giving, Thanks

Thanksgiving is two days away and I wanna get my 2012 thanks and "no thanks" out of the way now. Since it's on the 22nd of November this year, I'll make a list of 22 items:

1. I'm thankful for the opportunity my employers gave me to do my job in a whole new wonderful city but 
2. I'm not thankful that the sacrifice is leaving behind so many wonderful coworkers, friends, and family in Seattle and the whole Washington vacinity.
3. I'm thankful that I live in such a peaceful town not so far from San Francisco but
4. I'm not thankful that it can sometimes be time consuming commuting into work all the way from Walnut Creek.
5. I'm thankful that my longer than usual commute affords me the opportunity to write blogs, enjoy music/podcast, and/or read but 
6. I'm not thankful that I still have a problem with motion sickness and can read only so much before I feel like I'm going to blehhhhh.
7. I'm thankful that I'll be spending Thanksgiving in Anaheim having a good ol' time at Disneyland but
8. I'm not thankful that I won't, instead, be with family eating turkey, mashed potatoes, ham, stuffing, and all the other great Thanksgiving traditions.
9. I'm thankful that I finally realized, after five years, that I could change the voice on the GPS to an awesomely cool British accented female voice but
10. I'm not thankful that I'm addicted to hearing it and, in fact, will use the GPS to drive to Safeway just three blocks away
11. I'm thankful that I finally tied the knot to with my bff,  my soulmate, my forever evah back in January but
12. I'm not thankful that we didn't have a big ol' party to celebrate it with everyone (maybe one day).
13. I'm thankful that all the hard work I put into my job was recognized this year with a promotion but 
14. I'm not thankful that I stooped to injuring myself in order to make management feel sorry for me. ;)
15. I'm thankful that my accident (smashing my mouth into the pavement) wasn't worster than it coulda been but
16. I'm not thankful that I was such a klutz and could have easily avoided crashing (I replay it in my head all the time).
17. I'm thankful that we've already had some guests in our little abode after less than three months but
18. I'm not thankful that their visits are so short.
19. I'm thankful for making some quick friends in our new home... and already have had a board game night with a few of them but
20. I'm not thankful every night isn't board game night.
21. I'm especially thankful for the ability to virtually keep in touch with all the long distance people in my life but
22. I'm not thankful for the non-invention of teleportation. So, you know, visiting each other would be so much quicker (I stole that from the sis-in-law).

Anyway, it's not much but there you go. 

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!