Now, now, now there has to be a better way...

...sing it again now , better way to show I'm grateful. So I thought up this blog to show my appreciation for loving me so long. You don't know how much you mean to me. Cause even though when times got rough you were right there and I thank you.

If you don't understand that you need to go research your 1990's music.

What am I thankful for? It's a question that comes up almost too often, if that's possible, this time of year. It's a question that has ever-changing answers, yet some always remain the same.

Friends and family top the list. Then come the fortunate lives we lead. Then comes the varying feasts we will partake in tomorrow. What comes next? You tell me.

Or maybe I'll tell you, too.

I'm most thankful for the family and friends I have. We have become much more spread out in these past years, but being away has made me that much more thankful for them.

I am thankful for my new job. I have been here for three and a half weeks now and it is starting to feel very comfortable. I am thankful that it is a salaried position and I no longer have to deal with the stresses of commission, especially during this time of economic turmoil. It is the first position I've ever held where I didn't feel like I was the smartest person in the building at most times. It's a new, and thus odd, feeling but a great one. I have much to learn here from many, many great people.

I am thankful for the new church family I have grown to know in my 15 months in Nashville. Just in the last two or three weeks I have truly felt at home at church. I am thankful for the youth that I work with there. They make my Sunday evenings more enjoyable than they realize.

I'm so thankful for the little things in life that at times aren't important at all, but other times are the things that keep you going. I'm thankful for the big things in life that seem so far away but are right on top of me, all at the same time. I'm thankful for sports and competition. We're all human and not one of us is above any other, but for those two minutes of victory I am more than most.

I'm thankful that I live in the United States of America, the greatest country in the history of mankind. I'm so glad that I can live the life I choose to live and not be overly judged or ridiculed.

I'm so thankful. Thank You, and you.

My post a few weeks ago is possibly my favorite entry I've ever written. I have two pieces of writing I am particularly proud of; one is this blog entry and the other is a poem I wrote several years ago. I'll be sure to post it when the time is right (i.e. when the Cubs lose the World Series in 2010; I think I posted it on my MySpace blog awhile ago, so feel free to search for it there if you just can't wait).

I'm proud of that blog entry because I think it sheds some light on the person I truly am, but at the same time, I believe, it is powerfully written. I'm very calm when I write a blog because I want to focus all my energies on the words being typed; I was immeasurably calm when composing that entry. As I wrote, I felt like I should cry. Not because I felt like crying, but because I was so emotionally open with the words I put on that page. I often hear girls say they needed a good cry. I haven't cried in over seven years and do not need to cry.

I just needed a good blog,
B

P.S. You caught that 2010 line, right? The Cubs will shine in 2009!