Last year on my birthday I wrote 46 things I’m grateful for so I decided I’m going to try to make it a tradition. I turned 47 the other day, so here are 47 things I’m grateful for. No particular order and they just pop into my head as I write.

1. Rainy days when I can stay home

2. Everything bagels

3. Thanksgiving

4. Cappuccino or as Pa likes to call it “Cup-a-chino”

5. Laughing so hard that you pee your pants a little

6. Pat Sajak (I’ll miss him so 😔)

7. George Harrison

8. Curb Your Enthusiasm

9. Larry David

10. Texting

11. Lucy Foley & Gillian Flynn (this is also me putting it out into the universe that they each write another book already!!!)

12. All musical instruments

13. Peanuts cartoons

14. My memory

15. Laundry detergents sheets instead of liquid 🙌

16. People who really know me and still like me

17. Pinterest

18. A clean bed

19. A clean house

20. Sabor

21. McDonald’s

22. Cheesecake

23. The show Lessons in Chemistry. I didn’t read the book and still don’t really want to. Idk … the cover threw me off. It’s amazing how I can totally not want to read a book because of it’s cover. I guess I’m literally the antithesis of not judging a book by its cover lol

24. Butter

25. Lidia Bastianich

26. Having the same idiotic sense of humor as PJ

27. My new Scorpio mug given to me by Teara

28. Warm lighting on a dark day

29. The Daisy plant Lol gave me that blooms more beautifully every year. It’s pictured here.

30. bumble bees 🐝

31. Google

32. Amazon

33. Fresh air

34. Apple Music

35. Most of my boys’ taste in music. Right now my oldest is really into Primus 😣

36. The decision I made long ago to never do Christmas cards again. I went on Shutterfly yesterday and had a huge sense of dread and realized it was because it reminded me of Christmas cards and then I said to myself, “Oh wait, I don’t do those anymore!” and felt instantly better. Great, actually.

37. Kathleen Hanna & Adam Horovitz

38. Vlad Duthiers

39. Leonardo DiCaprio

40. 80’s TV theme songs

41. Julia Louis-Dreyfus

42. What We Do in the Shadows

43. Peace of mind

44. Anti-anxiety medication

45. A good pen

46. A husband who cooks. Thank you Lord because I HATE it 🙌🙌🙌🙌

47. You for reading my blog ♥️ thank you ♥️