Gratitude Day 37

I'm grateful for my Great Aunt Joyce's caramel recipe. I don't make them quite as well as she does, but I'm getting closer every year. And they oh so tasty!

And now you all wish you were eating them too...


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Gratitude Day 36

Today, I'm grateful for all those people who listen to me whine about my not-really-as-bad-as-I-think life. I have some awesome friends who know what to say to me and how to kindly kick my butt and give me perspective. I'm super lucky!

Thanks to my friends for tolerating my insanity.


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Gratitude Day 35

Last night I had call backs for Drowsy Chaperone. It's been a while since I've done a call back with singing and dancing. It was rough. I came home feeling really frustrated. Frustrated with myself for not doing better. And I spent most of the rest of the evening really sad(truth be told, I spent most of today sad too).

I was really struggling to find something to be grateful for. Soooo...here it is:

I'm grateful I was called back at all. I don't know how casting will go, they won't cast until Saturday. But at least I was called back.


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Gratitude Day 34

Sunday was an interesting day. I woke up and was just preparing myself to get out of bed and get ready for church, when my dad came down and told me church was cancelled so we could all help with clean up from Thursday's storm.

It was a very unique experience and I'm grateful I got to be part of it. It was amazing to see everyone come together to clean up yards, load up tree pieces and drive out to the city dump. The city opened it Sunday just so the clean up could get taken care of. The line to the dump was crazy! I couldn't believe how many trees were downed in the storm!

It was so surreal. I'd never been part of a "disaster" clean up before. How amazing it was to see a community pull together!


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Gratitude Day 33

On Saturday, I was grateful for Saturdays.

I just really needed a great weekend.(It was, by the way...one of the best in a loooong time)

I auditioned for Drowsy Chaperone. I Searched in vain for a Christmas present. I went with friends to see Christmas Carol at Centerpoint (also grateful for free tickets). And had a tasty dinner with said friends and an evening of fun, games and general merriment.

It was a perfect Saturday, and I'm so grateful!


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Gratitude Day 32

I'm grateful for email.  Sometimes I  just don't want to call people on the phone.  Sometimes it's just easier to send an email.  Plus, when you get email that isn't junk,  it makes you really excited!  Almost as excited as when I get ACTUAL mail that isn't junk.

Gratitude Day 31

Remember when I said I was going to keep being grateful until approximately the end of January? No?  Read about it HERE.

We had a really awful wind storm yesterday.  Fortunately, the house and everyone in it came out relatively unscathed.  However, I had to go to the University of Utah to play the piano.  It was already quite cold and the wind made it colder...and very treacherous. 

So...I am very grateful for my wool peacoat.  I love it so much for so many reasons.  But it especially protected me from the elements yesterday.  And I'm grateful for blankets and sweats and muppet socks.  Our power didn't come back on until midnight.  That  meant a lot of bundling.  We weren't sure when it was coming back on, so we had to be prepared for Human Popsicle scenario.

So grateful for the people who worked so hard to restore power!  So grateful for the heat that I usually enjoy!  So grateful the giant pine tree in our yard didn't fall!