I am thinking about writing about some small thing I am thankful for everyday just to help raise my spirits and keep them raised. Lord knows I have a lot to be thankful for but I have this damn low-grade depression doggin’ me. It is always there no matter how good of a day I am having (God forbid it is a bad day ooooh that damn depression just overwhelms then, ugh!) or how much I accomplish. I am always thankful for my husband, my family and friends – those are the big things (for lack of a better expression) I am thankful for, that sort of goes without saying. Mostly I am going to touch on the small things that often go unnoticed.
Like yesterday I was thankful for a great cheap spaghetti sauce, LOL. Over a year ago now a classmate and I had to do a video project for spanish. We decided to spoof a cooking show and made a weird kind of pizza. My classmate stopped at a dollar store on the way to my house and picked up some ingredients – one item was a big dollar can of spaghetti sauce with mushrooms. We didn’t end up using it and she left it at my house. I decided to use it because I felt bad about just wasting such a big can although spaghetti sauce with mushrooms didn’t really appeal to me…or so I thought. I added the sauce to some seasoned ground beef and the spaghetti sauce turned out to be delicious – my husband and I both liked it. I hightailed to that dollar store and bought some more cans and I have been buying it ever since. I have not been able to find that sauce anywhere else, though it is a name brand. The last few times I went to the store supplies were getting low. My husband and I went yesterday to see if we could get some more, fingers crossed, and thankfully the shelves have been replenished!! I was/am so happy.
Let me see, what am I thankful for today? I am thankful I found a great dress that actually fits me well to wear to dinner at the Grand Hotel (Mackinac Island, Michigan) on Saturday (and perhaps to a June wedding). I am also thankful I get to go shopping today to try to find some shoes to complete the outfit. I will be even more thankful if I find the perfect shoes =)
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Yay! I did find some shoes though they are not really what I had in mind. They will do, I am thankful. I also found a necklace I really wanted (it would be almost perfect with my dress) but it was almost $200. As beautiful as it was it was only gold over silver and it had a lab-created gem – I am thankful I was able to walk away, LOL. My husband and I had a good day shopping.
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