Tag: Gratitude Lists

Dear Internet,
Gratitudes and things that make me happy are a part of my carding coursework, and I track them everyday and I’ll post them here every Sunday. (And I also acknowledge this is going to take me a few weeks to go beyond “I have killer hair.”)
gratitude

29. Learning how to properly breathe during meditation
30. For being able to recognize the things I need to change
31. For having known my father
32. My car is in good shape
33. For falling in love with books to allow me to travel all over the world
34. My capacity to always want to fall in love with everyone and thing I meet
35. For finding out I don’t have breast cancer
36. The changing of the seasons to indicate that nothing remains the same
37. For people who are kind to me even if I’m not kind to them
38. For those who teach me about humility

happy

25. The way my skin feels after moisturizing it
26. Medium rare steak
27. The magnitude of available British television
28. Fuzzy socks
29. That moment between getting out of the shower and grabbing a towel and the temperature is just perfect
30. Fresh mani/pedis
31. Movie popcorn
32. New journals
33. Singing
34. Fleece tights

xoxo,
Lisa

This Day in Lisa-Universe: 2015, 2001, 2000

Dear Internet,
Gratitudes and things that make me happy are a part of my carding coursework, and I track them everyday and I’ll post them here every Sunday. (And I also acknowledge this is going to take me a few weeks to go beyond “I have killer hair.”)
gratitude

19. For the family I have chosen
20. For previous lovers who let me view and share in their worlds
21. For those I have met over the years who have helped shape me into the person I am today
22. For my pets who showed me what unconditional love really is
23. For Caravaggio for allowing me to not only fall in love with his work but to finally get what art history really means
24. For understanding that a million decisions brought me to this point in life
25. For crazy drugs to allow me to be healthier rather than crazy(ier)
26. For the wind through the trees to allow me to allow the gods to talk to me
27. For sticking to my guns for doing the right thing
28. Believing in the goodness of others

happy

17. An unexpected phone call from someone I love
18. Writing letters and the joy people have when they receive them
19. The smell of fresh cut grass
20. The feel of clean sheets
21. Glitter gel pens for making me smile when i write
22. Chocolate. Because chocolate.
23. Good burgers
24. Making snow angles

xoxo,
Lisa<

This Day in Lisa-Universe: 2015, 2004, 2002, 1999

Dear Internet,
Gratitudes and things that make me happy are a part of my carding coursework, and I track them everyday and I’ll post them here every Sunday. (And I also acknowledge this is going to take me a few weeks to go beyond “I have killer hair.”)
gratitude

9. I am thankful for my parents for without them there would be no me
10. I am thankful for the life I’ve been able to experience
11. I am grateful there are preventatives for my allergies so I won’t be dead
12. I am thankful for Kate, the person whom if I tell her I shot a man in Reno to watch him die, she would shoot him again to make sure he’s dead and then ask me where we’re going to bury him
13. I am thankful I can often make people laugh
14. I am grateful my body is strong and healthy to let me move the way I need it to
15. I thankful my car is paid off
16. I am grateful for my champions when I went back to college, for without them I would not excelled or want to continue with my education
17. I am grateful for Natalie who gets my Jane Austen obsession and who can really make me think
18. I am grateful I have the capacity to share all different kinds of love with all different kinds of people

happy

7. Long, near scalding, showers,
8. Long soaks in a bathtub, when I can read until my skin is pickled
9. The way my body feels after I moisturize it with coconut oil
10. That first snowfall
11. Gerbera daisies
12. When I finish my todo list for the day and everything is completed
13. The smell of just out of the oven baked goods; even more so if I have baked them myself
14. Sleeping with my teddy bear
15. The first kiss of a potential lover
16. Getting cards and letters in the mail

xoxo,
Lisa

This day in Lisa-Universe in: 2015, 2010, 2010, 2001, 1999

Dear Internet,
Something we should all be doing is showing gratitude for what we have in our lives — it’s being thankful for what one has versus what one wants. Writing down gratitudes, privately in a journal or publicly on the interwebs, is an essential part of DBT and meditation as well as being really important for borderlines. Within the last week my DBT book and my mediation guru have suggested writing down one gratitude a day and at the end of week, ending the list with a total of 10.
Gratitudes and things that make me happy are a part of my carding coursework, and I track them everyday, so this should be easy to complete every week and obviously I’ll post them here every Sunday. (And I also acknowledge this is going to take me a few weeks to go beyond “I have killer hair.”)
gratitude

1. My therapist for understanding
2. I am not physically ill
3. I have a large support network
4. I am tenacious
5. I have killer hair
6. I have a big heart
7. I try to do good things for others
8. People who have faith in me

happy

1. The smell and taste of pineapple juice
2. Trader Joe’s dark chocolate covered pretzels
3. The “Most Interesting Man in the World” commercials
4. Key & Peele shorts
5. Wearing my grey old man cardigan (I have two in separate styles)
6. Wearing my Black Phoenix Alchemy scents, especially Bliss

xoxo,
Lisa

This day in Lisa-Universe in: 2015,1999