Dear C, thank you for letting me use the comfy sweats last night. They were very comfy. Love The Thankful surfer

Dear Students, thank you so much for being open to the silly activities we do in class. I really appreciate your open attitudes and your willingness to try things. I do think it will help your English, but it also makes class more fun. I'm so lucky to have such a great job. And you guys are the ones who make it a great job. Love the thankful surfer

Dear happiness Researchers, thank you for taking interest in what makes people happier, and providing that information to the world. I'm going to be trying a lot of your methods this upcoming year, and I have a feeling it will work. Love, thankful surfer

1. Grateful I caught this train ;)
2. Grateful for my morning routine which kicks ass.
3. Grateful for all the opportunities for the future!

1. I'm in a good position to get any teaching job I want on this island.
2. Such a beautiful morning and i'm grateful I'm figuring out how to do my sunrise routine every morning. It really starts the day off right.
3. Grateful for my fun plans this weekend! I'm really so lucky!

1. So grateful I caught the train this morning!!!
2. Grateful for the beautiful views at the beach- I'm so lucky.
3. Grateful I got some sleep last night.

1. So grateful for the day off today, I really need it.
2. Grateful I can surf any time I want, not just on weekends and holidays.
3. Grateful for my new phone, and grateful my old phone still works too!

1. Grateful that I can talk to my sister!
2. Grateful the phone is fixed and Andrew will help me get it.
3. NANOWRIMO IS COMING UP I'M SO EXCITED!!!

1. Good fiction.
2. I have a choice of who to hang around- wouldn't it be terrible if I was stuck in a world where I had no choices, and was stuck with scummy people?
3. Good music/amazing energy-filled performances.

1. My PHONE MY PHONE MY PHONE WORKS AGAIN!!!! HIP HIP HOORAY, HIP HIP HOORAY!!!
2. Lunch meeting yesterday was nice.
3. Found a good healthy breakfast, way to incorporate protein into my morning smoothie. Who'd have thought soy beans would taste good in there? I bet garbanzo beans do as well.

1. I'm grateful that my phone USUALLY works ;)
2. Grateful for time in the mornings. I think I'll always have that.
3. I'm grateful for my digital picture frame.

1. The internet- I love that I can research anything I want the moment it occurs to me. It might be information overload sometimes, but I still love it. Last night it was melatonin- wanted to know how I could get to sleep easier. I made a smoothie with melatonin boosting foods- pineapple, banana, cherries, orange juice. I slept like a rock (placebo?) but more importantly, that thing was f'ing delicious.
2. Only one class today! yippeeee plenty of free time!
3. Editing work- money money money money- also, I'm so lucky to have the skills, interests and talents I have, which all intersected to make me relatively employable in this era. Imagine if I'd been stuck in pre-industrial America? Lucky lucky me!

1. I'm so grateful for the event I went to yesterday, so fun and so nice to meet new people. Really had a great time!

2. So grateful that people enjoyed my slackline. I felt very welcomed and it was so fun to get the kids walking on the slackline. SO fun. I'm so lucky!

3. I'm grateful for my peaceful living environment.

1. So grateful that I finally started sleeping in this room . I love being able to hear the birds I love hearing the surf and I love the Sun streaming through the Window. I'm so lucky.
2. I'm so so so grateful that I don't have any addictions like drinking or smoking or even coffee. So many people fall into those things without even knowing what they're doing. I'm so lucky that my mom taught me not to do that kinda stuff.
3. I'm grateful that I get to have lunch with a good friend today and possibly meet some new people. I've got it pretty darn good!

1. So grateful I was never enslaved, trafficked or imprisoned like somany people have been throughout history.
2. I have the chance to write today and every day. I have the chance to finish my book before I die.
3. I'm so glad I'm not married.

1. I'm glad I got to learn to surf.
2. I'm glad I got to live abroad, and have so many beautiful interesting moments.
3. I'm glad I have the discernment not to fall into a variety of traps I've been faced with.

1. Grateful for meditation and the other concepts I'm learning right now.
2. Grateful I have the beach to walk on.
3. Grateful for the choices I see in the future. Thank goodness I'm not stuck anywhere.
4. So so so so grateful I'm healthy, and that I'm in circumstances that support health (ie not in the third world, have adequate sanitation, clean food, etc.)

1. I'm so grateful for my facility with words. If I could choose a talent for today, that's the one I'd have.
2. I'm grateful for good music, and the people who have a passion for it, who spend time developing their talents so the rest of us can enjoy music. EAch of them starts out not knowing if it will ever profit them, but they keep going anyways.
3. I'm grateful because I can see opportunities stretching out in front of me for the future! I'm so lucky that I'm not stuck in one place, especially in a city without anything green. SOOOO lucky. That would kill my soul. I was looking at this the other day: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2282764/Hong-Kongs-human-battery-hens-Claustrophobic-images-slum-families-squeeze-lives-tiniest-apartments.html
It's not the smallness of their homes that would kill- it's what's outside and not being able to escape it.

1. I'm so grateful that I'm literate. I'm so grateful that I have nearly instant access to these vast swaths of knowledge, that humans before me took the time to write down. Writing can be hard but they did it so people after them could benefit from their knowledge.
2. I'm so grateful that I was exposed to the kind of education and the expectations that caused me to be a person who seeks out knowledge and who really delights in reading and learning. This didn't come from me- it came from exposure to these ideas, from being around people who, in essence, thought learning was cool. I could easily have been brought up in an atmosphere where learning and reading were not celebrated. I feel so lucky. I wouldn't be a learner if I'd been brought up in an atmosphere where that wasn't celebrated.
3. I'm so so so so so so so grateful that I don't have any serious addictions. Sooooooooo grateful. Alcohol, beetle nutt, any other kind of drug. I've got a bit of a tea addiction and a junk food addiction and though I'm working to free myself from the junk food one, I have to say, I'm so lucky. How shitty would it be to NEED something and to be miserable without it? How horrible would it be to desire something that, once you got it, you couldn't stop, and you hurt the people around you.
So lucky to have grown up in an environment where addiction wasn't accepted or celebrated. Thank you conservative family!!!!

I feel so lucky today!

1. Grateful I don't have pain like this everyday. Yowzers!
2. Grateful for the fun surf yesterday.
3. Grateful my mom had her shit together and took good care of me when I was a kid.

1. Nice to hear something nice from c.
2. Love my house, lucian and inside now that I'm making it nice.
3. It's still not too late.

So grateful that I can seek out good material on the internet. In previous generations, people were dependent on the TV or radio to tell them what to be interested in. And going to the bookstore to get stuff tailored to your interest had its own set of problems. We're so lucky now that we can seek out what we want to see/hear when the moment strikes us.
And with this of course comes the need for self-discipline to seek out the GOOD stuff.

1. Video of those twins dancing.
2. My new set of drawers.
3. Going fur a surf this nothing!
4. Got to help yesterday.
5. So so so so grateful I've never gotten accidentally pregnant.

a very kind mother of one of my students is sending a worker over to fix the lock on my door which got broken in the typhoon. Yay!

1. audio book on you tube.
2. talk with my sis
3. My savings is back

1. I'm grateful for this new realization that I can wake up at dawn- it's like I've discovered a whole new world. it's less populated and more beautiful.
2. I'm grateful that I have a month to think instead of acting. this month is an opportunity to change some of my habits.
3. I'm grateful that I get to go to Costco today and get smoothie ingredients

I had meant to take the dogs out for a long time, but I was working on my computer, and I lost track of time. then I looked out the window and saw this beautiful view, and felt so lucky that I hadn't missed the sunset. I got to take a nice long walk with my dog with this beautiful view, skipping rocks for Dresden, and throwing sticks. I'm so lucky to live where I live. I also saw this that somebody had written on the beach... "I still want you to marry me" and then a big "YES" underneath and different handwriting. its a good world where 2 people are in love. and now there's lightning across the ocean, which is beautiful, and my dog is eating the stinkiest most disgusting dead fish I've ever smelled, which is not beautiful ;) but overall I think we won tonight

1. Coconut oil. It really makes my hair look better.
2. Long weekend surf trip possibility. Yeah!!!
3. A long break will help me figure things out.

1. Grateful for good sleep.
2. Grateful I've switched to an early morning schedule.
3. Grateful I don't have to stress about putting in a dinner party tonight ;)

1. Cool cultural activities.
2. Morning beach walks.
3. Deeper understanding.

1. Conversations.
2. Nice time with c last night.
3. Don't have to sub at night again for another week.
4. Beautiful morning.
5. Lots of free time today!

1. Good music.
2. Knowing my fears won't defeat me. Knowing instead that I will defeat my fears.
3. My creativity.
4. Opportunities in the upcoming year.
5. Always the chance to make new choices.
6. C here for my b day.
7. Our to dinner with rs for b day.
8. Other friends who want to go out.
9. Really kick ass gifts from c.
10. House cleaner and still getting cleaner!

1. Day off! Time to do whatever I want!
2. Info on internet about health, mind body soul.
3. My clean (er) house :)

1. Grateful to live on the beach.
2. Grateful for my job that I love.
3. Grateful I know what I want and how to get it!
4. Just grateful for life.

1. What the hell happened to new beginnings!? I was planning on being grateful for new beginnings!!! Will this never end?!? Do I (I) (how do I italicize that, oh...) Do I have to do it? Good lord. I guess I'm grateful for stability in instability. For the comfort of being sad, as mr. cobain said. Also grateful that I'm ready, for whenever this thing does go down. Good lord.
2. Grateful for surf circus. How fun!
3. Grateful for my dogs. I wuv them forever. Grateful for my rommy. And my dresi. My koa. All the rescue pups.
4. My darling sweety cat too, she's the cat I always dreamed if having as a child. No offense feisty smoky! Love you too, and spooky!
5. Grateful most of all for my book.
6. Grateful for the future. And grateful to be grateful for the future. There were times in my life where I wasn't.
7. Grateful for what I'm learning.
8. Grateful that I'm creative. Sound big headed? Well I am. Big headed and creative. Fuck off, all y'all all.

1. Grateful I was able to pull off the hulda hooping stunt in my board yesterday.  video coming soon!
2. Glad I feel better physically now than I did yesterday.
3. happy I had fun last night but still got home n got some sleep.

1. Awesome morning this morning!
2. Waxing ;)
3. Get to go walk my dogs on beach now yay!

1. Had fun last night :)
2. Got the whole day free to do whatever I like!
3. Got bike to ld safely.
4. Scoot working like a champ.
5. I got plans, no matter what happens.
6. Mlibttsofotr. Sih.

1. Beautiful day.
2. My cute cat.
3. Bbq tonight.
4. I have 2 bicycles :)

1. The sound of the waves outside my window.
2. Making money doing what I love and the opportunity to make even more money doing what I'll love even more!
3. My clean ocean room. Thanks past c!

1. Getting along.
2. Free time + new philosophies = awesome life!
3. Tutoring b, kills 2 birds with one stone!

1. Kirtan last night!
2. Gorgeous sunrise walk.
3. living where I live and making the amount of money I make working as few hours as I do :)
4. I'm learning how to drop the boyfriend bomb gracefully.
5. my cute cat.

1. Nice, leisurely morning.
2. Free day to get what I need to get done done!
3. Interesting discussions with thinking people.

1. He can run hot and cold, cause I carry my own gravity, and it won't ruin my day.
2. Vertical gardens, and all of the awesome people who share their knowledge for good on the internet.
3. I'm glad I'm a woman.

1. Perception shifts.
2. Free time this weekend.
3. Where I live plus the hostel.

1. Waterfalls yesterday.
2. Morning writing.
3. Health.

1. creative ideas
2. surf this morning
3. smartphone helps me remember my goals

1. Independence
2. Cool dreams
3. Free time after 330!

1. Good day/night with c.
2. Living on the beach.
3. Window garden idea!

1. N doesn't know. Not for me. For me, I don't care. But I care for the other one.
2. Free time.
3. Realizations.

1. It's friday!
2. I'm getting my house cleaner.
3. The cat is learning to use the toilet. First step to litter free!

1. I feel so lucky that I have spent so much time in nature during my life.
2. grateful for the beautiful full moon last night and for being able to see the moon rise while surfing.
3. I'm grateful for my people, both the close friends and the acquaintances.

1. Time to write today :)
2. Old friends
3. New friends
4. Surf, of course

1. Ten hours to do whatever I want!!! This is how I live my life! This is how I'll always live my life!!!
2. Fitocracy. Just downloaded the app and I think I'm going to dig it!
3. My morning routine.
4. My phone

1. I love my job!
2. I love the new health and fitness things I'm incorporating into my life!
3. I'm so grateful to have the love and support of my family.
4. I'm also so grateful that I've been getting all the things done that I need to get done even though I've been really busy.

1. Ideas. Oh how I love you, new ideas. You transform the world from drab to vivid, even if I never act on you.
2. My bread maker.
3. Acceptance.

1. realization that it's only useful to focus on what I'm able to control. Which is me!
2. Morning routine.
3. Time to edit paper.

number one dreams because they're cool and kind of introduce me to a different universe that lives inside my head
number 2 extreme weather as long as it doesn't hurt anybody or cause serious property damage it's really really cool. typhoons specifically.
number 3 the concept of mini meditations

1. Possible typhoon day tomorrow!
2. Plan for my house.
3. Living on the beach :)

1. Day off tomorrow!
2. Morning surf.
3. Breaks today, and p comes back soon so I won't have to teach his classes!

1. Great weekend with c
2. Didn't embarrass myself at contest
3. Good plans, totally able to implement them. Jaiyo!

1 I'm grateful to have the day off today
2 I'm grateful that I can go back to my regular schedule within a month
3 I'm grateful that I have the opportunity to be in the surf contest it should be funny and fun

number one so grateful for my smartphone I know its nerdy but I love it
number too so grateful that all my animals are healthy and happy
number 3 so glad I was able to take care of abbie's dogs

1. Roses from C!

1. Free time so I can get things right. So lucky! actually not luck. I sacrificed a lot to get here. I'm so lucky the opportunities were open to me.
2. so grateful that my schedule is working out for the next couple of days. everything is just elegantly fitting into it's time frame
3. grateful to have options

number 1 I'm grateful that I'm learning a lot about myself and how to improve myself
number 2 I'm grateful that dres is not sick
number 3 I'm grateful that my coworkers could cover my classes today

1. Pool with d
2. Writing with s
3. Always the possibility to meet new friends

1. Feel grateful for everything today! Wish I knew what contributed to awesome moods!
2. I'll have the chance to surf today :) also the surf contest :) I know I probably won't get past the first great but I'm so excited!
3. so grateful to live in a beautiful place and have lots of free time!

1. So grateful for my amazing, awesome life!
2. Grateful meditation is a part of my life.
3. So grateful for gwen.

1. I'm grateful that I can make money editing.
2. I'm grateful that I gave a passion for writing.
3. I am grateful, so grateful for my free time.

1. The hostel next door.

2. Yummy smoothies

3. SURF

When I accidentally stole that guy's wave, he was cool about it. Nice when surfers aren't aggro.

1. Sunny day yesterday :) and today!
2. My bicycle
3. Green rice paddies- so pretty.

1. Grateful for lazy mornings off where I can sleep and think and relax.
2. Grateful for my cute pissed off looking cat.
3. Grateful I still have dresden.

1. Immigration stuff went ok ;)
2. Got new set of headphones that work great!
3. Tomorrow is a day off!

Immigration office lady was kind, quick and spoke English. She didn't deny my application because I forgot my housing contract and my passport was about to expire. Nice.

1. Deep, luxurious sleep.
2. Warm summer nights.
3. My new bag; it's so kick ass.

Today I realized that my ARC expires tomorrow- made a frantic call to my manager only to find that she was out of town and had forgotten to forward on my work permit. Argh!!! Well another manager took it upon herself to express mail the work permit, and it will be here just in time tomorrow! Yes!!!!

1. Fun day yesterday
2. New morning routine, excited!
3. so easy to make a living

today my students took me to the store on their lunch break to get me a new bag :) I'm so lucky to have such supportive students who will help me whenever I need it

1. A baby bird flew out of it's nest and landed on my hip. Now that was cute.
2. Gonna get my scooter today.
3. It's sunny!

1. Amazed by how beautiful my life is.
2. Grateful I get to go to belly dance class today.
3. Grateful I was able to change my sleep cycle and getting up early is easy now.

1. Convenience of tea eggs at 711.
2. Tomorrow I have the whole day off!
3. Learning to play pool.

1. Discovery that if I wake up 2 hours early to do what I want to do, I feel like I'm waking up for MYSELF instead of to work.
2. Time to surf this morning.
3. My cuddly cat. She's no trouble at all but adds a lot to my life.

1. Costco run!
2. Experiences that make you examine life.
3. Free time.
4. Possibility to make some $ with presentations.

1. Grateful idwtgbt!
2. Glad g wants to do the book with me.
3. Grateful for my day off today!

1. Planning. The whole process. It's kind of fun.
2. The perfect job coming along at the perfect time.
3. Help from a, offer from cc conversations with j.
4. Train stopped for me! How nice!
5. Visa stuff might just work out fine :)

1. My friends c and g and tm do lucky to have them.
2. Woke up early enough for a surf, 2 days in a row!
3. My cuddly cat. She's great.
4. I'm also grateful I'm a woman, not a man :)

1. Great skype with T last night, that girl CRACKS ME UP!
2. C is probably leaving too, or so it would seem. And I know it's none of my business but I think it'll be good for him. Life moves on. Onwards and upwards my friend! I really hope things go well for him.
3. Woke up early for a surf, it'll be a short one, but off I go!

1. Gonna surf today! And surfed yesterday! It's a good life.
2. Grateful for my video project. It makes me happy.
3. Grateful for how things are now, even if the way it happened was not good.

1. Chatting with friends and family. I'm really so so so lucky to have them. So lucky.
2. Relief of being done.
3. Job opportunity!
4. I'm going home. Agh!!! ok still not sure where exactly "home" is for me, at least not my forever home. But I'm really grateful I have a family to go home to. It'll be a challenge, but I'm so exited!

1. I movie and video editing. It's fun.
2. I've become an early riser! Yay!
3. Support from my friends and family.
4. Denial. It's not just a river in egypt, but sometimes it's a useful commodity.

1. Grateful for my analytical mind. Really! It brings me a lot of pain but I still love it. Someday, I have a feeling it'll pay off. It'll somehow serve me well.
2. Fresh air. Yeah, I'm not actually talking about air.
3. The perfect storm. It all came together, just how it had to, and it's been painful, but I believe in the end, the changes I make will be worth it.
4. I'm also grateful for good salads. I'm like a master chef these days.

1. Support, hour by hour, from friends and family.
2. Home boy said he might watch dresden!
3. Whole day to myself today!
4. Surf friends to hang with- lucky me!

1. Conversations with j. Blows my mind and expand my view every time!
2. Possible job opp!
3. The beautiful morning I'm about to experience when I take my walk. So lucky!

1. Delicious night of sleep.
2. New fridge, thanks to D!
3. Dinner with A, she da best!
4. AMAZING day surfing on sat,.man I'm lucky!

1. Yesterday could have been horrible and empty, but I had good friends and surfing to fill it up. I'm so lucky to have surfing in my life. And surfing became a part of my life because I was in this horrible relationship! You can learn good things from bad times.
2. I'm learning a lot.
3. So grateful for this book I'm reading.
In general, so grateful to the people who write books-it helps readers feel less alone. Any body who's ever leaned on a good book in a hard time knows what I mean.

1. Didn't lose key behind fridge.
2. E gave me another half hour to sleep.
3. Friends to surf with.

1. Freedom
2. Iktabgot
3. Mom's ok after her accident

Long time, no blog.
1. Interesting stories on umano, keep me feeling motivated and inspired.
2. The internet is such an amazing tool to help me teach my classes. So grateful for it.
3. So grateful for the life experiences that "gently encourage" me to be a better person (by gently encourage I mean repeatedly smash me over the head with a rock until I scream uncle and explore better behavioral options)

1. My allergies only lasted 3 days this spring :)
2. I have all day to do what I want.
3. I've got a plan, sam.

1. That things are getting clearer.
2. That I can surf today, and had a fun surf yesterday!
3. S who helps me walk my dogs. What a saint!

1. Only one class today!
2. The smoothie awaiting me at home!
3. Was fun to show g and t my house and back yard.

1. Waking up early though that I have 2 hours before I have to leave!
2. The weekend.
3. Lots of opportunities.
4. A comfortable life, easy to make a living.
5. I really am just so lucky.

1. Dogs keeping me safe.
2. Comfortable home.
3. As he said, "wnm, wdhb." Thank god!
4. K is preggers with twins! At 41! :D
5. It's good to have realizations, even when they're sad.

1. App to record sleep talking (which apparently I don't do) and dreams when I wake up so I don't have to fiddle with anything and forget my dream, I can just start talking.
2. I'm always the hero in my dream, breaking up gun fights and such.
3. Life is so interesting. Scary and hard sometimes, but always interesting. And mostly good and fun.

1. Game night at k's
2. Pretty sunny days
3. Healthy dogs and cat

1. podcasts
2. Video editing software
3. location location location: I live in a great spot!

1. Re plans- not as good as plans, but better than broken plans.
2. Antihistamines. How could I live without you? I want to know.
3. Delicious punkin and black bean soup recipes found online.

1. My new blender!
2. Good ideas- who knows where they come from!
3. Thursday's off

1. My editing work which I love.
2. A good evening with cm
3. Amazing hike yesterday with awesome new people.

1. Had so many challenges in my life, this looks tiny.
2. Walks with shannon
3. The hostel next door.
4. Hiking buddies

1. Costco run!
2. Connection with fam.
3. Job I loooooooove

1. Grateful for skype so I can talk to my family every day.
2. Grateful for the internet so I can seek out inspirational and optimistic news.
3. Grateful I'm learning so much about relationships and communicating.
4. And damn is it ever a beautiful day : D

1. M looks alright.
2. I've got options.
3. And I've got eyes to see

1. I have extra time this morning.
2. S always helps me.
3. Mom is ok.

1. Another chance.
2. Beautiful beautiful morning!
3. Thanks past cami for packing a snack!

1. Mom and even dad- supportive and encouraging instead of a burden. Every time I hear from a friends who's parents burden them emotionally and in other ways, I'm just so grateful. My petty problems are enough to deal with!
2. I have what I need to make my dreams come true. I just need to add hard work.
3. Release. I'm starting to see how it can be over now, and I can be ok with it. I'm lucky actually.

1. A and s and nice long walks.
2. It's a beautiful, sunny day!
3. Editing work, possibilities for making money before I leave.

1. Said it before but I'll say it again. Oh internet, how I love you. I love that I can but cheap used stuff from thy hallowed pages, I love your ability to bring together like minded strangers and reduce my loneliness, I love that anything I need to know is at my fingertips. You da best!
2. I'm grateful my phone stopped flipping the f out.
3. I'm grateful for lessons at donald's house.
4. I'm also grateful I get a chinese lesson from shannon today!

1. Lfcb.
2. Opportunity to make more money with accept editing!!!
3. That stuff trisha sent me opened on my phone even if it wouldn't open on my computer. Yahoo!!! I'm so lucky!

Dear breadmaker,

I love you. I really really do. So much deliciousness comes out of you every week and it's cheaper and way healthier than the store-bought stuff. I thought I bought you more for my exboyfriend who really didn't appreciate you. But no, now I realize I bought you for me. You're. Just. Awesome!
TTS