It's Thankful Thursday! (Special hot tub saints edition) 

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It's #ThankfulThursday! What 3 things are you thankful for today? Mine are: . 1) Hot tubs. . 2) A shorter workweek thanks to the Labor Day holiday on Monday. . 3) The communion of saints. . 4) Listening to The Bloop's =^..^= purrs. . 5) Soap. . 6) Plastic food storage containers. . #gratitude #thankfulness

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It's Thankful Thursday! (Special bug-free burgers edition) 

It's #ThankfulThursday! What 3 things (minimum!) are you thankful for today? Mine are: . 1) No additional flash flooding this week. . 2) Burgers without buns. Not as highfalutin' as Doctors Without Borders, but danged delicious. . 3) Novenas. . 4) The happy anticipation of a 3-day weekend being just around the corner. . 5) Indoor plumbing. . 6) Bug-free, no-biting-worries beds. . 7) THE EUCHARIST. ?? . #gratitude #thankfulness

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It's Thankful Thursday! (Special stylebook dinner edition) 

It's #ThankfulThursday! What 3 things (minimum!) are you thankful for today? Mine are: . 1) Amid the scary flooding ?? in Madison and Gov. Walker declaring a state of emergency for our county (Dane), we're safe, dry, and have power. . 2) Being able to find and play with fun stickers like this in photo/pic apps for simple, bright cheer. ?? . 3) Pals who unfailingly and graciously share career-related coaching. . 4) While it's not the swankiest or sporting the fullest set of features, Microsoft's OneNote is damned handy. . 5) The shot of joy I get from editing. Yeah, it's geeky and kind of weird, but I do love it. . 6) Related to #5, I adore the online @apstylebook, especially with it including relevant Ask the Editor sections in search results. . 7) Being able to pop out for dinner when we're too tired or unmotivated to make it ourselves. . #gratitude #thankfulness

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It's Thankful Thursday! (Special unicorn spiralizer edition) 

It's #ThankfulThursday! What 3 things (minimum!) are you thankful for today? Mine are: . 1) Lunch with a coworker who's become a pal. . 2) A spiralizer for making zoodles. . 3) Relaxing in hot tubs. . 4) The ridiculous cheer of unicorns. ?? . 5) Towels. . 6) Remembering to pray. . #gratitude #thankfulness

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It's Thankful Thursday! (Special Pixel ramen edition) 

It's #ThankfulThursday! What 3 things (minimum!) are you thankful for today? Mine are: . 1) Being bracketed by cats. . 2) Premade ramen broth. . 3) Garlic. . 4) Light and powerful laptop. . 5) Pie on my Pixel XL. Which I'm still enjoying about a year (?) after getting it. (The phone, that is.) . #gratitude #thankfulness

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It's Thankful Thursday! (Special incubator webinars edition) 

It's #ThankfulThursday! What 3 things (minimum!) are you thankful for today? Mine are: . 1) Cauliflower and cheese soup. Freakin' taste buds party. ?? . 2) Free profession-related webinars. (Okay, not technically free because it was from one of the professional associations in which I'm a member. Still.) . 3) Cooler temps = non-sweatbucket day. . 4) Supreme ease of buying whatever food and foodstuffs I want thanks to farmers and others who make it happen. I get to eat things that royalty in the not-so-distant past couldn't even dream of! . 5) Refrigeration. . 6) Learning about the man responsible for me surviving my birth: Martin Couney, who introduced incubators to the modern world in the early 1900s. I spent 3 months in one after I was born prematurely ... and given only a 10% chance of making it. In yo' face, odds! God bless Couney. ?? . 7) Hand-thrown pottery. . 8) Mascara. . #gratitude #thankfulness

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It's Thankful Thursday! (Special synced trees edition) 

It's #ThankfulThursday! What 3 things (minimum!) are you thankful for today? Mine are: . 1) Enjoying Day 2 of my mini-staycation. . 2) Fresh cheese curds for breakfast. . 3) Comfy home office chair. . 4) Air-conditioning. . 5) Getting our (home) Google Drive sync working again. . 6) Beautiful, mature trees that provide shade as well as loveliness. . #gratitude #thankfulness

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It's Thankful Thursday! (Special plushie lunch edition) 

It's #ThankfulThursday! What 3 things (minimum!) are you thankful for today? Mine are: . 1) Helpful and friendly nurses. . 2) Lunch with coworkers. . 3) Pals who thoughtfully share opinions and resources. . 4) Plushie clouds. . 5) Books from libraries, whether printed or digital. . #gratitude #thankfulness

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It's Thankful Thursday! (Special Thérèse spreadsheet edition) 

It's #ThankfulThursday! What 3 things (minimum!) are you thankful for? Mine are: . 1) Being able to relax after work, without having to worry about running off to a second job. . 2) Sunshine and non-scortching temps. . 3) Spreadsheets. The buggers do come in handy. . 4) Being able to easily buy supplies, like a new Moleskine notebook, when needed. . 5) St. Thérèse of Lisieux. . 6) Adventuring around Madison with Husband Mike. ❤️ . #gratitude #thankfulness

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It's Thankful Thursday! (Special recovery laundry edition) 

It's #ThankfulThursday! What 3 things (minimum!) are you thankful for? Mine are: . 1) Great lunch with a coworker. . 2) Relaxing after work. . 3) Recognizing the need to take some recovery time after intense, sustained work, instead of slogging miserably along. . 4) Air-conditioning. . 5) Clean laundry. . 6) Congestion-free drives to and from work. . #gratitude #thankfulness

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It's Thankful Thursday! (Special zoodle plumbing edition) 

It's #ThankfulThursday! What 3 things (minimum!) are you thankful for today? Mine are: . 1) Just barely remembering it's Thursday and squeezing this in! . 2) Using my fantastic new mug at work! (See previous.) Still have no idea which pal sent it, though, because there was no sender info included. If you're reading this and you're the culprit, please lemme know so I can directly thank you! ❤️ . 3) Danish havarti. . 4) Leftover zoodles from yesterday's dinner from Noodles. . 5) Adoration over lunch. . 6) Indoor plumbing. . 7) Among the pics I've taken over the years, being able to find and use ones to accompany my Thankful Thursday posts here. . 8) Coffee. . #gratitude #thankfulness

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It's Thankful Thursday! (Special career chocolate edition) 

It's #ThankfulThursday! What 3 things (minimum!) are you thankful for today? Mine are: . 1) Sharp pals who help with career mentoring. . 2) Surprise Adoration at lunch! Popped into a parish to pray before the tabernacle and got the treat of there being Adoration! ❤️ . 3) Making steady progress on editing a hefty chunk o' content. . Side note: "Content Chunks" would make a terrible band name. . 4) Comfy temps. . 5) Finally spinning up Black Stone Cherry's new album and heartily enjoying it. . 6) The tasty chocolate chip cookie I indulged in as part of a coworker's farewell snacks. (Innards were displeased with the sugar hit, tho'.) . #gratitude #thankfulness

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It's Thankful Thursday! (Special photo fiction edition) 

It's #ThankfulThursday! What 3 things (minimum!) are you thankful for? Mine are: . 1) Being able to work from home. . 2) The B =^..^= sitting on my lap while I was working. . 3) Air-conditioning. . 4) Cheese. . 5) The joy of good fiction. . 6) Chatting with pals. . 7) Photo editing apps that are fun and easy to use. . #gratitude #thankfulness

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It's Thankful Thursday! (Special prayer chunk edition) 

It's #ThankfulThursday! What 3 things (minimum!) are you thankful for today? Mine are: . 1) Remembering that it's Thursday just in time to play, as I've completely forgotten for the past several weeks. . Side note: I've previously posted my TT items on Google+, not in Instagram. Figured I'd see how it works to originally post 'em here and share elsewhere. 🙂 . 2) The B =^..^= doesn't seem to be as spacy and out of it tonight like he was yesterday. . 3) Pals who take time to respond to prayer requests for small critters. ❤️ . 4) Plowing through a solid chunk of editing today, even when fretting over a sick kitteh. . 5) Brie. . 6) Belts. . #gratitude #thankfulness

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It's Thankful Thursday! (Special ceiling sandals edition) 

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It's Thankful Thursday! (Special MeWe soap edition) 

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It's Thankful Thursday! (Special pants-on-fire tomatoes edition) 

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It's Thankful Thursday! (Special butter-lemon binders edition) 

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It's Thankful Thursday! (Special Easter chiptune edition) 

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It's Thankful Thursday! (Special lovely wake-up edition) 

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