Thank you everyone for your lovely comments on my last post! I am all better now thanks to lots of sunshine, good food and wonderful friends (including you guys!). Because I am much too hyped up after a fantastic weekend and the excitement that warm weather and dress-wearing brings, I thought I’d write a little 'gratitude/what has been going on in my life these last few months’ list, rather than anything that requires too much concentration!
Things I am grateful for:
-warm weather! (in case I have talked about that enough...)
-tea dates with lovely people
-housewarmings and dress-up parties
-Europe in exactly three months from today!!!!
-Becoming a permanent staff writer for lip
-having a short story accepted into the annual anthology FourW (out in November, so excited!)
-my Masters course at my amazing new university
-family BBQs and that fact that they are becoming a weekly tradition
-my dog recovering from his leg surgery much faster than expected. He is now back to his happy, lovely self J
-being a bit silly with my savings and buying a Halloween costume and a one-piece 1950s swimsuit (I’m forever practical...)
-applying for a job as a Santa’s helper in the mall. Fingers crossed!
-getting into the NSW Finals of Miss Pinup Australia (it’s very silly and very cheesecake; filled with lots of petticoats, pretty dresses, and crazy hairstyles)
-The decision to save for a coffee shop with my sister and our friend (who is an accountant, which is very lucky for us!) So hopefully in less than two years we’ll have our own little business!
-exclamation marks!! (obviously!!!)
-date nights with lots of food and silly movies
-Canberra having their very first Christmas markets this December
-having tomorrow off with Joel (he’s had to work a lot of hours these last few weeks, so I am so glad to have him to myself for a whole day!)
-having five pieces of cake over four days. Impressive, yes?
Now enough about me! What wonderful things have been going on in your lives?
Comments
being santa's helper would be AWESOME!... but NOT as awesome as running your own business! there is nothing I'd love more than to run a little coffeeshop/bookstore with people I love... that's my ultimate dream! congratulations to you, and I'm glad your world is so happy!
Gratitude lists are my importante! I'm thinking I should create one of my own today!
We better see pictures if you're a pin up is all I am saying :)
have a job.
have a loving husband.
like the children I work with.
believe in something that gives me strength.
have healthy body even though I am trying to push it a lot more exercising which is something it is not used to.
and that's awesome about the cafe, i'll definite come and have a coffee when it opens :)
So many great things to be thankful for--but what I especially love about your list is that they are your own doing: they are YOUR achievements and YOUR reasons of celebration. That's a very fine--and very healthy--thing indeed! Huge congratulations to it all--to the writing, to the pin-up competition, to the positivity. And, most of all, to the health. I'm glad your better!