Count your small blessings

Friday December 19, 2003 @ 01:45 PM (UTC)

Okay, I know you know your big blessings. They’re so big it’s almost exhausting to catalog them. By the time I get to “I give thanks for having most excellent, kind, funny, and intelligent parents” I start thinking of the starving Armenians and start giving thanks for food, freedom, education, not knowing how to field-strip an AK, and the list becomes truly enormous. There are a lot of scary things to be glad you are free from, and counting your true blessings makes you feel shockingly, almost unworthily, lucky.

So I’ve got the opposite! Time to give thanks for the petty things that make your day better. No deepness allowed! Shallow end of pool only! And count! One blessing, mwa ha ha, TWO blessings, mwa ha ha!

I am blessed because:
1. The mouse here at work does not have a mouse-wheel, thus saving me from reaching for it when it’s not there when at home.
2. There is snack mix in the break room.
3. I haven’t seen any newts today.
4. I have never stepped in deer droppings.
5. The picture of me in the “New Employees” section of the campus newsletter was flattering.

Your turn! Keep it inconsequential!

Comments

1 that coke comes in 120z cans, cause its just the right size, not too much and not too little.

2 I am a good cashiere, and therefore get to go under the radar when my boss gets picky.

3 Wonko’s mom got him a cat, wich means i get all the benefits of owning a cat, without actually owning the cat.

4 Wonko got spray bottles that dont go very far for when qubit get a little uppity, and hence Barry cant spray my from the couch.

5 I have lots a silly friends who like silly things, wich makes it ok that im kinda silly and like silly things.

Should i keep going? ;-)

1. There is a big fat raccoon who lives in my yard and lets me talk to him while he’s stealing the cat food on the porch.
2. No one at the nursery considers me to be not doing my job even when I spend an hour catching frogs and releasing them into the big pond. I can catch newts and snakes, too.
3. GreyStork gave me apple pie with whipped cream to eat.
4. I have a valid library card.


  1. I don’t have to set foot in the office until January.

  2. Matt and Felicity have supplied me with more blue flashing LEDs than I thought I’d ever own.

  3. I watched four movies today and loved every one of them.

  4. I have more pie than I know what to do with.

  5. If I wanted to, I could sleep all day tomorrow. And the next day, and the next day, and the next day.

  6. This is the time of year when weather happens, and I love weather.

  7. 2004 is a very pretty number which I will enjoy writing.

  8. My eyes don’t hurt.

  9. My hands don’t hurt.

  10. This is the first time I’ve touched a computer all day, and I’m about to put it away and go to sleep.


  1. I don’t have a long drive to work every day.

  2. I now know how to make at least one kind of pie that actually tastes good.

  3. Gardengirl occasionally gives me ice cream. The good stuff.

  4. I’m satisfied with the speed of my internet connection.

  5. I have a wind-up, wiggly-tailed shark that I can play with in my bath tub.

  6. My cat likes to sleep in my lap while I work.

  7. Some plants manage to survive being in my care.

  8. Wonko made something called Poseidon.

  9. For a Dane, my English has become pretty good over the years.

  10. I’m not too busy to take the time to sit here and wonder, for a little while, about small things like these that make life worthwhile.

...as I’m pissed because they treated the entire building for fleas over the weekend and I just removed a live, adult flea from my arm two minutes ago! So hopefully this will cut my angst off at the knees…

1. I have a very short commute to an office where I can watch the sun rise over the Cascades from my desk.
2. I have like 45 satsuma oranges.
3. I can parler the francais, although this rarely improves my day beyond general smugness.
4. I work with intelligent, funny people who seem to like what I dish out.
5. I type 90 wpm.
6. I own John Denver & the Muppets Christmas, and it makes me just as happy as it did when I was six.
7. The excel formula CONCATENATE, strawberry Nerds, and Asics Gel-MC Plus for my feeble feet
8. My friend Kate at work brings chocolate.
9. Water from the Brita pitcher tastes simply delicious.
10. I do not have a TV on the main level of my house.

No! Don’t keep going! 5 was starting to get important and consequential! :p

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