Yeah, yeah, I know it's an easy topic, but I have added complexity by coming up with 100 such thankful things. To my fellow bloggers, see what you can do with this topic.
1. My husband, Chris
2. My daughters, Kathryn and Anastasia
3. My very best friend, Anastacia
4. The circle of friends in my life (I could take the easy way out and use up much of my 100 things by listing each friend for whom I'm grateful, but I'm deathly afraid that I'd forget someone on the list and really upset him/her.)
5. The hot girls from What's Next
6. The hot girls I eat lunch with on Thursdays
7. Words
8. Books in general (although I reserve the right to list specific books for which I'm thankful)
9. Movies in general (same caveat as above)
10. Fall
11. Beautiful color of leaves
12. Samwise
13. Lord of the Rings, the books
14. Lord of the Rings, the movies
15. Music
16. iPods
17. iTunes gift certificates
18. Pumpkin pie
19. Chris's ability to make pie crust from scratch
20. Chris's sweet potato biscuits
21. Baking cookies for Christmas
22. Good neighbors
23. Working out while watching Desperate Housewives
24. The Thin Man
25. Love Actually
26. Miracle, and Other Christmas Stories
27. The fact that I'll read Miracle, and Other Christmas Stories to herald the Christmas season
28. Christmas lights
29. Christmas music
30. Radio stations that play Christmas music even before Thanksgiving, just in case you're in the mood
31. Pride and Prejudice, the book
32. Pride and Prejudice, the A&E series
33. Kim Harrison books
32. Harry Potter series
33. Charlaine Harris books
34. My ability to write
35. My 2,832 creative ideas a day
36. My wonderful VA, Sandra Trca-Black
37. My current AssistU intern, Cheryl Krass
38. All my past AssistU interns
39. Write Well U
40. Journals
41. My MacBook
42. The wireless network at home that allows me to use my laptop anywhere I want and access all my files
43. My novel
44. Water
45. Kajmir
46. Zena Moon candles (and my fabulous VA in #36 just ordered me more!)
47. Living in Maryland
48. Living only 45 minutes from Washington D.C.
49. The fact that I'm an American. While we Americans might have our problems, I'm lucky to be an American citizen
50. My grandparents
51. Grandparents from #50 moving back to Pensacola, Florida, from Waukegan, Illinois
52. That I don't live in Texas any more
53. Air conditioning in the summer
54. Fabulous tea
55. Taking time to drink tea
56. Quilting
57. Completing most of a quilt top in an all-day quilt class (I'm the third one down)
58. A great chiropractor who fixes my back problems from all-day quilt class in #57
59. My home
60. My backyard
61. My backyard being just feet away from the woods and a creek
62. The Atlantis
63. Looking forward to going to the Atlantis again (someday)
64. That I've lost over 20 pounds this year
65. A fabulous aesthetician
66. Classic movies
67. Turner Classic Movies not showing commercials in the middle of their movies
68. AssistU
69. Virtual assistants
70. Blogging
71. Typepad
72. Chicos
73. Sharing my love of reading, writing, and movies with my children
74. Flannel sheets
75. Good bras
76. The Joyful Business Guide
77. The Internet
78. Cheryl Richardson's Take Time For Your Life
79. Shenandoah National Park
80. New York City
81. Makeup
82. Playing with makeup
83. Curly hair
84. The Oxford English Dictionary
85. Snow
86. The Pyramid Collection
87. Amy Brown
88. Nene Thomas
89. My annual Christmas tea with Tammy at the Ritz Carlton
90. My bedroom and sanctuary
91. Massages
92. Regular massages
93. Purple
94. Sleeping for an uninterrupted six hours with no puppy barking/whining and no husband snoring. Pure bliss.
95. Notes from the Universe
96. Diet Coke with lime
97. A fine-tipped pen
98. Being able to do something well
99. The way the day looks in the morning, even if I am sleepy
100. That I can actually play the piano and not sound too bad
101. Dark chocolate
(Note: I had just finished the 100, when I remembered dark chocolate. I HAD to put that on the list!)
I thought it might be difficult to come up with 100, but at the first sitting, I did 90. Of course, the minute I turned off my computer, I thought of a few more. I wonder if I could do 200, but who in the world would want to read the TWO HUNDRED things for which I'm grateful? I don't even know if I would read that!
Happy Thanksgiving!
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