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A Month of Gratitude 2024: Day 9

Hello There. Another Monday done and dusted. I can sleep well tonight knowing that I have completed everything I had set out to do. The outcomes I leave in God’s hands although I will be praying that it all works out ok.

Two Things I am Grateful For

  1. Today, I am very grateful for my colleagues and team, who have helped me get things done to the best of my ability. I have come to realise that executing is actually not my nature. I have always thought that I am just a procrastinator, but it turns out that I am more of a thinker than a doer, so I surround myself with doers. How do I know? I did Clifton’s StrengthFinder 2.0 a few years ago, and execution is not in my top ten strengths. I do get things done eventually, but it is almost always at the last minute. Apparently, that is a personality trait as well. So, I am very grateful for my colleagues and team who are stronger executioners and help em get things done.
  2. I am also grateful for my home. It’s pretty small, but it works. It’s a two-storey place and my favourite place to be during the day is downstairs. It is the coolest area of the house because it doesn’t get the morning sun, and if I keep the fan on and the doors and windows closed, I also seem to keep the humidity out. What a pleasure! Today, I opened the door to let in a cat. It was like a sauna out there. I closed that door so fast. I am really grateful that I can work from home comfortably on hot days with just a fan.
Screenshot of the Audible book cover

One Source of Joy

I have an oats addiction. Weird, right? When I work from home, one of my greatest pleasures is making myself a bowl of oats. I have some yoghurt beforehand to help with the glucose spike, and then I enjoy my oats with chia seeds and blueberries. Today was a work-from-home day, so I got to enjoy my bowl of oats for breakfast. I was in heaven.

That’s it from me for today. How was your Monday? Is there anything you are feeling grateful for today?

Bye For Now.

Home Sweet Home

Bloganuary Day 20 – only 11 days to go…

Today’s Prompt: What irritates you about the home you live in?

I am going to change this around and talk about what I love about the home I live in as I don’t enjoy focusing on the negative. There will always be things that I want to change about my home but that will be because I have gotten bored with seeing the same things in the same places to I will switch it up for a change in scenery. I also find that moving things around often changes the energy of the space.

So what do a I love about my home? Well I love that I have a home and that I get to share it with my son every day. I love that I have stairs as I always wanted a double storey home when I was a kid. I try and make sure that I run up the stairs a few times a day when I need to fetch something as my home is very small so it helps me get a little bit of exercise in every day.

I love my little garden out back although I have been neglecting it of late due to the influx of mozzies. They have my ankles for dinner! I love that I do have my own little patch of grass to ground myself on and space for my table and benches so that I can sit and watch the butterflies flitter and flutter about and watch the kittens chase each other. I find it very calming and peaceful even though there is a bust main road very close by.

I do need to give my home a complete overhaul as right now it is in complete disarray. I am constantly amazed at how I can get rid of an item of furniture and somehow, just somehow, I manage fill up that space with stuff before I can get to replace that furniture with a new piece. So, as I said, now I just have give every space a complete overhaul so that it looks pretty and has utility.

I live in a complex, from the car park, one has great views of the west of Durban, especially the beautiful sunsets. I’ll leave you with a pic of one that I took earlier this week.

African sunset
African sunset. Image credit: Author

So that’s it for today. Thanks for dropping by. Bye for now.

My sanctuary

Solitude is my happy place. I can be alone in a crowd and be happy much like a couple newly in love that creates their own world whereever they go. I used to be anxious about it when I was younger but not anymore. I love being on my own but within limits.

Photo by Skylar Kang on Pexels.com

My favourite place to be alone is in my home. It’s my haven. It’s where I can just be. No judgement. No minding my p’s and q’s. I just am. I love pottering around the house and the garden and then curling up with a good book. Now and then I will dedicate a weekend to a series on Netflix. I have to watch a season at a time or it will bother me. I can no longer survive on one episode a week. 🙈 Netflix has spoilt me. My son is at that age where he is glued to some form of a screen at any point in time but when he needs to take a break, he knows where to find me.

I also like enjoy chilling in my little garden. There is a bush behind my house that houses, what sounds like, a lot of different birds and there are lots of beautiful butterflies that flutter about. Even though I live just above a busy main road, the bush helps drown out the sound of traffic so I am able to focus on the birds singing in the trees. I never see them. I only ever hear them. I also enjoy watching the kittens have a blast chasing whatever insect crawls or flies by. They think my irises are their own personal jungle where they get to play hide-and-seek with each other. 😂 They are the cutest. Being in the garden is also my opportunity to ground myself.

So while I can happily be alone anywhere, my favourite place is definitely my home.

As much as I love solitude, I do need my daily dose of people though.