OK, let's not crank up the Christmas music just yet. While I love jamming out to Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" as much as the next girl, Thanksgiving is still a holiday that deserves a chance to be celebrated properly. For all my ride or die Christmas fans out there, try having a bit of empathy. I mean, could you imagine your existence being constantly overlooked due to the shadow of someone better than you in pretty much almost every aspect? No? Just me? Okay.
Well, besides the superficial things surrounding Thanksgiving that we care about (which, to be honest, might be the ONLY things we truly care about) like herb-roasted turkeys, homemade stuffing, garlic mashed potatoes, sugar-crusted apple pies... what I was I talking about again? Oh yeah. Besides the superficial things surrounding Thanksgiving, it is important to take this time to think about what it is you have to be grateful for, and if you're sitting there thinking, "life sucks and everything is meaningless," like most angsty college teens, then here is a list to get the gears in your brain going.
95 Things To Be Thankful For
1. Sunday morning coffee talks with Mom
2. Unexpected snow days
3. Sleeping past 10:00 a.m.
4. Australian accents
5. Good people
6. Curly fries
7. Pants with real pockets
8. Trees
9. The daily phone call from Dad
10. The concept of doggy bags at restaurants
11. "Sad" music playlists
12. The Percy Jackson series
13. Disney movies
14. Hot ramen on a cold day
15. Short poetry
16. Babaganoush and how fun it is to say, "babaganoush"
17. Cliche quotes about feeling sad
18. Headphones
19. Late-night thunderstorms
20. Christmas music sung by Michael Bublé
21. Sweatpants
22. String lights
23. Free stuff
24. The organic feeling of farmer's markets
25. The number 25
26. The combination of warm chocolate chip cookies and cold, 2% milk
27. 2 a.m. conversations with close friends
28. Unmerited school spirit
29. Vanilla milkshakes
30. Peanut-free peanut butter
31. Hot showers
32. The known
33. The unknown
34. Adult-sized onesies
35. Campfire-roasted Japanese sweet potatoes
36. Wendy's 4 for 4
37. Eyeglass cleaners
38. When clothes are made of 100% cotton and not 62% rayon or 87% polyester
39. Keyboard shortcuts
40. Handwritten letters
41. Dark chocolate with sea salt and caramel
42. Snuggles from dogs
43. Any form of attention received from cats
44. Back hugs
45. Edible cookie dough
46. Google
47. Free samples from Costco
48. Getting tucked in at night
49. Naps that last longer than 10 minutes
50. Good hair days
51. Coffee-stained photo albums
52. Hot chocolate with extra marshmallows
53. The existence of brunch
54. Korean food
55. Having a new show to binge
56. Forehead kisses
57. Boardwalk funnel cake
58. Candles that smell like concepts (e.g. Christmas morning)
59. How adorable baby noses are
60. Ugly Christmas sweaters
61. Mason jars and how aesthetic they are
62. Warm laundry
63. Air conditioning
64. Cookbooks with lots of pictures
65. To love
66. To be loved
67. The weekend
68. The words, "I already did the dishes"
69. Crunchy cereal
70. The messy art of the perfect s'more
71. Coming home to a clean room
72. Pens that make your handwriting look fucking amazing
73. The smell of barbeque
74. Banana-blueberry smoothies
75. Spell check
76. Family movie nights
77. Knowing you've made your parents proud for real
78. The unparalleled excitement of throwback songs being played
79. Trader Joe's
80. Thanksgiving sides
81. Good restaurant bread
82. Passionately singing every part--including the instrumental--of Vanessa Carlton's "A Thousand Miles" with your best friend every time during karaoke
83. Scandinavian spas
84. Airplanes that look like shooting stars
85. Uncontrollable laughter
86. Long car rides to exciting destinations
87. Having people to miss deeply
88. Texas Instruments TI-84 Plus calculators
89. Vine compilations
90. Sleeping before 12:00 a.m.
91. Realizing that you'll always need your parents
92. Discovering that, in some ways, your parents will always need you
93. Unapologetic dancing
94. Finding ways to love yourself
95. Corgi butts
