What Am I Thankful For this Thanksgiving?

Today is Thanksgiving in the United States. People everywhere have the day off and we’re spending it with family and friends. Aside from eating turkey and then passing out in a food coma, the day is about being thankful for what we have.

So, I wanted to take a moment and publicly express what I am thankful for in my own life today:

1. I am thankful to be alive. Obviously.
2. I am thankful to be graced with the most beautiful little being, my daughter Elyana. Sure, she brings chaos and randomity to the lives of myself and Malika, but she is a joy. So cute. And such a gifted little being. I see in her eyes a joy and, in many ways, a wisdom about life that too many of us have forgotten as we’ve gotten older. Elyana gets it and it is my mission to ensure she can continue to have that spirit, to succeed and to pursue happiness as she sees fit. Yes, I love my little girl.
3. I am thankful for my bride, Malika. She and I come from polar opposite backgrounds, she being from Russia and a poor family and myself being from sunny Tampa with a large family. Like any husband and wife, we but heads sometimes. Malika, however, is the yin to my yang. As I’ve said before, if we could combine the two of us into a single person, we’d be the perfect person.
4. I am thankful for my parents. My parents are no longer married, but both are doing just fine and they did such a wonderful job raising my brother and I. Neither Bryan (my brother) nor I would have had the foundation to do what we do now were it not for them. It is a debt that can never be repaid, even though my father jokes that we’re repaying it now by raising my daughter and letting them just enjoy the cute parts.
5. I am thankful for my stuff. Yes, I’m lucky to be able to live in a nice house, with two cars in the garage, nice furniture. Every day, I sit down to a truly killer computer system, my Mac Pro. When I take off, I’m driving a car with GPS, leather seats, and all the amenities. I get to sit out on my back porch every so often and enjoy a nice cigar. You know, this ain’t bad! Sure, I work for it, but I’d be a total idiot not to be thankful for what I have.
6. I am thankful for the Internet and the geeks who created it. I mean, seriously, I have the best job in the world. I get to sit here, surf the Internet, help people all around the world, and actually make a living doing it. How awesome is that! And none of it would be possible were it not for the most wonderful invention ever to grace mankind – the Internet. The fact that I can sit there and generate money in this non-physical cloud called the Internet is truly something. No wonder so many people don’t understand how I make a living.
7. I am thankful to all of my customers and my readers. I put out a lot of content on the Internet, but it takes real people to come to my site and read what I have to say. So, thank YOU! You’ve given me the credibility that I have and it is YOU who pays my bills by visiting my sites and buying my products and services.

So, happy Thanksgiving. Don’t eat too much. If the global blogging rate dips tomorrow, you’ll know it is because the bloggers of the world are still emerging from our collective food comas.

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