What I'm Thankful For This Year

1. My family. Duh. (Galdor's standing here. I patted him on the head and he punched me in the shoulder. Good thing he can't read what I'm typing!)
2. God. Okay, another 'duh' inserted here because if God wasn't here, we wouldn't be here. If God wasn't here, even if we did exist it would not be a wonderful life.
3. My friends. It's not easy being my friend, after all. I'm kind of grumpy and kind of annoying sometimes.
4. You really cool followers/readers of my blog who've stayed on even though my posts have been random and far in between!
5. Safety, or at least as much as I can have in this world.
6. A really solid education. Three cheers for my mom and dad!
7. My great-grandma, who I love talking to and who has cool stories about college and WWII.
8. Food. =)
9. The freedom to be able to say my thoughts, shoot guns, worship God, own property, and all the others.
10. Getting my learner's permit on the first try!
11. NaNoWriMo. *cue melodramatic sigh* Without it, I would never have found my wings!
12. My speech chapter. Public speaking really uncorked my bottle, so to speak. I never knew all the things I would be able to do until I gave a speech.
13. My church. I love my church because we're like one big family! Everyone knows everyone, and it's so encouraging to go to a building every week that's stuffed with friends. =)
14. Lastly, I'm thankful for the comfort of home. We're staying home for Thanksgiving and having my grandparents and a friend from church over. It's so nice to have a life. =)

And with those random thoughts, I'll leave you all with a Happy Thanksgiving!!!! ringing in your ears!

Random Happiness

Things that have made me happy this week are...

...that I got to talk to one of my most beloved characters for the first time in a very long while. I've known her since she was fourteen and I was twelve. Now I'm fourteen and she's nineteen. *sniff* They grow up fast. Over twice as fast as I am.

...that my soccer coach spent a lot of time with me and some others troubleshooting our troubles with shooting.

...that I finally got to go for a nice little run today before lunch. Man, I needed it after all that Easter candy.

...that I got to have a long chat with God on the aforementioned run. It's so nice to get to talk to Him, and I don't do it nearly enough.

...that I'm on a fairly good track with school. Biology and math are my two biggest concerns right now, but I think they're under control.

...that my speech chapter performed at a nursing home on Tuesday and it went awesomely. Seriously, I was pretty frightened that it wouldn't work out. I did an interpretation of Winnie the Pooh, I was the spider in 'The Very Busy Spider' (super easy because I have absolutely no lines in that one), and I was the talking servant in an interpretation of The Prodigal Son. All in all, a lot of things to memorize. But it went very well.

...that I got to spend a lot of time with a friend of mine that I haven't seen very much this last month.

...that we had a good time with my Great-Grandma, who visited us this week.

...that I actually managed to blog. It's amazing. Absolutely amazing.

Hugs & Blessings,

Izori

I forget...what's thankfulness?

I am very behind on NaNoWriMo. Think a couple days worth of writing.

I am seriously starting to think I'm lactose intolerant.

I am SO behind on Biology. So behind...*moan*.

And I miss my blog! I really want to make more time to post, but things are so hectic...

Ran a 5k on Saturday in 35 minutes. No, I did not run all the way, and yes I'm a horrible runner.

Doesn't seem like I have much to be thankful about, huh?

My family. My friends (from the ones I've known since I was 3 to the ones I met this August). All this wonderful food that I can look forward to on Thursday. The ability to write. The freedom that I have in America that came at such a great cost. My health (what's left of it). My God. My church. America.

Let's thank God this Thanksgiving. No, it's not Turkey Day. What do you think we do, thank the great turkey for letting us eat him?

Thanksgiving is a day to spend time giving God the gratitude that He deserves.

Hey, we wouldn't even be here without Him. Think we could spend one day--just one day--saying thank you?

A Less Rushed Thanksgiving Post (and some other things)

Okay, sorry that I didn't do this yesterday! Yes, I am thankful, but I'm also...busy.

So, I am thankful for...

1). God! Seriously, this is a very good thing to be thankful for. If it wasn't for God, we wouldn't be here.

2). My family! Yes, this is the usual, run of the mill thankful thing, but there's a reason why its so common!

3). Shrimp! (The pet, not the food. I don't like eating shrimp, or Shrimp :) unless I cook it myself). Anyway, Shrimp (our pet) has now survived three fish. Yes, Ano died :(. So we got two female betta, Galadriel, which was mine, and Arwen, which was Erestor's. They both died, too. I don't know why, but they did. So now I think that our family should strictly stick to shrimp as pets. Apparently we kill off everything else.

4). All of my friends, online and offline! And also friends that I know both online AND offline!

5). This blog!

6). My gift (sometimes curse) of writing!

7). NaNoWriMo! I'm really enjoying it!

8). Wierd names, like mine. I actually think I sort of like my name.

9). Comments! *hint, hint!*

10). Awards! *hint, hint, again!*

11). Our wonderful, amazing church!

I could go on all afternoon, but I also have a few other things to say.

First off, I'm on the homestretch of NaNoWriMo! Just a few thousand more words to write!

Second, we're decorating for Christmas today! Whohoo!!

Third, HERE is a very good post from Earwen's blog, A Hot Heart. Read it, and also read the blog! It's very, very good!

Izori