My Thankfulness Bubble

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It's that time of year again, it seems. Thankfulness. Loads of "what are you thankful for" posts on Facebook. Everyone sharing Thanksgiving memes and being "kind" to one another. Or at least putting forth the semblance of being kind.

I usually just ignore. "The holidays" aren't my favorite and all of the sugary-sweet posts just make me feel cynical. Sure, I know some of the people well enough to know whether their hearts are behind these things and whether, in some cases, they're absolutely NOT. Maybe they don't know another way to express it?

So what IS it that really irritates me and makes me feel totally cynical? Insincerity is part of it I think. Mainly though I think it's more wondering where this attitude of thankfulness is for the rest of the year. Sure, it is great to be thankful and I don't want people to stop posting what they want to post. But for crying out loud, don't just post a meme - SHOW IT! Show some action to go with it. Show a general, overall attitude of thankfulness every day.

So what am I thankful for? So many things. But rather than list a bunch of things, which I'll likely do anyway, please just tell me you see my daily attitude of thankfulness. Because it's there. Every single day I am thankful. 

There's this thing that happens to me (and I'm hoping it's not just me and yet another indication that I'm crazy) when my mind gets so flooded with thought that all of the individual things just sort of come together into a big ball of jumbled thought-bubble. It forms and floats around and if you were to pop it, a million thoughts would fall out that would take forever to sort through. So I guess I'm saying that I have a "thankfulness bubble."

My Thankfulness Bubble is packed full all the time. Packed with small things like the smell of freshly cut grass and the saltiness of bacon all the way to big things like my best friend and the love of a good dog. There are a myriad of things in between like my eyesight and the fact that I have two healthy legs to carry me and a God I love and believe in. From the smell of coffee all the way to the men and women in the military who risk their lives for freedom. From every heartache I've ever experienced and learned from to the technology that keeps me connected to the people I love. Thankful to be HOME. For the the beautiful full moon tonight. And thankful that the wind doesn't blow at 50 mph here all the time.

Wait. What was that? I'm thankful for heartache? Absolutely without a doubt I am SO thankful for every bit of pain and heartache. Why? Because it taught me. It made me stronger. And without it, I wouldn't be able to experience or appreciate the joys in life. I wouldn't be me.

For more of my thoughts of that see my post here: Thank Goodness for Quilted Toilet Paper

So I will go enjoy Thanksgiving with friends and family tomorrow. I'm thankful for that because I haven't always had it. There have been quite a few Thanksgiving days spent alone.  Which makes me all the more thankful now.

But rest assured that I find thankfulness every single day. In everything. Life's just much better that way.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone and Happy Every Day too. Today, tomorrow and always!

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. 

It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. 

It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. 

~ Melody Beattie

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Get In My Mouth LE Collaboration Duo from Firecracker Lacquer and Darling Diva Polish - for Thanksgiving!

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Get In My Mouth Duo for Thanksgiving

From Firecracker Lacquer and Darling Diva Polish

First of all YAY MONDAY IS OVER! And secondly, there's a new Limited Edition Collaboration Duo from Firecracker Lacquer and Darling Diva Polish for Thanksgiving! It's called Get In My Mouth and the polishes work as a perfect duo: Stuff That Turkey and Cover It In Gravy.

Catch me after the jump for full swatches and review...

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

What is Thanksgiving Day here in the United States? Well, there are various stories and just as many meanings. Maybe you think of Pilgrims and Native Americans? Or a harvest celebration? Ye Olde English religious observations brought over to the "new world?" Or maybe it just means turkey and the age-old question "stuffing or dressing?" Black Thursday (formerly known as Black Friday)?

What I've always wanted it to mean, for me, is the Hallmark Thanksgiving you see on TV - families gathering together from all parts of the world to cook together in the kitchen, watch football, have family spats, eat too much turkey and then for it to be wrapped up in a nice Frank Capra-esque bow at the end of the day.

Yeah, that never really worked out for me.

What DOES work for me is spending time with the one I love, whether or not there's turkey, and just being thankful for all that I have. Just a FEW of the things I'm thankful for this year: my dogs who bring me so much love and joy, my man who I love with all my heart, my really true friends and plenty of the worldly things that don't really mean a lot until you don't have them. So many people aren't nearly as blessed and I hope for them all of the blessing I have and more.

Thanksgiving always reminds me of autumn, even though I don't really get to enjoy that where I live, so on my nails this Thanksgiving Day, I'm wearing autumn.

China Glaze Wagon Trail with Nubar 2012 on top.

I hope your Thanksgiving Day (whichever way you celebrate and it on whatever day in your own way all over the world) is filled with blessings and an abundance of people and things for which to be thankful.


XOXO,
♥ Sheila

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Cult Nails Gives Back

Those of us who've ordered nail polish from Maria at Cult Nails or follow her blog R3 Daily, or follow her on Facebook or Twitter know what an amazing person she is. We've followed her as she started to develop her own nail polishes and grew her business.

And now we follow along as she gives back.


She is donating approximately 40 turkeys towards Thanksgiving meal baskets for those in need that she will be putting together & delivering tomorrow. Maria says, "That means that the polish you have all bought is helping give back to those in need! Who knew a bottle of polish could be so powerful! You didn't even know you were helping others! Thank you all! I look forward to being able to do even more in the future."


And we look forward to doing even more business with YOU in the future, Maria.


This Thanksgiving, among many other wonderful blessings in my life, I am thankful for small business people like Maria who give back.