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Looking through an alternate lens of depression, this blog includes trying to get through depression using the refined art of gratitude and gratefulness. It also includes skills I've learned and how I'm trying to apply them (please note the keyword of "tr
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Fifteen Years Ago Today
This picture is my favorite picture of my daughter and I together. I am posting this picture because fifteen years ago today my daughter was born. She was born at 3:12am at 8 pounds, 12 ounces and 21 ...
The Picture is NOT What You Think!
Tonight was a great dinner filled with fabulous food and incredible conversations with sweet people. The talk centered around art, art, art while our taste buds focused on stuffed grape leaves (as pic...
Gratitude in the Highest
Today is Christmas Eve and I would like to dedicate this post to all of the wonderfully caring people who have read this blog for the short time it has existed and who have given me so much encouragem...
The Blanket Has Lifted
It's a Saturday night and I'm laying in bed with a nice cup of hot Yorkshire tea with a little milk and sugar stirred in and eating a small cookie (or biscuit as they say in the UK) from France. While...
One Suitcase From My Emotional Baggage Is Gone
I had a very nice day yesterday. I finished my homework Saturday and didn't have to hurry up and get it done yesterday, which was nice. My daughter's grandparents flew in from Spain and she stayed the...
My Dad Loves Spam
My Dad LOVES to forward e-mail to everyone on his list. Sometimes I open my e-mail account and find 10 or 12 e-mails forwarded from him and that is in only ONE day. The next day can be the same amount...
Doing Something is Better than Doing Nothing
I didn't go to work today. Thank God it wasn't depression that kept me in bed. I am soooo grateful for that. I didn't go because I am damn tired. I think I've been doing too much. The last two days I'...
Back to School
Did I mention that I am a college student? I attend Strayer University and hope that by the time I'm 94 I'll be able to wheel myself across the stage to receive my degree. Strayer operates in quarters...
Best Thing for Contacts
Do you wear contacts? I do and have since I was 16. I was that kid back in the early 80's (I was 10 in 1981) with the big glasses and plastic, transparent, light purple frames. I remember trying on gl...
Monologues and Extreme Fatigue
I worked late tonight to make overtime pay and I plan to do that again tomorrow and Friday night and Saturday. I hope that I can get through it.When I got home late my husband and I discussed our fina...
Gratitude and Gratefulness
Wow, I just realized today that I wrote the following concerning what my blog would be about. I stated:"Looking through an alternate lens of depression, this blog includes trying to get through depres...