# Happy Thanksgiving! What are you thankful for this year? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 25, 2010, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-what-are-you-thankful-for-this-year/561852 "2010-11-25T05:01:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-what-are-you-thankful-for-this-year/561852/21 "2010-11-26T12:57:07Z")
**mookie** , I’m very sorry that you’re in so much pain. One of the other things I’m thankful for is that I live in a time when they’ve perfected antidepressants. I strongly encourage you to see a doctor and discuss the possibility of taking them – they can be truly life-transforming. **twickster** , who struggles with depression herself ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-what-are-you-thankful-for-this-year/561852/22 "2010-11-26T13:31:03Z")
I’m thankful I have a loving, fairly closeknit family. I don’t have much money, but I’m healthy and still manage to live as well as most people can. But most of all I’m thankful I still have my grandmother. As her oldest grandchild I love her as much as anyone on the planet. That’s without running down the love I have for my parents. Grandma, as of today, 11/26, is exactly three week short of her _ **106th birthday!!!** _ ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-what-are-you-thankful-for-this-year/561852/23 "2010-11-26T15:32:38Z")
Bloody Hell, **Baker** , I want a pic of her so I can tell my 96yo Grandma that she’s a total spring chicken! “Live long and prosper” indeed. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-what-are-you-thankful-for-this-year/561852/24 "2010-11-26T22:20:01Z")
I’m back in America, looking forward to my first holiday season in four years. Graduate school is going great, I am very successful in my academic work, and I am learning useful things. Despite being in a new city, I have a great existing peer network, and I am adding to that every day. I am thankful every day. This is truly one of the great times of my life, and I am damned lucky to have so much going for me. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-what-are-you-thankful-for-this-year/561852/25 "2010-11-27T00:30:57Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Bloody Hell, **Baker** , I want a pic of her so I can tell my 96yo Grandma that she’s a total spring chicken! “Live long and prosper” indeed. **Nava** , my grandmother was born 12/17/1904. I like to point out how much has changed since she was born, by noting that her birthday was one year to the day after the Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk. She has voted in twenty one straight US presidential elections. Even today, when a citizen can vote at the age of eighteen, one would have to be ninety-eight to match my grandmother’s record. When will your grandma be ninety-seven? ---
**Author:** ![Dusty\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ba8739/32.png) [@Dusty\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dusty_Rose)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-what-are-you-thankful-for-this-year/561852/26 "2010-11-27T01:21:27Z")
I’m thankful for our new house. It’s a fixer-upper that I’m seeing come back to life in a beautiful way. I’m thankful for my SO, who is my friend and workmate. I love to watch him figure out how to make some cut, or how to make something work. It’s so sexy to me. I’m grateful that even though I’m 800 miles away from home, and 3 years into starting over in another state, I still had 10 guests over for dinner. It was our third year in a row, and we’re all starting to make our own little traditions as a group. I’m thankful that I own a beautiful piece of land that soothes my soul. I’m a lucky girl, indeed. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-what-are-you-thankful-for-this-year/561852/27 "2010-11-27T03:09:03Z")
1. I’m thankful I have a job. My duties have changed now, due to the retirement of a coworker, and I’m a bit worried about my new responsibilities. But I’m also looking forward to the challenge. I’m not a lowly grunt any more. 2)My mental health seems to have stabilized now. My suicidal thoughts don’t seem so “real” to me, and I have more self-confidence and self-esteem than I’ve probably had in my entire adult life. Also, the Drug of the Month that I’m on seems to be the key that I’ve been searching for for the last five years or so. My tics are down. My bizarre posturing and gait issues are down. My racing thoughts are in control. I don’t feel crazy anymore, and I’m not as embarrassed about talking about my problems as I used to be. 3)My family is still in good shape. Everyone’s working or enjoying retirement, and health problems are being monitored and treated. We’re all getting older and changing, but not for the worse. At least for now. 4)My cats seem ok. 5)My car and major appliances are all in working order. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-what-are-you-thankful-for-this-year/561852/28 "2010-11-27T03:33:06Z")
The only thing I can think of is there wasn’t a nuclear war. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-what-are-you-thankful-for-this-year/561852.md?page=1)