remember the blink of an eye
- pandora
- when my grandfather told my mom he’d pay for my first laptop
- when my dad finally said he’d give up visitation
- when my grandfather told my mom that i should go overseas on a school sponsored trip
- my grandfather. i don’t talk about him much, but i think without him i’d be a drastically different person. he isn’t in the thankful list from last week.
- linda suggesting that we write 5 minutes a day on a topic that changes weekly.
- that frodo had sam.
- having my own buddies so that i can throw my own rings into mt doom
- that my mom thought i should get that spinning wheel
- that my husband thought i should get that spinning wheel
- that i was online in the library that day in 1999 instead of only doing my school work
- that my mom typed my papers from my scribbled yellow notepads for years
- my ability to make analogies. i derive so much pleasure from this very human ability.
- that our realtor showed us a house that ignored one of the first things we told her we wanted
- that the buyers for the house we wanted backed out
- that i went to a small catholic school for kindergarten and first grade before moving across town and switching schools
- that bear used to make me wait for him for hours
- that bear no longer makes me wait for him and if an emergency happens, i still only wait about 30 minutes
- that linda is talented at long distance relationships and willing to be my bff
- gmail archives
- my sony ereader
- fan fiction. i might not read it much anymore, but it changed my perspective on a few things and its how i met AJ.
- for the japanese maple that already exists on our property
- for the massive hydrangea and all the lacecap hydrangeas (i love love love hydrangeas)
- that typing in all lowercase somehow assuages the tiredness i’ve been feeling
(Gilligan, the title is from “Upwards Over the Mountain” by Iron & Wine. I used it because it seems to me that part of being thankful is remembering “the blink of an eye”. Maybe it’s just me.)