Sunday Gratitude – 7.VII.2024

It’s been a weird week; things that were frustrations last week are seeming to work out one way or another, but I’m definitely feeling the stress still.

I am grateful that even though I only managed to purchase the new washing machine on Monday (which involved a trip to the store), I was able to get the machine the same day. Because of the holiday, I believe, the next time their people would have been able to come around to my neck of the woods was this coming Monday, and faced with the decision of having to do a lot of last minute cleaning to clear out the space for washing machines to be switched out and in or going another week without doing laundry, the former won. It was a lot of work – among other things, the pieces to the bed that I need to put together were sitting in the way – but it was worth it.

Somebody also left out a vanity dresser at the end of the block and I suggested that older daughter might like that instead of the dresser sitting in the garage, needing to be refinished. This one has some cosmetic damage to the top – which Con-tact paper will easily cover – but all the drawers work correctly and such. Older daughter said that she’d like it, and I’m thankful to have been able to haul it over with a dolly without damaging it. I’m thankful, too, that although something pulled apart a bit, I was able to figure out what happened and fix the issue, rather than there have been actual damage to the thing.

I’m grateful to have been able to get a little time with the neighbor family who moved away, even though it was just a tiny, tiny sliver of time.

I’m grateful for something that got all five kids out at the same time, together. I’m grateful that we actually “did something” for Independence Day.

I am grateful to have heard from a very old and dear friend, even if the “news” isn’t necessarily good. I am grateful for a priest who goes above and beyond when I ask of his prayers.

I am grateful that as much as it’s been hard to find time to work on the one project, it’s been going pretty well.

I haven’t attempted to repair my computer screen yet, but I am grateful that I have a way to “split” my monitor between my laptop and my desktop, and that this solution, first having been quite problematic, could be solved with an extra cable that, serendipitously, just happened to be hanging out in the middle of the basement, since it hadn’t been the right solution for a different issue.

Despite all of this, I’m not in the greatest state of mind at the moment. I don’t suppose that there’s much a couple of weeks of sleep wouldn’t do wonders for, but getting adequate sleep isn’t really in the cards for awhile, I suppose.

I am grateful, as always for you. Thank you so much!

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