Focus on what you have

I've been thinking about starting a new type of posting for a few weeks now.

There are random times in any given week when I stop and think to myself "I love this about my life." or "I'm so lucky because of this or that."

I want to try to list those kinds of things that come up during my week and post about them on Saturdays.

Will I be consistent and actually get a post out every Saturday? Who knows. I want to but it may take me a few months to get my crap together and figure out a way to organize my postings. I'll try to get a system down so I can gather my positive thoughts throughout the week and have them ready to slap up here each Saturday.

Some weeks I may only have one thing to post. Other weeks I may have a shitload.

This is all based on that mantra of mine that I preach: "Focus on what you have, not on what you don't have." I wrote this on a post it a few years ago and have had it in my cube at work since then. I'll try to grab a picture of it soon so I have a nice little logo-type-dealy for these posts.

Anyway, enough babbling... here are the things making me happy this week:

• I'm alive. Kind of a deep one to list first off on my maiden post. But, I am really thinking this this week. Since the beginning of December, three dads within our block have died. That's a lot of death to be staring at. I can see two of those families' back yards as I type this. All three families have children. For one of those families, we are running an estate/garage sale this weekend -- J and the Teenager are over at that house right now, selling things while I do my homework (and sneak in a blog post). The mom and dad were divorced but got along. But since they were divorced and dad wasn't expecting to die any time soon, there wasn't a lot of planning. Mom and hurting for money and not in a position to want to tackle dealing with the situation. When dad got sick he couldn't work and he lost his insurance. He didn't go to the doctor any more after that and then he quickly died. The bank now owns his house but let us have access so we could sell some things. We've sold about $1000 so far and I know it'll make a difference for mom and her three girls. So anyway, it's thick on my mind as we run across momentos in that house that show the love that dad had for his girls.
• I'm thankful that I have a job. As I mentioned a few posts ago, about 40 people in my office lost their jobs and have three more weeks to go. I have an awesome government job that pays me well. I tell my staff that we have a cake-walk and better work our butts off to show we deserve it.
• I'm lucky to have access and be able to get my master's degree. I'm not looking forward to the student loan payments when they kick in, but that's a small price to pay for the opportunity.

Have a super Saturday.

Are there things that you have that you will focus on?