Lady Sage

A fabulous fiancee that adores spending time with me and wouldnt trade me for the world! A womans dream come true.

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If only closed minds came with closed mouths.
Minds are like parachutes, they function best when open.
It`s Easier to Change a Condom Than a Diaper
Yes, the rumors are true... I actually AM a Witch.

shesus

I'm grateful to finally be home. The crowds are horrible out there.
Merry fucking Christmas!

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Whatever did happen to your soul?
I heard you sold it

Choose Heaven for the weather and Hell for the company

Ch'i

I'm grateful for "Merry fucking Christmas".

pan6467

Music, good food and drink and surrounded by the best people in the world sharing smiles, stories and love

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"

shesus

Today I am grateful that the 6th graders are much better behaved than last Wednesday! I guess that 8 paragraph essay about why school is important I made them do last week worked.

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Whatever did happen to your soul?
I heard you sold it

Choose Heaven for the weather and Hell for the company

Lady Sage

A fiancee that took fabulous care of me yesterday when I needed him most.

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If only closed minds came with closed mouths.
Minds are like parachutes, they function best when open.
It`s Easier to Change a Condom Than a Diaper
Yes, the rumors are true... I actually AM a Witch.

Elphaba

I am thankful for a loving fiancee, and the potential for a painfree future for my friend.

mixedmedia

I am thankful for a quiet day in the office yesterday in which I was able to do a lot of catching up making today much more smooth rolling. (I hope!)

And chocolate. I am thankful for chocolate. Especially Almond Joys.

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

analog

Online shopping... today I was able to look around and get information on a new stethoscope that I need to buy, compare information about various different models, and get pricing that will help me find the best deal.

Really it may sound a bit odd to be thankful for an online retail situation, but this is a tool i'll use every day to save lives or help people in trauma and medical emergencies... getting the right information on which kind of tool is best suited for me is really important, as some will not do as good a job as I need them to do.

Also, finding the same item at various prices, the highest and lowest being a full $22 different, helps me save money in addition to not having to drive around trying to find those good deals and product info.

I'm also thankful for my good health, a lot of people around me are sick- but at least i'm well and therefore able to help them out (which I am).

shesus

For Friday and that it is a half-day for the students.

And tomorrow I'll be thankful that I don't have to get up at 5:30 to stand in the below zero conditions at 6:20 to catch the bus.

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Whatever did happen to your soul?
I heard you sold it

Choose Heaven for the weather and Hell for the company

shoegirl

Let me second that. And I am grateful that my company just sent out an email telling us that we were getting the 22nd and 29th off as full paid holidays. Actually I'm grateful since this is the first time I've been paid for a holiday - very exciting!

Supple Cow

For having made progress in cleaning my room and unpacking my things, and for having just enough quarters to do my laundry so that I can wear clean clothes to work tomorrow.

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"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
(Michael Jordan)

Lady Sage

For Pan and our planning a honeymoon... maybe we will even be able to take it with any luck.

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If only closed minds came with closed mouths.
Minds are like parachutes, they function best when open.
It`s Easier to Change a Condom Than a Diaper
Yes, the rumors are true... I actually AM a Witch.

spectre

Despite it being finals week, it's the last week of the semester and having good friends who gave me a smile during all of the stress of it.

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"Fuck these chains
No goddamn slave
I will be different" ~ Machine Head

abaya

The last week of classes for me, too... we're talking, last week EVER... all my PhD course requirements are DONE after this!!! 22 years of being stuck in a classroom are coming to an end!!

And, even better, this is the last week of my long-distance relationship with ktspktsp. Two months after our wedding, we finally get to be together every night, without interruption!!! WOOOOOO-HOOOOOOO! I can't wait.

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And think not you can direct the course of Love;
for Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
--Khalil Gibran

Lady Sage

Cold medicine, orange juice, friends and family and my fabulous fiancee.

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If only closed minds came with closed mouths.
Minds are like parachutes, they function best when open.
It`s Easier to Change a Condom Than a Diaper
Yes, the rumors are true... I actually AM a Witch.

Telluride

My girlfriend...

My family...

My health...

My new car...

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"I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice." - Friedrich Hayek

n0nsensical

dextromethorphan

polyvinyl chloride

electricity and magnetism

house music

Lady Sage

My ability to be uber-colorful in my wording for a nastygram that will make abused customers everywhere cheer and the corporate world cringe. Viva le Sage!

(See journal for details)

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If only closed minds came with closed mouths.
Minds are like parachutes, they function best when open.
It`s Easier to Change a Condom Than a Diaper
Yes, the rumors are true... I actually AM a Witch.

Average_Joe

....a wife that I can trust whoile-heartedly. My brother-in-law left his wife 3 days before Christmas because he found out she has been cheating on him after 1 year of marriage. His life is in shambles right now.

mixedmedia

The penis. Come on ladies, how often do we stop and take a moment to thank the penis?

(note: mm got laid last night...and in an hour, she's gonna take a lunch break and go do it again...he came to town early )

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

Lady Sage

Good sex. A fiancee whom I love dearly and friends who adore me. Who could ask for more?

__________________
If only closed minds came with closed mouths.
Minds are like parachutes, they function best when open.
It`s Easier to Change a Condom Than a Diaper
Yes, the rumors are true... I actually AM a Witch.

shesus

I'm grateful for good friends, a supportive family, and the end of 2006.

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Whatever did happen to your soul?
I heard you sold it

Choose Heaven for the weather and Hell for the company

Drider_it

My wife, my oldest son, my oldest daughter, my next oldest son .. and our twins.. boy and a girl

Our house that we have a place to live

A working mini van that has ac lol and a cd player.

I have a job ive stuck to my guns with for over a year now

and good health all around

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It means only one thing, and everything: Cut. Once committed to fight, Cut. Everything else is secondary. Cut. That is your duty, your purpose, your hunger. There is no rule more important, no commitment that overrides that one. Cut. The lines are a portrayal of the dance. Cut from the void, not from bewilderment. Cut the enemy as quickly and directly as possible. Cut with certainty. Cut decisively, resoultely. Cut into his strength. Flow through the gaps in his guard. Cut him. Cut him down utterly. Don't allow him a breath. Crush him. Cut him without mercy to the depth of his spirit. It is the balance to life: death. It is the dance with death. It is the law a war wizard lives by, or he dies.

ironpham

After going through 2 weeks if pure hell, I've found out that I have some of the greatest friends anyone could ask for. I'm thankful of being able to spend time with some of them on New Years Eve. Greatest. New Years. Ever.

Lady Sage

Cats. Those wonderful creatures that make life seem a little more livable when it seems like it is going straight to hell.

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If only closed minds came with closed mouths.
Minds are like parachutes, they function best when open.
It`s Easier to Change a Condom Than a Diaper
Yes, the rumors are true... I actually AM a Witch.

assilem

Today I am grateful for the good side of mankind and the generosity that has gotten me through the last couple of weeks.

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The mother of mankind, what time his pride
Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host
Of rebel Angels

Lady Sage

Being able to sleep in.

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If only closed minds came with closed mouths.
Minds are like parachutes, they function best when open.
It`s Easier to Change a Condom Than a Diaper
Yes, the rumors are true... I actually AM a Witch.

amonkie

What sage said ... after staying up to look at the stars through a telescope and watching the sun come up.

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Calling from deep in the heart, from where the eyes can't see and the ears can't hear, from where the mountain trails end and only love can go... ~~~ Three Rivers Hare Krishna

pan6467

Making Dean's list, a job I love and a woman that understands and loves me.

__________________
I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"

mixedmedia

Having gotten to bed at 1am instead of 2am....oy vey.

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

abaya

Being contentedly married and cohabiting (at last!) with my husband. The prospect of an exciting move in the coming months. And having a good length of downtime to recuperate and get balanced again, after a long time of feeling out of whack.

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And think not you can direct the course of Love;
for Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
--Khalil Gibran

Lady Sage

The people I can count on to be there for me when I need them.

__________________
If only closed minds came with closed mouths.
Minds are like parachutes, they function best when open.
It`s Easier to Change a Condom Than a Diaper
Yes, the rumors are true... I actually AM a Witch.

pan6467

Being me, silly, obscure, abstract, predictable in my unpredictability, smiling cause my soul is and laughing because life is a grand joke and we never find out the punchline until death.... or is it because I am just totally nuts?

__________________
I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"

Meditrina

Today I am grateful for my excessively warm office. Everyone else is wearing sweaters and using heaters at their desk, while I am basking in the sun that comes through the window.

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"Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles." ~Alex Karras

snowy

Waking up to a repeat of last night's Daily Show with Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs on it for an interview! Yay! I love Mike Rowe.

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If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Angel

Finally making it back here to TFP... (thanks Halx)

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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.
~Albert Camus

uncle phil

angel...i'm grateful that you're back...

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

mixedmedia

My new chair for my computer desk....ahhhh, such comfort.

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

CookieCutter

Today I am grateful for opportunities, even if I don't take full advantage of them.