Tales of Li'l Foot

I am thankful today that I made it thru NaBloPoMo and posted every single day for this month.  This one….right here…November!  Only half a day left in NaBloPoMo competition and I have done it.  How psyched am I?  This is awesome.  Holy Cow! I can’t believe it.  Can you?  Because I can’t. I thought for sure I’d fail somewhere along the way. And I didn’t.  Sometimes I even shock myself.  Like right now for instance and every other day within this month.  And not only did I post every day this month but I joined the thankful group within NaBloPoMo and found 30 plus things I am thankful for.  

A note about the thankful posting? I noticed on many other sites I read who also were part of the 30 days of thanks group that they posted short one liners at the end of their daily posts for the things they were thankful for…It didn’t even occur to me to post my thankfulness that way.  I wrote entire posts for the entire month of things I was thankful for.  Maybe I should’ve done it the other way, but I’m glad I did it the way I did because it really made me think about the people in my life I am thankful for and memories I have with them.  So for that I’m thankful I did the thankful posts the way I did.

Posting about the people in my life, my friends, my family really brought my sentimental side out of the attic, made me dust that old sentiment off and make nice with it and remember how much I am a sap at heart.  Lately I’ve been feeling like working in the city has made me hard, tough, desensitized.  I’ve had a few run ins on the street with really rude pedestrians and it has made me lash back at them.  And that’s just not me.  Not who I want to be.  I hate that I lashed back, but in the city you have to be tough and fight back.  I have to be thankful I have a job but I don’t have to like what the city does to a person.  I was there when the towers fell, I saw the 2nd plane hit, I saw both towers fall and I saw how New Yorkers became less hard afterwards…on the trains, on the streets, everywhere they were nice (generally nice enough).  And for that 5 minutes that NYers had some sort of respect and and compassion for their fellow human I could live with that.  What’s that you say?  You ask what’s the but?  Well, but of course, there’s always a but…duh!  But I’ve also seen NYers forget their manners.  The initial we-all-need-to-coexist-and-unite sting wore off within moments of 9/11 and NYers are back to their old ways.  People don’t hold doors for anyone anymore, people push, people curse at one another, people in any way you can imagine are rude and mean.  Mean people suck! Make a note of it.

WOW…holy tangent I just went off on.  Can you tell I have bigger thjings on my mind.  Those things may mean removing myself from the mean people, I can’t elaborate right now…draw whatever conclusion you wish at this point.  Further details will follow.

Anyway, as I was saying, I can’t thank NaBloPoMo and the 30 days of Thanks group enough for this opportunity.  It really made me think each and every day this month about what I am most thankful for, the people in my life.  I know I didn’t get to everyone in my life that I am thankful for (I merely scratched the surface), but I have a solution to that and it involves you…yes you, sitting there all comfy with that cup of coffee or white mocha (hi MP) or that well deserved glass of wine, or that loooooooooong neck bottle of something sudsy after this loooooongest week after a holiday ever!  I have come to the decision to continue working the thankful aspect.  From here on out Thursdays (in memory of Thanksgiving being on a Thursday) will be my Thankful post day. Every Thursday from here on out I will focus on what makes me thankful in my life.  And how does that effect you…my fabulous reader(s)?  Well, each Thursday you will have the opportunity to join me and tell me what you’re thankful for in your life in my comments section…and on top of that you have the opportunity to ask me throughout the week what I am specifically thankful for such as “What boyfriend that I’ve dated am I thankful I didn’t wind up with?” or “What childhood memory am I thankful I have remembered?” or you know something like those.  Anything you want to know, I’ll write about it.  I can’t imagine/wait to hear what you all come up with.  But I really love the idea of dragging you into giving you the opportunity to get in touch with your inner thankfulness by commenting on Thursdays to tell me.  Doesn’t that sound like fun?  Maybe we should practice so we’re ready for next week?  So go ahead, don’t be shy, dig deep and leave a comment telling me what you are thankful for.  I can’t wait to hear what you’ve got.

So that is what I am thankful for.  I am thankful for NaBloPoMo and the 30 days of Thanks group and being able to get back in touch with my sensitive side.  In the words of Ty Pennington, I guess there’s just one last thing to say Welcome Home sensitivity, welcome home….and…Thank you NaBloPoMo, Thank you!!!!

I HEART NaBloPoMo!