Chapter 21: Thank U

As you may or may not have noticed by now, all of my blog titles are song titles. More often than not, it is the title of a song from the album or playlist I am listening to while writing the blog and is always pertinent to the subject matter of the entry. The same is true of today's title, referring to the song "Thank U" by Alanis Morissette. Being that today was Thanksgiving, it may be a little on the nose but it is also very much how I feel right now. The song, to me, is essentially about feeling gratitude for everything you've been through in your life, good or bad, for leading you to where you are & to become the person you are. That is a beautiful thing, as well as a very necessary one.

This has been a great day and I am grateful for it. The day began with me waking up at 11:30am and dicking around on the internet for a while. My Mom and her boyfriend were putting together Thanksgiving dinner all this time, as well as drinking in the middle of the day and playing Scrabble. You know, the typical American holiday?

I also managed to watch the first hour of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," before my sister, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's daughter and her boyfriend showed up. I have to say, at least to the point that I got to, I was impressed. It was much better than I'd anticipated. I think there was one major reason for this: Taylor Lautner. The kid is just charming on-screen. Much the opposite of the books, in the movies Jacob Black is infinitely more interesting and entertaing, (not to mention, attractive,) than Edward Cullen. One thing, more than anything else, I was curious to see interpreted on-screen was the pages of the book that simply read October, November, December, so on. I thought the way that period was handled in the film was beautiful and an absolutely perfect visual expression of the concept of time passing the character by. I'm actually really excited to finish the movie and may end up seeing it in a theater after all.

Once my sister and her family arrived, we all spent a little while hanging out before they needed to get back home to check on their Thanksgiving dinner. It was already planned for me to come with them, but they actually wound up inviting me to spend the night. It made the most sense, considering we were already planning on getting together Friday morning. Why not skip the step where they have to come pick me up? Plus, how fun is a Thanksgiving Slumber Party?!

We spent most of the day watching a marathon of "Rupaul's Drag Race" and the evening playing Guitar Hero. I am sure I haven't mentioned this before for lack of a reason to, but I am really bad at video games. Guitar Hero is no different. I think I lack the coordination to watch what is happening on screen and determine which button to press for the desired response. Essentially, video games move too fast for me. This concerns me about playing an instrument and singing at the same time, but I'm sure I'll be much more willing to make the effort to master that one than I am with a video game. Also, by the way, the guy I was talking about in yesterday's entry never showed up and so I am now totally over him.

Now I am here at my sister's house, on a futon and ready to pass out. I am writing this blog as an email from my phone in order to keep my commitment to posting a blog every day for an entire year. It is really not convenient at all to write a blog like this on the touchscreen keyboard on my phone, but I really felt like it wouldn't be a good thing to skip a day at only three weeks in. I am aware that it's possible, and likely, that I will wind up missing a day or two over the course of the year, but to let it happen so early on seems like it'd be a big mistake. However, due to the issue of having "texting thumb," (similar to video game thumb, only due to excessive phone typing,) I am going to end this a bit shorter than I normally would. Before I do that, though, I wanted to take a moment to discuss what I am most grateful for this Thanksgiving. I have a whole world of things to be grateful for, and I am extremely grateful for them all, but after the day I've had today I have to say I am most grateful for the people in my life who I can trust completely. In the world I live in, where everyone eventually reveals some sort of ulterior motives or shady behaviors, I would be remiss not to recognize and Thank god for the people that I don't have to question or expect the worst from. That is what I am most thankful for today.

Hopefully this post via email thing actually works. For now, I am exhausted and gassy and need to get to sleep. Happy Thanksgiving!