Today's Three Thanks

If you are new here, please read the first post before anything else... then come back here and tell me what you're thankful for :)

As I sit here, I know I have lots to be grateful for but nothing is running up to me and hitting me in the head. So I will sit from where I'm at and look around, and make my list from what I see around me:

1. My cats. I have 4 cats that are just unbeliveable. They each have very different personalities and they each are just like little people. I have one that loves ice cream and sleeps btwn Hubby and I every night. She meows so much that we changed her name, after 5 or 6 years, to Meems, which evolved out of calling her Meow because she is incessantly talking to you at all times. I have another, Poagie (like Hoagie) who was very sick as a kitten and had respiratory problems. He now purrs like a pigeon (not kidding), only it's 3x as loud. I have been on the phone with customer service people and they have asked me "do you have a bird?" and I tell them "no, it's my cat here on my lap". This has happened at least 10 times. I have another named Harley who likes to dip her paw into the water bowl over and over again, licking the water off each time. She also loves to lay spread-eagle in the middle of wherever you need to be standing. And when she isn't laying in your way, she stands there at your feet, and must always have one of her back feet on top of your foot. And lastly, the youngest, Google... He likes to play fetch just like a Chocolate Lab would (not kidding, even waits for you to throw the toy by looking in the direction it's headed). He also meows specifically for attention, and when our alarm clock goes off, he comes from wherever he is in the house and jumps on the bed. Next, he meows at me to wake me up so I can move the pillow I'm hugging and make room for him to "spoon". He will curl up in that little area under my arm and up against my chest and rest his head on my arm like it was a pillow. We sleep there for about another 10 minutes til he alarm goes off again. He does this 5-6 mornings out of the week. I love them all and they have brought immeasurable amounts of joy to my life!

2. My ability to type fast. Sometimes I'll be emailing back and forth with someone and the email ends up being 7 huge paragraphs long by the time I'm done with it. But it's only because I type really fast. And, I type/write like I speak, so I never abbreviate or edit what it is I'm trying to say, I just put it all out there. I am grateful for the ability to articulate in the written word so accurately because I type so fast and have the time to get all the words in there!

3. My beautiful floors. When Hubby and I bought this house, it was covered in wall-to-wall light gray carpeting that looked as if it had been installed 50 years ago (because it was THAT gross). Due to his unbelievable allergies, we knew we were getting rid of all of it. So only 1 hour after closing on the house and getting the keys, we started ripping it up. What we put in it's place was 1,200 sq. ft. of laminate (Pergo-like) flooring, and we did it all by ourselves (Hubby was a great assistant!). The flooring only came to about $2,000 for the entire house, and we had the whole thing done in about a week (working all day and night), doing one room a day and then taking breaks to do other things as well. People are still amazed that we did them all ourselves, because they're just THAT gorgeous... go ahead and see for yourself what a difference it made in our house! I sure am one lucky gal to have such low-maintenance floors!

What are you thankful for?

(tell me in the comments)