Tiny Goals #Itsthelittlethings #grateful

Tiny goals achieved & some gratitudes for today:
  1. I just exercised for the first time in at least 2 weeks. 
  2. I did NOT eat half a box of cereal today.
  3. I did not eat ANY cereal today (first time in about a month).
  4. One month past, and I am still here! 
  5. I hit my step goal today.
  6. I stayed in pajamas all day. All. Day. Long.
  7. Meals for the week are planned. 
  8. Main course meats for the week are bought.
  9. I cooked a roast. It tastes pretty good (thank you, Francesca)
  10. Almost 9 hours of sleep last night!
  11. I heard myself complaining today, and realized I've been complaining like that a lot. Now I can stop.
  12. My UAE bank account has money in it!
  13. I mastered the roughly 17 thousand steps to logon to my UAE bank account. It only took an hour.
  14. I had coffee with a friend.
  15. I am going to be in bed tonight by 9:15.
  16. My house in Boise is rented! Officially!
  17. My hair is not falling out.
  18. I get to end the night with some college football.
  19. I washed my sheets today. Better make bedtime 9:30.
  20. I made my first local delivery purchase today———a hand mixer and a slow cooker.
The blessing my grandfather Poppee used to say at dinner time comes to mind: Lord, make us thankful for these and all our blessings. We ask in Christ's name, Amen.

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