It’s the Monday after Thanksgiving. I used to do these posts on Thanksgiving, but I was otherwise occupied.

50 Things I am thankful for, in somewhat random order:

• The Marvel Cinematic Universe.
• December
• Christmas music
• Christmas lights
• Trivia work
• Bar Trivia on Monday nights
• My friends at bar trivia
• The Washington Post
• The New York Times
• That Joe Biden is president
• That the Democrats control the Senate
• That Railfan passed the first section of the CSET (California Subject Exams for Teachers)
• That the Not-So-Little Drummer Boy has a job he is doing well in
• That both Railfan and the NSLDB are local so I get to see them at least occasionally (Railfan more than occasionally)
• That The Red-Headed Menace is in a lab that they like in graduate school, even if they do get stressed
• My daughter-in-law (the NSLDB’s wife)
• That my daughter-in-law was able to get her green card (she’s Korean) relatively easily
• RHM’s fiance/ee
• Casa de Fruta
• The Voice
• Rachel Maddow
• My MacBook Air
• Coke Classic (although I guess they call it just Coke now)
• Homemade cranberry sauce
• The movie Encanto
• Barbie
• Oppenheimer
• Good books
• “Connections” (it’s a NYT game)
• Crepe myrtle trees
• Occasional rain
• That fire season was relatively quiet this year
• That hurricane season is over
• Sunsets
• Ginko trees in the fall
• My doctors
• Medical insurance
• Covid Vaccines
• That I got to see Yosemite Falls at full flood
• The National Gallery of Art
• The National Museum of African-American History and Culture
• Maryland blue crabs
• The cornflower blue sky of Northern California in winter (except when it’s raining, of course)
• The color blue
• The color purple
• That I have a roof over my head
• My family
• My friends, online and IRL
• Music and art
• Being alive

Here’s hoping you had a lovely Thanksgiving, and wishing you a happy holiday season, whatever you celebrate (Hanukkah, Yule, Christmas, Kwanzaa, or simply December).