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ETC: Everyday Thoughts Collected: Thanksgiving Eve - “Surprise Me” list

  • Nan Brown · 2 years ago
    1. Breakfast Tacos
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  • Nan Brown · 2 years ago
    ok
    1. Do overs LOL
    2. Dr. Pepper I'm a pepper, your a pepper, he's a pepper, she's a pepper wouldn't you like to be a pepper too.
    3. Breakfast tacos homemade from ElCharito with wonderful Salsa
    4. The mailman- or woman who saves me tons of time and energy..
    5. The wind.. it is so refreshing
    6. fried green tomatoes- a treat unlike any other.
    7. a DVD player on my laptop-and headphone, I can watch my favorites at anytime day or night.
    8. Music- Thank you God it is even better than Dr. Pepper
    9. laughter.. I love it when people laugh
    10. Grocery stores.. none of that grow your own stuff for this gal : )
  • Randy · 2 years ago
    Hi Nancy! You are da' bomb diggity!
    Amen on the do-overs and processed food! Thanks for playing...great list.
  • Stacy Harp · 2 years ago
    Okay my list is on my page. I haven't got that trackback thingy down yet.
  • Randy · 2 years ago
    Thanks Stacy... I am reading it now.
  • Erin Kruger · 2 years ago
    Here goes...I'm grateful for...
    1. My crocs clogs... they are like heaven to my feet!
    2. Mexican food... my favorite.
    3. Time off work, it's much needed.
    4. Ice cream -- the cure for almost anything.
    5. My blow dryer... my hair gets depressed and stressed out without it....then it's lifeless or even worse out of control and not able to be tamed... hmmm... probably a life lesson in that :)
    6. My cat running away before I had to send him away... I love cats, but HATE cat pee... and that cat had the nerve to pee on my bed... he must have sensed that he better get out while the getting was good.
    7. toothbrushes... just think of life without them... actually, don't.. that's just wrong!
    8. Indoor plumbing...it's cold up north!
    9. hoddie sweatshirts...can't live without them.
    10. the fact that there are good, clean, fun uses for the internet... like blogs.
    Have a great Thanksgiving!!
  • Joseph · 2 years ago
    1. International House of Prayer - Kansas City
    2. Computers
    3. Friends who love me
    4. Music, Music, Music
    5. Lawn mowers
    6. Candles
    7. Ambient lighting
    8. Tiny clear-white Christmas lights
    9. Song of Solomon passages to cheer me up
    10. iPod
  • Joseph · 2 years ago
    1. Friends
    2. Computers
    3. Music, Music, Music
    4. iPod
    5. Ambient lighting
    6. Scented Candles
    7. International House of Prayer - Kansas City
    8. Lawn mowers
    9. Chocolate
    10. Extra-long twin mattresses for my long body
  • Randy · 2 years ago
    Joseph, you are the double bomb diggity. Good job.
    Thank you Erin and I am with you on the Mexican food and good blogs :)...
    You can keep the crocs though.
  • Jus Me · 2 years ago
    1. old sweatpants
    2. living where I live, so that it is perfectly acceptable to wear said sweatpants to go get take out Chinese food.
    3. take out Chinese food
    4. Chinese people
    5. Joseph's passion for IHOP
    6. Supercuts and that they take walk-ins. Were it not for impulsive, 'I think I'll get a haircut while I'm out buying peanut butter' decisions, I would never get a haircut at all.
    7. peanut butter
    8. hand sanitizer
    9. remote controls
    10. Immodium
  • Randy · 2 years ago
    ::: laugh ::: That's a great list Jus Me.
    10 was definitely a surprise. ::: laugh :::
  • kate · 2 years ago
    1. that sticky glue/rubber stuff used to stick free samples into magazines
    2. free samples
    3. magazines
    4. pink hair (just a little section) to match my pink glasses
    5. the coffee tree, which leads to
    6. the coffee berry, which leads to
    7. the coffee BEAN.
    8. male friends who used to be in the lifestyle that are no longer in the lifestyle, but can still affirm my need to own 13 lip glosses and be perfectly masculine while providing said affirmation.
    9. pink flamingos
    10. really expensive shoes bought really inexpensively at Nordstrom Rack... and no one has to know.
  • Cindy · 2 years ago
    Alright, Randy. It's up at Quotidian Light, but I'll also post them here, just for fun. :)
    1. Dirt. (For repotting the orchids.)
    2. Socks with individual toes.
    3. Benadryl for when the children are too crazy.
    4. Alcohol for when the husband is too crazy.
    5. Morrowind, for when one simply MUST live life as a lizard in a dress robe.
    6. Children who want cooking utensils and badgers for Christmas.
    7. Wormer.
    8. Small dead animal carcasses on the front porch. (As opposed to in the house.)
    9. The word "no." As in, "No, we're not going anywhere for Thanksgiving."
    10. Individual cups in bras. (Great Scott seconds this one enthusiastically.)
  • Randy · 2 years ago
    Kate Great list but... as long as the guys in number 8 aren't borrowing said fantastic lip gloss... cool :). I know someone who loves Nordy Rack and has got me looking out for them when we travel. Good stuff.
    Cindy LOVE the list. I commented over on your thread.
  • Daniel Borris · 2 years ago
    1. Beard and mustache dye. I appear 60-ish with out it.
    2. Tanning Beds, because Oklahoma is nothing but bugs when you try to tan outside.
    3. Aromatherapy, perfume oil, and expensive colognes. My olfactory sensors can take me almost to Heaven.
    4. Leather sole Italian shoes, they always put a pep of confidence in my step.
    5. 1000 thread count sheets, like butter.
    6. My ability to make a silk purse out of a sows ear. ( a weird hairdressers' term), you can't even imagine some of the cattle that I heard through my chair on a weekly basis.)
    7. I guess this one goes with # 6. too.
    Gigi Honey Hot wax for facial hair, Nair, bleach and extra sharp Tweezerman tweezers. Matrix hair color, all 250 shades. Hi lighting bleach and foil and weave combs and toners of all sorts. Jowell scissors and razors and high powered fast feeding speed turbo clippers for precision cutting and shaping the hair. all natural boar bristle brushes. twelve different lines of skincare, make-up and hair care products and the knowledge of how use them. and most of all the convincing " you look fabulous " that rolls off my tongue, all with me having a straight face and almost a tear in one eye. ...... seriously though..... ( thank you God for my talent to make others feel better about themselves )
    8. Mommas down home southern cookin'
    9. air conditioning ...whew!!!
    10. around the metro turnpikes
  • Randy · 2 years ago
    Wow. Now that is a surprise of a list! I learned more about what hair dressers do than I every thought I could in a gratitude list.
    Good job Daniel!
  • Cindy · 2 years ago
    Kate! #1! Oh, YES!!
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  • stephen · 2 years ago
    1) Jesus - truly... not just being super spiritual but I am so grateful for His kindness and care of my life... He is such a wonderful friend!
    2) Family / a precious wife
    3) Children
    4) Faithful Friends
    5) A loyal Golden Retriever named Max
    6) My iPod with all my music, pictures and videos! It is my favorite technogadgit!
    7)Beautiful places on this earth to retreat... mountains, beaches, cabins in the forest, etc.
  • SusanH · 2 years ago
    1. Post-It Notes
    2. Reading glasses! Lots of them. In the car, the purse, the bedside table, the bathroom, the kitchen, on me somewhere.
    3. My Culligan measuring spoon that has never measured salt but is perfect to measure my coffee.
    4. Skylights to let sunshine in my house when trees otherwise block it.
    5. Motrin for that one day of the month. Best invention to cure this womans cramps within 20 minutes. Ahhhh.
    6. I can scratch the inside of my throat when it itches. I make what I think is a 'funny' sound, but Dad thinks that's why I've never married.
    7. Reading material in the bathroom for the few seconds it's really needed.
    8. Electricity so have light when the sun goes down.
    9. Cars. We speed by trees and places our ancestors never saw in a lifetime and we are there and past them in a few minutes! It's nothing like we'll be able to travel in our glorified bodies but still....
    10. Glad to be da bomb diggity (or something like that)
  • Joyella · 2 years ago
    1. Fresh crisp sheets on my bed
    2. Daughter no longer wets her bed, and more importantly, mine!
    3. The golden Norway Maple leaves
    4. The shimmering dance the leaves do when the wind breezes through them (I could watch that for hours!)
    5. Dance Dance Revolution
    6. Swing dancing on Friday nights
    7. Making new friends who also swing dance
    8. Hearing what my children are thankful for
    9. Being thanked by my children
    10. colored glass, especially with sunlight shining through
  • Blaine Stone · 2 years ago
    1. Pig Pen, from Charlie Brown. Makes my place look like a palace.
    2. The sound of train whistels (1/2 mile in the distance).
    3. Needing an extra blanket. (in florida that happens very rarily).
    4. Charcol (sp). It is a great medium for emotional release. (an artistic thing)
    5. Intelligent friends who love .. DOOM!
    6. Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth ... chances. (try, try, again)
    7. Being Technologically challenged .. makes me ask for help.
    8. Bubble Baths and scented candles.
    Have a happy thanksgiving everyone!
  • Randy · 2 years ago
    Thanks for the trackback Fay! I will respond on your blog.
    Stephen Thanks for reppin' the playa's playa! cool list... on the serious side but serious is cool :) Golden Retrievers are way cool.
    Susan you're a bomb diggity beauty ... even if you do that weird thing with your throat.
    JoyellaKeep dancing in the sun!
    Blaine Great list dude. Elf party tomorrow? YaY Doom!!!!
    Great job everybody!
  • Sue Bohlin · 2 years ago
    1. 24/7 electricity we can take for granted.
    2. 24/7 high speed internet we can take for granted.
    3. 24/7 clean, amoeba-free drinking water that comes out of the faucet we can take for granted.
    4. Paved, maintained roads.
    5. Air conditioning in Texas!
    6. Being able to understand the speech of almost all the people I come in contact with, day in and day out, so easily I can take it for granted.
    7. Toilets that flush.
    8. Toilet paper in every single bathroom everywhere.
    9. Two working cars, with bells and whistles to boot!
    10. To have my husband just back from another difficult ministry trip to war-torn, heartbreakingly poor Liberia (West Africa), which made me aware of how thankful I am for Numbers 1-9.
  • Watch Anime Online · 1 year ago
    I am grateful for that are not on the typical list I would come up with. Everyone always does the easy gratitude list like God, Family, Friends, Country
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