Thanksgiving is over. We can be snarky again.

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F I N A L L Y!

Ok. I am joking. Well, maybe 50%. I am most likely kidding on the square, as is my MO.

I have been thinking about being thankful, for all the right reasons, like everybody else around Thanksgiving time.

When I went to the grocery store across the street for the fourth time in two days yesterday afternoon, I asked the cashier lady what time they would be closing.

“7 pm. Why? You want to come back again?” She laughed.

“No. I was complaining to you about coming here so many times, but then I remembered that you are still working on Thanksgiving Day, so I am kind of embarrassed for being a whiner.”

Somehow I couldn’t get our brief exchange out of my head.

How many times have I complained to a cashier in a store about my day? To the teachers at my kids’ childcare center? To a salesclerk? To the person behind a counter, any counter? To all these other people earning minimum wages (or hopefully higher) and lousy healthcare / retirement benefits (if any) who probably at that moment just wanted to wring my neck but were able to wear a plastic smile because their jobs required them to?

Here are what I am thankful for, for the not so politically correct reasons:

I am thankful that working for me is a choice and not a necessity.

I am thankful that though I work, I do not carry the stress as a sole bread earner.

I am thankful that I am able to treat my work and responsibility as the “second” income and therefore I am not as stressed out as my husband.

I am thankful that my life is comfortable enough that I can afford to be plagued by angst, ennui and neurosis.

I am thankful that my reality affords me to worry about ideology.

I am thankful that I can afford to be generous.

I am thankful for not having to think at all in order to come up with things that I should be thankful for.

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I promised that I’d be snarky in the title so I cannot possibly let you down. Here it is…

I am thankful that Sarah Palin proved yet again that she has no business commenting on political issues or any other serious issues.

“Obviously, we’ve got to stand with our North Korean allies.” — Sarah Palin on Glenn Beck’s radio show

(Yes, I’ll admit: it took me a while to try and work this gem into this post…)

35 thoughts on “Thanksgiving is over. We can be snarky again.”

  2. Jess

    Very well stated!
    I, too, am thankful that work is not a necessity for me…sometimes I forget. It is nice to remember.
    Came over from Studio 30…you are pretty awesome.
    Jess

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  5. Wicked Shawn

    I am thankful for you! Your wit, charm, writing, heart, and the way you put yourself out here for all of us to love.

    Of course, I was pretty damn pleased to see La’Palin getting her geography problems aired out…..again. Good thing she is being rigorously readied for a presidential run. Clearly, she has come a long way! 😉
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  14. Tom G.

    I am thankful for having you to remind me of all the little things I take for grqnted.

    Also, I am thankful that Sarah Palin is flying to North Korea to stand with her allies. Does this mean we can bomb them now?

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  15. Lies

    I don’t think your reasons to be thankful are not that politically wrong – I feel they are exactly the things many people take for granted (and often for all the wrong reasons).
    Hmm… maybe we should introduce some European Thanksgiving also – make people think about it for once :).
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