random shit for which I'm thankful, 2006
kelly | 22 November 2006 - 4:53pm
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because it is a sincere celebration of something I value. There are no strings (or holiday ribbons) attached: no obligatory gift giving, no commercialization, no unnecessary pomp and circumstance. It is, simply, a day to give thanks. And while I don't offer thanks to a deity, I do believe in appreciating the blessings of life. And I love the thought of families, of all shapes and sizes, each gathering around a table. Thanksgiving is a coming together of community, a setting aside of differences, a humble appreciation of life. It's all very Whoville, really.
I am overwhelmingly thankful for the big things. That's true this year more than ever before. But there are also many little things that I appreciate, and so I'll continue last year's list.
(But first let me say thanks for being here. I'm so grateful for you guys.)
- doctors
- cream soda
- that new car smell
- photography
- yoga
- Democratic control of Congress
- the look my brother and I exchange when we're thinking the same thing
- Buy one get one 50% off shoe sales
- the stars
- my mom's constant kindness
- the bread share
- comedians like Jon Stewart and Sacha Baron Cohen
- camels
- dolphins
- the coupons Victoria's Secret sends me for a "free panty" (even though I hate that word)
- words
- the color brown
- my co-workers and colleagues who make me laugh and send me complimentary emails and sometimes even give me a round of applause at meetings
- my dad's grin
- that JLD&HFD are local
- people who send me taglines (hint hint)
- air transportation
- scarves and mittens
- Wikipedia contributors
- crème brûlée
- NPR
- cat paws
- our electric blanket which warms the bed before I get in
- sugary cupcake sprinkles
- that I get to start and end each day lying next to Rob
- 495 reads
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I'm thankful that I am finally on the cover of Advocate magazine. After so long, after that hellish sham of a marriage to Rebecca, after staying so quiet when the studios demanded I not respond to rumours ... I'm finally out.
Oh, and VS is handing out free underpants? Sign me up.
i gots me the same coupon in the mail the other day...love it. i'm thankful for my health, my family and friends, my job, my volunteering, my mind, my 14.3-pound cat, little house on the prairie, and for all of my other blessings. very thankful.
Best title ever. Also: I am thankful for gravy, so thank you, too, for reminding me of that (in your tagline.) : )
Oh, and also: can you believe! they did not include Jon Stamos in People's Sexiest Man Alive for 2006 issue? I call a recount.
Happy! thanksgiving to you and yours. May there be copious amounts of stuffing enjoyed by all.
Great list. I too am thankful for air travel...and will be more thankful in 4 weeks.
I love cream soda!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!
Wikipedia rocks. Best thing I've found on the web this year.
Whoville. I love it. I hope you have an extended weekend and that you enjoy it.
I am attempting to limit the time that I'm on the computer while I'm visiting family, so I'll have to read your list later.
But I wanted to tell you Happy Thanksgiving!
WHo ville I live there as does John Stamos. Who? John Stamos...Who is that?
All good things to be thankful for. I prefer the word panties to underpants. I cringe even writing that word.
Happy Thanksgiving!!
i'm thankful for peanut butter--don't forget peanut butter
I love Thanksgiving, too. Because I really do love the whole idea of being thankful. There's always something.
No panties? What do you like? Drawers? Knickers?
Hope you've had a great day :)
I have SO much to be thankful for this year, but you have an AWESOME list, much of the same things I'm thankful for as well!
But speaking of peanut butter, seriously, I am so thankful that my first post-pregnancy meal at home was a peanut butter sandwich--I haven't been able to eat peanut butter during my ENTIRE pregnancy.
Tonight- SUSHI!!!!
Happy Turkey Day to you and yours, Kalki.
Well what a great list. I hate the word panty too!
Kelly Ladles Overflowing Gratitude.
For the record (and I'm sure I speak for William), I'm totally in favour of no panties.
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday too. For all of the reasons you said, the family, the food, the time together. The fact that the retailers ignore it is just frosting on the cookie.
And I like the word panty. I also like saying it without the "t". Pannies. And if you call your husbands boxer-briefs his pannies? Totally bugs him. Bonus.
Okay, I just need to say that John Stamos being on the cover of the Advocate makes me adore him even more. And also, rather than it being an indication that he is himself gay, it is merely proof that, as I've suggested before, his sex appeal transcends gender. He is universally fuckable.
That is all.
Happy belated Tanksgibbing (I thieved GadgetGirl's interpretation). I'm late to the party, but I still showed.
cream soda and NPR, girl, i knew i virtually liked you.
I, too, am very thankful for Democratic control of Congress (not that I don't think they will have their own set of evil-doings for us to deal with), my mom, and scarves. But I find mittens to have been a very silly invention, and if I had to share my bed with B's 600 degrees of body heat PLUS an electric blanket, I would surely melt to death.
Hope you & Rob had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
oh, and thanks to ern I will only be referring to my husband's boxer-briefs as "pannies" from now on. I love it!!!