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What season are you grateful for?

I’m sure this is asking about spring, summer, autumn, or winter, but I already blabbed about how much I love fall, so I’m going to say CHRISTMAS!

I love the Christmas season. I love the music, and the sights and sounds, the cold air, the tree, the lights, everything! I love using it to help me draw closer to Jesus and what His birth means to me and to mankind. I love learning about things like Advent and Hanukkah. I love baking the special things I have for my family each year. I love Christmas Day and I love the Twelve Days of Christmas.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, you know. Ha!

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What abilities are you thankful for?

I’m really glad I can write. It helps me express myself, especially since sometimes I find it hard to explain things verbally. I also like that I can act and sing a little. I enjoy performing.

I really like that I am good at resolving conflict. I think I do a good job keeping the peace with my family and friends. I seem to have a talent for empathizing and seeing things from other people’s point of view. At least most of the time.

I also like how I’m dang good at finding stuff on the Internet.

Ta-da

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What holiday are you thankful for?

All of them? Lolz.

Um…I guess Thanksgiving. I like going and seeing my dad’s family, and it’s the only time we do it. I also don’t have to cook, and that’s cool. And my mom and my sister’s family and mine go to this state park outside of my cousin’s town and we stay there for two nights and that is wonderful too. I look forward to it every year. Some holidays are hard to do but since I don’t have to cook much, Thanksgiving is pretty nice.

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What taste are you grateful for today?

Right now it is sour cream and onion chips because I just had that for lunch and it’s still in my teeth a little bit, and it still tastes nice.

Overall, I don’t know. I’m grateful for a lot of tastes. I like tasting different things, but who doesn’t, really?

Um…I like chocolate covered strawberries a whole lot…so I guess that?

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Okay, so it’s Nov. 20, lol.

My computer cord got severed in the recliner, but that only accounts for like three days of the time missed. It was just a busy time. It’s whatever.

What place are you most grateful for?

I guess my house. I like it here. It’s a cool house, even though I don’t like being here when it is messy. It’s a big, awesome, old house and even though it needs work, I like it an awful lot.

Also, you know, it houses my family and keeps us all warm and safe and dry and stuff. Ha.

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What book are you most grateful for?

I should probably say the Bible, and I suppose that it is true, because I believe it is truly the Word of God and that we should pay attention and follow it’s teachings. And when I read it, I do feel close to God. I read it every day, but I should read more. I don’t read much. I’ve read the entire thing twice, and the New Testament more than that, but I learn something new every time I open it, it seems like.

The book I am the second most grateful for is a book by Gene Neill called “I’m Gonna Bury You.” It was given to me when I was teenager, and I kept it for years. It’s not my regular type of book but it is very important to me. It has also taught me many things about life and I feel very connected to the author when I read it. It makes me want to be a better person, and to be closer to God in every way.

I could also mention that I’m thankful for the first book I wrote, Pairs, even though it’s not published or anything. It was the book that made me realize that I could actually write and finish a novel, and I will always be grateful for that. I hope I can get it to a point where it can be published one day. I would love to share it with the world.

NaNo Days 6 and 7 and 8

I wrote exactly two words before midnight on Day 6, in an effort to write something every day.

I didn’t write anything yesterday, and I doubt I will today.

In my defense, I did have a lot of stuff going on yesterday – two appointments and critique group. So I had to drive to the city early and then come home and get everything ready for critique group, plus deal with the small people that live here, and then I had to go to the city again in the evening.

Today…didn’t have as much to do. But I’m still having a hard time getting back into writing. I haven’t been able to write very much since early in 2016. I want to get back into my work but it’s just not working. My mind is other places – sometimes good, sometimes less so.

I’m still planning on writing tomorrow. Even though I have to take the smallest one to an eye doctor appointment and then there’s probably some other stuff that I’m forgetting.