Thanks, Day 14

Cake balls. Today I'm grateful for the homemade cake balls my coworker brought to the office to celebrate another coworkers birthday. They were individual billiard-ball size portions of cake covered in an icing/candy hybrid. Red velvet cake with chocolate, devil's food cake with white. Holy cow they were good.

Let us count my blessings once again:

1. Gravy
2. Fannie Flagg
3. Gambling
4. Boss in Meetings
5. Fridays
6. Aunt Louise
7. Perfect Fall Days
8. Road Trips
9. Lena Horne
10. Enlargement Pill Emails
11. No Cancer Head
12. Pretty Bowls
13. Free Mammograms
14. Unencumbered Saturdays
15. TVLand
16. Cake Balls

Thanks, Day 13

Tonight I'm thankful for TVLand. When I can't find a thing that interests me on television, I can almost always find something on TVLand. Right now it's M.A.S.H. reruns. TV wise, you could do a lot worse.

Thanks, Day 12

I love a Saturday with nothing to do. I got a lot done - errands, laundry, I worked a bit getting the flower beds ready for winter. But it was all on my own schedule. No agenda, nowhere to be, no one demanding my time. It was nice, and I'm thankful.

Thanks, Day 11

I had a mammogram today. I know – dermatologist earlier this week, mammogram today, I’ve certainly been thoroughly examined recently.

Anyway, the company I work for provides free mammograms if you carry their insurance. That always seems like such a good deal when I sign up for an appointment.

Then, when it comes time for the actual appointment and I leave my desk during my work day to walk to the mammo-mobile out in the back parking lot, I can’t help but question my judgment and wish I’d shelled out the co-pay at St. Anns.

It’s like having a mammogram in a van down by the river with all your co-workers, well, not watching but knowing what you’re doing.

But it’s certainly convenient and, as I said before, free.

So that’s it for today: I’m trying to be thankful for free mammograms.

Thanks, Day 10

If you're reading along (and God only knows why you still would be) then you know I recently went to a nice event at the Cultural Arts Center. I said it was a pottery show, but now I believe ceramics show is more accurate. But that's not the point. The point is that at that event you could buy a handmade soup bowl for $10 and then have it filled with soup for your dinner. There were a couple racks displaying bowls, you picked your favorite and filled it up. My friend Marsha picked the prettiest bowl there. I really liked it. I coveted it. I looked for a similar one, but couldn't find it. Marsha even offered to give me the bowl because she knew I had bowl-envy, but what kind of friend takes a soup bowl right out of another friends hand? My mom taught me better. I settled on a nice but clearly inferior bowl.

I met Marsha today for lunch and what did she bring me? The bowl. What a thoughtful thing to do.  I love it, and I am thankful.

I believe I'll put gravy in it.

For those of you playing at home, here's the thankfulness recap:

1. Gravy
2. Fannie Flagg
3. Gambling
4. Boss in Meetings
5. Fridays
6. Aunt Louise
7. Perfect Fall Days
8. Road Trips
9. Larry Hagman (are you paying attention?)
10. Enlargement Pill Emails
11. No Cancer Head
12. Pretty Bowls

Thanks, Day 9

Today I am thankful - and happy to report - that I do not have cancer head.

Awhile ago my hair stylist said "What's that?" as she was messing with my hair. I had no idea what "that" was but I could feel it on my scalp once she pointed it out to me. She suggested I have it checked.

Always interested in a second opinion, I had my daughter give it a look. She said "Go get that creepy thing taken off your head."

The good news is the dermatologist said it is absolutely nothing to worry about. Just head crud (not her exact diagnosis). She said she could freeze it off but that sometimes hair doesn't grow back properly after a head freezing.

I wonder if Walt Disney knew that? Oh well, he was kind of bald anyway.

Thanks, Day 8

I am thankful to live in a country where I can receive this email - Fast Delivery on Max-Gentlemen "Enlargement" Pills - and nobody goes to jail.

Because if we don't have quick, ready access to Max-Gentlemen "Enlargement" Pills then - say it with me - the terrorists have won.

By the way, I hope you vote today. If you don't vote, you can't bitch.