Day 9 of Thanksgiving

Today I am thankful for skills. In particular, these skills which have been very handy recently:

* baking (garlic rolls, cinnamon bread)

* sewing (photos to come soon!)

* making up a (successful) recipe (mmm, soup)

* a rudimentary knowledge of tools and mechanics

* driving in the rain

* navigation when lost in unfamiliar city

These are the sorts of things that make everyday life so much easier. They make up for the fact that I am terrible at:

* balancing checkbooks (which is not to say I'm bad with money, I'm just bad at the checkbook thing)

* keeping track of paperwork

* filing

* lefts and rights (no, no, your OTHER right!)

* making scrambled eggs (it's true!)

* making small talk (I totally suck at this)

* putting away my shoes

I have about four pairs of shoes all over the house. My shoes are also in a jumble at the bottom of my closet (to be fair, they are also neatly placed in a shoe rack on my closet door, but I don't have any room for shoe racks on the floor... so, jumble of overflow shoes).

However, I can step over those shoes and make a mean loaf of cinnamon bread, and that is something to be thankful for indeed.