Post-Thanksgiving blessings
Nov. 23rd, 2012 02:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
averygoodun42Honestly, there is far too much that I am thankful for on a daily basis to list, for which I am truly thankful. However, what I shared with my dinner mates yesterday:
- My family and friends (of course)
- Modern medicine. So, so, SO freaking grateful for modern medicine right now, even if I don't think it's got the cure for all ills.
- The ease of modern life.
Actually, I didn't share that last one, but, well, it is something I am grateful for. Especially as today I have to "work":
- Do laundry (load dirty clothes into one machine that wets, wrings, soaps, wrings, rinses and wrings once more and then transfer not sopping wet clothes into a dryer that, while chowing down on energy, saves me having to lug the clothes out into the chilly air to hang up and dry, and leaves the clothes softer and less wrinkly than doing it the laborious route to boot),
- cook (turn on an electric oven that regulates its own temperature without the need of me chopping and preparing wood to stuff into it, and the knowledge of just how much wood to stuff into it to get it to the correct temperature)
- clean the oven (push a few buttons that do everything for me except the wiping up at the end instead of ruining my shoulders and hands as I scrub and scrub and scrub at the burnt-on nastinesses),
- and sanitize the house (which I don't even want to consider how it used to be done, but do know it was a nasty-ass process involving lye that didn't clean nearly as well as spritzing modern (even ecologically friendly!) sprays on the contaminated surfaces.
Throughout most of this "work", I can laze about and read. Yes, I am grateful for the ease of modern life, as troublesome as it can be.
Also, I got my invitation to Phi Theta Kappa in the mail yesterday (or Wednesday). Yay! Thankful for that, too.
- My family and friends (of course)
- Modern medicine. So, so, SO freaking grateful for modern medicine right now, even if I don't think it's got the cure for all ills.
- The ease of modern life.
Actually, I didn't share that last one, but, well, it is something I am grateful for. Especially as today I have to "work":
- Do laundry (load dirty clothes into one machine that wets, wrings, soaps, wrings, rinses and wrings once more and then transfer not sopping wet clothes into a dryer that, while chowing down on energy, saves me having to lug the clothes out into the chilly air to hang up and dry, and leaves the clothes softer and less wrinkly than doing it the laborious route to boot),
- cook (turn on an electric oven that regulates its own temperature without the need of me chopping and preparing wood to stuff into it, and the knowledge of just how much wood to stuff into it to get it to the correct temperature)
- clean the oven (push a few buttons that do everything for me except the wiping up at the end instead of ruining my shoulders and hands as I scrub and scrub and scrub at the burnt-on nastinesses),
- and sanitize the house (which I don't even want to consider how it used to be done, but do know it was a nasty-ass process involving lye that didn't clean nearly as well as spritzing modern (even ecologically friendly!) sprays on the contaminated surfaces.
Throughout most of this "work", I can laze about and read. Yes, I am grateful for the ease of modern life, as troublesome as it can be.
Also, I got my invitation to Phi Theta Kappa in the mail yesterday (or Wednesday). Yay! Thankful for that, too.
