The bottom two items feature food and weight loss so please skip those if not your thing!

Today I’m feeling thankful that:

  • Steven is so hands on and able to fix almost anything and willing to do it. Something broke in our washer yesterday and he took it apart last night to figure out what piece to order to fix it (and we cleaned it a bit). The new part should arrive today and fingers crossed replacing it and putting it back together is all it takes! (Part of the reason I’m so appreciative of this is that I’m not this way AT ALL – I don’t have an engineering brain and hate figuring things out and doing research and love that I married someone who does.

  • We’ve had such a lovely spring this year. Actual cool mornings and tolerable temps throughout the day. What a joy! Usually we only get a week or so like this but I feel like it was longer this year.

  • I can use AI for photo editing and writing. I was going to crop the photo above to get a straight horizon line, then realized I could use AI to fill in the cropped corners. You can tell if you look closely! I love that it saves me time.
  • We’re getting some much needed rain.
  • I’m able to work from home and see the cats looking all cute.

  • I’m able to run. It’s such a joyful way to start my day.
  • I was able to paint a bunch this weekend. I’m doing a great job from releasing myself from feeling like I need to post new art each day on Instagram, but it does feel good to have a stockpile of images to post when I do want to. (I used to post new art every day and often a reel each day too. 14+ posts a week. Now I post once a day, art 5 days a week, and a reel 2 days a week.)
  • My snis told me to try this Bubbl’r flavor – it may be my new fave!

  • This ice cream flavor – Lights! Caramel! Action! – exists. It has graham cracker, salted caramel, and cookie dough. It reminds me of what I would order at Cold Stone Creamery when I was vegetarian – cake batter ice cream with peanut butter and graham cracker. Okay, not the same but so so good. So good that I will not be buying it again soon because I don’t have a lot of self control with ice cream.

  • For my weight loss being more visible to me now. I wasn’t seeing it before. (April 2022 vs June 2023 below)