Giving Thanks 2021

Time for my annual thanksgiving post!  I don't think i posted one last year, because i couldn't find anything to be thankful for, in the time of COVID.  I don't know what i was thinking.

There's always something to be thankful for.  Horror movies, science fiction, action movies, even the occasional romantic comedy that i never watch, as far as you know.  Thankful for my mom, who's been getting a string of UTI's this past year, and still won't give in to them.  She fights every day to keep going.  Why?  Because she likes to fight, that's why.  :-D  She's a belligerent old cuss, and I am thankful for her grumpy persistence.  I am thankful for comedy movies, because goddammit, if we've ever needed a laugh, it's been in these past few years.  Thankful for my friends, who've helped get me through everything that's happened the past couple years, the crazy mood changes as my pain levels have gone up, the ranting and raving at everything life has thrown at me.  Thankful for life, because if not for life, then how the fuck could I play video games?  EXACTLY.

Oh yea, also thankful for video games, even if they've gone off the rails lately.  Forty nine dollars for farming simulator 22?  What the actual fuck.

Oh!  Thankful for my imagination, even if it plays tricks on me sometimes.  One day i am dozing off and suddenly i find myself dangling by a cable from the bottom of an airplane, thousands of feet above the ground, and I am INSTANTLY wide awake again.  The next day, I am nodding off at my PC and I am LEEEEROOYYYY JENKIIINNNS and i am just giggling myself awake.  Okay, imagination, i forgive you.  This time.  That dangling from an airplane shit is getting old, though.  Stop giggling.  Don't think I can't hear you in there.

Thankful for the holidays.  I don't care that the xmas music starts the day after halloween.  I have scoffed at folks in the past for listening to it, decorating their houses the first week in november.  I didn't know how much they needed it.  This year, I needed it.  I started listening the second week in november.  I started decorating my house for xmas then, too.  Sometimes, you just need to.  You just need to.  Xmas music is awesome, isn't it?  I've been loving Sia's santa is coming for us and candy cane lane lately, i don't know why.  Just has a nice beat to it.  Sounds happy.  I need happy.

I am thankful for being able to write, to express myself, even if the pain puts a damper on it some days.  The days that aren't dampened are fun.  Even the days that are damp, I...  wait, why the fuck am i damp?  :-/  Whew.  Really need to lay off the pepperjack cheese.  Moving on.

I am sure there is much to be thankful for in my life, things i've forgotten to list.  I will try and get to them next year, if I am still kicking.  In the meantime, hope everyone has a happy thanksgiving, and I will post again when I have a movie to review.