Thursday, November 27, 2008

Thankful for YOU!


Several weeks ago, I read a truly heartwarming blog post by my friend Sarai, who despite having been through some really tough times this past year, was able to reflect on her life and find some really wonderful and important things to be thankful for. Her positive attitude was very inspiring and has stuck with me in the corner of my heart since I read her post.

I consider myself a pretty upbeat and optimistic person--something I strive for every day, (although at times my family may say otherwise...), yet even with the best of intentions, it is often easy to lose sight of the truly important things in life: to be alive, to have food to eat and a roof over your head, to have your health, and to share yourself with someone you love. I'm thankful for all of those things and more, but for this post, I'd like to express my thanks for something many may consider low on the priority list or even relatively insignificant in the grand scheme of things in life, but is actually very important to me, and that is YOU.

Quite simply, I'm thankful for the friendships I have made through this amazing community of romance-sci fi-fantasy-reading and writing bloggers and authors. Some of you I've known for almost two years already (dd03, DarlingDiva, Terri a.k.a. moonwindt, Katiebabs, Kat), some of you for a little less (Amy C, Tracy, Anna), and some of you for only a few short weeks or months, but you are all important in my little world. You all have a great sense of humor, you're creative, smart, fun, supportive and hold a special place in my heart. Every day I look forward to interacting with you and I'm always interested in what you have to say either on your own blog or in your comments on my blog. You make me laugh, you make me cry, you make me think and you make me buy way too many books. I'm thankful for you.

Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow US friends and happy-second-to-last-day-before-the-weekend to everyone! 

Cheers!
Christine :)

15 comments:

  1. Hi Christine, Hope you and your family have a great Thanksgiving!
    *HUGS*

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  2. Happy Thanksgiving, Christine. :-)

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  3. aaaaaawww! *sniffles*

    I almost made it through a day without the misties!

    Oh wait...it THANKSGIVING!!!

    I made it!
    *giggle*

    Seriously, I'm thankful I met you, DD, the cellies, the bloggers, the minions, foodies...oh my, so many!
    Although my life is not empty & I have family aplenty...you make my cup over-runneth.

    *squishes you*
    Happy Thanksgiving!

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  4. You took my sentiments and expressed them a heck of alot better than I did. I said something similar yesterday on my blog. I am very thankful for the friends I have made online. It's so wonderful to share something I love so much with others who love it just as much. And because of reading I have made some truly wonderful friendships. Friendships I could not imagine not having.

    Thank you :)
    Hugs!

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  5. Beautifully said Christine. Wishing you and yours everything wonderful for Thanksgiving.

    Regards

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  6. Happy Thanksgiving to you too.

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  7. (((Christine)))

    Thank you!

    Happy Thanksgiving!

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  8. Hey Christine!!! (((HUGS))) I am truly blessed to have you and all the other wonderful ladies, I have met online, in my life!

    Thank you for all your support and I hope you and yours had a WONDERFUL Thanksgiving.

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  9. What a lovely post. I hope you and your family had a lovely Thanksgiving :)

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  10. That was beautiful Christine - thank you! I feel very honoured to have met you :)

    I know it is a little late, but Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family and to everyone who was celebrating!

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  11. Hi Christine, a beautiful post. I hope you and your family had a happy Thanksgiving.

    I'm glad I found your blog and "met" you. :)

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  12. What a great post Christine! I'm so thankful for my friends that I've met online as well. They are very supportive and they always know how to cheer me up when I'm down.

    You are an amazing person and I'm incredibly thankful for Jacki's blog otherwise I might not have met you! :)
    I hope you had a great Thanksgiving with your family. muah!

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  13. Awwww, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

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