Archive (Page 15) • thank you notes • Buttondown

September 6, 2018

i'm thankful for the BLTs i made for dinner yesterday. i'm thankful that though i don't love mayo in many contexts, i love it in the context of BLTs. i'm...

September 5, 2018

i'm thankful i didn't send thank you notes yesterday. i'm thankful to recognize that a practice is different from a habit and that both are different from a...

September 2, 2018

i’m thankful for fresh tortilla chips, still warm from the fryer.

September 2, 2018

i’m thankful it doesn’t feel like a sunday.

September 1, 2018

i’m thankful for our new dog.

August 31, 2018

i'm thankful, since i hate to break a chain, even if i'm only barely holding on to it, that i realized earlier this evening that i had forgotten to send a...

August 29, 2018

i'm thankful that though i felt bummed out yesterday because some bugs that i thought shouldn't be bugs anymore arose during a test session for my work...

August 28, 2018

i'm thankful that i finally filled my pill organizers after more than a week of having not done that and having to measure out my pills four times a day. i'm...

August 27, 2018

i’m thankful i only have to work four days this week.

August 26, 2018

i’m thankful for space.

August 26, 2018

i'm thankful that in the five minutes before dinner was ready to come out of the oven, i emptied the dishwasher instead of looking at my phone.

August 24, 2018

i'm thankful for the music of børns, who d loves and introduced me to. i'm thankful for how high his voice goes on the first song she got me into of his,...

August 23, 2018

i'm thankful that yesterday, even though i said i was going to wait for help from the kind engineer today rather than continue to bash my head against it, i...

August 22, 2018

i'm thankful for having broken up with my boyfriend of three years on the 26th of May, the day after our 3rd anniversary. i'm thankful to look back on our...

August 20, 2018

i'm thankful to have slept 10 hours last night. i'm thankful that even though i am still tired, i didn't have to travel internationally, as many of my...

August 19, 2018

i’m thankful for raw oysters.

August 19, 2018

i’m thankful to almost be home.

August 17, 2018

i’m thankful for karaoke.

August 16, 2018

i'm thankful to have escaped from a crowded restaurant full of noise into a quiet empty street at magic hour and am thankful, in that cloud of relief, to...

August 15, 2018

i'm thankful to have heard the phrase "milkshake, kelis" as "milkshake police." i'm thankful that there's no such thing as milkshake police.

August 14, 2018

i’m thankful for how funny it is that even though i packed an enormous suitcase, i somehow forgot to put more than three pairs of underwear in it. i’m...

August 13, 2018

i'm thankful to have gone with d to get her blood drawn (routine—i'm thankful when she told me she had to get her blood drawn, she said "routine" immediately...

August 12, 2018

i’m thankful that deborah wanted to sing.

August 12, 2018

i’m thankful that neither d or i have to travel for work very often.

August 10, 2018

I'm thankful for the power of dawn which erases away yesterday's awes and prepares us for new ones. for the chance we're given everyday to start over and for...

i'm thankful that i am outside in the mornings now for my runs—i'm thankful to have described being thankful for this before, but i'm thankful for it every...

i'm thankful that i can make d laugh so hard that her stomach hurts (i'm thankful that her food poisoning is over, so i felt okay about hurting her stomach...

i'm thankful that d isn't sick anymore. i'm thankful we went grocery shopping yesterday evening after work, which is something that's rare for us (we almost...

i'm thankful for having walked a long way through the city in the heat, and for enjoying the wind that sometimes burst out around a corner, and for seeing...

i’m thankful i don’t have food poisoning.

i'm thankful that though d still has food poisoning, it is not as completely and totally incapacitating and horrible as it was yesterday. i'm thankful for my...

i'm thankful that i forgot to tell you something the other day, which is when d and i were walking to dinner with our friends, ahead of us on the trail i saw...

i'm thankful that yesterday evening d and i walked to town to have dinner with our friends who are getting married. i'm thankful that it was still sunny and...

i'm thankful, though i have to the best of my knowledge never watched an entire baseball game and don't have much of a desire to do so, to have found myself...

i'm thankful i had really quite a good day yesterday, where i felt happy and good and everything seemed to be going my way. i'm thankful to have been talking...

i'm thankful that we have a towel rack in our bathroom and for the last several months, regularly but not constantly the bar would come out of the two...

i'm thankful how after we have really good sex for a few moments all the other problems that i spend the rest of my life obsessing over seem so...

i'm thankful that yesterday for d's birthday lunch we went to the best korean restaurant in town (i'm thankful that our small town in the midwest has...

i’m thankful that i’ve thought about writing this for years, and now that i’m actually typing it, i have butterflies. i’m thankful for butterflies, which i...

i'm thankful that 31 years ago today, d was born. i'm thankful to have gotten to spend 7 of those years with her and am thankful for all the opportunities i...

i'm thankful that at some point in the (hopefully very) near future, i will no longer have poison ivy. i'm thankful that i have time to bike into town before...

i'm thankful to remind myself of the reason that i started these notes, which is to remember things i appreciated or appreciate things i remember. i'm...

i'm thankful that in the episode of mad men we were watching last night, there was a part where stan was trying to convince peggy that her choice to hire a...

i'm thankful that i am no longer doing what i was doing a lot this winter, which was trying to cram in three or four hours of work on sundays, which was a...

i’m thankful for rainy saturdays when you don’t go anywhere or do anything.

i'm thankful that though i brushed against some poison ivy without realizing it, it appears to have not spread and be isolated to two small patches, one on...

i'm thankful for the two and a half hour meeting i had yesterday where i discussed my personality test results with the career development person and another...

i'm thankful that i got up this morning, after my alarm. i'm thankful that though it was harder to get up than it is usually, i did eventually do it. i'm...

i'm thankful to have gotten "home" past 1am. i'm thankful that i still had the energy and desire to finish editing a video. i'm thankful that once i was...

i'm thankful that though d is gone now, she will be back on thursday night, which is not that long.