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As the old saying goes, it’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye, or the cops show up.

I’ve been thinking a lot about community and politics, development both personal and professional and how sometimes we are paralyzed by the things that make us unique. As I wrote yesterday, the holidays are always a mixed bag for me. At least once during the holiday season, which for me was yesterday, I choke up and freeze. I am a selfish person at times, as most people can be, thinking of not what I have, but what I don’t have.

Yeah, it’s humbling when you realize you acted and thought like a rabid goat. So know that I’ve confessed my humanness, let’s move on to things to be thankful for.

1. Nutella because it is awesome.
2. Pickled anything because it is awesome.
3. Grilled Stuffed jalapenos because they are awesome, especially Cowboy Newt’s recipe that has shrimp in them. (Do you see my drool just thinking of them.)
4. Swing dancing because it makes me laugh and this would also apply to square dancing although I would like to pretty myself up in one of those skirts. How would anyone not think I was a sexy beast in a square dancing skirt? No, I am not lying.
5. White gravy from the local Dairy Queen on french fries because it is awesome.
6. Brian Setzer
7. The term Arroganced To Death may be my new favorite saying. I want to put it on a T-shirt.
8. Squirrel Queen and I’s wonderful thanksgiving dressing that came from my mother, and her mother and goes back about five generations. It’s one of five dishes I know how to cook and it’s one that I do well if I say so myself.
9. Good friends who don’t let me get away with anything, but who also give me love and encouragement when I need it.
10. That I’m unapologetic of using the word awesome in this post.

Now, go be kind to each other while I try to figure out what else to be thankful for. In the past four seconds alone, I was reminded of V8 and Alka-Seltzer.