i'm thankful that the company christmas party was fun, even though the food was very very bad (i'm thankful for my friend who made the genius move of ordering mcdonalds delivery when she got home). i'm thankful we got to expense an uber.
i'm thankful that though i had to work yesterday, it wasn't that bad. i'm thankful for the weirdness of "quiet slack" when i work on the weekend and how it's like this weird version of being a secretary in an office where everyone is OOO. i'm thankful, even though there is a kind of peace in it, a focus, that i do not always work in quiet slack.
i'm thankful that though this will be a six day week and i have work next monday, i'm only working next monday and am then off for 8 days, the longest time i've been off this year.
i'm thankful that because this is a busy week, d and i decided to have lazy dinners (the lazy cold cut sandwiches and the even lazier microwaved chicken nuggets and kale).
i'm thankful that though the woman in the deli slicing the cold cuts was clearly feeling overwhelmed and behind, i smiled at her really fully each time we interacted and on the last one, she smiled back.
i'm thankful for ingredients that add moisture to a sandwich, including out of season tomatoes and pickles and pepperoncini.
i'm thankful for the weirdness of spell check, like how in my gmail draft window it has highlighted "pepperoncini" as though i have misspelled it but when i open the dialog for the word, it tells me "No Replacements Found" like stop complaining if you have nothing useful to tell me.
i'm thankful that d and i are better at talking to each other and resolving arguments than we used to be.
i'm thankful for living with yourself, which continues to be a joy. i'm thankful for this week's new yorker and i'm thankful to have stopped reading about a third of the way through the william gibson profile because it made me so deeply want to try again at reading his books (which i've bounced off of in the past) and i didn't want to read the embedded spoilers for some of his novels. i'm thankful when a profile of an artist is so good at conjuring their art that it nullifies itself for me in this way.
i'm thankful to have been trying to encourage miso to play more, since i know the stimulation is good for her and makes her happy. i'm thankful that though she still gets bored or distracted pretty easily, we had a good fetch session on the couch last night. i'm thankful for tennis balls.
i'm thankful that me talking about slay the spire got s back into it and lately we share notes about our runs.
i'm thankful for this letter from sanaa about plants and life (