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November 27, 2004
knock on my thick, wooden skull
I wrote this earlier today, as part of a planned web journal entry about about Thanksgiving: I am grateful for a lot of things every day. With my family, job, boyfriend, cats and friends, it's hard to imagine life getting better than it is right now. True dat.Case in point: Today I drove 50 miles to work. Once I got there, I had to go on several work-related errands, so I ended up driving another 15 or 20 miles. Then I drove 50 miles back to Portland.How can I turn all this driving into an occasion to give thanks?I am grateful that my car engine waited until I was only a few blocks from home before it decided to conk out. I am also grateful that some nice strangers helped me push it out of the road to a nice parking lot and didn't turn out to be serial killers when I got in their van and let them drive me home. It would have sucked to get stuck on an empty stretch of middle-of-nowhere highway in sub-freezing temperatures late at night with no cell phone after a long day on the job. It would also have sucked to push the car alone. And it would have sucked to be massacred by serial killers.So really, I have a lot more things to be grateful for than I would have ever guessed.
Posted by Courtney_Sherwood at November 27, 2004 10:53 PM