In preparation for my life's 29th Thanksgiving holiday, here are 29 things I am thankful for:
1 – Depth perception, that I am not constantly ramming into
and tripping over things
2 – For every time a Pokémon reference is made during church, in order to illustrate a
gospel principle. It’s rare, but when it does happen? Right on the money. #gottacatchemall
3 – The fact that there is a Beatles song that can
accompany a little over half of all dialogues and discussions you have with
people
4 – The fact that there is a Nacho Libre quote that can
accompany about a third of said dialogues and discussions
5 – For my betta fish who, like a Diagon Alley wand from
the Ollivander shop, chose me. All the other bettas on the tall shelf were like
zombie bettas. When I walked up to the shelf, the zombie bettas just floated
stationarily, not doing a bloomin’ thing. But my fish? He was the only one who
acknowledged my presence. In fact, he started fluttering his fins
uncontrollably at the sight of me, and would jump out of his little container
and into my arms if he could. This was the fish from my dreams. A week or so
prior to my buying my fish, I dreamed that I had a pet betta, and I kept him in
a little glass bowl by a windowsill, in the sunshine. I walked over to the
windowsill to say hi to the fish and to gaze out the window at the lovely
scenery of the yard. The fish jumped out of his bowl and onto my shirt,
just below my chin. He was crying, like, human tears – really BIG humanesque
tears. Whimpering, he spoke like a human, and asked me, “Why don’t you ever
hold me and pet me!?” And I said, “Because you are a fish and so you will die
if I take you out to hold you and pet you!” And then I woke up the next morning
and decided I really needed to buy a fish.
6 – For elevator brakes, that the elevators I ride in every
day do not plummet to my doom
7 – That I’m not allergic to peanuts at all, and that I’m
not ridiculously allergic to kittens
8 – For the beautiful life process of growing up as a
generation and making way for a new one to rise. I love to look back on my
younger days of having childhood fun with my siblings and cousins. We all had
such a ball together as kids. Now that we’re older, we look at the children who
have entered our lives – these children are siblings and cousins and friends to
one another, and make sweet and precious memories with each other, as we did
when we were their age. And before they know it, they’re going to be as old as
we are now, and they are going to have younglings of their own, and witness
this process for themselves. I just love all of it so much!
9 – Of course I am thankful for floss. How could I not
include that on this list?
10 – That I made the decision to take the old perm and
roller curlers I found in my family’s house, which had not been used for years,
and incorporate them into my life
11 – For Jesus Christ’s amazing atonement, especially for
the power it has to help me clean up slates, move on, and become better.
Repentance is a miraculous thing. We can say goodbye forever to the wrongs
we’ve done in the past. If we walk hand-in-hand with the Lord, and allow Him to
help us to become improved versions of ourselves, we can leave our sins in the
dust for good. So awesome
12 – For people who know how to play stringed instruments. I
really do think that God was the first person to design the
violin/viola/cello/bass/etc. I don’t think it was a mortal human who came up
with that idea. I think God had the blueprints with Him in heaven, and one day
He decided to tell a mortal about it, by way of thought implant (aka divine
inspiration)
13 – That I spent my youth having happy, goofy, dorky little
dogs at my house. I loved them so much. Even though they’ve both been gone for
10+ years, I still miss them a lot every day
14 – Truly am grateful for the hardest trials that have come
up in my life. These are things that for-real have helped me strengthen my
familial relationship with my Father in Heaven
15 – That I learned to play piano at a young age, and stuck
with it, so that I can play piano for the elderly, who can sing along to the
songs I share
16 – For Alloy.com, the
best place in the world for jeans for me. Srsly, where would I be without that
place?
17 – That the megalodon and the human have never lived on
planet Earth at the same time
18 – That most plants are not poisonous
19 – That houseflies are not venomous (wait, are some
species of fly venomous?)
20 – For Jimmy Stewart
21 – That the sky has always been blue. If the sky had never
been blue, and if our sky had always been, say, green (as the grass and the
leaves on the trees) … I don’t know about you, but I would have gone about
every day feeling a terribly uneasy feeling for a reason that I could never put
my finger on … because the reason would be the fact that the sky was never
blue, and I would never have known that that was what the problem was, because
why would I have ever had a reason to believe that a blue sky – as opposed to a
green sky – would kiss all my unexplained troubles away? #babbling
#likealunatick
22 – That there are no cockroaches where I live
23 – That I currently can fall asleep for a night’s rest
within 5 minutes of my head hitting my pillow. Trying to not take that for
granted
24 – For the choice I made to keep an emergency deodorant in
my purse at all times
25 – For various people who were happy to “spot me” or “get
my back” (Don’t worry, gurl, I got yo
back!) in my random little moments of dire need
26 – For the random little moments when someone has asked me
if I could aid them in their random little moments of emergency (a statement
that could be read as vague, but I think you may know what I’m talking about)
27 – That I can read and write
28 – For the goodly IT/computer-smart people in the world.
These are the people who tell me what they do for work, and it goes waaaaaaaaay
over my head, but all I really need to do is soundly understand that whatever
they do for a living is help me live in a technological world and make easier
for me things that I didn’t even
29 – The people I love. The people I am honored to call my
family and friends
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