Thanks!

TAB & Harry watching the big game

This morning, in no particular order, I’m wicked thankful for the following:

1) Today marks the day, 35 years ago, that I left my parents house and moved to Boston. I took an overnight bus, arriving the morning after Thanksgiving. My buddy Craig picked me up at the Trailways Bus station and put me up (maybe I mean “put up with me”) for a couple weeks until I found a job and an apartment.

Thank you Craig!

2) The Amazing Bob baked the most amazing apple pie yesterday. I’m about to have a piece for brekkie. YUM! He’s making pumpkin pie later. And he’s made cookies!

I LOVE (mondo understatement here) that TAB’s health and energy have gotten so much better that he’s baking again.

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3) My trike—DAMN I’m happy about this beast! Yesterday, I went for a wildly epic ride. It was about 45º, sunny and there was very little wind. Perfect. Today it’ll be partly cloudy and in the mid 50s. Splendido! Obvs there will be a post food fest ride.

4) The McMurrer Fam Turkey Fest will be next door at Jen and Oni’s after all. What this means is that I’ll slide next door for a round of hugs, convo and vino—just enough socializing to make me feel all happy and warm but not so much that I feel utterly swamped (lipreading—exhausting, motherfucking work, don’cha know).

5) The Grands. We won’t see them today BUT I’m thrilled to bits that we can see them as often as we do.

This is because…

6) My baby-sweetie Helen and fam live in upstate New York. That's home now—a mere four hour drive. YEA! Dallas, where they lived previously, wasn't even in this solar system. I'm pretty sure of that.

7) The Amazing Bob’s most awesome son, The Green Miles, lives in Southern Massachusetts, a piffling 90 minutes away. He moved up from D.C. a few years back. YEA!

8) I stopped by a coffee shop the other day, just to slay some time while waiting for a shop to open. The caffeine pusher, when I arrived at the counter, started rattling, rápidamente, a whole bunch of words. All I could do was laugh and say “Whoa Duuude, I’m deaf and missed every last little thing you just fast talked.” Know how he responded? He smoothly, fluently, amazing and wonderfully repeated everything IN ASL! I was blown away.

I’m thankful when people “speak” my adopted language.

9) We’re coming up on the 13th anniversary of our move to Valhalla from Cambridge. Yeah sure, sometimes we miss living in town but...HELLO, Mister Ocean.

Aaahhhhhhh, ocean. I am so mindbendingly happy that we (TAB, Oni, Jen, me, Skitter, Thelma, Rocco and Coco) get to live here.

10) Lastly I’m très grateful for my friends and family. They are, blissfully, too numerous to name in this blog post so I’ll just leave at this:

You know who you are. I can’t adequately express my appreciation for all your warm, caring company through good times and bad. MOLTO fucking grazie!

So then, that’s my list for this morning. What are you especially, truly thankful for today?