10 Things I am thankful for
#185963 - 06/13/05 07:49 AM
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Since it's so hot and yucky I figured today would be a good day for us to all share what we are thankful for. 
1. TommyNY
2. my cat, Sara Bell
3. my brother's pool that I enjoyed on Saturday, twice
4. my air conditioner
5. my deck that I enjoyed last night with a magazine and a drink
6. my tummy has been pretty good lately
7. the new people that moved into my building are VERY quiet and their dog is so ADORABLE!
8. living alone and being able to walk around in my underwear anytime I want to.
9. buying a full size ironing board and not having to use that pathetic 1/2 size one I thought was a good idea.
10. all my friends, both in this city, other cities and on-line.
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Good idea SS!
1. Having friends that care for once
2. family, since we are going through a getting along period
3. Being able to control my tummy for the most part
4. My new summer job
5. being single
6. watching zombie movies during all of our recent thunder/lightening storms
7. Online friends
8. The SJ IBS Support Group (thanks melissa!)
9. Falling in love with music
10. My tix to see Modest Mouse on Friday in Atlantic City with my sis
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-Sheri
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1. Eric
2. Cara
3. Charlie
4. Riley (even though he's being a bad, bad boy today)
5. Neil
6. My house
7. HGTV
8. Gym membership (too hot to run outside in the summer here)
9. Nexium
10. My seersucker Black and White striped trousers (the official trousers of Jenny's summer vacation)
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This is a good idea!.. although, it's not hot and yucky here, it is grey and rainy and a different kind of yucky!
1. Adrian. Love, love, love him. We have been getting along so well, he has been very good to me.
2. Asacol - Reeeeeally helps my tummy.
3. Adrian's new job - we still don't see each other much, but they treat him waaaay better.
4. The Seattle Get Together in 2 weeks - For being something to look forward to!
5. My little dog Gabby, for still being around to give me cuddles.
6. Not living alone, but choosing to still walk around in my underwear. 
7. eBay!! I got so many wonderful things, I just can't wait for it to start arriving in the mail!!
8. Roobios tea and Metro Mint Water - am peeing all day, every day now as am completely addicted to both.
9. Having the internet at work! Oh my god, the other day it went off for some reason for like 10 minutes and I was like, "What am I gonna do all day now???"
10. Last but not least, everybody here who gives me support even though I am a bit of a whinger.  **hugs**
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~~I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell-I know right now you can't tell~~Matchbox 20
IBS-D,pain.
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1. my wonderful boyfriend, who woke up extra early yesterday just to be with me when I was sick
2. my kitty Lacey, who is still adorable even when she's being a trouble maker at 4am in the morning
3. having an awesome job and boss
4. my family and friends
5. Shelley, Kandee, and Melissa - who amaze me every day with their energy and enthusiasm
6. making over $125 for the Fall Sprawl by standing outside of Wal-mart for 8 hrs on Saturday making balloon animals and keeping my step-mom company while she sold her breast cancer awareness junk (woohoo!)
7. being able to afford renting a nice quiet condo by myself
8. naps - especially the one I will enjoy later if I'm still not feeling well
9. my upcoming trip to Seattle with Mike to see Shelley & Shane, Stephie & Adrian, and Heather and Will
10. life overall
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- Jennifer
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1. The grace God has given me.
2. My loving, healthy family.
3. My new baby Samwise whose love is just so genuine and sweet, I love cuddling him!
4. Crispix cereal.
5. The pool, wears the kids out by bedtime.
6. Our babysitter who is coming tomorrow night, she is the best.
7. That hubby and I still love each other so much.
8. PC, internet, and email - keeps me in touch with so many great people.
9. Balloons - kids are still entertained days later from the ones from Sarah's party!
10. Vodka... Eric and I had a little last night in juice and tummy tolerated it fine, helps us RELAX if you know what I mean! 
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Take care,
Michelle
...the greatest of these is LOVE. (I Cor 13)
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1. My wonderful, caring, loving live-in BF, Jim
2. Knowing that my family is there if I need them
3. Our cat, Suki
4. Having a job that at least pays me enough to squeak by each week and not have to struggle TOO much
5. Knitting
6. Summer!! I'll take this heat and humidity any day over snow!
7. The weight I have lost since diagnosed and starting Heather's diet
8. The boards - they help me through some rough times, even if I do not always post
9. My new cell phone! I was having MAJOR problems with Cingular and switched to Verizon this weekend. So far - problem solved!!
10. Being forced to learn how to cook in order to follow this diet - the diet is a lifesaver and I'm eating so much healthier than I was a year ago! And I'm enjoying cooking and baking!
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Michelle
IBS-A, pain predominant
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1. My beautiful husband Asaf, who cuts up ginger root when I am nauseous in the middle of the night, whenever, strokes my hair and tells me he loves me. I would shrink away without him.
2. This board which took away all the isolation of having had IBS for so long. There is always a place I can come when it all gets too much to bear.
3. My best friends back in London who continue to stay in amazing touch and are there for me when I need them.
4. My loving Mummy and Daddy who listen and support me (for the most part!!) till I am blue in the face, and for being my friends too.
5. My baby brother Leon (age 23!!) who never judges or finds fault, just listens and makes me laugh. He is perfect.
6. For this yucky humid weather which I prefer so much to any other season!! :-)
7. For a bathroom full of magazines and books and my diary to help me through the endless sitting there.
8. For Asaf making enough money to allow me to work part time and relax.
9. For studying clinical nutrition and naturopathy and allowing me to enter a world where one day I will help others.
10. For hope. Hope that I will find the cure for this, that I will find healing eventually, that this is going to be ok, that this is happening for a reason, and that one day it will be part of my past and not my present.
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Feel the fear and do it anyway!
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That was so beautiful Dalia.
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I was just going to say that!!
Dalia, you are so lovely!
All kinds of lovely!
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~~I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell-I know right now you can't tell~~Matchbox 20
IBS-D,pain.
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Hey sweetie, thanks for the compliment. You are lovely too!! :-) I am sorry I haven't emailed you back - been all busy with a Jewish festival this weekend and all that stuff - will email soon!
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Feel the fear and do it anyway!
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Steph!
#186002 - 06/13/05 10:21 AM
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daliatree
Reged: 07/10/04
Posts: 1176
Loc: Manhattan, New York
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Hey babe! Thanks so much for the compliment - you are gorge (my version of gorgeous!). Sounds like things are really picking up for you and Adrian and I am so happy to hear that. Things will so click into place and I really think moving out, if you can, is a great option - woooo hoooo party!!! :-)
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Feel the fear and do it anyway!
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1. Adam
2. My garden, even if it is a lot of work
3. Being well enough to WORK in the garden!
4. Fla-Vor-Ice pops (you know, those awful cheap ice pops they sell 200 to a box and you freeze them yourself... thank goodness I'm not sensitive to HFCS, because I live on those things!)
5. Phoebe, Phaedra, Lew and Gwen, all of whom are insanely cute when they're too hot. (I know, that's kind of mean.)
6. Adam's old T-shirts to lounge around the house in
7. Subsequently getting jumped *ahem* because of how I look in said T-shirts 
8. Living in a small town
9. Family
10. Friends. All of ya.
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1. My now live-in boyfriend, Mac, who spoils me rotten by cooking for me, fixing my air conditioner, snuggling with me when I don't feel well, eating basically whatever I eat even though he doesn't have IBS, and cleans my cat's litter box without me even asking
2. All of my friends here on the boards, it sooo wonderful to have people who understand when I'm not feeling well what I'm going through
3. The gorgeous apartment we just signed a lease on that my best friend, his girlfriend, Mac and I are moving in to the end of August
4. My very talkative calico, Gracie
5. My best friend, Kevin, and his girlfriend, Andie, my two wonderfully considerate, fun roommates (we made dinner for Andie's birthday two weeks ago, and Kevin made sure to make a Melissa-safe portion for me, they're both so great about what I can and can't eat)
6. My air conditioner! My IBS would be even worse without it.
7. It's break week, I don't have to be at work or in classes again until Monday!
8. That even though I have destabilized some due to finals and such, that I'm still able to function and get out of my apartment
9. My ice cream maker, mmmm homemade sorbets
10. The life I lead right now, where I have just barely enough money, a wonderful boyfriend and roommates, my cat, my parttime job that's incredibly flexible, my tough, but great double major, my awesome fraternity, and my ability to handle all of it.
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Melissa
Friendship is thicker than blood. ~Rent
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ha ha ha, you get jumped because you look cute in Adam's t-shirts. That's TOO freakin' cute Casey!
YAY!
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No problem Dalia. Just email me when you have time.
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My Top 10....
1. My Tina
2. Good health
3. My family
4. Tina's cat Sara Bell
5. My air conditioner
6. Having a job
7. Great friends
8. My IBS, because without that, I don't meet Tina or you guys!
9. The awesome people on these boards.
10. Life in general!
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YAY! Thanks Tommy. 
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Of course, not in this order
1. My parents (who drove cross country to be at my son's graduation)--and their good health (they're in their 70's)
2. my beagles who love me no matter how I look
3. my sons---even though they keep me worrying constantly
4. the fact that I was here for my son's high school graduation (a goal of mine that kept me going about 5 years ago during the deepest, darkest moment of my life)
5. finally starting my period!!! And the recent false pregnancy test!!!
6. friends on this board that keep me sane
7. my husband's job that allows me to stay at home
8. wonderful health insurance that has given me the opportunity to get well this year
9. my wonderfully sweet and smart physiatrist (not to be confused with my duffus psychiatrist!) who diagnosed my back problem
10. being able to sleep in my bed now (instead of sitting up in a chair)---well, 98 percent of the time!
11. Diet Coke with Lime---sorry, but I can't live without them. It starts with breakfast!
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Heh, BL...
#186079 - 06/13/05 04:48 PM
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atomic rose
Reged: 06/01/04
Posts: 7013
Loc: Maine (IBS-A stable since July '05!)
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Don't feel bad... one of my 10 was ALMOST "my daily can of Coke". LOL!! I know. I'm a bad example for the rest of ya!
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Great topic, Sara-Sage.
1. The sensual world. Sight, sound, taste, touch, smell. It's quite the theatre for the soul to explore life embodied, or humanly impersonated.
2. Having too much, and more than plenty to share and spare.
3. My aloneness, my solitude.
4. The language of art, music, nature.
5. My family, my friends, the people I have known and the people I know and the people I have yet to meet. They/we are all passengers on the journey.
6. Empty moments, empty spaces.
7. Finding something thought lost.
8. Forgiveness and the art of forgiving. Second chances.
9. Ideas.
10. Intuition.
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1. God and the many blessings that come with knowing Him.
2. My husband of almost 20 years.
3. My precious children.
4. The moms who chose to give my children life so that my husband and I could adopt them.
5. Family and friends.
6. The fact that I have a wonderful job and a great boss!
7. My puppies and kittens.
8. Air conditioning since we live in Houston, TX!
9. My health...despite the IBS.
10. That I have a wonderful life.
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Have a blessed day!...Rachel
stable and sooooooo thankful!
I have IBS but it doesn't have me!
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This actually should be done like once every three months. Puts our lives in perspective and keeps us grounded doesn't it!!!
1. My healthy family
2. My absolutely WONDERFUL husband who I love and adore and I know loves and adores me back for the last 14 years of marriage (plus the 9 we dated).
3. My wonderful boys who give me joy every day.
4. My sister who is my best friend
5. Wipies for my hiney when I have BAD IBS flare up days.
6. My job which I actually like going to each day
7. My wonderful house which keeps getting better and better each year we live in it.
8. The beach
9. This wonderful humidity that we are having and that summer is just around the corner!!!
10. Last but not least, all my IBS friends that I've met this last year. Here's to all who listened to my rants and raves!!!!! Thanks guys
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~~~Lisa~~~
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1. my family (husband and son)
2. my health
3. God
4. summertime
5. friends especially those of you here!
6. children (not just mine but all of them)
7. chocolate
8. Heather V and this wonderful website
9. water (to swim in, drink, and just sit back and relax by)
10. the precious gift of being alive!
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1. My parents
2. My brother and Sister
3. My friends.. even you guys!
4. My health (in the grand scheme of things ibs isn't as bad as it could be.)
5. Anything thats the color purple
4. Sealife.. I hate to swim with them but love to eat them. (that means you lobster and shrimp.)
3. Swedish Fish
2. My awesome apartment all my own.
1. Summer!
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1. God
2. My husband
3. My baby in my belly
4. My parents and brother and sister who are so excited for this baby
5. My house and my puppies
6. My husband's job and being able to work part time
7. Music and dancing
8. Children and their contagious smiles
9. Swimming pools
10. This website and all the people for helping me when I thought there was nowhere else to turn!
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~Cara~
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Quote:
4. Sealife.. I hate to swim with them but love to eat them.
That really cracked me up for some reason....
And I forgot to add candy to my list!
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~Cara~
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haha glad I could give you a laugh cara!
well after reading yours I realized I forgot to add two of my fave things ever.
CHILDREN
and
DANCING!!
so there you go.. two more for me and candy for you.
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hello.. way to count Ashley!!!
I promise I did pass first grade. haha
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1. Simon, with whom I am getting on very well atm and who loooked after me really well last night when I had a migraine!
2. Our pup Archie, even if he is a terror with some very bad habits (almost all our fault  ).
3. My garden, which is starting to come together and is fantastic for pottering in and enjoying the nice weather.
4. My job...just for having a job, finally!
5. Our family, with whom we are just so lucky (going sailing with my family on Saturday! ).
6. My best friend who's hopefully finishing her college course soon so I get to see her again (she's been sooo busy)!
7. All you guys who've done so much for me and keep me sane when everything else goes crazy.
8. Our new neighbours who are lovely and have adorable kids...SUCH a nice change from the nutters that were there previously!
9. It's summer, I love summer!
10. Simon working his butt off this year doing a project for my Dad's company in his spare time....which means we'll be able to wipe off the credit cards and get new windows by the end of the summer! It'll be so cool to not be paying hundreds into credit cards each month!
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Fish really freak me out if I'm in water, but I LOVE eating them! It's the reason I give when anyone asks why I eat seafood/fish but no meat.
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It's the little things for me:
1) Liz's party last friday
2) Bundaberg Ginger Beer
3) Whatever it is that's changed, that's given me my old self back last week!
4) Ferrogradumet iron supplement
5) My job, which I love
6) My friends who I made through my job, whom I love
7) Stand-up comedy at Indigo Thursday nights
8) My Mum and Dad
9) My gadgets.. my laptop, my ipod and my camera
10) I can eat pesto on bagels without triggering an attack! YAY!
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*Emma*
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1. Tara - the only person I can be completely silly with!!
2. Lucy and the cats. Somehow dogs seem to give life a bit more meaning when you are depressed. I think it's the fact you have to look after them.
3. My garden, especially my greenhouse. The strawberries and courgettes are delicious!
4. My greenhouse - I love it so much it had to have it's own spot!!
5. My job at the kennels. Hard work, but fun.
6. My stripey hammock.
7. Chocolate and ice-cream. I know I shouldn't eat them, but I can't always resist.
8. My family in spite of all the stress they have caused me.
9. My beautiful house and fantastic neighbours.
10. My friends, both old and new.
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OK, this is timely as things are pretty cr@p at the moment:
1. Padhraig, my husband to be, my rock, I really don't know what I would do without him. He is everything to me, he looks after me so much and is my best friend. He listens to me, talks to me and gives me hugs when I need them. He is the best.
2. My sisters for being such fun and such good shopping buddies, they always cheer me up.
3. My brothers, mostly, the small one for giving me a reason to act like a kid and the older ones for understanding stuff.
4. My Mum. Yes she wrecks my head very often but we have good times together and I know that she would do anything for me.
5. My friends- in person, on the phone, online, the people that I can talk to, chat to tell my stories to, the people who listen to me and don't judge and the ones who make me laugh out loud.
6. The fact that we have (almost)enough money to own our own house, go on nice holidays, own a car and plan our wedding.
7. my own space and time for me
8. Our lovely house, its so nice to have all the work done and to be able to enjoy the place now.
9.comfy shoes. I love shoes so much but when I get home and put on my runners or slippers I am in foot heaven
10. Marks and Spencers Foodhall. I LOVE that place, yummy yummy.
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S.
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1. My fiance Tim. He is my soulmate and my best friend. He hands out massages and tonight he's handling dinner b/c he knows I'm burnt out.
2. Being 85% "stable". With everything going on in my life, I don't know how I could do it if I wasn't.
3. This website, message boards, information, and people. Truly changed my life.
4. Having only 5 weeks until I get married. I couldn't stand the pressure if it was any longer!
5. My family and friends.
6. My dog Noey. She is the best cuddler and gives great kisses.
7. Losing 30 pounds in the last year (mainly b/c of IBS).
8. My career and job security.
9. Having the financial security to not have to worry about getting my bills paid and to build a house in 9 months.
10. Comfortable pants- the first thing I change in to as soon as I get home every day.
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IBS-A, with bloating and gas as my predominant symptoms
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