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[jazzfish]

Meh. I'm thankful for friends, more than anything. For darkfyre_muse and elf and babushek and everyone else who's asked me "how are you doing?", or offered *hug*s, or listened when I needed to talk and had good and wise and comforting things to say. For an old acquaintance who I've seen maybe a half-dozen times in the last fifteen years, who looked me in the eye and said "Take care of yourself, okay?" and meant it, because she was concerned about me; for a new friend who has twice told me something I needed to hear at exactly the right time. For uilos, for whom words are inadequate.

I'm thankful for my job, both that I have one that doesn't suck and that it's enabling me to flee to Vancouver where (I hope) I belong. I'm thankful that I'm self-sufficient and debt-free and could drop two grand on a new laptop a month ago.

I'm thankful for writing, though it doesn't really seem that way right now. (But I am a writer, and I will finish the shit that I started.) I'm thankful for all the stories that have been a part of my life.

I'm thankful for the chance to Get My Shit Together, because the only way out is through.

I'm thankful for the cat who was sitting on my arm half an hour ago, and the cat who's curled up next to me right now, and all the other cats who have ever stopped by to say hello to me.

Mostly, though, I'm thankful for uilos.

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[plumbob78]

Vancouver? Permanent-like?

[jazzfish]

Yeah. One of these days I'll get around to writing out the whole explication. The short version is, DC summers and traffic are killing me, the Pacific Northwest is gorgeous, and I'm sick of US politics and would like to trade them for a less toxic variety. (My two soap boxes there are torture, on which the Canadians are somewhat better, and health care, on which the Canadians are a damn sight better but it would be hard to be much worse than the US.)

[smcapote117.livejournal.com]

Agreed! Friends are awesome. I view them as my other family. *hugs*