4/10
i'm thankful that last night before dinner i had to do some extra prep (making a peanut/carrot/jalapeno filling for spring rolls, cutting cucumber matchsticks, chopping shrimp, and making a nam pla-y marinade for all of the above and the rice noodles i had cooked the day before) and that in recent weeks past, i would have seen this task, at the end of a long work day, as insurmountable and just given up and we would have had takeout or something that required less work, instead i just did it and when d got home she assembled the rolls and we had a lovely dinner. i'm thankful to have part of myself left at the end of the day and i'm thankful the thing i've had on and off lately where i lose interest in food seems to be fading.
i'm thankful that the other day, i needed a mid-morning snack and i went into the pantry and pulled out a mini coffee cake from zingerman's that my parents had included in a christmas box they sent us and that we hadn't eaten and to have decided that i would finally eat it. i'm thankful when i took it back to my desk to have seen a label on the back saying "eat by december 25, 2017 or freeze for up to 6 months" and laughed, since the cake looked fine to me. i'm thankful, in my hubris, to have taken a picture of the label so that i could post it in slack with the caption "living dangerously :sunglasses emoji:". i'm thankful, while catching up on said slack after having my head down in a problem for a while, to have taken a bite of the cake, which seemed dry but relatively coffee cake-y, then another bite, and then in my third bite to have realized that i had made a horrible mistake and this was definitely not something i should be eating and to have run down the hallway to the kitchen so i could spit it out in the trash can. i'm thankful i did not get sick and am thankful for this reminder to refrain from eating spoiled food.
i'm thankful for (unspoiled) yogurt pretzels. i'm thankful for small blessings. i'm thankful to meditate on drake rollerblading. i'm thankful for this video, which feels like if jacques tati directed the puppy bowl. i'm thankful for least chipmunk. i'm thankful to be straining at the leash of spring.
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