Grateful for:
- Forgot the adapter for my laptop at home and the ones sold here don’t match. Reminds me awfully of the time last year when my laptop was broken. So I am embracing the use of the iPad as a complete laptop replacement, reveling in my complete inability to do any work due to technical restrictions which means I have to stick with the business owner role and not a web developer whether I like it or not. Another blessing is that general computer use that can suck me in for hours if not days on end is now severely limited, which is always a good thing. “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity” have been the case for me for years now and feeling genuinely blessed when “bad” things happen is a great way to live.
- After some research and much deliberation finding a prepaid phone plan that suits. USA is quite ridiculously backwards and restrictive in their pre paid offerings but thankfully I dragged my old android with me which saves the day. Now only to hack it and turn it into a 3G wifi router for my iDevices and I am set.
- Visiting a food wonderland of Trader Joe’s today! When I can get stuck choosing the type of dark chocolate I want to buy or the kind of wheat free sprouted grains bread I would like to try – I am indeed in heaven 🙂
- Making a raw dish for the first time in 2 months and having a overall wholesome yummy dinner. I love my food!
- Getting a compliment out in the street: “you look incredible!” – um… yeah… I know!! 🙂 Feels good to really know it.
- Getting ready for a life changing day tomorrow.
- When I wake up in the afternoon understandably there are less things to be grateful for since less things happened. I am grateful for feeling sufficiently sleepy right now to actually go to bed and be done with the jet lag. (End of day update: yeah right! That was a few hours ago and now It’s 4.30 am and i’m must now wrapping up. will set an alarm and try to combat jet lag that way)
- Getting back on Facebook and straight away feeling its insidious effects: first thing I wanted to do when I woke up is check Facebook! At least I am well aware of it now and can make conscious choices around my use of it rather than blindly following the urges. At least I haven’t installed the Facebook apps, those are staying off forever, thank you very much.
- Booked a TRAIN ride to Sedona! That should be fun, loved my last train ride across the USA so looking forward to this one. And having done 9(!) plane flights in April I am a bit over airports so a break would be nice.
- Decided to skip the pre training conference and go for the training only so will enjoy a few more days in LA in good company. Who knows, maybe I will even make it out to the street with all the actors names written in the stars on the sidewalk, do the whole “tourist” thing and take some pictures.
- Had a long overdue long Skype chat with a friend, made me shift some of my perspectives and understand a few things, it’s awesome when I can use other people’s life experiences a s a source of wisdom and not just my own, the world around makes a little more sense that way.