Archive (Page 22) • thank you notes • Buttondown

4/20/20

April 21, 2020

i'm thankful to have eaten three and a half old fashioned donuts in one sitting.

cherry blossom

April 17, 2020

i'm thankful for the concept of time travel in animal crossing, which is so interesting to me, the idea that something essential to this game is a...

phoenix down

April 16, 2020

a bee flew in from the backyard, but i coaxed him back outside through the sliding glass doorportrait of a lady on fire, holy FUCK is there a more satisfying...

lawnmower man

April 8, 2020

i'm thankful that because of the lack of sun in the winter, the grass in our yard stays at a reasonable length and is also green, which has been a lovely...

4/3/20

April 3, 2020

i'm thankful that i got to do a task at work to help a customer that was also really fun for me and then everybody made a big deal about how great it was...

4/1/20

April 2, 2020

i'm thankful that how i have felt day to day at work lately puts into relief how stressed i felt for a long time before this job and don't feel now. i'm...

4/2/20

April 2, 2020

i'm thankful, during these trying times, for tom scocca's perfect gawker post "on smarm," which i remembered this morning and am now using to self soothe as...

3/30/20

March 31, 2020

i'm thankful that though my dad texted me yesterday evening to tell me he and my mom were sick and though i was slightly worried, when i facetimed them...

3/29/20

March 29, 2020

i'm thankful for a conversation i had with sm about great live recordings and thinking about how, though i love studio trickery and perfect sound forever,...

3/28/20

March 28, 2020

finishing a novel and then sex right after

3/27/20

March 27, 2020

i'm thankful that though i go through periods where i feel like i don't have the cognitive overhead to listen to music while working, i also have ones where...

3/25/20

March 25, 2020

i'm thankful that though yesterday the hot water heater was, once again, not producing hot water, not even after putting clean clothes on my sweaty smelly...

3/24

March 24, 2020

i'm thankful that on sunday they were out of lentils at fred meyer, even though that was annoying because we had already gotten all the other ingredients for...

3/19/20

March 21, 2020

i'm thankful that the rest of the week felt better than monday and tuesday. i'm thankful to express my feelings, which always seems to help me, what a novel...

3/17/20

March 18, 2020

i'm thankful to accept myself for the imperfect human that i am but also to know that the near perpetual state of bitchy misanthropy i have been finding...

3/16/20

March 17, 2020

remote work retreat day one was kind of depressing, socially, but also i answered some hard questions and accomplished something satisfyingwatching jersey...

3/15/20

March 15, 2020

i complimented s and she said it made her day and then when we were deciding what to eat for dinner i mentioned her post about some ridiculous restaurant...

8/13/20

March 13, 2020

had another really good day at workheard good career news for another (different) friendit's been sunny and relatively warmd gets to work from home more than...

3/12/20

March 12, 2020

started the day a technical problem that would prevent the usefulness of my code and seemed insurmountable, started to write a message about giving up, and...

3/11/20

March 11, 2020

i forgot to roast the rest of the chicken thighs last night, but we had a container of ravioli in the fridge and so had that insteadi have leftover ravioli...