13/1000 Blessed and Lucky

Today seemed full of more than the usual aggravations.  Everything taking twice as long.  Feeling out of sorts.  Feeling tired.

As I reflected on how difficult this day has seemed, I had to stop and just spend some time thanking God for everything He has given to me.  Health, good friends and family, a snug place to live, a reliable car, any money worries are of my own doing.

I have two paid off work for the holiday. What a luxury!

12/1000 Techie Heaven

I had offered to purchase the monitor to use in addition to my laptop screen, but my supervisor said she would cover it.  I had gotten spoiled at my last workplace.  A second monitor makes things so much easier!

I happened to mention to the IT person that I really missed my former set-up... docking station, two full size monitors, wireless mouse.  He thought a moment and said, okay, I will do the two monitors, docking station, remote keyboard and mouse... and charge your boss just for the monitor.

He is now my favorite person.  This is just a little bit of Heaven!

11/1000 Safe From The Mice!

About 1AM I heard Roxy barking  -turned out to be the oven that was bothering her.  As I approached the kitchen, I heard the scuffle of little mice feet, and sure enough, it was coming from the oven,

Roxy was intent on getting a hold of it.  She figured out how to open the storage drawer and almost got it.  She would not be deterred from her mission, and as it was then 1:30AM, I left her to it.

This morning, the mouse was gone, but Roxy seemed perturbed, so I suspect it escaped.

But at least I knew I was safe from the mouse.

10/1000 Let It Snow

Spend most of the cuddling with Roxy and watching the snow. So peaceful.

9/1000 a Girl and Her Bicycle

I just purchased a new-to-me bike from craigslist and picked it up this morning.
The shop guys were so nice and even put my bike rack on the car for me, which is good because I had no idea how to do that!

Kindness is everywhere!

8/1000 Happy Thanksgiving!

Because I work at an awesome place, we had a Thanksgiving potluck today.  I decided to meet some new people and sat with the building services folks.

I have not laughed so hard in ages.

But the thing that was a bit surreal... when we were kids, we lived next to a railroad track on Diamond Ave.  And the "fun" thing to do, because we were IDIOTS was to try to jump on the train as it was moving.  It was all fun and games until one of my friends got his arm caught and cut off. (I was not a witness to it.) But our parents put a full stop on our fun.

One of the men at my table who grew up on the same street I did, said, Yeah, That was Joe P____!!

And I was all, YEAH!!!

Apparently Joe recovered fully and has a lovely wife and family now.

So, the story had a very happy ending.

Happy Thanksgiving!

7/1000 Triple Digits

Somewhere along the line I heard that when you see three numbers in a row, it means you are surrounded by angels.

I mean, we are always surrounded by angels, we don't need triple digits to tell us that.

But they are a very nice reminder.

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