
So... here's my list:
- I have beautiful, amazing, miraculous children.
- My body is healthy and I have very good endurance.
- My brain is decent and certain types of intelligences come easily to me. (Ala Howard Gardner)
- My book has gotten good reviews and each good review seems to lead to another person willing to review it -- which in turn give me more good reviews.
- I have the luxury to sit around and write stuff (kids, don't use the word "stuff").
- My son charms everybody he meets and then that "everybody" turns around and admires me as his mother (as if I am somehow responsible for it -- hee hee!).
- My daughter is beautiful and speaks up for herself assertively and sometimes aggressively (a great quality in a pretty girl).
- My husband is a stand up guy and we enjoy each others company most of the time.
- I live in a society in which conveniences such as doggie diapers exist.
- I have good credit.
- I have not been arrested for anything (yet).
- I am mostly free.
- I have a nice room in which to watch TV and movies.
- I have time to watch TV and movies.
- I found a good inexpensive gym where I feel comfortable working out and it is close.
- I am learning Spanish, Medieval history, biology, accounting, self-publishing -- all of which makes my life more interesting and I figure keeps my brain clicking along better.
- My clients are on the whole some of the nicest people anyone would every want to meet.
- My husband edited my book for me, thereby waving me moola.
- My cars run.
- I have health and auto insurance and a good health and driving record.
- My son is very talented at karate.
- My daughter is very talented at singing and creating art.
- My children are enjoyable companions (when they are apart from one another).
- My son and daughter are naturally liberal when it comes to issues of race and sexual orientation.
- I may worry about money, but only as a middle class individual in a privileged society need worry about money.
- I wrote a book, and a play, and a screenplay, and another book. Granted, they may not have made me a career author, but I have completed some written works. No one can deny me that.
- I am responsible and have a right to feel proud of the job I have done as a business owner -- I am not perfect, but a perfectionist -- and my clients have benefited from that.
- I have a very open, honest, and relatively healthy relationship with my children; we can talk about nearly anything and everything.
- My children were blessed with good looks, so life is easier for them (this may be unfair, but that's our society and we all know it).
- I'm grateful -- there's the word -- I really am -- that I am not obese and that I don't have any type of deformity that might put people off (I used to have vitiligo that was quite noticeable but all of my color is gone now so people think I am just very fair-skinned).
- I can see, hear, and touch (and smell just a little).
- My hair is really good, thick hair that is very versatile; stylists love it.
- Childhood summers at the lake.
- Good friends who made (make) me feel like I am valuable.
- Technology that puts the answers to so many questions at my fingertips.
- Extroverts
- Sleep
- Good TV shows like Freaks and Geeks (even though it's old)
- Good books like Of Mice and Men (even though it's older)
- Seasons
- Pagans and hippies
- I was only slightly traumatized in my youth.