… too long overdue…

Life’s superficial messes cloud our daily minds, so this is too long overdue.

Thank you, 00, for understanding me, loving me and always accepting me exactly the way I am.

Thank you for being there for me always, never refusing a phone call or a rant because you’re too tired and always stretching yourself too thin to give me everything I ever desired.

Thank you for sharing me, when my heart belonged to another, for kissing me every morning before you leave and for giving me faith.

Thank you for a list that’s too long to write out.

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Thank you, Ty, for teaching me through experience, being patient with me when I’m schizophrenic and listening to my problems with empathy, understanding and advice.

Thank you for caring about me more than I understood, taking care of me when I didn’t know how and making the tough decisions that I unfairly put upon you.

Thank you for coercing me into a friendship after we broke up because I appreciate you now more than I ever did before.

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Thank you, Seher, for being positive and optimistic when I couldn’t.

Thank you for helping me with my job search and my soul search.

 Thank you for being patient and trying, even when we kept butting heads, and I didn’t make it easy for you.

Thank you for the perspective.

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Thank you, mom and day, for just so much that I don’t even know where to begin or end.  When I said senior year in high school that I owe you my life, I was being figurative and literal all at once.

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Thank you, Liese, for carrying me through the tough times.

Thank you for being such a fast friend and putting up with my shit and tears and drunkenness during the post painful breakup.

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Thank you, Chris Lynn, for spelling things out to me, giving me thought and inspiration and teaching through example.

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Thank you, Parry, for being the most amazing manager I’ve ever had/most people ever could have. 

Thank you for gently prodding me in the right direction, knowing just the right management techniques, making up for things that I lack, having infinite patience, always being ready to defend me, never being too busy to help me lighten my load, teaching me the definition of a great worker/coworker/manager and having a wonderfully animated personality to boot.

(No, this isn’t my sycophantic side.  I’d vouch for you without any hesitation.)

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Thank you, Todd, for the mindset, the big picture and the silent inspiration.

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Thank you, Joshua, for opening my eyes to art again and giving me new things to think about.

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Thank you, Laura, for always being available to hang out.

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Thank you, Vicky, for making me feel like home every time we get to hang out or talk.

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Thank you, Emilie, for understanding me and just freakin’ making me so happy when I’m around you and for visiting me and for sending cute notes and gifts and for all those notes you wrote freshman year when I was totally destroyed by my friends in high school and and and just for being there!

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Thank you, Michael, for always making me feel beautiful and smart and funny and sexy, picking up our friendship where it left off no matter how long it’s been since we’ve seen each other, always being ready to help and listening to all my boy stories (not that there’re that many… but whatever!).

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And if I haven’t named you, it’s probably because my brain’s tired, and I’ve already gone through my G-chat and Trillian list and you weren’t online.   Thank you!

Night! Bisous!