It's Been awhile...

And I don't really have much of anything to say, except that I just decided something, as in like 2 seconds ago. I am going to attempt to dedicate a post everyday to something that I'm grateful for. I sometimes don't have much of anything else to say, so I thought this would be a good way to stay involved in the blogging community. Besides, it's easier to express gratitutde for the big things, but it's all the little things that we sometimes take for granted, and I think this will help me to pay more attention. To start, I actually have two things in mind that I am very grateful for.

First-I don't work at Jansport anymore and though I was grateful when I had the job, simply because it provided me with some sort of income, I hate that place and so I'm glad it's over. But that is not actually the main reason I appreciate that it's over. The main reason? Because when I would wake up at 4:30 in the morning, and the house was dark, and no one else was awake yet, I would open my bedroom door to go downstairs, and often times visualize a person in a scream mask barreling towards me from the hallway with a knife aimed at my gut. And now I can avoid that, except for when it just happened two minutes ago when I went downstairs to get a drink of water, only to find that everyone had gone to bed and of course, the house was dark. Curse the darkness...

Second-I'm grateful that when I was at the preteen age, and the predriving age, I had parents, and parents of friends, who were willing to chauffeur us wherever it was we needed and wanted to be. I was driving to work the other day and saw some young kid waiting at a bus stop and that's when I realized how grateful I am that I never had to rely on public transportation to get me places when I was that age. It's something that I always took for granted I guess, because I just thought it's what all parents did, but I've noticed more and more often that there are young people taking public transportation these days. Of course this may be due to the fact that the kids don't want their parents to know where they're going, or simply that their parents have no idea where their children are, which makes me grateful for a couple other things...