Oops! and Thanks, Dani!

Ok - so I wanted to present my newest knitted project to you but after taking a few pictures, I dropped my camera.  Not good...I think it fell on the lens so now the camera tries to extend or retract the lens and it just makes noise. Darn!

However, because I wanted to take better pictures of items I want to sell somewhere, either here or online or locally, I had ordered a new camera last week.  Whew!  I tracked my order today and it should arrive on Friday.  I know I can download the pictures from my camera card but it wants to unload 274 pictures before it gets to my newest ones.  Ya -I know there is a way to get around that but I'm a quilter, embroiderer, knitter person...so its like trying to think with another part of my brain and today I have a head cold and that ain't going to happen.

Nope - no - nada - I'm not getting the camera manual out and perusing. I still haven't read my phone manual and its time to order a new one (I've had it for two years.) My laptop manual is also in that pile of manuals to read when I get a few minutes, hours, or days. I could call someone but I don't wanna.



So someone said that waiting is a virtue and wait you will have to until I get my new pink camera and read enough of the manual to get my pictures off my old picture card. It's the new year so it will be one of your new resolutions...waiting patiently. Me too.


Thank you, Dani, for mentioning me in your post and honoring me with the Honest Scrap award. It is a nice award and I will pick and pass it on to 5 others also. This is my first award from a nice fellow blogger. Click on the blue Dani and follow her blog too (Fading Margins)...she's a young, smart, hip, nice person!

I would paste this award on my page but that would take another 4 hours of reading the blog manual and it is really impossible today.

Stay healthy (sneeze!) and warm and have a great 2011!

Bonnie

Gratitude Attitude

Today my life is like sitting in a warm tub of water - that all over good feeling before the water turns cool.  All is good and no conflicts. 

It's easy to be grateful when all the planets are aligned and the stars are shining bright.  It's those other days when its more difficult to appreciate my place in the universe.

I've read a couple of articles recently about how healthy it is to be actually, naturally grateful each day.   In looking for another challenge, I've decided to try my hand at this way of thinking.  One of the ways to cultivate and express this new way of thinking is to create a Grateful Journal.  Each day I will record and reflect on small and/or huge things I'm thankful for in my life.  Then on the days that I'm not feeling so good and grateful, I will have some recorded reminders to remind me.

I've heard of Thankful Jars.  Little strips of paper fill a decorated jar, daily a strip is removed, you write down something you are grateful for, and put it back into the jar. At some point you can record these little strips of paper or just take them out, read and review your thankful thoughts. 

An Affirmation Jar is filled with simple sayings like "You are the best listener" or "You have the greatest smile".  Each day a strip is drawn out, read and you begin your day on a positive note.  I see these as great gifts that are achieving multiple things - recycling a jar, an inexpensive gift and so thoughtful! 

I'm off to make a couple of these Grateful ideas! 

Today I'm grateful for having a place to express my thoughts. 

Have a very Happy Thanksgiving Day!

Take care,
Bonnie