Laundry, Lizards and Life; A Little Gaming, Too.

My Daily Gratitudes: 07/20/2013

I'm grateful for the time off I had today. I used it to catch up on my backlog of laundry and some much needed house cleaning.

I'm grateful for the fact that Netflix recommended Life in Cold Blood to me. I watched a lot of it while doing laundry. I'm glad to have been exposed to so much information. Watching lizards gives me so many insights about my own life. Very interesting.

I'm grateful for my life and that I'm not some other animal's dinner.

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Positive Events from the Past 24 Hours:

My son accused his sister of deleting a character profile on a video game where he spent a lot of time building his character. My daughter felt sure she hadn't done it and if she had, it was only an honest mistake.

I was tempted to have her profile deleted so she could know how it feels, but then, I thought better of it. Maybe my son was in the wrong instead.

Sure enough, we double-checked. His profile was there all along-- he just overlooked it at first.

I'm really glad I didn't over react. That would have been so unfair to my daughter.
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Doctor Visits, Work, and Cold Blooded Animals

My Daily Gratitudes: 07/19/2013

I'm grateful that my job will let me run my children to the doctor with little notice and no fuss.

I'm grateful that the reason for taking my son to the doctor turned out to NOT be serious like we thought before taking him.

I'm grateful that my daughter is finally starting to enjoy riding her bike. She had some trouble learning, but now she's starting to really like it. We're still a bit shaky, though.

I'm also grateful that my wife's doctor's visit didn't turn up anything too serious as well.

I'm grateful that I got a lot of work done this week.

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Positive Event from the last 24 hours:

I popped in a DVD of a documentary series titled Life in Cold Blood. Very cool. Even cooler-- I looked up and the whole family was transfixed at one point. Each one wandered over and started watching. It was neat to share in the amazement of what reptiles and amphibians can do and how they live so differently simply because their blood is controlled by their environment and not internally.


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If you haven't already done so, I invite you to read my main title post in order to better understand the purpose behind this blog. In that post, you'll find links to three TED Talks that could really impact your life in a positive way.