It's that time again

This is what this dotcom is for, so that on days like today I can look back to a year ago and see what I was thinking. Last year, around this time, I was thankful for a buncha things and it's weird to read it again and think about it. I'm sick today, and I had a sneaky suspicion that I was sick again this time of year last year. And I was. I'm not crazy-- I had a cold for last thanksgiving, I haven't been sick all year, and here we go, thanksgiving & midterms and my cold comes running along just to ruin my day. Last year I said that I was thankful for colds because it reminds me what it's like to be healthy. This year I'm thinking just about the same thing-- likewise, I'm thankful for Halls and Advil Liquigels and orange juice and tea with lemon. So here we go, it's that time again, time to give thanks.

Thanks dad, for leaving me your car, even though you could have sold it and gotten some money for it. And thanks for fixing the brakes even though it's not your problem to deal with. And thanks for the family discount. And thanks for getting me from work even when you're far away, or laughing at my corny jokes, or buying me coffee in the morning. Thanks for talking with me about school and what I'm gonna do when it's all over, and teaching me about things that only fathers can teach their daughters.

Thanks mum, for calling me every morning just to see if I slept in. For listening to me bitch and complain on an hourly basis. For letting me yell at you when you know I'm angry, and accept my apology an hour later. Thanks for walking me to the bus stop with Boss and giving me bus tickets when I forgot to buy any. Thanks for calling every night before you come home to see if we need anything, and asking "are you sure" seven times before you hang up. For giving me cooking tips and eating the food I make, even when it's not that good, but promising it's delicious. Thanks for making me sandwiches, because there's something in the way you spread the mayo or lay the mortadella that makes it taste so much better. Thank you.

Thanks sisters & brother. For being friends not because we're family but because we're actually friends. For being annoying and making me crazy, for letting me threaten my own life, because a day later things will be okay again. I'm thankful for Boss. I cannot say it enough, thank you kid.  And for Ivan. And for the internet. So thankful for the internet, I don't know what I would do without you. And I'm thankful for my job, even though I hate it most of the time, I should be thankful anyway because there are a hell of a lotta people out there who don't have one and cannot get one, so I'm thankful anyway. I'm thankful for dish strainers, I'm not really sure where the wet dishes went, and if they had to be immediately dried, well I'm sorry and still thankful.

And. I'm thankful for movies, and television in general. They bring me hours of entertainment, and on the worst of days they're still around. I'm thankful for books and for music, because even when I'm busy busy busy they give me a moment to relax. Speaking of relaxing, I'm thankful for my bed. So so so thankful. It is easily my most favourite place in the world. I'm thankful for telephones, and facebook, and twitter and other modes of communication so that I can still talk to you, even when you're far away.

I'm thankful for a God. I say a God because I don't know who you are but I'm sure, without a doubt, that there's someone there.

So thank you. For all that, and I'm sure so much more. But Thanks. Every year I come out of this list feeling selfish because I know that there are a lot of people who can't give thanks for these things-- and I don't mean the material things, but the basic things, like moms and dads, siblings, food, water, a home. If you notice, I didn't even bother to be thankful for food. Or water. These are things I take for granted. These are things that I forget people dont have immediate access to. I am thankful, really. I think I just forget those things most of the time. So all in all, I'm thankful that I have all these things that I forget about, things that others don't really have, things that others pray for and would regularly give thanks for.

Be thankful.