I'm thankful for my house. Jarrod and I were able to purchase our first house this year. Yeah, it's kinda small at 1200 square feet, and yeah, it's not the closest thing to where I work, but it's home. But that's why it's called a "starter home."
I'm also thankful for Jarrod. In a moment of enormous frustration the other morning, he calmed me down, and was so understanding even though I had just had a meltdown. Stuff like that is why I married him, not to mention his complete acceptance and understanding of what I have.
I'm thankful for my parents, and that I can depend on them and talk with them like I always have. Even if I don't live there anymore.
I'd also like to interject that I'm thankful for this snowman mug of coffee on my desk right now. And that I have the chance to brew a strong cuppa, just the way I like it. And snowmen are cute.
I'm also quite thankful for my job. At this time last year, I was in the wake of being laid off at the end of October, desperately looking for some sort of work. With a stroke of luck, my parents decided to eat at Joe's last Black Friday, and ran into a local business owner, who informed them they were swamped and needed someone to help out around the office. And that she'd love to have me there. I 'interviewed' (let's be honest, she was already planning on hiring me) and got a job.
Then come February, they had a couple changes and my hours were getting cut. Crazy of all crazies, at that same time the Missourian called me up about a job they really didn't advertise for. In the previous November, I had applied there, and they still had my resume from that and wanted to talk to me about working part-time. I worked both jobs for a period of time, then my other one ended, and I became full-time at the paper.
So in less than a year (from today, at least) I've gone from unemployed, to full-time, to part-time, to two jobs, to one full-time job, to becoming officially permanent, to also getting a promotion and a new position. Wow, what a roller coaster I guess. It's obvious why I am so thankful for this one. I'm in a great spot career-wise in that I get to do a mesh of things I like. And as we all know, doing what you love is the biggest battle in the working world.
Moving on, I'm thankful for Twitter. Seriously. Never in my life have I been able to consume the kind of design-driven, awesome, creative content that fuels my brain with this much ease. I love checking Twitter daily and what my next awesome find will be.
And I feel like I should be thankful for my health, but honestly that's been kinda hard lately. My health and me have issues. And I just got done with a big ole tune-up, my lungs were so happy, and less than a week after finishing that up, I guess I caught something. My lungs were no longer happy, actually they were quite pissed off, and so was I. I mean, come on God! One week? I got to enjoy ONE WEEK of good health? Anyways, I'm back on some antibiotics to fight this off and it's been difficult. But, like I said, I feel like I should be thankful for what I do have. I'm not on oxygen, so there's that. And I didn't have to go right back to the hospital. And, I can still get around semi-okay and take care of myself, so that's worth being thankful for too, right?
Anyways, it's been a great year, possibly one of the best I'll have in my life I'm going to guess. Certainly eventful. Much to be thankful for. (How did this turn into a New Years-esque reflection? lol)
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