Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Ok, I know that it's American Thanksgiving and all, but for the past 5 years of my life I've been living in the US, and so this was the time that I went home to my family to celebrate. I'm sad to say it, but over the past 5 years, American Thanksgiving has been more of a celebration than Canadian Thanksgiving.

Anyways, today I was listening to Micheal W. Smith's Christmas CD (his first) and was flooded with memories from both at home and at school. You see, this CD has been a Christmas fixture for my family and me for probably the past 10 years. As I was listening to it I got so caught up in it I openned my eyes and for a moment I thought it was snowing outside. But alas, that was not to be since the tempurature around here right now is hovering around 10 C or 50 F.

Also I got to thinking about my last trip home during American Thanksgiving. It was the first time I had driven in the snow with my new car and I had just come back from a real crappy day at work as Mike (Butyne), my roomate could attest to. Then I went on pretty much my second longest journey back home to Belleville and it was quite a trip through the snow, as my passanger Mike (this time Botting) could attest to. I think we counted about 24-28 cars that had skidded off the road.

So, right now I will do what has been done on countless other blogs and list the things that I'm thankful for:

1. That atleast someone has a plan for my life
2. My Family
3. My nephews Reuben & Evan, My Neice Nadine and My undecided relation, due in April
4. My Friends who now reside in Korea Malawi, Wisconson, Calgary, Hamilton, Grand Rapids, Belleville, and what ever other corners of the world they have been scattered to.
5. Hockey
6. Baseball
7. $7 Golf at the Christian Rec Center in GR
8. My time playing at Rivertown Sports. I see the Black Dragons are back in action. Hopefully Ryan and Jon are playing on it this year.
9. My IPod
10. My Laptop
11. My X-box
12. My computer
13. Bit Commet for allowing me to find games like NHL and Madden 06 here in Korea
14. That I'm half-way around the Freakin' World!!!!!
15. Guitars
16. Music
17. My car Ziggy. Take care of it Jenn
18. Football
19. Basketball
20. Badminton
21. The Friends that I've made in Korea
22. The good students I have
23. That I was able to make trips back and forth to Calvin safely
24. My Youth Group back home. Esp. John & Ingrid &Willie
25. Friends made at YFC and tours down in Florida.
26. A torrential downpour in Florida that lasted 45 min in the morning that allowed us to ride at Busch Gardens without any lines for the rest of the day.
27. Sarcasm
28. A good arguement/Debate
29. Staying up talking about serious things like: Manditory age-limits for pro sports, or about how certain teams will do, or rule changes in sports, or how much of a better job I could do if I was a GM.
30. Mentioning something on TV before the sports announcers mention it.
31. Being right.
32. The comedic stylings of Brian Reagen


That's about all that I can think of for the moment. Happy Thanksgiving all. Hope you stay safe through the holidays. (or through your normal lives for my Non-American friends.)