June 19 - What I'm Thankful for Today

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This is the day the Lord has made and I will rejoice and be glad in it. God has blessed me with so many blessings it's hard to mention all of them, so I give you the highlights of my day and give God the glory for it. I'm thankful for the ability to swim. I learned at a young age. My father taught me, not in a pool, but a lake near where I lived. Every summer after that you could find me in the pool. I took lessons so I could be a better swimmer and today, I enjoy going to the YWCA daily to swim and socialize with a group of people who have come to mean a lot to me. I'm thankful for the gift of words. One thing my mother always accused me of was using the right word at the right time even though I didn't know what it meant. I still do that. Only this time, I make certain it's the word I want to use as I spend hours of my day working on stories. I started putting words down on paper to make stories at the young age of 8. It might have been the same time I learned to swim. Ever since you could find me with a pencil or pen in my hands and a notebook to write my stories in. Today, my gift of words has made me an author. I give God all the credit for the words and my being an author. I couldn't write without His help. I'm thankful for my education, which taught me how to use a computer. I first came in contact with said beast in college. I didn't learn in school as many of you do today. In high school, I used something they call an antique today, a typewriter. I took typing class so I could become proficient on said machine, the forerunner of the computer keyboard. My typing skills gained me a massive 39 words a minute. Yeah, I know how fast that is. However, I don't look at the keyboard when I type, I look at the screen and I know immediately when I've spelled a word wrong. Not because of the red underline, but because of the wonderful brain God gave me which speaks out silently each letter as I'm typing it. It's a wonderful gift to spell words correctly. I was an ace speller in school. I'm thankful for sites like myLot that help me earn a little bit extra a month, but more than earning that little extra is coming in contact with people around the world in a moment, the blink of an eye. Back when I was in school we sent letters in the mail and waited weeks for a reply. Now, it takes seconds to get a reply from someone on the other side of the world. Amazing. Another amazing thing about that is the friends I've made. I don't know you personally face to face, but from what I've learned about you in our interactions, we've become friends. One day I would love to meet each of you in person. That would be totally awesome, a mind-blowing event. I often wonder, would we still be friends after we met. I hope so. So, I'm thankful for swimming today, for interacting with you, and for getting work done on Vendetta. I'm thankful for achieving all my fitness goals. I used to be a skinny kid. I was active in my younger days and didn't have the problem with weight I have today. Before I went to college, my highest weight was while I was pregnant and I lost that the day the baby was born. My normal weight back then was between 115 and 135, which is what I was when I went to college. It was also the last time I was that slim. Now, I'm working at getting my weight under control and I get angry at a single pound that refuses to come off. I hope I see that tomorrow. It would be nice. Okay, that's what I'm thankful for today and a little bit of history about me and my youth. What are you thankful for today? Thanks for reading. The image is a skinny kid. Today, I think this skinny kid was darn cute. This is my 9th-grade picture.