Displaced. Dysfunctional. Discombobulated.
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I haven’t had a vacation in over a year and outside of my trip to England for M’s wedding, since my parents moved to New Mexico, my vacations have primarily been trips to visit them.
Before that, I couldn’t really afford to take vacations but somehow I managed to scrounge up enough money for one out-of-town [...]
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Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
~William Arthur Ward
Today I am thankful for amusingly weird bits of overheard conversations.
Today I am thankful for not being paged after hours.
Today I am thankful for a successful (if partial) project “go live”.
Today I am thankful for Pugs that [...]
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People often talk about how stressful funerals are. They talk about how traumatic a death in the family can be. From my experience and from the stories I’ve been gathering the last few days, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not the funerals that are stressful or nor is it the death that is [...]
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
~H.L. Mencken
I am thankful for freshly bathed puppies and that special clean smell, despite the wet pillows on the sofa.
I am thankful for priceline.com’s “Name Your Own Price” option, even [...]
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I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
~Benjamin Disraeli
Today I am thankful for lazy Saturdays.
Today I am thankful for Movies on Demand.
Today I am thankful for cheap baskets from The Christmas Tree Store.
Today I am thankful for sunshine and blue skies.
Today I am thankful [...]
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
~Eric Hoffer, Reflections On The Human Condition
Today I am thankful for audiobooks on my iPod.
Today I am thankful for shopping therapy at The Christmas Tree Store.
Today I am thankful for Fish Friday, my favorite part of Lent.
Today I am thankful for [...]
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All week I’ve been avoiding my answering machine. Something just told me nothing good would come from the phone lines this week, which may be why I let two of my cordless phones’ batteries go dead far from their chargers. Every evening I came home and glanced at the harbinger of doom out of the [...]
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
~William Faulkner
I am thankful for Dunkin Donuts strawberry frosted doughnuts without sprinkles.
I am thankful for Puggy kisses when I come home from work.
I am thankful for a nice boss who loans me lunch [...]
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…. It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and [...]
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After the snow storm that hit Sunday night and into Monday morning, the snow in my yard had tripled, which was pretty impressive considering the rain last Friday had left bare grassy spots in the back yard. Needless to say, any sign of Spring has gone MIA.
Even though the pine tree branches in the [...]
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What: The discombobulated inner-monologue of a single, thirty-something, displaced Southerner in small town New England.
Where: Maine
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