This Thanksgiving will be memorable. I just got out of work after working a 15 hour shift preparing for Black Friday (my team will make it's goal and more... $100 grand in our pocket).
This Thanksgiving I am grateful.I have a loving, caring, supportive (sometimes a little too over protective) family and boyfriend. I'm very thankful to God that he allowed my mom to visit her mom one more time this year because he cancer is getting stronger and stronger. Thank you to Mi Tio Beno and Ana for all their support and care they provide my grandma with. I'm thankful for the health of my family and myself - my parents have scared me this year with their illness, I hope my mom's ball in her breast is truly "just liquid," and thank you for a quick and healthy recovery after my heart surgery this summer.
I am also very grateful for the opportunity to attend and graduate from UC BERKELEY; for having a job, a car, and no bills; for my fabulous and funny friends, for the amazing people I've met and have worked with through my short career at Macy's; and I'm grateful 2012 is just a movie - if that were to happen in real life, I would freak out just like everyone on the screen did.
This Thanksgiving I would love to rest. I am tired, my feet hurt, and just thinking that I have to wake up at 5:30am on Friday to go to work makes me more tired. (Thank you God for not letting me open on Friday!)
This Thanksgiving I am also a little sad.I wish Jonathan and I could have worked something out with each other and our families to spend Thanksgiving together. We waited too long to plan and now it's too late. I don't think I'll have enough time to bake cookies, shower, do my hair, get ready for Friday and the rest of the week because I wont have a day off until the following Friday, and drive back and forth to Palm Desert for Thanksgiving and on top of that drive at night. This is definitely a time when I hate the long distance part of our relationship. I was willing to give up Christmas Day with my family so that we could be together Thanksgiving here and Christmas there but things don't always work out as planned. (I'm actually a little confused because both holidays are huge get-togethers with big meals days with my family and not his - this is a small black dot in our relationship we haven't really discussed... we'll wait and see what happens NEXT YEAR)
This Thanksgiving I learned something about life...Cherish life, enjoy the beauties of the world, learn to include vacations when planning your days, months, and years.
My parents always saved and currently don't have much debt, however this year was the first time we took a family vacation in 12 years. We managed to go to Puerto Vallarta right after my graduation and before my heart surgery.
My siblings and I did not know how to vacation, we didn't know what to do with so much time, we were not used to having one thing planned right after the other. Thank you mami and papi for our vacation, I hope you keep your promise and at least you get to travel more frequently.
Thank you 2009 for amazing memories. I know 2010 will be filled with many more adventures and surprises.
*picture taken from: ESPN
