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Someone from Israel reads my blog!!! Cool :D

Today is Thanksgiving. A day for us Americans to give thanks to whoever we give thanks to, for whatever we want to give thanks for. Usually Thanksgiving is a day to mark the celebration of the very first Thanksgiving in our homeland. Now I could go into a story about the pilgrims and corn and all that mess, but I'd rather not. So, here's what I'm thankful for...

FIrst thing's first, I should establish WHO I'm thanking for these things. I'm just gonna come right out and say it, I don't believe in God. I have no shame in admitting this, because I know that in my life, I've managed to surround myself with people who won't judge me for it. Instead of thanking God or Jesus or Krishna or Mohammed or whatever else, I choose to thank LIFE; in all actuality, I believe we are all responsible for our own lives and living them the way decent, honest, compassionate people ought to. In a perfect world, we would only get out of life what we put into it; but occasionally it doesn't work that way, and life returns more to us than we give it - which is what we call good fortune. I thank life for cool people, who no matter how religious or non-religious they may be, will not only NOT think less of me, but will accept and love me as an atheist.

(I apologize in advance if the level of cheesiness in the following passage is too high. It's the truth, and if you don't like it, well...)

Secondly, and I hate to sound cliche for even a second, but I'm thankful for the presence of music in my life, and in the lives of everyone. What gift is better than the gift of song? Someone once said that music is what feelings sound like, and I couldn't agree more with that. It's certainly how I express myself, and I thank life every day for how fortunate I am to have musical abilities that allow me to do so.

I am incredibly thankful for all the wonderful friends I have, old and new. For real. College has opened my eyes to a lot of things, especially how amazing it is to have friends who are genuine, caring people, and who share my love of music. Not gonna lie, it was a little hard for me to adjust to UNI for the first week or so. I have problems sometimes, as we all do. But my friends have always been here to help me, whether it's making sure I don't get hurt if I've had one too many, sitting down with me and talking through something that's bugging me, or just giving me a much-needed hug at the end of a long day..I don't know what I would do without you guys :)

I'm thankful for my family. I won't go into detail, if you follow DBDN you've read all about them already. But they're great and I wouldn't trade them for anything!

And last but not least, all this crap:
~Mittens
~Love
~The news
~Cottage cheese
~Dogs
~Escalators
~The Internet
~Pumpkins
~Chris Potter
~Harry Potter
~Hot glue guns
~Snowwwww
~Carpet
~Revolving doors
~Tolerance
~Nutella
~Pillows
~The couch
~Smart people
~Cake
~Refrigerators
~Spanish men
~People not believing in witches anymore
~90's cartoons
~Caffeine
~Stupid people
~Victories for civil rights
~Free time
~Free speech
~Iced tea
~Sleep

The list could go on for a while. But it's getting late and I have to get up pretty early tomorrow, and I don't want my sleep schedule to be TOO messed up for Black Friday shopping...haaaaaa

Love you!!!