It's so easy to get caught up and too busy and too stressed and too whatever. Sometimes we need to just take a time out and count our blessings.
I realized that I haven't done that in a while and since it's Thanksgiving weekend and all that's exactly what I'm going to do.
I'm one of those people who won't buy something unless they really really need it. A few examples of this?
Well, I still own clothes from high school and won't replace them just because they haven't disintegrated yet. My last pair of sneakers I kept for 6 years and only replaced them once the rubber soles actually fell off the shoes and they really couldn't be called shoes anymore.
I haven't gotten a haircut in over a year because I live in NYC and can't justify spending $70 plus tip on a trim.
My couch is broken, but I got it used for $50 and I can still technically sit on it so I won't be replacing it anytime soon.
Where am I going with all of this? One of the main reasons why I haven't been blogging nearly as often as I'd like to is because my laptop is a piece of shit. I bought it on E-Bay for less than $300 a few years back and it has definitely run its course. The thing is so far gone that I can't even load Blogger without the entire thing freezing up and crashing. I hit my breaking point earlier this week when I typed up an entire awesome blog post in MS Word (and saved it multiple times because I'm anal) and the laptop crashed.
Oh but Tina if you saved your work then what's the problem? Well apparently my laptop is so senile that it no longer understand the command ctrl+s and it never saved any of my work. Well okay, I will give credit where credit is due... It saved the first two paragraphs until it decided that it was too much of an effort to save any other content past that point so matter how many times I clicked "save".
I have been hemming and hawing about this POS laptop for months now, but because it still technically works (and by works I mean I can still turn it on and off) I can't bear to part with my hard earned cash and purchase a new one.
Last week my amazing fiance went in on a birthday gift with my parents and his parents. They all pooled some money together and bought me a gift card to the Apple store. Before I opened the gift, my fiance gave me a card. On the outside it read:
"It's your birthday! Celebrate! Enjoy! Be happy! Relax! Have fun!"
And on the inside he wrote:
"...And be able to buy yourself something brand new. After a long list of hand-me-downs, whether it be a laptop with broken hinges, a red honda or an old iphone, we all wanted to see you be able to own something new. Something you could personally destroy and hand down to someone else instead of the other way around. Have a great birthday and enjoy whichever laptop you decide to buy!"
Yesterday I took advantage of a black Friday deal and the gift card I was given and finally, finally, finally bought myself a brand new laptop.
Shiny!!
So this year I am thankful. And not because I'm some sort of selfish materialistic narcissist who bought myself something shiny and new and expensive.
But because I have an incredible family that loves me. And wants to see me happy. And not cursing at my f*$%ing computer at two in the morning because it won't save my blog post or open Firefox without crashing seven times.
I am thankful that my parents, and my fiance, and his parents are all healthy and happy and relatively sane. I'm thankful that we all got to spend Thanksgiving together, have a warm meal, share laughter and make memories. Because in the end, that's what it comes down to.
I'm thankful that I can call my mom up at pretty much any hour of the day or night and she will listen to me carry on about whatever asinine wedding detail happens to be bothering me that day.
I'm thankful that after a long, shitty day at work I can come home and my dude, who has most likely worked an equally long, shitty day, will see my bad mood and order me takeout, no questions asked.
I'm thankful that my 88 year old grandfather, who is incredibly ill, was home from the hospital to celebrate Thanksgiving with us. And that my uncle, who is battling cancer, has managed not lose his hair after several rounds of chemo (and believe me this man loves his hair like nobody's business... possibly even more than his own wife).
I'm thankful for my little fluffy muncherkin who is curled up next to me as I type this because she loves me without question and she has made my life so much happier (wow if this is how strongly I feel about my cat, how is it going to be when I have kids?!).
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I hope everyone had a happy, healthy and wonderful Thanksgiving this year.
What are you thankful for?
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