 The Daily News
1 Hooray, it's finally here!
2 Iono. I somehow always love Thanksgiving.
3 Maybe not even remotely for anything historical, but because I'm just glad still to be around.
4 And I'm just as excited that most everybody else is around as well.
5 As we roll merrily along this ancient stroll, we all should look around and count a few blessings.
6 I don't wanna be preachy really, but we need to stop worrying about our jobs, our messy yards, our lack of money, and all those other thousand natural worries that try to taint our lives.
7 This is the time of year when we need to realize how important our friends and families are to us.
8 We don't have to pull them aside and say, "I love you" and all that. It isn't necessary.
9 When someone makes you laugh in the next few days, just laugh along merrily. When a song breaks out, jump in and have at it.
10 Enjoy the preparations. Enjoy your friends. Enjoy no work, jobs, homework, midterms, or any other boushit you encounter every day. Defy those things and dare to appreciate smiles on the faces of old people. No poem in literature can match&nbs p;the smile and laughter of someone who has lived still enjoying living despite all.
11 Love that they're here. A lot of people you started out with aren't any longer, but hold fast to the REAL people in your life.
12 Oooooops. Got preachy.
13 I'll try to stop.
14 I have so much to look forward to anywho.
15 First, I got a brand spankin' new laptop for free yesterday. This DN is her maiden voyage. Second, I realized around two days ago that I've never had a yam. Never. So I may have my maiden voyage with a yam this year, and I can't yellya how excited I yam. M'bad.
16 I can't wait to see my Mom and Dad. They had a tough year, but they're also tough cookies. And even though we've been through about a kajillion trips to the hospital in the past three years, they still make me laugh hysterically, and I love them beyond all measure.
17 I can't wait to see Dorothy, my mother-in-law, who lives in Paradise and had to live in fear all summer that her
house might burn down. That fire came within a mile of her h ouse, and black pieces of burning embers landed in her yard. But she's a tough cookie too, and has the ability to make entire rooms laugh to the point of tears. Her place in Paradise is still as beautiful as ever. Sooooooo lucky, but hey, who deserves it more? Best mother-in-law on Earth, I swear to you. And her house in the mountains made it through those horrible fires.
18 Once again we had a summer of heroic firefighters and police officers guiding people through this stuff.
19 Helene's brothers are coming down. Russ also lives in the Paradise area and came through reasonably unscathed. Ron had a respiratory crisis just last week and was rushed to the hospital unable to breathe. Some quick friends and a friendly hospital put him back together again.
20 That crisis happened just last week. He's coming down today I think.
21 Her uncle has been battling every sort of thing you could name, but he's coming down to party along with us. Besides being handsome as a prince, he is also hilarious and fun.
22 My sister Gayle lost her job last week, and it was a job she absolutely loved. Hard times, tough cookies though. Gayle is a trooper and will carry on famously.
23 My sister Linda works with little guys, teaching up in the Sacramento/Roseville area directing plays with Special Ed kids. We exchange theatrical war stories and no matter which show or which theater, nothin's better
24 Both Caitlin and Nicole have had a rough go. Nicole's car just stole around $900 from her right before Christmas, and Caitlin is somehow clobbering the town of Sacramento.
25 Helene has attended all of these folks with grace and patience, giving up most of her vacation days to help others constantly. She's a rock and a foundation, as well as being my best friend.
26 Ponch is getting his band ready to hit London.
27 Rocha and I spent much of yesterday insulting one another like no two other people could. The guy is the man.
28 My '05 'ers are all over the Earth making each day the best day of the year.
29 Joe's is still Joe's.
30 The Sharks kick ass.
31 And me?
32 Ah, I have Jury duty. I hope the judge is Judge Judy, and she uses public humiliation on this, the most Puritan of American hollerdayz.
33 And Goof, let's jam d00d.
34 I love you all, everything.
35 Happy Thanksgiving.
36 Peace.
~H~
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