Archive (Page 23) • thank you notes • Buttondown

i'm thankful that i finished the first stage of a major work project i've been working on for more than a month yesterday. i'm thankful that the project,...

i'm thankful that i went to the emergency room on friday afternoon, even though that visit revealed there was nothing really wrong with me besides the fact...

i'm thankful for all kinds of silences. i'm thankful for the silence between me and my best friend/roommate, as she plays video games on her computer and i...

[includes spoilers for the first two episodes of the keepers]i'm thankful d and i watched the second episode of the keepers last night, even though/because...

i'm thankful to feel a little more okay every day. i'm thankful to remember a time in college where i was very sick (physically not mentally) for several...

i'm thankful that i am alive. i'm thankful that though i felt like shit most of the day yesterday, by the end of the day, i was less afraid of my impending...

i'm thankful that though i felt afraid i was going to die last night and couldn't sleep because of it, i did not die and i did eventually (thanks to a...

i'm thankful for a nice weekend. i'm thankful that on saturday afternoon we went across town to the hardware store to buy boxes for our upcoming move. i'm...

i'm thankful that tonight i had a really quite wonderful chat w my brother e that was meaningful (to both of us i think). i'm thankful that we are on a...

i'm thankful for my friend n, who i've been thankful for a lot lately. i'm thankful he's an architect (architectural artist, he would counter) and he's...

i'm thankful that we had the nicest time we've had in a long time with our friend n last night while she visited from out of town. i'm thankful that though...

i'm thankful that i figured out how to do something complicated and difficult with javascript yesterday. i'm thankful for the perverse thrill of reading one...

i'm thankful that i discovered that eating a high calorie breakfast keeps my mood stable throughout the day. i'm thankful that being stuck without my s'well...

i'm thankful for tuesdays, which are not mondays, which is something to be thankful for. i'm thankful that i had a monday yesterday, since having a monday,...

i'm thankful that i went on a long run yesterday afternoon. i'm thankful that it wasn't as hot as i expected it to be, even though it was very sunny. i'm...

i'm thankful that at the beginning of the weekend, i stuck my work computer under a pile of jeans in my closet and put my personal computer on my desk in its...

i'm thankful for the road trip i'm on right now. i'm thankful it was a crazy idea j and i joked about, but ultimately made happen. i'm thankful for the...

I'm thankful I had the audacity to text R that night. I missed him, and I didn't want to cling to the idea of his being inside my head since high school. I'm...

i'm thankful that though i had a shitty day at work yesterday, it ended and today is a new day. i'm thankful for the bit in annie hall where alvy says...

i'm thankful that my first day back at work was tiring but something i could handle. i'm thankful to be happy to get to spend time with my coworkers again....

i'm thankful that when i scheduled my time off a few weeks ago, i decided to go back to work today, even though now i'm kind of regretting it because d is...

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...