Thankful Thursday

I get overwhelmed a lot. I have depression (treated) and anxiety and sometimes it just all rears its ugly head. Not to worry though, all is fine right now. I do have to say that I am CRAVING routine right now. Having been out of town 2 of the past 4 weeks and then playing catchup the remaining 2 of the 4 weeks has my head whirling. In years past, I could go with the flow a little more easy (but was never truly “carefree”) but lately it's just been draining. Of course now on this Skinny Emmie journey I've added in at least 5 hours a week exercising when I previously would be doing other things. Also trying to commit to journalism (here) with this blog takes up a good bit of time during the week. I have so many things I think I need to say or work out, that my brain is just going “overload!” On the positive side, this means growth inside and hopefully shrinking outside 🙂

As predicted yesterday, I DID NOT want to get up to go do cardio this morning. I buried my head under the blanket to escape the beeping cell phone. It lasted only about 10 seconds until hubs let out a grunt that let me know I needed to commit to either getting up or staying in bed. Instead of torturing him any more with the sound of my alarm, I begrudgingly got up and got to the gym.

After the gym, I got to work, Starbucks in hand, and let out a groan. I love my work, truly, but I have just not been in the most upbeat of moods this week. One of the few things I jotted down while on my cruise was that I needed to be more thankful. Grateful. Acknowledge all things big and small in my life that I don't take notice of normally.

Then, I read my friend Krissie's post about starting a new project where she photo blogs about what she is thankful for. I love this idea. Here is her thankful blog if you want to see it. I decided I would start one also.

I haven't had much time tonight to get it put together, but it will be up tomorrow night for sure. So for now, I'm going to share my thankful things right here.