Thankful for...
My parents
For being a "secure base" (yeah-attachment has taken over my life), for always telling me how much they love me and how proud they are of me, for supporting me in everything I do, and for just being amazing parents in general
My sisters and Brian
"A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost." For letting me act like I'm 10...for making me proud of all the amazing things they do...for making sure I know I'm still loved even though I'm the non-Cornellian and whatnot. For letting me live with you and for letting me hang out with your friends. For being generally amazing and loving and making me smile and supporting me in everything. For being the best sisters I could ever ask for...
Regardless
"it's hard to find someone who will love you no matter what. i was lucky enough to find three." For square and regardless and yellow ribbon and olives and cookies and e-mails and chat rooms and support through everything and listening to me complain and generally putting up with me.
IOEA
For San Diego and random e-mails and girls' nights and shopping and dinners and no boundaries and being blunt and making me laugh and smile when I'm having a horrible day. For being "sisters" and listening to me complain and being sarcastic and letting the youngin' stick around with you all this time.
Hovey Buddies
I miss my Hovey Buddies (and extended-including Ry and Amy and whatnot) like crazy. College would not have been college without them. For puckers and trampolines and Love Actually and Elf and handymen and spider killers and weddings and study parties and crappy TV and ice cream and birthday parties and so much more. For being the best roommates I could ask for...
The Boys
For putting up with my bitterness and my bitchiness and still being there when I really need you. For giving me perspective on things. For making me feel loved. For making me laugh...all the time. For being my gay best friend. For telling me every detail. For letting me ramble to you. For understanding that I don't always make sense. For still being you. For being BAMFA.
GG girls/SCB
For Deep Fried Korean Thanksgiving and chocolate cake and gossip and eating and laughing and sharing and Jess vs. Dean and chasing Mocha and coffee and errands and fun.
Hebrew School Girls
For memories from preschool and Camp Tikvah, OSRUI, Hebrew school, retreats, BTTY, and more. For Barbies and passing notes and dances and services and Bat Mitzvah's and keeping in touch through it all.
N-Unit
For adopting me into your apartment. For star gazing and Chuckee Cheese and Fat Jack's and limos and shopping. For driving to Champaign to meet me for breakfast early on a Saturday. For facebook messages and text messages and entertainment and being amazing.
Atkin 6
For all the memories, for yahoo group e-mails and updates and memories and rice krispie treats and floor dinners. For White Christmas and formals and crocheting and floor t-shirts.
SACers
For all the memories and #1 floats and school spirit and organization and productivity and fun and SAC Smacks and the fight song and picnics and green monkeys and much much more.
Up Til Dawn-ers
For helping me do something worthwhile. For helping me realize how amazing St. Jude is...For Memphis trips and fake names and fundraising and jello wrestling and t-shirts and hoodies and road trips.
Hillel-ers
For entertaining me and welcoming me even when I stopped coming so often and randomly checking in and putting up with me when I was going crazy as President a few years ago.
Developmental-ies
Lucky to have girls I get along with so well who are in all my classes and can complain with me and distract me and send e-mails and play yahoo games and help with homework and throw wine parties and give feedback on papers and make me feel like I'm not alone in the craziness that is grad school.
Labbies
For making the gazillion hours I spend in the lab bearable. For entertaining me with stories and helping me get crap done and comments about hating random things and discussing TV and coding interact and enjoying two-daddy families and noodles n co. and happy hours.
Roommates
For being nice and clean and putting up with me and baking and sharing movies and inviting me places and making me feel less alone.
Uncategorized :oP
For all of you that didn't fit under one of those headings (Nicole, Megan, Melissa, Zajicek, Rachel Poulin, Stacey, Kristine, Conant kids and ISU kids I randomly hear from on IM or see when I'm home and more...but those were the people I could think of that might actually read this sometime :oP)...For late-night catch-up conversations, for Since You Been Gone, for mac and cheese and witches and worm hunts and growing up together, for making me feel important, for depending on me, for teaching me life lessons, for memories and support and keeping in touch. For being my friend.
Professors
For recommendation letters and supporting me and teaching me and mentoring me. For sometimes making me feel like I'm less than an idiot. For inspiring me. For realizing everyone makes mistakes sometimes. For recognizing the work I put into things.
Rachel
For inspiring me daily. For reminding me what's important in life. For motivating me to get involved in things like Make-A-Wish and Up Til Dawn. For having gone all out in everything you ever did. For biore pore cleanser and waffle houses and 'do you do that' and surprise parties and decorations and boy stories and doing hair and so many memories. For making sure we all knew how much you cared.
Friends' parents/Aunts/Uncles/Grandparents
For random cards and updates and IMs and e-mails and calls and support. For making me feel like I am/was an important part of your daughter's life. For telling me how proud you are of me.
And SO much more.
But I realize it's mostly the people that make it.
The things...are mostly because of people: picture frames and scrapbooks to remind me of the memories with these people, internet so I can keep in touch with all these people, Gilmore Girls and Grey's...which I love to talk to people about, traveling with and to people I love, cards, letters, and packages to and from friends...
And then there are the little things: coffee, nice weather, quotes, reading for fun, chick flicks, Disney movies, hoodies, all the little things that we often take for granted that can make any day brighter...
Just good to remind myself every once in awhile. I know I'm lucky-and I'm reminded every time I get a random IM or text or card or e-mail from someone who makes me smile and makes my day a little brighter. I'm thankful that I think I've found the right path for me-that grad school's challenging and stressful, but it's something that I really care about and think is the right thing for me. And while going along this path, the people I love make everything worth it. And reminding myself not to take it all for granted...and to thank all of you whenever I can...is what Thanskgiving is all about, right? Corny, I know. But I figure I don't update lj too often-might as well make it worth something.
So, thank you!!! I love you.
For being a "secure base" (yeah-attachment has taken over my life), for always telling me how much they love me and how proud they are of me, for supporting me in everything I do, and for just being amazing parents in general
My sisters and Brian
"A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost." For letting me act like I'm 10...for making me proud of all the amazing things they do...for making sure I know I'm still loved even though I'm the non-Cornellian and whatnot. For letting me live with you and for letting me hang out with your friends. For being generally amazing and loving and making me smile and supporting me in everything. For being the best sisters I could ever ask for...
Regardless
"it's hard to find someone who will love you no matter what. i was lucky enough to find three." For square and regardless and yellow ribbon and olives and cookies and e-mails and chat rooms and support through everything and listening to me complain and generally putting up with me.
IOEA
For San Diego and random e-mails and girls' nights and shopping and dinners and no boundaries and being blunt and making me laugh and smile when I'm having a horrible day. For being "sisters" and listening to me complain and being sarcastic and letting the youngin' stick around with you all this time.
Hovey Buddies
I miss my Hovey Buddies (and extended-including Ry and Amy and whatnot) like crazy. College would not have been college without them. For puckers and trampolines and Love Actually and Elf and handymen and spider killers and weddings and study parties and crappy TV and ice cream and birthday parties and so much more. For being the best roommates I could ask for...
The Boys
For putting up with my bitterness and my bitchiness and still being there when I really need you. For giving me perspective on things. For making me feel loved. For making me laugh...all the time. For being my gay best friend. For telling me every detail. For letting me ramble to you. For understanding that I don't always make sense. For still being you. For being BAMFA.
GG girls/SCB
For Deep Fried Korean Thanksgiving and chocolate cake and gossip and eating and laughing and sharing and Jess vs. Dean and chasing Mocha and coffee and errands and fun.
Hebrew School Girls
For memories from preschool and Camp Tikvah, OSRUI, Hebrew school, retreats, BTTY, and more. For Barbies and passing notes and dances and services and Bat Mitzvah's and keeping in touch through it all.
N-Unit
For adopting me into your apartment. For star gazing and Chuckee Cheese and Fat Jack's and limos and shopping. For driving to Champaign to meet me for breakfast early on a Saturday. For facebook messages and text messages and entertainment and being amazing.
Atkin 6
For all the memories, for yahoo group e-mails and updates and memories and rice krispie treats and floor dinners. For White Christmas and formals and crocheting and floor t-shirts.
SACers
For all the memories and #1 floats and school spirit and organization and productivity and fun and SAC Smacks and the fight song and picnics and green monkeys and much much more.
Up Til Dawn-ers
For helping me do something worthwhile. For helping me realize how amazing St. Jude is...For Memphis trips and fake names and fundraising and jello wrestling and t-shirts and hoodies and road trips.
Hillel-ers
For entertaining me and welcoming me even when I stopped coming so often and randomly checking in and putting up with me when I was going crazy as President a few years ago.
Developmental-ies
Lucky to have girls I get along with so well who are in all my classes and can complain with me and distract me and send e-mails and play yahoo games and help with homework and throw wine parties and give feedback on papers and make me feel like I'm not alone in the craziness that is grad school.
Labbies
For making the gazillion hours I spend in the lab bearable. For entertaining me with stories and helping me get crap done and comments about hating random things and discussing TV and coding interact and enjoying two-daddy families and noodles n co. and happy hours.
Roommates
For being nice and clean and putting up with me and baking and sharing movies and inviting me places and making me feel less alone.
Uncategorized :oP
For all of you that didn't fit under one of those headings (Nicole, Megan, Melissa, Zajicek, Rachel Poulin, Stacey, Kristine, Conant kids and ISU kids I randomly hear from on IM or see when I'm home and more...but those were the people I could think of that might actually read this sometime :oP)...For late-night catch-up conversations, for Since You Been Gone, for mac and cheese and witches and worm hunts and growing up together, for making me feel important, for depending on me, for teaching me life lessons, for memories and support and keeping in touch. For being my friend.
Professors
For recommendation letters and supporting me and teaching me and mentoring me. For sometimes making me feel like I'm less than an idiot. For inspiring me. For realizing everyone makes mistakes sometimes. For recognizing the work I put into things.
Rachel
For inspiring me daily. For reminding me what's important in life. For motivating me to get involved in things like Make-A-Wish and Up Til Dawn. For having gone all out in everything you ever did. For biore pore cleanser and waffle houses and 'do you do that' and surprise parties and decorations and boy stories and doing hair and so many memories. For making sure we all knew how much you cared.
Friends' parents/Aunts/Uncles/Grandparents
For random cards and updates and IMs and e-mails and calls and support. For making me feel like I am/was an important part of your daughter's life. For telling me how proud you are of me.
And SO much more.
But I realize it's mostly the people that make it.
The things...are mostly because of people: picture frames and scrapbooks to remind me of the memories with these people, internet so I can keep in touch with all these people, Gilmore Girls and Grey's...which I love to talk to people about, traveling with and to people I love, cards, letters, and packages to and from friends...
And then there are the little things: coffee, nice weather, quotes, reading for fun, chick flicks, Disney movies, hoodies, all the little things that we often take for granted that can make any day brighter...
Just good to remind myself every once in awhile. I know I'm lucky-and I'm reminded every time I get a random IM or text or card or e-mail from someone who makes me smile and makes my day a little brighter. I'm thankful that I think I've found the right path for me-that grad school's challenging and stressful, but it's something that I really care about and think is the right thing for me. And while going along this path, the people I love make everything worth it. And reminding myself not to take it all for granted...and to thank all of you whenever I can...is what Thanskgiving is all about, right? Corny, I know. But I figure I don't update lj too often-might as well make it worth something.
So, thank you!!! I love you.