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indiegirl
12-25-2020, 05:10 PM
My nap lol! Getting ready for work now! People usually want to vent and have some pussy before or after being with family/family drama/get the feels being alone on holidays lol. I'm down for that money to brighten a day up!

WendiStarr
12-25-2020, 07:17 PM
It was a white Christmas. I didn't think it was going to snow because we only had 1 big snowfall this year. Now there's so much snow that I'll have to bust out the snowblower.

Miss_ShaSha
12-26-2020, 05:10 AM
My BF. He's the most supportive man I've been with. He tries to find ways to help cure my anxiety & is there when I dissociate.

miss.a.p1600
12-26-2020, 07:17 AM
I’m thankful I got some really good food for thanksgiving (so glad family either cooked or catered)

I’m blessed to have received some much needed Holiday cash

ChloeGreenX
12-26-2020, 07:27 AM
I am so grateful for almost reaching my goal for the week, for changing my attitude towards a LOT of things this year, for getting rid of some fucking toxic people in my life and for always learning new things. I know it says "today", but I am so grateful for all of this hahaha

LoveyDovey
12-26-2020, 11:03 AM
For the time I got to spend with my son opening gifts outside at the park yesterday. It made my Christmas.

indiegirl
12-26-2020, 12:41 PM
Going home to nap! Woohoo! Mom agrees “I think it’s time” for me to start dating. I told her I’m no longer attending holiday events and she’s supportive. Over and done with them. She thought I wasn’t going to holidays and weddings because I didn’t have a guy bahaha. I’d bring my dogs if I really wanted to go. I’m done with family drama.

I dunno if a guy can even handle me nowadays. I’m a lot of work in my eyes. Most last a few months before I’m done.

Mom told me to sign up on “tender” aka tinder bahaha. I’m not 22 mom. That’s a hookup site.

Maybe I should marry an old guy? Seems easier than this job.

lurkingtitties
12-26-2020, 03:27 PM
Lots of people use Tinder to look for relationships these days! I was just talking to a coworker yesterday who is 60 and uses tinder to meet women. Super sweet guy too.

Elektra Luxx
12-26-2020, 04:15 PM
I'm grateful my health issues are under control and for the most part I'm feeling good. I'm grateful for the support of bf, family and friends.

indiegirl
12-26-2020, 04:24 PM
For watching wedding proposal and military coming home videos hehe. Watched Trisha Payta's engagement video ( a few times) and I always wind up tearing up with tissue in hand over both of these type LOL. I'm a sap for love.

So much for my nap bahaha.

indiegirl
12-26-2020, 04:39 PM
Lots of people use Tinder to look for relationships these days! I was just talking to a coworker yesterday who is 60 and uses tinder to meet women. Super sweet guy too.


Interesting! Not sure how the dating apps are currently. I'm used to plenty of fish/ match.com/ zoosk/ and forgot the ones I tried a long time ago. I tended to go on dates and get drunk and makeout/sex with police officers on these sites bahaha. Not my best moment. Kinda want a more serious thing this time and to be honest. I lied to them about my job because I was scared of judgment lol. I dunno what to do or if I should just lie again. What's weird, is when you post looking for something serious, some of these guys have "looking for nothing serious"....it's like they don't even read your profile.

I'm so bad at real dating. I've lost my touch lol.

carmen_b
12-26-2020, 05:53 PM
^ Yeah you have to be really clear about intention .

moneybags
12-26-2020, 06:38 PM
I was speeding and didn’t get a ticket...lol. Also, I got $100 free for opening a new checking account.

indiegirl
12-27-2020, 09:43 AM
My shower *sigh of feeling relaxed*. Someone knocked on the door during it and I wish I said "Who died for this to be an emergency?" I continued my shower because if it was an emergency, break the bathroom door down.

WendiStarr
12-27-2020, 10:02 AM
My stepdad gave me a gift card and I'm going to use it to order food because I don't feel like cooking.

miss.a.p1600
12-27-2020, 10:22 AM
Thankful for the weather here is surprisingly “warm”

carmen_b
12-27-2020, 10:47 AM
^ One of the best gifts really ! Taking a chore off someones schedule !

LoveyDovey
12-27-2020, 08:20 PM
Stimulus money! Yay!

AChildOfBoredom
12-27-2020, 10:19 PM
Grateful I bought a body camera for the tow truck job. Really wish I had one back when I did PPIs and repos, but it got my ass out of a sling.

I took Christmas off, so I worked Thursday (which I had taken off from my regular job as my holiday), Christmas Eve, and the day after Christmas (and a lot of people seem to lock themselves out of their cars on Christmas Eve, by the way... it also makes me grateful I keep a step stool with me on the tow truck, but also kinda fucked off that I'm so short that I need one). One of the calls I had on Saturday was a lockout service in a Food Lion parking lot. So I get there, I'm cruising around the lot to locate the (AAA) member and their vehicle, so I turn left from the thoroughfare in front of the store into the aisle where they're at. As I'm getting my lockout tools out, I hear this yelling, and this man's clearly yelling for me. So we walk towards each other, meet about halfway, and he tells me that I hit his car when I turned. So I go to take a look, and then he points to this small area that at first only looked like the clearcoat was missing. That was the first time he put his hand on my shoulder, so I slipped out from under it and told him, "Okay, let me finish this lockout service and we'll get it sorted out, okay?". So he agrees, then he says to me, "It's not a big deal, but you did hit my brand new Lincoln", which was the first warning sign he was trying to fleece me... maybe he thought because I have bobs and vagene that I don't know shit about cars, but I knew right away that was a legacy model - hardly "brand new" (and it turned out it was a 1992 model). Then he asked me, "Who do you work for? (Company A)? (Company B)? (Company C)? (three tow companies in the area which use a similar livery to ours). I told him, "None of those" and he seemed content with that answer. So I performed the lockout, pulled up and to the side so the member could leave, then he pulled around and parked and I took photos of the damage, and also made some commentary for my body cam, such as noting that there was a dent there, but it had paint, as if it had been filled in with a touch-up pen after the damage occurred. So I told him I was calling my supervisor, and he put his hand on my shoulder again and said, "If you have some cash, we don't have to do all of this", so I stepped back from under his hand again and told him, "You need to keep your hands off of me, and yes, we're doing all of this". I called my supervisor, we had a little back and forth, and I told him (the supervisor), "Hell with it, I'm calling the police and we'll get a report. I'm gonna call this guy's bluff". So I told him that's what I was doing, and he became insistent that it can be handled informally, and he put both of his hands on my shoulders this time, so I said to him, "You need to take your hands off of me". He ignored me and continued talking, so I raised my voice and said to him, "Listen... get your hands off of me, right now". Again, he ignored me and continued talking (and I was getting really pissed at this point, because I knew there was no fucking way he'd have been doing that if I had a dick swinging between my legs) so I said, "Take your fucking hands off me, NOW". He ignored me again and was about to speak again, so I pushed him away from he, and he fell down. At this time, I hear, "Damn, girl, you alright?" and I turned around and there was this black fellow with his family there, so I started explaining what had happened, but he stopped me and said, "No, I saw it. You're alright". Then some woman who was in the car with him ran over to him, then she turned to me and started swearing at me and threatening me, and started walking towards me, so I took a step towards her, pointed at her, and said to her (and I shouldn't have said one part of this), "Try me, bitch. I'll lay your fat ass out". She was younger than he saw.. perhaps a daughter. Definitely adult age. She backed down, but until the cop had showed up, she kept trying to maneuver around me like she was going to try to blindside me. I called the police, they sent an officer out, who eventually showed up. I talked to him, told him what had happened, why I felt skeptical about their claim, then he went to talk to them. When he walked back to me, he was getting ready to take his handcuffs out and said to me that they told him no mention of cash was ever made, and that I had assaulted them. So I told him that I could disprove that claim with my body cam footage, then the bystander walked over and spoke up again. I looked up, and he was holding a badge... turns out, he was an off duty State Trooper. So he backed me on that one. The cop took some measurements, said it was possible the end of the bed (which is beveled upwards) could've hit his car, and I pointed out to the cop that it was behind the rear axle and would've been pivoting away from his car as I was turning, not towards. In the end, no citation was issued, the cop told me I was free to go, and I cleared that call and moved on to the next one. Leaving the parking lot had me driving past him and whoever the hell she was, and he yelled at me that I should learn how to drive while she just glared at me. I bit my tongue and moved on.

Sure enough, dickhead tries spinning a story to my company, saying I lied about the incident, saying that I assaulted him and threatened his daughter, etc, etc. I sent a copy of the body cam footage over to them, and my supervisor called me back and told me not to worry, him and his superiors looked over the footage, and they're not holding my feet to the fire over it, though they were a little critical of my mention of the daughter's weight, but also dismissed it as a "heat of the moment" thing.

moneybags
12-28-2020, 03:18 PM
^^^you are a bad bitch

Aurora_Sunset
12-28-2020, 03:48 PM
Stimulus money! Yay!

Everyone keeps making jokes about how small the stimulus payment is this time, but fuck it, it's exactly what I need right now and I'll fucking take it. If they actually get it deposited into people's accounts this week, it will be my New Years miracle and keep me from having to borrow more money from my parents.

Aurora_Sunset
12-28-2020, 03:51 PM
We're moving at the end of January to the complex I wanted, and I'm really excited about it. I'm even more excited about the fact that I don't have to move anything down from my second-floor apartment or up to the new third-floor apartment.

Also grateful that the leasing agent tipped us off that we could register the cats as emotional support animals so she wouldn't have to charge us any pet fees or pet rent. It will save us so much money over the next 2 years we live there. I'll never use the registrations to pull some crap like taking my "emotional support cat" that's ill-behaved on a plane or anything like that. But I think pet deposits, fees, and rent are a total scam so I don't care that I'm using it for a loophole on this.

AChildOfBoredom
12-28-2020, 04:00 PM
^^^you are a bad bitch

No, I’m pretty mild mannered… most of the time. I don’t like situations like that, I don’t like violent confrontations, I don’t like any of that, and I really hate that I get a bit amped up sometimes reflecting on them. I don’t feel like a ‘bad bitch’ for that, I feel like a failure. I lost control and let anger control me. I mean, I knocked an old man down and fat shamed a woman. Not really something to be proud of.

Genoveve
12-28-2020, 04:47 PM
I lost control and let anger control me. I mean, I knocked an old man down and fat shamed a woman. Not really something to be proud of.

Well I mean, one had their hands on you and the other was planning to try and whoop your ass, you have to do what you have to do. Displaying good manners only matters up to a certain point.

WendiStarr
12-28-2020, 04:50 PM
My bio dad gave me $. Unexpected but welcome.

moneybags
12-28-2020, 06:10 PM
No, I’m pretty mild mannered… most of the time. I don’t like situations like that, I don’t like violent confrontations, I don’t like any of that, and I really hate that I get a bit amped up sometimes reflecting on them. I don’t feel like a ‘bad bitch’ for that, I feel like a failure. I lost control and let anger control me. I mean, I knocked an old man down and fat shamed a woman. Not really something to be proud of.

sorry. I didn’t mean hurt your feelings. I’m glad you’re okay now.

When one dog bites and snarls at another dog. Its gotta bite back to protect itself!

On a positive note, I’m grateful for my sex worker support meeting. It was nice to hang out with other women who don’t judge me.

lynn2009
12-28-2020, 06:34 PM
Also grateful that the leasing agent tipped us off that we could register the cats as emotional support animals so she wouldn't have to charge us any pet fees or pet rent. It will save us so much money over the next 2 years we live there. I'll never use the registrations to pull some crap like taking my "emotional support cat" that's ill-behaved on a plane or anything like that. But I think pet deposits, fees, and rent are a total scam so I don't care that I'm using it for a loophole on this.

That's what I did with my dog and I never felt bad about it. It would have been a 500 non-refundable deposit PLUS 50/month. Fuck that.

AChildOfBoredom
12-28-2020, 08:23 PM
Well I mean, one had their hands on you and the other was planning to try and whoop your ass, you have to do what you have to do. Displaying good manners only matters up to a certain point.

I’m going to take this to Random Thoughts so I don’t hijack this topic.


sorry. I didn’t mean hurt your feelings. I’m glad you’re okay now.

When one dog bites and snarls at another dog. Its gotta bite back to protect itself!

And also this one.


On a positive note, I’m grateful for my sex worker support meeting. It was nice to hang out with other women who don’t judge me.

And a big, “hell, yes!” to this.

wish
12-28-2020, 09:31 PM
@achildofboredom I understand exactly how you feel. I hate feeling amped up too. There's a saying don't argue with fools because from afar it's hard to tell who's who. I understand and agree with defending yourself especially if someone puts their hands on you but it's still can be a crappy feeling.

LoveyDovey
12-28-2020, 10:03 PM
Grateful that I earned 4 bonuses this week on my grocery shopper gig, 1 of which I wasn't expecting.

lilylilylily
12-28-2020, 10:03 PM
I went and used my Starbucks gift certificates and bought good quality coffee to make at home. I'm so used to store brand or Maxwell house so this will be a nice change

miss.a.p1600
12-29-2020, 07:49 AM
L brought blueberry biscuits and his brother brought chicken

I made a soup.

Some very tasty food all day yesterday I got to enjoy

WendiStarr
12-29-2020, 07:23 PM
I have everything set up and ready for work, tech wise. Woohoo!

AChildOfBoredom
12-29-2020, 09:47 PM
Being able to take the rest of the year off, and not having to do anything at all in the hallucination’s final days.

carmen_b
12-30-2020, 11:56 AM
Drumming

Tea

miss.a.p1600
12-31-2020, 07:40 AM
L made dinner and helped me with my work.

LoveyDovey
12-31-2020, 01:59 PM
Got included in a focus group that paid $50. Was able to buy a new pair of yoga pants and send a little $ to kiddo.

lilylilylily
12-31-2020, 06:57 PM
Food tastes so much better when the person I live with isn't here..I even sold something on line today, I love when a person is genuinely interested in your item, they ask no questions, dont try to bargain and show up exactly at the time we agreed on. Grateful!

WendiStarr
12-31-2020, 07:41 PM
Homemade pumpkin pie

miss.a.p1600
01-01-2021, 08:19 AM
Ate some food that was cooked for me so I didn’t have to worry about buying groceries or standing over the stove . And celebrated New Years safely with a small group.

And the best part was I noticed I received some residual income. I’m so thankful for my clients who do business with me.

I glad I can pay for necessities and even simply just things I want.

carmen_b
01-01-2021, 11:25 AM
I started the new year with a long yoga class and meditation.

carmen_b
01-01-2021, 11:50 AM
During the meditation I saw myself in a new way.

I saw a bird flying between 4 nests.

I often have been down on myself lately for not having a “ main “ home.
I saw a strong bird flying over the land the connects the spots I stay and land in high nests.

In this area ( the one south where J is ) I have two AirBnB properties I co-own with my siblings , J's house ( where I am 55% of the time ) , and this room in a nice home living with a couple of nice people. It's a little unconventional but it doesn't mean it's " bad " haha.

WendiStarr
01-01-2021, 12:57 PM
Stimulus money hit my bank today!!

LoveyDovey
01-01-2021, 01:31 PM
So as of yesterday, my Adult Entertainment permit expired, so I am officially now retired from dancing forever! Yay! Onward and upward to bigger and better things. Woohoo!

miss.a.p1600
01-01-2021, 02:58 PM
Stimulus money hit my bank today!!

mine too!

Super thankful for it. Perfect timing.

moneybags
01-02-2021, 12:24 PM
So as of yesterday, my Adult Entertainment permit expired, so I am officially now retired from dancing forever! Yay! Onward and upward to bigger and better things. Woohoo!

Congratulations on retiring from a successful career! Wishing you a year of happiness, abundance, and health

I’m grateful to have to work full time. I actually miss working full time. I’m grateful I have the health and the willingness to create more abundance in my life.

carmen_b
01-02-2021, 12:41 PM
^ I miss working full time too !!

moneybags
01-02-2021, 01:07 PM
^ I miss working full time too !!

vanilla work, sex work, or both?

It reminds me of what the instructors saying during my peloton class (some refer to it as a bike cult), “You don’t have to work out. You get to work out”. I’m trying to change my mindset to, “I get to work, instead of I have to work.” Having work during these unprecedented times is blessing.

carmen_b
01-02-2021, 01:24 PM
Oh both !!

carmen_b
01-02-2021, 01:25 PM
I did enjoy the break June - early Sept when unemployment was $800 a week haha.
That was the time I didn’t have any income and there wasn’t really a choice but to stay calm.