Thanksgiving in September

So on Man vs. Debt today Adam challenged everyone to do three things.  One of which was to make a list of the things you are thankful for.  So here is my possibly cliche, probably obscure, certainly honest list:

• Number 1 is no doubt Daniel.  Everything awesome about my life can be traced back to this one amazing human being.  
• My job.  The fact that I have one, that I enjoy it (most days) and that I work with incredible people.
• My family.  This one is unbelievably complicated right now, but I am thankful for all aspects of those complications.  I love being an aunt, am blessed with fantastic in-laws who to me are not extended family anymore.  They are my parents, my sisters, my family and I love them so much.  I am thankful for all that I have learned about myself from my family and how to make myself a better person based on that knowledge.
• This is a sub-thank from family, but my brother Aaron is my second favorite person in the world and he deserves his own bullet.  To say that he has always been there for me is the understatement of the millennium and I love him so very much.  He is such an inspiration, always the voice of reason and everything a girl could ever ask for in a big brother.
• My friends.  Some of which are pretty much family now.  I am so well taken care of by them and holy crap what would I do without some of them?  I don't even want to imagine that world.
• My cats.  Yes, you are free to judge me.  I don't care.  Without those two balls of fur my home would be quite lifeless half the time and they definitely make things interesting.
• My car.  I have a strong emotional attachment to my Scion because it was the first good financial decision Daniel and I ever made.  It created a spiral effect of good financial decisions and I owe a lot of stress free rides back and forth to Missouri and Mississippi to this blue box.  Thanks to Japan for the affordable, reliable, fuel efficient toaster you have so graciously bestowed upon me.  
• Our old house in Hutto (that I no longer own).  We got lucky just even being able to buy the house, got lucky with no troubles while we lived there, then got hella lucky when we went to sell it.  It gave us a good chunk of change when we sold it and we were able to put a good down payment on our current house.  Don't get me wrong, I hated Hutto with passion, but that house was great.
• Skirts.  I love skirts.  That's all.
• This one is convoluted, but I am thankful for all the things I am going through now that are preparing me for things I am going to go through later.  Does that make sense?  I may be learning something today that I will need to know tomorrow, next week or ten years from now.  I love that life does that to you.  Prepares you for things without you even knowing it.  How clever. ;)
• Hard times.  Looking back on life, especially the last few years I realize that the times I grow more personally and grow in my relationships with others were during the most horrible of times.  They suck for sure, but out of those hard times have come some amazing results.  
• Vacation.  I can't imagine I really need to explain this one, but I love getting out of town.  Even if it's just for a couple of days, or to chill out with family. 
• My motorcycle.  That thing is loud and it's so pretty.  
• Titanium.  It holds my leg together nicely.  
• And last but not least:  Thanksgiving.  And 4th of July.  Those are the best holidays.  

Maybe you should think about your own list.  I know this isn't everything, but it's what is on my mind tonight.