11/29/15
i'm thankful that i'm not a smoker in the midwest in the winter. i'm thankful that i'm not a smoker in general, but after watching my neighbor step out onto his back patio to have a smoke today, i'm thankful that i'm not a smoker in the midwest in the winter.
i'm thankful that it's cold enough that my breath forms vapor. i'm thankful for heattech long underwear. i'm thankful for down.
i'm thankful that i'm finally making kefir, after spending a lot of time and effort to find the grains and then sticking them in the back of the cupboard for weeks. i'm thankful that i realize how ridiculous it was to put it off because of some subterranean anxiety about boiling milk and i'm thankful how easy it is to leave it resting on the counter. i'm thankful that i'm getting into a good workflow with my continuous brew kombucha. i'm thankful for the short wait times of these forms of home fermentation, which split the difference perfectly between patience and gratification. i'm thankful that i can recognize the ridiculousness of the sentences in this paragraph and i'm thankful that i can laugh at them while also living them.
i'm thankful for natasha's dance, which i went back to last night after the narrator got a little too fragmented and purple.
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i'm thankful that though my stomach was a little tight yesterday, it loosened up and i slept well. i'm thankful to try a new recipe for dinner tonight and i'm thankful that green beans and pears were on sale at the grocery store and that we got a perfectly good bag of spinach for fifty cents. i'm thankful that the kroger weekly giveaway was a pack of airhead bites, a new candy form i had seen at CVS and drooled after recently. i'm thankful that d didn't really like the bites and so i got to eat most of them. i'm thankful that i enjoyed them, even if i don't think they're as good as regular airheads. i'm thankful for my memories of eating airheads as a child, which mostly take place in the summer at swimming pools. i'm thankful for the white mystery flavor.
i'm thankful for the nice quiet man who has been hired by our landlord to do work on the exterior of our house. i'm thankful to hear his footsteps on the roof while i meditate. i'm thankful we are living in this house, which is not perfect but which is the perfect place for us to be right now. i'm thankful that we haven't encountered any more mice lately.
i'm thankful for warm blankets and i'm thankful for central heating.