OIC (@OIC)

Things I am grateful for at the start of 2025. 1. Not waking up in jail. 2. Not waking up with a hang over and room spins. 3. Drinking a glass of tap water in my pajamas in the morning and then hearing the tv news taking about the posted boil water alert starting from yesterday. 4. Not waking up the next day still in a military biological containment suit (Mopp 4 for you insiders) and wondering why they have not called all clear then looking out the window to find dead cattle and birds. 5. Not waking up in a foreign country’s intelligence agency interrogation room as they are telling me they know that I am CIA and they want to know about my operations. 6. Not waking up under rubble from an earthquake / tornado / artillery 7. Waking up in a declared disaster area cut off from civilization and wondering why a government rescue agency is not working their way to me to help me feed my children or to provide shelter and if they do show up it is to force me to a place I do not want to go to. 8. Waking up to find my opposing religion has kicked in all of the neighborhood doors and dragged out all of us male occupants and we are waiting for the pew pews to start. 9. Waking up the day after the cancer specialist says I only have 30 days possibly to live. 10. That I have raised my kids right and knowing that they can start their lives and resolve future conflicts and problems with critical thinking and preparedness. 11. Coming to a stop light and seeing the begging person with a clever writing on piece of torn cardboard and I myself not having any money to give but reach in to my lunch cooler and give them my ice cold Mountain Dew while they stand in the Florida summer and then realizing that I am only the lack of 3 paychecks away from being in their exact shoe and then become grateful for what little I have in life.