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Happy Thanksgiving! What are you thankful for?
Milski
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Figured we could all use some positivity. Talk about your holidays and what you're thankful for, on the forums or not, here.
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Not thankful its a wine trivia game that she laughs and says "I know the answer" whenever its my turn and I have no idea what the fuck the words on the card are
Anyway we got lucky and won on the back of true/false RNG 8) so ive got that going for me
But mostly glad my parents are still hanging in there. When my grandparents passed it was...eh. They were always old, you know? Now every year my parents make it and are mobile feels more like a gift, their frailty digs more into the heart, their shift from immortal to mortal.
It feels dumb that it took me 34 years to get there, but it is what it is.
second place is the italian restaraunt across the street from my apartment having a thanksgiving so i ain't gotta be alone
third place is forty two ounce plastic bottles of olde english brand malt liquor
Ah while I'm at it, thankful for therapy and antidepressants
One of my fears was that without it I would no longer have a social life. Lots of my friends are married, with SO, and just busy. The meetup was a way to meet people and make connections.
And yeah, I don't see most of my friend as often. But there's some that still make an effort to hang out. I also made new connections through my run clubs and climbing gym.
So I'm thankful for that today.
edward forty hands never left
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I've hit my out of pocket maximum the last three years to the point I had to sell timber to pay for it and I'm still paying off about 20K
Fuck. Cancer, but also fuck medical billing in general. I am really happy to hear you did not have to enter that hellhole.
What did it end up being?
Like, I got laid off earlier this year. I wasn’t exactly “happy” with my job but I was putting in effort to move to a new department and was comfortable. And I’m extremely thankful that I was able to get a new job (another company, but in the department I was trying for) before my severance ran out. It’s a change that I’m sure will be better for me in the long run, it’s just a tough change I had to go through.
We had car issues that necessitated trading in one vehicle and getting a new one. It’s not great having a new payment to make every month but I’m thankful we could trade the old one in before something happened and tanked the value, and I’m thankful the new car became available faster than the dealership originally anticipated.
Big ol’ bummer here:
And then suddenly boom, he’s the one that has his time run out.
So my wife flew to the literal other side of the planet to be with him at the end, and my mom flew to me to help take care of the kids while I was at work. And I just feel so bad for my wife and it just feels like I’m not doing anything, even though part of me knows that staying here and watching the kids so that she has the freedom to go fly is about the best thing I can do.
There are a lot of moments in this to be thankful for, like the fact that her work allowed he to flex her time so she could take this time off, that my boss was so accommodating for my schedule, that she was able to be there with him at the end.
Like I said, it’s a big sucky situation but there are things in it to be thankful for.
And if you read this I’m sorry to be a bummer but I just needed to process some of this and don’t know where else to put this.
Just a series of stones. One that had not worked its way out, and another one that had passed. Twas a bad time all around but I feel much better and am drinking a shit ton of water.