A little Gratitude

Seeing as I had only 2 posts in November (I was the queen of starting a post and not finishing it this month - December resolution, I promise) I'm throwing out a bonus Thanksgiving Day inspired post. It's really original...

I’m Thankful For…

Co-workers who drop everything they’re doing to shove ideas around with me. Yes, there’s some shoving, just of the ideas though… and in a really good way that makes me argue smarter.

Will Ferrell movies that make me laugh when I’m bummed out.

Pop Culture Trivial Pursuit DVD edition

Vanilla Eggnog (the grown-up kind)

My family’s cheesecake recipe and the hand-me-down springform pan my mom gave me to make it in

A 40 pound black mutt who is afraid of a pillow falling off the couch

An 80 lb Weimeraner who carries his food bowl around all day like he’s a starving African child that needs a sponsor

My iPhone. I hate to be so materialistic but this thing is the real deal Holyfield. Like woah.

A mom who forgives me for forgetting her birthday

A dad who cares so much about my mom that he sends me a well-deserved scathing email for forgetting my mom’s birthday

A Grammy who teaches me over the phone how to seal my pie crusts so they don’ t ooze out the side “just like Mimi used to do it”

A brother whose passion for his profession (ski patrolling) is both admirable and inspiring

A brother whose understated sensitivity and bashful sense of humor can bring me (privately) to tears

A boyfriend who has the same qualities I admire and love about my brothers (but not in a weird creepy way).

Friends who will Facebook, Twitter and text me wherever and whenever but still meet me in person for a drink and dance like idiots (quasi-privately) so we all feel better.

A boyfriend who merely grins and shakes his head when I royally screw up the entire universe

My Corolla and its gas mileage that has helped the ruin of my finances rise from the ashes

My Northface Bionic jacket – it’s just really that amazing.

Gossip magazines: my escape from the all-too-often depressing face of the real world

Not having to do dishes (at least rarely anyways)

Learning to golf

Knowing how to ski

Amazing sunsets, anytime, anyplace.

My four-day weekend that I’m going to spend with friends, family, food and football that starts right….now.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!