Tuesday in which I buy a delicious burger

from social media I wrote this earlier today for my grandmother. ....

Oh HI. I got my old Chromebook out since FB / Meta has my accounts all screwy. So my phone died last Tuesday and I lost a lot, I mean a total motherboard failure, would cost 800 to fix and so I got a new phone, different brand, and I lost all of my WhatsApp chats and history, everything. I can't access my public instagram account, I can't get uber or lyft or nj transit apps to work, ETC. I got to get on that part soon 🙁 But I am also thankful and I am doing a thank you God list right now. This is esp for my Grandma because she is on FB!

Here it goes:

1. I went to tea and sympathy two Monday's in a row in NYC

2. I have all my senses

3. I had the money to get a new phone, that's pretty BIG LOL

4. I made a turkey casserole yesterday and used a sauce from 2 years ago, which was encouraging because I had gotten really sick and to see that I still do anything that was good during that time is pretty huge to me.

5. The casserole dish was my + (Great) Aunt Phyl's and I love using it so much...

6. my Grandma's rose vase, I moved it to my icons after getting our wall cleaned and I love where it is now, that rose in the rose vase from my Grandma's is like our hearts being together, because God wants us to be a flower in His garden and to tend our hearts and pull out the weeds and plant beauty deep inside us via the Holy Spirit, the Comforter and Truth, and when I see that rose it's like I am seeing a prayer, a deep prayer of need, hope and beauty

7. I remember as a child seeing my Grandma's roses in her garden and she had a pink beautiful rose I think called A Peace Rose and that's everything.... 

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So that's what I wrote! 

I managed to do laundry today and some dishes.  We were running out of room for where to store clean but not yet folded laundry.

So miraculously all of the three apps I use for Transit returned in working order today to my phone. So that's huge. 

However, I pay for YouTube premium or whatever and my entire download list of 2 years is gone. That music sustained me for two of the most difficult years of my life. So of course I did some crying about that. I was so shocked. I should have realized I guess because I have downloaded stuff on my Chromebook And the downloads from my phone weren't there. I just didn't think about downloads not being in the cloud. 

I have refound some of my most special songs already. Thankfully I have screenshotted a lot of things so I just looked in Google photos and found what I needed. 

The screenshots of the song is one of those special songs... I was listening to it on St. John's Day July 2 in 2024 and that was a very special day for me. I saw one of the Holy icons of the Mother of God that day. 

the song ....

So in some ways I'm a bit of emotional mess yet, but that's normal when I'm triggered and when I don't have enough sleep. So I understand what's going on though I don't always realize it fully. 

I'm reading the second in a series of seven of a YA series and I'm really enjoying it. 

I reorganized some of my bookshelves by my reading table. I even found some books that I can lend out to a family who has a lot of kids and loves books. 

So that makes me really happy. 

So a lot of things to be thankful for while I'm dealing with a unbloggable prayer request.  

I don't know if I've talked much about the insomnia I've been dealing with for 3 years as much as I have lately, I'm just thankful that I had a month where it was going much better.  

Also on the new calendar the Nativity fast has begun and And fast periods often have trials that are unexpected and for me that often means that I will get some insomnia. 

The wonderful thing is is that God is always here and I truly have so much to be thankful for...

Including for my Grandma's who is 95 now! May God have mercy on us all.