Everyone makes them so here is mine!

Things I am thankful for
This is by no means an extensive list just the ones I can think of right now

• I am thankful that I am so stuffed that typing this is a slow process


• I am thankful that despite being sick to start this week I basically have my health


• I am thankful that the Fam back home is safe despite the escalating violence (with 40 days left in the year Jamaica has gotten to 1476 murders)


• I am thankful that I realized that I can just put… and y’all will realize that I mean I am thankful


• …that Becky’s family took me in this year


• that football is always on


• that no matter how broke I might be right now I am still not starving


• that I discovered Texas before A & M


• that I didn’t end up going to school on the East Coast


• that no matter how dumb I might act, my friends still care


• no matter how dumb they are I love them


• family means more than just a title


• I have managed to avoid being shot despite running my mouth off a ton


• I have managed to enjoy law school


• The majority of my friends passed the Bar


• We finally “Beat the hell out of OU”


• That the tradition  continues Texas v A & M Thanksgiving holiday weekend


• Alcohol + copious amounts of drugs (prescription) has not yet = death


• Despite that above mix my friends still care enough to check up on me when I say I am sick


• that her dad didn’t find out


• that no one knows who that one is about


• though I may forget names I do not forget faces


• I no longer live with my parents


• They still care enough to try and ground me


• That I am old enough to realize that I cannot be grounded (though sometimes I forget for a second and panic)


• Lanelle drove me up so I didn’t have to drive to The Valley


• Lotion was invented cause damn The Valley is dry: A brother gets ashy in a second up here


• Those who hate me really can’t affect my life


• I have not become so cold that peeps hating me does not affect me


• I have managed to surround myself with good people


• I care enough about my peeps that I have nicknamed almost everyone


• Small sampling of names: Sand Assassin; the Devil /Robin; the roomie; of the; Silent Assassin; Becks; Tiff (ok so some aren’t names but contractions but damn it I am lazy); May she R.I.P.; Marky Marc; Semi adopted; Nutty P; Cali-J (yeh I name myself heck the blog is named after me – and I talk to myself); Dat Bitch; Dui, Q; Jo; Ahab


• My little cousin trusts me enough to confide in me about boys and alcohol


• I have matured enough to listen and not lecture when she tells me about boys and alcohol (“Damn it chica I tell you boys have cooties especially college age boys”)


• Motions allows me to write for them


• Mom


• Dad


• Courtney


• Alicia


• LOVE Y’all and I am out this piece!