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Monday, November 2, 2009

A simple thank you.......

BECAUSE IT'S MONDAY!



Yes, because it's Monday!


Go ahead, beat up the computer. It's okay. I understand.



Are you finished?


No?

Alright, go ahead, if you need to stomp your feet....I'll wait for you.


Done yet?


Now that you're all done greeting another Monday in your own special way....I've got a little deal for you.

Listen up.....

It's time to give thanks.
No, no, we're not celebrating Thanksgiving early.
This is not about the last Thursday in November.
It's about every MONDAY in November.
What I'm talking about is giving thanks for Monday things.
Little Monday things.
Not big things.
Save those big things for the big Thursday in November....


This is what we are going to do......

Each and every Monday in November...right here on Stories From the Road....
instead of bitching and moaning about the arrival of another Monday and the end of another weekend, we are each going to give thanks for one thing. One small thing. We're not going to give thanks for our families or our friends or our health or anything else that's big and worthy of huge thanks. We are going to look at our lives and find something small....teeny weeny.....and we are going to celebrate it and give thanks for it and focus on the wonderfulness of it. Yes, that's right...every damn Monday....that's what we are going to do. We are going to search our worlds and our lives and we are going to say THANKS for something that seems insignificant and unworthy. We are going to forgo the usual pomp and circumstance of thankfulness and we are going to dig deep into the ordinariness and simpleness of our lives and the mundaneness of our worlds and find something that we would have never thought was worthy of much--let alone thanksgiving. And, we are going to bow down to it and praise it and tell each other all about it. And, we are going to give a BIG ASS Thank YOU for it!!! A BIG STAND UP AND CHEER ABOUT IT THANK YOU.....that's what we are going to do.
We are not only going to be thankful for what we ourselves present but DAMN IT, we are going to be thankful for each other's thankfulness. Yes we are! That is what we are going to do each and every Monday in NOVEMBER! We are going to be so DAMN THANKFUL for one little thing that we are going to be jumping up and down and dancing around and doing the hokey pokey because of it....

Here....I'll start.....

Today, on this very first Monday of November, I am enormously thankful for chili beans. If I would have not eyed them up at the grocery store yesterday, I would have never had the idea to make chili last night. And, if I would have not maDe Chili last night then God knows what we would have ate and I would not have had anything to pack for lunch today and dinner tonight and probably dinner tomorrow night. Yes, I am thankful for chili beans. But, now I feel very guilty for saying that chili beans are a small thing to be thankful for. Because clearly they have a huge impact on my life.
Isn't it amazing how important chili beans are?
Who knew.....!
But, since I don't have time to come up with another simple, insignificant thing to be thankful for because I have to go and take a shower (yes, I am so thankful for soap), I'm going to have to say that today I am so thankful for chili beans!


Your turn.....










9 comments:

Yana said...

Speaking of chili beans, I would like to give thanks for fresh and cheap spices. I went to Jackson Heights, a neighborhood here in New York City a few months ago to get a sari to wear to my friends' wedding. And while I was there, I stopped by a large Indian grocery store, where I spent about twenty dollars on a large variety of fresh spices. Last night, as my chickpea and cauliflower dish simmer away on the stove, I smelled the fresh cloves, cinnamon, cumin seeds, fenugreek seeds, mustard seeds, turmeric, and curry powder...it tasted just as good if not better than the local Indian take-out joint, with maybe three tablespoons of fat in the entire HUUUUUUUGE pot, instead of god only knows what...

Anonymous said...

I am thankful I have a job.

Jill from NY

Anonymous said...

Today I'm thankful for my oldest child, my baby boy who's 37 today.

L

Jody V said...

I'm thankful this morning for my new outfit from Old Navy. Sounds funny but I feel pretty good about myself today.

Jody

Debbie said...

I'm thankful for Philip Pelusi Styling Honey for my hair.
I'm also thankful that when the dog had an accident in the house last night it just missed Andy's backback which was on the floor...

Gerry said...

I'm thankful that I crossed Forbes Avenue without darting and dashing in traffic this morning.

Eileen, Founder, Organizer, Mayor and Chief Cook And Bottle Washer of the Anger Management Girls. said...

I'm thankful that I woke up this morning.

(Does this mean we can have bitchy fridays?)

Eileen, Founder, Organizer, Mayor and Chief Cook And Bottle Washer of the Anger Management Girls. said...

I'm thankful that I woke up this morning.

(Does this mean we can have bitchy fridays?)

Anonymous said...

I'm thankful that I'm not too decrepit that I can't rake the billions and billions of pine needles that fell in our yard lately!!!

Punky