Monday, April 14, 2014
Internet
Today I'm grateful for the internet. If it weren't for the internet, I wouldn't have a job. I wouldn't be able to communicate as easily with loved ones who are far away, like my aunt Jessi. I wouldn't be able to communicate as easily with Andy, either. I also wouldn't have found a homemade Modge-Podge recipe either, which I just used to add a cutout of Link to my light switch plate. The internet makes so many things much more convenient, for which I will always be grateful.
Sunday, April 13, 2014
New Phone
Today I am grateful for my new phone. My dad offered to add me to their family plan, and I could pick an iPhone 4, Moto X, or Droid Ultra as my phone. I picked the Moto X, because I like Android better than iPhone, plus you can customize the Moto X.
My phone has a black front, deep purple back, and silver accents. It also says Valar Morghulis on the back, a saying from Game of Thrones. My favorite thing about it is the amount of useful features it has, like touchless controls and a driving assistant that will read texts to you if the GPS detects that you're driving. Basically I love it and I'm grateful to finally have a smartphone that can satisfy my technogeek wishes.
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Ellie
Today I am grateful for Ellie. She's Andy's Chihuahua, and I've been taking care of her for about the last year. She's always so excited to see me when I come home, and she loves to cuddle me when I'm playing video games or watching TV. She loves to play with her toy lobster, which is really just a scrap of fuzzy red fabric with rope attached at this point.
She almost always wakes me up in the middle of the night to go outside, and a lot of times she doesn't want to come back in. She makes up for it by snuggling under my blankets and keeping me warm when she does come back in though. She loves cheese, and comes running if she hears the grater. She's tiny but tall, and looks like a tiny deer. I love her and I'm glad to have her in my life!
She almost always wakes me up in the middle of the night to go outside, and a lot of times she doesn't want to come back in. She makes up for it by snuggling under my blankets and keeping me warm when she does come back in though. She loves cheese, and comes running if she hears the grater. She's tiny but tall, and looks like a tiny deer. I love her and I'm glad to have her in my life!
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Gratitude
For my 13th birthday party, a friend gave me a composition notebook that said "Gratitude Journal" on the front. Inside was this message:
"This is my gratitude journal. It is a place where I record the simple details of my life. Because I am alive, I am grateful for many things, however on the grimmest of days and during the most unfortunate of circumstances, I struggle to reflect or portray a high degree of gratitude. In contrast, I know that during these low times I am grateful for something. Without a doubt, even when I am at the bottom, there are at least five things I can be grateful for. Therefore, each day, no matter how good or bad, I'm confident as a minimum I am grateful for at least five things."
It also had instructions to write down five things I was grateful for each night. If I missed a night, there was no making it up. "Go forward and focus on what you are grateful for today rather than a memory of days gone by." And I did. For nearly six years, from May of 2004 to March of 2010, I wrote down five things every night, rarely missing a night and filling four notebooks. But in March of 2010, I suddenly stopped.
Recently I was discussing this with Andy, my best friend who is serving his LDS mission in Virginia. It came up because in the LDS General Conference last week, President Uchtdorf gave a talk about gratitude, and Andy mentioned that he was working on that in particular. I remembered my gratitude journal, and said I thought I might start it up again. He replied, "Do it!" So here this is.
With this blog I'll use a slightly different format than the physical journals I kept. The old journals have just a list of five things for each day, with maybe one line of scrawled explanation. Sometimes when I go back and read them, I think "But why was I grateful for that?" So instead, I'll choose one thing each day (or as often as I remember) and write a description of why I am grateful for that particular thing.
Today, I am grateful for gratitude, and the chance to express it. Hopefully this blog will help me focus on the positive things in life, and help me get through the stresses of every day life.
"This is my gratitude journal. It is a place where I record the simple details of my life. Because I am alive, I am grateful for many things, however on the grimmest of days and during the most unfortunate of circumstances, I struggle to reflect or portray a high degree of gratitude. In contrast, I know that during these low times I am grateful for something. Without a doubt, even when I am at the bottom, there are at least five things I can be grateful for. Therefore, each day, no matter how good or bad, I'm confident as a minimum I am grateful for at least five things."
It also had instructions to write down five things I was grateful for each night. If I missed a night, there was no making it up. "Go forward and focus on what you are grateful for today rather than a memory of days gone by." And I did. For nearly six years, from May of 2004 to March of 2010, I wrote down five things every night, rarely missing a night and filling four notebooks. But in March of 2010, I suddenly stopped.
Recently I was discussing this with Andy, my best friend who is serving his LDS mission in Virginia. It came up because in the LDS General Conference last week, President Uchtdorf gave a talk about gratitude, and Andy mentioned that he was working on that in particular. I remembered my gratitude journal, and said I thought I might start it up again. He replied, "Do it!" So here this is.
With this blog I'll use a slightly different format than the physical journals I kept. The old journals have just a list of five things for each day, with maybe one line of scrawled explanation. Sometimes when I go back and read them, I think "But why was I grateful for that?" So instead, I'll choose one thing each day (or as often as I remember) and write a description of why I am grateful for that particular thing.
Today, I am grateful for gratitude, and the chance to express it. Hopefully this blog will help me focus on the positive things in life, and help me get through the stresses of every day life.
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