Today I Am Grateful For.....

Today I am grateful for the first tiny bud on the virginia creeper that I bought last winter. (I had been a bit worried that it showed no signs of life). The thought of having a spread of these delightful leaves gracing my garden thrills me. I have often admired them and wanted to paint them....now I have them, I can do that more easily.

 

Today I am grateful for....having a creative mind. I managed to use up leftovers in a delicious way.

Yesterday I "made" a black forest gateau - I layered a (reduced priced) bought chocolate sponge, with some whipped cream and morello cherry compote. However, I still had some leftover whipped cream today and the morello cherry compote needed to be used up....hmm, what to do? I espied some chocolate cookies and hit on the idea to make black forest ice cream!

 

Today I am grateful for second - and third - chances!

 

Today I am grateful for those that "get" me and support me in the face of targeted adversary.

 

Today I was grateful for a left over Lemon Possett that one of our guests declined yesterday.
nom nom, oink oink,
Jenny

 

Today I am grateful for the new online friend, Rod, who befriended me (from a cookery forum). The timing is just perfect...coming as it does when I am having to deal with my mother's slow demise - seeing her fade before my eyes. I used to be a singer/songwriter and my songs are on cassettes. Rod is a professional scriptwriter but has other talents, i.e. the ability for me to digitalise my songs. This is like bringing to life a part of me that was vibrant (and somewhat talented) so it will really soften the impact of what will inevitably be imminent and allow more friends to hear my music.

 

Today I am grateful for the tenant above coming to my aid. As mentioned in a previous post above (#112), I am in the process of digitalising my songs. I hadn't used my cassette recorder for years and...yes, you've guessed it - it wouldn't play! My initial excitement quickly changed to one of deflation.

Cassette recorders are hard to find/buy these days. I was beginning to despair. Anyway, I thought I would just ask the tenant above me (long shot...didn't know she had one) and there it was - left for me by my door!

 

So on friday i attempted to have a bath and can now report that for the first time in fours years i managed to have a bath without it making me lactose intolerant for a few days and i have no post exertional malaise from it

So my body altho it doesnt feel like it at the mo must have improved again

I would normally celebrate with my ME friends but they are all so sick right now it wouldn't be fair. One is having key hole surgery this morning after being taken to hospital last night to try and find out whats wrong as she was having severe abdominal pains. They think an infection but dont know where it is or what type so need to have a look around. ME complicates things the doctors guessed i had a kidney infection but did say we know you have an infection and your on sepsis watch but were not really sure where it is in your body but we think its the kidneys lol hoping the surgery gets her some answers because it will take a massive toll on her already weak body.

Its very very hard watching lovely people suffer so much and makes me even more grateful for the doc at the walk in centre who said to me after 2/3 weeks of the start if the illness you have post viral fatigue do nothing except 15 mins of light exercise for 3 months. He really saved me from being a hell if a lot worse and im so grateful.

 

I'm glad that after having passed out at work, fell and hit her head on the concrete, spent 6 hours in the hospital having x-rays and cat scans, that nothing was broken.

 

Wow...must have been an ordeal, but you know what they say about cats and their 9 lives.

 

I absolutely love my GP he is so amazing and so helpful and so open with me

Just had a really productive doctors appointments im being sent for a scan for one thing and to a clinic for something else and I bought up wanting to be sterilised and he was so positive. He said it will be difficult as I'm 27 but suggested what i could have done and also talked about hysterectomy and other options and was really positive about it and wrote it all down in my file and gave me leaflets to read. I was expecting a complete no tbh and instead he was really open to the idea im so amazed and so grateful to have someone who is understanding and helpful and believes in the illness i have

 

Today I am grateful that I can at last talk about the 2 dogs I have lost without 'filling up'

 

Today I am grateful for someone reassuring me that I got it wrong. Sometimes it's easy to think old patterns are being played out again...I was relieved to realise I misread the situation - this person really values me.