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!
- William, my husband (he gets first billing this year! He
rates!)
- Pies!
- Still having two hands to make pies with.
- Having nothing in my life that is pressing enough to prevent me from
making pies.
- Being quotable
- Cake
- Chocolate
- Chocolate cake.
- Ice cream
- Chocolate cake with ice cream
- Oh oh, Pie with ice cream
- Code red Mountain Dew
- Japanese class
- English one oh "freakin" five
- Sign language
- "And God bless C++ class"
- My computer works!
- Ipods
- Itunes!
- Being well off enough to afford an Ipod
- My printer works too
- Evil printer jokes
- Being Maniacal
- Making them wonder
- Not caring what other people think
- Living in Arizona
- Complete lack of snow
- Comfy chairs
- Bucket hats
- Patches for my bucket hat
- Finding my ID after losing it
- That there's not a serial killer in my apartment
- At least I hope not....
- Waking up saturday at 8 and knowing you can go back to sleep for a
couple hours
- Long weekends
- Turkey
- Stuffing
- Jellied cranberry sauce sitting in little can shaped pucks in the
middle of a impeccably nice table setting
- Skipping school to make pies
- Attaining Residency
- LASIK
- Intralase
- 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
- Carolyn Hax, provides me with much laughter and wisdom
- Church
- People who give you stories to tell
- People who frustrate you and thereby make you want to avoid their
level of stupidity
- Everyone having a place in the world
- Warm blankets
- Diablo 2
- William is doing this with me
- Apples, bananas, and pears! Oh my!
- Behind the head headphones
- DVDs
- Pixar
- The guy who made up Lain
- Flowers
- Carla Speed McNeil
- Robin McKinley
- Iain Banks
- Mystery Science Theater 3000
- Mechanical pencils
- Spanish
- For no good reason owning a $16 hand lens
- Anyone want to buy it off me?
- Reader's Digest
- Water coolers
- Vending machines
- Twix Bars
- Red Bean cakes
- POCKY!
- Various Japanese Snack foods
- Sega!
- Futons
- Everything on last year's list
- Naps
- Snuggles
- Fishnet
- Lace
- Black, blue, gray and white being the main colors in my wardrobe
- Spiderweb Software
- The Golden Age of Shareware, may it rest in peace
- Epic Megagames
- Apogee
- Sunscreen
- None of the Above
- Catchphrases
- One liners
- Running Gags
- Having a Washing machine on our patio
- The cat who jumped into our patio to have her kittens whom we lived with for a couple months
- Fish
- Having a baby fish come out of pretty much nowhere
- And it survived
- Spider plants
- Metal flowers
- Copyright laws, messed up as they are
- Graphic Novels
- Hybrid cars
- dramamine
- Baldur's Gate
- And the sequel
- Cheapass Games
- Pvponline for making me aware of Cheapass games and Spiderweb software
- Eight for still plugging away and writing crap even when its crap and he's broke
- The waiting for bob people for stopping writing crap when they were afraid it was gonna turn into crap
- Unicorns
- Lewis Carroll
- WAS NOT A DRUGGIE ALREADY! (well maybe he was but come off it!)
- Snicker snacking
- AOTC
- Everyone at AOTC whom I have every reason to be thankful for (you should know who you are)
- 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.)
- Our old mud
- Chai Tea
- Chinese food
- Chicken Mole
- Fried Ice Cream
- Indian Food
- ASU
- Hayden Library's Computer Lab
- $2 bills
- Chik-Fil-A
- Crispix Mix
- Cracklin' Oat Bran
- Pie crust shields
- For the fact that only 1/3 of the pumpkin pie crust burned this year!
- The fact that the pie is done so therefore I can quit!
- Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving folks! God bless you, good night, and see you when I get back.
Maybe.