Thank you for Humor (33)

Thank you that I have an incredibly dry sense of humor that allows me to enjoy British comedies.

Thank you that I do not enjoy slapstick, and instead prefer sarcastic comedies, or droll lines. 

Thank you that I can write one liners well.

Thank you that I get to laugh at myself all the time.

Thank you that I have a strong strong appreciation for irony. But not in the hipster way where I seek it out.  Thank you so much that I am not really a hipster.  Thank you that apathy is not my cup of tea.  

Thank you that I enjoy satire way more than I probably should.

Thank you for "If your parents don't have kids, chances are you won't either."

Thank you for Jeremy Lavine and his terrible essay on El Nino.

Thank you for Peter Nyguen, and all of his terrible essays.  

Thank you for the way humor things never stop bringing me joy.

Thank you for humor that relies on cleverness and wit.

Thank you that there are so many different brands of humor.  

Thank you that everyone's sense of humor is a little different.

Thank you that God has a sense of humor.

Thank you that sometimes I can find the walls themselves funny.

Thank you that humor is so reshareable.  

Thank you that we can find things funny more than once.  We can laugh at the same movie more than just one time.

Thank you for the way different people laugh.

Thank you for the way that different people have d ifferent smiles and they are al their own and they are all beautiful.

Thank you that there are no ugly smiles.

Thank you that I am still young enough that I could be proven wrong on the whole "there are no ugly smiles" bit.

Thank you that words themesleves can make people laugh.

Thank you that if you stare at anything long enough, it can become funny.

Thank you that life is funny

Thank you that people can even find hard things funny.

Thank you that when people find hard things funny they become easier to deal with.

Thank you for the argument clinic.

Thank you for Monty Python

Thank you for Divine Comedy 

Thank you for humor that is not obscene.

Thank you for the humor found in the most unlikely scenarios.

Thank you for Children (30)

Thank you for the little kids who know what they want, right off the bat and just keep on wanting it.  

Thank you for the little kids who grow into teenagers, who grow into adults who still have the same dream.

Thank you for the little kids who grow into adults who are pleasantly surprised and do amazing things.

Thank you for the way the twins taught me that I can choose the right, choose the wrong, or choose the regular.

Thank you for the way that the twins Sammy and Alayna jumped off the couch, hit their head said "That wasn't too bad," and then did it again.

Thank you for Alayna Philip.

Thank you for the way little kids are so accepting of others.

Thank you for green bouncy balls that may or may not contain the WhoUniverse and little girls who believe the Grinch lives inside them.

Thank you for little kid talk.  Little kid talk is seriously the best.

Thank you for twins.

Thank you for three year olds who are overly opinionated and hate all girls because girls kiss.

Thank you for tiny kids with british accents.

Thank you for nursery.

Thank you that little children like me.

Thank you that they are overly demonstrative in a great way.

Thank you for the way sometimes a little child can be the best example in the universe.

Thank you for the way that sometimes you get it right the very first time.

Thank you for the little kids who are saddled with crazy parents, who give their child crazy names, who live with those names with very impressive grace under pressure.

Thank you for those little kids who are great to their parents.

Thank you that the children who are not accepting and kind to others have the time to learn.

Thank you for the way that a child can watch the same movie, over and over and over and over again.

Thank you for the way a child can be so patient and impatient all within the same second.

Thank you for the way a child will just grab an adult's hand.  Even adults that they do not know well.

Thank you for children who do not know how to love impurely.

Thank you for the children who have more faith than anyone and do not even realize it.

Thank you for the children like me who fear growing up.

Thank you for the childlike sense of wonder that doesn't have to necessarily exist only in a child.

Thank you for a child's presumptiveness.

Thank you for a child's playfulness.

Thank you for a childlike sense of wonder and mystery.
 

Thank you for Dancing (30)

Thank you for dancing

Thank you for anything that can inspire a girl to move.

Thank you for So You Think You Can Dance, and how beautiful the choreography often is.  Thank you that I can bond with my family while watching something so so pretty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBk3ynRbtsw This. Just this.Thank you that someone made this thing, and that I somehow stumbled upon it.

Thank you for the livingroom routine in Perks of Being a Wallflower.

Thank you for the way that dancers can express themselves without any words at all, and when we try to express their dance in words, it doesn't quite connect.

Thank you that we can think in both movement and language.  Thank you that we do not have to know both languages, but we all do anyway.

Thank you for the girls who spin in those long 50s style skirts.

Thank you for lifts.  When a man lifts a woman, I think this is the prettiest, most glorious thing ever.

Thank you for flexibility and endurance.

Thank you for Kassi Struk, and all she has done for dancing and for me.

Thank you so much for the dancers that I know and that inspire me.

Thank you that there are choreographers, who cannot dance, but see their work presented locally to a smaller budget and are touched anyway. Thank you for what this means to them.

Thank you for my intense burning desire to learn how to do this.

Thank you for the way that dancing gives energy.

Thank you for how you do not have to dance well to enjoy dancing.

Thank you for when people are home alone and can dance at their leisure.

Thank you for how many different kinds of dancing there are.

Thank you for the way that fighting can be a kind of dance, and dance can be a kind of fight.

Thank you for the way that there are word dances, and dancing around issues and all kinds of other dance things.

Thank you that dancing is not just confined to dancing.

Thank you that different kinds of music inspire different kinds of dancing.

Thank you that the same repetitive dance move can still bring joy.

Thank you for all the people who cannot dance, and therefore do not judge dancing.

Thank you for the people who can dance, and choose not to judge dancing anyway.

Thank you for crazy loud dance parties that turn out to be more fun than you think.

Thank you for the way dancers can dance alone or with a partner and still be profound.

Thank you for the way dancers know another language that isn't language, and feelings that aren't expressed in words.

Thank you for the powerful pairing of movement, sound, and emotion.

Thank you for Writing (31)

Thank you that I write about trauma rather than really experience it. Sometimes.

Thank you that I can grasp a little of what a father feels, even though I will never be a father. Thank you that I will never be a father.

Thank you for RP.  It has brought me so much joy, and allowed me to connect with people I normally wouldn't get to connect with.

Thank you for my writing soulmates.  Thank you for when we plot epic epic things into the night and I'm so excited I can't sleep.

Thank you that my writing gives me something to sleep to at night.

Thank you that it fulfills me.

Thank you that my writing has been making me happy this past semester.

Thank you that writing has given me a newfound appreciation for Eris, goddess of strife, and Captain Hook.  Thank you that I get to write the Evil Queeen. It is a great opportunity.

Thank you that I can write good first drafts.

Thank you that I can produce elegant executions when I have the idea.

Thank you that the idea often comes eventually.

Thank you for all of my characters. 

Thank you that I can write character well.

Thank you that my style keeps changing, and refining itself.

Thank you that I write in my sleep.

Thank you for the way my dreams inspire me to write.

Thank you for the comfort that my writing provides.

Thank you for all the people who know more about writing than I do, and who are willing to share.

Thank you for the writing conferences my brother attends with me.

Thank you for many mediums I can use to write.

Thank you for the difference between writing and prose.

Thank you that I can write comedy and drama.

Thank you that I keep getting better.

Thank you that I can use this talent in so many different ways.

Thank you that writers are always needed.

Thank you for the creative native of writing.

Thank you for the way it transports you to another world.

Thank you for the way inspiration for writing can strike at any moment.

Thank you that it often picks the odd ones.

Thank you for Technology (30)

Thank you for tumblr.  Even though I lose my life in it too much.  I get to see all kinds of epic things that I would never normally be able to see.

Thank you so much for blogs. Thank you that I can be taught by super professional people without them ever meeting me or knowing how much they've taught me.

Thank you for online recipe databases.  Books are heavy.  It is nice to just have the recipes right where you can always get them without carrying them.

Thank you for music players. They make exercise so much more enjoyable and allow you to have music anywhere.

Thank you so much for electricity.  I cannot live without the stuff anymore. That is how great it is.

Thank you so much for the people who update things regularly, or who post the news online.

Thank you for the kind people who make Wikipedia accurate and fun.

Thank you for the kind people who make beautiful graphics and then post them online.

Thank you for the people who know how to make magical beautiful CSS graphics.

Thank you for indoor plumbing.

Thank you for heating.

Thank you for air conditioning.

Thank you for laptops.

Thank you for the internet.

Thank you the way we come up with better technology all of the time.

Thank you for the technology that saves lives.

Thank you for the technology that saves money.

Thank you for the way that technology can unite people.

Thank you for the people behind the technology.

Thank you for the way technology gives time.  We only think about the way it wastes it, but sometimes it gives time too.

Thank you for the way it allows nerds to flourish.

Thank you for cellphones.

Thank you for toasters and ovens.

Thank you for vaccuums

Thank you that they keep coming up with new, innovative cleaning supplies.

Thank you for the way technology fights germs.

Thank you for the way technology helps us find our way to other technology.

Thank you that the motives behind most technology are pure.

Thank you for the way people get so much enjoyment out of new technology and speculating about new technology

Thank you for the way technology allows you to live a higher quality of life.

Thank you for Teachers (18)

Thank you for teachers

Thank you for Br. Samuelson.

Thank you for Br. Allen

Thank you for Br. Williams

Thank you for Br. Cameron

Thank you for Br. Harrell

Thank you for Br. Allison

Thank you for Mr. Blackham.  He threw squishies at people and was a little too interested in how awesome his four year old was.  And he ordered wingers during class one time.  And he said there was something to be said for people who complain but do the work anyway.

Thank you for Mr. Becker.  He believed in me. He inspired me.  He let me ride on his motorcycle.

Thank you for Mr. Pease, and his sandals with socks and his way of teaching history while Mrs. Nelson taught English in Ash, and his quirky sense of humor, and the way he cared about people.

Thank you for Mr. Keller, and his government class, with his sweet sense of humor and his aluminum foil ball.

Thank you for Mrs. McPhearson, and the way she supported me in the fifth grade.

Thank you for Mrs. Peterson, and the ways she was such a sweet kindergarten teacher.

Thank you for Mrs. Larsen, my first grade teacher, and how she inspired me to read.

Thank you for Ms. Howard and how kind she was in the fourth grade, even though I often fell asleep during the math portion.

Thank you for Mrs. Clark, and for the bit of mercy she showed me in the seventh grade when I was late to math class once and she did not mark me down.

Thank you for the day Mr. Waddell gave me his coat.

Thank you for my Russian teacher, Br. Felt, and how he emailed me once when he wasn't sure I was getting enough rest.  And how he recommended his dentist for a root canal. 

Thank you for Parents (19)

Thank you for parents

Thank you that my father loves to give. Thank you for his big and generous heart.

Thank you for all the sacrifices that my parents have made for me.

Thank you that they want me to succeed and are willing to give anything they can to help me get there.

Thank you that I have two parents.

Thank you that I have both a mother and a father.

Thank you that both of my parents love me completely.

Thank you that they have tried to create such a great life for me.

Thank you for the times when I remember these things and just stand in a moment of awe.  Thank you that these times have started happening more frequently the older I get.

Thank you for my mother's love of children.

Thank you that my mother read me stories and my father told me stories.

Thank you that they try to help me sleep when we go on vacation.

Thank you for the way they put up with me, even when I am being difficult, and hard to put up with.

Thank you that they try to bring me every good thing that they can.

Thank you that my father watches movies with me.

Thank you that my mother tries to talk to me and be there for me.

Thank you for when we are driving in the car together, and we are talking, and it is just pleasant and nice.

Thank you for when my mother calls me on the phone.

Thank you for the care packages she sends that remind me I am loved.

Thank you for the Strange (30)

Thank you for mirrors. They are really weird, and pretty.  I do not know how they work, and so they can just be beautiful.

Thank you for Alexander Hamilton.  Thank you that somehow I love him like a friend across time, and that I was so terribly sad when I read about his death in a duel in history books.

Thank you for Ripley's Believe it or Not

Thank you for Fear Factor

Thank you for when things that should not work, work.

 Thank you for when broken things randomly start working again.

Thank you for windows.

Thank you for staircases.

Thank you for horses.

Thank you for the way stress sometimes produces good results.

Thank you for the times when you just barely make it.

Thank you for strange, bizarre sights.

Thank you for sound of cracking ice.

Thank you for the smell of cement.

Thank you for tables.

Thank you for runner's high.

Thank you for leaves crunching under foot.

Thank you for water.

Thank you for this blog.

Thank you for pretty celebrities.

Thank you for the magic in the woods behind my house.

 Thank you for the way when someone finds something strange they want to share it immediately.

Thank you for oddly shaped cups.

Thank you for novelties

Thank you for websites that sell odd memorabilia.

Thank you for funny t shirts.

Thank you for sleep.

Thank you for clicker bugs.

Thank you for Television (21)

Thank you for television shows

Thank you that Community makes me feel like I'm a part of one.

Thank you for the love I feel for the characters and the way that I can get invested in their lives.

Thank you that they let me in, all the time.  Thank you that I can appreciate this.

Thank you for Doctor Who

Thank you for Gilmore Girls.

Thank you for how fun it is to watch tv shows with my roommates

Thank you for Psych.

Thank you for the way television shows bring me and my sisters together.

Thank you for the way I can bond with my brother and father with television shows too.

Thank you for British comedies like IT Crowd.

Thank you for British dramadies like Last of the Summer Wine.

Thank you for scripted television shows.

Thank you for fun mindless game shows like Wipeout sometimes.

Thank you for Pushing Daisies and other shows I feel like I could write for.

Thank you for the first season of Once. And Captain Hook in Season 2.  And Belle, I guess.

Thank you for the promise that characters have in television.

Thank you for how dynamic a character can be across seasons.

Thank you for arcs.

Thank you for Hart of Dixie

Thank you for new good television.

Thank you for Movies (41)

Thank you for movies

Thank you for the way that people up here bond over Disney movies.

Thank you for The Big Year

Thank you for Joe vs the Volcano

Thank you for Waitress

Thank you for Perks of Being a Wallflower.

Thank you for Jurassic Park

Thank you for faithful book adaptations.

Thank you for Les Mis

Thank you for Rise of the Guardians

Thank you for Breakfast at Tiffanys

Thank you for Breakfast Club

Thank you for Pitch Perfect

Thank you for clever movie titles.

Thank you for House of the Flying Dagger.

Thank you for Hero

Thank you for the Brothers Bloom

Thank you for the way you feel things when you see an actors expression or actions that does not translate in literature the same way.

Thank you for the power of visuals combined with the power of words

Thank you for movies that allow you to smile for an hour afterwards.

Thank you for the way movies can unite people.

Thank you for movies worth quoting.

Thank you for movie cammeradie

Thank you for dvd dowries.

Thank you for soundtracks.

Thank you for epic movie scores.

Thank you for Harvey

Thank you for Bringing up Baby

Thank you for Monkey Business

Thank you for Big Fish.

Thank you that my mind can change about movies

Thank you for classics

Thank you for movies that have strong writing

Thank you for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Thank you for movies that make you FEEL

Thank you for Casablanca

Thank you for movies that make you think.

Thank you for movies I can't make my mind up about.

Thank you for strange movies.

Thank you for fluffy laughfests.

Thank you for thrillers.

Thank you for Books (15)

Thank you for books

Thank you for The Great Gatsby.

Thank you for Mark Twain.

Thank you for Terry Pratchett.

Thank you for Lemony Snicket.

Thank you that those authors make me feel like I'm less alone in the universe.

Thank you for Jonathan Swift

Thank you for the Life of Pi

Thank you for Peace Like a River

Thank you for The Road

Thank you for my new love of nonfiction.

Thank you for my new love of cooking books.

Thank you for my ability to read faster.

Thank you for the different styles of prose.

Thank you for Puddin Head Wilson's epilogue.

Thank you for Places (10)

Thank you for places.

Thank you for Ireland.

Thank you for England.

Thank you for New Hampshire.

Thank you for Boston.

Thank you for aquariums.

Thank you for zoos.

Thank you for historically preserved places.

Thank you for the liberty van.

Thank you for the people you encounter everywhere.

Thank you for beautiful Catholic chapels.

Thank you for green hills.

Thank you for mountains.

Thank you for the ocean.

Thank you for places I have never been, but will go to someday.

Thank you for Cultures (10)

Thank you for cultures

Thank you that each culture is a little different but still beautiful.

Thank you that they inspire people to try new things.

Thank you that accents are so so so appealing and wonderful to listen to.

Thank you that each culture has a different kind of food.  That is so so so fun.

Thank you that no matter what culture it is, or how different it is from another, people can still find a way to connect.

Thank you that there are so many different cultures.

Thank you that you can encounter a new culture by walking ten feet sometimes.

Thank you for the people who are open to different cultures.

Thank you for people who are willing to share their cultures.

Thank you for Friends (10)

Thank you for that one girl who tried to play me like a guitar.

Thank you for the sweet cupcake syrup sprinkle honey in her voice.

Thank you for the way that Dani Rose says Yeahhhhhhh, and smiles really big.

Thank you for the freckles on Dani Rose’s nose.

Thank you for Mythella. She is a beautiful and vibrant soul, and I hope that she is happy forever.

Thank you for Kylee from kindergarten.  Thank you that I remember the ponytail on the side of her head, and the way that she wanted to be a vet even then.  And she still does. That is beautiful.

Thank you for the way friends do their best to love unconditionally when they feel in their hearts that there should be conditions.

Thank you for Andi's sweet apologies.

Thank you for the craziness and insanity of friends.