1/6/17
i'm thankful that on facetime with my parents last night i reminisced about one of the first times i ever saw a drunk adult, which was on an extended family reunion at the beach when i was in middle school. i'm thankful to remember vividly that it was dusk and we were waiting outside the restaurant to be seated and the adults were sitting around the base of a large tree while the hyper children buzzed around them and my aunt was drinking wine on an empty stomach. i'm thankful to remember that she said she wanted something from me, i don't remember what, and i said snuffily "well, i'd like a solid gold toilet," which was part of a joke from austin powers: international man of mystery, which at the time was my favorite movie. i'm thankful to have been lectured by my parents, which was fair (i'm thankful that in retrospect they find it hilarious that i said this) and am thankful to remember i think my dad saying that it wouldn't have been so rude (would have been acceptably rude) if i had said the whole line, which was "well, i'd like a solid gold toilet but it's just not in the cards," and if i had said it in a cheeky english accent that couldn't have hurt either.
i'm thankful that i've been making our dinner sandwiches without tomatoes because i didn't realize that d bought tomatoes, so i'm thankful she pulled them out of the bag where they'd been hiding in the camouflage of apples. i'm thankful for the balance of wet and dry in a sandwich, which i think is almost as important as the balance of flavors. i'm thankful we have pickles, which i like on a sandwich and d likes on the side. i'm thankful that d has found a way to be entertained while dying, which is important. i'm thankful for my fantasy while watching early seasons of the amazing race that somehow social media existed then, because i would love to see the people who act like assholes get dragged en masse. i'm thankful that usually on later seasons of the amazing race, the winner of each leg gets a trip to somewhere, but in the early season i'm watching now, usually what the winner gets is a 2002 Kodak Easy Share digital camera, which clearly even back then (their forced smiles as they stand on the winner's mat) is a shitty prize.
i'm thankful that it snowed more than expected yesterday, for the first real covering we've had. i'm thankful that after my run on the treadmill, i went outside in my shorts, still warm, and shoveled and salted our front steps. i'm thankful for the bracing but bearable cold and thankful to be able to come inside form it and shut the door. i'm thankful that sometimes while making tea, i think of wayne saying "I'm drinking hot tea bitch, feel me," on "shoot me down" and how he returns in the break between the verses to say "this tea is at a real good temperature right now." i'm thankful for hot tea, especially when it is at a real good temperature. i'm thankful for crossed wires. i'm thankful for nathan fielder, who can always give me a good hard laugh when i need one. i'm thankful to hope diego luna's dream of touching and/or kissing jabba the hut comes true. i'm thankful to have danced sillily with d in our bedroom to that venga boys song. i'm thankful for this video of a computer drawing a flower.
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