1. Health
2. Financial stability
3. Health of my family
4. My sweet, sweet children.
5. My awesome job.
6. My great co-workers.
7. Beautiful weather.
8. My dear friends.
9. My wonderful sister that listens to all of my bullshit with compassion.
10. My wonderful husband that puts up with my bullshit and still loves me and never complains.

Oh, I forgot I'm also grateful for butter, eggnog, orange marmalade, and good crunchy bread.

- That my computer still works, even though it's less convenient to be tethered to a desk and monitor.

- For Mecha xmas cards, always making my day! F'real.

- For my friends Laura, Rachael and Rose, who seem to actually like me (?!?!!?)

- For my drums. Holy lord. I am enjoying them so much these days. (I still plug my ibook into the PA to play along to music, I just have to make sure that itunes is loaded, prepped on a playlist and paused before I leave the house, since I won't be able to do anything with it without the screen!)

- For my sewing machine, which my mother left with me when she came to visit me about four years ago. It's a heavy metal Kenmore from the 70s and should live forever. Now that I've actually figured out some aspects of how to use it (bought a PDF manual online) it's a real pleasure to use and I find myself planning projects constantly (though rarely carrying them out).

- For my apartment, my phone, my internet, and my electricity, none of which have been taken away from me (though I am keenly aware that if things get really bad they could be -- making me appreciate them all the more.)

- For MeCha, where I feel comfortable knowing that I can be either bummed or psyched, a frequent visitor or distracted, and still be welcome.

- For my kitties. I mean, come on.

*cough* *cough*

11. Inexpensive gas.
12. Good music.
13. My crazy dog.

6. My coworker who just gave me this mug.
7. Coffee
8. Free magazine subscriptions
9. Volunteers
10. Birds

1. The fact that I have a job (especially this one because I love my job. Seriously, I'm one of those dorks who gets excited to go to work. Even if right now my current project is driving me up the wall.)

2. I have a roof over my head. Granted, my family drives me batshit the majority of the time, but still, at least I'm not homeless.

3. My health.

4. Open invitations from my brother to hide at his place when the folks get batty.

5. Convertible mittens and nesting.

1. having a house and a job
2. living in a free country which for all its faults is pretty great
3. having a healthy family that I leave near enough to enjoy and spend time with
4. my new bf who is totally awesome and smart and funny and sweet
5. my cute fuzzy bunny who is healthy and doing better and better with my weekends away
6. my friends who always have my back and come through threefold if I'm having a problem.

1. Metro, for 2 for 1 tickets to the Monkey opera tonight. Finally, somthing I can thank the Daily Mail for!

2. For my job, which I am loving at the moment, feeling on top of everything and in control.

3. For my beautiful, sweet boyfriend, who drives me mental and also drives me crazy with love.

4. For the internet and express post - cos I only did my xmas shopping for my peeps and family in Australia on Sunday and they will all get their presents on time! Yay!

1. that I can pick which book to read, which movie to go to, what to eat.
2. that the Times Bar exists (see ya in a bit Stew! any other Raleigh MeChas, 6pm-ish @ the Times Bar, come out & play)
3. our awesome 4 legger family and our cave
4. that I can run my own business
5. the internet
6. that my sisters are nice people.

- the mister
- the wee beasties
- a roof over my head
- that the mister made breakfast tacos this morning
- metachat and it's bunnies
- living in Canada

6. Friends who are willing to help you scour the internet to find entertaining articles for said work project. I'm sure the boys are going to get a giggle out of some of my test article choices. (Lovely translation project.)

1. That my husband is still here and still in relatively good health, all things considered.
2. That the kids, annoying as they can be, really are cool, and that they are all healthy.
3. That we still have jobs/food/roof over our heads.
4. Family and friends. I don't know where I'd be without them/you.
5. I'm grateful for every new day, and whatever it will bring. On with the journey of life!

1. That my family loves me, even when I'm an arsehole
2. That I have a great job that also pays enough to support #1
3. That I have friends all over the world, thanks to MeFi/MeCha
4. Co-workers who double as friends during work hours - it's great to be able to work with people you like
5. That I no longer care about what people I don't like think of me
6. That I'm more or less healthy, despite 47 years of indifferent maintenance on my body.

1. My health, which is excellent.
2. My house, which is bitchin'.
3. A decent, stable job, which gives me financial stability in these troubled times.
4. Two cats.
5. Living only 2.5 miles from work.
6. My brains, which are smart.

My job, with all it's new headaches, is helping me grow, and helping others grow

My little ruffians

My kitty, even though he's started pissing on the bathroom floor

A free and clear roof over my head

Connections! and a high enough bandwidth to actually watch it.

1. Having the sort of job that you'd do for free (most of the time!).
2. Two demonic dogs that mither the heck out of me -- and make me laugh.
3. A partner who puts up with all of my tempests and is still good humored.
4. Enough money to pay the bills, get the car fixed, and give to charity, without having to worry.
5. Books.
6. People out there in the world who inspire me to be more than I am.

1) My health, such as it is and as long as it lasts
2) My job, though it sometimes puts #1 to the test
3) My financial security, so long as #2 holds fast
4) My home, which goes down the toilet with the rest
5) Being a poet and knowing it

I'm thankful for ...
1. my two cats, a constant source of joy to me.
2. my boo, who I'll be seeing in two weeks.
3. the friends who've invited me for lunch on Christmas Day.
4. a fridge full of lovely food.
5. the books I bought today, a little gift to myself.
6. a few days away from the office.
7. good health.
8. sobriety. Oh yes, how grateful I am to have my sobriety.

1. My health. Nothing like having a tumor out of your body to make you appreciate your health, even though it's been almost a year and a half now.

2. My bf, who invited me to spend Christmas in Missouri with his family, and who has been putting up with all my "I'm a Jew at Christmas freakouts."

3. My family, who are always there to lend a supportive ear, and sometimes a well-timed check in the mail.

4. My pain-in-the-ass of a cat, who I love even though he's hell bent on destroying everything breakable in the house.

5. The people on this site, who gave me whuffles and good wishes when I was really having a hard time. Hard time isn't over yet, but knowing there are people who care about a stranger on the internet is heartwarming.

...living in a city in which all musicians eventually perform, but especially tonight: I saw an operatic adaptation of a 500-year-old Chinese novel, performed in Mandarin, with equal elements of Chinese and western opera, and aerials, trickery and magic worthy of Cirque du Soleil, evoking a favourite TV show of my childhood, produced by a famous pop star and absolutely fucking brilliant. I am very grateful to live in London!