12/2: I am thankful for a slow day at work, being able to take a real lunch break away from my computer, Cyber Monday sales and an enjoyable book club meeting where we agreed to take a break from reading a new book until next year.
12/1: I am grateful to get all the errands done before my relaxing afternoon appt and eating homemade pho for dinner.
11/30: I so appreciate putting up Christmas decorations before my relaxing afternoon appt.
11/29: I am thankful to have the day off work, Black Friday sales and getting adjusted at my chiro appt.
11/28: I am grateful for a quiet relaxing Thanksgiving at home where I got to try 2 new recipes and enjoyed a wonderful dinner.
11/27: I so appreciate the short workweek for Thanksgiving.
11/26:
11/25: I am grateful to get both acupuncture and chiropractic adjustment on the same day.
11/24: I so appreciate getting moxa.
11/23: I am thankful to watch Wicked with my boyfriend.
11/22: I am grateful for being able to meditate during my acupuncture appt.
11/21: I so appreciate another contractor coming so I can get another estimate.
11/20: I am thankful to get a contractor to come give an estimate.
11/19: I am grateful for acupuncture.
11/18: I so appreciate feeling better after my chiro appt.
11/17: I am thankful for my TCM appointment and book club conversations.
11/16: I am grateful for things I learned from my TCM practioner during my appt.
11/15: I so appreciate getting acupuncture and a low copay.
11/14: I am thankful for a short work week.
11/13: I am grateful I have a high priority meeting that will require me to spend all day preparing for as a distraction from my brother’s death anniversary.
11/12: I so appreciate having half a day of focus time to get through hundreds of backlogged work email, getting acupuncture in the evening and adding to hot pot leftovers with tofu and fresh veggies.
11/11: I am thankful for veteran’s day holiday from work, meeting a few dogs each with their noticeably unique personalities and trying cupbop for the first time which was delicious.
11/10: I am grateful to scoop horse poop quickly since there were 5 of us so that we had time to walk horses and meet the baby piglets.
11/9: I so appreciate getting good sleep, my volunteer shift at Dogtown and spending the afternoon with cats, kittens and pigs and looking at adoptable animals.
11/8: I am thankful for safe travels to BFAS, being able to check into the hotel without my ID or credit card since I left my wallet at home, lunch with Jana and the t-shirt she gifted me, a wonderful hike with Fastbreak and delicious Cuban food for dinner.
11/7: I am grateful for my cousins flying in to celebrate my birthday weekend with me volunteering at BFAS.
11/6: I so appreciate living to see another birthday, my company giving me a paid day off for my birthday, spending the morning doing self care with a body scrub and facial, my boyfriend cooking me my favorites for lunch and doing some crafting.
11/5: I am thankful my company recognizes election day as a company holiday even though I ended up working several hours in the morning and surviving the election.
11/4: I am grateful for only having a 1 day work week since I have the rest of the week off!
11/3: I so appreciate how moxibustion makes me feel.
11/2: I am thankful to get a much needed haircut, scalp treatment and deep conditioning and TCM.
11/1: I am grateful for acupuncture, my community bringing in a taco truck with a DJ and catching up with a neighbor.
10/31: I so appreciate my neighbor who does a Halloween open bar in their garage and getting to know them better.
10/30: I am thankful for my chiro appt after work.
10/29: I am grateful for acupuncture treatment
10/28: I so appreciate investing in myself with a chiro appt.
10/27: I am thankful for my TCM appt and book club meeting
10/26: I am grateful to find a new chiro to start seeing with my first appt in the morning before my TCM appt in the afternoon.
10/25: I so appreciate facial acupuncture.
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10/22: I so appreciate rewards conversation with my director and getting acupuncture after 2 weeks.
10/21: I am thankful for only a few work meetings so that I can focus on catching up on email from being out on business travel last week.
10/20: I am grateful a good night’s sleep, my boyfriend being willing to drive to several Walmart and Walgreen stores around town to find specific Halloween items that I want to decorate with.
10/19: I so appreciate spending time with my sister before flying back home, eating delicious menudo, an early flight arrival and being back home.
10/18: I am thankful for a successful work conference, my sister treating me to a massage as an early birthday present and to be with my sister when I received news a friend passed away.
10/17: I am grateful for a long day of meetings, sessions, breakouts and learning during my conference and having great meals and snacks throughout the day.
10/16: I so appreciate the conference doing an outing to The Alamo, a riverboat tour on The Riverwalk, checking out a Mexican marketplace, meeting someone new and learning how they run govt contracts, and good food (amazing fried catfish!) at the evening reception.
10/15: I am thankful for a safe flight to TX, my sister picking me up from the airport and spending a little time with me after checking into my hotel.
10/14: I am grateful to wake up at home and for only having one work meeting scheduled today so that I could finish required training and catch up on email before I go on my business trip for the rest of the week and meeting up with my aunt and uncle who are in town visiting.
10/13: I so appreciate safe travels back home, finally trying the affordable drive-through lobster rolls and making my evening appt a little early.
10/12: I am thankful for a beautifully located brunch, spending time with several 2nd cousins at a beer fest another cousin is hosting and satisfying my craving for thai during dinner.
10/11: I am grateful for a safe flight after work even though it was delayed to celebrate my cousin’s 50th birthday in person.
10/10: I so appreciate making through 6 back to back meeting at work.
10/9: I am thankful I am not the lawyer who has to deal directly with negotiations because it was a rough meeting (and has been) that lasted longer than scheduled.
10/8: I am grateful for my acupuncture appt after work.
10/7: I so appreciate logging off early because I started early with a 6am call.
10/6: I am thankful for my bathtub so I could take a relaxing bath to end the weekend.
10/5: I am grateful my best friend could go to my TCM doctor and try a new modality and getting magnetic ear seeds.
10/4: I so appreciate taking a half day off work my best friend driving out with her family so that I could celebrate her birthday with them.
10/3: I am thankful to make use of my time before work from waking up early to clean the fridge and be able to schedule an appt during lunch today.
10/2: I am grateful for being able to fall asleep quickly after waking up with vertigo in the middle of the night, not a single scheduled work meeting and being able to play an audiobook 2x the speed so I could listen to it as I cooked dinner and cleaned after work.
10/1: I so appreciate being able to catch up with my recent old boss who was recently laid off and feeling better after my appt in the evening.
9/30: I am thankful to be able to buy something nice for myself.
9/29: I am grateful for the weekend.
9/28: I so appreciate my Dr. honestly telling me I didn’t need something that I scheduled for the following week as she could have not said anything to get extra money from that appt.
9/27: I am thankful to get a bonus from work even though our company did not have a good fiscal year.
9/26: I am grateful to make time to attend my team’s optional social event, something I am usually too busy with other mtgs or high priority work to attend so I could casually catch up with some members of my team.
9/25: I so appreciate making it through 8 back to back meetings at work.
9/24: I am thankful for my appt after work to continue to help me with my health issues.
9/23: I am grateful for a Cisco Day for Me, free day off for the entire company, where I was able to get a blood draw that was months overdue and catch up on other health related to dos.
9/22: I so appreciate trying out a scalp analysis and treatment where I learned some new things, uni and nigiri’s for lunch and safe travels back home.
9/21: I am thankful to get a body scrub and relaxation time.
9/20: I am grateful for only working a half day at work, then going to a beautiful cemetery to help get quotes for burials vs. niches for cremation remains to give me a higher perspective about life/death as is needed every now and then.
9/19: I so appreciate working only half a day, a good appt before heading to the airport, a delayed flight that was supposed to be over an hour late ending up only being about 15 mins late and safe travels.
9/18: I am thankful for making it through a long 2 hour contract negotiations call.
9/17: I am grateful I was not too late for my appt after my car wouldn’t start, having my bf drive me to it and spending some time during that appt to do some much needed meditation given my mental and emotional state.
9/16: I so appreciate staying in control of my emotions (for the most part) during work meetings today when I was on the brink of LOSING MY SHIT after finding out all the people who were impacted by the company lay offs.
9/15: I am thankful to take a long nap in the middle of the day since I have not been sleeping much for the past couple of weeks and a luxuriously long bath before bed.
9/14: I am grateful to attend the exclusive event where I got some freebies – some practical like water and snacks, to totally impractical like an exclusive limited edition figurine and a fidget toy and having a great dr. visit before heading home.
9/13: I so appreciate getting the big RFI response done a couple hours before the deadline, going to a meetup where I talked to a diverse set of people all with one similar interest that got me an exclusive invite to an event the next day; my dr. being willing to switch my appt time so that I could enjoy that exclusive event and being so busy that I didn’t event think of friday the 13th which is usually a very hard day for me.
9/12: I am thankful to spend most of the day fully dedicated to working on the big RFI that is due.
9/11: I am grateful that I was so busy at work that it prevented me from thinking about the sadness of this day.
9/10: I so appreciate getting acupuncture and trying facial acupuncture for the first time.
9/9: I am thankful for my cousin sending me an app to help me make healthier decisions.
9/8: I am grateful for getting a short nap in.
9/7: I so appreciate getting a much needed treatment and a 3 hour nap in to give my body the rest it needed.
9/6: I am thankful for safe travels and a major thing done without any major issues, only a couple bruises to show for it and a delicious carne asada burrito
9/5: I am grateful to have a black bean rice with fried egg breakfast made from a free container of black bean sauce.
9/4: I so appreciate making it through the day – it was a rough one.
9/3: I am thankful for a short week at work and not having a ton of mtgs to get through after the 3 day weekend.
9/2: I am grateful to sleep in this morning, safe drive back home where I grabbed a dutch crunch sandwich (even tho the bread was not good) and eggplant scallop dish for dinner.
9/1: I so appreciate crossing off Antelope Canyon from my destination bucket list and being able to meditate at Horseshoe Bend right before midnight.
8/31: I am thankful for safe travels through 2 states with my cat who did very well on the drive.
8/30: I am grateful for making it through the workweek and the upcoming 3 day weekend.
8/29: I so appreciate meeting with a couple of members on my team and my boss.
8/28: I am thankful to meet with both my director and skip-level director for pizza and wings for lunch.
8/27: I am grateful to get a lot of work done on my FY25 planning deck that I plan to go over with my boss.
8/26: I so appreciate meeting my leadership training cohort in person and going to the soft opening of a new store and getting 2 free gifts.
8/25: I am thankful for a full hour of relaxing moxibustion treatment and having my friend stop by again.
8/24: I am grateful my friend stopped by to catch up and give me some spiritually guided advice.
8/23: I so appreciate getting acupuncture treatment to end the work week.
8/22: I am thankful I think my prescribed TCM herbs tastes good.
8/21: I am grateful to give my sister some information; my Chinese herbal remedy arriving and not minding the taste of it; and finally getting to focus on metrics.
8/20: I so appreciate a sale for items I was planning to buy as Christmas gifts.
8/19: I am thankful that bad news was received graciously.
8/18: I am grateful to get a delicious dark chocolate pistachio bar, pita bread and Labneh from a Eastern European grocery store.
8/17: I so appreciate figuring out finances this morning and checking on feng shui remedies.
8/16: I am thankful to my mentor giving me some useful information, tips and even a document I can use for my team and getting my favorite drink from costco.
8/15: I am grateful for handling tough stuff at work better than I would have before.
8/14: I so appreciate my cat making me smile upon bad news at work that there will be another round of layoffs coming.
8/13:
8/12: I am grateful for no work meetings today because the one I had schedule was cancelled!
8/11: I so appreciate ending my weekend with a great book club meeting, not only talking about the book, but several other things as well.
8/10: I am thankful to get several things done earlier in the day since I ran out of steam towards the end of the day.
8/9: I am grateful to get through an unexpectedly busy morning so that when I finally looked at the clock it was after lunch.
8/8: I so appreciate making time to do a Lions Gate Portal mediation/ritual.
8/7: I am thankful to not have to attend two mtgs so I could focus on other work during that 1 hour block.
8/6: I am grateful for my bf making me egg drop tofu soup for breakfast.
8/5: I so appreciate for the meal prep done over the weekend so I meals during the day were easy and getting some feng shui remedies in place for the month.
8/4: I am thankful to spend some relaxing time getting sun at the pool, my first attempt at creating Vigan Miki Noodle Soup turned out pretty well and that it satisfied my craving since it has been an unknown number of many years since I’ve had it. Plus a big pot means I have meals prepped for the next couple of days.
8/3: I am grateful getting some things done around the house despite being tired from staying up way too late.
8/2: I so appreciate quality time with my bf watching a couple movies he’s been wanting me to watch for years now.
8/1: I am thankful that during state negotiations, they accepted all our redlines.
7/31: I am grateful to get a task done for my skip level director and support from ELT on audit action plans.
7/30: I so appreciate that my early morning mtg resulted in what hopefully will be an ideal outcome and ended early, that another mtg also ended early and that I was able to focus on one email that I’ve been meaning to write and send.
7/29: I am thankful for a mtg getting cancelled and another 2 mtgs only lasting about 5 minutes long.
7/28: I am grateful to get several projects done around the house that I’ve been meaning to do for many months and an enjoyable book club meeting to end the weekend.
7/27: I so appreciate making progress on several to dos around the house.
7/26: I am thankful for very few meetings, emails and IMs due to everyone else focused on fiscal year end at work so it felt like a peaceful workday and getting a chance to catch up with my best friend whom I hadn’t spoken to in a long time.
7/25: I am grateful I am able to send my sister something so she could celebrate her birthday.
7/24: I so appreciate getting a hold of the condo management company to try to coordinate having the bldg water shut off to get the plumbing service scheduled.
7/23: I am grateful that hearing about a major plumbing issue with my condo didn’t get me as upset as I normally would get and I was able to stay relatively cool about it.
7/22: I so appreciate having a meeting cancelled/rescheduled and another ending early so that I could get caught up on emails.
7/21: I am thankful to have the time to voice and release my frustration and anger in a professional manner with a company that sent me a cheese board set and cutting board that turned out to be decorative only and not for use with food because it was really bothering me to the point it was disrupting my sleep.
7/20: I am grateful a bowl of big bone pho that satisfied my craving and a new churro place that exceeded my expectations, where I also got a free tasting of their frozen chocolate drink, which they seemed to appreciate my honest feedback that it was a bit too sweet.
7/19: I so appreciate finally encountering an avocado with a small seed and hanging outside with Grayson.
7/18:
7/17: I am grateful for Withings offering to replace my broken Scanwatch for free even though it was 8 months past the expiration of the 2 year warranty period.
7/16: I so appreciate the contracting company emailing details prior to my walkthrough call with them so that it only took a few mins and the mtg was ended very early.
7/15: I am thankful for the laugh Grayson gave me when he was playing with my laundry hanging on the rack.
7/14: I am grateful a neighbor replied to my inquiry about an issue with my fridge and how they resolved it on their own.
7/13: I so appreciate not being late for lunch and having my expectations surpassed at Brera Osteria with Pasta di Mare – truly excellent; getting my favorite hot chocolate mix (Hojicha from Dandelion); Costco business center having sea salt on sale; seeing my neighbor’s house and getting some original house files; finally putting the entry bench together and set up; and cooking chicken tinola.
7/12: I am thankful for making it through the workday and week because the meeting schedule was more busy than the normal busy and catching a Zoom meeting with my FS teacher where I heard something new (Gene Keys).
7/11: I am grateful making it through many meetings since I was not only double but also triple booked during some slots on my calendar.
7/10: I so appreciate reconnecting on FB Live with an old group.
7/9: I am thankful having a good mtg with my skip level director.
7/8: I am grateful to start the work week with a meeting on a topic that I enjoy working on and really hope to make progess with because it would be transformational to my team and business.
7/7: I so appreciate being able to spend most of the day in bed and resting since I am coming down with a cold.
7/6: I am thankful my remaining cousins travelled home safely and enjoyed their visit.
7/5: I am grateful the first cousin leaving made it home safely.
7/4: I so appreciate having the holiday today to enjoy the life I lead; spending fun times not escaping a room with family and being able to enjoy a meal out together at a new spot.
7/3: I am thankful for my boyfriend picking up food, dessert and drinks for my family while we enjoyed lounging at the pool, my cousin bringing corned beef from Harris Ranch that we could all enjoy for breakfast and making carnitas tacos dinner for all of us.
7/2: I am grateful more family members arrived safely and spending much needed quality time relaxing with them.
7/1: I so appreciate my cousin arriving safely, finalizing all the welcome goody bags and starting the week relaxing in the jacuzzi.
6/30: I am thankful to get one item at target that I couldn’t find at the 5 stores the day before and finalize preparations for incoming family.
6/29: I am grateful for my boyfriend driving all around town so we could go to 5 different stores to get all the groceries needed for the upcoming week.
6/28: I so appreciate getting all the employee performance reviews that I planned to get done finished and submitted and other emails done before the company shuts down for the 4th of July week.
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6/23: I am grateful to have a little more energy so that I could get a few things done around the house, changing air purifier and vacuum filters, cleaning the sliding door window, organizing several drawers and putting several things away.
6/22: I so appreciate it being the weekend when I’m not feeling well so I could spend most of the day in bed.
6/21: I am thankful for the end of the long frustrating work week and getting a handful of performance reviews of my team done because that means I am over halfway done with those mtgs.
6/20: I am grateful for only a couple work meetings so I can focus on getting work done.
6/19: I so appreciate the Juneteenth holiday so I can leisurely cook lunch and work on building a Lego set.
6/18: I am thankful to enjoy building a Lego set.
6/17: I am grateful to reschedule my chiro appt and get the orthopedist appt scheduled for next month.
6/16: I so appreciate spiritual healing in the early morning.
6/15: I am thankful to have most of the day to catch up with things around the house, receiving my Lego order and trying a different pizza (Bolognese) at Settebello.
6/14: I am grateful to make it through the work week.
6/13: I so appreciate my boyfriend’s best friend bringing back Hawaiian chocolates and getting to do a clay craft project at the local library.
6/12: I am thankful to make progress on the ELT escalation PPT I’ve been working on for work.
6/11: I am grateful to be able to take the day off work since I was still recovering from vertigo.
6/10: i so appreciate getting through most of the workday before vertigo wrecked me most of the night.
6/9: I am thankful that the power outage only lasted a couple hours, getting a lot of things done around the house while listening to audiobooks, and a short nap.
6/8: I am grateful to do deep cleaning and organizing at home.
6/7: I so appreciate my boyfriend getting painting done, ube filled malasada and ube Vietnamese iced coffee.
6/6: I am thankful the snake in my backyard was already dead, linguica sausage and eggs breakfast, a salad for lunch and triple digit heat.
6/5: I am grateful to prepare tomato salad and a new recipe for potato salad with bacon and balsamic vinegar after work so I can have it the next few days and starting the next audiobook in what turned out to be series that I wasn’t aware of.
6/4: I so appreciate finishing an audiobook in one night by listening at 1.75x speed.
6/3: I am thankful for only one meeting at work since a couple others were rescheduled so I could get caught up on email after being out a week, getting a hydrafacial and finishing the library’s selected summer reading challenge audiobook where I enjoyed the ending after feeling I was slogging through the majority of the book.
6/2: I am grateful to get more weekend deals at my local grocery store and stocking up at Costco plus finding a low rolling seat for garage, something I’ve been wanting for awhile.
6/1: I so appreciate shadow self healing and taking a 2 hour nap.
5/31: I am thankful to visit with my adopted cat’s caregivers before safe travels back home and getting some good deals at my local grocery store.
5/30: I am grateful to hear the number of cats are at a low, catch up with the adoption specialist, learn so much about the animal clinic and attend a service honoring a cat named Prius who passed away from kidney whom I almost adopted 6 months ago and pay my respects to his gravesite.
5/29: I so appreciate learning about maintenance, utilities, landscaping and progress towards no-kill by 2025 at the sanctuary and buying a new long sleeve BFAS tshirt plus a wand toy.
5/28: I am thankful for safe travels, meeting new people and having a good conversation with a BFAS founder I haven’t spoken directly to before.
5/27: I am grateful to get 8 hours of sleep only getting up once in the middle of the night, another neighbor dropping off towels for donations and finding out she works for a nonprofit who could likely get more donations in the future.
5/26: I so appreciate getting through a lot of personal to do list items
5/25: I am thankful to only have to work a few hours in the morning to get caught u with work, pick up 2 bags of donations from a neighbor, doing a Costco run getting great parking and no wait in lines.
5/24: I am grateful for my last full day of work for the week even though I need to work tomorrow on a Saturday to get fully caught up because I know it won’t take the whole day.
5/23: I so appreciate that my face is going through a second peeling after my chemical peel because I’m sure my skin will look better after it is done.
5/22: I am thankful for my cat’s purrs and cuddles to help me sleep when struggling with insomnia last night.
5/21: I am grateful for mobile notaries, to make it through my first long day of a short week at work with 6 hours of meetings scheduled and reading two chapters of a book I started months ago.
5/20: I so appreciate my company giving me a free day off so that I could do my dr. appt while visiting my cousin, seeing my best friend and getting a giant lemon.
5/19: I am thankful for safe travels and tacos with my cousins.
5/18: I am grateful for starting my day with spiritual healing and spending the entire day catching up on one deliverable for work that I had been procrastinating on.
5/17: I so appreciate getting adjusted by my favorite chiropractor and the small car accident leading to getting an MRI where I learned about issues I have with my neck and spinal cord.
5/16: I am thankful to get a chemical peel after work.
5/15: I am grateful to have a healthy breakfast (avocado), getting vitamin D the natural way by spending a few mins out in the warm sun and KFC for lunch.
5/14: I so appreciate getting caught up on most of my emails from being out of the office the day before and my boyfriend bringing home one of my favorite guilty pleasures, KFC.
5/13: I am thankful to make it through all my appts scheduled for the day and a delicious burrito for dinner.
5/12: I am grateful to enjoy a beautiful Sunday with friends eating delicious Mexican BBQ.
5/11: I so appreciate my dentist being pleased with my oral health, safe travels and a delicious deli sandwich on Dutch crunch bread.
5/10: I am thankful for my boyfriend putting up a curtain rod that fell, which it has done a few times despite putting in metal anchors, my dentist telling me my gums and teeth are exceptionally clean
5/9: I am grateful for the end of a tough work week where I finally caught up on most emails from being behind the past couple of weeks.
5/8: I so appreciate getting helpful feedback on my executive bio to fine tune it and learning about AI headshot options.
5/7: I am thankful my appt went a lot easier than expected and that the results showed improvement.
5/6: I am grateful to get my 1 page executive bio completed.
5/5: I so appreciate safe travels back home, taking an hour and a half nap to make up for my sleep deprivation and making it through the MRI since I’m claustrophobic.
5/4: I am thankful for safe travels, getting my nails done with my best friend like we used to years ago and seeing a lot of old friends.
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5/2: I so appreciate making it through the workday with 6 hours straight of meetings, taking 10 mins to decompress by sitting outside in the backyard so I could continue working, finishing my audiobook as I cooked an epic dinner of pasta straight from Italy with smoked salmon from Seattle, Dungeness crab, garlic olive oil, tomatoes, broccolini, artichokes and truffle parmesan with black garlic and doing a little bit of cleaning, putting things away after dinner.
5/1: I am thankful to get to bed early last night and have more sleep even if it was interrupted by waking up multiple times throughout the night, having a member of my team handle a 7am call without me so I didn’t have to get up at 6am and a team outdoor activity that allowed me to take a walk around my neighborhood and putting together a massive shelf unit successfully, even tho I injured my ankle in the process.
4/30: I so appreciate going back to my morning routine at home, not having a lot of mtgs so that I can spend most of my day catching up on emails from being OOO last week and Dungeness crab for dinner.
4/29: I am thankful for getting adjusted at my chiro appt and doing a costco run to stock up on veggies and other groceries and getting some more work done in the evening.
4/28: I am grateful to be back home sleeping in until 9am and taking a nap in the afternoon allowing my body to start catching up on sleep.
4/27: I so appreciate getting smoked salmon at the Fish Market to bring home eating piroshky piroshky (trying meatball for the first time which is now my favorite), leisurely time with my cousins to sit and chat before heading to brunch at Salty’s where we had their incredible calamari, seafood omelette and steelhead caesar salad with 2 desserts, a large chocolate cake and creme brulee for dessert; a walk to enjoy the Seattle skyline views, meeting my cousin’s black cat named Lolo who loved my pets and a safe flight home.
4/26: I am thankful for sleeping fairly well, free hotel breakfast a delicious early dinner, a cool “speakeasy” at the amazon spheres and reading my story at the festival in front of a live audience.
4/25: I am grateful to try a lavender oatmilk matcha from Starbucks that was tasty, a better than expected experience at the trade show, my colleague giving me a ride to the airport and arriving safely at my next destination, my cousins welcome gift, meeting new people at the evening event and my other cousin arriving safely and giving me a great shoulder massage.
4/24: I am thankful for safe travels for my business trip and bring only 10 mins late to my meeting with the state even though my flight was delayed an hour and that the meeting went well.
4/23: I am grateful to catch up with a lot of work and be home.
4/22: I so appreciate being able to enjoy a leisurely breakfast before checking out of the hotel, a quick and free shuttle ride to the airport, the line at customs moving quickly and arriving home safely.
4/21: I am thankful for all I learned during the last day of my course, Vietnamese for lunch, Thai for our graduation dinner with one of my favorites that I haven’t had in awhile-fish cake plus a really good fish curry with the perfect touch of heat, the long diverse conversations after class till almost midnight knowing that I have had such a special honor meeting several amazing women with their own journeys and life experiences and that we were all meant to cross paths to support and learn from each other.
4/20: I am grateful that I took a trip for myself to learn more about something I am interested in, amazing Portuguese food for lunch, having Japanese BBQ for the first time with my cousin for dinner, finding something similar to what I’ve been wanting to get for my cat for cheaper and getting some decent sleep.
4/19: I so appreciate that the feeling I had within the first hour of my course was one that confirmed investing in this course was absolutely worth it and having that reaffirmed throughout the day, even more so when spending several hours after class talking to other students and getting guidance on a health issue I’m facing and an important message of allowing good to happen to me and my life without having to feel I deserve it, which is a next level way of thinking for me plus delicious lunch from my teacher of sushi and Chinese food.
4/18: I am thankful I only had two big meetings which were related to the major transformation initiatives I am working on, with 2 other meetings being rescheduled/cancelled and enjoying poutine for dinner.
4/17: I am grateful even though I only got about 3 hours of sleep, that I was easily able to make it through the day working, healthy breakfast, snacks and lunch with my cousin introducing me to a delicious way to prepare salmon that we enjoyed for dinner.
4/16: I so appreciate going to the airport early so I could work up to my flight boarding so I could retract my half day PTO; new items on the menu at the airport lounge to enjoy, that the flight time to Toronto is shorter than I expected, the actual flight didn’t feel long, my 2nd cousin whom I only met last year and her boyfriend who picked me up from the airport who is letting me stay at her house and picking up wings for us to eat, her cat being immediately comfortable with me to come in and out of my room all night.
4/15: I am thankful for a productive leadership development plan meeting with my executive coach and manager where my boss offered an additional suggestion of how to openly respond to a request, especially with ELT, when a contract is restrictive and to work my way to feeling comfortable going up even to CEO level realizing add being acknowledged from my manager how much I had already developed and improved.
4/14: I am grateful to prepare for my upcoming back to back trips.
4/13: I so appreciate the dermabrasion service, which was super affordable, that I booked for myself was more than I expected with a mask and a good massage of my neck, shoulders and even a little bit on my scalp so that I could change the facial I booked after to a microdermabrasion for my neck and decolletage; getting my favorite suite booked for July 4th weekend for when my cousins come visit.
4/12: I am thankful to get a much needed manicure and get more information on facial treatments I’ve never had, booking two appts for May to try them out
4/11: I am grateful for being directed to an easy to learn online whiteboard platform so that I can collaboratively create a flow chart of some of my team’s processes for an upcoming meeting.
4/10: I so appreciate getting through the workday, feeling like I already worked a full week with all the mtgs, longer hours trying to get so much done!
4/9: I am thankful for the enjoyment my cat and I both have when he plays with a fidget spinner.
4/8: I am grateful that my meeting with the VP went well (also notably over time because there were so many questions of wanting to understand more) and learning that there is another organization in Germany that has the same problems my team is facing.
4/7: I so appreciate getting a huge load of laundry done and put away, cleaning around the house, checking out a bookstore where a lot of writers hang out in downtown and trying a new Japanese restaurant.
4/6: I am thankful to dream of my brother (I was in his messy room looking at hair clippers that had a ton of hair all over waiting til he got home at around 3am at which point he told me that out of all the people who read a story at the event tonight, which was standing room only, he thought the audience was drawn in the most and reacted more positively to my story compared to others, making me wake up feeling very confident & happy and returning to my healthy morning routine of drinking 3 cups of water with lemon and vinegar and salad for breakfast.
4/5: I am grateful to spend the afternoon preparing for a meeting I am excited for that is scheduled for Monday and ending my day leisurely reading
4/4: I so appreciate being able to support someone who had a devastating health diagnosis.
4/3: I am thankful for my chiro appt and the warm weather which my cat and I enjoyed during his walk.
4/2: I am grateful to have a VP at work respond to my email while he is on PTO and schedule a mtg for the first day he is back to further understand the problems my team is having overall and racking up ton of points over the years to book an out of the country trip that would have been way too expensive to pay out of pocket!
4/1: I so appreciate hearing that the time I spent studying Feng Shui over the weekend paid off because I passed the beginner/intermediate test and that my ‘problem’ now is figuring out how to make a trip to the advanced FS course become reality!
3/31: I am thankful to catch a mistake I made on my Feng Shui test, get some reading in, group FT with family where we planned our trip for next month, making a healthy dinner and putting in a big Feng Shui remedy that I’ve been wanting to do for a few months.
3/30: I am grateful to take two naps during the day between studying Feng Shui.
3/29: I so appreciate not having any meetings scheduled for work and getting a chiro adjustment.
3/28: I am thankful to make it through the workday that started with an early morning meeting
3/27: I am grateful to make it through a busy workday.
3/26: I so appreciate my chiro appt where I got some of my muscle issues worked on and my best friend getting a scratcher, that is similar to one I had been looking for and having it used pretty quickly.
3/25: I am thankful for a very light meeting day at work, listening to my body and self to reschedule an afternoon appt and making time to do something I love after work, read a physical book I got over the weekend, which I finished in a couple hours since it was short, that was very uplifting and raised my energy.
3/24: I am grateful to listen to a morning keynote by a doctor, who has an interesting perspective on women’s health that I would like to look into further, meeting a nurse practitioner in my afternoon session, some great deals on books and decks, freebies, meeting up with an old friend for dinner, a safe drive back home.
3/23: I so appreciate investing in myself this weekend, hearing what I needed to hear, finding some books on my list to read for only $5.
3/22: I am thankful for having time to speak to a team member who is going through a rough time, meeting with a shoe designer on semi custom Italian shoes and safe travels into a neighboring state before midnight.
3/21: I am grateful for getting a re-exam at the Chiro and making about 50% progress since the cat accident.
3/20: I so appreciate having the energy to work a 12 hour day after working 11.5 hours the day before to get more caught up with work so I can reduce some stress and my bf’s car finished at the the shop and picking it up.
3/19: I am thankful my best friend with her husband stopped by to meet my cat before flying back home who had a quick visit to the vet afterwards and not seeming to have any side effects from his vaccine.
3/18: I am grateful for my Chiro appointment getting some muscle work done though it spent really alleviate as much muscle issues as I had hoped.
3/17: I so appreciate seeing my best friend real quick, finally trying a donut place I’ve wanted to try for years with fresh strawberry donut and safe travels back home.
3/16: I am thankful to celebrate my cousins birthday with an amazing Vietnamese meal and finding a Korean blanket in a design I like at a good price since I went to many many places without finding what I wanted.
3/15: I am grateful to have the day off work with lots of fun plans for the day including going to the beach and enjoying the salt air and sound of the ocean.
3/14: I so appreciate getting a few hours of work done in the morning with the rest of the day off work, safe travels across the state border and finishing an audio book along the way, finally trying Panamanian empanadas from a restaurant that was sold out the past couple times I was trying to have it plus oxtail and red snapper, introducing Grayson to Bella, even though he hissed at her and Grayson adapting quickly to his home away from home.
3/13: I am thankful getting muscle work along with my chiro adjustment.
3/12: I am grateful to give myself the time I needed by saying no to something so I could work on my priorities.
3/11: I so appreciate getting a chiro adjustment after not being able to the week before due to business travel for a work conference
3/10: I am thankful to try a local hot chicken place that I’ve wondered was any good – it wasn’t, so that my curiosity is satisfied and I know to keep looking.
3/9: I am grateful for my home and my family, getting a lot done at home during the day (unpacking, cleaning, cooking, laundry) while also getting a quick nap in.
3/8: I so appreciate waking up early, having cucumber salad for breakfast, starting work at 5am so that I could spend focused quiet time typing up notes from my conference, not having a lot of meetings so that I could get caught up on work even if that meant working a 13 hour day and reading a whole book before bed.
3/7: I am thankful for an early arrival on my flight home and finding out that the Italian restaurant that replaced my favorite closed down banh mi place has excellent food.
3/6: I am grateful for delicious grits for breakfast, making it through a very long packed conference day and having a couple really enjoyable and productive meetings.
3/5: I so appreciate getting not only one, but two free cowboy hats, especially a dark brown color and enjoying a night out on the town with my boss and colleague.
3/4: I am thankful for a direct flight, safe travels and trying the original Nashville hot chicken, which was very hot and good!
3/3: I am grateful to finalize all the tax information and documents for submission to my accountant this morning.
3/2: I so appreciate spending most of the day on quiet focused time to do online research in the morning, gathering and preparing all my tax documentation in the afternoon and running a few errands in the evening after trying Cafe Zupas for a healthy dinner.
3/1: I am thankful for another chiro adjustment that helped my mid and upper back.
2/29: I am grateful for chiro adjustment since my left shoulder was needing it and finally getting to try The Codfather – great fish and chips.
2/28: I so appreciate not having a ton of meetings at work and talking to someone to identify a mentor to guide me as a leader.
2/27: I am thankful for being seen immediately at my morning doctor’s appt and seeing a friend.
2/26: I am grateful my cousins both made it home safely and for my chiro being located close by so it is easy and quick to get to and from my appts.
2/25: I so appreciate being able to make eggs, chorizo and homemade hashbrowns (with the help of my bf) for breakfast for my family in town, delicious hainanese chicken for lunch and trying a place that has been on the list for dinner for burgers and fries.
2/24: I am thankful what we wanted for breakfast was not sold out this time, picking up another cousin at the airport, all of us taking naps in the afternoon and enjoying another KBBQ for dinner.
2/23: I am grateful to get a second medical opinion through a benefit provided by my company, ultrasound and tens therapy at my chiro that makes my tight muscles feel better, my cousin arriving in Vegas safely, and an enjoyable AYCE KBBQ dinner.
2/22: I so appreciate the relief I feel when I get adjusted from a chiropractor, especially after being in a car accident and feeling the effects soon after it happened, but not being able to get any treatment since I needed to get xrays first.
2/21: I am thankful for some good reminders I received during a one on one meeting with my boss’ boss. I am very sad he was impacted by the LR at my work and will miss his great leadership.
2/20: I am grateful to take time off work to deal with the car accident, a friend stopping by quickly to say hello since she is in town before going to my chiro appt for an exam, and then to imaging to get xrays done. salmon and pea sprouts for lunch and hot pot with various types of fish balls and veggies for dinner.
2/19: I appreciate my company giving me a free day off work today so I could sleep in, my bf making pancakes for breakfast, getting my overflowing laundry done, running errands around town and that the car accident I was in was minor compared to previous ones I’ve had in the past.
2/18: I so appreciate fining Reese’s peanut butter banana at Costco and getting a couple needed household items that we forgot to get on our recent last trip
2/17: I am thankful to look at potential custom shoe closet options, stopping by Asian grocery where I decided to try several types of fish balls and grab a couple bags of one of my favorite veggies that is not at my closer Asian market – pea sprouts, a fun afternoon doing an escape room, delicious Korean soup for dinner – chicken ginseng and trying Paris baguette for the first time.
2/16: I am grateful for the end of the work week knowing I have a 3 day weekend ahead of me.
2/15: I so appreciate making it through a very tough morning at work and Costco shopping after work.
2/14: I am thankful for having so many loving people in my circle.
2/13: I am grateful for date night trying a new thai restaurant and getting some fancy chocolate!
2/12: I so appreciate running up all the hills during my 5 mile route for the first time even though I ran slower than normal.
2/11: I am thankful for delicious beef over rice from an old school hawaiian spot and safe travels back home.
2/10: I am grateful to have a relaxing morning and spending the afternoon returning items from the previous weekend of shopping and getting a few new things with my cousin ending with an incredible uni dinner.
2/9: I so appreciate the end of a tough work week, being fully prepared for Lunar New Year ahead of time, and an early flight arrival.
2/8: I am thankful for my boyfriend making chicken curry, new keyed locks installed in all my bedroom doors, getting the house prepped for Chinese New Year, cashing out $3.33 on a slot machine, putting in only $1 which was enough to get me a chocolate donut and croissant and some BOGO deals at Sprouts.
2/7: I am grateful my house is clean, that the person tending to me at my appointment was so meticulous and a delicious late dinner at Mang Felix Kitchen.
2/6: I so appreciate being able to rearrange some furniture, getting a lot of things laying around put away properly and getting new indoor security cameras set up.
2/5: I am thankful to be fully rested since I had to start my workweek with a 6am meeting.
2/4: I am grateful to get some much needed sleep, since I only slept about 8 hours total the past two nights by getting 9.5 hours overnight and 2.5 hours during the day and still going to bed early.
2/3: I so appreciate the chance to spend the day with my cousin finding a great place for bun bo hue and Japanese soufflé pancakes, shopping at Uniqlo and Black House White Market, getting a bag full of Porto’s and Gus’ fried chicken, a safe flight back home
2/2: I am thankful to spend the day at Disney so my best friend can enjoy the Lunar New Year decorations, parade and special menu which had the best Vietnamese iced coffee with taro and chocolate and an amazing, though very sticky, char sui flavored turkey leg.
2/1: I am grateful for a safe flight to Los Angeles and to see my best friend and her family again.
1/31: I so appreciate remembering my dream of taking a wrong turn down a walkway trying to go to a bathroom and exiting a venue which caused me to miss the event since security would not let me back in with my purse back at my seat that I was so upset over that I woke up with tears in my eyes; my boyfriend making boiled (since I can’t do fried anymore) tofu for breakfast this morning and a small rice bowl of fried rice for an early lunch for me while I was busy with back to back work mtgs; getting all work except a PPT review completed by the end of the day; first mtg with a health related company to further understand how I may benefit from their services; catching up with my best friend and cousins through messages throughout the day.
1/30: I am thankful to remember my dream even though it was about someone passing away and regretting that I didn’t see them on a major event because I was trying to save money by not travelling; making it thru another tough and stressful workday with 7 mtgs; completing a 5 mile run after work where I finally ran the entire length of one of three long hills that I have not been able to run up completely to this point and still keeping a sub-15 min mile average pace.
1/29: I am grateful to make it through my first leader coaching call, completing a load of laundry, getting vacuuming done, scheduling a couple of appts for the next 2 weeks, moving some furniture around per feng shui energy and cooking wings for dinner that I ate with 2 bowls of salad.
1/28: I so appreciate getting out of the house to attend a home expo. Even though it was small and disappointing, got a couple appts scheduled to get some estimates. Finding what I was looking for at Ikea, eating Hainan chicken and roast duck wonton noodle soup, getting a few to do’s completed around the house including a couple loads of laundry, a quick nap and meal prepping one of my tried and true healthy meals for lunch this week.
1/27: I am thankful to start my day with a healing, guidance from my teacher on meditation, running 5 miles, a healthy light lunch, a quick 15 min nap, a lot of organizing, several loads of laundry and some cleaning around the house, an impromptu dinner date at a thai restaurant that I haven’t been to yet catching up and getting support from a friend.
1/26: I am grateful to make it through quarter end work week that was extremely challenging, finally getting my parents car insurance figured out and meeting with an advisor who will give me information on my issue and provide guidance after a panel review.
1/25: I so appreciate that all my meetings were only half an hour each and getting info to my parents insurance company getting to the final step of initiating their car insurance.
1/24: I am thankful to receive a belated Christmas gift that included much needed twin mattress bed sheets and an awesome air freshener for my car that is a picture of my cat and that my healthy Mexican meatloaf turned out more delicious than before which I attribute to a different type of salsa and extra hot sauce.
1/23: I am grateful to have a great planning meeting with my leadership team and getting a couple performance reviews completed.
1/22: I so appreciate being able to fall asleep faster than normal and doing my meditation this morning, getting initial information on my issue
1/21: I am thankful my cat’s bloodwork came back normal, getting my 5 mile run done in the rain even though I was a lot slower than normal since not feeling great, delicious tuna sandwich for lunch, resting most of the afternoon, and a healthy dinner of bok choy stir fried in garlic, mushroom and onion sauteed, leftover kimchee tofu soup and a corn cob.
1/20: I am grateful to get a lot done during the day with vet appt, errands around town and a big security to do at home
1/19: I so appreciate getting through the workday after starting with a frustrating first work meeting.
1/18: I am thankful a meeting was pushed out, healthy chicken salad for lunch, doing several to do tasks at home during a social team meeting, getting completely caught up with all my emails at work, able to meditate and listen to an audiobook after work, and cook a chicken, mushroom noodle stir fry using the last of the wonton noodle leftovers.
1/17: I am grateful to make it through my morning appointment, a workday packed with meetings, and cooking a delicious chicken breast, brussels sprouts and shiitake mushroom stir fry for dinner and avocado shake for dessert.
1/16: I so appreciate making it through the work day with 7 scheduled meetings back to back, reorganizing all the gifted Christmas string lights into a reel system I bought to empty out one box, moving most of the Christmas decor into the garage, finally getting my imaging appointment scheduled for tomorrow and my bf bringing home a delicious chicken and mushroom bun from din tai fung.
1/15: I am thankful for a good book club meeting to start my day; when going out to eat that the wonton soup was bland which meant low sodium broth, which is exactly what I wanted and need for my health goals and since I’ve modified my eating, that I also have plenty of leftovers to eat later; taking a nap; making it through a 5 mile run and a healthy dinner of wild salmon and Brussels sprouts.
1/14: I am grateful for a full day to focus on editing previous pieces I’ve written; writing a new flash fiction piece and submitting 4 pieces to SEAF a day ahead of the deadline, which happened to have auspicious feng shui energies for important paperwork; going through and organizing a gifted box of Christmas decor; getting parts of my new work desk delivered; and steak, spinach and corn for dinner at home.
1/13: I so appreciate completing my run and not feeling so crazy hard as last time and ordering some things from Amazon.
1/12: I am thankful for sleeping through the night except when my cat woke me up briefly, a great time checking out CES, walking all day and a delicious healthy dinner of sashimi salad and edamame.
1/11: I am grateful to get lots of healthy groceries at Costco and making a salad topped with chicken breast for dinner.
1/10: I so appreciate making it through the most busy workday of the week with nonstop mtgs, the arrival of an anticipated package of BB gear, and a surprise swag gift from a colleague that will be very useful.
1/9: I am thankful for making it through the workday with several meetings despite a fitful night of sleep, my cousins confirming they are going to do the rock n roll with me, an informative neighborhood watch meeting and a delicious bundt cake.
1/8: I am grateful for a last minute invite to a surprise bday dinner celebration to try an Italian restaurant where I thoroughly enjoyed Dungeness crab linguini and an amazing pistachio strawberry cake.
1/7: I so appreciate being able to make breakfast, being okay with skipping lunch, making it through a 5 mile run when feeling tired, finishing an audio book, starting a new audio book, starting to write another flash story, doing the past year review of the qi planner, trying out a new local pho spot and them giving me a fresh coffee to go and selling niners playoff tix to finally have a profit off the season tickets.
1/6: I am thankful for maple spam and mushroom omelette, finishing two written pieces, including my first attempt at flash fiction, and fried tofu and broccoli dinner.
1/5: I am grateful to have a smooth blood draw in the morning, an slow day at work, getting my Rx at Costco and to finish reading my first physical book of 2024.
1/4: I so appreciate getting a last minute appt first thing in the morning, an easy workday on the first day back from holiday shutdown since many took time off through the end of this week, 2 leftover wings and cucumber salad for lunch and oxtail for dinner.
1/3: I am thankful my company gave me this free day off to extend the holiday shutdown, inspiration after a nap to write a poem to complete my submission to the local library’s writing contest and chicken wing leftovers for dinner.
1/2: I am grateful for sleeping in, a delicious ham and shitake mushroom omelet for breakfast, working on a few blog posts for most of the day, a super healthy cucumber salad for lunch, running 5 miles in the afternoon and the best chicken wings in town for dinner.
1/1: I so appreciate meeting new neighbors, finding out one of my next door neighbors is Filipina, my boyfriend feeding me so I could spend the entire day and night getting back to my passion of writing.
Photo taken inside The Sphere
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