Gratitude List

I've been slacking on my daily gratitude list.  Losing 30 hours of free time per week has been cutting into my posting time. 

1.  I'm grateful for my dogs, for my specific two companions.  They are wonderful.  I was watching them this morning on the porch while I drank my coffee and they ate their breakfasts, and I realized they are perfect for me.  I've had this realization before, but it came back this morning.

2.  I'm grateful for work, even if it does cut into my free time.  It's good to be productive. 

3.  I'm grateful to be flexible.  I work with mostly younger people (not that I'm really old, but I'm older than most of my co-workers) and they are so convinced of their rightness.  I'm glad I don't always have to be right anymore.  I still like to be right, but I'm o.k. with being wrong.

4.  I'm grateful for my fall classes. 

5.  I'm grateful for having the motivation to do well in school.  I was thinking yesterday of the first time I went to college, right after high school, and I was such a slacker.  I try not to kick myself for squandering the opportunities I had, but I still do sometimes.  I can only take advantage of what I have today, and be grateful.  Not everyone has a parent willing to help out an adult child.