Thanksgiving

[marydell]

Today I am thankful for:

My husband:  in a couple weeks it will be our 9-year anniversary, which means about 13 years of partnership.  He's a fun, sweet, cool guy, who's made me a better person and allowed me to make him a better person. 

Our son:  Charlie, who was given to us as a gift, and is everything we wished for in a child and then some.

Our LID:  We are still in the very long line to adopt a daughter from China.  It might happen in 3 or 4 years; it might not happen at all, but our place in line (Log-In-Date aka LID) is secure, so I don't have to worry about being chosen or whether somebody likes me.

Our home:  We bought a relatively inexpensive fixer-upper several years ago, and we avoided any mortgage that seemed complicated or tricky.  So our mortgage is still affordable and the home value is still okay.  And while it still needs a lot of work, it's a nice snug family home, with a big basement.  We're very happy here.

My creative voice:  I struggled with writer's block for a long time, and over the past couple of years I managed to work through most of the trouble.  I've been writing more, and better, and I've been enjoying writing for the first time in a couple of decades. Going to 4th street this year improved my craft tremendously.  And I've gotten hooked into a group project that's inspiring better and better work from me, as well as being a lot of fun.

My friends:  I'm blessed with wonderful friends--people in my family, people in my daily life, long-distance old friends, and online/long-distance new friends.  I love all of you guys.

My President-Elect:  Love that guy.

There's more but those are the things that are on my mind this morning.  So Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!  What are you thankful for?  If you're posting on your own LJ about it feel free to toss a link into the comments here.

Comments

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

it will be our 9-year anniversary, which means about 13 years of partnership.

You lived in in for four years?!
Heheheh...

We celebrated the Day by watching "Hercules and the Captive Women".

[marydell.livejournal.com]

In in? In sin, yeah, 3.5 or so. We had to work out whether we'd have a catholic wedding or not. I won.

Here's one of our wedding pics (http://flickr.com/photos/marydell/1234987900/). We're goofing around in front of a "Mandatory Arbitration" sign at the courthouse.

(Note: I didn't object to having a Catholic wedding, although lapsed as heck myself, as long as one of us was arguably Catholic, as in, gets out of bed in time for Sunday mass more than 3 times a year).

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

That sign in the background was auspicious, eh? Luckily it was so about as much as our having all guests at our wedding watch Forbidden Planet.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Forbidden planet would have been fun! When you get married at court, all the couples mill around in the lobby together and then when your name is called you go into the court with your posse. That way you don't have strangers in the courtroom with you, but you spend time with them in the hall. Always fun to contrast the looks of people getting married--there was a middle-aged hippieish couple there in matching jeans & tee shirts, and a bride in a huge, fancy wedding dress who looked to be about 8 months pregnant.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

In our case, it was just us. The embarassing thing is that everybody assumed that someone would bring a camera so of course nobody did, and there isn't a single photo of the wedding.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Eep!

[jerusha.livejournal.com]

It can actually be more embarrassing than that.

At my wedding, my brother was the 'official' photographer. After everything was over, it was discovered that he had no film in his camera. He tried to blame my mother for not having loaded it; she retorted that he should have realized at some point (before the end of the festivities!) that he had taken enough shots to have to re-load, and why didn't he realize something was wrong then?

We do have a few casual shots taken by other family members, but, well...

(It's been 8 years. I've forgiven him. Which doesn't mean that I will ever stop telling the story.)

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

So, your brother, who was using the camera, assumed that someone else had loaded the camera? What is it that 'they' say about assumptions?

Don't assume, or it will make an ass of you and me.

On the other hand, it gives you a valid reason to pick on your brother.