As Thanksgiving rolls around, I am reminded that I really don’t enjoy this holiday. I have always felt that we shouldn’t have to have a holiday to force us to be thankful. We should just be thankful. It seems like a time of year that families are forced to play nice and get along and for me it always felt like another Sunday dinner.
My mom has realized that she enjoys not cooking. So she has begun a new tradition of heading west to Wendover to celebrate and be thankful. For me it comes down to getting together with my best friend and enjoying a nice bottle of wine and a fried turkey. Nothing fancy: pretty much another Sunday dinner on a Thursday.
But at this time of year I am truly grateful for many things. I guess I am lucky in that when I am on the plane heading home my thoughts have time to slow down and really think about a lot of things in my life. It is my own personal testimony meetings in which I bare remind myself of how far I have come in my life and how grateful I am to be here. Although it gets lonely on the road, I do love the things my new career path has brought me. We are financially comfortable and so close to being out of debt (except for the house payment). So I am going to make an early resolution to be focused on the good. I recently was feeling unhappy due to the traveling. I was missing Steve and wishing I was home more. But obviously on some level I was not ready to move on from SAP yet because I asked for way too much money and now I am stuck traveling. I realize that I am happy to be with this company and happy to be able to have a job that offers up so much opportunity to learn. So I remain a traveling consultant and I have decided to commit to being happy about it and at the end of every trip there is time for me to realize that every rose has it thorns but how lucky we are that thorns have roses.
MOST OF THE PICTURES IN THIS POST WERE TAKEN BY STEVE only one is mine.
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