I have a lot to be thankful for this year. I have a great job, I’m on my way to financial security, my family is all healthy, I have great friends, Tig and Gracie are happy and healthy (albeit always a bit neurotic), I’m working my way through the DVD of Heroes that Lynn gave me, the weather here in Richmond is in the 70s, my house is still pretty darned clean from the bat mitzvah, and, well, life is good.
This time last year, Gracie was three pounds underweight and recovering slowly from IBD, barely able to walk up the stairs without making me cringe at her skinniness and hesitation. She just zipped past me through the open patio door, because the wind kicked up and blew leaves around and frightened her. Tig’s outside sitting in the sun, ruler of all he surveys.
By this time next year, I should be in my own home. And who knows what else the next year will bring?
It’s been a long, hard slog since I started this weblog in the spring of 2001. But things are going very, very well now. I’ve been giving thanks privately for a while. Time for some public thanks.
What have you got to be thankful for?
I am thankful for family, friends, and this year a new job since September. I’d been looking for some time.
Health, no disease coming back, a new job which challenges me, and a new home in a new town which are both fitting us like a glove…