Are You Grateful?

I have a full day and evening to attend to, so now that the espresso has been inhaled, I will limber up the fingers with a frenetic typing pace and feel like I've kept my goal of writing more.

Today is about gratitudes.  I should do them daily, as another friend is doing on her blog, but the snark likes to come out and play too much to devote every day to being grateful.

Not to say I don't find things that I am grateful for each day.  It may not run through my head as a "I'm thankful for that", but I allow the dark twisted corners of my brain a warm fuzzy at least once, if not ten times, per day.

So, to begin, I'm grateful for this shit speed internet connection that saves me money by cancelling the Hulu that never works, but allows me to type out a list of gratitudes to share with the world.

I'm grateful for teens.  Not those crotchfruit I brought into the world, but the temperatures.  You know you live in an arctic blast zone when 18 degrees feels warm.  18 degrees makes you take your gloves off for that smoke break outside.  18 degrees makes your bare fingers cold instead of your gloved fingers numb. 

On the same note, I am grateful for those other teens.  Though I'm now in the stage of just one teen, since the other is an adult.  An adult who called to tell me about her classes, then talked about the errands she was running before going home to clean.  For all the bobby pins she left in her wake, she may perhaps actual be engaging in adult behavior as well.   And the teen brightened my evening by shoving a crusty roll in my face insisting he share it with me.  Not just handing it over type of shoving, but literally crushing it into my face and then throwing a large chunk of it into the leftover soup to insist that we share that last, delicious roll.

I'm thankful for the leftover soup, because work lunch just got easy as hell.  And delicious to boot.

I'm grateful for the Big Sexy Hair product line that makes an easy haircut even easier.  I'm thankful it washes out easily since my hair is shellacked and frozen daily.

I'm thankful for a spouse that knows what getting back to "normal" means to me.  He understands routine and the glory of it.

I appreciate something as small as going to see a movie.  In a large space, amongst other people.  Theater popcorn.  Knowing dinner will be out of the house tonight, and no cooking or cleaning will need to happen after work in an empty house.

I'm grateful for that heating vent just under the kitchen sink.  It is the perfect spot to set my shoes for the day to preheat them.  Mmmmm...toasty toes.

I'm thankful for the end of term in high school so the trend of grade nagging can start over from scratch.

I'm immensely grateful to work a job that I call my paid hobby.  For all its headaches, it sure is fun.  Even on the worst of days, there's something to laugh about.  Like a loon.  While weeping uncontrollably.

I'm grateful for temperatures inching their way toward 30 this week.  I may get that preheated beast into the car wash.  Parking on the street at work means a driver's side that looks like Old Man Winter puked violently the length of the truck.

I'm thankful I paid attention in English and Government class in high school.  So when I see the endless (and fruitless) rantings of people complaining about a visit from our President, I can realize how incredibly mired in negativity and blame they are, without fully understanding how the office of the President actually works.  While misspelling, and withholding as much punctuation as possible.  I can then see that our focus definitely needs to be on education.  It's reaching critical levels, as someday, these people may be in charge of making decisions about our future.  But they think "heard" is spelled "herd".  I'm frightened.  Or entertained.  I can't decide which.

I'm grateful for speakers.  And a large playlist.  Opera or Nine Inch Nails?  It really depends on what stage of getting ready in the morning I happen to be at.

I'm sure I could keep going, because once you start thinking of everything you are grateful for, it just comes pouring out.  Funny, how that works.  However, I must finish getting ready for that paid hobby, and take care of a few things since I will be partaking in a social event this evening. 

So, take a brief moment, and come up with your gratitudes.  Trust me, you'll be thankful you did.  *giggle*