gratitude

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this one's especially easy.

1. my mesh bag with the recycled-plastic handle, which means I can avoid piling up yet more plastic bags when I shop and feel good about conserving resources *and* carry the heavy results of a shopping trip without cutting lines of ow across my palm.
   
2. my neighborhood, in which I can do most of my critical shopping and a lot of my less-critical shopping in a cozy two-block commercial area chock full of small businesses, which is located three blocks from my house
   
3. new Le Tigre album! Okay, it came out at the end of October, but I was distracted. I'd been walking past Sonic Boom and noticing the big posters for a week or two, and dropped in and picked it up on my way home from other-shopping today.
   
4. my tribe, who I can trust to come socialize at my house this december -- I've discovered that I not only don't like travelling this month, but I kind of don't want to *leave my house*. I've been a december-hibernator ever since high school; end of October kicked off Serious Holiday Fundraising for my girl scout troop, so by the time mid-December or so rolled around, I was so worn out from events designed to feed the hungry and raise money for disaster releif and so on and so forth that I just wanted to curl up and sleep for three weeks.
   
5. my James Peterson cookbooks, of which I now have two. (Vegetables and Sauces)