Day 9: TTTF Monday

So, it's Monday, which means the 'Three things I'm thankful for' feature.

 Silence
 I'm really thankful for peace and quiet.  Especially on the busiest days, where I'm running around from class to class to club to food to homework...it's always nice to take a small (even five-minute) chunk out of one's day and just take a deep breath and realize that tomorrow's another chance to make things correct that you've wrong, or to start fresh.

Seasons
 I'm thankful that I live in a part of the world where there are seasons of fall, winter, spring, summer... (Though you wouldn't know that it's winter for the lack of snow around here right now...see last blog entry for more complain-y stuff).  There's so much variety in nature in the seasons, and I love it so much.  Summer's my favorite season; not for the heat or the inevitable boredom that always occurs in the summertime but for the long days and cool evenings.  So it's an inspiration to me that I live in this pretty varied sort of environment.

Chocolate
It's a given that this was eventually going to end up on the list.  It's funny, because my mom used to not let me have chocolate due to my GERDs. (To those who don't know, it's basically an extended problem of heartburn caused by trigger foods like coffee, chocolate, acidic/spicy dishes, etc.  My diet was extremely limited as a child because of it.)  Now I have chocolate more than I did before.  The only things that I don't like that are chocolate is chocolate cake and chocolate ice cream.

In other news, one of the lit groups that I am a member of on DeviantART is hosting a contest and the guidelines are to write a Western short story.  I might exercise my brain at trying to write something for that; I just need to come up with a viable plot.  I've never written a Western before. :D It should be exciting!