Bookgirl is Begging the Question 6

What are you thankful for?

Ok, so I acknowledge that this question is a week late. I wish I had some great excuse about how I purposely waited until after Thanksgiving to ask this so you all had time to think about a really good answer. I briefly considered pretending that was the case anyway. But the truth is that the holiday snuck up on me, and I didn't think of it until Tuesday, and then I didn't have time to rewrite Wednesday's post.

Whatever.

I'm asking it now:

What are you thankful for?

I'm thankful that Polly offered to share her blog, so I could stop pretending that I was someday going to go back to maintaining mine.

I'm thankful that after I stopped eating chocolate, they added that extra ingredient that makes all chocolate taste like mud. (Some day my illusions are all I have, people.)

Work with me.

I'm thankful that I got a job and didn't have to move back home with my dad. Because that wouldn't have ended well and prison jumpsuits are not slimming...

I'm thankful that I have all of you to write for, so I can feel like someone is laughing at my jokes. My empty apartment is a terrible audience, and the girls at work don't count because they're being paid to at least pretend to like me.

And this is New York: strangers on the street are a crapshoot.

 

Comments

[Alice]

I'm most thankful for the village that is helping me raise my son.

Ditto on the Polly sharing her blog thing. But Ramblin Jack made such a pretty header for me I just can't bring myself to delete it, so I'm holding out for the day when I'm reborn as a person who sticks with something, anything.

[Polly Poppins]

Of course I'm thankful for the people I love and the beautiful house I live in.

But let's get more specific:

1. I'm thankful for microwaves and the food that is especially designed to cook in them.

2. I'm thankful for indoor plumbing.

3. I'm thankful for birth control.

(Clearly this list is in no particular order.)

4. I'm thankful for BitTorrent and Hulu and Pirate Bay. Unless the internet police are reading this. In which case, I don't know what Pirate Bay is.

5.I'm thankful for drive through car wash and grocery delivery.

6. I'm thankful I have a housekeeper.

7. I'm thankful for automatic dishwashers and water dispensing refrigerators and not having to wash clothes by hand or hang them on the line to dry. Especially in winter.

8. I'm thankful for the combustible engine even though keeping it fueled causes tremendous trouble on the diplomatic and environmental fronts.

9. I'm thankful for my ergonomic keyboard and non-flickering monitor.

10. I'm thankful for babysitters and preschool.

11. I'm thankful for amazon.com and target and the gift receipt.

12. I'm thankful for other people's cooking.

[Pandora]

I, Pandora, am thankful for:

1. 24 hour mexican food joints within walking distance
2. Boys who will walk to the mexican food joint for you at 2:46 am and spend 40 dollars on you.
3. Roommates who I adore.
4. Vodka
5. Trader Joe's potstickers (that's all I ate for a week)
6. The Dol and BabyDoc's cooking.
7. Finding Male Pandora because now I don't have to work as hard to find new music.
8. COFFEE
9. Mommy, Daddy, Sister, Tigger, Zinny.
10. You.
11. Polly's blog
12. Polly's tequila.

[Diosa]

Can't you just ask me to be mean again? I'm much better at that.

I am thankful for my husband, without whom, I would've ended up a much meaner and more jaded person. Honestly, maybe you all should be doing the thanking there instead of me. I mean, this is the much softer, more compassionate me.

I am thankful that my life turned out nothing like what I had imagined.

I am thankful for the websphere and google.

I am thankful for all the wonderful family and friends I have in my life.

I'm thankful for my kids, birth control and vasectomies.

I am thankful that the school principal had enough sense not to call DCYF on me after my son's dramatic stories of being choked at home.

I am thankful I had enough self control not to choke said child after telling such stories.

[Diosa]

Oh, and multiple orgasms. How has that not been said yet?

[Equipoise]

Can I just say: look at my last post to answer this? Lol. :D

[The Model]

Right at this moment, I'm thankful for naptime and kindergarten, and for those darling little beasts who go to those two places on a regular basis. And birth control.

I'm also thankful for that plate of leftovers I just ate, (from last night's dinner, not Thanksgiving of course) and the microwave technology that made it possible.

I'm thankful for Rex (suppose I have Facebook in part to thank) and the new life we're starting together. (Word to Diosa on the multiple orgasms, w00t.)

I'm thankful (why do I keep accidentally typing "thanksful"?) that while we were celebrating Thanksgiving with Rex's family, his mom let us know that she was giving me her car. Srsly. Radness.

I'm thankful for christmas lights. Having them up year-round just makes the house feel so much cozier, and provides flattering lighting on a constant basis. Have I impressed upon you all the importance of flattering lighting? It's truly paramount.

I'm thankful for my family (mommy, bros, and the guv'nor) and the support they've given me through all the madness that's been going on in my life lately, and for the fact that we're all relatively happy and healthy.

I'm thankful for the Goodwill, Buffalo Exchange, Clairol Nice N Easy #103A, and all the other stores and products that help bring all this cuteness despite my brokeness.

And of course I'm thankful that Polly has opened this up to include us. And that she gives us deadlines, because let's face it, I would just never write anything without deadlines.

[The Dol]

Great idea, Bookgirl!

I am thankful for...

...wine, especially Australian Sauvignon Blancs and Argentine Malbecs. Ole, mates!

...birth control. Can we say it enough? Everyone should be thankful for birth control.

...Richard Dawkins, for making me realize that it's ok not to believe in God. There, I said it!

...a wonderful, quirky, fabulous family. I wish they all lived closer. I'm glad Pandora is here in my 'hood, and I hope that Sex on a Stick will be here next year.

...electricity in general, cell phones, washing machines and dryers, iPods.

...people who had the patience to figure out how to make fabulous food and then the staying power to write down recipes, so I can appear to be a brilliant cook just by following the directions. (I heart you, Pandora!)

...my darling husband and diva of a daughter.

...amazing, brilliant, beautiful friends like Polly and all y'all. I have the most amazing friends. I am so fortunate.

[The Dol]

I meant New Zealand Sauvignon Blancs. I'm not sure if I should blame my poor geography skills or the glass of (you guessed it) Sauvignon Blanc.

Whatever.

[Polly]

I'm thankful for Ramblin' Jack and multiple orgasms, too!

[Polly Poppins]

And I'm thankful that Bookgirl didn't get mad at me for cutting off her last paragraph when I pasted her text into this post.

I was going to paste it into the post where it belonged but since you all have already read it, I'm afraid you'll miss it if I put it there so I'll just put it here. You don't want to miss it because Bookgirl went all warm and fuzzy on us. Here's what she wrote:

"Finally, I'm thankful that my goddaughter will stop whatever she's doing and run across any room to throw herself into my arms. I can't even say anything funny or snarky about that. It just makes my heart ache. Every time."

[Pandora]

Dol, let us not call my sister sex on a stick. Puh-lease!

[Polly Poppins]

Pandora, the more you resist, the more the sex sticks to the stick.

[Bookgirl]

I'm with you all on the birth control. I'm pretty sure that and Prozac are the only reasons my personal history doesn't come with a body count.

Pol and Dol, modern conveniences can never be overemphasized.

Pandora, I love that you can always bring it back to the demon alcohol. Oh to be young and have the metabolism that goes with it... I had one last wine night out the Saturday before I started my job, drank way less than the younger Bookgirl would have, and still had to go shopping for foundation on Saturday so the blood vessels I had broken in my face while vomiting wouldn't show. There's no dignity in aging. At least not the way I'm doing it...

Oh, and the glee I felt reading Dol's sex on a stick comment and picturing your reaction to it was mean, and I apologize.

[The Dol]

Sorry, Pandora. No can do.