Thankful Week Day 7: My Computer

This is my last post for this week of thankfulness...and I felt like it was only appropriate to talk about how thankful I am for the device that makes this blog possible. I am regularly on my computer.  I am very often seen with this computer on my lap---I am often checking things, writing things, or reading things.  I could not do this without my computer.

My computer tells me what is going on in people's lives, the upcoming weather report, and the latest news.  Through my computer I can watch TV shows and funny YouTube clips.  I can play games and talk with friends.  I can research new things to buy and new things to learn.  I can shop and buy presents.  I can mess with pictures. I find new knitting patterns and pin things to my Pinterest boards.

Bottom line--I love my computer and I am SO grateful that I have it!

This looks exactly like my laptop :)
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Thankful Week Day 6: Music

Music holds the glue of life together.  Without music, I would be a completely different person.  I have had the benefit of being able to sing in addition with playing the piano and the violin.  I went through elementary, middle, and high school participating in a lot of different musical adventures.  I sang in a choir all four years of high school....we sang everything from Silent Night to America the Beautiful. And then I played violin all four years--everything from Pirates of the Caribbean to West Side Story to New World Symphony.

As I went through high school--music on the radio was a central part of my life.  As social network became a bigger deal--Pandora became an essential part of all college studying days.  It has also become a central part of my grading routine now.

I am excited to now spend the next week singing my heart out as I prepare to participation in the Uintah Basin Orchestra and Chorus concert.  If you live in the Basin--please come see us and support us!!! This is our inaugural concert and I hope that you will be as blown away as I am!!

Buy tickets here!

Thankful Week Day 5: Thanksgiving

Today I am actually grateful for the holiday that this week is in charge of. This is one of my favorite holidays, because it is a great time to spend time together as a family.  It also starts off the holiday season officially--despite what the commercial world tries to do.  It is a great time to reflect on what we are thankful for.  It also has great food!

The best food at Thanksgiving? Pickles, pies, and mashed potatoes.

The best time at Thanksgiving? Spending time with family

The best moments of the day?

1. Working on family history--I have now picked a project of someone to find--and I'm excited!
2. Watching Avi and Evan see Santa
3. Evan spending most of the day in his Spiderman cape that we got him :)
4. Helping with the mashed potatoes 
5. Looking to see if my vacuum that I want to buy is on any Black Friday deals yet.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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November=Gratitude

This season of Thanksgiving is often forgotten inbetween Halloween and Christmas....but I like this holiday WAY more than Halloween.  It is a great time of year as we start to get excited for Christmas, snow, spending time with family, etc.  A lot of people talk about what they are thankful for during this time of year as well.  I thought that to start off this month I would put up a couple of quotes that really speak to me about gratitude.

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Thankful For

So today is another day that I don't know what to write about...so I googled: "blog post ideas"  I came upon a website that lists a bunch of random blog post ideas.  Yep, I'm that desperate today.  It was a very long day...so this is a quick one.  It suggested that I write about what I'm thankful for.  Today of all days that seemed actually very wise.  So in no particular order, the 5 things that I am thankful for today. And I just did the first five things that came to me too...

http://community.focusonthefamily.com/b/jim-daly/archive/2012/11/20/ten-things-i-39-m-thankful-for.aspx

1. My husband, he is my best friend and even though he drives me crazy, I still love him.
2. My computer, because I need it to my job, write, and watch lots of movies and TV :)
3. My students, as much as they aggravate me sometimes, I enjoy teaching them
4. My house....I love it SO much!!
5. My car+radio...singing all the way home makes any day good