- 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.
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Tuesday, September 6, 2011
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:
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
The Code?
I really should be in bed, but I wanted to post this...plus I had sweet tea like 3 hours ago, so I am wide awake.
This weekend I spent with my in laws in Kansas City. Sunday afternoon my mother and father in law(Cindy and Dan) were invited to a swim party then motorcycle ride at a friend's house. After much negotiating and one indiscernible text, we figured out that we were all going to go swim (even though it was raining at the time) and that if they all went on their ride, that me, my sister in law and nephew(Mallory and Brodie) would just leave then. Or stay and raid their fridge, whatevs.
So after we do all this prep for it, we are notified that the party planner did not bother to check with the pool owners to see if they were down. Pool owners were not down, so the whole thing was cancelled.
Well, I had it in my head that we were swimming. And as luck would have it, the sun came back out. So Mal and I started digging around to find somewhere to swim. After about an hour of brainstorming, we decided we should contact the Paulsen's to see about swimming in their pool. I hadn't seen them in a while anyway, so it sounded perfect to me. But how do we go about inviting ourselves over to someone's house? Well, if it were me, I would very discreetly say, "can I come over and go swimming?" But no....Dan was in charge of this task. *sigh*
So Dan sends a random text to Mike (Paulsen) and just says: "You home?"
To which Mike replies, "Yeah. You?"
At this point, Mal, Cindy and I are convinced that this was a wast of time because we are never going to get anywhere with this kind of dialog. But Dan assures us that he is talking "in code" and that he will get the invitation. There was much laughing and rolling of eyes at this point.
Dan's next step in his amazing invitation-getting plan is, "Yep."
So Mike says, "Cool."
Mind you, the whole time, every single text reply that Dan is getting he holds the phone up in triumph and shows the whole room that there is a new text. Then he opens his phone and adjusts his view (old people) to read, then tells us with a huge grin on his face what Mike has said. The hilarity of this whole thing cannot be conveyed in text.
When the "cool" response came we were sure that we just weren't going swimming at all. Dan replies with the epic, "Too cool?" I can't make this crap up. Two middle aged men, texting like 14 year old girls.
And somehow, out of nowhere, Mike says, "Can I borrow the keys to the Harley, Dad?"
I cannot tell you how thoroughly confused we all were at this response. All of us but Dan. He made it seem like this was all part of the plan. You know..."The Code."
So Dan replies with, "Trade for a dip in the pool?"
"Sure, come on over."
I still don't know how it happened. But we went swimming. I am not at all convinced of this supposed code. I'm pretty sure it was dumb luck on Dan's part. Either way, it was hilarious.
This weekend I spent with my in laws in Kansas City. Sunday afternoon my mother and father in law(Cindy and Dan) were invited to a swim party then motorcycle ride at a friend's house. After much negotiating and one indiscernible text, we figured out that we were all going to go swim (even though it was raining at the time) and that if they all went on their ride, that me, my sister in law and nephew(Mallory and Brodie) would just leave then. Or stay and raid their fridge, whatevs.
So after we do all this prep for it, we are notified that the party planner did not bother to check with the pool owners to see if they were down. Pool owners were not down, so the whole thing was cancelled.
Well, I had it in my head that we were swimming. And as luck would have it, the sun came back out. So Mal and I started digging around to find somewhere to swim. After about an hour of brainstorming, we decided we should contact the Paulsen's to see about swimming in their pool. I hadn't seen them in a while anyway, so it sounded perfect to me. But how do we go about inviting ourselves over to someone's house? Well, if it were me, I would very discreetly say, "can I come over and go swimming?" But no....Dan was in charge of this task. *sigh*
So Dan sends a random text to Mike (Paulsen) and just says: "You home?"
To which Mike replies, "Yeah. You?"
At this point, Mal, Cindy and I are convinced that this was a wast of time because we are never going to get anywhere with this kind of dialog. But Dan assures us that he is talking "in code" and that he will get the invitation. There was much laughing and rolling of eyes at this point.
Dan's next step in his amazing invitation-getting plan is, "Yep."
So Mike says, "Cool."
Mind you, the whole time, every single text reply that Dan is getting he holds the phone up in triumph and shows the whole room that there is a new text. Then he opens his phone and adjusts his view (old people) to read, then tells us with a huge grin on his face what Mike has said. The hilarity of this whole thing cannot be conveyed in text.
When the "cool" response came we were sure that we just weren't going swimming at all. Dan replies with the epic, "Too cool?" I can't make this crap up. Two middle aged men, texting like 14 year old girls.
And somehow, out of nowhere, Mike says, "Can I borrow the keys to the Harley, Dad?"
I cannot tell you how thoroughly confused we all were at this response. All of us but Dan. He made it seem like this was all part of the plan. You know..."The Code."
So Dan replies with, "Trade for a dip in the pool?"
"Sure, come on over."
I still don't know how it happened. But we went swimming. I am not at all convinced of this supposed code. I'm pretty sure it was dumb luck on Dan's part. Either way, it was hilarious.
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