The Wallstreet Journal and Real Vintage Clothes.

Thanksgiving is a time for people to eat a positively sickening amount of food (which I regretfully did) and talk about cliche things they are thankful for: "I am thankful for my amazing family, my friends, and my dog." The above phrase may be very heartfelt, but it lacks true thanksgiving. Coming up with a sentence of things you're thankful/grateful for is an easy task and leaves other worthy things unmentioned.

So, in an attempt to stretch myself (and to not be too hypocritical of those one sentence thanksgivings), I present my very own list of often unmentioned things I am thankful for.

I am thankful for (a cliche start to a very un-cliche list):

• A God who doesn't tell me what I want to know, even though I harass him.
• Flannel sheets (they are heaven sent).
• Technology. Where on earth would I be without it (I definitely wouldn't be writing this)?
• Thrift stores (cute clothes without complete decimation of the budget).
• iTunes/iPods (they feed my music obsession).
• College applications (yeah, who saw this one coming?).
• Coffee (this semester I have consumed a record amount. I don't know if I should be proud of this...).
• My mother and her dedication to saving clothes she had in college (helloooo real vintage).
• My loud, obnoxious, and loving family (did you really think that they wouldn't make the list?).
• For the hard lessons I've been forced to learn.
• Smiling store clerks (they make my day).
• My Tuesdays at Vienna with calculus.
• Dance parties in the family kitchen with the WHOLE family.
• Almost being on my own (sans the boring responsibilities).
• The Starbucks barista I see every Wednesday night and like to pretend I'm friends with.
• The Wallstreet Journal
• Baking
• Running (I actually love it, and it makes the aforementioned possible without ballooning in size).
• How God has blessed my dweeby entrepreneurial endeavors.
• The people I get to spend time with everyday (and we're not sick of each other...miracle).
• The amount of vegan/vegetarian options (I am neither, but I like to pretend that I would actually have the self-control to be).
• Bing Crosby/White Christmas/Christmas music (Thanksgiving is technically over, so bring.it.on).
• Blogs where I can post what I'm thankful for (I had to throw a cliche one in there, ok?).

Happy (un-cliche) Thanksgiving!