Dear God and God’s Helpers,
Thank you so so much for:
Chocolate
Butter
Cheese (cheddar and gouda)
Ice cream, every flavor (even rocky road if you take the marshmallows out)
Macaroni and cheese (hmmm, that may go under the cheese category)
Chocolate cake ( I know)
Banana cake
German chocolate cake
Carrot cake
Chocolate soufflé (in particular at Thai Chef in Montclair)
Now the list will consist of other things I am thankful for outside of food
Summer mornings
Spring mornings
Summer nights
Yellow flowers
White flowers
Butterflies (even the white ones)
Homemade lemonade in the summer (oops, think that’s food)
My laptops
Summer rain
Waves in the ocean
The ocean
My two best friends in the whole wide world
All my other present friends and the ones on the way
Cinema (favorite movie: The Kama Sutra)
Good talks
Stimulating talks
Stimulating books
All kinds of music (right now its all about contempory folk)
Little kids (not the screaming kind, the cute kind)
Teenagers (even the grumpy indifferent ones)
HGTV
Fine Living Network
Lifetime television
Reality tv
Pretty smiles
Honesty
Sex
Sex
Sex (oh, lost focus for a moment)
Breakfast
Sundays
Sunday breakfast
Dinner
Lunch
7 eleven blueberry cream coffee (forget what I said about no more food on the list)
Dunkin Donuts Toasted Almond coffee (sorry)
Cute noses
Breezes that move trees so wonderfully
Trees
Grass
Geeks
Mini coopers
Audi TT Convertible Boxers (they are so hot!)
Handsome black men
Handsome other type men
Beautiful women (all types)
Dr. Pepper
Houseplants (even the ones that don’t make it in my house)
Doctors (to ask them about every disease I hear about and make the ones I think I have go away)
Artists
Brazil
The sun
The colors yellow and orange, and now even lime green
Hot chocolate
Problems that I work out all by myself
Problems that I ask for help with and I get the help I need
Tea
Iced chai tea (yum yum especially if you get it from an Asian restaurant)
Boxes ( I've got a serious thing for decorative boxes)
EVERY SINGLE BREATH I TAKE (and since I have asthma, trust me, I am really thankful to be
breathing!)
Life
Okay, the point of publishing this list is just to show that even on a bad day, there are tons of things to
be thankful for. Life is such a short miracle, be thankful for it.