recovering

I don't have much to talk about today, my apologies. I'm just starting to really get over a violent bout of food poisoning from earlier this week. So honestly, I'm just glad I'm actually at work today. It's my body's birthday present to me :)

Throwing up is pretty much the worst thing in the world to me, as far as illnesses go, so today I'm thinking a lot about the stuff I'm grateful to have since I'm not doing that now. Being at work. Feeling better on my birthday. Having to take of from work for two days because I was sick being a super simple process because I have awesome coworkers. Having a husband who is a worthy priesthood holder who can give me blessings when I feel like my body is trying to kill me [and other times too]. Having a husband who, when I requested cheesecake for my birthday cake, immediately declared that he would make me one from scratch - which neither of us have experience with. Having a job that doesn't require a lot of manual labor so I can come back to work this soon without fear of hurting myself. Clorox wipes - which are wonderful tools for quickly disinfecting anything that might have come in unfortunate contact with the rejected elements of your stomach. Finally having my hands on the next books in the Wheel of Time series so I could read over two hundred pages in one go when I started feeling better. African Cats playing on the Animal Channel when I was dying on the couch on Tuesday [I still get super sad over the cheetah cubs and the mother lion :( ]. And a wonderful husband who came home early from work to take care of me, even though, for him, that largely entailed sitting on our second couch and listening to me moan pitifully while trying to encourage me to ingest more fluids.

I can't begin to list all the things I'm grateful for today and I encourage you to make your own list. Even if it's just in your head. Illness and accidents can gear our minds toward thoughts of gratitude pretty quickly but we shouldn't stop noticing those wonderful things and people in our lives just because we aren't in the middle of a crisis.

The world needs a little more gratitude and love :)