Give Thanks

Happy Thanksgiving! I’m so grateful I’ve got this window to write to you all. I woke up with a migraine but it’s (mostly) gone. My mom’s prepping the turkeys before all our guests descend on the house and the festivities begin in earnest. We will have cranberry sauce, stuffing, mac and cheese and several other delicious dishes (plus pie. Lots of pie). My entry will be brief but here are several things I am grateful for:

1. Catchy Taylor Swift songs. I’ve been reading a book named Taylor’s Version which explores all aspects of Taylor’s songs. It mostly focuses on her music (from rhythm to the lyrics) but it also explores her life (which, of course, includes who she is currently dating) and even gives a cultural background. Sometimes I feel like the author reads too much into things but its helped me discover a bunch of Taylor’s songs I might have bypassed before. Right now “Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince” is encroaching on my Christmas song time.

2. My shirt. It is sheer so I wear it over a crop top but it is  decorated with leaves and autumnal colors. It is practically tailor made for Thanksgiving  and it still goes with the green scarf I finished a few weeks ago. So I can show off my crafting and still look good.

3. I still haven’t lost my keychain ring. For those who don’t know the backstory, Justin and I visited the Sex Museum in the city. After bouncing up and down on inflatable breasts, we went to another exhibit and got fake married. A picture, a fake certificate, and two keychain rings. Justin keeps his on his bedside table. I wear my ring everywhere. It has not left my hand except when I go to spas or water parks in the very rare event it falls off my fingers. I am so attached to this ring that whenever I lose it I cry. But it always finds its way back to me like a little duckling in desperate search of his mother. There is truly something magical about how somebody always finds it. Occasionally someone will ask if its an engagement/ wedding ring. It’s not. But it is a promise. 

4. My cousins. I have only ten first cousins but plenty of second cousins (even though we are estranged from my biological grandmother’s family. They practically abandoned my mom and aunt after my grandma passed. Good riddance). I’m in the middle of my first cousins. I have four older than me and six younger than me. I believe I got the best of both worlds because I had cousins to look up to and teach me games like Stratego and Monopoly, cousins around  my age that I could get into mischief with, and cousins younger than me whom I could hold in the hospital and watch them grow up with pride. Two of  my cousins have children, several are married. I love seeing them through these milestones. 

5. I don’t know if I mentioned this but earlier in the week I had a very bad eye infection. I couldn’t even look at anything remotely bright because it would send searing pain through my eye. I was prescribed antibiotic drops every four hours and it has definitely helped. My eye is no longer red. I can read. I’m not a fan of drops because it stings slightly and makes my eyes itchy. But hey they work and I don’t think anyone would ever guess I was rolled up with a warm compress in agony three days ago.

   
   

Those are some things I am grateful for. I’d love to know what you are grateful for. Leave it in the comments or post it on Facebook. Remember how lucky we all are to have each other.