This Thursday marked my first time celebrating Thanksgiving in America- at least in a traditional sense. Last year I volunteered at the Bowery and spent the rest of the night hiding from a mouse in my apartment and the year before that I ate deep fried Turkey at a friend’s place in Arizona before attending my (also first-ever) football game. Yesterday Conall and I took the bus to Philadelphia to meet some of his family an I don’t think I have ever sat down to eat at once with so many people apart from my lunch table at the high school cafeteria. We also woke up at 3:30am to check out the Black Friday “DEALS” at Walmart as a sort of sociological experiment. Our research will be posted as a video later tonight.

Anyway, this year I am thankful for many things including:

My amazing & patient boyfriend who encouraged me to stop looking at photos of Nicole Richie’s hair and start a blog that I’ve been talking about for the last 6 months.

My mama for making me dentist appointments and writing me adorably miss-spelled emails and just being the nicest person world.

My sister for never telling anyone about the time who dressed up in Carnival masks and sang along to that Masquerade song from Phantom of the Opera.

My friends (who don’t all fit into one photo) who share my politically incorrect and random sense of humor, as well as the “let’s just call a spade a spade” philosophy.

The people on my street for having such absurdly cute dogs and let me take pictures of them on my Blackberry. Also the people who dress their dogs in ridiculously stupid costumes and post pictures of them on the Internet. And these dogs themselves for simply existing.