Here I am, Thanksgiving 2007, on my patio, reading the Barely Portable Margaret Thatcher. It's 62 degrees.

Soon, I'll start on Thanksgiving dinner: Roast chicken, Cauliflower Trio Fromaggi (parmesan, goat cheese, and cheddar), cornbread stuffing, and dessert. For dessert, I made a fat-free, low cal version of my Pumpkin Dream pie. It's just the filling part, and has 240 calories. (I'm pretty sure the next time I can get it to 205 with no degradation of taste.) Enjoy treadmilling off the traditional 640 calories (for two 1/8th slices) y'all.

As for things I'm thankful for this year--being here in Brooklyn, enjoying my pre-retirement is the main one. (Thank you, Washington real estate bubble.) I'm thankful I still have my mom after her surgery last summer, and my dad, who had his first surgery since before I was born a month ago, and is now taller than me again. (He had a back thing that made him hunch over.) I'm thankful for my family and friends, but also because I think this year I had the chance to be a friend, and I miss feeling needed. I'm thankful that the future still seems interesting and fun to me.