I have a great deal to be thankful for. It’s easy to forget that, when I’m caught up in the disappointments and petty setbacks of a mostly ordinary life. I am so blessed to know the love of my life, my wife, and the love and support of a close family.

I’ve heard it said the if it takes the fingers of more than one hand to count your true friends you have been blessed indeed and I have indeed been blessed with friends. You know who you are, don’t blush.

I’ll be printing these thoughts I wrote this morning. I’ll carry them around with me today, as I join my family for a meal and catching up on the successes, disappointments and petty setbacks of each others lives. They’ll probably wonder at me as they often do, curious as to why I keep looking at the paper in my hand and smiling. I probably won’t tell them that today, I will do my very best to keep how thankful and blessed I truly am in the forefront of my mind. Mostly because it’s going to be fun seeing how long today I can hang on to this warm fuzzy feeling, but, really it’s because my family is as crazy as I am and when I said we were close I meant in a clench sort way, a clench is close, isn’t it?

Happy Thanks Giving.

Tomorrow also marks the first day I stop being pissed off at the retailers that have been decorated for Christmas since before Halloween. You know who you are, we all saw you. Shameless.