{Thankful Thursday Link-up #3} #30daysofthanks

I’ve surprisingly kept up with this challenge.  Surprising because I keep almost forgetting about it…which kind of defeats the purpose of meditating all day on the thing I’m thankful for…but I think focusing on the good at all is a step in the right direction!  Getting my natural cynicism to turn around to optimism is good for my soul!

If you are new to this challenge..it’s never too late!  Check out what it’s all about here and show your thanks via Twitter-tweet to @SemiHealthNut and use the hashtag #30daysofthanks, Semi-Healthy Blog Facebook page, this blog, link-up below, or even e-mail me at semihealthnut AT yahoo to share what you are thankful for. 

I really, truly love hearing from you all!  When you share what you are thankful for, I usually realize that I have that to be thankful for too!

Check out my other posts this month on the subject of thanks:
How to Counter-Act Negativity: 30 Days of Thanks Challenge
{Thankful Thursday Link-Up} 
{Thankful Thursday Link-Up #2}

Day 16: Thankful for hot showers.  I shower quite a bit in the school showers now, so this day I was feeling pretty awesome about the nice hot shower at home.  I was also thinking about how not everyone has this luxury.

Day 17: Thankful for my smartphone.

I use this for everything!  Including keeping active.

What else would I do when I get bored in class?  I also depend on it daily for my planning, my calendar and main source of communication to dear Dave (the BF) who works out of town.

Day 18: Thankful for clean laundry.
Doing laundry has always been a comfort to me.  Seriously, who doesn’t love the warm feeling and dryer fresh smell of clean clothes?  It’s a simple task that makes me feel accomplished and happy when I’ve finished it.  And when I actually put all of the clothes away on the same day as they’ve been washed and dried…I feel like a rockstar who’s getting things done.  (On my crazy weeks they sit in a laundry basket and I get clean clothes out of it.)

Day 19: Thankful for my sweet friend Emily.

I met this gal when I was in Quixtar (now known as Amway) and although we didn’t spend a lot of time together “in the business,” we connected after we both “got out” and have been friends ever since.  We both met our guys around the same time and although she is married and is on her second babe now and I…am in school and still dating my guy Dave…I still feel like we can relate on a lot of things.  (This is my friend who is giving away an apron to one lucky reader this month!  Check it out!)

Day 20: Thankful for time off and a lazy day!

Tuesday was amazing.  I slept in, ate my breakfast very slowly and was a serious vegetable all morning long.  It seriously felt delicious.  I wasn’t planning on doing a single thing that day and it felt like my mind and body NEEDED that.  I did end up doing a couple of cleaning projects, but not because they were on a to-do list, but because I saw that they needed to get done and I had nothing else planned to do so I could actually DO them.  Blissful day indeed!

Day 21: Thankful for my sisters!

I got to spend most of Wednesday with both of them and it was so much fun.  My sister Courtney is pregnant with my first nephew and she’s due in a few short weeks…so weird but so exciting!  My sister Rachel is just a goofball and I love hanging out with her.  We do things like practice our slow motion running and quote Elf.  Good times.

Hope you all have a lovely Thanksgiving and are able to focus on 
the good, not the bad.  
What you have, not what you want.  
What you are thankful for.  
God is good!
Much love to you all!

If you are linking up, please remember to link back here!  And I’d love it if you use my graphic above for the 30 Days of Thanks Challenge! 🙂