Thank-A-Thon 2003

Its everyones (meaning mine) favorite time of the year again! Its "the last pie is cooking and dang its late and I don't have anything better (read: funner) to do so I'm gonna list everything I'm thankful for in some 30 to 40 minutes!

Let's get thanking!


  1. William, my husband (he gets first billing this year! He rates!)
  2. Pies!
  3. Still having two hands to make pies with.
  4. Having nothing in my life that is pressing enough to prevent me from making pies.
  5. Being quotable
  6. Cake
  7. Chocolate
  8. Chocolate cake.
  9. Ice cream
  10. Chocolate cake with ice cream
  11. Oh oh, Pie with ice cream
  12. Code red Mountain Dew
  13. Japanese class
  14. English one oh "freakin" five
  15. Sign language
  16. "And God bless C++ class"
  17. My computer works!
  18. Ipods
  19. Itunes!
  20. Being well off enough to afford an Ipod
  21. My printer works too
  22. Evil printer jokes
  23. Being Maniacal
  24. Making them wonder
  25. Not caring what other people think
  26. Living in Arizona
  27. Complete lack of snow
  28. Comfy chairs
  29. Bucket hats
  30. Patches for my bucket hat
  31. Finding my ID after losing it
  32. That there's not a serial killer in my apartment
  33. At least I hope not....
  34. Waking up saturday at 8 and knowing you can go back to sleep for a couple hours
  35. Long weekends
  36. Turkey
  37. Stuffing
  38. Jellied cranberry sauce sitting in little can shaped pucks in the middle of a impeccably nice table setting
  39. Skipping school to make pies
  40. Attaining Residency
  41. LASIK
  42. Intralase
  43. Waking up in the morning and looking all over for my glasses and then the little thrill when I realize I don't need them anymore
  44. Carolyn Hax, provides me with much laughter and wisdom
  45. Church
  46. People who give you stories to tell
  47. People who frustrate you and thereby make you want to avoid their level of stupidity
  48. Everyone having a place in the world
  49. Warm blankets
  50. Diablo 2
  51. William is doing this with me
  52. Apples, bananas, and pears! Oh my!
  53. Behind the head headphones
  54. DVDs
  55. Pixar
  56. The guy who made up Lain
  57. Flowers
  58. Carla Speed McNeil
  59. Robin McKinley
  60. Iain Banks
  61. Mystery Science Theater 3000
  62. Mechanical pencils
  63. Spanish
  64. For no good reason owning a $16 hand lens
  65. Anyone want to buy it off me?
  66. Reader's Digest
  67. Water coolers
  68. Vending machines
  69. Twix Bars
  70. Red Bean cakes
  71. POCKY!
  72. Various Japanese Snack foods
  73. Sega!
  74. Futons
  75. Everything on last year's list
  76. Naps
  77. Snuggles
  78. Fishnet
  79. Lace
  80. Black, blue, gray and white being the main colors in my wardrobe
  81. Spiderweb Software
  82. The Golden Age of Shareware, may it rest in peace
  83. Epic Megagames
  84. Apogee
  85. Sunscreen
  86. None of the Above
  87. Catchphrases
  88. One liners
  89. Running Gags
  90. Having a Washing machine on our patio
  91. The cat who jumped into our patio to have her kittens whom we lived with for a couple months
  92. Fish
  93. Having a baby fish come out of pretty much nowhere
  94. And it survived
  95. Spider plants
  96. Metal flowers
  97. Copyright laws, messed up as they are
  98. Graphic Novels
  99. Hybrid cars
  100. dramamine
  101. Baldur's Gate
  102. And the sequel
  103. Cheapass Games
  104. Pvponline for making me aware of Cheapass games and Spiderweb software
  105. Eight for still plugging away and writing crap even when its crap and he's broke
  106. The waiting for bob people for stopping writing crap when they were afraid it was gonna turn into crap
  107. Unicorns
  108. Lewis Carroll
  109. WAS NOT A DRUGGIE ALREADY! (well maybe he was but come off it!)
  110. Snicker snacking
  111. AOTC
  112. Everyone at AOTC whom I have every reason to be thankful for (you should know who you are)
  113. Everyone at AOTC whom I really don't have any particular reason to be thankful for (the way I work, you do know who you are.)
  114. Our old mud
  115. Chai Tea
  116. Chinese food
  117. Chicken Mole
  118. Fried Ice Cream
  119. Indian Food
  120. ASU
  121. Hayden Library's Computer Lab
  122. $2 bills
  123. Chik-Fil-A
  124. Crispix Mix
  125. Cracklin' Oat Bran
  126. Pie crust shields
  127. For the fact that only 1/3 of the pumpkin pie crust burned this year!
  128. The fact that the pie is done so therefore I can quit!
  129. Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving folks! God bless you, good night, and see you when I get back.

Maybe.