Last year, the week before Thanksgiving, my brother was severely hurt while working in the Peace Corps. He was flown to a hospital in South Africa, and it was very touch and go there for a while.
I am extremely thankful that, while he will be probably be disabled permanently, he is alive. In fact, he just moved in with my wife and I, and I’m loving having him around all the time.
I’m thankful for my healthy, intelligent children. Out there somewhere in this world there is a couple of families that received our real children and We got theirs and I’d like to say, HA HA!
I am thankful that my 11 year old dog is still with us. She’s so awesome, but I’ll spare you pages of gushingness over her yellowy goodness.
I am thankful for my nearly 5 month old kitty has almost stopped attacking our feet as we walk by. The biting has almost stopped too and the ramps about the bedroom all night long have settled down into sleeping next to the begrudging aging dog.
I am thankful that I was able to find a brain dead job 8 minutes from home ( no stop lights or traffic. Dirt roads all the way, baby) to help supplement the income which needs it more now than ever with the way Michigan’s economy is in the crapper.
I am grateful that Dick DeVos did not get into office here. Anything connected with Scamway is BAD. ( Of course, I’m not real happy with Granholm either, but she is slightly less evil than Dick.)
Sometimes I think we need to do this 'round the calendar year, not just on Thanksgiving.
I’m thankful for the best gift I’ve ever gotten - my three-month-old son, who thinks I’m the funniest person he’s ever met. I’m thankful for my husband, who also thinks I’m funny and watches Battlestaar Galactica with me, and I’m thankful for his new job, which seems to be a good opportunity for him. I’m thankful that the birth of my son has turned my father-in-law into a new person, one that I barely recognize. I’m thankful that everyone in my family is still healthy and alive, and that we’ve had three new babies in the last year to remind us to appreciate each other.
I’m also thankful for snark. Because without snark and reading snark, days like today would pass awfully slowly :D.
The same things I’m always thankful for: a beautiful wife, a comfortable life, a job I enjoy, roof over our heads, generally good health, and family that loves us.
First of all, a job. Being employed is always good! At this job, I am in a new department working for a manager I respect and like (who respects and likes me also), and with whom I can work well. This time last year I was in a department working for a manager I didn’t like, didn’t respect (who didn’t treat me with one iota of respect), and with whom I could not work well at all. I’m SO thankful for my job!
I’m thankful for the health and happiness of my family and friends.
I’m thankful for my wonderful SO who gives me and does for me probably more than I deserve at times.
I’m thankful for my own health and happiness.
I’m thankful for my dog, Joey, who is my faithful companion.
And I’m hopeful that the world will somehow be better in 2007…
A couple of years ago I found myself resisting a strong urge to give in to bitterness. I felt old and alone, living a mediocre existence.
Tomorrow I can offer gratitude that I met a beautiful woman some time back, who recently became my wife; my work is challenging, if not always fulfilling; and after six years my band is still together, stretching my attempts at being creative to new lengths; I feel great physically; my children are all well and have become successful adults.
We’ll have a decent roof over our heads, a turkey in the oven, and a few bucks in the bank. Yeah, I’m thankful.
My health is good.
I have a place to live.
I have a job and am capable of supporting myself.
I eat every day.
I have the basic essentials. Am I thankful? I don’t think I fully understand what that means. I only have myself to thank for getting up in the morning and going to work so I can have a place to live and food to eat. I guess I should be thankful that I live in a society that allows such a condition to exist, but don’t most if not all societies center around that basic idea (aside from communism, maybe).
My health is good, but that’s as much dumb luck as anything, so I don’t know why I should be “thankful” over that. I exercise daily and take basic care of myself, so at least, in part I can take some credit there too.
One more: I just finished a poker game in the money for the first time since May. May! I am very, very thankful to the players who contributed to my winnings.
I’ve unexpectedly reconnected with several old friends from college days (almost forty-five years ago) and have found their companionship as warm and fun as it was then. They feel like comfortable old shoes.
I am grateful for old friends who have shown up again.
It’s been a mother so far .