Thanksgiving is coming up, and this year, as usual, I’ve got a whole lot to be thankful for. So I’m borrowing this idea from Dawn Eden (yes, in a genuine way and totally snark-less) and listing some of those things for which I’m grateful. Feel free to add your own list in the comments. And I’ll be trekking down to DC for the weekend, so blogging will be light/nonexistant until Monday.
1. My family
2. My friends
3. Bicycle helmets
4. Burt’s Beeswax lip balm
5. Red red wine
6. Travels
7. Dior Show mascara
8. Autumn in New York, especially when it’s oddly nice out
9. Fries and mango chutney mayo at Pommes Frittes
10. Tom Robbins
11. The feminist blogosphere, and the individual feminist bloggers/commenters/IM pals who keep me sane
12. Wireless internet
13. My adorable sixth-floor-walk-up shoebox-sized apartment
14. The incredible ass that I’ve developed from that six-floor walk-up
15. Bumble & Bumble Thickening Spray and Does it All
16. Ionic blowdryers
17. Steak Night with the roomie
18. That one boy
19. Smudgy eyeliner
20. Sushi
21. Brunch at 3pm
22. Americal Apparel fleece sweatpants
23. Cosabella underwear
24. Clean, soft sheets
25. Sarcasm
26. Prosecco
27. This one Greek Orthodox church in Athens
28. Having faith
29. Study guides
30. Deep v-necks
31. Truffles
32. Leetle Ferris
33. Body Butter
34. The fact that dark nailpolish is very in this season, and that wearing dark nail polish is helping me to stop biting my nails
35. The neighbor who gave me flowers last week
36. Trader Joe’s
37. Little kids in Halloween costumes
38. Whitening toothpaste
39. Used bookstores
40. The smell of ballpoint pen ink when you write on the back of your hand (totally weird, I know, but I love it)
41. Seattle sunsets
42. Seas so salty that you float
43. The East Village, the LES and Nolita
44. The city in general
45. Red velvet cake from Magnolia
46. My crooked nose
47. How nice it feels to go home — when I’m going to Seattle, or coming back to New York
48. Espresso
49. Head scratches and back rubs
50. My therapist
51. Democrats taking back Congress
52. The defeat of the South Dakota abortion ban
53. Alternet and The Nation
54. Feeling like a grown-up because I have curtains
55. Pedro Almodovar
56. Mark Rothko
57. Long-lost relatives
58. Indiana Jones complexes
59. Tom Waits
60. Boyshorts underwear
61. Street jewelry
62. Cupcakes
63. Mix tapes
64. Spooning
65. Romain Duris
66. Fart jokes
67. The New Yorker
68. Exposed brick
69. Tin ceilings
70. Bubble baths
Ohh! Good idea, however stolen! I’m going to steal it from *you* now. Mostly because it’s better than packing…
1. My husband finally being allowed to live with me.
2. My incredible luck at being born in a rich, democratic country.
3. My education.
4. My great thesis advisor.
5. Chocolate.
6. Spiced chai.
7. The feminism that is letting me get an education, a career, and a homemaker husband.
8. The fact that abortion is legal and I therefore don’t have an eight-year-old child (and instead have that aforementioned education).
9. World of Warcraft. Yes, seriously.
Oh, and
10. My bicycle.
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Bike paths. I’d be even more thankful if there were more of them.
Feminists past and present who made it possible for me to have both a career and a child.
Civil rights leaders past and present who made it possible for me to brag about my mestizo ancestry instead of having to try to hide it as my grandmother did.
Chocolate.
Computers and the Internet.
Is this list in order of importance? Do you love Burt Bees lip gloss more than the feminist blogosphere? ;-) I don’t blame you; on my list, I think Kiehl’s Lip Balm #1 would rank above most of my family.
1. My mother
2. The rest of my immediate family (I won’t rank them)
3. My friends, scattered to the four corners and the seven winds though they are
4. All the luck I’ve had in my life and before my life
5. Irony
6. Writing and books
7. Philosopy, critical thinking, whatever you want to call it
8. Hmm..apparently abstract nouns
9. Bob Dylan
10. Elvis Costello
11. Okay, it will be less tedious if I just say “music”
12. Alienation
13. Wide open spaces
14. Women
15. Nostalgia
16. Bombay Sapphire, quinine, and lime wedges
17. All creatures great and small (except those fluttery house centipedes)
18. Indian food, especially butter chicken, especially the butter chicken at Banjara’s on Yonge Street in Toronto
19. Orgasms
20. The blues
21. Large expanses of green
22. Baseball (and other organized sports)
23. Poetry
24. Becoming more self-aware and gaining greater mental and emotional clarity, precision and subtlety as I get older
25. Sunlight
26. A bunch of other stuff I can’t remember right now
In no particular order…
1. A fantastic boy.
2. David Tennant.
3. Enough temp work to pay the bills this year.
4. All of my friends from Smith. Heck, my friends, period.
5. Shiraz grape varietals.
6. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
7. Having more than what I need, life-wise.
8. Lindsey Buckingham’s new solo album (finally).
9. All of the opportunities I’ve had.
10. Coffee.
11. Being fortunate enough to have the rights I do…though I want more.
12. My mum. And my brother, even if he is a neocon.
13. Computers and the Internet.
14. Any abilities I may have.
15. Nancy Pelosi, most of the time.
16. Other things that I don’t have time to elucidate upon.
17. Oh, yeah, and being able to be represented by Russ Feingold as a direct constituent.
OOOH chai. I knew I’d forgotten something at the supermarket. I am thankful for:
1. My snuggly husband, and my husband’s very large, very wooly socks of warmth and delight.
2. Our rental car, which is snazzy.
3. The fact that our families get along and love each other.
4. The argument with my friend that made us realize things and become even closer.
5. My stubborn, odd nature that takes me exciting places.
6. Veronica Mars and its unerring musical cues (thanks for the good cry, Rob Thomas, you jerk.)
7. A good relationship with my mother: finally, after all those years of anger and breakdown and distrust. Bliss and joy.
8. The smell of fresh markers out of the box.
9. All the food I’m going to eat tomorrow, and the food I ate today, and the food I ate yesterday.
10. FOOOOOD !!!!
In order of recollection…
Reason
Courage/spirit/defiance
The ability, gained from combining the above, to cut thru crap
Things with those shapes I like
Music, esp. classical
The smell of hawthorns in bloom
All the stuff I know and can do
That my relatives pretty much know how to behave themselves
That this country hasn’t gone down the tubes quite yet
That my window faces east, for sunrises, moonrises, planetary risings, etc.
Chocolate
Libraries
The river in my town, which can really make a spectacle of itself
That I live out of the flood zone
The Web, source of so much info I can’t get anywhere else
Cool blogs like this, which say things I couldn’t quite put into words
Tech stuff, at least that which I can understand
All the good stuff that people throw away
Trebuchets
Bunnyrabbits
That will do for a start…
My family and friends
My cats
Green Chile
the boy.
the fam.
single malt scotch.
books.
wine.
good pens.
good notebooks.
my brave little computer.
the way the lake changes its mood every day.
lovers and fighters and friends.
coffee.
perfect chord changes.
good food, and folks who know how to cook it.
bed.
having had the freedom to grow up weird without being arrested or put on drugs.
struggling honestly with racism.
being good at teaching and caring about it.
a good haircut.
thinking.
health, despite everything.
short- and long-lived television mini-obsessions.
irony.
feeling at home in the city.
baseball season.
money on the transit card.
perfect croissants just steps away.
never being too comfortable.
my embarrassingly nice apartment and the great roommates who make it possible.
the great good luck to travel so many places those before me couldn’t go.
Guinness.
the smell of grilled onions as you walk into Sox Park.
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