Give Thanks!

Last year, I copied my friend's idea for a post and made a list of things for which I am thankful besides the usual (family, friends, home, etc.).  The 2010 version is below for your reading pleasure.  I am thankful for:

1. The fact that there will apparently only be fifteen cold days in Dallas this year.  I'm not sure how I manage to be both fat and cold-natured, but I do manage it.  I was meant to live in the tropics.

2. Books and people who loan me books or tell me about good books or buy me books as gifts

3. The QT (Quik-Trip) across the street from where I live.  How can you not love a store that makes 32 oz. sodas $.50 in the summer?

4.Gas cans...

5. Video game consoles that trick me into exercising

6. The way Silas laughs sleepily when I put him in bed and hand him his sippy and giraffe

7. Those rare days when everything lines up and: I want Chick-fil-a, have the money to get it and it's not a Sunday. 

8. That Clinique counter girl who told me purple eyeshadow would look good on me about a million years ago. 

9. The Daily Show...I'm so uptight that I love people who don't take everything so seriously.  

10. Cell phone cameras 

11. My mom and aunt taking me on as their personal fashion project and helping me remember how to dress...I now have a closet full of work-appropriate clothing...that fits.

12. Having a job with insurance, vacation days and sick days.  Seriously.  I know I'm lucky.

13. People who know how to fix computers, cars, washing machines, etc. and like me enough to keep me from destroying those things in frustration when they're in need of repair.

14. When I get an email to my personal inbox that is not spam or advertising

15. Jason Garrett being undefeated as the Cowboy's head coach...Go Cowboys!!!!  Beat those Saints!!!!

16. When I can contributed to a conversation about what is happening in the news

17. When Silas is going through a "mommy" phase.  No one will ever accuse him of being a momma's boy, that's for sure.

18. Games on my phone when I have a long wait.  I don't need your three year old copy of People magazine, thank you very much.

19. Learning how to do something new and the people who take the time to teach me

20. Holidays that give me a day off work and an excuse to get together with my fabulous family 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!