chunky pam i am.

im grateful that my mom does the gross thanksgiving stuff without help...well to be honest, she does the entire thing without asking for help and yes, i did volunteer. once. im reaallllllyy grateful for it though. when i grow up i guess im going to have to convince my husband to eat lunch meat turkey instead of the slimey stuff.

im grateful for our christmas music. Linda Eder is probably my favorite. (sandi patti is not in this list for obvious, tradition-reasons) her rendition of the little drummer boy song will most likely make you pee.

im grateful that i just came back from michaels with the knowledge tht they have the supplies i need to make my sisters christmas gift!! chances are she will get excited from me talking about it constantly and then see it and feel bummed. but she should remember that from day 1 i said i wasnt making anything. so tomorrow, super early in the morning i will be filling up my car (because gas jumped from 1.55 to 1.75 :( --i guess i shouldnt complain though, i was bragging about 2.31 a month ago!) with coupons in hand, heading off to Michaels. yay.

happy gobble gobble day
cross your fingers i dont pull my hair out tomorrow!

ketchup

you know my friend sent me an email the other day and it said 'we really need to ketchup' sad thing is...i doubt she realizes thats not right.
so i was going thru my posts and counted that i wrote about 19 things i was grateful for so im posting 8 things today to ketchup.

im grateful that im creepy enough to search for what feels like hours for good singers on youtube. ive found like 4 that are realllllly good and they keep me occupied when i bored.

im grateful that the afterthanksgiving sales arent that great this year. i mean, im sure they are to a ton of people but im grateful that theres nothing that i want to spend money on. so basically im going to wake up at 3 in the morning because i like watching other people (ugh, its that creeper thing again) but seriously you always leave those stores with funny stories about crazy people. =]

im grateful for the younger girls at my work who think i walk on water. i dont have little sibilings so it rocks to have someone almost write down everything you say cause they think its so profound. i mean, they dont really do that but basically im like their role model. hooray.

im grateful that i found something to make my sister for christmas!!!! im soooo excited. but if it turns out crappy then you better believe im going to pretend like i never said anything about it haha but i hope not. im afraid im going to get so excited ill tell everyone before christmas. that would be sad. but cross your fingers for me!

im grateful that my skin disease is gone. it was painful.

okay thats all i have time for right now but expect 3 more later today!

its the po-po

im grateful that i got license plates today so i dont have to risk getting pulled over with my over-due tags.
im grateful for being smart. and from learning from my mistakes when i dont put it to use.
story time!
on saturday i was walking by the window and there was a ghetto beat-up truck running pulled up a little further than the doors. so i tellmy friend 'look, i bet tehres going to be a runout..' and she makes fun of me. so im like no, seriously..there are 2 men in the front seat of a 3 seater truck and they both have their hood up. but she keeps telling me im overreacting and that they are probbly just picking someone up. so i get tired of being told im dumb. so i walk to the back to grab something. then i hear my friend tell me to call the service desk and when i do she tells me i was right, that someone did run out with a bunch of cashmere stuff...but shes saying it like its funny. i dont think its funny so i go up to my manager and im like ugghhh i need to complain. and i tel her and then she freaks out cause she thought it was gonna a runout too. she even scanned the store for possible people but didnt see anyone suspicious so she didnt do anything about it.
well now i made a rule that if theres a car parked outside for more than a minute we have to call a manager. especially since its holiday time.
im grateful i cn make those decisions
im grateful for italian food...im pretty sure its my favorite. mostaccioli here i come!! =] hooray.

dklfja;sdk

i havent posted in forever because...well....i think im dying.
I have blisters inside of my mouth and on my stomach and back. (you cnt see the blisters on my stomach and back but i swear they have to be there..i feel sharp pains on the outsie constantlyyy!)i woke my mom up at 1 this morning, hysterically saying i had a skin disease. so we went to the store and got this cream stuff to stop itching, because thats kinda what its like. its not really working though. :(
but im grateful for not getting lost anymore. i got a GPS at a preblackfriday sale. it was like...$90 cheaper. hooorayyy

trash or garbage

im grateful that i never put anything disgusting in my trash bag in my room. i have one of those HUGE shoppping bags full of old paper and water bottles. and today makes the 4986704 week in a row that i have not gotten my trash outside in time.
what kind of trash man comes at seven in the morning?

blah

im grateful for amazon.com
if you look at books on their website then they start giving you recommendations. it makes me happy.

my dog, Toast.

im grateful for my puppy, Chowder, who whines at the top of the stairs if i dont come say hi and pet her right when i get home from work at night. she frustrates the crap out of me with her constant need of attention sometimes but i still like her.

shoooot

im grateful for youtube. its informative and funny
im grateful for the library. i love books..right now im reading one by john bytheway called youre gonna make it! or something like that. i love it. theres this one part that nobody else is gonna care about but me..it says
"The Wallchart of the World History, when competely unfolded, is about 13 feet long. Think about this though: God could have sent you to earth anywhere within hose 13 1/2 feet. But he held you back so that you could come to earth in the last half inch. Thirteen feet, and youre here at the very end of the chart. What are the chances of that? Well, it's not by chance.
Here's what you need to know: The Lord had a specific reason for sending you here, and sending you here now."
i know everyne has heard something like that before but i like the way he words things. im grateful for john bytheway.

shamu.

im grateful that chelsee is more positive aout my life than i was.
and
im grateful that yesterday was a 20% off day and i didnt buy anything! =] hooray for saving moolah

surprise party

for the record i wrotethis yesterday but i didnt have time to re-read it so i just saved it as a draft

i'm grateful for the times when my friends surprise me. it reminds me that not everybody says everything they feel all the time.

my friend texted (i still dont know if 'texted' is the right way to say it) me this morning saying she wasnt sure that obama would be good for our country. I didnt know that obama had officially won yet...i mean it didnt surprise me but she was the last person i thought would fill me in. she wasnt registered to vote cause it was a hassle, and she always sends me these videos on youtube about how much our soldiers are suffering. so i just automaticaly assumed she was the biggest obama supporter on the planet but she started telling me about something she read in the bible that reminded her of whats going on. i was serioiusly SHOCKED. first of all, she'll openly admit that she has never stepped foot in a church and the closest thing she has gotten to a sermon was when the miissionaries gave her a book of mormon that she later put under her bed. but anyways im grateful for times like that.

(this is my i'm grateful for.....blahblah today)
im grateful that there are actually SOME adults in the world that like me. and think im a good influence.

four mour

i have to catch up so i'll write 4 things im grateful for.

#1. i am grateful for ohio. (i'll give you a minute to let that sink in...if its hard to do, dont feel bad...it took me almost a year) When i talk to the people in missouri i realize how much i needed to get away. i was putting SO much energy in someone elses life that i had no idea what was going on in mine..and while even though i was hundreds of miles away it stayed like that for a whle i can honestly say that now things are different for me. and i have ohio to thank. seriously.

numero dos. one of the things i am most grateful in life is probably letters. (is this stealing from marcie?) i know its gay but i have notes from friends from way back in the oregon days. obviousy not the stupid ones like can i borrow your math homework but like the good ones that mean something. if you saw my journal youd probably make fun of me until i died....it is FULL of printed emails and instant messaging conversations. Sometimes i take sentences or even paragraphs out of the letters ive been given ..but never mentioned..for example a letter marcie gave me one time. im pretty sure i have it memorized just from reciting it to other people when they needed it too. so im grateful for letters and the reasoning behind them.

this picture doesnt really have to do with anything but its funny.

three. That i care enough to vote.

fo': my job at marshalls. i cannot post without mentioning the m word. but its true. i get at least 8 calls a day from people calling to check up on their applications and i dont wnt to tell them that we have gotten over 100 (literally) in the past 2 weeks. so it makes me thankful that even though i thought i had the worst interview ever that my boss hired me. without it i would probably still be wearing pajamas all day and staring at the wall. or working 4 hours a week at limited too. its probably been the best thing for me since i got my hair straightened..(joke)