grateful the full 16-ounce plastic bottle I dropped a little while ago did not make a direct hit on the toe it touched, Could have been nasty.

Errors (8/30/2018)

Yea verily, multitasking kills. But at least I can be grateful that my errors so far today have not been truly grevious.

Voice strength (8/29/2018)

Feeling grateful to be getting back to regular singing at rehearsal of the church choir I am in this evening. The choir has been off for about a month, which occurs annually in July or August.

The concern is I am aware, as a Parkinson's Disease patient, that the voice can be affected by PD. I've been aware previously that regular singing can be a help in this; a friend whose husband died some years ago of PD recommended to me a singing group that is dedicated to PD patients for just that purpose. Their schedule did not work for me, but I've come to realize regular rehearsals with the choir plus singing at last three Sunday mornings per month are a great alternative.

So, with this month of choir off time, I have more and more been feeling my voice starting to go south, and thus my gratitude about going back to rehearsals.

And I will definitely want to remember to inquire with our music director about recommendations for voical exercises I can for future choir times off.

Albondigas soup (8/28/2018)

Highly grateful for today's lunch at work: albondigas soup. Super tasty!

Procedural note

So that was all of my Twitter-only gratitude posts.

Thinking from now on any day's posts could go either way.

• Either originally here, then shorted (if need be) on Twitter, OR..
• Originally on Twitter, then copied over to here.

So that will be effective tomorrow, August 28.

Very nice traffic

I was grateful a little earlier for my sweetest after-work commute in months. Brakes only needed at intersections & not much then!

Music

I'm very grateful for outstanding music at church this morning: two organ-piano duets and a piano-flute duet. Absolutely terrific.

(I did pass this on to the musicians.)

More neighborly silence

Grateful for my condo neighbors being entirely non-noisy during the night (as opposed to the previous night,) Also zero instances of dog barking, which is exceedingly rare,

Sleep effectiveness

Grateful at realization I seem to have slept better last night than I had thought, despite neighbors being noisy.

Moderate weather

I'm grateful for another day of really moderate weather in San Diego!

Neighborly silence

I'm grateful for the moment ones neighbors who've been yammering all night finally decide to go to sleep,

Relief via nasal rinse

Did the nasal rinse again shortly after getting home, and what a relief! I'm grateful the preparation for rinsing is simple and quick.

Leg function

I an grateful my legs seem to have somewhat more life in them right now then they did yesterday, when they were really dragging.

Nice weather

I'm grateful the San Diego area is having really comfortable weather today, which I just took a walk in.

Tasty chicken soup.

Highly grateful for the excellent chicken soup from the cafe at work today.

Novels by Tim Dorsey

I'm grateful that the whole span of comedic crime novels by Tim Dorsey are refreshingly entertaining & funny. Am currently on the 14th, _When Elves Attack_.

Leg/knee pillow

I sleep only on my sides, so I am grateful every night for my leg/knee pillow, Just impossible to find a consistently comfortable leg position without it.

Nice dinner with relatives

Grateful for a nice dinner yesterday with my brother and sister-in-law.

That Stan is quite a guy

I am grateful for this very amusing tweet giving me my first real laugh of the day.

Jeff Craig added,

Dea Poirier  🐲 @deapoirierbooks

Nice nap

I'm grateful for the really nice nap I woke up from a few minutes ago.

New episode of video series "Another Dirty Room"

I'm grateful for Dan Bell's wildly entertaining video series (adults only), "Another Dirty Room", latest of which is at: https://youtu.be/zBVyg7AU9VQ 

Tilley hats

Very grateful for hats from Tilley Endurables that both fit my huge gourd of a skull AND provide good sun protection. (Especially after removal of a non-aggressive melanoma from my neck last month.)

Neti pot effectiveness

Very grateful restarting use of neti pot for sinus rinsing is clearing up chronic post nasal drip, and thus clearing up my chronic cough.

Amazon Locker convenience

One thing I really like about Amazon Lockers is if you have more than 1 order delivered to a Locker location, the pickup code for one will open the lockers for all your orders at that location. I'm grateful for not having to bring along the evidence of two or more pickup codes,

Yogurt parfaits

Grateful for really nice yogurt parfaits at work.

Coffee really nice tasting black

Remembering the Breakfast Blend coffee available at work tastes quite nice black, and I am grateful for that.

Free food!

Cashier for work cafe didn't charge for today's yogurt parfait. I didn't follow her explanation, but who am I to argue, and I was definitely grateful for it.

Initial thinking about gratitude

Earlier this year my church's lay minister gave a sermon, the subject of which has been percolating since for some time for me. (Note the sermon link is audio only.)

Basically, the topic was feeling gratitude and expressing it to others, and the benefits one can realize by so doing. The suggestion was to do so daily, with at least one expression of being grateful, even if it;s about something totally mundane, like nice weather.

So, I began doing so on August 14 on Twitter. Obviously the extent of folks know a person and use Twitter can be limited, I have decided to to work on using both this blog and Twitter.

I'll copy into here my gratitude tweets so far, and from here on post both here and on Twitter,