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Nov. 24th, 2006 09:11 amWell, I'm awake and I'm at work. That's something.
Didn't get to post yesterday, so here's some things I'm thankful for:
- My job. It got me out of my parents' house and it's keeping me in pretty good living conditions. I got a raise and I'm getting some further education picked up by the company. Plus, nearly everyone in this office is cool, or at least the ones I know are. It's work I like doing even if I complain about it. So we're good.
- My family. The more I look around the net, the more I'm grateful for my happily married, happy-in-themselves, psychologically healthy parents and everything they've ever done for me. The same goes for my sister and for my extended family. Not that I didn't love my family before but my GOD it could've been so much worse.
- My health. Yes, I had a 104.6 degree fever last month. Supposing I'd been infected by the same germ and I was immunosuppressed at the time, or malnourished, or already sick with something else? I'd've been lucky to make it to the hospital at all, let alone get out of it the same day with an RX and orders to take Tylenol (paracetamol for you non-Yanks). Also, see the first item- my job has health insurance. Vitally important over here.
- The November elections. You might not agree with my take on the political system, but it's my deep and sincere hope that there'll be some changes for the better coming out of it, and that's all I'm gonna say. Unless someone wants to involve Mongol hordes.
- My eyes. LASIK surgery done 21 June 1999 and I'm still 20/15 and 20/20, baybee.
- Aaah, what the hell, this country in general. I might be ashamed of the way we behave or fail to behave at times, but it's still my country and I'm glad of it, you know?
- The fact that Macintosh apples break down into a gooey saucelike substance when cooked in the presence of butter, sugar, and cinnamon, while Braeburn apples retain their firmness and structure. It makes producing a respectable apple pie so much easier. No runny juices all over the place if you cook the two varieties together in a frying pan first and let them cool down afterwards. Srsly. Wai.
- New York City. I might have fits of "OH MY GOD WHY DOES HUMANITY DO THIS TO ITSELF" at times when I'm in the city (and by 'the city' I nearly always mean NYC, although Newark comes a close second), but you still can't beat New York for being a place where anything can be found and anything can happen. No, Toronto, I don't care what you think of yourselves. New York still wins. You can't beat our surrealism. When was the last time a guy in Toronto got an audience for demonstrating the use of a potato peeler in public? Using an actual potato? Shut up. New York wins.
- 1,3,7-trimethyl-1H-purine-2,6(3H,7H)-dione
- My bicycle. I can go places most peole need cars to go and I can do it without having to buy gas, and I can get looks of awe from other mortals by saying I rode sixty miles at one go this year and will be doing one hundred next year. I like me some looks of awe, mm-hmm.
And a whooooole lot of other things and people and animals and all kinds of stuff, but this is the first bunch of thankfulness that jumps to mind. So there we go.
Didn't get to post yesterday, so here's some things I'm thankful for:
- My job. It got me out of my parents' house and it's keeping me in pretty good living conditions. I got a raise and I'm getting some further education picked up by the company. Plus, nearly everyone in this office is cool, or at least the ones I know are. It's work I like doing even if I complain about it. So we're good.
- My family. The more I look around the net, the more I'm grateful for my happily married, happy-in-themselves, psychologically healthy parents and everything they've ever done for me. The same goes for my sister and for my extended family. Not that I didn't love my family before but my GOD it could've been so much worse.
- My health. Yes, I had a 104.6 degree fever last month. Supposing I'd been infected by the same germ and I was immunosuppressed at the time, or malnourished, or already sick with something else? I'd've been lucky to make it to the hospital at all, let alone get out of it the same day with an RX and orders to take Tylenol (paracetamol for you non-Yanks). Also, see the first item- my job has health insurance. Vitally important over here.
- The November elections. You might not agree with my take on the political system, but it's my deep and sincere hope that there'll be some changes for the better coming out of it, and that's all I'm gonna say. Unless someone wants to involve Mongol hordes.
- My eyes. LASIK surgery done 21 June 1999 and I'm still 20/15 and 20/20, baybee.
- Aaah, what the hell, this country in general. I might be ashamed of the way we behave or fail to behave at times, but it's still my country and I'm glad of it, you know?
- The fact that Macintosh apples break down into a gooey saucelike substance when cooked in the presence of butter, sugar, and cinnamon, while Braeburn apples retain their firmness and structure. It makes producing a respectable apple pie so much easier. No runny juices all over the place if you cook the two varieties together in a frying pan first and let them cool down afterwards. Srsly. Wai.
- New York City. I might have fits of "OH MY GOD WHY DOES HUMANITY DO THIS TO ITSELF" at times when I'm in the city (and by 'the city' I nearly always mean NYC, although Newark comes a close second), but you still can't beat New York for being a place where anything can be found and anything can happen. No, Toronto, I don't care what you think of yourselves. New York still wins. You can't beat our surrealism. When was the last time a guy in Toronto got an audience for demonstrating the use of a potato peeler in public? Using an actual potato? Shut up. New York wins.
- 1,3,7-trimethyl-1H-purine-2,6(3H,7H)-dione
- My bicycle. I can go places most peole need cars to go and I can do it without having to buy gas, and I can get looks of awe from other mortals by saying I rode sixty miles at one go this year and will be doing one hundred next year. I like me some looks of awe, mm-hmm.
And a whooooole lot of other things and people and animals and all kinds of stuff, but this is the first bunch of thankfulness that jumps to mind. So there we go.
