Getting Life Right!

Today's gratitude: That most businesses closed due to Hurricane Sandy. For the many offers from friends and family to share their home with us if needed. Candles. Bottled water. Batteries Flash Lights Puzzles. Cards. A hot shower. Battery operated radios. Fully charged tablets.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/suzee_que/ Ten things I have been grateful for this week: Pumpkin flavored coffee creamer. A roasted chicken. Fancy drink glasses. That programs that had funding costs last year have had most of those cuts restored for the upcoming program year. 70 degree weather in late October. Watching Deer. The smell of firewood burning. Admiring other's Halloween and Fall decorations and decorative yards. Cleaning out and washing down the basement walkway. My husband coming home from a week long trip. TIP: The reduction in Social Security payroll taxes is scheduled to end this year (2012). Starting in 2013 your paycheck will be a little less because you will be paying more Social Security taxes each week.

Replica of first Space Suit worn on the Moon. Ten things I have been grateful for this week : A safe ride to Hartford in the rain. Watching my coworker receive a very well deserved award. Getting invited and going to a free event at the CT Science Center. Using the brain waves machine at the Science Center (I'm way more stressed out than my daughter) :) A Smoking Berry. Breakfast Buffets. Trip to Quincy Market. Cannoli's from the Italian section in Boston. Finding my box of contacts. Recipes for chili that call for stew beef instead of ground beef .

Things to be happy about: Old photographs. White eggplant (grew well in the garden this year). Quilts. Quilted jackets. The large marsh bird I saw and still can not identify. Spicy dip. Manchengo cheese. Bridges. White squirrels. Black squirrels.

  Getting a new phone and getting to keep the old number. Dancing with a toddler. Lasagna. Having veggies chopped ahead of time to use the next day. Watching the Paper Man. Vintage Paperweights. Cut grass. Getting the last, but still more peppers from the garden. Hiking. Fall Foliage.

A day off from work. Time with my Grandson. Old family recipes. Going to a Japanese Buffet with my husband. Trip to Jone's Tree Farm. Getting our pumpkin. Finding unique gourds. Taste of Home magazine. Apple Cider donuts. Apple Cider.

JONES TREE FARM, SHELTON, CT

Attending an informative training for work Fall manicure colors The art show at the Bruce Museum  www.brucemuseum.org   Watercolors Oil paintings Painting on canvas Photography My sister who took me fast to get Benadryl when I needed some. Listening to a toddler talk to you so seriously and it all sounds like gibberish :) Mongolian Beef Not getting any water during the last very heavy rain

The start of Fall Long walks Fall premieres Apples Carmelized onions Work shirts Fleece pajama pants Hardwood floors Lysol wipes Dry Erase Boards