Thanksgiving Thoughts 2013

So Thanksgiving is this week.  Once you become a full fledged adult and are out of school you appreciate Thanksgiving way more.  I explained this in my original Thanksgiving Thoughts from 2009 (entry here).  A lot of my thoughts from then apply to now, by the way.

Anyways, I figured in the spirit of Thanksgiving I'd post another "Thank You" list.  Why not?  Take 'em with a grain of salt.

Thank you 2013 for being quite an awesome year for Macster.  Costa Rica, Turkey, Sweden, and Australia were all visited in this calendar year.  Not to mention stops domestically in Aspen, Lake Tahoe, Scottsdale, Las Vegas, Austin, Atlanta, and New York.  In terms of travel, you were hard to beat 2013.

Speaking of Sweden, thank you for existing.  You are my mecca, my paradise, my heaven.  Now that I know the folklore of you and your people are not a myth I want to be on you.  Wait wait, that came out wrong.  No, no it didn't.  I want to be on you.

Thank you Todd Graham and ASU football for finally overcoming almost all of your shortcomings as a whole.  ASU no longer is the underachiever.  It has finally met expectations by winning the Pac-12 South.  Everything else is gravy.

Thank you Giants for bringing home 2 World Series Championships in the past 4 years.  You've made San Francisco a legitimate baseball town and that's awesome.

Thank you Jim Harbaugh.  NFC Championship game in your first year.  Superbowl runner up in your second year.  However, your third year is looking sort of dicey.  I'm just going to go ahead and thank you ahead of time for figuring it out, fixing Kaepernick, and helping us win the Superbowl this year. So, thanks.

Thank you Blue Bottle and Philz coffee.  I used to hate coffee up until 3 years ago.  Now, I love you. You make my mornings better.

Thank you Miley Cyrus for perpetuating twerking.  I'm pretty sure this is the beginning of the end of humanity and our children's innocence.  And who needs innocence?

Thank you American government for keeping tabs on us all.  Legally, illegally.  Whatever.  Who doesn't need big brother watching over us at all times?  On our phones... our computers... you know, whatever you need.  Privacy is overrated.

Thank you Lululemon.  You know why.

Thank you Rdio and Spotify.  Free music all the time!

Thank you Snapchat and Tinder for existing.  The fact that you DO exist is just amazing in and of itself.

Thank you Fireball Whiskey.  You have made whiskey palatable for girls, no easy feat.  You have also made Atomic Fireball candies seem weak in comparison since you can't get wicked hangovers off a regular old Atomic Fireball.

Thank you homeless man who broke my passenger window and stole my gym bag.  I hope you enjoyed those dirty clothes and my outdated clunky ass iPod.  Who uses iPods these days anyway?

Thank you Starbucks for starting your holiday special beverage offerings.  I can already foresee a 10 pound weight gain based on your Peppermint Mochas.

And finally, thank you pilgrims for deciding to have turkey on that fateful fall day when you broke bread with Native Americans instead of having, like, Oxen penis or something.

Happy Thanksgiving all.  I have bigger plans to blog way more often in 2014 than I did in 2013.  So be warned - a lot of uncensored thoughts coming your way this following year.

My name is Macster and I am thankful for this message.





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