Number one, for me – I got a great new job six months ago. I’m enjoying the hell out of it, and making serious money.
Plus, yanno, my health is good, and I have a few really good friends, and most of my family is doing pretty well, blah blah blah.
How about you?
There is so much! Good job with a recent nice raise, good friends who accept me, good family who love me, great kids, nice winter weather. A car to drive, a home to live in. My new boyfriend.
Life is good.
I’m thankful for my family, even if it will be only my wife and myself Thursday. Circumstances made us all meet just a few days ago…I am thankful for having a good mother-in-law, even if she is no longer with us. To have 5 generations of people come together, many carrying the same morals that she instilled in her son and daughter was inspiring. Not a sad day, but a release for her.
Thanks, Alice…go with love.
This time last year was one of the worst periods of my adult life, and right now is one of the best. I’m thankful for my husband’s new job, our marriage, our amazing kids, our (first) house, our families and friends. In particular I’m thankful for online communities, here and elsewhere; I so need places where I can learn, laugh, vent, and occasionally make a total ass of myself.
I recently found out that I passed what most people consider the hardest bar in the country. Now I’m going to have 2 bar licenses and I have a pretty solid vision of where I want my career to go (which is definitely away from California at some point). My mom, dad and sister are still my favourite people in the whole world.
Really, life couldn’t get any better unless the post office put my Netflix movies in my po box a little faster than they currently do.
I will be starting a new job in less than 2 weeks, and I’m very thankful for it: I’ll be working for a large, well-known and well-respected company; I’ll be making 5K more than I do now (and I just had a raise in October); it’ll be my first time walking into a new job as an expert in my field; the work will be challenging and potentially very rewarding; and things at my current company go further downhill every day – which breaks my heart, but also reminds me that leaving is the right decision.
I’m thankful for the class I’m taking this semester. The 20-page research paper that is my final project is kicking my ass (3 more weeks!), but it’s been a good class with a good professor and I’m learning so much that I will need when it’s time to write my thesis.
No one in my family lives south of the Maryland/Virginia state line. Thankfully. 
I have two incredible best friends, and their 5-year-old son thinks that I hang the moon … I’d have to be nuts to not be thankful for them.
I’m thankful for the SDMB. No, really! I’ve never been a member of an online community for this long before, and I’ve gotten so much out of this place – including at least one real-life friendship.
There’s lots of other stuff I’m thankful for, but those are the biggies. 
Another year of relatively good health, despite the rheumatoid arthritis in my hands.
I’m 56 and work in the ER of my hospital, and every time I see a young man or woman in their 30’s come in, in cardiac arrest, it’s the proverbial “wake-up call” for me.
Yeah. Definitely my health, and to echo the sentiments of a previous Doper, SDMB and the very fine people who are a part of it.
Thanks
Q
I’m going to follow Quasimodem a bit and say that since I work at a hospital and see sick people much younger than me, I’m glad for my health.
I turn 30 on Friday, and for a while it was doubtful I would see that birthday. So for that I’m grateful.
My mom and my dad have been married for 32 years and all of us will be together for the holiday. Yeah, they had to sell the house I grew up in, but it will still be all of us and that’s what matters.
Well, the husband and I are both still unemployed, but we have:
Our health, some savings, a roof over our heads and plenty to eat.
Plus the older kid is coming home this evening, so we will all be together for Turkey Day. I plan to make the most of it.
My health continues to improve. Recently I was diagnosed with ultra-low Vitamin B12 and the shots that they have given me have really improved my life. I feel better than I have in years. Today I’m on the edge of low-energy. Not as low as it has been, but not as high as it has recently gotten. But today is still better than a month ago.
I am pretty thankful this year -
I don’t get the whole idea of thankfulness, honestly. If you’re a card-carrying atheist, as I am, is it even possible to be thankful? To whom?
There are things I’m glad for, things I appreciate, things that I like having, though I really don’t know why I need a special day to remember these things. Do we designate a special day for the things that piss us off, bore us, make us roll our eyes? Are the other days of the year "No, Thanks"giving Days?
God bless you (sic), pseud, it had never occurred to me that it was possible to be a Thanksgiving Grinch. 
I am thankful that the Democrats took both houses of Congress, and thankful that the majority of Americans finally seem to be waking up to the notion that Bush is, and was always, unfit for office.
Other than that, what pseudotriton ruber ruber said.
I’m thankful for the newfound romance in my marriage. Our relationship is better than it’s ever been.
I’m thankful for my son who is healthy and smart and fun.
I’m thankful for whatever brought me to this wonderful college and left me here lo these 9+years.
No deaths in the immediate family
The kids are a great bunch of people and I’m proud of every one of them
The Republican stranglehold on the federal government has been broken
Nobody in my family lives south of the Ohio state line
Well, as a card-carrying agnostic, I gotta tell you, you have a point. My biggest issue with the idea that there is no deity is that NOW I don’t know whom to thank for my health, my sweet husband, my three dogs, my happy childhood, my cool job, and my lovely hair. But I feel like if I don’t show the proper gratitude, it could all be snatched away.
So the way I see it, that’s what Thanksgiving is for. Just in case there is somebody up there to thank. And even if not, it’s still nice to get time off work and eat so much that your pants don’t fit anymore.
I’m thankful to people…not god. Not everything in my life is 100% my doing, and for those who have given me a leg up, I thank them.
For my relief from the evil that is menopause, I thank Dr. Ghandi and The Patch People (band name!).
For the timely delivery of groceries that will soon be Thanksgiving Dinner, I thank Pea Pod.
We were vastly entertained during Thanksgiving a few years ago, when we could ask my three-year-old son what he was thankful for and he would reliably answer, in a snippy little voice: “Nothing.” The little rat.
I’m thankful for the usual stuff - my husband and children are great, we’re all in reasonably good health, and we have enough money to pay our bills and keep me supplied with books.
I was just reading the other Thanksgiving thread, and rejoicing that I have no relatives like those described. Or if I do, I never, ever see them. So I’m feeling particularly blessed, in an atheistic kind of way, and am actually looking forward to Thanksgiving.