Since it's almost Thanksgiving, what blog would be complete without an entry about what I'm thankful for.
Do you actually do this? Do you actually give thanks on Thanksgiving? Is that part of your tradition?
In my family we do it a little different. We give out awards to the person who did the dumbest or most embarrassing thing that year.
We make it fun. And then we can all be thankful we're not the one who won the award.
Last year my wife won the award. It's good that she has a sense of humor because otherwise she'd never survive in my family.
She won the award for this incident that happened while we were on vacation.
We were staying at a hotel and we'd rented a maroon car. While I was waiting with our daughter for the valet to bring it around, my wife went into the lobby to grab some brochures.
She walks back out and zones in on a maroon car that had just been brought up front. I watched her walk over to it, and jump in the passenger seat.
It was not our car. We were still standing there to the side and she didn't see us. And she was so engrossed in her brochures, she wasn't paying attention.
Apparently she got in the car and asked the woman (who had long dark hair like me) So where are we going to go today?
The woman gave her a frightened sort of look and asked her, do I know you?
This is when my wife realized she was in the wrong car. And that the driver was a woman and not me. (That hurts the old ego that she made that mistake in the first place....)
She jumped out of the car and apologized quite a lot to the scared woman who thought she was being carjacked by a crazy lady who wanted to visit MGM Studios.
I've never laughed so hard in my entire life. And this is the story that won Melanie the high honor at Thanksgiving last year.
I'm not sure who will win this year. That's part of the excitement. I've got a few nominees but I'm keeping them under wraps.
So in this blog, I'd like to take a minute to give thanks instead. Since we don't do this at home.
I am seriously thankful for:
- My family
- My relative sanity
- My health and the health of everyone I love
- My faith
- My inner peace
I am superficially thankful for:
- My computer with high speed internet access
- My cars
- My cameras
- Really good wine
- Tivo
- My iPod because now I always have music wherever I go
So what about you? What sorts of things are you thankful for? Seriously or not so seriously. And do you have any off the wall Thanksgiving traditions you'd like to share?
