Giving Thanks

It's Thanksgiving, which means that in addition to the traditional Thankful Thursday, I get to look back over the whole year to find things to be grateful for. But let's start with the week: Today I'm grateful for

• Surviving my argument with a manhole cover and a sidewalk with nothing more serious than a slightly broken nose and some scrapes;
• My family, with a special callout to Naomi for driving me to the ER to get checked out;
• Cat therapy, with a special callout to Morticia;
• Sound Credit Union, for approving the loan that will pay for the budget overrun on our garage remodel.

Now, for the year:

• My family, again and always: Colleen, Emmy, Chaos, PocketNaomi, Ursa Minor, their kids g and j, and my Mom (whose 95th birthday party I'm flying east for two weeks from today);
• Our wonderful home at Rainbow's End;
• Our wonderful cats, and especially for the time -- far too short -- that we had with Curio;
• Seattle weather;
• An employer that appears to be much more understanding than I gave them credit for (though I'm still very worried);
• Good Drugs, with special callouts to methocarbamol and bupropion;
• Friends, coworkers, and health care providers too numerous to mention, but particularly Colleen's urologist and the three Anitas at UW;
• Filk and folk music, with special mention of "The Mary Ellen Carter", a song that had a lot to do with our surviving what has been an extremely rough year for all of us.