11/14/15
i'm thankful that i did not make myself feel shitty for not writing thank you notes yesterday. i'm thankful that i am writing thank you notes now.
i'm thankful for spencer pratt and heidi montag. i'm thankful for their snapchats, which i learned about from this thoughtful profile in complex recently. i'm thankful for spencer's addictions to crystals and burritos. i'm thankful for the complex blend of sadness and bravado that drives his snap content. i'm thankful for the way that his work acknowledges the drudgery and repetition of the everyday but also finds joy in it. i'm thankful for heidi's quieter snaps, for her sweetness, and for the joy she takes in singing her songs. i'm thankful for their giant glasses of wine. i'm thankful that a direct line to these two, which is something i dreamed of when i was twenty two, now exists, and i'm thankful can enjoy it without being obsessed with it.
i'm thankful for fallout 4, which i'm still playing and will probably be for a while. i'm thankful that, unlike other AAA games, it doesn't hold your hand or put an icon telling you where everything is and what everything does. i'm thankful for the sense of discovery that allows, which drove my quest up through a dilapidated high-rise apartment complex filled with super mutants to the penthouse, sheared open to the air by explosions, where i rescued a snippy actor in a three piece suit and a super mutant who is searching for the milk of human kindness, which he believes to be a real, physical substance.
i'm thankful for pressure cookers. i'm thankful that, on a whim, i was able to turn some frozen chicken thighs into delicious chili verde with just a bit of lazy rough chopping and time. i'm thankful for serrano peppers, for anaheim peppers, and for another kind of peppers i can't remember the name of (i would normally be thankful for poblano peppers, but the store was out of those last night when i stopped by on my way home from work).
i'm thankful that we allowed ourselves the indulgence of eating an entire pint of gelato in one sitting, even though we really shouldn't have. i'm thankful that we didn't eat dessert during the week, making it slightly more acceptable to do so. i'm thankful for talenti peanut butter cup gelato, which is the greatest supermarket ice cream known to man. i'm thankful for the possibility that there might just be something better out there that i haven't tried yet. i'm thankful for possibility in all its forms.