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DianaK

Appreciations…Starting year 5

This year I will continue to notice appreciations, but I might not post every day. I’m happy to report that my neural pathways for appreciating and gratitude are firmly established. Yay! It’s been incredibly helpful this year! Depression and anxiety from the heart trauma this past spring have tried very hard to trick me into a different, more negative way of looking at life, but my sweet little brain always nudges me back toward happiness eventually. 🙂

Here’s the start of Year 5…

1. Farmer’s market produce – yummy! Plus, the fun of seeing new friends from Friday group at the market. Turns out they only live 2 blocks from me!

2. Fun cars seen in my neighborhood!
cool car

3. Another gorgeous night for a walk. I love these cooler night temperatures!

IMG_48194. Luna, who is taking full advantage of the chaos up here as we work to incorporate 2 stories worth of stuff into the upstairs. 😉

5. Amazingly beautiful weather. Walks at this time of year are the best!!

DianaK

Appreciations 4.260 – location, locomotion, alphabet

One of the things I love about my walks through the neighborhood is the fantastic variety of houses nestled together on every block.We have everything from 1950’s ramblers to 1920’s bungalows, stucco and brick houses, homes with brand new siding, fancy doors and funky rainbow colored doors, porches, patios, and front stoops, fences and trellises and stone retaining walls. The profusion of styles and colors and personalities never fails to delight me. ❤

More walking! After getting out of the hospital, I lowered my steps goal to 3,000/day – and some days I didn’t even reach that goal. This week, since my amazing session with Lynn, I’ve had increased energy and now my step goal is 6,000/day — which I’ve met every day since then (including one 12,000+ and one 9,000+ day!). It’s nice to feel like I can do things again. 😀

Alphabetized appreciations, balloons, cousins, daffodils, energy, friends and family, giggles, honey, imagination, jaguars, kaleidoscopes, learning, mustard, North Shore, opals, perfume, quality time, ripples, stars, trompe l’oeil, umbrellas, velvet, waterfalls, xylophones, yarns, zippers.

DianaK

Appreciations Year Three: Day 360

Fun evening with Danny – dinner and ComedySportz All-Star show! ❤

Improvisor field trip to Jim’s Apple Farm today – my first time. Um, wow, that is a lot of candy in one place! Thanks for suggesting it, Bryan! I bought coffee soda…flavor report to follow soon… 😉

Fun Haha Ladies gathering today – what amazing women!

library yarn bombAwesome yarn bomb at the library. Fun!

DianaK

Appreciations Year Three: Day 247

The Minneapolis night skyline. I never get tired of it.

children's hospital 2The color of the Children’s Hospital. I think of how much I appreciate that every time I pass it but never remember to add to my appreciations on the same day. 😉

Looking out my kitchen window at trees leafing out and the lit up stained glass window of the church just beyond them.

My kids. I really like them.

Pam for a gazillion reasons. So happy she’s making friends with Silli and is into the next phase of her spa adventure. ❤

All kinds of rocks, learning more stuff each time I build a new website, tools, tulle, paint, zippers, zip-zap-zop, hot water for tea and coffee, tea and coffee, blankets, sleep, photographs.

DianaK

Year 1, Day 66: festivals, cool stuff, almost-cheese-like-substance

I appreciate:

  1. Living in a city that has a Fringe Festival, an Improv Festival AND the Twin Cities Horror Festival! Thank you, Minneapolis.
  2. Looking forward to seeing Bump in the Night and Ghost Force. Thank you, Erin Sheppard, for doing cool stuff – and letting me know about it!
  3. Daiya dairy-free, soy-free cheese. I know you’re not real cheese, but you are a pretty nice imitation. 😛