Thanksgiving

Good evening, I'm Alucard. (Obscure reference is obscure. Moving on.)

Hello from the past, it is Wednesday evening as I write this. We are leaving for Canada tomorrow morning, so I have to do this now.

So tomorrow/yesterday is/was Thanksgiving (for those of you more unfamiliar with said holiday, it is basically a harvest festival, and you can learn more here) and I thought it'd be appropriate to make this week's theme the things I feel thankful for. So here we go.

• We'll star with a classic: I am very thankful for my family and my friends, who are also my family, because family don't end with blood, boy. You are all wonderful and supportive and the reason I am who I am. So thank you.
• I am thankful for this opportunity that I have been given. To travel to the other side of the globe is truly a remarkable thing and I am sure it will not be a decision I come to regret (unless I get murdered in some back alley in downtown Boston, haha).
• I am thankful for technology, which pushes to make our lives easier and help us keep connected with the people we care about, no matter how far.
• I am thankful for the internet. Because while it can be full of all sorts of crazy, scary things, it is also a way to spread awareness of important things, meet other people who share your passions, to contribute to your community and be creative. And sometimes what you really need in life is a funny cat gif. 
• I am thankful for autocorrect because I you have no idea how much I misspell stuff. Also, the autocorrect says it is not written autocorrect, but wikipedia does, so screw that.
• I am thankful for all this chocolate grandma sent me for my birthday. Thank you, I really needed it. I have almost eaten all of it already, oops.
• I am thankful for all that I have been given, and try to use it to make myself a better person and decrease world suck.
• And I am truly thankful for the world, which is so weird and wonderful and full of mystery and awesome stuff. I am glad I can be a part of it.

That's all I can think of right now. So thank you, everyone. You are all appreciated.

In other news, I received a package this Monday containing my winter coat (of which I am really thankful, because it will be cold up in Canada) and Christmas calendars for me and the kids. It was a lovely gesture, thank you mom, and it gave me an idea.

CHALLENGE: Christmas post calendar.

So this is a thing I actually did a few years back with my lovely friend who probably doesn't read this blog even though I told her to, although that time it was just me writing. So basically, we make a post everyday, and by that I mean there will be a new post here everyday with every other from you and every other from me, and the other gets to decide the topic for the next day. When I did this, they needed to be Christmas themed fanfics, but seeing as you're not really into that, I suppose it can be anything (a normal post, a short story, a poem, an essay, a song, idk). The topics can be anything as well, and some of the topics I had included Cotton Candy, A Wise King, Send Me an Angel (you know, the song by Scorpions), Letters, Lost Socks, Mark 7:37 (They were astonished beyond measure, saying, 'He has done all things well. He makes even the deaf hear and the mute speak!', in case you wanted to know), Sleep Deprivation and Meanwhile in Hell's Most Romantic Restaurant. It was totally fun and I wanna do it again. So consider yourself challenged! December begins on Sunday and your topic is First Snow. You get to go first, because you would not have time to give me a topic and also I still have no internet on Sunday. The posts don't have to be long, if you don't have time. I guess I'll see on Sunday if you accepted the challenge. Ciao.

Pie out.

Oh, and just a heads up, next week will be the midseason finale of Supernatural and I will need to talk about it or I might explode. BUT, I promise you, I will write a post about something else also, and make that a thing in the end so you can skip it. Be cool, bro, I'll try to keep it short.