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i'm thankful to have woken up in my own bed.

i'm thankful for the opportunity to revisit the fragmentary notes i kept in my phone over the past week as a way of processing my experiences and adding them...

i'm thankful that the plane that's about to carry d and i to phoenix and halfway home has two seat rows and that when we sat down, i found that d had been...

i'm thankful to have had fresh lychees for the first time yesterdat. i'm thankful for the spray of nectar when you break the flesh with a knife. i'm thankful...

i'm thankful that we did not go anywhere or do anything yesterday and that i felt so relaxed, i fell asleep in the middle of the afternoon while rereading a...

i'm thankful for my normal life, which in contrast to how this vacation is going seems, for all i complain about it and struggle through it and feel unhappy,...

i'm thankful, even if much of our time together is spent crammed into the cramped backseat of a car on an endless freeway in between destinations we don't...

i'm thankful for the beach we went to yesterday. i'm thankful for how from florida, i'm used to looking out at the horizon over the water and seeing only...

i'm thankful that while the house is overrun by ants, they are not the kind of ants that bite or sting

i'm thankful to be naked. i'm thankful for the pleasure of realizing at a given time that i can take off my clothes and feel happier and more comfortable....

I'm thankful for difficult conversations. I'm thankful that when I asked a friend what he'd warn a prospective partner about me, he said, "that you're...

i'm thankful i have decided to stop taking my new antidepressant because it just makes me feel increasingly horrible every day! i'm thankful that i have an...

i'm thankful that though i felt pretty crappy yesterday, today is a new day in which i will hopefully feel less crappy. i'm thankful for the oddness of...

i'm thankful that i had a pretty good day at work yesterday. i'm thankful that i'm making good progress in my current work project and that i'm finding more...

i'm thankful to go one by one through the list of links and notes stored in my notes app because i feel like i haven't been posting as much from there lately...

i'm thankful that i don't have to work today, even though the reason i don't have to work today is that i had to work saturday. i'm thankful that i won't...

i'm thankful that d and i have been married for two years. i'm thankful for the way two years feels like both a long time and a short time. i'm thankful she...

The way the morning light can suddenly rush in and compensate for a hearty breakfast, for a long time now—only a few weeks, or several months—the way too...

i'm thankful that yesterday afternoon i had a call from my doctor's office, which i thought was related to the prescription i am on day 9 of trying to get...

i'm thankful that i went yesterday to get the ultrasound of my heart that i'm supposed to get every year but didn't get last year. i'm thankful that the scan...

I am thankful for the recent reminder that love does not have to hurt. That a relationship does not mean bondage, but it can mean finding a new way to be...

i'm thankful that last night d sent me one of the most disgusting and horrifying things i've ever seen. i'm thankful to link you to it, but to warn you first...

i'm thankful that there is so much good new music right now. i'm thankful that the new big thief album came out and it is beautiful. i'm thankful for the new...

i'm thankful that d's car broke down in rural indiana on friday night, even though that sucked and led to us having a big fight over the phone and one of the...

i'm thankful for nice strangers, like the older couple who offered to take us to the glaciers, and the woman who told us it was a holiday in reykjavik so...

i'm thankful that sometimes there is good news. i'm thankful that we are many and they are few.

i'm thankful that my doctor's appointment went well. i'm thankful that i like my new doctor much better than my old doctor, who was fine but who never felt...

i'm thankful that i have a doctor's appointment this afternoon, even though going to the doctor makes me feel very anxious. i'm thankful that i can afford to...

i'm thankful that yesterday at 7:02 i realized that the dinner plans i thought were for today (tuesday) at 7 were actually for yesterday at 7 and that i was...

i'm thankful for the series finale of the leftovers. i'm thankful that we watched it together last night since d is leaving this morning. i'm thankful to try...

i'm thankful that though d is leaving tomorrow for a business trip and will be gone all week, it's only a week (actually only six days, since she'll get back...

I'm thankful the weather is so nice and it isn't raining all the time and winter seems to be finally over. I'm thankful for the lift in mood that that gives...

i'm thankful that i had a really good time at the party last night. i'm thankful that though it was very hot inside the party because there wasn't any air...

i'm thankful that i had an awkward experience yesterday when i was meeting a coworker for dinner at the cafe in the fancy grocery store and he wasn't there...

i'm thankful to be writing this from my own bed. i'm thankful that yesterday was our last day of dog sitting. i'm thankful that though the dog jerked at his...

i'm thankful to have a day off from work today, but i'm thankful to not miss the opportunity to tell you that i hope you have a good day.

i'm thankful for the nice man in the kroger parking lot who jumpstarted our car yesterday when it wouldn't start and i was standing in the space next to it...

i'm thankful that though i didn't think i would get back to sleep after the dog woke me up at 5am and then, when i dragged him and myself outside, didn't...

i'm thankful that black by pearl jam is evergreen, as evergreen as the first punches of heartbreak, that it sounds urgent and wrenching at all times of the...

[TW: self harm, suicide] I'm thankful to have reached the end of another teaching year, generally less frazzled than the same time in 2016. Maybe that means...

i'm thankful that we are one day closer to being done with dog sitting. i'm thankful that yesterday was a real challenge with the dog but we at least had a...

i'm thankful that we have gotten through the first day of dog sitting, which was difficult and tiring. i'm thankful to feel more tired than i have felt in a...

i'm thankful for the long strange dream i had last night, which involved me portraying the pope in some kind of play in which there were several scenes of...

i'm thankful for those mondays where you wake up and you don't feel that "oh god it's monday again" feeling of dread crashing wavelike onto you in bed. i'm...

i'm thankful that after a few days of not writing thank you notes, it's always a little hard to start again. i'm thankful to know that the routine of writing...

i'm thankful for the u.s. citizenship and immigration services envelope with the pale green paper peeking through the window last night addressed to j. i'm...

i’m thankful for my partner's suggestion that i get to work on the big old calluses that have formed on my heels after years of wearing shoes of slightly the...

i'm thankful that d went out with her coworkers last night and had a good time. i'm thankful that since i was on my own instead of cooking i got a double...

i'm thankful to have finally written a tweet that people i'm not already friends with read. i'm thankful for the irony of this tweet which i wrote when...

i'm thankful to have realized yesterday that the anniversary of our engagement was probably coming up soon and to have made a reminder in my phone to look up...