Of holidays, giving thanks and the season...
For those of you who celebrate it - Happy Thanksgiving!
For those of you who do not - well, Happy Thanksgiving anyway. Like me, you probably have a lot to be thankful for. ^^
Me, I am thankful for a husband who loves me, a roof over my head, good food to fill our bellies and the purring of two cats who share residence with us... one of whom is currently sitting on my shoulder 'helping' me type this. ^^
I am thankful I live in a country where I am free to express my opinions, where I am allowed to vote and wear jeans instead of a skirt. I am thankful for the ability to choose where I go for an education and the ability to do what I will with that education once I have it.
I am thankful for all these things and a thousand more, because I know there are places in this world where people do not have the choices I do and the freedoms I have. I am thankful for these things because I know that people have sacrificed everything so that the choices they did not have might be offered to their children.
As flawed as it is, I am thankful to be living here, in the US. We're a country of assholes, idiots and brain-dead sheep - but we are also a country of free-thinkers, innovators and kind, generous people willing to give and sacrifice so that someone else can share in our freedom, if only for a little while.
Who says I ain't a patriot?
Now I am free to gripe about the holiday season. *sings* "Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat - please to put your pennies in the corporation's hat..."
*grump* We've had Christmas going 'round since Halloween! ARGH!
At least I've so far avoided all the giant animatronic santas/trees/teddybears that seem to lurk in malls, ready to jump out and serenade you with a dubious rendition of 'jingle bells', 'santa claus is coming' or 'up on the rooftops' that you've already heard three million times by now..
And people wonder why I turn into a grinch two weeks before Christmas. I'm already Christmass'd out and have been since November 1st!
I need to start building a gift list...
For those of you who do not - well, Happy Thanksgiving anyway. Like me, you probably have a lot to be thankful for. ^^
Me, I am thankful for a husband who loves me, a roof over my head, good food to fill our bellies and the purring of two cats who share residence with us... one of whom is currently sitting on my shoulder 'helping' me type this. ^^
I am thankful I live in a country where I am free to express my opinions, where I am allowed to vote and wear jeans instead of a skirt. I am thankful for the ability to choose where I go for an education and the ability to do what I will with that education once I have it.
I am thankful for all these things and a thousand more, because I know there are places in this world where people do not have the choices I do and the freedoms I have. I am thankful for these things because I know that people have sacrificed everything so that the choices they did not have might be offered to their children.
As flawed as it is, I am thankful to be living here, in the US. We're a country of assholes, idiots and brain-dead sheep - but we are also a country of free-thinkers, innovators and kind, generous people willing to give and sacrifice so that someone else can share in our freedom, if only for a little while.
Who says I ain't a patriot?
Now I am free to gripe about the holiday season. *sings* "Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat - please to put your pennies in the corporation's hat..."
*grump* We've had Christmas going 'round since Halloween! ARGH!
At least I've so far avoided all the giant animatronic santas/trees/teddybears that seem to lurk in malls, ready to jump out and serenade you with a dubious rendition of 'jingle bells', 'santa claus is coming' or 'up on the rooftops' that you've already heard three million times by now..
And people wonder why I turn into a grinch two weeks before Christmas. I'm already Christmass'd out and have been since November 1st!
I need to start building a gift list...
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