5 Things I'm Grateful For

I hear more and more on the importance of gratitude and dwelling on the things that make you happy and how doing this can indeed make you happier and healthier, not to mention making you more pleasant to be around.

Lately, I haven't been doing this. I find myself worried about a variety of issues looming large and generating a lot of venom. Doesn't help. Intellectually, I know this.

So it's time to invite the energy I want by showing my appreciation for all that I have--and I do have so much.

In that spirit I present a quick list of five things I'm grateful for:

1. Firefox (gee I hope the IE police don't hear me)
2. Gooseberries
3. Candlelight dinners with hubby
4. Family
5. A good laugh via a friend


Thank you, Universe!

Yay! I Can Compose!

For over a week I've been trying to use Blogger to post to this blog as I have done many times in the past. Suddenly Blogger was no longer compatible with IE. Not in a big, dramatic obvious way... in a "we'll let you do some things but not the really important things" way. It would allow me into Html mode but not into standard Compose mode. This doesn't create a problem for some but my Html isn't even as good as my German, which is very weak indeed.

I went in search of help. What I found is that there is no one to contact directly at Blogger. You can look at Known Problems and see if one of them is yours and if there's a fix. You can post (haha! ironic, no?) to the Help Group and hope someone notices and responds. I found that my problem was far from a personal problem in the Help Group. One kind soul recommended trying access through Firefox. And here I am. Composing. Giddy with ability again.

It's nice to have an outlet for the little inanities that seem to get blocked up inside me when I can't blog. After a mere year, I grow to miss it when I'm away. Go figure. I guess we all like the sound of our own voice. Except on a tape recording, of course. :)

Ahhhhhhhhhhh.