Thankful Thursdays: May 16

It's that time again...thankful Thursday is here and it kind of snuck up on me this week. Here's some reasons I have to be thankful:

This week has gone by super fast and been super productive.
Does everyone experience the same phenomena that when you miss a week of work and come back, you're swamped?  Even when you have wonderful co-workers covering for you?  I do.  But I've been coming in early and working hard and I'm knocking things off my list left and right. It's a good feeling.

I've been cleaning out my fridge and cupboard this week.
I've been too busy/lazy to get to the grocery store since coming back from my parents, so I have been eating out of the abundance of food that is in my cupboard instead.

For my car.
For real, I think I've listed my car on a Thankful Thursday before, but GeorgJetta's been a real trooper of late.  I appreciate her.

For half decent runs.
I've had to run inside on the track at the gym twice this week, because it's been too hot outside. And I've stepped back to week 4 of the C25k program, but still I'm sticking with my plan to run/walk three times a week and I have faith that I will someday be able to run 3 miles again.  Someday.


For my friend Luis Instagraming his trip to London.
He's there, now, and he's posting pictures every so often to his Instagram account.  I'm loving getting to see pieces of London, as experienced through my friend, again.

For an unplanned weekend.
I haven't had a free weekend for months, and while I do like staying busy, sometimes I like being lazy.  And this is one of those times. Lazy weekend, here I come!

For doing tasks that I dread doing, yet feel better afterwards because they're done.
This week those tasks were vacuuming the dog hair out of my car (you're welcome, back seat passengers of GeorgJetta) and mowing a lawn that was coming close to resembling a small forest.

It's day lily season!

They're early this year, but you won't hear me complaining!

For the song Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen. 
I can't believe I just downloaded it yesterday. It is the best song to get you up and dancing.  I'm considering instituting a mandatory daily three-minute dance party for myself using primarily this song.  If you don't trust me on its dance-ability, perhaps you'll trust the Harvard baseball team who demonstrate the song's dance-ability admirably in this video:


Happy Thursday!