Thanks for Turkey Day

[jackshoegazer]

So yet another Turkey Day has arrived, or the Day of Giving Thanks. I was originally going to go on a rant about how much I do not want to go to dinner with my family and how completely dysfunctional they are but instead I'm going to focus on the positive and keep with the true spirit of this corrupted holiday. I'm wracking my brain to think of what I could be thankful for, and I can only think of the cliche. My family, no wait, not my family. Not all of them at least. I'm thankful for my father who is compassionate and self-sacrificing and I'm thankful for my son, for whom I could not have wished for a better child. I am thankful for my closest friends who have been more like family to me than my biological family, who have stuck by me during my high ecstatic times and my lowest hellish torments. I am thankful the Universe has shaken me awake and shown me the Path and the Way and keeps posting signs and shoving me around whenever I blindly or drunkenly wander into the surrounding woods. Are there other things I am thankful for? Absolutely. Every single thing. From the smallest quantum particle to the largest heavenly body, I am thankful.

Comments

[moonshinekat.livejournal.com]

you took the words right out of my mouth... we are in the same boat as far as family goes... but i too am thankful for what i do have and it's refreshing to hear someone think positively even though i know you have been through some shit. i am thankful that i have the bestest kick ass friends in the world :)

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Awww, does that iclude me? Do ~I~ kick ass?

[moonshinekat.livejournal.com]

but of course!

[enalia.livejournal.com]

Having a child really does make a person realize how much they have to be thankful for, though I thank Luna every day for coming into my life. So I guess this 'holiday' is no big thing to me. I know what I have and what I'm grateful for, I always remind myself of what I have, and I'm constantly grateful for being at the right places and meeting the right people that have kept me on the path I am on. Perhaps sometimes I get a little afraid of it all slipping away. Time goes by so much faster when you get older, ya know? Anyway, today is just an excuse to get the family round a table and eat WAY TOO MUCH food. I don't want to look at turkey and sweet potatoes for quite a while. (Ok, maybe tomorrow.)

That is one awesomely beautiful picture. I'm stealing it. Let me know if I say awesome too much, cause I think I do.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Time does go by faster the older you get and I'm still trying to figure out why that is. I'm nowhere close to an answer. You have any idea? Anyone??!

Oh, you don't say awesome too much. At least, you don't write AWESOME nearly as much as I use the :) smiley. I'm a bigger fan of the :P tongue-sticking-out smiley. I use them all too often.

I'm still full and I stopped eating over four hours ago. I think I'm going to put on my oversized pajamas and watch Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban until the Food Coma hits me :)

See you later~!

_j_

[moonshinekat.livejournal.com]

i do this... and this!!! too much i'm also a fan of :p