Happy 2010!!!

 

My Personal Random Thanks from 2009 (not in any particular order):

• Hubby


• My preggo sistah and the baby girl arriving in a few days!


• My mom and dad’s steady health


• My writing side jobs, however teensy (woohoo!!!) —and the income that afforded us some caprices


• A full-time job that I love and loves me back, I hope (I love it, luvet-luvetttttt!!!)


• Dancing in the hula show on May ‘09 (Halau Makana’s Annual Ho’ike — I miss you guys!!!)


• Dancing hula at the 4th of July Parade in Alameda. Mahalo, Kumu Lani!


• Manny Pacquiao winning over Cotto (I still can’t get over it!)


• My two CHANEL bags (yeah yeah, my only expensive whim! Lil miss Chanelophile fever — every woman’s gotta have somethin’, right?)


• The joys of painting with coffee and wine, will I ever be THE ORGANIC ARTIST? http://bistrodelarte.wordpress.com (In my dreams…)


• New found friends and newly made friends through the convenience of Facebook (seriously…)


• The 60 million parties that wore me down, but scored high on joy points!!!


• My crazy-as-me co-workers especially Monica who feeds me like there’s no tomorrow.  No, she deserves her own bullet, so here…


• Monica (HAHAHA)


• and all the Friday ham or sausage and cheese muffins and everything-in-there low sugar smoothies she’s made for me


• A mini-reunion seeing my dad’s brothers who visited from PI and the rest of the clan at cousin Joel’s place at Rancho Palos Verdes in November


• Amazon.com (just because!)


• Christmas Eve in our house with the family


• Thanksgiving at The Party Central


• My Crayola Glow Station!!!


• losing 2 pounds (yeah, that MUST count!)


• My parents’ Vonage phone


• My parents’ household staff


• Our trips to LA to visit my stepdaughter


• and the food trips on the side


• The Food Network


• Criminal Minds (CBS and re-runs at A&E)


• Michael Jackson, but I didn’t want him to die =(


• bowls of Chicken Macaroni soup on cold nights


• Bellagio Cherry Sipping Chocolate


• Kikkoman Soy Sauce (for my sushi) and the Kikkoman Company (because it’s a hand that feeds me)


• Walgreens


• Walmart


• A fab (eureka!) haircut chopping my unruly lengths off sometime in October — which reminds me, I need to go back to the salon already, like, yesterday.


• visits to the city (gotta luv SF!)


• My Kindle 2 (ooops, just practicing! I don’t have one yet hahaha) I wish, I wish…creating a vision of me holding one, using one and thanking for one! LOL


• Okay, the Kindle app on my iPhone


• and okay, my iPhone


• Hubby and his friend catering at their company picnic, barbecue galore


• and me winning the raffle at the picnic— iPod Nano!!!


• celebrating our 6th wedding anniversary


• celebrating it with Janice and John after bumping into them at church in Pinole (what joy!)


• some fun time with nephews and nieces


• SUMMER — all of it!!!


• Seeing my cousins who visited from PI, Spring of 09 — and them spending the night at our house


• Seeing my cousins who visited from LA, — and them spending the night at our house. Joy and fam from Sesame St.


• planning out my stepdaughter’s college plans with her mom and stepdad


• Rosales Cousins, Inc. and Party Central peeps


• our fresh Christmas tree and the photocards we received this year


• Milo, for keeping my parents company and watching over them (oh, he’s a dog, but he thinks he’s human)


• For the lives of the precious people who passed on in our family/families. I wish they could stay with us longer, but I’m grateful that they have lived good meaningful and beautiful lives


• being able to wean and pull away from coffee (not necessarily all things caffeinated, but yes, coffee!) at long last!!!


• Problem-free mammogram results sometime in July? (you have no idea what terrible things the anxiety did to me)


• my EeePC though it’s not necessarily the most perfect thing


• phone conversations with Daddy


• phone conversations with Mommy


• phone conversations with my stepdaughter Alyssa


• My sister being able to travel and visit my folks all the time


• Her loving and understanding hubby, RJ


• My other bro-in-law Roy who’s being such a good brother and buddy to hubby


• The joys of blogging


• Baby Amelia Grace


• Oil of Olay


• my everyday ocean views of the sunset


• my water jug at work


• the dental floss


• seeing my friend Reagan sing in a concert


• hubby’s cousin Peewee, the commercial flight pilot who brought things back and forth PI for me


• seeing my friends’ News Feed on Facebook and resting in the thought that they are doing well in their own lives


• Hubby, oh I said that already.

PLUS 60 MILLION OTHER THINGS I CAN THANK GOD FOR (GIVEN MORE TIME TO WRITE THIS).

LIFE IS GOOD, NO MATTER WHAT TRIALS WE GO THROUGH.

LIFE IS GOOD. PERIOD.

HAVE A GREAT 2010, Y’ALL. I WISH YOU GOOD THINGS. ONLY GOOD THINGS.