Blessings
Posted By: GothMT on 2008-12-24
In Reply to: It's Christmas eve.... - so here's a question for everyone
This morning I'm working to get some lines in before my boyfriend and I go to his mother's house for a home-cooked Mexican food feast and great company later this afternoon (his mother and her boyfriend make me feel more welcome than my own family does, lol!).
Tomorrow we'll have a quiet Christmas dinner at home after I'm done working, just the two of us.
We're too broke to *do* much of anything, truth be told. But we don't mind. Honestly, we don't. When I add up all the *pluses* in my life (a beautiful daughter in college, a wonderful boyfriend who is more than I could have ever hoped for, a great little apartment, food in our refrigerator, and even my silly little chihuahua who can make me laugh no matter what I might be upset about), life is GOOD.
And you know what? This year, that's enough for me. It's more than so many other people have, and it's more than enough for me.
No bonus, no matter how big, could *buy* what I've been blessed with in life.
Merry Christmas to all of my fellow MTs, and may you all be blessed with everything you need to make you happy during this holiday season!!!
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and not very responsible or mature.
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