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95 Things To Be Thankful For, Beside The Superficial

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.

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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

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Sometimes bigger isn't always better.

1. If something happens, everyone knows about it

2. Never getting to be invisible

3. Knowing every single thing about every single person in the town

4. New kids are a big deal

5. It’s hard to make new friends

6. On that note ... the dating pool is even smaller!

7. Teachers are weirdly close to their students

8. It forced you to make friends out of school

"I'm hopeless and awkward and desperate for love"

1. That Time He Tested Out His Flirting Skills and This Happened

2. When He Was Willing to Do Anything to Avoid Confrontation

3. When He Couldn't Handle Awkward, Emotional Situations

4. How He Reacted Whenever His Friends Ignored Him

5. All of the Times He Worried About His Failing Love Life

6. Whenever He Tried to Whip Himself Into Shape

7. How He Handled New People and New Experiences

8. Whenever His Friends Got Annoying, He Was Always the Voice of Reason

9. He Always Knew How to Jam

10. He Finds a Way to Make Any Situation More Fun

No, I can't help you.

1. When a customer wants to return a product, hands you the receipt, where is printed "ALL SALES ARE FINAL" in all caps.

2. Just because you might be having a bad day, and you're in a crappy mood, doesn't make it okay for you to yell at me or be rude to me. I'm a person with feelings, just like you.

3. People refusing to be put on hold when a customer is standing right in front of you. Oh, how I wish I could just hang up on you!

4. Having the same conversations over and over again! To be honest I really don't even want to talk to you right now, or have this fake ass smile on my face!

5. Always having to have a smile on your face. I promise I'm not as happy as I may look!

6. Customers not understanding that sometimes, mistakes happen. I am a human being, we all mess up sometimes!

7. Having the boss from hell, it's their way or the highway! Even though I did my job correctly and efficiently, if I don't do it the exact way you do, I'm a piece of shit.

8. Having coworker who don't help out, who bend the rules just enough to screw you over.

9. Having to be at work after closing because a customer is taking forever and half! Not like I'd like to go home or anything!

10. Having shitty hours and more shifts than you asked for. Just because we don't have enough workers, doesn't mean I want to pick up every shift that you cant cover, oh great boss of mine!

11. Not having time for a social life. It gets old saying, "I can't I have work..." Every day of the week!

12. Having that lazy costumer who can't do anything for themselves... no please I'll get that, it's no problem at all!

It's just my face, I swear.

1. When you meet new people, they automatically assume you hate them or are rude.

2. People are constantly asking you if you're OK.

3. After being friends with someone for a while, they confess to you, "I thought you were so mean when I first met you," or, "I thought you hated me."

4. You get told to smile more, but they don't understand how scary that would be.

5. You're always labeled as seeming "judgy."

6. Passing a friend with your RBF in full force and not realizing you just shot them a death glare.

7. Being sarcastic, but everyone thinks you're outright rude.

8. Not knowing how mean you really look until you see a picture of yourself in resting face.

9. Your apologies never sound sincere because of your emotionless face.

10. Your "mad face" scares you.

11. And, lastly, people are constantly asking you if you are happy or having a good time because you look bored to death.

Please hold your blonde joke.

1. "Is Elle Woods your spirit animal?"

2. "Is that your natural hair color?"

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16. "I’m surprised about you; I thought you would be a lot ditsier."

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