Thursday, November 25, 2010

A Crazy Person Celebrates Thanksgiving 2010

It always strikes me as strange and quite sad that there should be one day in the year reserved for giving thanks for blessings received.

I know, I know......you are having to cope with that creepy Pollyanna Stearns again today, but in my old age I have developed a peculiar desire to express my enormous gratitude (aloud) every time I escape a disaster or have a good thing happen.  For instance I am not just paying lip service when I say. "Thank you God (*)" every time I trip but do NOT fall  down, each time I break a glass and no fragments fly into my good eye, whenever I am chopping veggies with my wicked looking cleaver (my favorite chopping tool) and I clip a corner of a fingernail but escape removing the first joint of the finger, etc., or on the more positive side, when I gaze awestruck out into the little hummingbird feeding area outside my kitchen window ( incidentally, that is where I slipped last March and broke my hip.....(**)) and see 6 or 8 of those incredible creatures zipping around like jet planes, fencing with each other and gobbling nectar within a few feet or inches from my fascinated gaze.  There is hardly anything I am NOT grateful for these days and I cannot help acknowledging it every damned minute.  It seems totally vile and insensitive not to. 

* ( When I say, "Thank you God" I am addressing not an ordinary  religious icon, but that ineffable spirit that permeates every tiny particle in the universe and keeps them from either crashing together or flying wildly apart (even faster than they are already doing that).)

** (When I fell and broke my hip I did NOT say,  "Thank you God"  but,  so help me, I realized     later how lucky I was that I did not hit my head on the bricks and end up a vegetable in a coma).  

So what does all of the above have to do with anything?......you may well ask since it obviously takes me forever to get to the effing point....... which is that I am not doing anything special in the way of giving thanks on Thanksgiving.  In fact, due to the onset of a spurt of insanity, I actually made my turkey, cranberries and stuffing yesterday since, for the first time ever, I had taken the turkey out of the freezer on Monday and it was nearly completely thawed in the frig.  What the hell, I told myself, if you do all the stuff today you can really relax and enjoy Thanksgiving tomorrow, and so I did!

Today all I have to do is eat, feed all the neighborhood kitties with turkey and watch the NFL football game later, in total comfort.  It all makes me thankful that I am crazy enough to have done what I did.  And that's a fact!

22 comments:

  1. I just found your blog and love your sense of humor! I will be following you from now on.

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  2. Happy Thanksgiving. Your neighborhood kitties are lucky to be getting turkey handouts! Hope you are enjoying your day!

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  3. Hello Lo
    Do hope you enjoyed your day - and that there were no slip ups

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  4. Hi Lo! Happy Thanksgiving! I am thankful that you are effing thankful for something..and your decision to grace us with your thoughts today! :)

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  5. Hope your Thanksgiving (I guess that means every day you don't slip.) was wonderful.

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  6. Dear dear Lo, I love all of your blogs but this one touched me deeply..I too have found myself being thankful for everything,,,Today, I am so thankful for your blog..among many many other things..You are, and have been, such an inspiration to me. If this blog doesn't inspire every one that reads it, they are at a dangerous place in their life..Looking forward to the next one!!!!

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  7. You know something, I much prefer you octagenarian (?) Pollyanna to the teenage one.

    Happy Thanksgiving - every day!

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  8. I would very much like to see those spitfire humming birds with you. But I do have a finch with a bright yellow chest that sometimes visits the honeysuckle. He sings like a demented soul. Beautiful. Happy Thanksgiving. Did you make pierogies too?

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  9. Happy Thanksgiving to you Lo. and what a great post. Have a good day.Enjoy the game and the food!

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  10. I gave thanks today for all my online friends ~
    like you.

    Blessings, dear Lady ~~ you are much~

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  11. I love how long you take to get to the 'effing point', it is part of your charm! Great post. :-)

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  12. I gave my thanks a month and a half ago, but I'm still glad I got to read this.. every day we should be thankful for all those things that could go wrong, but don't.

    And I enjoy that you said 'effin', because I say it too.

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  13. Yes! Staying in a state of gratitude for "every damned thing" is the way of happiness.
    xoxo

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  14. Lo, sometimes I wish I lived closer to you. I would love to sit and enjoy a cup of tea and hear all your stories. Of which I am sure there are many!

    I am glad you had a good Thanksgiving! xo

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  15. You are a blessing in my life, your spirit and grace and sense of humor continually amaze me.

    May you have a blessed and beautiful holiday season, however you choose to spend it.

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  16. Always a day late and a dime short, but I guess belated thanks are better than the proverbial poke in the eye with a sharp stick...

    THANK YOU TO ALL YOU BLESSED PEOPLE WHO VISIT ME HERE......you know who you are !

    You make my heart happy.

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  17. Hi Lo,

    You asked me to comment back to follow.. generally there should be a link at the very top the page that says 'Follow' if you're signed in with your Blogger account. Alternately, if you go to your dashboard and click on Add below your list of subscriptions, you should be able to put the web address into the form and click follow or add.

    Thank you for visiting me!

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  18. You can't complain about having nothing to do if you go and get yourself all organised beforehand. Honestly, some people!

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  19. Randomly saw your face on a comment on another blog and thought I'd pop over to meet you. I think we're gonna be good friends :) (Really loved your profile.) Happy Belated Thanksgiving!

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  20. You keep me going with all your energy. Cook it when you please, there isn't a law that says it has to be any day. Do you like ham????

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  21. When asked what I'm grateful for today, I find myself with no words and what I usually say is that there ARE no human words for the kind of gratitude that I would like to bestow on The Universe for the blessings I have lived these last few years. No words. Really.

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