Okay … someone pinch me!  Is it really Thankgiving already?!!!  I’m just blown away at the speed this year has gone by.  I can’t believe that I’ve been doing my blessings posts for 47 weeks with 5 more to go!  As always, every week has something, someone, some event I need to be grateful for and this week was no exception.  😀  This week, I’m grateful for:

• Great weather (in the 60’s) to start the week which allowed me to wash my windows.  It’s lovely looking out, especially in the evening hours, through cleaner windows.
• A gift from a co-worker.  She found some yarn at Goodwill and figured, I’d know what to do with them.  I thought it was so kind of her to think of me that way.  I’ve already found a pattern for the “mohair”.  😀 
• Having my crafting mojo return with a vengeance!  Yesterday I was able to reclaim yarn from projects I made but don’t wear;  sort some patterns; then bag and tag the ones I want to work on (complete with the yarn) for the rest of Fall into Winter!!!  Wooohooo!!!  So glad it’s back; with the frigid temps we’re facing this weekend, crafting would be a great way to spend some time while the winds howl outside!
• Being able to start my holiday decorating!!!  Double wooohooooo!!!  I’m going to spray paint the pinecones in different colours then take the rest of my decorations out today!!!  So excited!!

• Being able to wind down from the work week (which was pretty good by the way 😀 ) with some hot chocolate to which I added wasabi chocolate shavings!!!  Yummsers!!! 

Off to go purchase a computer to ship to my mom, clean up, get my decorations out, then do a new swatch for this blanket.  Long story that I’ll share with you later!  LOLOL!  Hope your week was wonderful and cheers for a great upcoming week!!!!!  😀

This week was filled with all kinds of unexpected kindnesses.  Reminded me that there are wonderful people, thoughtful people, still left in the world.

• The week opened with a bus driver who waited for me at the bus stop.  She saw me hurrying across the street with my metro pass-card in hand.  Although they’re not supposed to stop if no-one is getting off or waiting at the bus-stop, she waited for me and I was truly grateful!
• Another day when I needed to refill my pass-card I had to take a cab to the train station.  I was short $1.00 on the fare but the taxi-driver said that it was okay.   Whew!!!!
• My co-worker sent me cake through inter-office mail.  Just to say “hi”, “thanks for putting up with us”, “thanks for all you do”.  It was a wonderful, super tasty surprise.
• T allowing me to get some paperwork for my job notarized without having to pay for it.   Said that was her contribution to the agency for the holidays!   I appreciated her graciousness
• Two Rav pals sending me lovely messages this week.  One sending by pm a “hope you’re doing well, thinking about you” message and another sending me a surprise handwritten letter that I’ve been carrying around since I got it.  It was heart-warming to receive a hand-written letter; it being from her makes it all the more special.

no act of kindness, no matter how small, is never wasted ~ Aesop

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Hope you each had  a wonderful week and cheers for the upcoming one!  Can y’all believe that we have 6 more weeks to go before we say hi to 2014?  Surreal!!!!