drinking exactly three cocktails

i'm thankful that we got our first vaccine shots last week at a walmart across the border and, though i would have still been thankful if they hurt, it was the least painful shot i can remember getting, maybe partially because they do it through this little circular bandaid. i'm thankful i didn't have any side effects and i'm thankful that since we were at walmart, we were also able to buy a new loaf of sandwich bread.

i'm thankful for wednesday, the warmest day of the year so far, smoking two joints in a row on a leisurely walk through the sunshine and parking at a corner table in a secluded patio with f and kh, eating french fries and oysters and crab cakes and beignets, drinking exactly three cocktails (my inarguable upper limit as an old person), talking and talking and talking into the night.

i'm thankful that it really feels like spring is coming now (and i'm thankful, now, for zyrtec and flonase, my favorite over the counter drugs). i'm thankful that i quit taking almost all of my bullshit dietary supplements a month or so ago and that i have not seemed to suffer any adverse health effects. i'm thankful that the temperatures keep edging upward and that i know i shouldn't get too excited yet, that there are still cold dark days ahead, but i'm also thankful to get excited, to fantasize about the shape life is about to take.

i'm thankful for my bike, which is light and fast and comfortable to ride. i'm thankful for how much d likes her peloton and i'm thankful that because she has it now we never have to negotiate who's using the treadmill. i'm thankful that work was better last week than the week before and i got to work on some things that i felt more invested in.

i'm thankful for burger friday, slightly colder but manageable, even more friends crammed into a circle around the perimeter of the yard, miso not being the dog causing trouble for once (because we tied her to a post rather than letting her run (literally) riot). i'm thankful, even though we haven't yet found the particular outdoor chairs we want to live in this summer, that i also love lying on a blanket on the grass, so it's fine.

i'm thankful that there's an umami burger in town now and that their ketchup is just as magical as i remember. i'm thankful for pickles on a sandwich and lazy saturdays. i'm thankful that d wrote a new issue of her newsletter. i'm thankful that, having missed them since i quit twitter, d told me that astro poets have a newsletter and i'm thankful for my horoscope for this week:

i'm thankful for thinking that i surely had an extra quarter inch to 3.5mm cable converter somewhere in my "misc music stuff" box and though it wasn't there, i then realized another junk-drawer-esque box had one buried in the bottom of it. i'm thankful for the fuzzy bunny baseball hat d bought. i'm thankful to not have to pretend that i have any interest in either celebrating easter or watching sports.