Thankful Thursday

There is always something to be grateful for. - Google it. I can't remember who said it.

Let me tell you this has been the week of weeks! Too much malarkey this week. Sorry for the lack of author for the quote. I am doing this from my phone so please bare with me (more than you already do).

Even though this has been the week from purgatory (it honestly wasn't too bad), I am still going to try to be thankful for things in my life because I'm alive and well. And you know, that's good enough for me.

Reliable Cab Drivers - These last five days have been insanely hectic and I currently find myself stressed to a point I haven't been in years. When you're stressed you're scattered. I would like to thank the universe for sending me cab drivers who didn't give me a hard time in getting me to where I needed to be. It is pretty typical but this week I left my American phone in a cab as I was leaving a job interview and on my way to see what was going on with my apartment. I don't know how I did it. I was texting my mom and the my phone rang, I Looked at the number and put it back in my phone... Or so I thought. It wasn't until hours after that I noticed I didn't have my phone. At this point I was so stressed out because the place that I was going to move into was a no go so I was ready to throw my hands up in the air and quit (but you know I don't quit) by the time my phone went M.I.A.
So after searching my purse for it 24 times over, I called the taxi company and left a message. I didn't think I'd hear anything but to my surprise it was their phone call that woke me up this morning. He found my phone and dropped it off at the police station... In freaking Bootle. But I am grateful for the return of my phone anyway.

Landlords Who Are Responsible - As I mentioned earlier I need to find a new place to live. The building that I was supposed to live in held about 200 people. One person signed up to live there. Who? Autumn Rose Chmil. The landlord can't run a whole building for one person, which I can't argue that. But the good part is that, because I signed a contract, the man is willing to pay the difference for a place for me. Where I was staying was supposed to be £60 a week. Since it's so late in the game, he thinks that I won't find something for less than £90. Once we find a spot (he's helping me) he will write me a check for the differences in rent for the whole time of the contract. So I can end up living in a better place, which is cool, and he is urging me just to get a flat on my own if he is going to spend the money. And if the place where I rented it from won't give me my money back that I've paid in deposits etc (probably about £500) he will cut me a check for it. All of this and his mother just died. I feel like a jerk even bothering him with my problems. But I am thankful for his help anyway.

So in case you didn't notice, I lost my home and my contact with my mother, my bank and my doctors in the timespan of four hours. Sweet!

Dann's Housemates - So last year Dann and I were always at each other's flats. Honestly every second we can spend together, we do spend together. But now that I have no place to go, so we sort have to spend every second together. The hospitality of Dann's housemates is more than I deserve. After all, I'm not their problem. They are not bothered by my quiet existence in their man house. So this week, I am overwhelmed with gratitude for "the boys" and their roof.

Morgan Freeman - If you really want to know something, see if Morgan Freeman has anything to say about it. He's going to speak bluntly and I dig it. In a time where everyone is beating around the bush to be politically correct, this guy just says what he wants to say in the simplest ways He helped save Batman's life many times and he helped the penguins out. And now I finally have an idea what God looks like (see Bruce Almighty). So, yeah, I dig him.

That I Finally Got AIM Working - You may laugh that I still use AOL Instant Messenger but that's the only way I am able to talk with Katie. Since she is the person I speak with the most I was bumming that AIM wasn't working. Then today, out of the blue, it just decided to work. Yay! For being able to talk to Brenizzle again! It's funny because when I finally turned my US phone on, there was a text from her (no one else). Obviously she found my lack of communication utterly unacceptable.

There are six things today!

Insomnia - Most of the time, I am not a fan of insomnia. No one likes to be up all night while trying to sleep. But tonight I am quite okay with it. Dann and I have been so busy trying to get settled in Liverpool that I haven't really had time to register the fact that we are together again. Well, he's been sleeping for quite some time now and it's given me time to finally appreciate the fact that we aren't sleeping with a Skype screen in between us! Mr. Insomnia has helped me get to the bottom of things and see that despite that fact I'm homeless in a country 3,500 miles away from my mama (who I miss so very much), I am also in the midst of getting exactly what I've wanted all summer (maybe all my life!)... to be with Dann.



What are you thankful for?

My bad use of the English language?
I thought so.