Thanksgiving

So in the US we have (in general) the cultural understanding that Christmas decorations don't appear and Delilah can't start blasting those holiday tunes mixed with soul searching until after Thanksgiving. Well it never occurred to me before that since Thanksgiving is not an international holiday, elsewhere they do no have this same holiday buffer. Therefore, in the UK as soon as Halloween  ends, Christmas begins. I am personally pretty excited about having a whole month to explore all of the christmas decorations and festivities in London, but at the same time, we spotted the first christmas tree up and decorated in Belfast- CRAZY!!

I have decided my new task during the coming weeks before my return home will be to record the London Christmas festivities and decorations, which might mean a switch from tea to hot chocolate, warm mittens, and holiday themed free samples :)

While I am a huge fan of Christmas, even though I am in London, I can't forget my Pilgrim and Indian roots; I don't want Thanksgiving to go by unnoticed. Stealing an idea from a friend's blog, up until Thanksgiving I am going to try to post each day with something I am thankful for. Cheesy as it may seem, I think it's really important to remember; I've been so caught up in my day to day stresses of job searching, figuring out my life, finances, and trying to plan for the future, that I get frustrated with myself when I forget to remember how lucky I am. When I miss everyone I forget to remember how lucky I am to have such wonderful family, friends, and boyfriend to miss. In addition to this daily thankfulness posting, I am also on an equally serious mission to find pumkin pie. I will report back with my findings.

So here goes:
1.  I am most thankful for, and therefore should start off this list with, (though later posts I am sure will be less serious) all of my loving friends and family. I'm thankful for my parents, brother, sister, toby (ok he is dumb, but loving), all of the Deans and Quinteros/Cubans, cousins in Spain, my Furman family, my UK family of the McCauleys, my amazing best friends, my wonderful boyfriend, and basically, everyone that I miss! I have the opportunity to be in London right now with so much love and support from everyone, and I feel really silly for all the things that I stress over, because clearly I am the luckiest girl to have so many wonderful people in my life :)