Thanksgiving

In honor of the holiday, here are a few things that we often forget to be thankful for. (If you don't live in a country that considers today a holiday, nevermind. Go about your business.)

The Universe. I think we should all be more thankful that the Universe exists. Because after all, it could not exist, and then we'd all be boned.

Time. We often take for granted the dilligence of time. You know, time's been around since the beginning of time, and it's still sticking to it, ensuring events happen in chronological sequence. Way to go, time!

Monkeys. I can't imagine needing to explain this one. Monkeys, you people. MONKEYS.

Electric Elves. If it weren't for all of the hard-working electric elves carrying words through their underground caves into our homes and painting on the inside of our monitors, you wouldn't even be able to read webpages like this one. Wouldn't that be a shame?

Restraining Orders. Don't even get me started on how thankful everyone here at Areaology.com is for these little babies. Whoa.

Grammar. For instance, I screwed up the subject/verb agreement in that last sentence. So I'm thankful that I caught that one.

Ellipsis. I'd be really thankful if I had a good way to end this post, but that doesn't seem to be happening so I'm thankful I can just...