Weekly Gratitude

This week, I am thankful for:

• Tom Petty.  Seriously, every song is so good. Every time.
• The amazing beef tenderloin, caramelized onions, arugula, and spicy mayo sandwich that our chef made me this week.  First, it was amazing.  Second, it kept me fed for like, 2.5 days.  Yum!
• My mom.
• My teddy bear.  My oldest and most favorite stuffed animal is always down for a good cuddle.
• Facetime with my parents.  Chatting with both of them, giving tours of our houses, whistling at the dogs, etc. all while over the phone "face to face" is something that makes being so far away from them a lot easier.

Weekly Gratitude

Weekly Gratitude is back! I have so much to be thankful for, and it never hurts to articulate (slash write) what those things are. This week I am grateful for:

• New windshield wipers.  They are fantastic!  Super nice and work so well and with all the rain I have been driving in, I am so happy to have them!
• Notes from my sister.  Rikka sends me happy little letters all the time and they always brighten my day.  Plus she is hilarious and I end up laughing to myself for hours from her one liners. 
• That I have a job!  A real, big girl, I-have-business-cards-job.  The fact that this job is 2,000+ miles away from my friends and family is hard, but that doesn't mean that having said job is not a huge blessing and answer to prayer.
• The fact that I was raised in a healthy and safe environment. The amount of people I have encountered in the last few months that have serious drug addictions that are ruining lives is so sad.  I am very naive when it comes to drugs, but I am so blessed that I was raised in a place and by a family that was not dependent or corrupted by heroin, cocaine, meth, or prescription pills.
• #whatshouldwecallme.tumblr.com.  Keeps me entertained and laughing when I need a quick pick me up at work.
• My wonderful friends that call and text me every week, because they know how bad I am at keeping in touch.  Their calls, texts, and emails mean so much to me.

Hope you all had a lovely weekend!

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Weekly Gratitude

• Thank you for my AMAZING family and friends, and everyone who made my 23rd birthday wonderful (and much less painful than I expected).  It was seriously awesome, and I am so, so grateful to have so many wonderful people in my life.
• Thank you for my bff Piper for doing my hair.  She is so good at what she does.
• Thank your for my new iPhone. I am already too addicted.
• Thank you for my boss for letting me have Tuesday (my birthday!) off and for buying me a manicure!
• Thank your for creme brulee. Oh man is it delish!
• Thank you for the past 23 blessed years that I am so fortunate to call my life.

Weekly Gratitude

• Thank you for Benadryl, which is really a clutch little drug when I have my allergic reactions (the actual cause is still To Be Determined).  Those little pink pills do me wonders when I spontaneously break out in hives.
• Thank you for the Universal Athletic warehouse sale.  I got two new awesome pairs of shoes, (one being a pair of Asics that I've wanted for a while now), some cute hats, and some great work out gear, for real cheap. Heck yes.
• Thank you for my awesome car. I love it. She's nice, she never lets me down, and we've had a lot of miles together.
• Thank you for my mom, who drove to Helena with me for my job this week. Talk about selfless and kind.
• Thank you for free wing night at the Holiday Inn in Bozeman.  Seriously.  Everyone must check this out.
• Thank you for my brother and his safe trip to Turkey.  While I have yet to gather all the details, he had a great and safe time.  I'm so proud of him, and glad it was a success!
• Thank you for Sam, our intern, who is so good at all the graphic design and creative things she does, and for bringing me a white chocolate mocha yesterday.

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Weekly Gratitude

• Thank you for letting the Bozeman Hawks win state.  It was awesome. (And I feel slightly redeemed from 5 years ago when we lost...is that sad?  haha)  GO HAWKS!
• Thank you for letting Rikka survive her 21st birthday.  I can't wait to take her out this summa'!
• Thank you for my parents friends: They take me out to lunch, always engage me in their interesting conversations, and give me bigs hugs, as if I was their own daughter.  So sweet.
• Thank you for fun, random Tuesday nights out with my friends. I like feeling like I just might be in college still.
• Thank you for Saint Patrick's Day. What a wonderful holiday to celebrate being Irish and awesome.
• Thank you for my boss, and the AMAZING cupcakes she brought us on St. Patrick's Day.  Devil's food cake with Guinness and Bailey's buttercream frosting.  Seriously.  I almost died.
• Thank you for March Madness.  I love everything about college basketball: the games, the fans, the nail-biting endings, the hype, the comentator's random, silly comments.  It's madness, baby!!
• Thank you for Tumblr, Pintrest, other blogs, and all the other places to find delightful little photographs.

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Weekly Gratitude

• Thank you for my lil' baby sista, Frix, whose birthday is tomorrow.  She turns 21 and I'm sure it's gonna get crazy.
• Thank your for prep basketball for entertaining me for the last week (and this coming weekend) and getting me even more excited for March Madness.  Go Hawks!  (Bozeman Hawks this weekend and Jay hawks this month!)
• Thank you for my BFF, Piper, who was such a friend last week.  So sweet and fun and she is just the best!!
• Thank you for my lil' brother Henry, and his safe travels to Istanbul, Turkey, where he is on a little mission trip with Campus Crusade for Christ. I am so proud of him, and hope he has the time of his life!
• Thank you to La Chatelaine, a wonderful little chocolate shop here in Bozeman.  They now make french macaroons, so I could finally have experience them, instead of just drooling over all the pretty ones I see in photos.
• Thank you for this week, the first week on a new month, when all my magazines come!  Such little Happy's in the mail!

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Weekly Gratitude

This week was a long one, to say the least. However, I am glad that I have 'weekly gratitude' to remind me that there is so much in life for me to be grateful for.

• Thank you for my dad, who is incredibly patient with me, gives me great advice, and still edits my papers.
• Thank you to my mom, who makes me laugh, gives me great advice, and always comforts me no matter what.
• Thank you that I have a job. Even though it is at times stressful, I am blessed to be learning and doing what I have wanted to do since age 13.
• Thank you that I get a full day off tomorrow!
• Thank you for shellac gel manicures.  Mine has yet to chip and looks oh-so-pretty!
• Thank you for the Justin Beiber radio station on Pandora.  Dancing around to ridiculous hits made my Friday that much more fun. :)

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!!

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