For What Are You Thankful?

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Caftans!

Having a healthy 401k balance, and a nice fat dick!

Biden winning the election

Thankful that no one in my small circle has contracted COVID.

Thankful for President Biden and VP Harris.

In this shit year, that's the most I can do.

That Biden won.

Every evening for all these years, I've put the cat out, I've locked the door, I've made myself a little rum toddy, and before I went to bed, I said a little prayer, thanking God that I was independent, that no one else's life was mixed up with mine.

That I'm no longer in the United States

That I don't have ALS or another neurological disease. I read that Pat Quinn was diagnosed at THIRTY, and my mother was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease at forty. I'm now forty.

I can't imagine ever being diagnosed with ALS, and it would be my worst nightmare. Suddenly, my boring little life doesn't seem so bad by comparison. After I read about Pat Quinn's life, I all but quit drinking, and started getting out of the house much more than I have in the last several years.

I'll see r5, and raise her one "I'm still ambulatory."

For good health and HIV meds and certain healthcare. For having a husband who I love and who loves me, and who drives me nuts only rarely. For having work I enjoy but don't need. For being financially comfortable enough. For living in a beautiful place, in a nice home. For being happy with who I am and what I have - and don't have. For curiosity and for looking forward. And for the good fortune of any of these things.

For someone who loves me, and for someone to love. For my life, and the lives of all you remarkable, inexplicable others, to remind me I’m not alone, and not the only opinionated asshole around. For the lives of my kitties and pups, those alive now and those that passed, who are always with me, in a way I can’t even describe or explain. For the eagles at the reservoir, ceaselessly hunting or stropping their beaks on the branches where they roost, for the clear, cold lake, the bare trees, and the gray November that brings everything, all this, into focus. For you. Thank you.

I am thankful that following your thread there is this one, Fitness Model Matt Sabatino 🔥

R12, You are a mensch.

This past month has been the absolute worst. I won’t go into details but it’s been miserable.

But I am grateful to my friends and family. And I’m grateful to you terrible bitches for lifting me when I’m down.

Thankful that I only have to worry about myself these days, thankful that I'm getting closer to my goal of taking a year off and exploring new places (once things start to normalize, of course), thankful that I've spent some time on self development these past several months. But most of all I'm thankful that we will soon be rid of the orange demon and his hideous family. Looking forward to a new year and a new start.

For being retired.

Biden won.

I get along with my family and they live close by (but not too close).

I have good health insurance, immunizations are coming, and no one in my family has contracted Covid, not even the teachers (knock on wood). My friends are okay.

I am thankful for my family and loved ones.

I am thankful for the awareness that everything teems and is filled with life, and that - whether you look at things from an atheistic or faithful point of view - all of the pain and suffering we each endure on this earth will pass and peace, whether in death or in an “afterlife,” will reign.

I am thankful for the kindness that pours out of me onto others, and for the kindness that pours from others onto me, and for the kindness I am blessed to witness between friends, loved ones, and strangers alike.

I am thankful for the subtlest shifts and movements that remind me that we are never alone.

I am thankful for you all.

I’m thankful for toilet paper.

Thankful for my health, my independence, a little savings, my parents and a few select family and friends. Oh and a sweet purring cat who’s been with me now for over 10 years. I’m grateful for the DL too! I’ve been here through so many holidays. Happy holidays, bitches.

I work remotely, have no financial worries, a spacious place, wonderful dogs, good friends and premium cable. The pandemic has had very little impact on my life, apart from making me a homebody and a customer of Amazon and Instacart. I feel incredibly lucky and really think that if the pandemic has not affected your health or livelihood, you should be very grateful. I am.

That's wonderful, R16. Congratulations. I don't see that happening for me for a while, but it's on my list.

Affordable young tricks who tell me I really could pass for 29.

Thankful to have a car that runs reliably. Last night, I was food shopping and drove past a bus stop, where someone was waiting, alone. The buses run infrequently at night and I've been there before, waiting for the bus at night. Not a lot of fun.