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8/12
August 12, 2018
i’m thankful that neither d or i have to travel for work very often.
(anonymous)
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...
8/9
August 9, 2018
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...
8/8
August 8, 2018
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...
8/7
August 7, 2018
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...
(ae)
August 6, 2018
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...
8/4
August 5, 2018
i’m thankful i don’t have food poisoning.
8/5
August 5, 2018
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...
8/3/17
August 3, 2018
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...
8/2
August 2, 2018
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...
7/1
August 1, 2018
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...
7/31
July 31, 2018
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...
7/30
July 30, 2018
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...
7/28
July 29, 2018
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...
7/29
July 29, 2018
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...
(red)
July 27, 2018
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...
7/26
July 26, 2018
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...
7/25
July 25, 2018
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...
7/24
July 24, 2018
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...
7/23
July 23, 2018
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...
7/22
July 22, 2018
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...
7/21
July 21, 2018
i’m thankful for rainy saturdays when you don’t go anywhere or do anything.
7/20
July 20, 2018
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...
7/19
July 19, 2018
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...
7/18
July 18, 2018
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...
(brian)
July 17, 2018
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...
7/16
July 16, 2018
i'm thankful that though d is gone now, she will be back on thursday night, which is not that long.
7/14
July 15, 2018
i’m thankful for the difference between emailing you at night from bed on my phone and emailing you in the morning from bed on my computer. i’m thankful to...
7/15
July 15, 2018
i'm thankful for this rhye cover of "a whiter shade of pale", which is fresh clean sheets.i'm thankful for these weird fancy japanese chocolates that d got...
7/13
July 13, 2018
i'm thankful that i had a good day yesterday where i felt good basically all day, which is important to note in this setting so that the next time i go...
7/12
July 12, 2018
i'm thankful that i am replaying breath of the wild a bit and am thankful to have rediscovered one of the true pleasures that zelda has brought to video...
7/11
July 11, 2018
i'm thankful that at the end of my lunch break yesterday i was walking back to my desk and stopped, as i do maybe 5 - 10 times a day when moving through the...
7/10
July 10, 2018
i'm thankful while writing this morning to be watching d work through a multi-stage boss fight against a giant cobra in an cavernous underground temple. i'm...
7/9
July 9, 2018
i'm thankful for the music of khruangbin, which is full of sexy grooves and is perfect summer cool down vibes. i'm thankful that at the grocery store i...
7/7
July 8, 2018
i’m thankful for the butter and jelly sandwiches my mom made me when i was a kid because i didn’t like peanut butter. i’m thankful i like peanut butter now.
7/8
July 8, 2018
i'm thankful for how intense it is when rachel cusk's narrator acts, since so much of the books are the narrator listening, reacting.i'm thankful that this...
(the mackerel)
July 6, 2018
I'm thankful for all the sunrises I've gotten to see. I'm thankful that I've gotten to see them alone and with the people I love, and that I get to see many...
7/5
July 5, 2018
i'm thankful, in the new issue of the new yorker, for adrian chen's article on the life of an irl streamer. i'm thankful to have thought of this passage ("If...
7/4
July 4, 2018
i'm thankful that i don't have to work today but i also don't have to go anywhere or talk to anyone who expects me to celebrate this country. i'm thankful...
7/3
July 3, 2018
i'm thankful for how much fun d is having playing the new assassin's creed game, which is set in ancient egypt. i'm thankful she has been having so much fun...
7/1/18
July 2, 2018
i’m thankful for the feeling of putting on clean clothes after taking a shower on a summer evening.
7/2/18
July 2, 2018
i'm thankful for the sound of rain outside. i'm thankful that i don't have to commute for my job, which is a huge privilege that i let other stresses about...
6/30
June 30, 2018
i'm thankful to do (almost) nothing.
6/29
June 29, 2018
i'm thankful for the condensed dew on our bedroom window, which blurs the world outside. i'm thankful that it is not simply a blur, though, but also a...
6/28
June 28, 2018
honestly, idk, i guess that amid all the horrible news that just keeps coming all the time there's still sometimes some good. i'm thankful to cherish that good.
6/27
June 27, 2018
i’m thankful that whatever issues i may be having with my mental health during my waking hours lately, i have been sleeping easily and deeply and...
6/25
June 25, 2018
i'm thankful to have put a set of light gauge strings on my acoustic guitar, after like probably more than a decade of using medium-heavy or heavy gauge...
6/24
June 24, 2018
i’m thankful that though the mower started to sputter and cycle slower as i was finishing cutting the front yard and i thought it was going to run out of gas...
6/23
June 23, 2018
i'm thankful for my unlucky shirt, which is a gray t-shirt in my closet that i think i bought on sale from the gap years ago. i'm thankful that the unlucky...
6/22
June 22, 2018
i'm thankful that d got me a poke bowl and my favorite candy bar for lunch yesterday. i'm thankful that we ate through all of the big container of lettuce we...
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