100 Things I'm Thankful For

For sacrament meeting today, we combined half of the Helaman Halls wards into one and just had testimony meeting because not enough people were back from Thanksgiving yet. The girl next to me was writing a list of 100 things she was thankful for as the meeting continued. So, I thought I'd follow suit right now. 100 Things I'm thankful for: (And don't feel compelled to read them all if you don't want to)

1. Mom
2. Dad
3. Carol
4. Sam
5. Marina
6. Beth
7. Caleb
8. Sarah
(yes, family would have sufficed, but I'm grateful for the family unit as well as each individual person in it)
9. Jesus Christ
10. Heavenly Father
11. The Holy Ghost and the Gift thereof
12. my extended family (I'm grateful for them individually as well, but that'd take up WAY too much space)
13. heated rooms
14. blankets
15. computers
16. the internet
17. email
18. cell phones
19. modern medicine
20. BYU
21. The fact that I don't have to be a Ute
22. colors
23. language and communication
24. creativity
25. Irish dancing
26. The United States of America
27. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
28. Christmas
29. Christmas lights
30. Christmas music
31. ball-point pens
32. silverware
33. socks
34. my violin
35. Hatch family reunions
36. Joseph Smith
37. friendship
38. roadtrips
39. hamsters
40. snow
41. letters in my mailbox
42. cleaning products
43. washing machines
44. economic stability (in the US, we may be in a recession, but we're pretty stable when it comes down to it)
45. the military
46. refrigeration
47. food
48. clean water
49. hairbrushes
50. books
51. literacy
52. non-messed up genes
53. Michelle (my roommate)
54. drawers
55. zippers
56. hand sanitizer
57. lotion
58. chapstick
59. post-it notes
60. plant life
61. the push pin
62. fingers--they're just so convenient
63. duct tape
64. ankle braces (I've developed an immense gratitude for these recently)
65. unimpeded speech (so, no speech impediment)
66. relatively healthy body
67. mountains
68. indoor plumbing
69. 3-ring binders
70. rubber-bands
71. staplers and paperclips
72. sharpie-pens
73. joy and happiness
74. President Monson (and the concept of living prophets)
75. The Bible
76. The Book of Mormon
77. All other scripture
78. cars
79. names--personal names, place names, just names in general
80. Hindu-Arabic numerals
81. nerves
82. the rest of my anatomy
83. physiology and just how fool-proof it is. Think if our bodies had to rely on Vista!! God truly is smarter than man
84. family history
85. temples
86. human love and charity
87. marriage
88. purity
89. morpho-phonemic alphabets
90. geniuses
91. keys
92. light-bulbs
93. sound technology
94. mythology
95. musicals
96. my mom's sewing abilities
97. electronic pencil sharpeners
98. accessible healthcare
99. Louis Pasteur (I know I already thanked the world for geniuses, but he belongs in his own category, inhabited by no one else but perhaps Robert Koch and Joseph Lister)
100. people I can admire

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