This is thanksgiving weekend, and its been a pretty good weekend for me. Thursday I only had to work 6 hours, which allowed me to be home with my parents for thanksgiving lunch before going to the hospital. Then I worked all day friday until 8 AM saturday, and had the rest of the weekend off, which I predominantly spent finishing decorating the christmas tree, watching football, doing my laundry and catching up on sleep.
One of the traditions my mom has for us with thanksgiving is to put 5 corn kernels on each plate, then have us go around and one by one talk about something we are thankful for and put a kernel into a bowl, passing the bowl around until all the kernels are deposited. So in the mood of thanksgiving I thought I'd list off the things that I was thankful for:
1. Becca - we have been apart for the majority of the last year and a half but have continued to keep our relationship growing stronger all the time, and she is a bigger part of my life now than ever before.
2. Parents - especially that I have been living close to them, had their support through my residency, and been able to participate in the events surrounding my grandparents deaths this past year.
3. Game Night - this may sound silly, but I have been very thankful for the way Erik, Joel, Gina and I have been able to keep in touch this past year through the time we spend together every week during our game nights.
4. Residency - I feel strongly that God has put me in the right program for me, and that over the past year and a half that I have been learning the things I need to know to be as good a doctor as I can be, both in medical knowledge and the other personal skills necessary.
5. The Buckeye victory over the hated school up north, and in honor of Erik, High powered stereo equipment - while I am seriously thankful for many ultimately more important things, I always feel its imporant to remember some of the less smaller things in life that can bring much more joy than they really should.
Its amazing sometimes when I sit down and think about it how many things I do have to be thankful for. On that line of thought, its lunch time and I probably should go demonstate my thankfulness for Mom's good cooking by eating.
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I'm thankful for game night too!! It really has been awesome that we can talk every Thursday and keep in contact. It makes the miles seem much shorter.
I am also thankful that we beat Michigan! Go Bucks!!
It is good that Becca came above high powered stereo equipment. :)
Go Buckeyes!
maybe you need to invest in some better stereo equipment, so that it could move up the list a bit. If you had a new Denon receiver I think that would have to rank at least 3 or 4.
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