I am thankful this year for the following items. This list is not meant to be all-inclusive, in that I’m sure I’m missing out on some stuff.
Cheddar cheese so sharp it makes you pucker, Sesame crackers, Our azalea plant, Our ivy plant, Cats, Get Fuzzy, blogs, George Lucas, Star Wars, our dining room table, Klein screwdrivers, flashlights, William Shatner, Sela Ward, Mary Stewart’s Arthurian trilogy, Miles Vorkosigan by Lois McMater Bujold, Stephen King, the Kushiel series by Jacqueline Carey, the hardware store in my old hometown, angle grinders, Dremel rotary tool, Star Trek, Sergei Rachmaninov, The Beatles, Van Halen, baked pasta dishes, pizza, cookies, Harry Potter, Guy Gavriel Kay, Space opera, Planetary Romance, Chestnut Ridge Park, big thick poetry collections, Jerry Sullivan (Buffalo News sports columnist), my drill, Schopp and the Bulldog (Buffalo sports talk radio guys), Fried chicken, Italian sausage, that I have finally seen Les Miserables on stage, that I’m soon to see Les Miserables on the movie screen, Canada and Canadians, the poetry of Tennyson, Brian and Stewie on The Family Guy, Everyone who ever acted in a Harry Potter movie at all ever, Joss Whedon, steak, chess, comics, big breakfasts that leave me full until mid-afternoon, light breakfasts that take the edge off until a nice lunch, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, The Mentalist, Tasting something good at a restaurant and figuring out how to make it at home, Ice cream at the roadside place down the road, The County Fair, Libraries, JRR Tolkien, Route 20-A in the fall, Sandals, the scissor jack at work, Monty Python, aquariums, science museums, The Origin of Species, Cosmos, Carl Sagan, complete collections of Shakespeare (I own six, plus the one on my tablet!), thick fuzzy socks in winter, eggs, watching the Super Bowl, watching figure skating, the Olympic games, Autumn Leaves Used Books in Ithaca, the Ithaca Apple Harvest Festival, getaways with The Wife, holding The Wife’s hand, the second chapter of Luke, Edgar Allan Poe, Discovering new authors, Liking books on the re-read that I didn’t like the first time, Daniel Craig as James Bond, George Lazenby as James Bond, Sean Connery as James Bond, Roger Moore as James Bond, Timothy Dalton as James Bond, Pierce Brosnan as James Bond, my cell phone, my new tablet, the Burchfield Nature and Art Center, The Daughter getting better each year on her string bass, John Williams, Hector Berlioz, Toronto, Pittsburgh, Having no idea what to get The Wife for Christmas, Castle and Beckett, Nathan Fillion, Stana Katic, Kat Dennings, Melissa Rauch, The Big Bang Theory, Dr. Sheldon Cooper, “[knock knock knock] Penny? [knock knock knock] Penny? [knock knock knock] Penny?”, A Tale of Two Cities, Thin-mint Girl Scout Cookies, Roast turkey, Chicken wings, Rum (particularly spiced), Coke, Anthony Bourdain, Rachel Maddow, Cake Boss, Nate Silver, George Carlin, Hayao Miyazaki, President Obama (on balance), Zooey Deschanel, my wok, seeing people get hit with pies, getting hit with pies, bib overalls, all my misadventures in my overalls, dollops of whipped cream on my overalls after a pieing, cooking, Lester, Julio, Comet, writing, Princesses In SPACE!!! (not the actual title), Deliverance, eh? (not the actual title), NaNoWriMo, friends willing to read my writing, All who read this blog, Baby Fiona, Little Quinn, The Daughter, The Wife, and this whole wild and wacky Cosmos from which we spring.
And you know what? I’ve missed a whole ton of stuff. Happy Thanksgiving, readers!
