Timewaster's Guide Archive
General => Everything Else => Topic started by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 23, 2005, 08:53:36 AM
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Long list.
My CD collection
My record collection
Music in general
comics!
my comic collection
superheroes!
The genius of men such as Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Frank Oz, George Lucas, Jim Henson, Mel Blanc, Mark Waid, Steve Martin, Jimi Hendrix, Ray and Dave Davies, John Flansburgh and John Linnell, Bob Dylan, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Peter David. These are people who, while they will never know who I am and only three of which I've met in person, have given me so much that I can't think to dwell on their faults.
Turkey
Taters and stuffing
Gravy on EVERYTHING
my wife
my kids
a warm place to sleep
that my warm place to sleep happens to be near so many culturally important sites and opportunities
I've never gone hungry
I have a job in a cool location, and I have a lot of liberty there
I don't pay anything to commute
my technical skills
my writing ability
my mind
the Church
the Gospel
Jesus Christ
prophets like Joseph Smith and Gordon B. Hinckley
my kids like primary
I like teaching the priests
I can be forgiven for my many screw ups
I have many friends, or at least people who tolerate me, in spite of my many screw ups
modern medicine
I can make orange pie
and more, but those are the things I've been thinking about this week.
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What I'm thankful for (in no particular order):
Flowers. Yes, just flowers in general. I love them. Roses, peonies, carnations, petunias, begonias, rose of sharon, lavender, lilac, daffodils, tulips, lily-of-the-valley---I love them all.
My husband who makes it possible for me to stay at home with...
My kids
A nice warm house
My brothers/sister/parents (and even my in-laws)
Fast internet connections
My husband's newly signed contract with IHC (horray!)
Lemon meringue pie
Books and music of all kinds and flavors
Diamond rings
Warm, sunny summer days
My friends
A good education
That I'm finally beginning to enjoy teaching cub scouts
The Church (gospel, my awesome ward, Jesus Christ, and all that)
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To make this simple:
My books.
My brain.
My family.
God and everything he brings.
Everything else.
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Finding a great place to live in Boston.
Getting into Emerson.
The Savior, the gospel, my testimony, my ward.
My family (whom I miss very much).
My doggie (whom I also miss a lot right now).
All my good friends.
The internet--which helps me stay in touch with those aforementioned friends and loved ones.
My editing abilities.
My writing talents.
Music, many types for my many moods.
Food! 'Nough said.
My cool collection of antique inkwells.
Cameras, because I love photography.
The photos I brought with me to Boston.
All my favorite books and writers.
Great movies and great friends to watch them with.
Happy Thanksgiving everybody!
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Explosions.
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Explosions.
You are simply brilliant.
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Someone had to bring a bit of perspective to the thread. :)
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I'm quite thankful for Satan's role in bringing to pass our salvation. (I am dead serious.)
I'm also thankful that H.M.'s H+A+ lesion left him incapable of committing adulterous sin - just think how difficult it would be for an amnesic to repent!
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Well nothing I post can be weirder than that.
I'm thankful that my dad is the odd one out in his family, after having spent a Thanksgiving lunch with his side of the family today, and in a mere 45 minutes having heard racial slurs against Mexicans, African-Americans, Greeks and Japanese.
I am thankful that we have two adorable dogs to pet and love and shower attention on, even if they are really nutcases.
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I'm grateful for
--pumpkin pie
--my crazy cat who is even now meowing in the closet because he wants me to come find him
--my family
--good friends
--enough to live on that I have a nice place to live in and enough money for food and the bills, even if it is tight
--a job that I've wanted for a long, long time--a job I need to be more grateful for, especially at a time when so many people are losing jobs
--the chance to have lived in so many fun places and known such good people in all of them
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I'm grateful for Kristy and Chris--and Charisa and Jeff and Brandon and Isaac and Heather and Melody and Stacy.
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I'm grateful for:
Ari
The Gospel
My family
The Prigoones that had us over tonight (this being their first American Thanksgiving. They're Australians in Canada).
Ari's pumpkin pie
Writing
You folks
and a bunch of other stuff
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I'm grateful for trials in life...or more accurately the stuff learn by going through them.
I'm also grateful that I can help and serve some people from time to time.
And I'm grateful for:
My Ferret
Jordan
My Car
My Laptop
My large Family
All the people who are willing to listen to me.
All the people who will let me listen to them.
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I'm thankful for:
-my husband
-my job
-my car and the fact that it works
-Electricity
-the Internet
-the Gospel and all it entails
-having food and a warm place to live
-Black Friday sales
-Christmas
-dogs (I don't have one, but I'd love to)
-not living previously (i.e. an era without electricity and modern appliances)
-living in a modern country
-having a wonderful family that I can rely on and who support me
-having siblings
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If I tell you it wont come true...
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That's wishes, not gratitude.
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The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Americans don't DO silence.
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Unfortunately.
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Quite Brit, or we won't invite you to our next bombing.
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Unfortunately.
See, that's just petty. I be self deprecating and all you can come up with is essentially a "me too" comment?
I thought you limes were supposed to be the masters of dry wit.
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Some of us do, you just never hear from us. I AM A SILENT AMERICAN!!!!!
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I realize this is late, but I've been thinking about this over the past several days, particularly with the Christmas season beginning.
I'm very thankful for Janci. She's been the biggest and best support this year as I've finally turned away from a mistake I made nine years ago.
I'm thankful for my neighbors and their understanding.
I'm thankful for my ward and all their cute kids that I see every week in the nursery.
I'm thankful for my three wonderful sons who keep me in stitches.
I'm thankful for the Gospel. It's everything in my life.
I'm thankful for the hope I have for the future. (Thanks again, Janci!)
And I'm thankful for my mother, even though she's going to have a cow when she finds out I'm applying to the creative writing emphasis English MA program.
And I'm thankful for you lot. There's always something new and absurd here, and I feel like I sort-of fit in.
Happy (Belated) Thanksgiving.
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I will put it this way. i am thankful for myself. Not really anyone else except for family, but people always say that. its easier to stay to myself. Hence, Silent American ;D
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seeing as these are trying times i can think of only one thing... that I'm able to continue psi's work... the perfect taco has to be out there somewhere buddy, I'm gonna find it.
(psi auerenaguethe 1905-2005)