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?

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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)