Last year I wanted to get to one hundred thank yous but stopped at seventy.

This year I’m stopping at twenty-five and sharing most of my thank yous in real life.

Thank you to everyone who reads/scrolls/scans/casually checks in–I love you, I’m thankful for you.  Because if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around, does it make a sound?

Other thank yous, in no particular order:

1. My mom and family members at home who are willing to make what’s theirs mine and mine theirs
2. Two hour drives home
3. Home
4. Got dogs and office hours
5. Good ideas and helpful committee members
6. The entire 2010 Fall Semester, in all its almost-done glory
7. Sunday night television dates
8. Bethenny Frankel and SkinnyGirl margaritas
9. Bravo
10. The favorite button on Twitter (Jokes on Twitter)
11. People who laugh at my jokes
12. People who tell fantastic jokes
13. Possibilities
14. Time
15. Jean-Luc Godard
16. Bangs
17. New music
18. People and dogs who will dance with me
19. Wonderful journeys
20. Storytelling
21. Screenplays and books available online
22. People that inspire earthquakes, hearth fires, honesty and good intentions
23. Basements
24. The Simpsons
25. Breaking the silence by reading something that makes me laugh out loud.