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netweavr		2011-12-25 11:23:40 AM

rickythepenguin: how farked am i? wife and i agreed to get nothing for each other, i thus got her nothing.....she got me a 32gb ipod.

You don't have an emergency gift anywhere? I mean like a nice necklace or earrings or something you keep boxed/wrapped and at the back of a drawer in case of such an emergency?

RexTalionis		2011-12-25 11:23:44 AM

I managed to walk away from being hit by a semi-truck. This could go down as either a blessing or a curse.

Nattering Nabob		2011-12-25 11:24:04 AM

It looks like 2012 will probably be the year of my divorce (after 11yrs) and the year of my bankruptcy unless things get better real quick. BUT today I still have my son, my wife here (who is also my best friend), and my house. Cheers!

Confabulat		2011-12-25 11:25:02 AM

I'm thankful 2011 is ending. What a crap year.

Buttbone McGillicutty		2011-12-25 11:25:03 AM

ggecko		2011-12-25 11:26:10 AM

I'm thankful when it is over.

Clemkadidlefark		2011-12-25 11:26:26 AM

Bottom of the heart thanks to Sierra Integrative Medical Clinic in Reno for their expert care, helping me dodge a near fatal bullet, and thank you to the all the Divine that helped me get home for Christmas (late Friday night), the best gifts possible. Amen.

MissFeasance		2011-12-25 11:26:56 AM

Merry Christmas! I am thankful for the love of my friends and family. And my dear husband, who I met on this very website, who this morning was all "wait, you're supposed to actually put things IN the stockings?" Bless his heart.

Cybernetic		2011-12-25 11:27:01 AM

I am thankful for having four great kids, despite making an unfortunate choice for a (now-ex) spouse.

I am thankful for having an unbelievably great dad, despite this being our first Christmas without him.

I am thankful for the problems that I have, because the vast majority of them are solvable.

And I am thankful that this is the first Christmas in a long time where the future looks brighter than the past.

Zombie Butler		2011-12-25 11:27:08 AM

AngryWhiteMale: BabyDumplings: Christmas day bong hits. Keep 'em coming.

Here.

yo man don't bogart that, merry Christmas.

TurboCojones		2011-12-25 11:27:38 AM

4 happy and healthy kiddos, my beautiful wife, and a fifth degree black belt in surgery skillz.

Igor Jakovsky		2011-12-25 11:28:26 AM

I am thankful for my new job, my kitteh and my family and of course fark.

/family especially, not everyone has dysfunctional assholes for family like you see in so many sitcoms.

L33t Squirrel		2011-12-25 11:28:55 AM

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Merry Christmas Farkers!!!

WIN. I love the Bill & Ted figures. :D

RexTalionis: I managed to walk away from being hit by a semi-truck. This could go down as either a blessing or a curse.

Wait, what? o_O

Ima4nic8or		2011-12-25 11:29:33 AM

Christmas sucks. That said I am thankful that even at 44 years old my one-eyed wonder worm still works, that I have a happy, healthy family, a couple of fast cars and a place to live.

Le French Boo		2011-12-25 11:29:45 AM

I'm thankful that my family got me singing, jiggling boobs that sing "Tittehs and beer".

Nightmaretony		2011-12-25 11:29:56 AM

Spending Christmas with my family. And Thanksgiving. My brother's family moving back out here. Just many good things.

Sleeping Monkey		2011-12-25 11:30:08 AM

In massive pain today, I'm grateful when the Percocet and Valium finally kick in and I'm unconscious.

netweavr		2011-12-25 11:30:13 AM

PSA: All married men are required to keep hidden 1 (one) emergency gift to use in case of trap or apology. Such gifts should be small and easily concealable.

Recommended gifts include (but are not limited to): diamond earrings, pearl necklaces, spa/massage vouchers (not to avoid getting date-stamped/expiration dated vouchers), or framed photos from early in the relationship (of "a special memory")

Wellzee		2011-12-25 11:30:21 AM

I am thankful for the experience I've encountered this weekend involving: a german, a argentine, myself, 6 hours of making a tibetan medicine bowl sing non-stop and 15 minutes of paralyzing laughter.

Bubrubb		2011-12-25 11:30:32 AM

rickythepenguin: how farked am i? wife and i agreed to get nothing for each other, i thus got her nothing.....she got me a 32gb ipod.

Never too late for a TF subscription...

Uncivil Engineer		2011-12-25 11:30:34 AM

I am thankful the latest addition to the Uncivil household is healthy and happy. Alex was born on the 15th.

Wonderduck		2011-12-25 11:30:57 AM

I'm thankful that I seem to be showing signs of coming out of my two-plus year depression caused by the death of my mother. And that I have a decent job.

/put up my christmas tree for the first time since she died in Sept 2009.
//also starting to be interested in other people again.
///was actually happy for three months straight this year.
//baby steps.
/slashies

Ebenezer Floppen Slopper		2011-12-25 11:31:01 AM

I am additionally thankful for public servants like this man. More Jed Rakoffs please.

RexTalionis		2011-12-25 11:31:14 AM

L33t Squirrel: RexTalionis: I managed to walk away from being hit by a semi-truck. This could go down as either a blessing or a curse.

Wait, what? o_O

I don't know what to really add to that. I was hit by a semi-truck on I-95 a few months ago.

bravian		2011-12-25 11:31:44 AM

IamKaiserSoze!!!: rickythepenguin: how farked am i? wife and i agreed to get nothing for each other, i thus got her nothing.....she got me a 32gb ipod.

We should start a club as I lived through that same experience this am.

I don't think there is any feasible way out either.

I don't get this. You agreed to no presents and one partner gets another a present. She is the one who fark'd up - not you.

/we don't do presents
//evar
///thankful to have a partner who keeps his word and is respectful of my opinions

SBinRR		2011-12-25 11:32:20 AM

I'm thankful that my wife agreed that we could stay home today and not spend five hours on the road visiting our families.

Time for a nap dammit.

cadred		2011-12-25 11:32:47 AM

My spouse, art, and staying at home with no house guests for Christmas. Bring on the mimosas!

Mambo Bananapatch		2011-12-25 11:33:35 AM

I'm thankful that I have everything I need, most of the things I want, and reasonably good health. For the first forty years of my life I didn't think I'd ever be able to say that.

Merry Christmas Farkers!

darkhorse23		2011-12-25 11:33:53 AM

I'm happy that I have a warm house with two sweet dogs, a comfy place to sleep, shared with the man I've loved for more than 30 years, enough to eat, kids and grandkids that I love and that love me back. I have everything I want, everything I need to be happy.

Plus I'm thankful for Fark, and for Drew making it so that we all have a community, especially for those who need someone. We all come together in times of need, and I love you all like my own.

Well, except for you.

FizixJunkee		2011-12-25 11:34:02 AM

Tatsuma: that I have 8 days to be grateful for, not just 1

Ditto.

lostinjersey		2011-12-25 11:34:27 AM

I don't need anything. Sure I might want some walking dead comics or a new machette, but honestly all I want for christmas is jobs for my friends who don't have them. I know one is just about to hit the 2 year mark so unless there's another extension she's SOL. another one has been out for a year. and neither is sitting on their asses, they're sending out resumes, cold calling, you name it.

Ebenator		2011-12-25 11:35:09 AM

Confabulat: I'm thankful 2011 is ending. What a crap year.

This.

Dictatorial_Flair		2011-12-25 11:35:10 AM

I'm thankful I didn't make any holiday plans because, apparently, noobs get worked like cheap mules.

baltimoreblonde		2011-12-25 11:36:23 AM

Thankful for the greatest husband in the world, a son who finally got himself straightened out, a daughter-in-law who helped him, my mom and brother, and for finally being out of a huge financial hole! Gonna be a great 2012!

/and my favorite park FINALLY getting a new rollercoaster!

awalkingecho		2011-12-25 11:37:14 AM

Tatsuma: that I have 8 days to be grateful for, not just 1

You have 365 days to be grateful for, Tats. Do yourself a favor and don't forget that in all your zealotry. :)

Happy Hanukkah, though!

JasonOfOrillia		2011-12-25 11:37:20 AM

Christmas shopping sucks but Christmas itself is great. I've got great family and great friends and once the shopping is done I love this time of year.

PlatinumDragon		2011-12-25 11:37:25 AM

Did that to my partner last year... got her tickets to Billy Elliot. Good show.

We tried, and failed, to make the same agreement this year. She got me awesome headphones, among other things. I got her some DVDs and a shiny chunk of crystallized carbon.

Take her out to dinner, be her manservant for a night - all will be well.

L33t Squirrel		2011-12-25 11:37:37 AM

RexTalionis: I don't know what to really add to that. I was hit by a semi-truck on I-95 a few months ago.

Ohhhhhh. I has a stupid, I thought that you meant that you were walking around town or something and BAM! Semi outta nowhere! Still, that's scary no matter how you cut it. Glad you're okay, man. :(

YouPeopleAreCrazy		2011-12-25 11:38:42 AM

rickythepenguin: how farked am i? wife and i agreed to get nothing for each other, i thus got her nothing.....she got me a 32gb ipod.

Never, ever fall for that. Ever.
It's already too late for you, penguin, but for the rest of you farkers/farkettes....heed this rule.
1. never make this pact
2. if you do, but something for him/her anyway

OBBN		2011-12-25 11:39:21 AM

Without a doubt and no matter how sappy it might seem I am most thankful for my wife and kids. Not much else matters in this world. I know that it doesn't matter if we are wealthy or dirt poor I will always have them by my side making life bearable. The older I get the more I appreciate my wife and the love she gives me (yeah, that love too), I know that no matter what, there is one person in the world that will always have my back. And of course the precious snowflakes. At times they make me want to tear out the few remaining hairs left on my head, but I wouldn't trade them for anything. They have certainly given meaning to life.

On the other side of the spectrum I am very thankful for my Great Dane, Gunner. Unconditional love and always a happy face and the ability to make me smile. A dog (or cat for you feline loving Farkers) enhances life like nothing else can.

Best wishes from my family to yours. Gunner even gives a Christmas woof to each of you!

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/Woof and Merry Christmas!

FizixJunkee		2011-12-25 11:39:36 AM

In addition to the usual things--family, etc.--I'm extremely thankful to be in grad school now. I've never been so stressed-out and sleep-deprived in my life, and yet I'm loving every single moment of it. In fact, I don't think I've ever been happier.

\Glad to see that I'm not the only nerd on Fark who's happy about grad school.

RexTalionis		2011-12-25 11:40:10 AM

L33t Squirrel: RexTalionis: I don't know what to really add to that. I was hit by a semi-truck on I-95 a few months ago.

Ohhhhhh. I has a stupid, I thought that you meant that you were walking around town or something and BAM! Semi outta nowhere! Still, that's scary no matter how you cut it. Glad you're okay, man. :(

Thanks. As it turns out, I'm apparently very durable.

Glicky		2011-12-25 11:40:46 AM

I am thankful for my sons and lovely wife. I additionally thankful that we are gainfully employed, able to pay the mortgage and save for emergencies.

PlatinumDragon		2011-12-25 11:40:49 AM

PlatinumDragon: Did that to my partner last year... got her tickets to Billy Elliot. Good show.

We tried, and failed, to make the same agreement this year. She got me awesome headphones, among other things. I got her some DVDs and a shiny chunk of crystallized carbon.

Take her out to dinner, be her manservant for a night - all will be well.

aaaaaand that was a reply to mr. 32GB ipod... frakkin' bloody useless... *hangs head in shame, goes back to reading World War Z*

Foundling		2011-12-25 11:42:57 AM

I'm not bleeding to death in a ditch in West-By-God-Virginia.

That makes today a great day!

brap		2011-12-25 11:44:06 AM

I'm thankful for friends and that I still have some fight left in me.

Sleeping Monkey		2011-12-25 11:44:26 AM

Tatsuma: that I have 8 days to be grateful for, not just 1

How many days does it take you to be grateful for Good Friday?

topgun4291		2011-12-25 11:45:09 AM

I am thankful that I got fired in 2010. This made me get really creative and have to figure out what I'm good at. I now have a okay day job but now work nights on my own business. If things continue to go well, I will make more money in my business than my day job in 2012.

Also thankful for my 1 year old that the sperm doctor said I couldn't have, and my wife of 5 years that I was set up on a blind date with 10 years ago.

Merry Christmas Farkers