Giving Thanks

As a slight twist on the holiday (well, for the US. The Canadians have their Thanksgiving in October, just so they can pretend they aren't really the 51st state), I have decided to "give thanks" for the things I have learned in my life, and I pass them on to you, the gentle reader, so you will not have to live and learn as I did. These are listed in no particular order.

• Do not, regardless of how hard it is raining, open an umbrella while holding a cat.
• Don't broil in Pyrex. Really. Don't.
• No matter how good it sounds, chocolate really doesn't make a very good breakfast food.
• You can overwater a plant
• It is very easy to play a video game for five hours, and very hard to study for five hours, though the actual activity level is exactly the same.
• People who were jerks in high school actually can grow up to be decent humans beings.
• It's really amazing how much you can miss someone when you can't ever speak to them again.
• Don't want what the rich want.
• Anything worth doing is usually pretty difficult.
• Growing up isn't so bad.
• Ants, cake, plastic, and an oven don't mix well.
• People are pretty similar the world over.
• Celebrity gossip blogs are strangely fascinating.
• YouTube will suck away all of your free time.
• No matter what it is, it will probably change.
• It is okay to cry (according to my shrink)
• Being nice is harder than being mean, but it pays a lot better.
• You actually can have too many computers, especially if more than half of them don't work.
• Laundry piles up extraordinarily fast.
  
  
• and finally... All of the bad stuff that happens makes the good stuff seem even better.

Peace and love this Thanksgiving, even to Canadians.