Today I am thankful for...

Welcome to my gratitude blog, which was formerly my 365 project (posts 5/30/10 - 5/30/11). I will continue posting 10 things for which I am grateful to help me (and maybe you too) stay positive.

Here's to optimism, gratitude, and all the simple pleasures of life :)

Burgers, scones, and artesian water

The past few days have been an absolute blast with the Private. He arrived at the train station in Northridge and I came to pick him up before lab. I got there just as the train arrived, and he came out, uniform and all, excited to see me. It had only been a few days since my visit in Oceanside, but this was possibly going to be the last time we see each other for a very long time (if he doesn’t make it back from drills before I leave SoCal, it’ll probably be Christmastime).

This guy is so sweet. He knew I had lab, lecture, and group meetings that week, but wanted to come and see me anyway (and gave me space for my responsibilities). He wandered around campus and Northridge while I was in class, and read or played guitar while I studied or did research. He even studied the material with me and let me explain diagrams to him to reinforce the info in my head.

On Friday morning, I was meeting with my lab group for our presentation. He offered to go to Starbucks and asked what I wanted. I told him if they had pumpkin scones, that’d be great. Well, when he came back to the bookstore complex, he was carrying a whole bag of stuff.

Me: “What’s in there??”

Private: “They didn’t have any pumpkin scones, and I wasn’t sure if you just wanted a scone or something pumpkin-flavored… so I got you a maple nut scone, mini vanilla scones, and pumpkin bread.”

Me: *Swoon*

  1. Having someone to protect me from the creeper who stares
  2. Hanging out at the park: lessons on how to be aggressive against creepers (“Excuse me, could you PLEASE BACK THE F—- OFF?! …Thank you! ^_^)
  3. The best cheeseburger of my life: the Widow Maker @ Claim Jumper
  4. “I knew you were going to yell at me for spending money on flowers, so I cleaned your car!”
  5. Scones + pumpkin bread = pumpkin scone 
  6. “All the waters were the same price… so I got you PREMIUM ARTESIAN WATER!” 
  7. Sharing popcorn at the movies and laughing at Johnny Depp
  8. One last night together in Santa Ana
  9. Feeding the Private doughnut holes in the car while he drove to the National Guard
  10. Finding that he had hidden his Coin of Excellence in my pillow pal when I got home <3 

One of the snacks I packed for the Private for him to eat while I was in class

The to-go box for the Motherload cake from Claim Jumper is the size of a shoebox.

“Slice” of 6-layer decadent chocolate cake. In a shoebox.

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