This Post Is Completely Unironic

*keels over*

I have been so busy helping with Thankgiving prep the last few days; I've arranged flowers, assisted in the preperation of turkey, cranberry sauce, and assorted other foodstuffs, made coloring books for the small children, polished a metric fuckton of silver, and set a table for 11, including dessert plates, bread plates, and several kinds of fork. I've also been working on designing a web site, and trying to write and study my Japanese. What happened to my nice quiet break? Oh well.

Anway, since it's Thanksgiving, here's a list of things what I am thankful for.

• My family.  They may be fucked up and dysfunctional, but I have never doubted that I am loved and supported in whatever I do, and that means a lot to me.  I love my parents, and my grandparents, and everyone else in my family so much. And extra love to my aunt and uncle, who make sure that I don't have to spend Thanksgiving by myself even though I can't go home.
• My friends. You guys are a bunch of crazy fucking bastards, and I love you for it. Every conversation I have with you all brings a smile to my face, makes me think about new things, makes me wonder what the hell is wrong with us, and just makes my life better. So thanks for that, and I hope I'm a good friend in return.
• What I have. I'm not rich - in fact, I'm pretty dirt poor. But I have a roof over my head. I have food (most of the time anyway), and clothes. I have a scholarship that is paying for me to get an education at an incredible school. I have a job that I don't hate. I have enough money in my pocket to do something fun on occasion. And that is way more than a lot of people have, and I try to apprecaite how lucky I am, rather than dwell on what I don't have (and mostly don't need).
• My country. I'm grateful that we finally have a president I don't despise and a vice-president I don't think is Satan. I'm grateful that the thought next four years fill me with hope rather than dread. I'm grateful that as a nation we were able to overcome the pettiness and the stupidity and the centuries of racism and elect a man who is intelligent and articulate and /good/ and also African-American.
• I'm thankful that I'm here. I'm alive, I'm reasonably happy, I have faith in myself and in the Goddess, I have gotten through what's happened to me already and whatever comes up I'll survive that too, and if it's good stuff, and some of it will be, then yay. But no matter what I know I can keep going.

So Happy Thanksgiving, y'all. Eat yourselves sick tomorrow, watch some inane sports and the parade, and try not to kill your families.