Daily Dose

Hmmm. Who came up with this question about gratitude? Definitely was not me. It’s not my style, obviously. I mean I can write about gratitude and I could even do it seriously but… I look at Mata’s post and I’m thinking anything I saw will fall a little flat. Mata’s post, it’s too much for me. (She’s like that on the phone too, by the way. Seriously. All real and spiritual and thankful and honest, that’s who she is and guess what… I’m grateful for that! Totally. I need people like Mata in my world.)

Anyway, back to my own gratitudal post. Is gratitudal a word? WordPress doesn’t seem to think so, but it doesn’t think wordpress is a word either, which always amuses me. I am easily amused, which I’m grateful for. It doesn’t take much to amuse me, or TW, or the kids. I like it when amusement comes easily. Working at amusing someone else, or myself, seems wrong. I’ve done that, tried too hard to amuse, and I’m grateful that I’ve learned my lesson and won’t be doing that again any time soon – or ever. (And no, it isn’t a word but an awful lot of people online seem to use it – maybe it should be added to the dictionary next year?)

Errr, I keep getting distracted from gratitude, don’t I? The obvious friends, family, health, etc… very obvious but I do realize that some people aren’t nearly as lucky as I am. I’m grateful, I swear. Even when some of those people drive me nuts (and they often do) or someone around here isn’t quite as healthy as we might like or someone else THINKS he/she is not as healthy as he/she might like (which also drives me nuts), I’m grateful. Yes, grateful for hypochondriac, drama kings and queens – definitely.

I could talk about BlogHer but that would be bragging and really long and far to marshmallowy and I really don’t do marshmallowy, long, braggy posts. Just trust me – gratitude, serious gratitude, goes out to BlogHer – the site, The FOUNDERS! (ha, got that exclamation point in didn’t I?), (and the FOUNDERS! mothers), the editors, the readers, the bloggers, the commenters, the advertisers, the conference attendees (and Kristy)… Also, sometimes I’m even grateful for the BlogHer spammers. Seriously. Some of them are quite inventive and amusing (see that paragraph up there where I’m easily amused.) That gratitude goes out every single day because at some moment every single day, it never fails, something reminds me of my old life, my old job, my old world and… Amazing. Awesome. Grateful.

Life is good.

Now, anyone up for a list of things we ARE NOT grateful for? Or is that totally wrong?