- my husband brought me coffee in bed
- my husband always brings me coffee in bed
- I still love my husband and he still loves me
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- I had a bowl of grits for breakfast, with butter and salt
- I like the blue bowl I cook the grits in every morning
- the full moon was still high in a blue sky when I left the house
- I have a car at my disposal
- I exercised and nothing hurt
- there are probably a gazillion diseases I do not have
- when I got home from the gym there were people cleaning our gutters because my husband hired them, which means both that he thinks of such things and that we can afford such things, so this is a two-for-one
- I had 3Godiva berry cups in the house and there were 3 gutter-cleaner-guys
- the second cup of coffee was as delicious as the first
- the turtles and I are getting along swimmingly (a little joke)
- our daughter entrusted me with her turtles!
- the cat still hasn’t tried to eat the turtles, I enjoy family harmony
- a lot of friends wished me Happy Birthday on Facebook
- our older daughter is at an internship in Washington DC, a great opportunity
- our younger daughter is at college in Boston, a great opportunity
- my husband is at work
- my husband likes his work
- my husband is good at his work
- my husband is healthy
- did I mention I still love my husband?
- I have a DVD with one more episode of the Office and I can watch it whenever I want
- if I wanted to, right this minute I could make myself a piece of toast with homemade strawberry jam
- the weather is brisk and beautiful and blue today and I look out the window through the branches of a big ash tree
- the postal carrier brought me more birthday greetings
- my sermon is halfway done
- I read a review of a book in the Washington Post and ordered it for myself and the church will pay for it because it’s a book about Jesus
- I love getting free books about Jesus
- I love books
- I love Jesus
- I have work that makes me use my brain
- I have work that matters
- at any moment I could pick up the phone and call my parents
- my parents are both alive and healthy
- my parents still love each other
- I could, right this minute, get in my car and drive to the mall and buy myself something if I wanted to
- I don’t want to
- I have a card to send to my younger daughter because she turns 20 next week
- I got to raise teenagers
- but I am done with that
- the housework I did this morning was mainly unloading applicances which do the actual work: dishwasher, washing machine, Roomba. this means I can be both clean and lazy, another two-for-one
- tonight we are going out for dinner and I am thinking about ordering sushi for an appetizer and then which fish for the entree
- if I wanted to I could order a martini tonight, which means that we can afford such things and I am not an alcoholic, another two-for-one
- I had a computer problem earlier this morning, so I called my husband
- he couldn’t fix it over the phone, but he tried
- because I have this computer problem I cannot work on my sermon anymore today, I can only blog and facebook
- or I could get in my car and drive to the little patch of woods that is 2.3 miles from my house, and walk for 25 minutes and probably not see another person, even though this is highly-populated northern Virginia
- there is homemade French onion soup in the refrigerator and I will probably eat it for lunch
- Jesus is coming soon
- it would be easy to think of 52 more of these even if I tried to limit the number of food references
Thanks Marion, It was a lovely birthday.
Sorry I missed your birthday. It’s a lovely list. Have a happy year.